It is failing queer Christians that empty and tepidly theologically liberal heterodoxy and even apostasy is often all that’s offered to us. When why we need, just like everyone else, is the Good News of JESUS CHRIST, our Lord and Saviour. We need He who died for us. ⚓️

My first post on here on this account: I'm going to start by showing off some space art I've made with the Godot engine. I may do more with this, I don't know. But Godot can definitely produce nice graphics. #GodotEngine #Godot #indiedev #gavedev #creativecoding

If you want to follow my art and computer programming/game development journey, follow my other account here: @s0ftwave92.bsky.social ^_^ I’ll be intermittently posting things I’ve made there, on the computer or otherwise.

It is remarkable to witness the machine underlying Trump scramble to post hoc substantiate and justify all of his insane whims.

Trump is a tremendous idiot, we know this. But what fascinates me so is the sycophantic machine whereby whatever braindead proclamation he makes is justified retroactively. So many people are paid essentially to paint a picture where the American President is anything but a fool and a lunatic.

The dominance of a new, far right strain of postmodernism is a thesis I blather about to a lot of people but I think people are finally starting to see it, even if they don't phrase it in quite the same way. www.youtube.com/watch?v=FySt...

(The answer is yes) ⚓ www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xtF...

Accepting the Creeds isn’t enough to be a basically orthodox Christian And so it’s cringe when (especially Episcopalians) will laud themselves as “inclusively orthodox” for doing the bare minimum whilst often holding to heresies like Process Theology or whilst saving a very low view of Scripture.⚓️

Julian of Norwich is often appropriated by the purveyors of new age woo, but she was very much steadfastly orthodox and beautifully so, and is even particularly Augustinian in her framings, and monergistic. And incredibly brilliant in her beautiful theological articulations.

I am diving into the Catholic doctrines of classical theism and the Attributes of God (with E.L. Mascall and Aquinas instructing me, chiefly) in order to answer the sadly much too common heresies of Process Theology and Open Theism. Mascall's He Who Is, A Study in Traditional Theism is excellent.

What if everyone on your Christmas list really, really wants to start using Morning and Evening Prayer in the Anglican/Episcopal tradition? The 1662 Book of Common Prayer: International Edition is a great entry to the daily offices, and it's 45% off at Amazon.

I’ve had a very frightening experience and am very shaken up and am finding it difficult to sleep I would appreciate prayers for my peace of mind I am alright and am safe Just anxiety from after the fact

A lot of present-day Roman Catholic practice is so counterintuitively “Low Church” to my mind. Not having altar rails and normatively receiving standing being chief among them.

Alright yall so because my landlord is selling this house we rent and I have been scraping by I need help to afford moving. I'm raising $1500 to rent a uhaul, pay deposit, and other moving costs. We need to be out by end of December. Venmo: comradeconrad116 paypal.me/cerl116

I feel that ultimately people will always see me as the dumb fundamentalist in TEC.

Charles Simeon on the Book of Common Prayer: "Only let any person be in a devout frame, and he will be far more likely to have his soul elevated to heaven by the Liturgy of the Established Church, than he will by the generality of prayers which he would hear in other places". ⚓

The reason I hate liberal theology is that ultimately it asks me to believe in a weak God who can't and won't save me.

Who wants to know when the idea of Prima Scriptura was invented? This ancient idea? 1997. ⚓

IMO, another thing to be “Catholic” means is accepting things like the classical attributes of God. That means that even the “best” versions of things like Process theology are OUT. ⚓️ youtu.be/LXOQHGnH52Y?...

I think it's proper time to articulate inclusive orthodoxy as necessarily having more meat on it than mere acceptance of the creeds. That's an incredibly low-bar. Or perhaps another word is called for, for what is necessary? Renewal. ⚓

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZzDh... ⚓

Not new but excellent Bible Project discussion here (at 33:50) of the numinous, puzzling and sublime story of Jacob’s Ladder. Origin story of Bethel with shades of Babel, window into ancient Israelite theological development, temples, anointing & other goodies. ⚓️ open.spotify.com/episode/4EXo...

Lancelot Andrewes instructed priests to pour wine into the chalice so that it looked like gushing blood. So metal. What a goth. Probably one of my favorite essays of all time: McCullough's reconstruction of Andrewes's liturgical practices. ⚓

The three-legged stool is from Hooker just like “Celtic liturgy” is from ancient Celts.

Hooker actually lays it out Scripture -> reason -> tradition. Though Urban T. Holmes, who spread the idea very much, put at least reason at the same level with Scripture, saying that it's a mistake to put Scripture over reason. Something Hooker did not believe. (cont) ⚓

Definitely one of those crazy busy weeks where the best sermon prep is just saying, "God, I'm not sure I can do this. Would you write it for me?" ⚓

The idea of the “three-legged-stool” has had a very corrosive effect on Anglicanism ⚓️

Making a point thinking a lot about the Edmund Fitzgerald and her crew today And all lost at sea youtu.be/9vST6hVRj2A?...

youtu.be/Hzxab1z6bVQ?... Narnia is so theologically rich and beautiful ⚓️

The Anglican sorter has sorted me. I think this quiz is much less good though than the one @theodramatist.com made Though I get the same result essentially either way (Laudian/Old High type)

What the Gospel sounds like now, in three minutes. ⚓

Pastime with Good Company is an incredible bop. Problematic fave musician: Henry VIII.

It is weird how I have so much self hatred but also, I look at myself in the mirror and am astonished at how womanly and curvy I am It’s loony Estrogen is powerful

Anglicanism is often odd because there are so many Anglicans who wish to deny their theological heritage (not only in TEC) and yet it’s the most beautiful and enriching and wonderful thing A treasure It’s like sitting on a treasure that leads to Jesus and not wanting it ⚓️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

my buttons and blinkies on my tech website.

This is very good. ⚓ By @jrbrownfield.bsky.social noninvenit.substack.com/p/on-opposit...

A phenomenon I've encountered is people so used to my being traddy being confused when I do support "progressive" things. To the point multiple people have expressed their surprise at my supporting women's ordination. 😭 A lil thread explaining myself.

Women's Ordination is a glorious thing. As is the ordination of LGBTQ people. Recall Mary Magdalene. The first to preach the Gospel. There just isn't getting around that. It's GLORIOUS.

Roast dinner I made, with crispy potatoes and stout gravy and Yorkshire pudding

Today is a #girlpower day.

Let us all pray for Sarah, our Archbishop-elect of Canterbury. 🙏⚓

"We believe, that this body of ours, wherein we live, although it die and come to dust, yet at the last day it shall return to life again, by Christ's Spirit which dwelleth in us: and that then verily, whatsoever we suffer here in the meanwhile for His sake,

The installation of the Cathedral of St John the Divine in NYCs new Dean had non-Christian prayers This kind of nonsense being rampant is why I fret about being doomed What can I do in the face of the utter apostasy of powerful people in my church? Dear God, help us ⚓️

Excerpts from "The Law of Inheritance," F.D. Maurice sermon on family and nation, preached the 10th Sun after Trinity, Aug 28, 1859. With many thanks to @serene1662.bsky.social for sharing this volume: archive.org/details/serm...

Should I get back into lomography? Yes/no?

Today is a day for tea and F.D. Maurice sermons.

I have never needed Christmas more than this year

Life is too short to be anything but cute