I am about to be influenced by Instagram to buy a very spendy but oh so beautiful and fully customizable totebag.

I #touchedpews today at St John’s, Lafayette Square. Specifically I touched Mr. Lincoln’s pew. 🕯️

The teens just shoved a bottle of water at me and asked me to bless it, which I obviously did. They then took turns taking swigs and started talking about how drinking holy water will obviously settle their stomach and keep the demons away. The kids are medieval peasants but they’re alright. 🕯️

Nothing like a little doomscrolling before celebrating the sacred mysteries. 🕯️ Cc: @karanslade.bsky.social

@karanslade.bsky.social and I bring a certain cool maiden aunt energy to any gathering, but especially so at wedding receptions. 🕯️#OGS

@jtrumble.bsky.social and I touched pews this morning at St. Mark’s, Locust Street where the incomparable Fr Cobb is interim rector. 🕯️

Overwhelmed! At The Ulta Beauty

In addition to her many many many accolades, Bishop Sarah is a nurse. If anybody can clean up the Church of England, the Anglican Communion, and, indeed, the world, it will be a nurse. 🕯️

"In an age that craves certainty and tribalism, Anglicanism offers something quieter and stronger shaped by prayer and lit from within by the glory of Christ. That is what gives me hope." – The Rt Rev and Rt Hon Dame Sarah Mullally, Archbishop of Canterbury-designate, in her address this morning 🕯️

New Taylor Swift AND Dame Sarah Mullally named as the 106th Archbishop of Canterbury? Happy Friday indeed!

I’m a big fan of social media—especially church social media—but one thing I think is not helpful about social media is that it enables folks all over to have an opinion about something that doesn’t affect them and about which they don’t have all the information. 🕯️

The Episcopalians are metal as hell.

Episcopalians are the redditors of christianity

Good morning Every ICE agent will be held to account

HAPPY FIRST DAY OF AUTUMN TO ALL WHO OBSERVE 🍂🎃🍁

Let me tell you that finding a pretty glaring typo in the published work of professional scholars produces a more effective high than any drug ever possibly could.

Jessica Fletcher will fix me

It didn’t work for Neville Chamberlain. Appeasement never works.

TEC is ANTIFA

Apparently a hot take (but one that is rooted in the Gospel of Jesus Christ): Fascism is bad. 🔥 🔥 🔥 ⚓️

let’s outlast them. let’s live long enough to rebuild.

If you see this, quote with the energy you bring to BlueSky.

Herself with a proper bow on our walk this morning.

Hi. I’m going to hold your hand while I say this. Don’t tell your deepest, darkest secrets to a robot.

I just ran into one of our students while I was on a walk this evening and he told me that he has come to the conclusion that the most appropriately Anglican approach to the numbering of sacraments would be to apply the via media and go with exactly 3 1/2. 😂🕯️

I love my thirties. One part of me is always hurting, and I just have to trust the ibuprofen to bounce around my body like a game of pong hoping it finds its target

A junior at St Olaf was shot and murdered at his family’s home in South Saint Paul early this morning. He was 20 and his murderer was 19. Two lives lost to this (literally) God-damned scourge of gum violence. We don’t have to live like this and we don’t have to die like this. 🕯️

The world sucks and I don't yet have the words to express my feelings adequately, but I DID just sign up for the autumn session of my choir and that is giving me joy.

I’m hosting pub theology tonight at a place called Chapel Brewery with the local Unitarian Universalist minister. The theme is “what is the meaning of life?“ How would you* answer that? 🕯️ —— *wherein you is basically anybody: theists, non-theists, agnostics, &c.

I ran into some of the parish teens at our town’s festival today and they filled me in on all of the drama of who was dating whom and who broke whose heart. Some girl Zoe has four (!) boyfriends including the now-ex bf of one of my teens. But don’t worry, K apparently never *actually* liked Logan.🥴🕯️

I was at the funeral last night of a 37-year old priest who died very suddenly last week. Say what you will about the church as an institution—and there’s much to be said, for sure—but the space to remember, grieve, and celebrate created by our burial office is as close to miraculous as it gets. 🕯️

I have a million things to do tomorrow, so of course I can’t sleep tonight. 😖

Wait, so is he alive or what?

Definitely didn’t love hearing the police sirens in the background as I started to preach this morning about the church shooting this past week. That gave the ol’ non-anxious presence muscle a good workout. 😬 🕯️

Somebody is in trouble and his name is Al.

While doing research for tomorrow's homily, I found this lovely little section from the 17th C Hindu saint, Tukaram. It was cited by a Benedictine monk in the context of interfaith dialogue around hospitality. 🕯️

You guys…I forgot to add kale to the roasted tomato soup I made and froze earlier today. 🙁

I loathe your guns. God loathes your guns and the false idol that has been built up around them.

I love you, Minneapolis. I love you so, so much. 💔

I do want your guns taken away, FYI.

Your reminder that the second amendment is a relic of colonial America and has as much relevance in 2025 as the third amendment.

God *damn* the guns.

Art: "Christ Breaks the Rifle," Otto Pankok #ottopankok #christbreakstherifle #sacredart

I wonder if Presiding Bishop Michael Curry will be asked to preach at this royal wedding?! 🕯️

Tim Walz: "I always get in trouble for it and I'll continue to say it, I don't think we do any favors when we don't name it -- these are fascist policies."

One thing about me is that I will definitely mess with a Cajun Chicken Pasta situation.

if you're not from or have never been to new york i cannot stress enough how normal the subway is 99% of the time. kids take it to school. everyone is basically chill. you learn to be in proximity with harmless weirdos or minor irritations pretty quick. for all its issues it's an incredible thing

Extraordinarily perturbed by Department of Homeland Security agents with big honking machine guns standing outside the entrances to the Minnesota State Fair and then following certain people (you can imagine whom) toward their cars. 🤬

HAPPY FIRST DAY OF THE STATE FAIR!!!

Happy MN State Fair Eve to all that celebrate.