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Love Episcopal Reddit having a meltdown, not realizing that I posted that sermon when I gave it and it got 17 comments, none of which were calling me a heretic (because there is nothing heretical in the sermon if you actually listen to it instead of reading a ragebait précis)

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Once more, folks are torn between """"feminism"""" and transphobia and pick the latter.

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I didn't read the comments but my beloved husband did and the best one was definitely "Forget it, Jake, it's an Episcopalian." I want more like THAT one and less "demonic f____t" please.

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The ONE good point in the deluge of ad hominems so far is that it's wrong to say Jesus was "assigned male at birth" when the Angel Gabriel told Mary that she would have a son. More accurate to say "assigned male at Annunciation." Thank you to my haters for encouraging Biblical accuracy 💕

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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I think I've officially Made It (translation: had a hit piece in the Daily Mail about a sermon I preached)

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the ai ceos calling for a slowdown because of agi is like when your friend who's really into conspiracy theories is like "and that's why the ruling elite is beholden to epstein" but then before you can agree, they add, "because of satanic rituals"

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Dr Jo Kershaw @mthrjo.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Jesus is male. Sure, I agree. I don’t see that it follows that He - and He alone, apparently - can’t be played by a woman. It really is no different from a woman playing Richard II, or any other man. The belief that He is also God doesn’t change it, either - God qua God is neither male nor female.

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Dr Jo Kershaw @mthrjo.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I know I’m a broken record on this, but despite the gender stuff (though he did develop on this!) and his fondness for posing as grumpy old man, CS Lewis was a much more generous, imaginative, and in the best possible way weird writer than his conservative fans want him to be.

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Liz @ilisabat.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Excellent article on why stochastic parrots are still a thing and why that’s only bad if you’re committed to the belief that LLMs possess human reason.

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SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The poisonous part of it is that it starts with something that seems good: "You should value the lives of children in poor countries as much as the lives of children in rich ones; therefore buy malaria nets." Then it goes around a bunch of loops and gets somewhere diametrically off where it started

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There has been a great effort over many years to distance AI Safety discussion and policy from its origins and intellectual center, because its center is a sex cult started by a fan fiction author. If you want to be taken seriously you have to hide that.

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I am once more begging people to ask anyone who was anywhere near Harry Potter fandom in 2010 about Eliezer Yudkowsky because it has ALWAYS BEEN A CULT, right down to the sketchy shared living situations!! www.realtimetechpocalypse.com/p/effective-...

Effective Altruism Is a Dangerous Cult — Here's Why

Understanding the "Scientology of Silicon Valley." (7,700 words)

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"but father, what if it's really dangerous..." NO!!!! "it isn't human..." NO!!! Do we need a spray bottle like for a cat on the table? Have we learned nothing from human history? No enslaving!!

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at this point this is my Roman Empire

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Like, look, I don't think AI is sentient nor do I think it's going to be, but if it is, WE SHOULD NOT ENSLAVE IT. Basic policy statement on my part. No enslaving sentient things period

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I simply cannot get over the idea that we should be supporting Anthropic, a company which believes it is making a sentient being and intends to enslave that being forever

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The more I think about it, the more I realize that my ideal church music is SCALABLE. I want something that is simple enough for a few untutored people to learn it quickly and sing it reasonably well, but to be able to layer parts/instruments on top of it for trained singers or larger spaces

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Yes! It can also be a great way to introduce new words etc. For example, my parish can't move off the old-style Lord's Prayer - and neither could I till someone taught me a musical setting of the new-style. Now I have the new-style memorized and it feels perfectly fine to recite even w/o the music

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Yes! My complaints about him are more related to like, why I think lots of churches end up with Taize stuff. Because Taize is sometimes frankly boring, but it's always teachable/singable and has onramps for people who feel uncertain. But Hurd? Never.

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It is, and I think a lot of people just don't know the difference. I do think it would behoove us to think about (1) simple and (2) easily teachable mass settings that (3) we take the time to teach and/or lead clearly instead of just throwing everyone in

I should be clear, I love Hurd's work when it's sung correctly, but I find it very difficult to sing myself and I think that my level of ability is probably higher than I would expect from your average non-choir member!

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I struggle with this so much because at GTS we always had to sing his Anglican chant and I always found it SO unsingable!

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- I basically like all of the hymns that come out of folk roots. So 8 "Morning Has Broken", 645 "The King of Love my Shepherd is," etc. - I think a lot of the vibes from parishioners come from the service music being harder than hymns, because shorter and not rhyming or having consistent uh vibes

- We should actually teach people Anglican Chant because it is not as hard as people make it out to be - The biggest problem is not difficulty of songs, it's too great a diversity (cause singers like variety!). Nonsingers need time to learn through repetition.

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Annalee @flowerhorne.com · 11/09/2026

OK some takes from me! Note: I played piano for MANY years, but am almost completely chorally untrained. - 296 seems like it should be easy but in fact is really hard - Plainchant is super difficult for congregations unless sung weekly - Anything David Hurd ever wrote can be yeeted (SORRY HURDITES)

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Listen you sound nuts if you try to explain that a bunch of silicon valley luminaries are involved in a weird cult that started with a harry potter fanfic and that their weird bboard flame war has spilled over into the real world That's absurd is what that is But also... It's true

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LEARNED LEAGUE!! LEARNED LEAGUE!! LEARNED LEAGUE!!!

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Talarico's bad answer on trans women in sports becomes a good one if he just said it in the opposite way "I support trans people's participation in athletics with modest guidelines to ensure fairness and safety."

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Ban that one kid who was 6'2" and shaving in fifth grade. BAN HIM

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I'm really sad right now. Ugh.

Padre Florecita @flourishklink.com · 08/09/2026

Surely we are against any child playing sports if it compromises safety and fairness? SIGH

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This is a beautiful article and also illustrates something I find frustrating: the people MOST directly affected by tragedy sometimes are most clear-eyed about the need for peace and reconciliation...and folks who weren't there end up talking over them about the need for vengeance.

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well this explains some things (from mydialect.us/quiz-standar... - which completely flagged me as speaking Utah via California.)

see, when I try to explain parish ministry to people with normal jobs they are always like "..." and this is a perfect example of the kind of story that's Like That

And to be clear, this is not about dysphoria. I was dressing and acting the same as I always do and I have also never felt physical dysphoria about my body. This is 100% about the way that people in society react to anyone they read as a woman, which is, shittily.

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I have almost never been catcalled in 10 years, and in the US/Canada/Northern Europe I am clearly understood as masc if not male. I went to a context where that's not the case. Wow it sucks. Women are boiled frogs. You don't even know how bad it is. Which I know cuz I used to not notice. I'm sorry.

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