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Andrew Raines @makeitraines.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

She’s also just a fantastic memester lol:

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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 · 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 · 02/10/2025

I’m not sure if there’s a written law but that’s bc there doesn’t need to be based on all the other things we swear to, like the Bible. The rubric only ever says you can read from Christian saints if non-biblical. But this is a prayerbook service—a uniquely American service from our first BCP

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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

We went to the cathedral in Oxford to hear my new supervisor preach a wonderful short expositional sermon with a beautiful mass setting, and a new stained glass window of the Prodigal Son

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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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Andrew Raines @makeitraines.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

I think in the key of D, 3/2 meter. The lines above letters are ties. The | are measure breaks, || section breaks

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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

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 · 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 · 08/07/2025

Yeah, we gotta match evangelicals on this. Can’t be one OT and NT class. Just look at RTS SBS—makes Duke’s recs embarrassing

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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 · 26/03/2025

Sorry my numbers were from Wikipedia!

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Andrew Raines @makeitraines.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

The canon says you don’t have to follow this rule if the book’s small enough. The largest non-standard paginated BCP could be is 6-1/2" by 4-1/2"

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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

Today at Duke Divinity’s chapel, we sang all 150 psalms from 8 am to 7 pm, using Ellen Davis’s new translation! It was glorious. ⚓️

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Andrew Raines @makeitraines.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

Does anyone have any thoughts on Lake’s Clinical Theology? It came highly recommended to me, but I want to make sure it’s worth the time before reading in preparation for starting CPE. ⚓️

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Andrew Raines @makeitraines.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

the Baptist church I grew up in has been doin drop-in family communion on Christmas Day for a while now, always sweet

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Andrew Raines @makeitraines.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

You basically have all you need here

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Andrew Raines @makeitraines.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

I didn’t realize this: one is allowed to celebrate the Conception with homespun propers! LFF 625-627 gives guidelines

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Andrew Raines @makeitraines.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

I don’t think I’ve done one of these before

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Andrew Raines @makeitraines.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

This old family NEB is so nice, feels so good in the hand and pleasant to read!

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Andrew Raines @makeitraines.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

I thought about the question for my working paper on Hebrews 13 today:

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Andrew Raines @makeitraines.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Do you think God would have become incarnate without the Fall? I think he must’ve always planned to! I was convinced by this reading for Anglican Tradition. It came to mind because for class I’m writing on Hebrews 13:8 which says *Jesus* is “the same yesterday, today, and forever”.

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Andrew Raines @makeitraines.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

we went to St Philips this morning: gorgeous service! Rite I, long sermon, Handel’s Worthy Is the Lamb (and the last v of My Country Tis of Thee tacked onto the Doxology 😉) makes me sad bout the split every time I visit tho—I’ll never get to serve at all these churches closer to home