A question for my Episcopal peeps: The median age in TEC is 56. The most common age is 69. How does this insulate us from the realities that Galloway talks about and how does it skew our interests away from financial justice for younger people that we’re so desperate to attract?

I posted this four months ago (I usually do every year or so), but given the shock — shock, I say! — that so many experiencing because Trump is doing exactly what he said he was going to do, I share again this bright bit of wisdom from Thomas Merton, ton reflect on how we so often deceive ourselves:

I can’t tell you the number of hours I spent going both north and south at the Peace Arch crossing between 1998 and 2008. This kind of drop in traffic is crazy.

For whatever reason the spirits of satellite radio have been throwing a lot of Styx at me lately and I am not angry about this.

If you write the word “Imagine” during a Facebook messenger chat it displays a pop-up asking if you’d like Meta AI to imagine something for you. That feels like a particularly dystopian UI choice.

Pity is simultaneously the kindest and the cruelest emotion.

When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary...

Fully 52% of births in Oklahoma last year were to women on Medicaid. I want to ask every member of the Oklahoma Congressional delegation (all of whom are explicitly pro-life) who just committed us to making catastrophic cuts to Medicaid, what they think will happen when that assistance is gone?

“The wall on which the prophets wrote Is cracking at the seams…”

“To hear the scriptures read in a community of prayer and praise is to receive another and no less valid impression of their meaning than that which we receive through their academic study. It is to learn to hear the words with our bodies as well as our minds…

For all that the MAGA types howl about Communist China their political tactics sure have been remarkably Maoist.

I’m not trying to downplay any of the events of this week, but it’s pretty wild to me that amidst this new era of whatever we’re in, Christians continue to be called to do the same things we’ve been called to do all along.

Sorry to anyone taken aback by Bishop Marian Edgar Budde's sermon. We sometimes forget to remind visitors to our Episcopal churches that they will hear a presentation of the teachings of Jesus Christ. Being confronted by the Gospel can upset the rich and powerful. Our apologies for any confusion.

Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander was the first book by Thomas Merton that I encountered. This was the moment when I decided I was going to read everything else this man had written:

I would recommend reading Rilla Askew’s novel Kind of Kin and reflecting on the spiritual repercussions of putting ICE above Christ.

The more education someone has, the more likely they are to report attending religious services weekly. It's been true every year it's been collected. Today about 30% of folks w/a college degree are weekly attenders. It's ~20% of folks w/a high school diploma.

My first post to Bluesky. Seems appropriate to begin with ELO: