“No one has a right to sit down and feel hopeless. There’s too much work to do.” ~ Dorothy Day

I've learned to start saying "no" when folks ask me if I'm alright, and things have actually improved as a result

Shorty offended the wasps dwelling in a certain ancestral shrine

A lot of folks have baselessly accused Shorty of cult harlotry

Me and Faustina Kowalska still same bitch 😜💗

It is unreasonable to ask people who are existentially stressed out to read a physical text carefully and thoughtfully. The solution to this problem is not eliminating slow and deliberate close reading. The solution is creating a less stressful society. This is a material requirement.

Doest thou well to be angry?

Just published open source: a fascinating new book by the great Gideon Bohak exploring one of the earliest Jewish polemical texts against Christianity, which is often conflated with, but in fact is a rather different precursor to, Toledot Yeshu: www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.116...

Don't tell my hart My david bentley hart I just don't think he'd understand and if you tell my hart, my david bentley hart, he might blow up and kill this man

Happy Feast of Julian of Norwich. Icon written by a late fellow Julian Oblate and dear friend, Lu Bro.

Just a reminder that corporate media will happily launder any politician as long as they talk to them and play the game. You can carry out any war or genocide or kill literally millions of people and they'll slop up this bullshit for you if you give them a minute of useless, meaningless chit-chat.

Our God is in the heavens; he does whatever he pleases. Their idols are silver and gold, the work of human hands…. They have hands, but do not feel; feet, but do not walk; they make no sound in their throats. Those who make them are like them; so are all who trust in them.

On May 13, I'm giving an online talk thanks to a kind invitation from the Qing Intellectual History Network! More details in the poster below. The research the talk is based on is very new. Looking forward to getting questions that will help me see what directions it might take!

Seems authentic

A nae nae a day keeps Shorty at bay

Prosper Thou our situationship

Repost this if you’ve gone to the doctor or you’ve seen a dog. I’m a teacher trying to show my students that it’s possible to repost stuff under certain circumstances like if a post asks you to and you’ve gone to something or seen something

Open Access Publication! My essay. "Canonizing Paul's Epistle to the Laodiceans," won this year's DeGruyter-Brill Prize and, as of today, is available open access. I'm really proud of this one. You can download here: www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

I would like to thank Everyone for telling me how to do the bypass. I wondered where everybody had been! This is good to know: It's ridiculous to have over 540 friends and only 25 are allowed to see my post It WORKS!! I have a whole new news feed. I’m seeing posts from people I haven’t seen in years

Oh what were those dulcet tones again

Your momma so old she got a rug in her half-bath

℣. I know it's up for me ℟. If you steal my sunshine ℣. Making sure I'm not in too deep ℟ If you steal my sunshine ℣. Keeping versed and on my feet ℟. If you steal my sunshine

I’m Terry Fresh and this is Gross Air

Me rereading my posts every time I get a notification

Coexist bumper sticker font but the word it spells is Cocomelon

Shorty smokes tampons and razors blades

My church is a museum for sinners and a hospital for saints

CLOSE YOUR EARS TO SHORTY'S DREAD GURGLING !!

Mamdani and Leo fancam mashup

Wait so the altar guild ladies are realizing I actually only have so much bandwidth and that the parish isn't going to pay me so they're cutting me slack. Hell has frozen over

Pray for peace please 🕊️

The only thing that matters is our gentleness and kindness; these are weapons, but more than this, they are fragments of humanity lodged in the unworld (even or especially when defeated).

So...is there a Grandpa Moses?

Shorty promotes peace throughout all realms

Drag name ideas: Deb O'Nair Largesse Debonair

post your warning sign

Shorty grinds up coffee beings

I was kinda surprised Shorty refused a free douche

I discovered today that the golf course next to my local wood has been shut and nature is now having its wild and wanton way with it.

isn't it incredible that the most beautiful phrase in the english language is "jackie jormp jomp"?

Today’s the day! UVA is hosting a conference on apocryphal Christian literature with a great line-up of incredible scholars dealing with multiple languages and centuries of Christian texts and histories

I wish I had started this earlier (a chart organizing tropes in Ming-Qing novels) a lot of these less memorable works are proving, indeed, less memorable 🤔

The Episcopal Church is a hell of a drug

Shorty tattooed Baby Yoda on some lady's decolletage

FREE NEW BOOK My colleague, Dafna Langgut from Tel Aviv University, has just published a new monograph with Cambridge University Press in the same series I had recently published my 𝘉𝘦𝘵𝘸𝘦𝘦𝘯 𝘠𝘢𝘩𝘸𝘪𝘴𝘮 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘑𝘶𝘥𝘢𝘪𝘴𝘮. Her volume is entitled: 𝘊𝘭𝘪𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘌𝘯𝘷𝘪𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘚𝘰𝘶𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘯 𝘓𝘦𝘷𝘢𝘯𝘵, 1300–300 𝘉𝘊𝘌. 1/2

peasantry / kerygma

On the bonnie bonnie banks Of Loch Lomond

starting a youtube channel where every video is about the big changes we're making to our channel going forward

check the content on Shorty's free OF and tell Shorty if you would be down to record more, text Shorty there directly