Knights on Bikes: Drinking beer, riding motorcycles, and sharing the faith www.pillarcatholic.com/p/knights-on...

Quick personal update (all good) and an open combox for prayer requests and anything else you'd like to say. You are of course welcome to leave those words here as well. A Month of Good Things open.substack.com/pub/jennifer...

Appreciate @theatlantic.com bringing attention to the reality of summer SAD, which can take you by surprise and hit hard. Up @patheos.com, some hot-climate strategies for staving it off. Spoiler alert: It requires waking up early. www.patheos.com/blogs/jennif...

6AM: Email from supplier saying package is out for delivery. 9PM: See e-mail again, start hunting around the yard for where the package might have been cleverly hidden this time. 9:05 PM: Oh wait. This is the package I had shipped directly to Child's house. In another city.

Appreciate @theatlantic.com bringing attention to the reality of summer SAD, which can take you by surprise and hit hard. Up @patheos.com, some hot-climate strategies for staving it off. Spoiler alert: It requires waking up early. www.patheos.com/blogs/jennif...

1 Co 12,26 Si un membre souffre, tous les membres souffrent avec lui. #HG « D’où vient cette impression que l’Église a toujours mieux su faire avec les pécheurs qu’avec les victimes ? » (J.-B. Metz) La nomination du chancelier du diocèse de Toulouse est inacceptable et intenable.

This is the content I am here for.

Settling for healthier alternatives because Past Me foolishly chose not to purchase the item I am trying not to eat so much. Past me! What were you thinking! Do we really want to live this way?!

Hello all! I have 50 students registered for Greek 1. This is after a one year pause of intro Greek and reboot. I even have a WAIT LIST on one section. I have 116 students registered for Latin 1 across 5 sections, and a wait list of 14 for the most popular section. 24 students in Latin 2.

Why we have the idea that Mary Magdalene was a prostitute, and why most scholars today say she wasn’t

These guys have been throwing random people into gulags without a second thought but they've suddenly rediscovered the concept of presumption of innocence

"for the liberal arts even when it attracts both students and major financial gifts. The tragedy of the contemporary academy is that even when traditional liberal learning clearly wins with students and donors, it loses with those in power." www.nytimes.com/2025/07/17/o...

Can’t wait for the upcoming movie All the President's Men 2: Oops We Fired All Objective Mainstream Reporters, This Epochal Story Actually Broken by a Substack Newsletter with a Comedic Name Rather Than a Prestigious News Org

"Get worse." 🫠 📸 Mo Quirk

Franck Favre, l’ange gardien invisible des victimes d’abus sexuels LE DOSSIER DU MARDI. Ce webmaster autodidacte a fonde en 2017 Coabuse, une plateforme qui met en relation les victimes de violences sexuelles. Un combat qu'il mene en refusant perpetuellement la lumiere.

Lettre de Marie à Mgr de Kerimel. "Par votre décision, se réveille le traumatisme d'avoir été trompée et trahie par un évêque qui a préféré servir avant tout les intérêts du prêtre qui m'a violée, plutôt que ceux de celle qu'il était censé protéger et secourir"

During the 1930s, the US "book women" of Kentucky, aka "packsaddle librarians," delivered books to remote and isolated communities in the Appalachian Mountains on horseback, riding in rain, snow or heat ...#WomensArt

The work of Caroline Hodgson, aka Indigo Moth, cyanotype artist #WomensArt

So close, AI. So close!

PSA: Have you heard of any ICE activity (or federal agents conducting immigration enforcement) happening on the grounds of a house of worship recently? If so, please shoot it my way. Working on a story. Signal: jackmjenkins.60 Other was to contact me here: www.jackjenkins.me/contact.html

We don't want you here in our country, so we are gonna imprison you here

"Ave Maria on the Lake" by Swiss/Italian painter Giovanni Segantini,1886.

Figs are Nature's way of saying: It's been so hot lately. Here, have some candy.

Contemporary Japanese embroidery artist Hiroko Kubota, known for her work highlighting cats #WomensArt

As I was photographing pelicans in the flowers, a great blue heron decided it wanted in the picture. #birds #heron #pelicans #greatblueheron #flowers #photography #nature #wildlife #protectnature #EastCoastKin

For the summer between my junior and senior years of college, I did a volunteer program at a monastery of Benedictine sisters in Appalachia. When the feast of St. Benedict rolled around, of course it was a big deal and many guests were to come. (1/3)

@patheos.com When your clergy are horrid: "If it’s 2025 and you promote a convicted rapist to a prominent position of authority, you clearly just don’t care that this decision of yours will be heart-breaking to the faithful and scandalous to the entire world." www.patheos.com/blogs/jennif...

Perfect steak salad recipe for a hot summer day: Take leftover chuck roast from fridge, finely dice approx 1/4 cup. Put in small bowl. Sit in sky chair. Hand a piece to the cat every time he puts his paw up. -The Cat.

Behind the Scenes with the Communion-Avoiding Catholics open.substack.com/pub/jennifer...

Helping my sister pick out a fridge, forgot to get dimensions on the space in her new house. No worries, I bet I have a photo from the tour, we can ballpark it. Nope. Just photos of the very friendly cat. These people really knew how to stage a house.

And just to be clear as this moves outside our usual circles: when we say we're looking for contingent scholars, we mean any trained scholars working off the tenure track, even if they aren't affiliated with a university in any way.

The parish secretary is emailing back and forth with a fraudster pretending to be the pastor and asking for Apple gift cards. So she sent a picture of one and said I'm a little busy right now so could you print them yourself?

So this is kind of funny: I have an 8 year old dog and a 2 year old dog (both Cavalier King Charles Spaniels). The 8 year old is 100% deaf. When the fireworks started, the 2 year old started barking, but then saw the 8 year old utterly unfazed, and assumed this was normal and just chilled out.

I wrote this last year about the cost of exclusion to disabled people, and it all seems so unchanged www.bluntshovels.au/the-cost-of-...

Dehumidifier xkcd.com/3109/

Perfect steak salad recipe for a hot summer day: Take leftover chuck roast from fridge, finely dice approx 1/4 cup. Put in small bowl. Sit in sky chair. Hand a piece to the cat every time he puts his paw up. -The Cat.

Saw some people mentioning how expensive swimming lessons are these days. There's help!

Random convo brought to my attention that the feast day of St. Josemaria Escriva is the 26th. If you like _The Way_ but are looking for something for someone who suffers from scruples, consider The Road of Hope by Francis Xavier Nguyen Van Thuan as an alternative. www.amazon.com/Road-Hope-Go...

Our Capuchin bishop of Dar es Salaam, Jude Ruwa'ichi, has been appointed to the Dicastery for religious. I once ran into him in Rome, walking from the train station to the Capuchin Curia. I asked why he didn't call to be picked up. He said he preferred to take "bus # 11" and pointed to his two legs.

And yet barring any indication that the mother was seeking an abortion at the time of her death, it's implicit her choice was that she wanted the baby to live, and wanted to use her body to carry it to term. Honoring that choice, if able, is a good thing! Also: The father is the baby's next of kin.

This is entirely true, including the way it's rained the last 13 Saturdays.

More of this everywhere.

Incredibly frustrating that "walkable neighborhood" is virtually an impossibility for most of the US. Modest-sized home is more attainable, though only if you live in the right regions. But walkability? Very rare.

Indeed. If you'll pardon me personalizing, I get asked fairly often why my academic career seems stalled despite a prestigious book contract and public presence and one of my first answers is more than half of departments are uninterested in ever hiring a military historian of any description.

This is spectacular, but I think the reason it is spectacular, like any good prose or stirring lyricism is that every word here - however 'purple' - means something. Nothing is merely evocative without also being descriptive. Like all good writing should be.

we talked for hours, but the only thing I clearly remember is, “Eyes on Jesus. Eyes on Jesus.” What else is there to say? Where else is there to look? Who is else there to follow? Where else is there to go? You find out where Jesus is, and you go that way. www.simchafisher.com/2023/01/23/e...

'Lone sunset' by contemporary US painter Erin Hanson #WomensArt

Time for more Martagon Lilies! This was my first and probably my favorite—the peachy-pink just pops so wonderfully against a lush green background. #gardening #bloomscroing #FlowerReport 🌱

Having just laid to rest 94-y.o. great grandmother who in fact grew up subsistence farming and had shared extensively the pertinent details . . . the other part is the sheer amount of work. People have no idea. None.