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finrodsauronvorecommissionfolderabsurdres @yungdreyfusard.bsky.social · 20h

any time i get to look at a group of christians and go 'you people are all basically the same right' i immediately leap at the opportunity. methodism is basically the same thing as russian orthodoxy, right? both of them have bishops!

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Ian is the Priest-King of the Sacred Grove at Nemi @poetinbabylon.bsky.social · 18h

we really really need to interrogate that term "the real world" - both in academia and ecclesial settings

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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 20h

God is strategically incarnated in every realm as the being best equipped to spread the truth of the Gospel to the locals, hence a talking lion in Narnia or a homeless Jewish rabbi here on earth. Father Christmas is just a guy.

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Ian is the Priest-King of the Sacred Grove at Nemi @poetinbabylon.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

oh, mine was DEFINITELY the ending of Raiders of the Lost Ark

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Ian is the Priest-King of the Sacred Grove at Nemi @poetinbabylon.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I was so bummed that I had caught up on all my current favorites on Jump that I went exploring and found, like, five new (and current) series that I really enjoy - but the BEST ONE is the one about two brothers who run a barbershop in a run-down shopping area & the beef they have w/ a local landlord

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Ian is the Priest-King of the Sacred Grove at Nemi @poetinbabylon.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

help help, I was listening to Shostakovich while working on my sermon tonight, but then I shifted to Holst's Planets, and now my work is done, but I can't turn The Planets off

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Ian is the Priest-King of the Sacred Grove at Nemi @poetinbabylon.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I won't lie, there's real benefit in being a White Midwestern (Mainline) Pastor when it comes to helping some folks de-radicalize. Sometimes folks will say absolute nutcase stuff in my presence, and I'll go, "well, man, in the Bible, Jesus says..." and they go "oh."

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Dave K @revdavek.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

It’s bad when the old robber barons like Carnegie appear enlightened AF arguing for the educated working class decades ahead of these jag offs.

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Ian is the Priest-King of the Sacred Grove at Nemi @poetinbabylon.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

some of these folks didn't grow up in a community of coal miners and it shows, NGL

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Ian is the Priest-King of the Sacred Grove at Nemi @poetinbabylon.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

due to budgetary concerns, we've decided to once again plan a CAMPING TRIP as a family vacation, but this time we've upped the ante because we're buying a BIG TENT - photos to come (after next weekend)

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Snowden St. @snowden.st · 02/10/2026

one of the more wholesome facts in my big dumb family

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Ian is the Priest-King of the Sacred Grove at Nemi @poetinbabylon.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

"I'm a College Professor. Thinking is Overrated." same energy

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Ian is the Priest-King of the Sacred Grove at Nemi @poetinbabylon.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I'm reviewing, briefly, what all I've read so far in 2026, and I am *almost* back up to the form I had circa 2015-2021. It turns out that one of the best ways to kill your reading habit is to *become an English teacher*; the fact that my worst years of reading were the four that I taught is... bad!

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Ian is the Priest-King of the Sacred Grove at Nemi @poetinbabylon.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I'm doing my prep for this Acts study I've been leading, and Willie Jennings' comments on the idolatry of the Couple (and on Marriage) more generally in his (incredible, I must emphasize) Acts commentary are absolutely phenomenal - really worth reading (it's pp. 57-61).

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Ian is the Priest-King of the Sacred Grove at Nemi @poetinbabylon.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

in the past month or so there's been a few recurring visitors who have begun shifting toward becoming regular worshipers with us, and they have been so encouraging to me regarding my preaching, specifically, which is really cool cause self-evaluating your preaching is the hardest part of this job?

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Emily Gorcenski @emily.gorcen.ski · 28/09/2026

Here’s the most incredible story you’ll read today. A small plane with four people aboard crashes in a field. Another pilot witnesses it. That pilot happens to be flying a bunch of skydivers. They offer to jump to assist, are given permission. The skydivers happen to be EMTs. Everyone survives.

wisn.com

Skydivers alert emergency crews, assist after plane crashes near East Troy airport

Four people were aboard the single-engine plane when it went down in a cornfield near Carvers School Road in East Troy at about 1:30 p.m.

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James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Joe Biden's inability to talk about his administration's successes ended up being a really big problem, imo.

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Ian is the Priest-King of the Sacred Grove at Nemi @poetinbabylon.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

it is no surprise that I aspire to eventually complete a Ph.D. program - but, of course, the traditional residential Ph.D. with grad assistantships, etc., is not compatible with my current mode-of-life, and I'm very happy about my work as a pastor!, so I have no intentions of changing that -

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Ian is the Priest-King of the Sacred Grove at Nemi @poetinbabylon.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

ran into a former student from my Rhetoric class last night: he's working on a project engaging with the spiritual and secular ethics of Orson Scott Card's Ender's Game series, and he asked me for reco's on Mormon ethics, and somewhere along the way I may have said "you gotta watch TWILIGHT"

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Demiurge of Doom @euthyphro.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

It’s like I am always saying: other people are real! Children are people!

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Demiurge of Doom @euthyphro.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I do this without tech. It’s called “not being an asshole.”

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Ridge Cook @ridgecook.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

A truly wonderful LP. A gospel record showing Coltrane's spirituality or search for spirituality.

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Ian is the Priest-King of the Sacred Grove at Nemi @poetinbabylon.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

update: the children's library (shelf) was counted, so we have (minimally) 1308 books in our home library, plus however many are in my office (I feel afraid to count that), plus the boxes that remain in storage and are unshelved

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Ian is the Priest-King of the Sacred Grove at Nemi @poetinbabylon.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

we did an impromptu audit of our bookshelves this morning, and the preliminary count - not including the dedicated children's library - has our (home) libraries at: me: 594 H.: 220 kid #1: 213 kid #2: 59 (kid #3 doesn't have his own shelf yet, and they all share the children's library)

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Ian is the Priest-King of the Sacred Grove at Nemi @poetinbabylon.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

my eldest (10yo) was asking me about getting his own music player, and so I shared with him that my first three CDs I played nonstop were the LOTR:FOTR soundtrack, Dark Side of the Moon, and The Who Ultimate Collection meanwhile, he's imagining like... ... all jazz, nothing but jazz on his playlist

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🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦🇲🇽🇬🇱🇵🇦🇻🇪 Chappell's Femininomenology of Spirit @ofvick.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

First of all, Ian can do all things through Christ who strengthens him, so jot that down

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Ian is the Priest-King of the Sacred Grove at Nemi @poetinbabylon.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

oh, folks out here re-creating millenarian fertility cults from first principles

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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Took ‘em long enough

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Wesley @wtjoseph.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I very much doubt whether American evangelicalism has the capacity to course correct at this point. As trumpism alternately decays and regroups over the next decade or more, many Christians are just going to check out of evangelicalism, and Christianity overall.

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Ian is the Priest-King of the Sacred Grove at Nemi @poetinbabylon.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

oh, man: Judau is starting to go crazy, and Bright just went and sent the Newtype kid-squad out to fight Haman Karn all alone???? ZZ Gundam's final sequence is getting wild

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Ian is the Priest-King of the Sacred Grove at Nemi @poetinbabylon.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

it's been a while since I've done any #gunpla posting, but I'm up to E38 of ZZ Gundam (entering the final quarter of the show!) and I'm *still* working on the waterslide decals for the Wing Gundam Zero EW Ver.Ka - these things drive me crazy, and I think I prefer stickers, honestly

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

When they eventually make a movie about this time, please don't put the male politicians in good suits. IMO, the ugly, low rent tailoring should be part of the story.

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Usman T. Malik @usmantm.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Ted Chiang's fav writing quote is from her essay 'Write till you drop' "There is something you find interesting, for a reason hard to explain. It is hard to explain because you have never read it on any page; there you begin. You were made and set here to give voice to this, your own astonishment."

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Ian is the Priest-King of the Sacred Grove at Nemi @poetinbabylon.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

need to repost this because it's one of my favorite religious documents ever written

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Ian is the Priest-King of the Sacred Grove at Nemi @poetinbabylon.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

one of the hardest things about really preaching a good sermon on Sunday is getting to work on next Sunday's sermon and knowing it's not quite there 😅

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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

it's funny Cyberpunk 2020 predicted being the consequences of being online but thought we needed augmentations to get cyberpsychosis

In the 2000's, we call this cyberpsychosis;
a mental disease in which the addition of
cybernetics causes an 'already unstable
personality to fragment. At first, the victim
begins to relate more to machines than to
humans. Soon, he starts to ignore people, parents, friends, lovers. Eating, sleeping all become less important. Finally, human
interactions begin to irritate, culminating
in a terrifying rage that consumes the
victim entirely.

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Ian is the Priest-King of the Sacred Grove at Nemi @poetinbabylon.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

FWIW, this is also what George MacDonald's Universalism looks like: the worst people in the world are surrounded by God's presence, but cannot make themselves present to God, because they are too obsessed with themselves and the vision they maintain of their Purpose in Life.

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Ian is the Priest-King of the Sacred Grove at Nemi @poetinbabylon.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Dear Philemon, I believe that Onesimus, your lifelong slave, who you have no doubt likely treated poorly, and hence he ran away, and now I am sending him back to you so that you can figure out the theology of whether it is appropriate for a Christian to own a Christian, let alone for a Christian

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Ian is the Priest-King of the Sacred Grove at Nemi @poetinbabylon.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

welp, clergy-friends, it finally happened to me: my collar has gone missing, and I'm 90% sure I can blame a collusion between child #3 and the dog so, as I prepare for a WEDDING this afternoon, I am cutting out different-sized strips of INDEX CARDS to use as a suitable replacement

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 09/09/2026

dollars to donuts this will just be mac donald complaining about having to see black teenagers in public

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Ian is the Priest-King of the Sacred Grove at Nemi @poetinbabylon.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

okay, what in the world, I thought this WAS the Onion InfoWars

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Isaac Paul @pennsylvanisch.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I mean anything prosocial and benevolent in its intentions nowadays has to end up woke. My typically-woke PCUSA congregation is very proud that our building is home to the city's largest scout troop.

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Ian is the Priest-King of the Sacred Grove at Nemi @poetinbabylon.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I keep making new parent-friends on the left who are, get this, *also Cub Scout leaders*

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Ian is the Priest-King of the Sacred Grove at Nemi @poetinbabylon.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

after a week of pause I made progress on both watching M.S. Gundam ZZ *and* working on my Wing Gundam EW Ver.Ka: I've built and panel-lined the wings, and I just built the buster rifles tonight! once I build the shield there'll only be one step left... ... MORE WATERSLIDE DECALS

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Ian is the Priest-King of the Sacred Grove at Nemi @poetinbabylon.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

my next-door neighbor is a Southern Baptist pastor he and his wife drive around in minivans with their nicely-behaved normie children who do sports I came into the neighborhood tonight w/ the windows rolled down & my monsters halfway out all the windows screaming Paramore at the top of their lungs

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Ian is the Priest-King of the Sacred Grove at Nemi @poetinbabylon.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

didn't have my BCW on-hand, and the resources for the Feast of Creation in Christ lean more toward Anglicans and Lutherans than the Reformed tradition, so I wrote my own Prayer of Confession for the day this week

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Ian is the Priest-King of the Sacred Grove at Nemi @poetinbabylon.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I had Tuesday off from the church (because I'm working Friday), but this AM I'm feeling aggravated: I screwed up the flow in Rhetoric last night, and the electricians arrived to replace our chancel lights and freaked out about details in the brief that I had already gone over with their boss...

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Cody⁺ @cebmplus.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Three of my favorite poems by Wendell Berry from the POETRY journal (January 2001, June 1967, and November 1971 respectively.) 🕯️

HOW TO BE A POET
(to remind myself

I
Make a place to sit down.
Sit down. Be quiet.
You must depend upon affection, reading, knowledge, skill-more of each than you have-inspiration, work, growing older, patience, for patience joins time to eternity. Any readers who like your poems, doubt their judgment.

II
Breathe with unconditional breath the unconditioned air.
Shun electric wire.
Communicate slowly. Live a three-dimensioned life; stay away from screens.
Stay away from anything that obscures the place it is in.
There are no unsacred places; there are only sacred places and desecrated places.

III
Accept what comes from silence.
Make the best you can of it.
Of the little words that come out of the silence, like prayers prayed back to the one who prays, make a poem that does not disturb the silence from which it came.

THE BURIAL OF THE OLD
The old, whose bodies encrust their lives, die, and that is well.
They unhinder what has struggled in them.
The light, painfully loved, that narrowed nd darkened in their minds becomes again the sky.
The young, who have looked on dying, turn back to the world, grown strangely alert to each other's bodies.

A HOMECOMING
One faith is bondage. Two are free. In the trust of old love, cultivation shows a dark graceful wilderness at its heart. Wild in that wilderness, we roam the distances of our faith, safe beyond the bounds of what we know. O love, open. Show me
my country. Take me home.

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