Advent starts today for Orthodox Christians. @somemyrrh.bsky.social has wisdom to share with priests and teachers during this season. She wants them to know that the normal disciplines of Advent don't always work for disabled folks. somemyrrh.substack.com/p/accommodat...

Other correlations.

Me to my dog as I make tea: The ring cannot be destroyed by any craft we here possess. The ring was made in the fires of Mt. Doom; only there can it be unmade.

Trump Administration Live Updates: Judge Says President’s L.A. Troop Deployment Was Illegal www.nytimes.com/live/2025/09...

Happy Liturgical New Year! Glad we don’t have to make New Year’s resolutions because my main goal this month is to make a Hobbit September and to spend time at coffee hour after church.

I forgot I had bluesky for several months. I have been on substack & Meta* and just outside on my porch or working in my bookshop. It’s good to see familiar names of thoughtful people here! I’ll try to check in more often. *but not Threads because it hogs space on my old phone

Outstanding points by @somemyrrh.bsky.social: “We live in a time when American Christianity is overrun with male authoritarianism and the complementarian view of women as lesser beings that has allowed Arianism to once again fester among us—as soon as you embrace the idea…

"Where Are All the Women?" by Summer Kinard @somemyrrh.bsky.social is a powerful call to remember—and restore—the vital role of women in the Church. From the great women martyrs and deaconesses of Nicaea to the hidden saints who shaped Orthodoxy, history testifies:

There it is…

I see this happen a lot: the privileging of opinions of people in paid positions over the contributions of subject matter experts or people with lived experience. It’s killing ministries by driving away experts who could offer effective help.

Happy to offer the weather detection services of my arthritic knee to my fellow Americans. Everyone with a weather detecting joint, our patriotic moment has come.

open.substack.com/pub/somemyrr... In which I criticize golden age myths, biblical womanhood, complementarianism, online fasting culture, anti-deaconess movements, and hell.

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can't believe it's 2025 and i'm stressed about tariffs and measles, like am i a character in an american girl book

People want to call out gluttony as an original sin because it’s harder to get a group to fight being deceived by bullshitters offering power than it is to set up parameters for group fasting. It wasn’t the food that was the problem; it was the attempt at life without relationships.

Fiona Griffiths' book on the priests who served female monastic communities is now open access online: doi.org/10.58117/M4H...

Oh. Wow! I have the expensive printed copy, but I have wanted to share this with others. Thank you for sharing this.

That about sums it up

Goals

My latest post has a food conversation starting preview but gets to the point in the paid subscriber section. open.substack.com/pub/somemyrr...

Now that I have left behind the cesspool that once was Twitter, I have more time for my hobby of singing this entire violin solo. #reset youtu.be/cokCgWPRZPg?...

If I want to do a “Guess How Many ___ in the Jar” giveaway, what should I put in the jar?

My latest substack is free for now. I talk about the abuse of the gift of coregulation and the ways that eugenic fundamentalist cultiness shows up in American Orthodox Christianity. open.substack.com/pub/somemyrr...

The pope rebukes Trump over migrant deportations and refutes VP Vance's theology www.npr.org/2025/02/11/g...

Since JD Vance just converted to Catholicism 5 minutes ago, he might not know this: the Pope authoring a letter where he goes out of his way to correct you, specifically, is considered "bad" in the Catholic tradition

I love teaching kids to gild stars on walls. The crazy mess afterwards is one of my favorite things, because the gold doesn’t want to leave. Like grace is always sticking around.

You can sign up for newsletter from the World Health Organization, including updates on health emergencies. www.who.int/news-room/ne...

I honestly believe our most powerful position in a toxic time that feeds on cynicism, apathy,& despair is to genuinely care and act for a better world. Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. It’s not intellectually superior. It’s the virus they’re trying to infect us with. NO

New substack post out this morning. Free for now. Somemyrrh.substack.com

If you don’t hear me frfr when I say that they have added “A” for Accessibility to DEI — it’s “DEIA” in the EOs — and if you don’t really absorb what that means, you’re not keeping pace with what’s happening.

DEI stands for diversity, equity, and inclusion. Your assumption that extending opportunities to Black people and other minorities means hiring unqualified people is racist. It’s disgusting that you think White people are superior. Especially since they’re not.

We're often told that complementarianism benefits women--that when husbands lead sacrificially, women flourish. Not true. What really benefits women--and men--is TEAMWORK. Hierarchy only hurts. And we've got the stats to prove it in this week's podcast! baremarriage.com/2025/01/podc...

I posted about how Nazis are evil and lost 7 followers on Instagram.

Father when we confess the “sin of empathy.”

So there’s a list of banned books that’s over half classics and Newberry winners. I carry most of them in my Christian bookshop. Freedom in Christ means freedom to choose.

Amen.

New substack about the people who attack me and other Orthodox Christian women online. Somemyrrh.substack.com

I’m making accessible starter kits for Sunday schools & families to use in Liturgy or Mass. The kits include bee finger puppets. Should I make a Latin virtues flower garden for the TLM families? Not shown: visual schedules, prayer buttons, sample lessons. #AccessibleChurchSchool

As a minister of the church in this historical moment, I am heartbreakingly aware of the extent to which the term "Christian" in the United States has become utterly alienated from Jesus. For so many, "Christian" signifies bigotry, hatred, white supremacy, racism, anti-science, and conspiracy.

Tonight’s Of Such is the Kingdom: A Practical Theology of Disability book club is POSTPONED until next Monday, Jan. 27th at 8pm. Message if you’d like to be invited to the zoom.

A very important reminder. ICE can't go inside a house without the permission of someone there. Administrative warrants are not judicial warrants.

It doesn't surprise me that privileged men are more likely to believe (incorrectly) that they're worse off than women or to blame feminism for the challenges they face. As I show in Holding It Together, dude-fluencers push this view to keep us divided. 2/ www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/697130...

Anyway

Despite the inevitable nonsense of internet opinion, I am really looking forward to getting back to my first love and calling to teach adults. I love children and enjoy teaching them, too, but I LOVE teaching serious adults.

I’m going to lead a women’s Bible/Saint life study on the Nicene Creed this year. I have three university degrees that prepared me ages ago to teach that subject. I have taught in seminaries & colleges & am a published theologian who has taught at archdiocesan cons.

My substack is Somemyrrh.substack.com I try to write twice a week, but yolo and I have disabilities, so it’s not always that often. I usually make posts free on a timer, with a paid subscription-only archive.

I’ve been trying to write blog posts on my phone, and besides the typos, it’s going ok. Here’s my main website with lots of free resources: summerkinard.com

I’ve been curating a disability section in our bookshop, Park End Books in Greenville, Michigan. I am so encouraged by this project. I asked for a booth at the upcoming disability conference in the Boston area (will share link when I have it), so I can bring resources to church people, too.

I’m mostly on IG and substack @somemyrrh