anyway, stay woke.

i don't really know how to introduce this one, but here are some late night reflections after the killing of charlie kirk open.substack.com/pub/joshuabo...

roots are where the mycelium runs

drinking wine from a whiskey glass sounds like a bad lyric from a song i would have liked in the early 2000s, but it is what i'm doing right now.

New post on staying faithful in unfaithful places. joshuabocanegra.substack.com/p/surviving-...

For Mary Oliver If, when the sunset finally finds me, I have written anything half as buzzing with the life of earth, half as soaked through with firefly light, I'll have done a good for the soil of the world. O Mary, full of grace, forever praying from these white leaves pray for me now.

i think millennials gave western beauty standards a run for their money, but the rise of ultra-conservatism is bringing it right back to its reigning status as the norm, left, liberal, conservative, and right.

not to be on my leftist bullshit, but generations of black and brown singers were transgressive, sexual, and hated so that sabrina carpenter could be cute, sexy, and the queen of soft girls.

people will be like, "women pastors are making the church liberal," all the while ignoring our pastors and leaders that are abusing women and children in all kinds of horrendous ways.

call me joe cause i'm sleepy

New post with more reflections on writing poetry and theology. open.substack.com/pub/joshuabo...

Modern humanity's denial of awareness in nonhuman nature is born not by any conceptual or scientific rigor, but rather by an inability, or a refusal, to fully perceive other organisms. David Abram The Spell of the Sensuous

thinking about that time i had to read a book in seminary entitled "a thicker jesus"

i have questions, you have answers. 1. what constitutes a human being (what parts make up a human)? 2. what is a spirit? 3. what is a soul? 4. what is a body? 5. what's the difference between soul and spirit?

This morning the water lilies are no less lovely, I think, than the lilies of Monet. And I do not want anymore to be useful, to be docile, to lead children out of the fields into the text of civility, to teach them that they are (they are not) better than the grass. ~ Mary Oliver

Our life, our need to make meaning from it, is all a kind of blindness. Christian Wiman Zero at the Bone

The workers unite not merely to redistribute wealth but to suture estranged spheres of activity and reconnect life with work, workers with one another, production with need, humans with the powers they have unleashed in the world. Wendy Brown Foreword to Capital, by Marx

From small shops, family farms, and cities to gigantic industries, massive rain forests, and even states, everything capital makes or needs it will eventually also destroy. Wendy Brown From her forward to the new translation of Marx's Capital

spotify is down because i was listening to the new single from m.i.a. too much

sometimes i wish i didn't grow up as such a "good christian" because of the way it ingrained in me this obsession with being correct. it hampers, i think, my courage to be creative.

We lived with three kinds of windows: transparencies that pulled in light; electronic screens that gave off light; and paintings that lived on light. Alice Fulton feeling as a foreign language

abebooks emails are like, "you can have 20% off if you spend $50," and i'm like, "if i was looking to spend $50 (or $40 with the discount), i wouldn't be on abebooks dot com

New post about why I'm a little hesitant about all these new men coming to church. open.substack.com/pub/joshuabo...

For while there is jealousy and among you, are you not in the flesh, and behaving like ordinary people? 1 Corinthians 3:3

I hate the antichrist! I hate the antichrist! I hate the antichrist!

yes, i know google exists, but i'm trying my damndest to not give away any more human community to a computer.

I really peaked with this one

The idolatry of science that surrounds us now is a symptom of superstition and not, as the scientists argue, a remedy for it. Christian Wiman Zero at the Bone

The beast will tolerate no dissent from his self-deification. Richard Bauckham The Theology of the Book of Revelation

The more significant critique [from Revelation] is the critique of the church, and specifically of its participation in the idolatry of the imperial cult, the civil or national religion. Will these churches repent? Michael Gorman Reading Revelation Responsibly

It is more important for us to see Revelation as a critique of secular power wherever and however it expresses itself oppressively, and especially as a critique of such power that is deemed sacred and granted devotion and allegiance. Reading Revelation Responsibly Michael Gorman

Hope is a condition of the soul, not a response to the circumstances in which you find yourself. Seamus Heaney, paraphrasing Václav Havel, quoted by Christian Wiman in Zero at the Bone

so does this mean all americans are automatically catholic now?

"Love is all you need" works fine in a pop song, but in a marriage, or in a boat full of refugees, or in any work that seeks to speak to life as it is genuinely lived, it grates. Christian Wiman Zero at the Bone

He's moving through your body like a prehistoric bird. - Nick Cave

The Redeemer of humanity, Jesus Christ, is the center of the universe and of history John Paul II

"What radicalized you?" Me:

am i finally going to do my Revelation series on substack?

If Christians are faithful witnesses to God, then they must suffer the inevitable clash between Rome's divine pretensions and their witness to the true God. Richard Bauckham The Theology of the Book of Revelation

Just thinking about how much I love being Anglican. Of course there are problems, but I love this tradition for the liturgical devotion with the freedom of thought and belief.

[Jesus] came to make plain to our nature the very beauty for which it was created in the beginning and in which it was thoroughly secure. St. Maximus the Confessor

please don't let the trads and nationalists ruin environmentalism for you

Can we get JD Vance to hug Trump on national TV? I just want to see what happens.

one thing about me i love rice and beans

Revelation's liturgical and missional spirituality (that is, a life of worship and witness) is the antithesis of religion that idolizes secular power. Reading Revelation Responsibly Michael J. Gorman

The Sees of Canterbury and Rome are vacant. Constantinople is as weak as it's ever been. Moscow is in cahoots with an antichrist regime. The evangelicals are being globally represented by a prosperity preacher. If the vampires are going to make a move, now's the time.

Christ is risen!!

New post for Holy Saturday and the fact that, sometimes, Jesus sleeps open.substack.com/pub/joshuabo...

New post for Good Friday on the absurdity of life. open.substack.com/pub/joshuabo...

New post on the significance of Maundy Thursday and Jesus washing his disciples' feet. open.substack.com/pub/joshuabo...