Should I have dinner at: - Restaurant A, guaranteed parishioner encounter but I love their “boneless wings” (ie grownup chicken nuggies - Restaurant B, more private but unsure about menu

If I hadn't already quit drinking 17 years ago, this would be the end for me.

OK, I take back some of what I said about iOS 26 because on the iPad it lets you have multiple windows on one screen.

Greta is going to be a 2026 calendar girl for the shelter she came from!

A.W.N. Pugin may have had an illegitimate son who wound up designing buildings here in Durham, NC? That is incredible.

Guaranteed summer funding all the way through.

I think that before folks conclude that theological postliberalism leads to Orbanism, they may need to take into account postliberal theologians who aren’t straight white dudes (these people exist).

Phew, close one

Upgraded to iOS 26 and I’m not sure I like it. It feels like too much of a muchness. I really need to switch to a more minimal phone.

my daughter really captured my essence in this portrait of me “at work”

This question was answered in 397 AD.

It‘s an ideal day here in Pton. Very cloudy, a little cool, you can see all the lights on through old windows. Very ‘dark academia’ if you’re into that.

Let’s talk about the Prayer Book Rebellion that lasted like 2 months in 1549.

The feminine urge to obsess about Gettysburg

The funny thing is it always starts as ‘the US has been too interventionist’, which is a decent thing to say! You don’t have to end up spending the night arguing that Molotov-Ribbentrop was good, actually.

“Stalin was good actually“ is the most astonishing thing I regularly see on this website. I see it regularly because @sharonk.bsky.social keeps quote-tweeting these people into my feed. Thank you for your service, I guess?

There are also pumpkin spice Greenies. Baudrillard FTW

Happy 10th anniversary to the Farminary at Princeton Seminary!

CHOTINER: So You created us right GOD: Yes CHOTINER: In Your image GOD: Yes CHOTINER: And sometimes we do bad things GOD: Oh Yes CHOTINER: And then you send plagues and floods GOD: OK I think I see where you are going with this

The downside of my job is that the hours can be extremely long and wildly variable. The upside is that if all I need to do is write my sermon and snuggle with the dog, I can go home and do that. It's a foggy fall day, time to light a scented candle and think about the Bible.

completely self-inflicted

When someone on the Internet tells me that Western tradition is dying, I (1) look up academic presses to see how many books on Augustine are being published this year, (2) go outside and throw a rock and see if it hits something Western tradition made. “Hm,” I think, wondering what death is again.

it’s me

The "autism problem" is the fact that there are too many Thomists, right? *ducks* just kidding, Thomists, I love you. Seriously, this is a very bad article.

I'm nervous enough about getting interviewed by, like, The Living Church. There's no way I would ever have enough self-confidence to say yes to Chotiner.

Today the Episcopal Church commemorates Thecla of Iconium, and her story goes so hard. - saved from burning at the stake - beat up a nobleman who tried to assault her - saved in the arena by female wild animals - baptized herself in "a lake full of aggressive seals" who were struck by lightning

Fountains of Wayne was really underrated. This post brought to you by the song "Bright Future in Sales."

The shortest story ⚓️

like in a fun quirky way or

Just got an email from a scam academic journal asking if I wanted to "explore new advances in White Psychodrama" and it's just got me like: buddy, I can watch the news myself.

I am a professional Christian and I worry about it constantly

TIL that John Williams’ son is the lead singer for Toto and I can’t really process that.

Confirmation before the foundation of the world

Applicable for many things.

Light you a scented candle and rejoice!

Top Google search right now is leucovorin, the (non-)treatment for autism our wonderful government is promoting.

“We’ve been watching and we’ve decided your fate.”

I can’t get over this fact that Freud’s great granddaughter has a podcast sponsored by BETTERHELP

Cook-Out burger.

It was a very long and tiring morning, so congratulations to 6 AM Kara for putting meatballs in the slow cooker.

This is what she does when I’ve been on my phone too long

Status:

Your life plan at 22 is not the way your life will go, and that’s OK.

Wondered why I’ve been unable to sleep and in a complete fog, and then I remembered Monday is 2 years since Sonia died.

Every doctor’s office should have online scheduling

Watching some YouTubes on the JFK assassination, and it still blows my mind that Lee Harvey Oswald was allowed to (and chose to) hold a *press conference* the night he was arrested.

I'm going to log off and touch water tomorrow (fly fish the Stony Brook for trout).

I think I'm more measured and do more jokes here, but that's less to do with apps and more to do with joining a religious order.

wheeeeeeeeeeew

"When you measure, include the measurer." - MC Hammer