"If the church implements suggestions for how to use LMs that are as shallow and dehumanizing as the suggestions that have lately come out of secular society, we will live to regret it."

"I have deconstructed myself out of so many relationships..." (Eric, friend and fellow evangelical)

Nine years an Episcopal priest today. My heart is at rest in this vocation, which is good because the rest of me never seems to stop for a break.

It's come to this: watching inauguration of Governor of Virginia from Oregon, looking for a hint of hope.

A week after an ICE agent murdered an American mother in Minneapolis, the DOJ has pursued investigations into her, her partner, the Governor, and the Mayor. Still zero updates on an investigation into the ICE agent who killed her.

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WT actual F?! Trump Cuts $2 Billion in Federal Funding for Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services www.nytimes.com/2026/01/14/h...

Praying and lamenting and weeping and mobilizing this night with Episcopal siblings across the US. 🙏🏼

In next elections, Dems' best campaign pitch may be: "Trmp already took a wrecking ball to the country and entire world order; now-trust us to build something back that's good for everybody." But would we trust?

Please spare me the year in review. Nobody wants to relive that horror.

100 Notable Books of 2025 www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/b...

I will say it - I miss the nimbleness, the imagination, the ingenuity of a small church. Large churches have so much invested in preserving what has been or what is. Less room for vision and creativity. Especially if the budget is tight.

Can we all please agree now that this is the most iconic picture of 2025? #Hejuststandsthere #annoyed

happy #stunday everyone! The Tree in the Portland Japanese garden at full peak fall colors, two years I've been trying to get this shot #EastCoastKin #Stunday #Photography #bloomscrolling #portlandjapanesegarden #japanesemaple #fallcolors #autumncolors #Autumn

Itinerary today: PDX>ORD>NYC A trifecta of blue-topia (and red targets)

Would it be possible for Jared to try to get elected prime minister of Israel? Because it seems like they're campaigning.

Portland Frog updates about getting pepper sprayed in his fan intake 🐸🫡

Church and political leaders across the UK were among the first to welcome the news that the Bishop of London, the Rt Revd Sarah Mullally, has been nominated as the next #ArchbishopofCanterbury #Archbishop106 #nextABC

Hello from the office on my "work from home" day. Covering for everyone else, as per usual.

Portland -Paint Epstein Files on the street in front of Portland I C E. Light Epstein Files on the White Stag. Put Epstein Files on every protestor's tshirt and sign. Sing protest songs about the E Files. Immunize Portland. Trmp will run hard from any chance of film/pics of that stuff on the news.

You can always tell who's in a clergy search by the updated profile pics.

Greetings from the kind of luck that gets a ticket from the traffic light camera, two days before they take all the traffic light cameras down in the city.

Spent a little time in that hell of a city Portland today (literally in the city limits).

I support everyone who believes in it to get caught up in the rapture today.

•ABC: fires Kimmel for mocking Trump •CBS: fires Colbert for mocking Trump •ABC: fires Moran for slamming Stephen Miller •MSNBC: fires Matt Dowd for saying “hateful thoughts lead to hateful actions” •FOX: Champions Brian Kilmeade as he calls for Nazi state murder of America’s 600K homeless people

Nothing of God’s dream or Jesus’ promise can be built on violence. If eliminating people achieves your goal, it is not Christian in any way consistent with the life, witness, and death of Jesus.

Thriving, striving, surviving, or diving?

Not on my bingo card: cheering on South Park or Gavin Newsom.

Certain kinds of liberals & leftists are really going to need to get okay with having Christians who take their faith seriously in their coalition.

I'm saying now. If the orange aspiring dictator goes after Obama, that's a red line here. Not because it's more important, but it is a point of no return.

Exhausted.

Words for our times.

Just heard from my adult child in Houston that he's working all weekend (florist). Absentmindedly asked him why -- and turns out it's a lot of funerals for kids from Hill Country flooding. Keep all those serving and ministering to devastated families extra in your prayers. This is all so hard.

Trump is touting the no tax on tips provision in his budget bill. But many tipped workers won't benefit because their earnings are so low. And the provision expires in 2028. The estate tax cuts that primarily benefit the rich? Those were made permanent. Funny how that works.

‘Morning…Mourning 🌺💔💙🇺🇸🇺🇸💔

I hope God thinks like that... (From Rabia, 8th c. mystic & poet)

Just as a practical matter, consider how unheard of it is to expand an already significant federal agency by 1,000% in two or three years. WW2 mobilization or the early 60s Moon race are the right sort of analogies

I'm here for Venetians who are not here for the Bezos Sanchez wedding. The resistance is fun and sharp and poignant.

On days like this, this preacher knows the people want red meat. Trusting the Gospel to deliver.

So if men in masks and no uniforms and driving unmarked cars try to abduct someone (regardless of their status) in this country. Are they legally protected from that person or those around exercising self defense toward them? How to know they are law enforcement and not kidnappers or traffickers?

In just over a hundred days it has become impossible to imagine this country ( U S ) a year from now.

January 6 Never forget.

Wonder if TEC would reduce its clergy shortage if dioceses and institutions limited the number of priests they lured from parishes for their staffs.

"See you in the Fall if we still have a country." -fake Tr'mp on SNL season finale

Returning from a 10 day vacation today. For the first time in parish ministry I deleted email access from phone and turned off the work cell phone. (Checked in 3 times.). Best thing ever - and never going back.

Re: the pope deepfake. The evangelicals love the mockery of Catholics, rw Catholics would adore a Trumpy Pope. And they all love to see everybody else outraged. His base is totally happy.

Preparing for a vacation and now realize that it's been 9 months since I've had a true week off. No wonder I am out of gas.

If there's something d-o-g-e can teach us, maybe it's that organizations matter. *And organized organizations matter.* Mission-driven, values-centered, transparent, connected, communicating. Part of resistance to work as a priest these days is to develop a resilient parish organization...

Something I'm learning about being an institutional-reform-minded clergy: the folks aren't gonna put up with that shit if they don't trust you are at heart a spiritually-grounded & pastorally-attentive priest. period.

I found that my Easter preaching this past weekend was asking people to consider what it would cost them to believe that resurrection isn't impossible