may I have the power of God and anime on my side

Yom Kippur is a day of reflection, of forgiveness, of restoration. This year, may we all pray for a better, kinder, more peaceful future. Wishing all who observe across the five boroughs and the world a meaningful, easy fast. G’mar chatimah tovah.

No Substack, I will not follow the bodybuilder thirst trap priest.

Darren makes the point that A) CCM/Worship music is POPULAR. Far more than you can imagine. B) "white evangelicalism" doesn't always look so "white" these days. C) these two factors make it much more relevant than one might initially think, especially if they are turned off by the music/culture.

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

Trump has decided that no jobs report will issue on Friday due to the government shutdown. But it turns out there is a different reason: that report will, when issued, be catastrophically bad.

Today I got a four-week series of classes on liturgical seasons and red letter days approved at my parish for November ✊ 🔵⚪🟢🟣🟡🔴

speaking of which, I was watching clips last night of the John Wayne classic The Searchers (1956), which I owe it to myself to see it in full

After feeling miserable on Sunday out of the house, and miserable on Monday in the house, I felt rather less miserable today and went to two appointments.

Appreciated reading this from a rabbi, executive director of the American Council for Judaism, which is a non-Zionist Reform organization. religionnews.com/2025/09/23/r...

This is the main reason the ADL originally existed, and now they’re giving it up entirely because it made some right-wingers upset. They are no longer pretending to be anything other than a pro-Israel advocacy group. And they are prioritizing Israelis above American Jews.

Open access book: Labour of Love: Text and Tradition in Contemporary Transnational Oriental Orthodoxy books.radbouduniversitypress.nl/index.php/ru...

Yes I am performing in Riyadh. I am going to reform Saudi Arabia from the inside

Since the Ezra & Ta-Nehisi discussion is still happening: the main point I think most are missing is that Klein is saying the role of the journalist-intellectual is to do strategic politics, whereas Coates says the role of the journalist-intellectual is to tell the truth

pete hegseth, who you will recall has been accused of domestic abuse and sexual assault, has announced a new policy by which you cannot file anonymous complaints of mistreatment. sex criminal solidarity.

yeah they're just murdering random people on these boats

John Phillip Newell sounds really bogus to me after learning last year he wrote a book about “Celtic saints” that included… Pelagius 💀

Great news! JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month www.jstor.org/action/showL...

A good reminder that we used to refer to chatgpt as a "deep fake text generator" judged too dangerous to make public by OpenAI just 6 years ago

Over a third of the US stock market is like half a dozen sex pest billionaires selling tulips and tulip farms back and forth to each other, each desperately hoping the other guy is holding the bag when the bubble pops. Also the tulips tell you to kill yourself while they seduce your kids

WOW. This entire story is HORRIFIC. This is FOIA of a body cam from the raid in upstate New York the same day as the Hyundai plant. It catches a Border Patrol agent on camera only bragging about denying medical care to migrants detained at the border under Biden — who he says are all "animals." 1/3

That agent's callous commentary isn't even the worst thing that happened that day. One man was detained despite having a WORK PERMIT and being here LEGALLY. His lawyer says he had a pending appeal — and yet despite that, he was deported just days later and never able to call his lawyer! 2/3

I very much believe this - the intellectual and moral virtues are fundamentally linked. This isn’t to say genuinely insightful people can’t be assholes but when you are studying the world curiosity, openness, humility, empathy and honesty are more important than raw ‘intelligence’ whatever that is.

Seeing a seminary pic from 5/6 years ago and wondering why on earth I would let my hair look Like That* *I was lazy

Even if this WERE true (it is not) then all I can say is that Palestinian national identity very much emerged around the same time and yet Abulhawa herself and her readers would rightly find disparaging it reprehensible.

Strongly encourage everyone to read this in the tone of Danny McBride grabbing an answer out of his ass, as opposed to an expression of a coherent philosophy

Amid an ongoing wave of conspiracy theories and bogus claims about Jan 6, I’ll note this from our reporting: Rioters made all kinds of claims and defenses in court … and jurors convicted 100% of the defendants who went to trial 100%

I am in COVID prison and thus can't go to church this morning. But this list from @philipchristman.bsky.social is getting me thinking about the kinds of churches we should be able to go to... philipchristman.substack.com/p/some-ways-...

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i do not think it’s narrow minded or elitist to say that as many people as possible should be literate

This is almost word for word the kind of stuff you would hear from the people doing the Holocaust said by the people in another time and another place committing an ethnic cleansing Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

So I started a part time job at a bakery doing cashier/barista/food service type things. It’s fine. What’s not fine is payroll not coming yesterday as promised.

Nothing funnier to me driving past closed stores at night with electric OPEN signs left on

NEW from me: A group of Catholic nuns in New York — the Sisters of Charity of New York — are pushing back against Cardinal Timothy Dolan's praise for Charlie Kirk, saying comparing the activist to a saint is “confusing the true witness of the Gospel." religionnews.com/2025/09/26/c...

Do I have seasonal allergies or a burgeoning sinus infection? Who knows!

Ding ding ding we have a winner. I sincerely think part of why people won't look for things they actually like is that there are people who are deathly afraid of having taste or opinions, so they just wait for people to tell them what they like 🫠 Never could be me, let me tell you

Does it stop the genocide? No. But this is how fascists should be treated. They don't deserve the respect of an audience. They deserve the shame of one walking out on them.

Shame isn’t dead, they want you to think it is so you’ll never even try

The outer darkness awaits this ICE agent. He will weep as he caused this woman to weep unless he repents. And repentance will be hard.

They made a Hamburglar episode of "The X-Files" but it was pulled because Americans found it far too scary

I love that we get this string of teachings from Jesus on wealth (dishonest manager, Lazarus and Dives, rich young ruler) and we’re still like “huh what do you think Jesus thought about being rich? really too complicated and ambiguous to know”

The book of Revelation:

The Hamburglar never really stole any hamburgers. This is a mythological expression of the decision to CRAVE and ORDER a hamburger the moment he walked into McDonald's. The decision transcends history by definition because it is an ever-present reality of existential possibility.

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gimme a fourscore, Abe

My teaching opportunities in the church, whether it's preaching or leading classes, are just scraps. I often imagine this is what I have to settle for for the rest of my life, and it doesn't feel good. It doesn't feel good knowing what you are good at and trained in isn't acknowledged or valued.

Something interesting about our present moment that this rapture discourse originates outside the USA from a Black South African Pentecostal, motivated by a supersessionist use of the date of Rosh Hashanah, which dissipated through social media to impact Christians of all kinds.