God’s All Over the Field: My sermon for Proper 24, Year C, October 19, 2025 www.thegospelplow.com/p/gods-all-o...

Obviously, the hidden message is that they’re *actually* drawn to the Book of Common Prayer…

Pope Leo quotes Hannah Arendt: “The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist." www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...

Sometimes nowadays Watergate can feel almost quaint, but this is a good refresher on Nixon's corruption and poor character, and how Nixon wrote the playbook in many ways for Trump: www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-nixo...

It's easy for me to slip into being a contrarian, so I don't always know immediately whether my sentiments are me being grouchy or if there's more behind them. One example--I think there must be other folks who think we should restore "world without end" to the contemporary language liturgies when

This is really hard to read. And the thing that is sitting with me the most about it is that it has always legal and possible to do this for decades. The only thing preventing this from having been the norm was a sense of humanity. This is why we need structural reform. Not just a change in admin.

The sad thing is, it seems like our parties are just fine with blatant corruption becoming a norm.

For 10s of millions of Americans, politics is just "shopping with your vote for people who will play pretend & act as if your preferred conspiracy theory is real." The fantasy could be "immigrants are taking our jobs" or "random chemical causes all our problems"--the process is the same.

"Arguably the most remarkable aspect of the aftermath of the right-wing activist Charlie Kirk’s assassination is how irrelevant its actual perpetrator was to the immediate discourse."

The fact that these examples are not brought up is an example of the ways in which certain violence is legitimized or even valorized at certain moments, & in our context usually it has been because of racial attitudes about who is a legitimate American. You all know what that’s code for.

I just heard about Charlie Kirk. I was just reading an article about a defining characteristic of our political moment being the chilling willingness of otherwise “normal” folks to embrace or at least justify/explain away political violence in service to their chosen ideologies.

My latest: www.thegospelplow.com/p/from-nosta...

Occasionally I get side-tracked while writing something.. like a 500 word examination of ministry context for a DMin class that sends me on a bunny trail to try to find a way to superimpose current diocesan boundaries through a GEOJSON file on an image of a historic map of the Diocese of Tennessee.

No Donald, Chicago is not your war zone

Good on Rand Paul.

I visited the other place as I do once in a blue moon and I went to this guy’s profile because of an absurdly anti-semitic attack he let rip against someone and something about this ad abt becoming verified cracked me up.

Good to see some small checks still working.

"One could make the argument we should have sided with Hitler," a guest told Tucker Carlson's podcast last month. Yair Rosenberg writes about the MAGA influencers who want to rehabilitate the Nazi leader—and what they hope to gain by doing so.

A #BlueskyLullaby for tonight: "Between the Bars" really is the wistful love song that it sounds like—except that the narrator is alcohol itself, promising the peaceful illusion of escape. As with so much of Elliott Smith, it's a work of dark genius. See you around. www.youtube.com/watch?v=74j0...

My latest: "The task of leadership in such a time is to ensure that amid exploration and conflict, there remains an engine of encouragement. By addressing simple problems and celebrating well-chosen projects, leaders can help communities move from generalized anxiety to specific urgency."

Finishing a paper for a history class about the mission work around Sewanee in the late 19th/early 20th c., particularly the connections with the Order of the Holy Cross. This means encountering a lot about Archdeacon William S. Claiborne.

Waffle House.

🐸 🇺🇸“THE FROGS ARE BOILED” @jonfavs.bsky.social & @danpfeiffer.bsky.social rip Apple’s CEO for sucking up to Trump with gold, warning those turning a blind eye to our fall into authoritarianism it won’t magically end in 3 years. Full @podsaveamerica.crooked.com ep: youtu.be/oxcTLFNcQ94?...

Also, our standard now is that it had to have caused “concern” for Ghislaine Maxwell to be problematic?? Ummmm…obviously sexually abusing minors never caused her “concern” BECAUSE SHE PARTICIPATED IN IT

The rich must be incentivised; the poor must be disciplined. The political economy of the super-elite in one headline.

Daddy’s obituary: www.legacy.com/us/obituarie...

My daddy died on Thursday afternoon, and I'm listening to some songs, some of which he liked and some of which just make me think of him, so I'm going to share on this thread for anybody who might appreciate some gospel music or hymns etc.

Interesting that the 39th Annual Convention of the Diocese of Tennessee (1871) felt the need to publish the table of kindred and affinity. As far as I know it was never published with an American BCP, though it's still bound with the 1662 English BCP babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=wu...

the amount of contempt vance has for everyone he's talking to — such that he'll say obvious nonsense as if he's fooling you — is genuinely remarkable

Thought I'd share a tune tonight. Enjoy: www.youtube.com/watch?v=sy0c...

Rendition probably.

A devotion for Holy Saturday: duke.is/m/pak5

His wife and kids who are begging for his return do appear to think that he was in fact a candidate for father of the year

Every college and university should do this to remind Americans that attacks on these institutions are actually attacks on all of us.

US citizen. Lawyer. Targeted and harassed at customs on his way home from Spring Break with his family. This is Trump's America. Who do you think is safe if they're targeting US citizen attorneys, folks?

Trump has damaged America forever. We're now viewed as an unreliable partner - business can never trust him and any government policy - our allies don't see us as an ally anymore - our enemies are emboldened. Trump destroyed our soft power advantage.

No single President should be able to issue edicts which elide Constitutional Amendments

If you using Studio Ghibli AI ChatGPT—Miyazaki should personally get to hunt you for sport.

I’ve been thinking about this tweet a lot recently

Left: government declaration filed yesterday in the Alien Enemies Act case. Right: Lt General John DeWitt, Final Report: Japanese Evacuation from the West Coast 1942 Sometimes history rhymes damn near *perfectly*. #LawSky #Skystorians

In his substack today, @timothysnyder.bsky.social said: “If you are a citizen and you are casting doubt on the importance of due process, remember this: you need due process in order to prove that you are a citizen.”

2/ Putin is attempting to present himself as a reasonable and merciful leader with whom President Trump can engage and to generate a new narrative to distract from Putin's decision to reject the US-Ukrainian ceasefire proposal on March 13. isw.pub/UkrWar031425

Sic him Elon! 😂

a few years ago if you said "college republican clubs are hotbeds of white supremacism and enthusiastic support for rape" people looked at you like you were wearing a barrel on a street corner and if you said it today most people would still do that because the newspapers won't print it

“There’s no point in voting because the government only listens to people who vote” is a shockingly common “saavy” opinion that is very silly when you bother to actually say it outloud.

Look at this leader. Lift her up.

The US voted *with* Russia against the UN resolution condemning the invasion of Ukraine and demanding a withdrawal. Utter betrayal of country, allies, and principles.

I’d say he’s goose-stepping right in line…

It takes time to fully awaken but the process has begun -

Vance visiting Dachau and then meeting w the AfD and urging German politicians to welcome them into government is a "gotta hear both sides" for the ages.