While there is no chaplain on The Pitt. I'll at least get to teach some interns and residents all about chaplaincy and spiritual care this year as part of IDT clinical education. This will also include IPR. This nicely rounds out teaching CPE intensive and fall cohort.

Chaplains aren't on The Pitt. We are present in traumas, codes, for dying patients. We work with patients and families ane as liaisons between ED staff and family. We provide support to staff dealing with: PTSD, trauma, and moral injury. You see why we aren't on the show. 💀

Happy MATCH Week! It's my favorite time of the year as a hospital chaplain and educator!

I want to lock The Pitt characters in a room and introduce them to Interpersonal Relationships (IPR.) No volunteers? ROBBY let's start with you. Trinity don't worry about your charting you're up after. Also where the fuck is the chaplain on this show?

Republicans officially going with "Jesus was a beta" as their attack line for Talarico.

Turn back, O man, forswear thy foolish ways, Old now is earth, and none may count her days, Age after age their tragic empires rise. Built while they dream, and in their dreaming weep, Would man but wake from out his haunted sleep, Earth might be fair, and all men glad and wise.

"You have no cards."

Spending part of Lent as a patient on the oncology unit where I work. Was not part of my plan this week. However I'm battling a lingering infection that needs the big antibiotic guns with a side of steroids. With luck I'll be home in time to preach on Sunday.

What do you think Renee Good and Alex Pretti were doing?

If you're horrified by footage of Bahrain and other countries hit with Iranian Shahed drones. Consider this is a nightly occurrence for Ukrainians and has been for years. Do you suddenly care now?

I'm a clinical pastoral educator. That's the fancy title to say I chaplain students (CPE students.) There is not nearly enough work done around the unethical aspects of AI. Yet chaplains are out here blithely using AI casually. I'm one of the 1st instructors to talk about AI.

We're killing the planet to deny the reality of grief and death. People wonder why I have an entire curriculum about the evils of AI and exploitation of vulnerable people I teach chaplaincy students. Pope Leo is one of the few to grasp the dangers of AI. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

4 years ago the genocidal invasion of Ukraine began. We remember the fallen, the murdered, the missing, the tortured. Ukraine will be free.

It's Ash Wednesday. "Remember O mortal from the dust you came, to the dust you return." We contain elements from dead stars. When we die those elements return to the cosmos to birth new life and new stars. Death is part of life. Memento Mori. Remember Your Death.

Slayed the pancreatic cancer beast and final treatment. Unfortunately it's left me quite unwell and my immune system suppressed. Take the good with the bad. Immunotherapy continues to hold stage 4 colon at bay.

Corporate would like you to find the difference between these pictures. (this is to distract from the crushing tragedy of episode 5 of A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms.)

Can God even hear our prayers above the blood of the Innocents crying from the ground? What travels faster: a Shahed drone or a human soul?

The surge in Minneapolis may be winding down. However ICE/CBP has just swapped tactics like they did in LA. Hitting smaller towns and cities targeting isolated individuals and small groups with fewer agents in places like: Coon Rapids, Rochester, Duluth etc.

If people want to help, lots of orgs are doing this. But the one responsible for this particular distribution is apparently found here: giving.servantkeeper.com/stjohnsepisc...

This is what one afternoon drop looks like for one (1) Minneapolis mutual aid distributor (read: random mom who wants to help families at her kids’ schools)

One other thing: if you DO NOT LIVE IN MINNESOTA, and are NOT AFFECTED BY THIS AT ALL, and you think it's a good and productive to come in here and gloat and stir chaos and dunk on someone you dislike from the internet, maybe think a little harder about what you're doing and when you're doing it.

To help you keep track today in Minneapolis: -ICE tear-gassed children, adults and abducted a legal observer from a park. -Tear-gassed people at an Alex Pretti memorial. -Are drive-by pepper spraying folks. Including myself. I was wearing a stole. These are intentional acts of terror.

Glory to the heroes of the Republic 🫡

Independent journalist Georgia Fort was also arrested by federal agents earlier for reporting on the church protest in Minneapolis. She was live streaming when agents arrived to take her into custody.

"...I believe in jesus christ who rises again and again in our lives so that we will be free from prejudice and arrogance from fear and hate and carry on his revolution and make way for his kingdom."-Dorothee Soelle.

ICE hasn't deescalated up here.

Is it cheesy or have people become poisoned by irony and cynicism? The question is rhetorical and the answer is the latter.

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

A video of Alex Pretti reading out the final salute of an unnamed veteran he cared for until the end of his life in the ICU, posted to Facebook by his son.

We were just sent Alex’s GoFundMe.

Cynicism will not protect you from the authoritarian regime. But it might exhaust the people who are fighting like hell to get you out of it. If you’re clogging up the mentions of people doing the work, it’s time to log off until you’re ready to join the effort instead.

And donate. Every time they kill one of us, help us make the resistance even stronger.

The Lord said to Cain, “Where is your brother Abel?” He said, “I do not know; am I my brother’s keeper?” And the Lord said, “What have you done? Listen, your brother’s blood is crying out to me from the ground!" For those whose blood cries from the ground for justice, we pray. Amen.

Alex Pretti, the man killed by federal agents today in Minneapolis, appears to have been a registered nurse, an athlete, a son and a brother, with ties to Colorado and Wisconsin. Here is a photo he used for several accounts.

His name was Alex Jeffrey Pretti and he was a nurse. ICE murdered him.

He was a nurse. They executed a nurse.

They’re heroes

The Star Tribune reports that federal agents "attempted to order local police from the scene" where a man was shot and killed by feds this morning, but Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara refused and "instructed his officers to preserve the scene."

The video below has just been linked to an article by the Minnesota @StarTribune and it shows at least six masked agents wrestling a man to the ground before shooting him multiple times in Minneapolis this morning. www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...

ICE has now carried out two summary executions of innocent people in the streets of an American city. If you work for ICE, there's no denying that's the mission you're supporting now. You don't get to claim in one year or ten or twenty that you didn't know what ICE was doing. You're complicit.

Arrests calmly ongoing. This is going to take a while. There are a lot of clergy risking arrest.

As a member of clergy hospitalized while protesting. I really have no patience for doomers. Have I mentioned I have no patience for doomers?

As clergy pray, arrests begin

Just realized I have the same haircut as Greg Bovino. *Internal shrieking.*

I just drove past a church and the sign board was "thou shalt not commit adultery." Which honestly doesn't really help me feel like I want to reflect on God, but it does make me deeply curious about what happened at that church to put that verse up specifically

this is it. this is the way forward.

She was an MD that treated kids with cancer. She had to tell families, "There is no cure." "The treatment isn't working. "Your child is going to die." I'm in my 40s with metastatic cancer technically past my expiration date. Cancer and death aren't evil. Nor are they karma or punishment. They are.

"A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms" sticking to canon. The only thing the Baratheons are more allergic to than healthy family dynamics, heterosexuality.

Some people were confused by my ICE post. This should clear it up.

I keep thinking about them saying "haven't you learned [from Renee Good's murder]" and... they don't understand why people are still coming out after they've shown they can and will kill us, because they're cowards, and they don't understand what it's like not to be a coward