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happy Christmas, my dear friends. i say this every year but i do love sharing this time with all of you. let the hum of the Incarnation ring within you & see you next year! ✨ #9LC

I love that this super niche community comes together every year to freak out about beautiful choral music. See y’all in 2026 ❤️ #9LC

WORD #9LC

Gloooory to Goooood 🎶 #9LC

"When Herod the king had heard these things, he was troubled..." Tyrants are always afraid of love, terrified of grace and mercy because it undermines their coercive grip on power. By God's grace, the Herods of this world don't have the last word. #9lc 🕯️

A guvnah #9LC

“Forget us not who linger here!” 🙏🏼 #9LC

Oooh Berlioz and more harmonies. I love the English Renaissance music with all my heart but this is gorgeous. #9LC

Cum cantibus in choro — that’s me! Non-professional choir singer since the age of six and one of my deepest joys. #9LC

I'm not tripping: I think it is worth noting that Britten wrote "A Boy was Born" when he was NINETEEN, which is like 7 years older than some of those choristers and several years younger than much of the back row. #9LC

Transeamus. (Translation: Let's GOOOOOOOOO!) #9lc

I like having a Hail Mary in this service. #9LC

Oooh Bruckner these harmonies #9LC

The readers are doing a good job this year reading with full confidence #9LC

“So little cause for carolings of such ecstatic sound … some blessed Hope whereof he knew and I was unaware” #9LC

The chorister reader is giving us a very definite declamation here #9LC

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Thankful for this good news today.

!! Here’s a link to full video of the 60 Minutes segment that Bari Weiss killed last minute, via @jasonparis.bsky.social: is.gd/paU8Ko (It was uploaded to the Global TV app in Canada, seemingly by accident, and has now been taken down)

Thank you, Bishop Taylor, and thank you, Susan Russell for this write-up. Much-needed solidarity. 💜 ⚓️ open.substack.com/pub/revsusan...

Follow up on this protest — today brings good news that Sutter is backing down, for now. Thank you to all the Episcopalians and other Christians, lay and ordained, who were there. And people of all faiths. ⚓️ sfstandard.com/2025/12/16/s...

Still in awe of the people of Chicago. Trump and his party spent so much time trying to get them to give him some sliver of fake reason to do the insurrection act, and there was so much discipline from the Chicago area: sustained resistance, while not giving trump what he wanted Truly impressive

Faith leaders have chained themselves to the doors of San Francisco's immigration courthouse, blockading the building in the predawn hours. missionlocal.org/2025/12/fait...

HAPPENING NOW: About a dozen faith leaders chained themselves to San Francisco's immigration court, blocking the entrance. "If you come for them, you'll have to go through us," the group sang. Dozens rallied alongside them, hoping to shut the building down for the day.

Join if you can!

I…did not see the closing sentence of this photo caption coming: www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/15/n...

A lot to unpack here about class, gender, and caring work 19thnews.org/2025/12/ice-...

So glad to see multiple clergy from the Episcopal Diocese of California at this protest. ⚓️ apple.news/A-RK_lIqJQkm...

Yeah we all want to be comparing inscrutable price lists while doubled over in pain

Why would anyone want to come here for vacation or business travel under these policies? We offer incredible natural beauty and vibrant cities, but there are other places in this world that don’t require this level of surveillance. I feel for anyone trying to make a living in tourism or hospitality

To my Episcopalian friends in here (⚓️), as current chair of our church’s social investment policies I’m glad to say we are fully divested from private, for-profit prison companies like GeoGroup and CoreCivic, per explicit direction of General Convention.

The incredible grassroots anti-ICE organizing in LA, Chicago, NC, and now New Orleans is probably the most hopeful political thing I’ve seen all year. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/new-orlean...

Surveillance policy driven by greed “BI Inc, which started off as a cattle monitoring company, and its parent company the Geo Group, which develops detention centers, private prisons, and rehabilitation facilities, have been given the exclusive DHS contract …”

i do not regret to inform you that we are going to win

Amen

You shall also love the stranger, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt (Exodus, Deuteronomy, Leviticus) And when was it that we saw you a stranger and welcomed you? Truly I tell you, just as you did to one of the least of these, you did it to me (Matthew 25) religionnews.com/2025/12/05/i... ⚓️

In Chicago, a Nativity scene features a zip-tied baby Jesus and Roman centurions in "ICE" vests. Near Boston, Mary, Joseph, and Jesus are absent from a Nativity scene, replaced with a sign reading "ICE was here." It's all part of growing religious blowback to ICE. religionnews.com/2025/12/05/i...

The Nobel Prize committee should announce the World Cup winner tomorrow

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Sleepers, wake!

Who’s gonna tell ‘em

I appreciate this lament about the mainline not fighting for Jesus. Re his point about hardline conservative denominational movements: they were deeply funded by the same donors funding Christian Nationalism today. Read @jimnaughton.bsky.social’s evergreen piece: www.almendron.com/tribuna/wp-c... ⚓️

Reading between the lines, it sounds like the captains of Boston University's cross country team want the ICE snitch off their team, and they're upset that the Dept of Athletics won't make it happen dailyfreepress.com/11/21/08/216...

Gari was so funny. Always had us in stitches. Also stalwart and wise and faithful and true. ⚓️

Deacon Vicki Gray was the real deal — smart, learned, experienced, thoughtful, and absolutely committed to justice and peace in bones and sinews and in every breath. I miss her. ⚓️

On the day Iain died, we told him we will carry him with us as we continue the work that lies before us. ⚓️

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My hometown absolutely floored me this past week. FLOORED. For safety reasons, I haven’t said much about it. But I’m so damn proud of my family and friends. So proud.