Merry Christmas!

Happy Thanksgiving! Did you know: in J.R.R. #Tolkien's Númenor, the people conducted annually Three Prayers - ceremonies in praise of Eru. The last of these was "Eruhantalë" - or "Thanksgiving to Eru" - and took place at the end of Autumn. Image: David Greset #BookSky

Happy Thanksgiving!

“When you take the story of God and the story of you and put them together—that too is Gospel.” —James Wm. McClendon Jr.

Christ reigns precisely by refusing to reign. He refuses the divine right of kings for a towel and basin, a crown of gold for a crown of thorns, and a throne for the hard wood of the cross. #ChristTheKingSunday

“God’s archē [monarchy] is the rule of personhood, love, and communion, a ‘personarchy’ or ‘communionarchy.’” —Catherine Mowry LaCugna, God for Us: The Trinity and Christian Life (San Francisco: HarperCollins, 1991), 390-91 #ChristTheKingSunday

Only nine days left until my first ordiversary! Clergy friends: what should I do or what should I buy to mark that day? ⚓️

By thine Agony and Bloody Sweat;

Yearly share.

What do y’all think of angels? Are they real corporeal spiritual entities, a literary device only with no real existence outside their apocalyptic function, or something else entirely? ⚓️

“Above all, it was his insistence that we live and minister as if God is real. Peterson is the person who taught me, at long last, to pray. I did not need to agree with everything he thought, even about some things that matter a great deal, to be grateful on an eternal scale.”

My hot take is that pikachu is actually a good pokemon that doesn’t deserve so much hate.

I just finished the book of Malachi, which means my annual cover-to-cover Bible reading is complete! I have read all 66 books of the Protestant canon, having started on January 1st of this year. This makes something like my ninth time doing this consecutively.

Then Toad felt very tired, and he fell asleep.

There was never a time when the God who became human was not! The man of Nazareth, born of Mary, friend of Lazarus, who ate and drank and walked and laughed and wept and died on a cross and rose again is the Eternal God Uncreated!

Today is the anniversary of the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald.

Gay marriage is safe. For now. It’s still a Republican dream to have Obergefell overturned; all it will take is a decent argument for the Supreme Court to reexamine the issue. Clarence Thomas himself said it was on the table next after Roe was overturned.

These Baptists are why I love being Baptist.

I finally have the time I need to sit down and drink a proper cuppa. Happy Friday, y’all!

Christ is risen from the dead, trampling down death by death

Hold your Queer friends close tonight. It’s going to get real rough for us. ⚓️

Mayor Mamdani! Praise God!

Seems about right for this Queer Baptist minister!

Pokemon Legends Z-A is the ultimate Pokemon game custom made for the gays and theys, and it’s not even close.

“This house is a mess. I have so much work to do,” said Toad. Frog looked through the window. “Toad, you are right,” said Frog. “It is a mess.” Toad pulled the covers over his head.

I wait all year to post this. Merry Christmas!

“Watch me crawl on hands and knees and scratch at the door of Heaven.” My GOD, what a line.

The new Florence + The Machine album? Literal perfection.

Because of Luther’s actions taken on this day in 1517, my husband and I can be married in a church, I can be an ordained pastor, and my sisters in Christ can be clergy. For all the harms Protestantism has wrought, I’m thankful for these unique gifts Protestantism has given to the Church catholic.

“Crux sola nostra teologia.” —Rev. Dr. Martin Luther, from his lectures on the Psalms | #ReformationDay

“I am a Baptist, but I am more than a Baptist. All things are mine; whether Francis of Assisi, or Luther, or Knox, or Wesley; all are mine because I am Christ’s. The old Adam is a strict denominationalist; the new Adam is just a Christian.” —Rev. Dr. Walter Rauschenbusch

Just read and deleted 400 unread emails 😮‍💨

“The body makes theologians of us all.” —The Reverend Barbara Brown Taylor

Blessed Reformation Sunday! Post tenebras lux—out of darkness, light. “For by grace you have been saved through faith; and this is not of yourselves, it is the gift of God; not a result of works, so that no one may boast!” —Ephesians 2:8-9

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People sometimes wonder why God would allow so much suffering in our world. Maybe instead we should be wondering why we do. — Jim Palmer

Our help is in the Name of the Lord;

No surprise that someone who signed up for Benjamin Netanyahu's legal defense team doesn't know the occupation is illegal.

I’m pleased to share that, as it currently stands, my husband and I are tentatively going to Palestine-Israel in January 2026!

This is all of my theology—all of it!—summarized in a short prayer. My commitment to Social Trinitarianism, my understanding of a Kenotic and Relational Christology, my thoughts on sin as a rupture of love, my ecclesiology which sees the Church as the (re)knitted family, all of it. Right here.

“[While]…Baptist rhetoric long has separated us from Roman Catholics and Eastern Orthodox Christians, religious experience and ritual practice provide a different index by which to measure our shared reality.”

Regular milk implies the existence of old regular milk, particular milk, general milk, free milk, and primitive milk

Officially connected with CBF Northeast! It feels great to know and be known by my beloved denomination. I look forward to serving CBF Northeast and, God willing, the greater and global Fellowship.