he fell victim to one of the classic blunders! the most famous of which is, ‘never answer the phone for isaac chotiner,’ but only slightly less well-known is this: ‘never behave in a manner which causes derek guy to critique your fashion choices’

the American (gay) Episcopal theologian William Stringfellow sure did

The 25th of November is St Catherine's feast day. "This isn't about God, the stained-glass legends of broken wheels, the barrowload of miracles, or the dinner-plate halo they will nail to your head. Under the gospel, the truth of it: woman answers back, ends up dead." - Rosie Garland

I have learned, from my kids, that the key to Liked Kids TV is just a lot of yelling random words with great confidence. Power Rangers, Yu-Gi-Oh, Beyblades—someone got a word generator and some confidence and went to town.

Children are not therapy Wives are not therapy Marriage is not therapy only therapy is therapy

The part where the author asserts that No Child Left Behind contained INCENTIVES to diagnose kids with ADHD, which she then describes as “supports to help them do better in school.” Lord, be a deep breathing exercise.

Oldest kid turns 9 today, and has declares he will eat pancakes for every meal in celebration.

What’s your name, man? My name is Pope Leo the newish pope. Pope Leo the newish pope And there’s a million rules I haven’t made But just you wait. Just you wait.

If I leave here tomorrow Would you still remember me Cuz I’m as free as a bird now And this bird you cannot change

Also, shout out to my middle school gifted and talented teacher who made us do a shortened version of Twelfth Night for several years running.

Random: I’ve seen different productions do different things with translations recently. In the Public’s “Twelfth Night”, they weave in Swahili with English, without translating it or repeating and it works fine.

He is not wrong.

🎶“I was greedy” “I was vain” “I was haughty” “I was smug” “We were happy” “It was fun” “But we were blind” “Then we went into the woods To get our wish And now we're really blind”🎶

The US collaborates with the genocide in many ways.

Also, when Desmond Tutu took over the SACC, he instituted daily prayers, weekly Bible study, and monthly Eucharist and silent retreats for the staff. Plus he regularized administration so they had clean and transparent financial reports.

The world is on fire, but if you can, find the presentation Desmond Tutu made to the Eloff Commission in 1982, and read the whole thing.

“if I can suck up their time” Ladies, nerds of all stripes, neurodivergents of every variety, when I tell you how MADE you were for this moment

For whatever reason, this has been the Week of Clergy Misbehavior and I just want to tell you, this can end now.

Lord, someone put a trigger warning on Bearing Witness. I see a flash of happy children standing outside of Al-Ahli Hospital in Gaza from 2022 and get all choked up.

to have an affair with one longshot presidential candidate twice your age that you’re profiling may be regarded as a misfortune; to have two looks like carelessness

One story I did learn about has the makings of a great true crime podcast, so if you make those, let me know if you want a bonkers story.

I spent most of today reading the files on the diocese’s mission among the local indigenous tribe and sweet Lord, let me tell you, the degree of our general idiocy on a structural and an individual level cannot be overstated.

Rabbi here. The West Bank is absolutely occupied, in violation of the Fourth Geneva Convention of 1949, reaffirmed from the Fourth Hague Convention of 1907, Article 42. It would be helpful if people who didn't know what they were talking about didn't open their uninformed mouths.

When DHS dared to call its anti-immigrant racial profiling weekend in Charlotte, North Carolina, “Operation Charlotte’s Web,” I knew I was going to have to write about it. Tonight, at Law Dork, here it is: www.lawdork.com/p/gregory-bo...

Whew. Should not listen to IBCK on Mamdani derangement before work bc now I want to punch lots of people for Jesus instead of be a nice priest for Jesus.

you ever get the feeling Tradcath is just as much code for "I invented an imaginary christianity that caters to me" as evangelicalism is for protestants

could a depressed person meet the pope?

From a statement from faith leaders at Broadview this morning: "God does not bless cages. God does not sanction abductions. God demands freedom."

Before you ask, no, I don’t think we should make an AI Jesus. I think 1. That’s some idolatry nonsense and 2. That sounds like how you start a robot war. Good grief.

we picked the wrong time to close Religious Studies programs

Ok, who is editing the NYT this week? Did they take “Wrong Side of Everything” pills?

For more on Rev. Woolf, who appears to have been arrested today: he published an editorial with @rns.org literally this week titled “Why clergy should risk assault to protest ICE” —> religionnews.com/2025/11/13/w...

NYT journalists: how dare you accuse me of belonging to an organization that systematically demeans women and victims of sexual trafficking NYT today: this greedy kid wanted money for braces and so ended up becoming sexually trafficked. The real victim? Matt Gaetz

here you go, it was commissioned by the US state department in 2014

Having morality is good, actually. The trick is not to murder people over it. Which is part of the aforementioned morality. There, fixed it for you, Atlantic.

Oldest Kid has been on us to go to his classmate’s family’s restaurant for dinner, which we did tonight. It was a lot of fun, and everyone was delighted. Also now the kids like Vietnamese food bc “that’s what Kevin makes!” winning all around.

In a world where you aren’t allowed to rent a car until you are 25, because your frontal lobe isn’t fully online, maybe arguing semantics about whether Epstein’s victims were young-young, or just kinda young is Not What We Should Be Doing, you know?

::inarticulate shrieking::

Y’all, I need people to collectively understand that we do not need to a) hand it to war criminals or b) defend/explain away the sexual assault of minors.

Also, I never want to hear another word about kids these days and grammar slippage again after these emails. Good God. Why the most powerful men in the world couldn’t find a shift key to save their lives…

Something that’s so striking in these emails is how…unimpressive Epstein is. He comes off as a pompous, sub-literate lech. Yes everyone is so mortifyingly solicitous of him! All fawning and flattery! Why?????

[know nothing voice] just punched a hole in the wall because the new mayor is yet another Catholic

*just one long horrendous eldritch screech*

Today confirms my long-held theory that the worst things are never behind elaborate codes and smoke—they are smack out in the open.

The Epstein story gets a something that is tearing at the heart of the electorate: elite impunity. The idea that wealthy and powerful people can do terrible things *at scale* and face no consequences for them. Whatever political party actually stops it could rule the country for a generation.

Today is a good day to remember, and to say, that the #MeToo movement was right, and was righteous, and has been vindicated over and over again. There was no overreach. There was no excess. There was no they-went-too-far. So much work remains to be done.

This is a really good, nuanced treatment of the whole “crying baby asking for formula” thing circulating right now. www.patreon.com/posts/143307...

As I’m reading this list of staggeringly high premiums for folks to maintain health insurance next year, it’s worth repeating that for most of us to even access any care at all in the US, we need some form of health insurance. Otherwise, you end up in the ER for everything.

The Archbishop of York was forced to cut short a visit to a family in the south Hebron hills on Saturday, after Israeli police ordered the Church of England delegation to leave the area. #WestBank #Israel #Palestine #ArchbishopofYork