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Andrew Raines @makeitraines.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Where the best books and articles on ritual studies?

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Earth & Altar @earthandaltarmag.com · 22/01/2026

Earth & Altar + SSJE are launching a new collaboration: A Silent Rebellion — an every other week series featuring writings from Anglican religious orders. Reflections on community life, kindness, commitment, and the freedom found in limitation—rooted in vowed life, offered for the whole church.

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A Silent Rebellion — Earth and Altar

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Andrew Raines @makeitraines.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

Any book recs like Fifth Sun by Townsend? I loved it

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Andrew Raines @makeitraines.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

Fantastic book!! very German in thoroughness

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Andrew Raines @makeitraines.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

Is anyone thinking of writing something for this special issue on sexual ethics in Anglican Theological Review? ⚓️ Trying to discern whether I should take some time to… www.anglicantheologicalreview.org/special-issu...

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Current Special Issues :

Anglican Theological Review At the Intersection of Church and (Post)modernity: Reaching Toward an Anglican Ethicsof SexualityCall for Papers: A Special Issue of the Anglican Theological Review Adam A....

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Andrew Raines @makeitraines.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

the new Knives Out is AMAZING!! Which of the screenwriters is going to a gospel-preachin church?

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Kara N. Slade @karanslade.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

The Virgin Birth is the true response to "toxic masculinity"

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Andrew Raines @makeitraines.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

I’m realizing the WOKE Common Worship lectionary believes in Deutero-Isaiah ⚓️

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Andrew Raines @makeitraines.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

I’d never heard of this bit of John of St Thomas’ commentary on the Summa where he says baptizing someone in the name of the “Parent, Offspring, and the Proceeding One” would be valid, we just shouldn’t do it out of prudence ⚓️

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Andrew Raines @makeitraines.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

Let’s pray for Sarah++, poor thing ⚓️

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Andrew Raines @makeitraines.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

Believing other religions are other other religions and that we can love each other without pretending our worship can be a holy mush isn’t bigotry.

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Andrew Raines @makeitraines.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

Why do folks think cathedrals are some magic special sort of church that isn’t explicitly Christian? Most of the people who built medieval cathedrals would’ve burned us ALL at the stake.

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Andrew Raines @makeitraines.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

very disappointing to see that Varghese’s installation at St John the Divine NYC included readings from non-Xian scriptures. This is not allowed in the Episcopal Church. However much the cathedral wants to be a community center, it is NOT a catch-all religious house. ⚓️

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Andrew Raines @makeitraines.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

Arrived in Oxford at last! Any advice for a new theology DPhil student?

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KidzBoptotenlieder @theodramatist.com · 04/09/2025

I'd go even more specific here and say that in selling people on Christ that means much more than just "he was a swell guy with great ideas." Jesus's teaching doesn't really make much sense in toto except against the eschatological horizon, and that doesn't make much sense sans resurrection.

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KidzBoptotenlieder @theodramatist.com · 29/08/2025

Look, I have an EXCELLENT translation of the liturgy

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The Holy Eucharist: Rite One

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Andrew Raines @makeitraines.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

In this piece, I argue that universalism, just as it fixes so many other theological debates (Calvinism vs Arminianism, eg), can help us boldly evangelize and hold to the boundaries our confession without worrying that’s exclusionary. I’d love for you to read it and let me know what you think! ⚓️

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Andrew Raines @makeitraines.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

Best resources on 1 Cor 11:7? Always reads so wild to me. “Man is the image and glory of God, but woman is the glory of man.” Women not in the image of God??

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Andrew Raines @makeitraines.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

So intrigued by this “The Fourth Lesson” set. Like the TEC collection by Wright, it’s a book of 4th readings for the 3-lesson DO lectionary which the CofE tried but we kept in the 1979 BCP. Intead of Fathers tho, it’s Lewis, Chardin, Tillich, Barth, Spurgeon, Farrer… I see why it didn’t last. ⚓️

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Andrew Raines @makeitraines.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

Instead of having Track 1 where we go thru the OT but the it’s disconnected to the epistle and gospel, we should in Pentecostide have the OT lesson govern the theme rather than the gospel. Bc I love the idea of really going thru the OT, but it’s really annoying it’s irrelevant to other readings ⚓️

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Andrew Raines @makeitraines.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

Every time I come across the “serpents for fish” line our gospel today, I wonder if Jesus intends the resonance I hear between it and Numbers 21 and 11. Could Jesus be implying something about how Numbers portrays his Father? It feels like an improper suggestion, but I really do wonder. ⚓️

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Andrew Raines @makeitraines.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

I’m plenty happy with the 79 BCP offices, but seeing that Canada has approved their own version of Common Worship Daily Prayer (called Prayer without Ceasing), I wonder if TEC could do something similar, but make it better ⚓️ www.anglican.ca/wp-content/u...

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Andrew Raines @makeitraines.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

The son of Episcopal Bp TA Frazier just left 30 boxes of his books by for the free shelves at Duke Div library. Happy day

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Andrew Raines @makeitraines.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

I feel robbed that the '79 DO lectionary tried to keep me from the pleasure of reading about David's dowry of foreskins for Michal today. ⚓️

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Andrew Raines @makeitraines.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

I enjoyed subdeaconing for the first time yesterday! I’m not sure I’m quite a Ritual Noteser (or an enthusiast of Italian-cut vestments), but it was such a prayerful and worshipful experience. I’m glad to be taught how to do this in TEC, where this level of precision feels less common now.

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Andrew Raines @makeitraines.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

just to remind everyone, TEC is supposed to vote on approving Rite I in contemporary English next GC, so we've prepared some proposed renderings for them. I really hope this goes thru! ⚓️ episcopalchant.com/eucharist/eu...

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Episcopal Chant: A Liturgical Chant Database

Interactive and downloadable chant settings of liturgical texts approved for use in The Episcopal Church.

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Andrew Raines @makeitraines.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

I finally finished re-typesetting Bicknell’s commentary on the 39 Articles—hope folks find it helpful! ⚓️ www.amazon.com/Theological-...

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A Theological Introduction to the Thirty-Nine Articles of the Church of England

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Andrew Raines @makeitraines.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

With the high and holy Episcopal feast day of July 4 tomorrow, I find it funny how I’ve moved from being very Hauerwasian and anti-flags in church, etc. to now being actually very pro- (good) civil religion.

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Andrew Raines @makeitraines.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

I was today years old when I learned the episcopal church made a “HIP HOP BCP”, translating Cranmer and Galley into South Bronx. It’s… somethin

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Andrew Raines @makeitraines.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

For preaching working on how to preach Prov 8 this Trinity Sunday: Is the first word of the Bible a mistake—or a theological insight? My OT prof Brent Strawn argues that bĕrēʾšît in Gen 1:1 (“In the beginning…”) may not be a grammar problem to fix, but a theological clue to decipher. 🧵⚓️

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Andrew Raines @makeitraines.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

62 confirmations today! 31 eighth-graders and 31 adults new to the Episcopal Church! ⚓️

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Andrew Raines @makeitraines.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

I’m working on a study of how different provinces of the Anglican Communion have made ecclesiological shifts to support ‘communion across difference’. If anyone would like to have a conversation about what that looks like in your Anglican churches, please let me know! ⚓️

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Andrew Raines @makeitraines.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Where should I go to church in San Anton while I’m here for the Final Four? ⚓️ (DDMF GTHC)

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Andrew Raines @makeitraines.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

TEC needs to create an ordinariate for liberal ACNA ppl, especially once Todd Hunter retires

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Andrew Raines @makeitraines.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

What all should I include about Episcopal distinctives in my 8th-grade Confirmation class next Sunday? ⚓️

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Andrew Raines @makeitraines.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

I have a hard time celebrating Cranmer’s day. I love his BCP, but have a hard time pitying him for martyrdom when he martyred others. And I do think he went too far in some reforms. So I’d like for it to be a rah-rah Anglican day for me, but it ain’t #anglican #episcopal

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Andrew Raines @makeitraines.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Why did all the ministers keep reading their prayers like a speech and continually look up at the crowd with their eyes open like they were talking to them and not God?

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Andrew Raines @makeitraines.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

EL Mascall really soothes the soul

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Andrew Raines @makeitraines.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Why do all the major English translations keep translating glossa as “tongues” instead of just plain old “languages”? I’m in no way convinced that Paul is talking about glossolalia. The archaic vocab of the KJV created an opportunity for all sorts of silly things to pop up in the US

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Andrew Raines @makeitraines.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

God BLESS Ellen Davis for her Song of Songs commentary. Reading for Janet Soskice‘s class “Love and Desire”

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Andrew Raines @makeitraines.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

why is Episcopal Church Publishing SO BAD nowadays?? I need the little Ministry with the Sick book and they don't even make a basic hardback or leatherette edition anymore. I might just get the Common Worship version ⚓️

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Andrew Raines @makeitraines.bsky.social · 18/01/2025