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Benjamin Garren @wokehtklim.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

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Benjamin Garren @wokehtklim.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

The Chaplain's Book Pile 2026 My first book of the year is a lovely SPCK find from a used bookstore. First published in 1927 this is a 1958 reprint of Cadbury's 'The Making of Luke-Acts'. This is, to this day, an amazing introduction to exploring basic concepts of biblical theology.

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Benjamin Garren @wokehtklim.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

If the president finds it acceptable to kidnap a foreign president and his family and put them into some variation of prison... then it is simply a matter of fabricating the excuse that will allow Trump and the GOP to do so to any of us if their goals require it.

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Benjamin Garren @wokehtklim.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

The issue with Inclusive Orthodoxy is that it requires minimal introspection by the cis-het population on the ramifications of the cis-het patriarchy. This is in regard to both their continued complicity to abusive systems but also how their own sense of sexuality and gender are malformed.

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Jay Hulme @jayhulmepoet.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

The Polari Prize has been "Paused"

Statement (18.08.2025) Polari is part of the LGBTQ+ writing and reading community and for fifteen years, trans, gender non- conforming and non-binary people have been part of that community - at our events, on our judging panels, on our long and short lists and among our prize winners. This commitment to inclusion remains unchanged. Polari is not and has never been a trans exclusionary organisation. These are not our values and we condemn all forms of transphobia.

What was supposed to be a celebration of exceptional LGBTQ+ literature has been overshadowed by hurt and anger, which has been painful and distressing for all concerned and we apologize to everyone who has been affected.
Many discussions have been undertaken over the last two weeks -with authors, judges, stakeholders, and funders - about the impacts and ramifications of the longlisting of John Boyne's novel and how we can learn from this experience and move forwards. We have decided as a result to pause the prize this year while we increase representation of trans and gender non-conforming judges on the panels for all the awards and undertake a governance and management review to include our aimns and values and work to better support everyone within our LGBTQ+ Polari community. We have already secured strong representation for next year, which we will build on.

We will also explore discussions about the tensions between the claims of freedom of expression and the need to create inclusive and supportive spaces in a world hostile to our trans community members and our community at large. We extend our heartfelt apologies to everyone affected this year, for the disappointment and despair this has caused.
We acknowledge the ongoing support of the Polari community. everyone we have consulted, and our hugely supportive partners. We are a tiny operation that has run on goodwill and small pots of funding and sponsorship for 15 years and will endeavour to find a way forwards in good faith.

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Ross Sayers @rosssayers.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

Straight person who hadn't heard of the Polari Prize until last week: the trans mob have ruined my favourite literary prize

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Benjamin Garren @wokehtklim.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

The Plot of "My Brother's Name is Jessica" but about a lesbian would be: brother rejoices because his lesbian sister goes to ex-gay ministry and becomes the submissive wife to a patriarchal youth pastor all to save daddy's political career. No LGB person would value such a novel.

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Benjamin Garren @wokehtklim.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

As a gay man who is a survivor of sexual assault and who has been assumed to be a girl or trans amidst such... I am not provided any defense that allows me to be transphobic. This is equally true for John Boyne whose transphobia is well documented and not dismissible on account of being a survivor.

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Jay Hulme @jayhulmepoet.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

Keeping track of people withdrawing from the Polari Prize Longlist over the inclusion of proud self-described "TERF" John Boyne. Let me know as we get updates on authors pulling their books in protest.

Polari first book prize Longlist with Sacha coward, Jason okundaye, Amy twigg, and Mae diansangu's books crossed out to show they've withdrawn

The Polari book prize Longlist, with no books withdrawn by authors.

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Benjamin Garren @wokehtklim.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

There was not some political movement that found a charismatic leader in Trump. Trump's charisma managed to gather a base of disparate groups into a political movement. The "uniparty" creation by Musk is the first visible fracturing of this coalition.

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Benjamin Garren @wokehtklim.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

⚓️ Adaptions from Benson's Course of Meditations: Rogation Monday. "If we do not utter our desires to God, we cannot be living in the fellowship of His Life, for Christ is ever speaking to God." The goal of prayer is to bring all of our desires to God in their first articulation.

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Benjamin Garren @wokehtklim.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

⚓️ Adaptions from Benson's Course of Meditations: Easter Tuesday. "How much of the anxiety of life would be removed if we expected our acts to prosper because of Christ's bidding, instead of letting our minds dwell upon the apparent prospects of success." This is not a platitude.

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Benjamin Garren @wokehtklim.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

⚓️ Adaptions from Benson's Course of Meditations: Easter Tuesday. "We seldom fear to be elevated by nature to things beyond ourselves. Yet such elevation is always dangerous. We fear when God, Who is a spirit, comes to us and yet unless he does come to us we must perish."

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Benjamin Garren @wokehtklim.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

⚓️ Adaptions from Benson's Course of Meditations: Easter Monday. "The natural heart wonders at the risen life -- in the world and not of it -- indifference not through ignorance, but by reason of higher, truer knowledge." There is no ignorance of suffering within the Easter Journey.

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Benjamin Garren @wokehtklim.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

⚓️ Adaptions from Benson's Course of Meditations: Easter Even. "The prisoners of hope worship Him with holy joy as they find the Light of His Presence filling the dark region in which they had been held." Where are you imprisoned by hope for something greater? Where is the dark region of your life?

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Benjamin Garren @wokehtklim.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

⚓️ Adaptions from Benson's Course of Meditations: Thursday of Holy Week. "Jesus imprisoned by our senses." Specifically how Jesus came to be imprisoned by the Kiss of Judas, who is trying to catfish Jesus for whatever schemes Judas has going. Judas is awake and disrupts Jesus loneliness.

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Benjamin Garren @wokehtklim.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

⚓️ Adaptions from Benson's Course of Meditations: Wednesday of Holy Week. "Consider the Loneliness of a Redeemer in the consciousness of his work." At some point Jesus has moved past the starkest point of loneliness, of desperation, of loss experienced by any human being.

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Benjamin Garren @wokehtklim.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

The Margaret Thatcher Chantry Chapel of the Falkland Islands experienced an uptick in mass requests in the past months. Prayers for a return to reasoned NeoLiberal practices are now being requested from those who never thought they would remember fondly Our Iron Lady and seek out her intervention.

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Benjamin Garren @wokehtklim.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

⚓️ Adaptions from Benson's Course of Meditations: Fifth Sunday In Lent. "The mind that wills to do the will of God will recieve the illumination of God" What causes religious authority to stumble? A certainty that they are illumined versus a longing to do the will of God.

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Benjamin Garren @wokehtklim.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Every once in a while I am in the midst of doing liturgical work and deep in the psalms and remember the OT History professor who lowered a grade on a paper because I referenced liturgical use of poetry within the OT. I was told that Hebrew Scripture has no poetry and no internal liturgy.

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Benjamin Garren @wokehtklim.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

I pray incessantly For the conversion Of the prodigal son's brother. Ever in my ear Rings the dead warning "This one [the prodigal] has awoken From his life of sin. When will the other [the brother] Awaken From his virtue? -Dom Helder Camara

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Benjamin Garren @wokehtklim.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

An Open Letter from concerned Young Adult and Campus Ministers in the Episcopal Church. ⚓️ To our fellow Episcopalians, Christians, and all our neighbors, As Young Adult and Campus Ministers of the Episcopal Church we are grieved to hear of the injustice perpetrated upon Mahmoud Khalil,

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Benjamin Garren @wokehtklim.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

⚓️ Adaptions from Benson's Course of Meditations: Fourth Sunday In Lent. "The Sea of Galilee : The Nations of the World" Christ's miniseries are not principally in the center but at the margins. A margin expanding from the backwater of Galilee through out the nations by the backwaters.

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Benjamin Garren @wokehtklim.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

"Persistent prayer is the refusal to live in oppression and exploitation until justice is established." ~Musa W. Dube

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Benjamin Garren @wokehtklim.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

⚓️ Adaptions from Benson's Course of Meditations: Third Sunday In Lent. We come to a moment when a demon is cast out and a man begins to speak. The way to overcome ableist readings is to name that Satan has seized the tongues of our very souls in a way more crippling than being non-verbal.

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Benjamin Garren @wokehtklim.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

⚓️ Adaptions from Benson's Course of Meditations: Second Sunday In Lent. And behold a woman of Canaan came out of the same coasts, and cried unto Jesus, saying "have mercy on me". Our meditation today is to have empathy with the woman of Canaan on account of our shared condition.

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Benjamin Garren @wokehtklim.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

⚓️ Adaptions from Benson's Course of Meditations: First Tuesday In Lent. "Religion, instead of being a life of immediate communion with God, is changed into earthly acts according to human convenience." What is too often the questions concerning clergy and congregational leaders?

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Benjamin Garren @wokehtklim.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

⚓️ Adaptions from Benson's Course of Meditations: First Monday In Lent. "All the acts of life which have been wrought in the power of Divine Grace, live on in the brightness of the Eternal Welcome." Lent is a time to reflect on where our life is being so wrought, and where it is not.

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Benjamin Garren @wokehtklim.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

⚓️ Adaptions from Benson's Course of Meditations: First Sunday In Lent. Christ's humanity is "realized in personal consciousness by suffering. Contrasted with the power of him who is the Prince of this world." God is made known to us not only by empathy but solidarity in suffering.

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Benjamin Garren @wokehtklim.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

The joy of sympathy. Jesus has felt your hunger. The sympathy of God manifest in the flesh sums up all joy. It equals all sorrow, outshines it, disperses it. -R.M. Benson, SSJE And our oligarch and would be tyrants tell us that empathy is a sin. ⚓️

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Benjamin Garren @wokehtklim.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

⚓️ Adaptions from Benson's Course of Meditations: Ash Wednesday. "Fasting were a burdensome task in the loneliness of our own sense of sin. We must fast with Him Who fasted for us." What discipline will let you do this?

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Benjamin Garren @wokehtklim.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

⚓️ Adaptions from Benson's Course of Meditations: Quinquagesima I-II. "Titles of human respect have no truth when addressed to any but Jesus." Think about that for any title of respect that you hold for yourself. Think about that for any title of respect you provide others.

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Benjamin Garren @wokehtklim.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

⚓️ Adaptions from Benson's Course of Meditations: Quinquagesima. "They used to overlook the prophesies of sorrow. Jesus bids them open their eyes to these. Difficulties that encompass the Jerusalem that now is, must not blind us."

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Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

A guy who used to be a comedian & is good at improv and dealing with hecklers and who has also spent the last 3 years in a war zone turns out to be a guy you can’t out-alpha, imagine that

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Benjamin Garren @wokehtklim.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

"For us there, there is no exit. We win, or we cease to exist. The only question is whether America stands with us." Zelensky This is the type of moral fortitude and commitment to human life that is foreign to Musk, Trump, and Vance.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 28/02/2025

GLENN: Why don't you wear a suit? You're at the highest level in this country's office & you refuse to wear a suit. A lot of Americans have problems with you not respecting the office. ZELENSKYY: I will wear a costume after this war will finish. Maybe something like yours. Maybe something better.

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Benjamin Garren @wokehtklim.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

⚓️ Adaptions from Benson's Course of Meditations: Friday of Sexagesima. "If we would know the Truth, we must have Jesus for our master. In vain we know the abstract truth of Christianity. We must know Christ as the personal truth incarnate." The creeds are means not ends.

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Benjamin Garren @wokehtklim.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

⚓️ Adaptions from Benson's Course of Meditations: Thursday of Sexagesima. Salvation is the work of Christ in the lives of every living thing. Sanctification is the work of each believer and the church in the world.

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Benjamin Garren @wokehtklim.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

⚓️ Adaptions from Benson's Course of Meditations: Mon-Wed Sexagesima. Consider your baptism as the quickening of the seed of salvation, the seed of the logos scattered by Christ upon the ground, baptized life is a life spent quickening the Word of God within you and the world.

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Benjamin Garren @wokehtklim.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

⚓️ Adaptions from Benson's Course of Meditations: Sexagesima. "The Word which created all things at the beginning, becomes in the mystery of the Incarnation a seminal principal of life." We are not adherents to a clockmaker deity remote from the life we inhabit.

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Benjamin Garren @wokehtklim.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

⚓️ Adaptions from Benson's Course of Meditations: Fri/Sat after Septuagesima. "The householder goes forth into the market-place. The offer of salvation is not made in any private way." How we forget this with our sense of private salvation so prevalent today.

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Benjamin Garren @wokehtklim.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

⚓️ Love does not ignore. Love does not excuse. Love does not enable. My sermon on how our love of friend, family, and enemy doesn't provide space to ignore pain, excuse harm, or enable abuse... and how this connects to federal social servants facing layoffs and the Young Adults running DOGE.

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"Love your enemies" - A sermon for the Seventh Sunday after the Epiphany

YouTube video by Sermons from St. Michael & All Angels, Tucson

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Benjamin Garren @wokehtklim.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

⚓️ Adaptions from Benson's Course of Meditations: Wed/Thurs after Septuagesima. A free and equal gift. "The Freedom of God is a perfect basis of creative well being; for His infinite wisdom rejoices in the Universal Good." This is the freedom that God enjoys within Their own being.

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Benjamin Garren @wokehtklim.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

The Bronx is a good place to be!

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Benjamin Garren @wokehtklim.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

⚓️ Adaptions from Benson's Course of Meditations: Tuesday after Septuagesima. "Daily bread is given not that we may excel others, but that we may serve God." Thus is the reality of everything that a Christian owns.

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Benjamin Garren @wokehtklim.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

⚓️ Adaptions from Benson's Course of Meditations: Monday after Septuagesima. Grace is what allows a reciprocal relationship with God to occur. The call we have to reciprocate is one of work, the working of God for the healing of the whole world.

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Benjamin Garren @wokehtklim.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Giving a local youth group a tour of how to find sacred spaces and moments to breathe and reflect on a university campus... Carrying my chancel and sacristy on my back... as one does.

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Benjamin Garren @wokehtklim.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

⚓️ Adaptions from Benson's Course of Meditations: Septuagesima Sunday. The Call of God. "God might claim our work as due, but He offers us hire if we will do it." The relationship we have with God is one that allows for a call and a response. This is the foundation of Grace, that we are called.

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Benjamin Garren @wokehtklim.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

Ordained a priest ten years ago today on the Feast of Thomas Bray. Ten years of being blessed to be a University Chaplain.

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