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

Where the best books and articles on ritual studies?

Andrew Raines @makeitraines.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

I’ve been told they just dyed something as dark as possible and it faded to various colors we’d identify as blue to violet

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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 · 19/01/2026

Atheist Delusions was helpful to me my freshman year!

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Andrew Raines @makeitraines.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

I wouldn’t think so, but it does emphasize a lack of living infallibility I reckon. ‘The mind of the church’ has gotten used to push forward all kinds of things in the last century haha

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Andrew Raines @makeitraines.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

It’s difficult isn’t it bc those ideas were standard bc they were the day’s consensus. Higher ones are today’s consensus. What bestows privilege on an idea other than “the mind of the Church”?

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Andrew Raines @makeitraines.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

I’ve been think about doing the Eirenicon for quite some time, that’s awesome!

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Andrew Raines @makeitraines.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

all baptism is infant baptism, problem fixed

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Andrew Raines @makeitraines.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

Isn’t the traditional covenant theology that the sponsors answer on the child’s behalf? What’s wrong with that? If we don’t like that, then we might need to become Anabaptists and wait for the child to speak for themselves? What/how else could we ask/tell the child?

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

She really does seem to have just read everybody

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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 · 23/12/2025

she makes me want to worship God every time I read her

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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 · 17/12/2025

That’s hard brother. A new beginning is ahead! I’ll be praying for you at the chapel here

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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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Andrew Raines @makeitraines.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

Never been in the American an BCPs bc we dropped all the rando black-letter days

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Andrew Raines @makeitraines.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

It’s was in Cranmer’s BCP, it’s good enough for me! The “immaculate” part wasn’t tho, and I’m grateful for leaving it out

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Andrew Raines @makeitraines.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

Perhaps it is still important even for normal families bc of the firstborn being dedicated with sacrifice

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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

It’s a good solution! I’m actually really enjoying the CW DO lectionary

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

(is joke, obvs I do too) But at first I was like, why are we reading different parts of the same book not in order?? And then I remember historical criticism. Alack.

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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 · 26/11/2025

A more exact translation would be Begetter and Begotten. John of St Thomas, Cursus Thelogici D. Thomae, I-IIae, Question XXI, Disputation XII, Article III (Metternich, vol. 4, p. 519). books.google.com/books?id=2-N...

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Cursus theologicus

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

For clarity, he writes: “For example, speculatively it may be probable that a child could be baptized in the form “In the name of the Parent, the Offspring, and the Proceeding One,” nor would it be illicit, because the truth or meaning of that expression signifies the same.”

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

Frankly, I myself don’t see a situation where this would ever be necessary. The demand for it could be approached in other pastoral ways I would think.

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

He says the gender neutral formula is a case of speculation—there’s no reason you’d ever have to think about using it. But now that this is something people actually wonder about, it’s an interesting question whether John would move the debate to the prudence category.

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

In this particular article, John’s drawing a distinction between speculative probability (“maybe it's valid”) and practical/prudential probability(“can I safely do this now?”). Only the latter justifies action, especially with something important like sacraments.

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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 · 15/11/2025

Paul Zach I’m pretty sure. Really good!

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Andrew Raines @makeitraines.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

Few seem to have heard of mustum! I hadn’t before seminary

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Andrew Raines @makeitraines.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

I don’t believe so, but bishops have typically not resorted to the penal measures of their Victorian predecessors

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

Very good! Much more gnashing of teeth to go around anyway

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

I’m sorry if I seemed uncompassionate and incurious! My whole DPhil is about how God saves people through other religions’ sacraments too. But our denomination’s whole schtick in contradistinction to other Reformed folks is an emphasis on tradition and liturgy. We don’t get to make it up wholecloth

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

“Song of Songs, welcome, inclusion, vibes”

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

Liturgical diversity is a very different thing from reading non-Christian texts alongside the Bible as if they were of equal authority in our community. I’m a let a thousand flowers bloom kind of person, but we do have a religion. It’s not bad to think our departed fam should have a say in our life

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

A very unenviable position. People I respect say she’s a fabulous pastor and manager. I’m sure there will be great speech writers to come.

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

I hate to be read as mean-spirited or something. I’m sorry if it was uncouth given the medical emergency that happened. But there really is no special NY context that makes non-Christian readings in a church service make sense in our religion, and I just can’t be made to feel ashamed for that.

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

I’ve heard so many opinions about her so idk either

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