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[hanoi Hannah voice] welcome home transsexual priest. Your government has abandoned you, transsexual priest

Love flying into PHX where all the “welcome to Phoenix” ads are for doctors, the conservative Christian university, and tpusa funded/sophie cunningham’s grift yrefy

This will all be solved when the SCLM provides us with a modern language Rite I use and we can return to the American Canon ;)

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The YDS chapel switched to online leaflets when I was a student, and I just stopped going. I spend so much time every day on my phone, I don’t want to approach the throne of grace while having my nose in my phone

Jordan Haynie Ware @godwelcomesall.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

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Encouraging people, again and again, to do the hard right thing when there is often no reward, and sometimes even cost, is unbelievably exhausting. It is always tempting to take the easy win, to look good rather than do good. There are so many rewards there.

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Atkinson @maddavenport.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

On reflection, I think the lasting impact of 9/11 for me came from witnessing the Islamophobia, xenophobia, and racism that we allowed to enslave us. I was an older teen. Abu Ghraib made me realize that I could never be loyal to an idea of America again: that Abu Ghraib was what patriotism led to.

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sam @sjchristopher.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I generally don’t go Times Square when I’m in New York (I learned long ago it’s just a gross display of American Capitalism), but I made a rare exception today for a lovely 9/11 requiem at St. Mary the Virgin

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Scott Gunn @scottagunn.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

It’s super ironic that for the “Season of Creation” we are wiping out whole forests to print massive service leaflets with bespoke liturgies. Want to honor creation? Just use the BCP. 📕

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sam @sjchristopher.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

My wheelhouse is theology, not bibical studies, unfortunately. I'd probably just end up googling it myself, to be honest.

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I've been to the hardware store more times in the past year than in my entire life before becoming a priest "And other duties as assigned"

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I spent my Tuesday morning going to Home Depot to rent an angle grinder 🤪

We have an outdoor shed type thing where we store our trash and recycling bins, and, well...

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Carne asada taco plate and jugo de tamarindo made under the loving eyes of momma Mary 🙏🙂‍↕️🫡🥹💖

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sam @sjchristopher.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

My favorite Mexican fast food place near my parish has a Marian shrine in the kitchen with fresh-cut roses in vases on both sides of her statue 🥹💖

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Here it is! The back page is what I'm talking about :) static1.squarespace.com/static/51952...

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sam @sjchristopher.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I don't know where you can get a copy of it (maybe email them?) but St. Mark's, Philadelphia's profile was illustrated to include little caricatures of parishoners, and it was so very endearing.

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sam @sjchristopher.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I love starting my week off by finding out someone has turned the parish trash bin area into their personal storage unit with a lock and everything

sam @sjchristopher.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

The city that never sleeps baybee

sam @sjchristopher.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

The lit candle indicates the presence of the sacrament, so it shouldn't be lit when there isn't any in reserve.

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sam @sjchristopher.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

How tf did I not know you're canadian?

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Cody⁺ @cebmplus.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I obviously adore Dolly…and also lots of people adored Jean Vanier and Cesar Chavez and were pushing for their inclusion on the sanctoral calendar. Waiting 50 yrs is prudent imo. But just bc somebody isn’t on the calendar doesn’t mean they can’t be kept as saints by individuals/local communities.

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BCP Minus Context @bcpminuscontext.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

And here we offer and present unto thee, O Lord, our selves, our souls and bodies, to be a reasonable, holy, and living sacrifice unto thee;

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BCP Minus Context @bcpminuscontext.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Take and eat this in remembrance that Christ died for thee, and feed on him in thy heart by faith, with thanksgiving.

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Josiah Hawthorne @josiahhawthorne.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

"So Joshua burned Ai and made it a permanent heap of ruins, a desolate place to this day." Joshua 8:28 Verses to live by.

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sam @sjchristopher.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

My organist gave me a Lamy Safari for Christmas, and it's my favorite pen of all time, just a delight to write with

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Bridget O’Brien @bridgetemob.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

I am theologically committed to a preferential option for the poor, so I very much affirm the centering of the ways the Meta glasses can harm children and I also, as an adult woman, do not want to be subjected to constant recorded surveillance. I do not want to be fodder for someone's Content.

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By the specificity I mean like his emphasis on Jesus as Jewish, as Palestinian, as being Mary's baby, etc. etc. etc.

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For a long time I was using Child as the term for the second person of the Trinity, but I feel like I heard one too many Willie Jennings lectures about the specificity of Jesus' incarnational reality at YDS to gender Jesus as anything but male. I'm all here for she/her-ing the spirit, though.

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If I'm going to do gender neutral, I like Parent, Son, and Holy Spirit

I worry that this erases the divinity of the second person of the Trinity (and also seems to make an argument that there's both a father and a mother, or that the Spirit is the only one that's fully God).

I've personally been swayed by @frutledge.bsky.social's take that things like 'Creator, Redeemer, Sustainer' fail because the language is supposed to describe the Trinity in both its immanent and economic senses. Ignoring the fact that CRS is modalist, it doesn't describe how God relates to godself