I mean, I'd much rather my tax dollars go to feeding people than kidnapping them

Today is St. Crispin’s and therefore a good day for some Henry V youtu.be/UOouofFFrZE?...

”He’s just saying stuff, he doesn’t mean it” as though our Lord Jesus Christ did not tell us that we would be judged for every careless word uttered

One of the reasons I'm a Christian is because we believe God understands human suffering from inside of it. God has undergone physical pain, shame, persecution, fear, grief, all of it; he has not distanced himself from it but has entered into it.

I don’t know what it says about me that there have been multiple instances this past week where I have wished that the D&D spell Speak With Animals was real

Another thought: Is Stephen's death and Philip going out to the Ethiopian eunuch to explain the Scripture (like Jesus x the two disciples on the road to Emmaus) and then getting taken up part of the same pattern? In both cases it's right around the church in general getting pushed outward

Theoretically, yes, but everyone I know that I would otherwise be into is not available and/or into women, and the remainder are not my type

Read Acts 12 earlier today and it occurs to me that Luke's framing Peter's escape as a type of resurrection (right after James's death)--the church, like her Lord, dies and rises again, to the embarrassment of the rulers of this world

Hi! Are you distinguishing (wrongly) between the God of the Old Testament and the God of the New Testament? You might be (you definitely are) committing a heresy called Marcionism.

Anglican/Episcopal folks, I would welcome your thoughts on the new archbishop

good grief, not another substack takingupliminalspace.substack.com

right now: september 2025 Making: the blanket and the hat, still; plans for when I go to Charleston for a work thing at the beginning of November; plans for the holiday season (yes, already) Cooking: banana bread; also very slowly starting to get back into soup season, although I am waiting until…

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The more I watch Critical Role the more amazed I am that Travis Willingham, the most normie person on that set, is friends with actual eldritch being Taliesin Jaffe

I need y'all who have never had a British flapjack to fix that, because they are great. Here is a recipe from Smitten Kitchen, who has never let me down. smittenkitchen.com/2018/09/flap... #greatbritishbakingshow

One thing I have learned in this life is not to mistake being pleasant for being good, either in myself or in others.

"In both Sinners and K-Pop Demon Hunters, music is not simply an add-on to the plot. It’s a load-bearing structure, and it can be in our lives as well." New today from me and @akmcclen.bsky.social

Ruth and I wrote a thing

MAGA "evangelicals" are not Never Trump evangelicals are not European/Australian/Kiwi evangelicals are not African evangelicals are not South American evangelicals are not Asian evangelicals because evangelical Protestantism is a big tent

This rules. Viva nuestros vecinos al sur! www.youtube.com/live/8zGCF8F...

A too online man came to Jesus and asked, “What must I do to receive eternal life?” Jesus told him to keep the commandments, to which the man replied that he had. Jesus then told him to delete his accounts and stop trolling. When the young man heard this, he went away sad, because he was based.

y’all why is free people selling homecoming mums www.freepeople.com/shop/best-in... (shout out to emsutherland26 on TikTok for pointing this out)

this is your friendly reminder that conservative politics are not the same thing as the gospel of Jesus Christ, thank you for coming to my TED talk

today i learned that Michelle Dockery (Lady Mary from Downton Abbey) is Phoebe Waller-Bridge's sister-in-law

Greg Coles once tweeted something along the lines of, I am so grateful to be part of the Body of Christ with people who are not grateful to be in it with me. And I keep thinking about that today.

A phenomenon that I am fascinated by is the exception clause. What do I mean? Someone will say something bigoted about a marginalized group in the presence of a member of said group that they happen to like and be friends with. The friend takes offense to it--

I still want swords to be turned to plowshares, even when the guy who loved swords gets killed by one

Charlie Kirk called me a ‘lunatic’ and a ‘prostitute’ and demanded I be deported. Nothing, *nothing*, justifies killing him, or robbing his kids of their dad. We don’t know the identity or motive of the shooter but murder can *never* be the response to political disagreements.

Thankful to Facebook for reminding me why I stopped hanging out with certain people, boy howdy

All of this is true: - Charlie Kirk was a white supremacist and will be judged for it - Charlie Kirk was a fellow image-bearer - Political violence is bad - I get why a person would be okay with it (I have wrestled with this myself) - I am very concerned about what the fallout from this will be

almost simultaneously. what a country.

considering the statistic that most Americans read at a sixth grade level alongside the assessment of many Bible translations as being at seventh grade reading level or higher

Today is Lin-Manuel Miranda and Vanessa Nadal's 15th wedding anniversary, which means it's also the 15th anniversary of this gem www.youtube.com/watch?v=KgZ4...

The United States has two separate cities named Portland and they’re on opposite sides of the country, which is a design flaw as far as I’m concerned

yeah, sure

One thing that I think is holding back both normie democrats and leftists is an inability to be normal about religion and religious people. You will never build a meaningful coalition with attitudes like this because it’s fundamentally intolerant.

America worships at the altar of power and money and we have sacrificed too many people there.

so I had been saving money for an upgrade to my guitar--I have a Fender I bought off of Amazon for like $250 over a decade ago and it does its job but it's not *great* on Thursday my friend who's a guitar nerd texted me asking if I had a couple of hours free after church today (which was weird)

Are we great yet? Nope, just fascist.

The thing is, I think a lot of librarians would be really good in public office but none of us wanna do it either because we're introverted or we hate fundraising, so what we should do instead is elect the people that run Friends of the Library programs

“Defend the District” protest and Go-Go concert against Trump’s takeover at 14th and U St:

it feels like an odd thing to be thankful for the fact that despite being conservative evangelicals my family was so weird/dysfunctional that almost none of Dobson's principles stuck, but here we are

my family's love language is anxiety and i feel like the only one trying to forget how to speak it

We are seeing on a national and international level what it looks like when you treat people as problems to be solved instead of neighbors to be loved

I was listening to a podcast and they were talking about someone they know named Tiger Blorange (like, first name Tiger, middle name Blorange), bc their dad’s favorite college football team was Auburn University Using that convention, my name would be Aggie Marite, what about y’all

The series of questions I ask myself when I wake up each morning 📚

right now: august 2025 Making: note of the fact that I started this draft in June and am just now getting around to writing, yikes. but also i'm knitting a blanket and a hat (although I might need to restart the hat because of a serious mistake I made, but that's okay) Cooking: this cowboy caviar…

if the only thing your “god” can produce is regret… that is a bad “god”

Not sure how I’m going to get through these next four years without becoming a crazed street preacher going, “Repent! Repent! You will meet God one day!”