gotta respect the old mainline church library. A lost art. A hidden gem. Hasn’t been used in 40 years. “More than a carpenter” right next to Johnson’s “she who is”

it is absolutely true that "the gospel is political but not partisan" insofar as per se support for a given political party is not the content of the gospel but if that becomes "one party supports pepper spraying the baby, so you can't talk about that or you're being partisan" we should all go home

A generous review of my book, Ruptured Bodies: A Theology of the Church Divided from Bishop Bill Franklin.

I did not criticize the administration. Please don’t put in the newspaper that I criticized the administration.

My latest essay exploring conflict.

Just shouting “Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes!” to every word of this @schlesingene.bsky.social piece: eugenerschlesinger.substack.com/p/the-only-a... ⚓️

I have to believe these people don’t actually believe in God because if they did they wouldn’t be so cavalier with such blatant blasphemy.

Two teenage boys just came by trick or treating. One was dressed as Marty McFly, the other as a physician. Turns out it was *not* a Doc and Marty couples costume, though.

Movie: *Is called “Phantasm”* Me, a Thomist: ”When the hell is the agent intellect going to show up?”

Watching Phantasm (1979) while waiting for Trick or Treaters. It has all the trappings of a parody, but I know it’s earnest.

I just spent nearly two weeks surrounded by people speaking (multiple) different languages than me and it was utterly fantastic. It must be such a sad, pathetic little existence to be so closed off to the beautiful diversity of...reality.

Amazon’s selling Ryan Hemmer’s excellent book, The Death and Life of Speculative Theology: a Lonergan Idea, for 75% off a.co/d/5xqbwTn

Schismatics gonna schiz...tale as old as time. ⚓

Witnessed a couple of ACNA priests congratulating themselves on opposing the Archbishop Designate of Canterbury because of "traditionalism." My brothers in Christ, you're both Donatists, and I've heard one of you brag about baptizing a corpse. Not a lot of deference for tradition on your parts.

"I could get so much done if I weren't running classes and serving on committees. I really just need someone to pay my salary for a year so that I can have the time to do this research and write this book." —Me, to myself, just now, before realizing that I'd just invented sabbaticals.

i desperately want everyone involved in the destruction of USAID to have to, st the very least, answer to the american people for the suffering and misery they have caused apnews.com/article/myan...

I just avoided taking some Archbishop of Canterbury bait on Facebook.

There’s much bigger news on Al Gore‘s internet today, but I did write a little something about how I’m going to keep calling MAGA fascist.

Things are pretty grim out there what with the downfall of the constitutional order and the ramped up regime consolidation, but at least we got new nine inch nails last week. I'm not sure if I have plans to watch the Tron movie (Leto plus Disney? 🤢), but the soundtrack can get it.

Not everyone who disagrees with me is a Nazi. That's for sure. But there's 100% some Nazi shit going on in this administration.

He's a Thomas so there's really no excuse. Maybe in the section on "supernatural contemplation" he'll get there.

I'm reading Marie-Dominique Chenu's dissertation on contemplation, and it's driving home just how psychological analogy pilled I've become, because I keep wanting to grab his shoulders and say, "Okay, now make the trinitarian connection explicit!"

I appreciate the shout out. Yes, the book tries to disentangle a unity grounded in Christ, which embraces difference and even (serious) disagreement from ”crucifying unities,” which come at the expense of vulnerable communities.

And @schlesingene.bsky.social taking us into imagining the future of creedal faith.

I wrote this essay in anticipation of the Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross. After this week's news cycle if feels distressingly more salient than when I was drafting it. ⚓

This appears to be significant news. (Trump team restoring some/many Harvard research grants. After Harvard stood up, and won sweeping judgment in court.) Everything is day by day, but worth noting this development. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/10/u...

I think one of the strongest pedagogical skills faculty can develop is *both* a willingness to let student questions or ideas launch their classes in these new directions *and* an improvisational flexibility with the material, so that curricular goals can still be met even on unexpected paths

Reminding myself "Every draft starts out really rough and disjointed and doesn't feel like it's going to be any good. The important thing right now is to get some words out there. You'll make the words good ones later." And boy do I need that reminder.

Doctors I trust more than RFK Jr

it is always worth remembering that vance made a conscious decision to be a person of low character. he has eagerly contorted himself into evil for the sake of what amounts to a whiff of power.

This is an actual exchange from a VP who took an oath to defend the constitution and, as a citizen, is expected to abide by the law. May we one day have accountability for the grotesque lawlessness of this regime.

Watching Final Destination Bloodlines with my teenager. Two things: 1) It’s a lot of fun. 2) It really fucking sucks that reality is so grim that this feels like a light-hearted escape.

MARIE-DOMINIQUE CHENU demonstrates how a once condemned theologian influenced the major shifts of twentieth-century #Catholicism and reveals the relevance of his thought for contemporary #Theology. Don’t miss this new book by Mary Kate Holman! Preorder at: bit.ly/4jyu96c

M. Shaun Copeland has spent her whole damn life arguing for equality and the oppressed, and she was gracious enough to tolerate me showing up late to the party and unprepared. I will treat others with grace out of perpetual gratitude. And in case you think grace is not also judgment: buddy, it IS.

under no circumstances can the legitimacy of a desire to see appropriate reforms made to our gun laws become an excuse to equivocate regarding any attempt to categorically deny trans people rights - *any* rights - that others retain

This is why I’m so focused on developing an agonistic ecclesiology these days. We need to fight about these contested categories.

When we allow someone else to be targeted for discrimination, it never stops with them. Injustice metastasizes. When we allow someone else to be targeted for discrimination, we allow Jesus Christ to be targeted.

It’s such a blessing that the Wicked movie came out last year, because I can be so confident that there will be a “Good News/No One Mourns the Wicked” gif ready to go if I wind up needing it for any reason.

Should I get that champagne in the fridge to chill?

My screen time report was *bad* this week, but only because I’ve been so consistently and hopefully lurking online, waiting for “the news” since Friday. Will have to rein it in sometime soon, but for now, a boy can dream.

#NYC baseball coach confronts ICE child predators. “There's only one way to get into the cage, so my whole thing was I can control that. I was in front of the entrance and that's when I just said, you know, I may die here, but they will not take one of these kids." www.wcpo.com/politics/imm...

After my homily today, one of our parish clergy, a retired seminary professor (church history) told me, "I feel that often we are given the choice to be progressive or to be orthodox; you show that we can do both." High praise, coming from him especially. ⚓

AI advocates have warned that if every author in the class action filed a claim, it would "financially ruin" the entire industry.

On one hand, reducing car use reduces urban pollution. But on the other, everyone likes it and cities become more livable

Did not expect to be up all night hopefully refreshing bluesky, and cycling through news sites and Reddit, but here we are…. #lordhearourprayer

all of this makes total sense when you recognize that “freedom” here means the freedom to dominate those you view as your subordinates and “tyranny” is when someone threatens that “freedom” or worse, when those subordinates try to claim power as political equals

Yves Simon, the Catholic anti-fascist philosopher wrote this about G-L: