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/

If you think you know what scripture says, you are wrong. www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8gMXgRB/

Wife: Who's the Pedialyte freeze pop for? Other child not going to freak out only one of them gets a popsicle? Me: Ok first I'm gainfully employed, so keep that in mind. Second it's important to hydrate. Third I am an old man. Forth nothing says these are only for children! Her: So it's for you.

The flower Guild at St Paul's is just on fire

Parenting, am I right?

The lust for Power and dominance and relevance have nothing to do with Jesus. Not a thing.

Really though if there are no hills you are willing to die on, you are missing the best views from up there.

Junia, Phoebe, Lydia, Priscilla, Tabitha, Euodia and Syntyche all issue joint statement to the rest of the universal Church at the enthronement of Dame Sarah Mullaly as the Archbishop of Canterbury: "About damn time."

As the father of an almost 4-year-old I'm confident we call God "Father" because we acknowledge that while he loves us he also thinks we're kind of an asshole.

Whatchyall think? Are the people cursed at Babel and restored at Pentecost? Or is humanity blessed with a diversity of languages, cultures, and dreams at Babel, and then those gifts are affirmed as each witness to the Pentecost hears in their own tongue?

Honesty. That's the first order of business. I care when my ideological opponents lie, it helps me to understand myself as being fundamentally oriented towards a good way of looking at the world if someone else has to betray and manipulate and mislead in order to get their point across.

You aren't going to argue people into caring for the planet. The people destroying the Earth have already accounted for those arguments in the brainwashing, sorry propaganda, sorry lobbying, sorry advertising they've done in order to prime the pump for them to destroy the planet.

I don't identify as progressive but I do identify as someone who owns more than one red letter Bible. And that Jesus Guy sure did heal people, feed them, shelter them, protect them from violence, welcome them when they were outcasts and strangers and even different ethnicities or religions...

Cynicism is lazy and cowardly. It costs nothing and means nothing to make a living telling people everything sucks and everyone is hopeless. Seeking redemption, believing in the capacity for better, choosing to love... They take work. But they are brave. Hope is harder to come by but it's brave.

DONT PUT A TENT PEG THROUGH ANYONES HEAD. Unless it's your redemption arc. www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8bfsUL3/

A prayer for those who are a little miffed at God's expectations of the baptized. "Gracious God, ruler of all things, this is all your fault. I am going to try to do your will, but I humbly ask You make note of the sincerity of my attempt, and not the outcome, in my file. Amen."

You don't have to call them "gods" to worship things above the Lord. Worship, worth-ship. When you proclaim ultimate worth to something and put other things as secondary considerations. You know. Idolatry. If your political party is more important than your church, that's other gods you worship.

I don't understand y'all who primarily engage social media on Instagram. There or are five or six platforms might post on in the course of a month and I have healthy positive even friendly responses on most of them. I've actually made friends and I keep up with them. But Instagram is a cesspool.

Sometimes you have a really dry but important sermon contrasting the views of Philo of Alexandria and Josephus about Abraham with one another... And the night before your country goes to war in the middle east again and you have to talk about whether church is sanctuary from the world instead.

I think one of the perks of marriage is that once you've secured a lifelong mate you really only need to pretend to tolerate Hawaiian pizza in front of one person for the rest of your life and you can be honest with everybody else about how their pizza choice is unnatural and bad.

Go ahead and deconstruct fam. The world should not look the same to you as an adult as it did in Sunday School www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8xDFw5B/

When you tell someone they'd be getting a letter from St Paul if he were alive today... It's definitely not the insult you think it is. Paul wrote these letters almost exclusively to people he knew and loved and wanted to help them get through their struggles so their community would survive.

I don't want to get too political but like maybe the people who have been executed by federal officers in the streets for no reason should still be at the top of the news since our government actively proclaimed they don't care and they'll lie about it reflexively.

Jesus redeems even the Devil's temptations www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8x2bDqd/

I'm sorry I thought we believed in freedom in this country

Happy Valentine's Day www.tiktok.com/t/ZP89vvd3d/

Kind of crazy Neil Gaiman takes some sort of victory lap because he hasn't been convicted of a crime though he has been in no way exonerated and all of the women who accuse him of abuse have extremely similar stories which if you put in chronological order show a clear pattern of escalation.

Lent is the 40‑day season of repentance, fasting, prayer, and spiritual renewal as we prepare to celebrate Christ’s death and resurrection at Easter. It begins on Ash Wednesday because “Remember that you are dust, and to dust you shall return” Get ready for Easter. Mark a holy Lent. Y'all come

ER Receptionist: Who are you to the patient? Me: Her priest. Rec: Do you have some kind of ID? Me: I have a driver's license. Rec: No, something that says you are her priest. Me: ... I'm dressed like one? Rec: Take a seat, I will send a nurse back to see if she's expecting you.

There is a racist legacy in art and architecture of the 20th century that explains so much insane theology detached from all the rest of Christianity. www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8Hbj1hc/

Just a quick Prodigal Son lesson. www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8mJsrp9/