Hey what’s it mean when the nurse says “you have the high score of the day already!” when looking at how bad your eye numbers are? 😹😹😹

Reading a cookbook by Chef Kwame Onwuachi (My America) and the first paragraph comes off strong: “Waves of grain and purple mountain majesty are part of this country, of course, a chorus perhaps, or maybe the hook. But the verse is tighter, more compact, maybe less catchy but at least real…

St. Patrick was a really incredible person and a model for those of us interested in evangelism without colonialism or militarism. It’s compelling to me how much he loved the Irish people and learned from them in order to spread the gospel of Jesus Christ. ⚓️

Hi if you’re the manager of a business 1) having a forced group chat with all your employees (against stated policy) is a bad BAD idea and 2) if you get an extremely negative review that calls out a specific employee, you do NOT post the review in the group chat for everyone to see.

Minnesota friends! Looking at a job in Northfield at the Carleton College Library. How’s it look living out there? I’m a southern homebody but I’m realizing I need to look outside of my usual circles and take chances.

Fairhope Public Library has refused to to comply with orders from the state library board to reshelve books the chair deemed explicit. “It is not just the seven books,” said Robert Gourlay, director of the library. “It is seven books now, but next time, it will be something else.”

Also true about church

Got sick at work so I’m home early but I don’t watch the Oscar’s cause idk anything that’s happening (I think I last watched a movie for fun in like 2022 and even then it was a rarity) so I’ll be watching hockey. Let me know what happens tho?

Hey #narthex? Are marital evals a normal part of the ordination process? Before postulancy, they asked me to have my wife come in to the same place I was doing my psych stuff and have her and I be interviewed separately about our marriage. Never found out the methodology of how they assessed it. ⚓️

Yeah barely any of it got done today. I got like a page done, if that. Guess I won’t be at church tomorrow cause I work 2-10:30 tomorrow and don’t have time otherwise to work on this thing that’s due Monday.

I have a paper due Monday. Today is my first day off in over a week and my only time to finish the paper…and I have been struggling to get started since like 1…I am not having a good day.

Every time my academic libraries professor has talked about showing the value of the library by showing a “return on investment” for the university by putting in things that appeal to the most lucrative STEM departments I want to pull my damn hair out.

Oh! I’ve also got many audiobooks including “Paladin’s Grace”, “Hammet”, “Canticle”, and “Hekate: The Witch”!

Oh so we’re not just doing war crimes but also bragging about them? A sure fire way to get your ass dragged to the Hauge IMO but who knows what’ll happen.

Among other general fiction, I’m checking these religious fiction books out from the library I work at. One surrounding Julian of Norwich and Margery Kempe (Revelations) and one about the death of Henry I and his daughter Maude, the Countess of Anjou (When Christ and his Saints Slept) ⚓️

Anyone have advice on dealing with ultra conservative relatives that you can’t exactly just disaffiliate yourself from? Like I’m talking supports the current admin in everything they’ve done in the past 15 months, from immigration to war, they support it all. I just feel hopeless hearing it.

The news is really fucking grim today but I saw on the Book of Faces site that an Episcopal church in Brooklyn did a performance of Hildegard’s “Ordo Virtutum” and that honestly makes me smile amid…everything.

Fun fact, my mother still very much thinks this way about all my mental health medication. She keeps insisting I “wean off” my ADHD meds and my antidepressants as if that’s how that works at all. 🙃

Don’t make me tap the Marcionism sign.

This isn’t a bit my goodness…like I legit thought it was an Onion article until I started reading it. Dude legit thinks it’s okay to say he has the same views as people from before the Spanish-American war like WHAT??

This is the place I have frankly the widest reach around the country so I’ll ask: I’m very curiously (and with some apprehension) looking at a job posting at Indiana University in Bloomington, IN. Anyone know what it’s like out there? The job is right up my alley, but I’m a homebody so I’m nervous.

Idk about yall but I’m not doing so great lately. Between the crying, the sleeping every waking moment, and the wondering if working every waking moment is letting every opportunity for a better life pass me by…it’s not looking great out here not gonna lie.

However bad you think this is, it’s worse. I love cooking. I love seeing chefs succeed and all that but this? This is the culture I hope gets burned to the ground ASAP.

What if instead of a birthday trip, I just attend professional and academic conferences over the next year, that way I don’t feel like I’m being wasteful with my time but I’m still going places and doing things?

Sitting here and waiting for class to start and while I’m normally excited for class and all that…I just can’t feel excited today. Haven’t felt that in a hot minute. And I’m sleeping more. And eating less. Depression sucks yall.

Anyone else’s depression getting like 10x worse lately? Idk if it’s the news cycle or just my general life but it all feels so heavy rn.

“Send the children to the fire Sons and daughters stack the pyre Stoke the flame of the empire Live to lie another day” - Now You’ve Got Something To Die For // Lamb Of God Been listening to the amazing 2004 anti-war album, Ashes Of The Wake, all week so far and I hate how relevant it is.

A teenage boy talking about self pleasuring in front of coworkers, all but myself happening to be women? Yeah no not on my damn watch. Straight to management I go with that one.

Good thing some US colleges are closing their Religious Studies departments—definitively not “useful” at all or an area of expertise that might be relevant for understanding our present…

So I was at my ⭐️Bux job extra late last night cause my 18 year old coworker was being stalked by someone in our lobby AND someone apparently came by and shot at our store (no one was hurt thankfully). Pls pray for her. Shes a single mom caught up with some not very good people.

Blasting “Everything Ends” off Slipknot’s Iowa record because our country is devolving into chaos at the hands of the world’s worst version of the people with truck nuts on the back of a squatted F350…

That it may please thee to make wars to cease in all the world; to give to all nations unity, peace, and concord; and to bestow freedom upon all peoples, We beseech thee to hear us, good Lord.

Stephen Fry’s “Troy” has to be one of my favorite tellings of the Trojan War. Listened to it over the past several weeks and throughly enjoyed his discussion of various topics and themes addressed in the story!

NEW: ALA strongly denounces new federal book banning legislation introduced in Congress, HR 7661. As ALA President Sam Helmick said, "Parents, not politicians, should guide their children's reading." Call your Rep and tell them to oppose this new bill. More from ALA: www.ala.org/news/2026/02...

Alrighty friends, librarians and theologians alike, I’m looking to both do a panel and then likely an academic paper on the intersections (and diversions) of theological and library ethics. I’d like to tap as many brilliant folks as possible for this. Who should I read and/or ask for their help?? ⚓️

So I missed tonight’s Lenten potluck event because I straight up forgot that it was even happening. However I’m planning to make time next week to go. Thing is…idk what to bring or how many people will be there. Do I go simple and playful or fun and big? Help I haven’t done a potluck in years! ⚓️

I accidentally signed up for a 7 AM Pilates class at my gym in their app while putting my phone in my pocket after looking at available classes for the week and I guess I could cancel it but also I need to become social so let’s see how it goes waking up at 6 AM to go to the gym. 🤷‍♂️

I’ve been saying this so much!! In my academic libraries class we keep talking about “return on investment” as if it’s not a thing we should fight against but rather we must accept and work within. Maybe I’m just too naive to understand but I don’t think accepting the status quo here is very smart.

A logical outcome of seeing higher education as merely credentialing rather than formative is to look for shortcuts to achieve the credential.

I took sleep meds for the first time in weeks and then I woke up too late for church on the first Lenten Sunday that happens to also be the bishop’s visit mere weeks before I meet with the associate rector to discuss the ord process after being MC for my uncle’s funeral yesterday. 🙃🙃🙃

Desmond Tutu once said “if you remain neutral in the face of injustice then you are on the side of the oppressor” and I think about that so often as I’m in this library program. ⚓️

Ethics in libraries and theological ethics having overlap but also distinct differences makes my brain hurt as a library student. ⚓️

Ash Wednesday last night was so moving AND ALSO can churches have kneelers that don’t kill my knees please? I wanted to kneel for the Litany and Psalm 51 but goodness I just couldn’t do it. Idk maybe it’s being an old hockey goalie. But I just can’t do it on kneelers that have max 1/4” padding.

An old high school bestie told everyone she was pregnant by sharing her post birth photo from her hospital bed surrounded by sushi and I aspire to that level of cool!

Will I read the entire thing in 3 weeks? Of course not. I’ve got other books to read and not nearly enough time for that. However, I do enjoy that my library has this compendium of James Baldwin’s work to check out.

I had to blast Pantera’s “Fucking Hostile” to calm me down after reading this. “To see To bleed Cannot be taught In turn, you're making us Fucking hostile!”

Working in a public library is not for me long term. Sure it’s a job and I’m grateful for it but having an unhoused leukemia patient ask me where besides the hospital she can get something to get her platelets up? I’m just…that was a bad end to the day.

Alright folks. Lent is coming up and I have no real sense of a Lenten practice that isn’t the gym every morning. What’s everyone reading or adding to their lives this season? My rector is doing a great reading and writing intentionality group this Lent but it’s an hour before I work every Friday. ⚓️

Just a thread of some of my favorite religious art at the Chrysler Museum of Art in Norfolk, VA! 🕯️

“Finally, it is not a ministry you do on your own. The Ordinal makes this clear. Ordained ministry is exercised in relationships of ordered accountability. The gospel is much too important and far too precious for anyone to think they can go it alone.” (p. 75) ⚓️