I truly think Taylor Swift rigs the top artist category bc there's not a single TS song in my top 100, but there's tons of Ethel Cain, CRJ, Dixie chicks, and fleet foxes

Sister Winter by Sufjan and Sister Winter by Sufjan

For me, the spirit of advent begins on Halloween, so spooky sacred advent music may begin. Fall decorations stay all November. Christmas/winter decorations and music may begin in December and stay until candlemas. (Still work shopping my ideal timeframe for live tree/greenery)

Home for Thanksgiving and no theaters are playing the new knives out :/

You just died The sixth picture in your photo gallery is what killed you.

Brandy you're a fine girl What a good wife you would be But my life my love and my lady Is the See

I just got called triple unc by a college student

First time substitute teaching tomorrow. I chose middle school orchestra so it's at least a familiar environment. Not knowing the sub plan until the morning of is kinda my enneagram 5 nightmare

If anyone says, “I love God [in the forest],” but hates their brother or sister [begging for money on the subway], they are a liar; for whoever does not love a sibling whom they have seen cannot love God whom they have not seen.

things which had grown old are being made new

Puritan who insists on holding hands during prayer so no one's hands are free to read from the booke of common prayer

This was unironically one of my favorite movies as a kid and quotes from it still come unbidden to my mind all the time

Does anyone know of any examples of episcopal churches that are engaging social media (esp "reels" type content) in a compelling way? My church wants to pay me to do a post or two a week but I need a little inspo ⚓

I'm thinking about getting into wood pencils again

ESSENTIAL HOLIDAY THREAD

Happy Halloween to all, even the haters and losers! 🧙‍♂️ #doorduty

I just learned about comprehensible input for language acquisition and now I feel a little less bad that after finishing greek and hebrew at seminary I can only translate it but still can't read it. Which sucks but like that's what we're set up to do I guess

On storygraph I often don't add certain books as "currently reading" and just go straight to "read" when I'm done, but it kinda sucks that books added like that don't end up in my "recently read" section

Catholics, high church protestants, and choir peeps today's nyt connections is not for us

I read this in college and am reading it again for a class. Very much in the Reformed™ canon but I'm already noticing how this book has influenced me. It's probably culpable for forming me into the universal reconciliationist I am today

Goodbye blond

Italian donkeys carrying baby lambs in a special jacket

Houses at Unterach on the Attersee https://botfrens.com/collections/109/contents/28574

I moved 6 hours away this summer. I still miss home but I think Missoula is better for me, at least right now. And it's very beautiful too :)

npr: so, no kings tyrannosaurus rex: yes npr: how shall I put this trex: this interview is over

Wet walk to church this morning

For those here who are Anglicans, I commend this letter from my friend Matthew Olver about the recent fracture in the Anglican Communion. Lord, have mercy on us all. ⚓️ livingchurch.org/commentary/y...

My favorite part about living in a neighborhood with big trees is that I can pretend I actually live in a forest that happens to have some houses and streets

Is there such thing as critical edition or scholarly commentary on the book of common prayer? I know many of the prayers can be attributed to various church fathers but ofc prayer books don't have citations. Just curious 📕

Is that david inczauskis?

Christian anti-socialists make a lot of bad arguments and don't even seem to know the core critique of capitalism. This time they came for @malcolmbfoley.bsky.social and that made me upset enough to spend too much time making a long video about how bad those arguments are. youtu.be/kkRQe3cRxlI

Meanwhile in #Portland

Exodus 8 describes the 2nd of the 10 plagues: ותעל הצפרדע ותכס את ארץ מצרים. "The frog [singular] came up and covered the land of Egypt." Using singular to describe a group is apparently not uncommon in biblical Hebrew, but some rabbis debated if the plague was actually a plague of One Big Frog.

I am embarrassed in myself for having clicked the link to this page but I cannot deny that I was interested, (nor that I wasn't disappointed)

Happy October to all you witches, goblins, and ghosts

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

Cobb's Barns and Distant Houses - 1930-1933 https://botfrens.com/collections/173/contents/3104026

Of Zion it shall be said, "Everyone was born in her, and the Most High himself shall sustain her."… The singers and the dancers will say, "All my fresh springs are in you." 🕯️

Why aren't the displayed minutes on washers and dryers real minutes? I've been here five minutes

I heard TWO different songs today that mention traffic violations as a result of romantically gazing at their partner from behind the wheel. Reckless driving is NOT CUTE. One of them was all too well by ts ofc

I'm 200 pages in and I'm afraid I might dnf this book. I'm open to being convinced to finish it 📕

N: Denali national park S: Brisbane Australia E: Brisbane Australia W: Denali national park lol

I need to add more context to my footnote, but here's me 3 pages into my exegesis paper already fighting milgrom and sklar lol. Both say vv. 3-7 are about restricting sacrifice to the tabernacle. But 3-4 are specifically about non-sacrificial killing, and the penalty addresses bloodshed, not

It went really well! Might be making some big changes in the coming month 😅

Pray for me if you see this! I have a conversation tomorrow morning that I'm nervous for 😬

Slowly translating the akedah word by word for a school paper and crying my eyes out ama

I’m not saying bush wasn’t bad, but I am saying that without him, we would not have had the chicks’ taking the long way round

Friends please pray for me. I potentially really good opportunity just arose but it would be a big change and the door is closing very soon! 🕯️