you're getting conned every time you repost a bad faith opinion by a random user just to dunk on it, they're conning you!!

"Fix your hearts or die" is, I might argue, a Christian statement: if we do not fix our hearts, if God does not give us a clean heart with which to love our neighbor, we are doomed to the death that Christ has defeated.

I want to note that the music selections in figure skating this Olympics have been so unhinged that in recapping it to @elizabethminkel.bsky.social I FORGOT ABOUT MINIONS GUY

I'm kind of mad that parenthood has taken horror movies away from me. I loved THE WITCH when it first came out and I now cannot watch it. It is probably healthy and good to not be able to tolerate some kinds of bad, but some horror is great art and I regret the loss

The 7-fjells-tur! Even though we only made it over 5 mountains, that's not so bad for less than a year postpartum - and it got me excited about future long hikes. I'm doing the Great Saunter around Manhattan this year.

omg it was a candlemas story

It is very flip to say "POPE AGREES: BUTLERIAN JIHAD NOW" but...it isn't...untrue? (Reading this nuanced take from the Vatican made my day.) www.vatican.va/content/leo-...

Judge Biery signed the order with a photo of Liam and two bible verses: The first is "But Jesus said, Suffer little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me: for of such is the kingdom of heaven." The second is simply "Jesus wept." Astonishing thing for a judge to do.

"The real question here isn’t why Heated Rivalry is a hit—it’s why this kind of romance series is so rare in the first place." The great @gavia.bsky.social returns to Fansplaining with an incisive piece on Heated Rivalry, romance publishing, and the TV industry. Read or listen to an audio version:

You couldn't pay me to click on an article by a TERF in the NYTimes about Harry Potter, but I'll note that Gen Z seems to be largely responsible for the fact that ~10% of the top 100 ships on AO3 last year were HP, so perhaps let's not take the suggestion that they're rejecting it at face value.

video is out there. I watched it. I do not advise watching it. the description Will has here is correct. I would describe "being shot five times while 2-3 people hold you down" as an execution congrats, ICE. you found the bridge and you sprinted across.

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Let's celebrate the Feast of the Ass like our medieval forebears: by remembering that the Holy Family were refugees, that the lowliest contribute lots, & bymaking fun of people in power! (I won't say "hee haw" instead of "ite missa est" today but only cause my congregation is not terminally online)

I know this is hijacking a fun post with a serious point, but: the Feast of the Flight into Egypt is a commemoration of the fact that Jesus and his parents fled to Egypt as refugees, which should be more often remembered, particularly by those who say they want to defend the West’s Christian values.

Condé Nast forgot to renew the trademark for Gourmet and so a group of journalists grabbed it and are relaunching the food magazine as a worker-owned co-op. Love it. [gourmetmagazine.net]

Given the current horrors, I need to leaven things a little by reporting that the herd has a new member whose arrival I forgot to announce: Balaam (thanks to @acblume.bsky.social)

Again to post about something other than the horrors I need everyone to know that @somafm.com has a "classic groove salad" channel so that you can EXACTLY RECREATE the experience of being a teenager on a bondi blue iMac listening to chill music in the middle of the night in 2002

Fandom is not in fact "the new religion"!! This is an excruciatingly basic take!! Fandom moralism has roots in US Protestant moralism and black-and-white thinking because of the outsize influence that US fans and media have, not because it is anything like actual religious practice!!

It was a DELIGHT to record a Fansplaining episode again!!!

I will never, never, never stop being angry about Aaron's death. Never.

Remember when Aaron Swartz downloaded JSTOR archives that he had full legal rights to download and the FBI hounded him literally to death for it? Anyway,

i was 38 years old when i found out that "why did the chicken cross the road" is a joke about a chicken being hit by a car

Notice how it’s always, “the Bible must inform our laws!” until it comes to the +2,000 verses in the Bible that discuss the generous use of wealth and possessions in a way that prioritizes the needs of the poor, this sick, the stranger, the vulnerable, and the oppressed.

it was spooooky

May she rest in peace and rise in glory. The struggle continues 🏳️‍⚧️

In the spirit of continuing to resist The Horrors.....I just got my 15 month old a banana costume for halloween because NANA is her favorite thing on the earth 😇

I can’t believe we still debate the legal limits of the seal of confession—and some of y’all are telling your sins to ROBOTS that belong to PRIVATE COMPANIES that can be SUBPOENAED. 😵

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One of the weirdest things about 2025 is how I have kind of become a Curtis Sliwa apologist. He may be a crank but he's OUR crank. And he's not corrupt. (He also shouldn't be mayor, but Trump doesn't get to say that.)

I know that many folks will think this a sign of weakness it is required of Christians, even & especially when it feels like pulling teeth God will have to reconcile me to folks like Charlie Kirk in heaven because it sure won't happen on earth, and that's all the more reason for me to pray

If American Christianity in any way resembled the historical mainstream of the Church both male and female celibacy would be so common you would sound like a lunatic if you tried to propose that Instagram tradwifery were somehow the apotheosis of Christian life

Normal Greeks: “emergency exit procedure.” Me, a late antique Hellenist: “liturgy of the exodus of danger.”

Here's another blessing against the horrors: 7/20 I am gonna get to perform my first baptisms as a priest!! Please pray for the baptizands and also for me, that I might be a suitable channel for the Holy Spirit, and that I lead their preparation classes with skill and true teaching

Today in posting about things that are not the horrors: one hazard of being a priest is that people keep giving my one year old daughter lamb stuffies. some of them sing "Jesus Loves Me"

amtrak’s marketing team gets it

the only thing i do not like about being a priest is that i should not wear bitchy little hats that say things like "for lent i'm giving up" even if i find them very funny

It's very nice to be experiencing another country's national day; I wonder if Norwegians would find July 4 as charming as I find May 17 (if, you know, the political climate were such to make that not a charged idea)

So true. To be honest, and I know this illustrates how shallow I am, this all makes me just so infinitely sympathetic to the new Pope. ("Popes: they're just like us!")

ok i think i have my answer and the answer is: they are all concelebrating

ok so i finally watched conclave and what I want to know is WHY IS EVERYONE WEARING MATCHING CHASUBLES AT THE CONCLAVE-OPENING MASS

Someone tore my church's progress pride flag down today like 12 hours after it was put up. It was a teenager (we have him on camera). If we file a police report and they find him, he gets hit with a felony hate crime charge. I really wish we had restorative justice options.

OK but there is no option for what I really am: a chaos goblin who does BCP, missal and also recently rewrote some EOW prayers because they weren't contemporary enough for my 5pm service

there is one of these in the sacristy bathroom at my church and every time i go in there i marvel at the thought process someone had putting it in.

Lord, make us instruments of your peace.