One of the quickest ways to become miserable is to measure your life against someone else's. It's so easy in the era of well-curated online pictures and stories. We compare our ordinary Tuesday to someone else's highlight reel. Our struggles to their successes. Our doubts to their confidence.

Hey it'd be cool to live in a world where we didn't need the intellectual framework "Guys this isn't your run of the mill 'normal police brutality.'"

One of the strangest things Christians say is not from the Bible at all. We see all over... "God helps those who help themselves." It's quoted like Scripture. It's embroidered on pillows. It's preached from pulpits.

Hand in hand with my belief that we do not have a "biblical" worldview, I also don't know anyone who lives an entirely Christ-sanctioned life. The Lord has exacting standards so we need both Judgment AND Mercy. #exegesis #biblicalworldview #bibleliving #scripture #christianresponsibilities

I absolutely believe in miracles. But the human condition really seems to be designed, by God, to not involve a whole lot of micromanaging on God's part. #miracles #providence #episcopal #anglican #biblestudy

Just because Pastor Bob says the Bible is clear... Doesn't mean it's actually all that clear about much. The library (biblio) of books which make our scriptures do not speak with one voice... Which is fine by the way because neither do we.

How it started. Where it went. What we did six years ago. How it's going now. Best decision of my life.

I don't know what this seashell is

Sam you can't just go around calling people Marcionites just because they don't study or preach the Old Testament... You know you're right, and you can't call someone a pirate just because they are a criminal who commits robbery, violence, or kidnapping at sea. That's how you sound.

The Bible is narrative! www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8GxykdV/

A good question about heresy, and a marshmallow answer!

You can still find all billionaires morally bankrupt and objectively repugnant enemies of humanity. You are allowed to feel this way even if it's her wedding day and even if you loved 1984. Is this a popular position to have? No, her ilk has paid a lot of pundits and politicians to defend them.

Clergy are just not as important as the baptized. Also Dalmations are all nepo puppies

Your local food bank needs you!

Said goodbye to Sewanee for a while. 49 weeks left until I come back!

Bread and butter pickles are neither bread nor butter... Because English naming conventions make absolutely no sense

The year is 1509, Mikey gets up. It's Monday morning. Doesn't feel like climbing that scaffolding. Doesn't feel like having paint drip down into his eyes. Doesn't care all that much for Julius to be honest. Thinks to himself... Gotta get this content up.

One way we know wealth matters less than our culture tells us is the lack of trailer hitches on the hearse.

You'd think all we talk about is sex... www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8scMUGd/

Fewer jokes and much more serious content can be found on other platforms including insta www.instagram.com/fr.sam.sheri...

Ian McConnell's Bangladesh is a straight banger.

When Jesus calls God "Abba" (Ἀββᾶ) it's a Greek version of the Aramaic root for "Father" and that's how we translate it because Jesus was speaking Aramaic. But are we sure the Lord wasn't referring to 70's swedish pop band ABBA?

Your weekly dose of a man in a clerical collar reminding you anticlericalism is righteous. www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8smMwhB/

It's a little embarrassing to pick up your student ID at the library and realize 20 years ago you were a different enough person you've really only been in that library once or twice before.

Live blogging my experience driving to the University of the South.... Yep, Virginia sure has a lot of fields of peanuts...

I'm totally prepared to debate anyone about the ethics of human sexuality and biblical inerrancy. However I must note that unless your position is also that a Christian must give all their material wealth to the poor I won't accept your homophobic nonsense at all.

Who goes to hell? ... ▶️Watch the full video now! www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8s84M6R/

Me: Hey bud you want some orange juice? Almost 4 Yr Old: My penguins are from Antarctica, not from Paw Patrol. Me: Ok, do you want some orange juice? A4YO: Papa I said I'm training penguins! Me: Yes. And I said do you want some orange juice. A4YO: Penguins don't eat oranges! Me: Ok, but...

Some meetings could be an email. Some meetings could have been a group text. This meeting could have been an emoji... I'm on hour two and I still don't know why I'm here

This woman on the clock app just slayed me. She was stitching another lady who said, it's hard to have compassion and empathy for people you don't understand. The woman I was watching just stared into the camera dead-eyed tilted her head slightly and said, "Is it?" Effing legend.

27. Twenty-seven people have now visited St Paul's explicitly because of our online presence. Some have come once, some have come occasionally, some have traveled for hours to check us out. Two have become members. Like, share, subscribe, and engage with your favorite Episcopal content creators.

Y'all think the press just didn't know about the Pope before he was from Chicago? He said "Anticipate heaven on earth." and it made the news. Heaven on earth like from the Bible. In the Lord's Prayer. Like a very well advertised thing Christians teach. It's not news if it's from Matthew and Luke.

This quote is so important every time you read it, no matter how many times you come across it. "The Devil's greatest trick is the Brentstole, a complex hook involving a slack loop that catches the yoyo, also known as the Green Triangle Laceration."

What radicalized you? .....the 4th century

I don't need to preach about politics when I can preach about the Prophets and it's pretty much the same stuff. www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8gEAUed/

Me: I cannot read music. Organist: Oh we will make it work. Days later.... Me: O God make speed to save us. *Choir members look horrified* Organist: I'm just going to accompany the choir so everyone gets the notes they need.

Only one comparison matters. One person to measure myself against. It's me, yesterday. If I'm better today, more loving, kinder, gentler, and more forgiving; if I let go more readily, if I give more joyfully... I will know that, though I am not yet who I hope to be, I am going the right way.

At this point in my life the only vibe I want around me if I get to pick is militant decency.

Other people having things you don't think they worked for is not a socialist thing, it's more like an explicit teaching of Jesus Christ. www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8gmraSU/

The number of people chastising me for using the word "mockery" when they think the Dr Donald Jesus photo was "blasphemy" is shocking to me. I would think everyone who cares about blasphemy would bother to Google the definition.

Y'all 17 years is a long time to be off the mountain, I think my Sewanee angel's probably pretty beat up looking. Maybe she will get to rest while I'm up starting my doctoral work in preaching this summer. YSR!

Parenting has a lot of asking "Okay but do you know how this should have gone? Yes, but it didn't happen that way did it. Will we do it the right way next time? No. Okay. Well I appreciate your self awareness."

When the resurrected Christ appeared to the disciples though the door was locked I don't think He burst into the room like the Kool-Aid man.

Is it possible doubting Thomas is more like reasonable expectations Thomas? www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8gh46WX/