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Sam Connour | Lo Sy Lo

@samconnour.bsky.social
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Loves a good church piano. Involuntarily explaining a dead husband & North Dakotan roots on the regular. Makes music as Lo Sy Lo. Makes dinner as ‘Mom-why-can't-you-like-cybergrind.’ Jesus always or nothing makes sense.

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Sam Connour | Lo Sy Lo @samconnour.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
I get this. I’m definitiely “sitting at the back of the class” but am starting to find myself there more than other platforms!
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Sam Connour | Lo Sy Lo @samconnour.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
You should try again! I feel like the momentum there has swelled in the last month or so, for some reason. (As someone with no real data, but pretty good at reading “vibes”. 🔮)
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Sam Connour | Lo Sy Lo @samconnour.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
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War and Peace 2026
A slow read-along and book guide for Leo Tolstoy's classic novel
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Sam Connour | Lo Sy Lo @samconnour.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
Unrelated - I think you need to have a Substack moment and start migrating over! (Thought of you this morning when I was contemplating jumping into a Substack slow-read group to read War & Peace in 2026. If you led a Moby Dick read, I would be totally in!)
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Sam Connour | Lo Sy Lo @samconnour.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
In my domestic life, I have a sincere hatred of cans that aren’t designed to stack. What are we even doing.
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Sam Connour | Lo Sy Lo @samconnour.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
So much, yes! My heart swells at every golden hour that hits Chicago streets and buildings and hardly blips at a beach sunrise.
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Sam Connour | Lo Sy Lo @samconnour.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Confession: sometimes instead of bringing my existential anxiety to Jesus, I bring it to a black hole of Hauerwas videos on Youtube
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Felicity Hannah @felicityhannah.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
This article manages to name her husband before it names… her.
Article reads:
Woman named as Archbishop of Canterbury in historic first 

The 63-year-old archbishop-designate is married to Eamonn Mullally, with whom she has two children. Originally from Woking in Surrey, she was the UK's chief nursing officer from 1999 to 2004.
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Sam Connour | Lo Sy Lo @samconnour.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
Here’s his account of what happened.
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Sam Connour | Lo Sy Lo @samconnour.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
We defaulted to Pillar and then decided to help out with their campus launch at Western's chapel last fall. It's been good!
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Sam Connour | Lo Sy Lo @samconnour.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
Yeah! Family needs became pressing about a year and a half ago and we had to switch to online schooling for my youngest, which meant my bandwidth for working "weekends" was gone. So I stepped down from my role Maplewood (very sad! love them all!).
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Sam Connour | Lo Sy Lo @samconnour.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
(Also, Pillar calls them “worship folders”. Is that an RCA thing??)
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Sam Connour | Lo Sy Lo @samconnour.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
Ordinary Time sending song? I’m on a work trip and away from my bulletin otherwise I could snap a photo.
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Sam Connour | Lo Sy Lo @samconnour.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
Sending song by @smarcorodriguez.bsky.social at church yesterday 🙌🏻
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Sam Connour | Lo Sy Lo @samconnour.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
I don’t get gazebos.
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Sam Connour | Lo Sy Lo @samconnour.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
Is there anything better than a fantastic brass swell in the middle of a song??! Be still my heart.
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Sam Connour | Lo Sy Lo @samconnour.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
Yes! I have some songs that have very different arrangement vibes depending on if I’m playing the piano or guitar and I can’t decide which version will eventually be recorded. 🙃 I like them both!
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Sam Connour | Lo Sy Lo @samconnour.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
Very much one of my stress nightmare scenarios. 😭 Less than 30 mins to assess and rehearse songs I didn’t pick and modify all the key signatures on the fly. Eeep. 🙏🏻 (Thankfully it all worked out, however I have no adrenaline now left in my body.)
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Sam Connour | Lo Sy Lo @samconnour.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
Hobbled into worship rehearsal this morning, VERY tired, and with the world’s largest canker sore - but ready to offer light backup vocal support and harmony to our guest worship leader, who - bless - came in assumming I was leading all the songs. 😅
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Sam Connour | Lo Sy Lo @samconnour.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
It grows here in Michigan too!
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Sam Connour | Lo Sy Lo @samconnour.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
What do think of Annie Jacobsen’s new book, Nuclear War?
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Sam Connour | Lo Sy Lo @samconnour.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Free Million Dollar Idea: I want to to spike my teens’ energy drinks with de-caffeinating drops (when they’re not looking) so that they fall asleep at reasonable hours
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Sam Connour | Lo Sy Lo @samconnour.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
90% of the time, when someone asks someone else out on a date on a tv show or movie, they hang up before discussing the when/where and this annoys me 100% of the time
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Sam Connour | Lo Sy Lo @samconnour.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
Eavesdropping on a first date and they just started talking about their dads. I think it was nervous small talk. (At 19, your family has been almost your entire world—so an obvious default.) But it was so sweet and I thought about how much their dads would probably love to be eavesdropping with me.
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Sam Connour | Lo Sy Lo @samconnour.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
And the city, state! I’ve wasted years of my life trying to find out where a church is located—scrolling through every page on their site.
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Sam Connour | Lo Sy Lo @samconnour.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
The Spotify algorithm always wants me to listen to Grizzly Bear. And never have I wanted to listen to Grizzly Bear.
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Sam Connour | Lo Sy Lo @samconnour.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Open Table gathers diverse groups of biblical scholars to host intensive, almost full year conversations (via Zoom) on books of the Bible. Really enjoy them! This is Pt 1 of Letters of Paul, which just concluded: www.opentableconference.com/letters-of-p...
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Letters of Paul Class — Open Table Conference
Begins Sept. 11, 2024 Addressing the letters of Paul the Apostle A live, weekly discussion with a panel of distinguished teachers on the Letters of Paul the Apostle.
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Sam Connour | Lo Sy Lo @samconnour.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Not a commentary, but I’ve attended Open Table studies that last two years (Douglas Campbell, John Behr, Cherith Nordling, Chris Green, Kenneth Tanner + others) and we’re starting 1 Cor in the fall - really looking forward to it! Love the wide mix of backgrounds and traditions they bring.
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Sam Connour | Lo Sy Lo @samconnour.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Emily, praying. 🙏🏻 And I can provide recommendations for mental health care nearby.
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Sam Connour | Lo Sy Lo @samconnour.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
great news! (pun intended)
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Sam Connour | Lo Sy Lo @samconnour.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Would love to subscribe to this on Spotify! Any change it will be distributed there anytime soon?
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Michele Kelemen @michelekelemen.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
A fascinating conversation. Worth a listen: www.npr.org/2025/04/01/n...
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Yale professor describes why he is leaving the U.S. to teach in Canada
NPR's A Martinez asks Yale University philosophy professor Jason Stanley, an expert on fascism, about his decision to leave the U.S. and accept a position teaching American studies in Canada.
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Sam Connour | Lo Sy Lo @samconnour.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
This has nothing to do with the actual content… but what’s the deal (*insert Jerry Seinfield voice) with the Random Capitalizations???!! (See statement for example.) When did Trump, Facebook, and Boomers in general decide this was A Thing? Did I Miss the Memo?
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Sam Connour | Lo Sy Lo @samconnour.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Called!
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Sam Connour | Lo Sy Lo @samconnour.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Got a new roof a few months ago. In the middle of this snowy Michigan winter, sometimes when I pull into the driveway my heart just swells with ridiculous pride. You’re doing it, Roof! You’re doing it! I knew you could do it! 😂
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Sam Connour | Lo Sy Lo @samconnour.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
I think my next target is eggplant.
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Sam Connour | Lo Sy Lo @samconnour.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
This happened to me with oatmeal! (And sweet potatoes!)
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Rosdahl @rosevalley52.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
"...let us be grateful for receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken..." Hebr 12:28
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Sam Connour | Lo Sy Lo @samconnour.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
🙏🏻
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Sam Connour | Lo Sy Lo @samconnour.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Time really makes no sense. Miss you guys! ❤️
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Sam Connour | Lo Sy Lo @samconnour.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
Yesterday marked 10 yrs since my first husband’s death from cancer. But today marks 10 yrs of living after that—stepping out into a terrifying new world where everything, save the grace of God, had changed. No situation, relationship, or practicality was untouched. Feeling grateful to still be here.
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Sam Connour | Lo Sy Lo @samconnour.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
I can’t stop reading or watching sci-fi. WHAT DOES THIS MEAN? It must mean something. The only other genre possibily luring me away from sci-fi right now is classical mythology.
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Sam Connour | Lo Sy Lo @samconnour.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
🙏🏻
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Sam Connour | Lo Sy Lo @samconnour.bsky.social · 25/12/2024
Whenever we celebrate Christmas with my first set of in-laws, my Pentecostal preacher brother-in-law and I leave the fam celebrations to go to a midnight candlelight service around the corner at the Lutheran church in their small town (pop. 150). It’s my favorite service of the year.
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Sam Connour | Lo Sy Lo @samconnour.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
An AI bot just took my drive thru order at TBell
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Toby Buckle @polphilpod.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
"As a dog returneth to his vomit, so a fool returneth to his open tabs when he sees the 'restore all' prompt." - proverbs (probably)
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Sam Connour | Lo Sy Lo @samconnour.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Our #notourcat has the same disorder
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Sam Connour | Lo Sy Lo @samconnour.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
I have a Pavlovian response to moderate amounts of snow that I can’t shake—I lose all motivation and sense of responsibility due to a childhood of epic Midwestern no-school snowdays every year or so. It’s like my brain sees a few inches of snow and is like, “Ope, nothin happening today, I guess!”
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Sam Connour | Lo Sy Lo @samconnour.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
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#susantedeschi #derektrucks#tedeschitrucksband #soulful #bluesrock #blues #bluesmusic #fypシ゚ #vairal
YouTube video by KEVIN
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