"I urge any who are involved in the administration of the current immigration enforcement regime at any level to seek the counsel of their clergy, given my urgent pastoral concern for the moral and spiritual injury that their participation is causing them." - Bp. Rob Price of Dallas, 1/1/2026

There is no such thing as “Epiphany, observed” on a Sunday in TEC. I’m begging folks to read the rubrics. 🕯️

Put up the antique ceramic stations of the cross at church super excited I found them… was missing the little removable crosses on the top for the 6th station. ADHD is a hell of a thing. 🤣😅

Merry Christmas!

What an excellent pause in Herod's words in this lesson. "That I may come and.....worship him" #9LC

upon another shore and in a greater light, that multitude which no man can number, whose hope was in the Word made flesh Will always hit me so hard 😭❤️ #9LC

This boy should run the lector training for...everyone. He's reading God's word like it matters, because of course it does. #9lc 🕯️

This sermon is well worth a read… especially for the many of us who felt like threats of hellfire and damnation were cast on us for merely existing throughout our experience in church. Given by Mtr. Samantha Christopher at St. Mary’s Episcopal, Phoenix.

can we please get a statement from the PB, or the HoB, or the PHoD, or executive council, or *somebody* saying that to blow up people clinging to a chunk of boat debris in the water with a big missile is to provoke the holy wrath of the living God??

People: I just don’t see how these patristic trinitarian & christological controversies are relevant TODAY. Also people: I mean why couldn’t Jesus be AI?

Gratitude is more than an emotional state. It’s a twofold recognition: that something is *good*, and that that good something is not solely the result of your own efforts or deserving

This is your friendly holiday reminder: DO NOT GIVE ANY MONEY TO THE SALVATION ARMY Donate to local mutual aid groups if you want to have an actual on-the-ground impact with the houseless population

turkey day “fun run” just another example of protestant work ethic being exploited as a tool of oppression. there is nothing “fun” about “run,” a form of labor

I had the honor of officiating VTS's TDOR requiem this year, which means they got enough high church nonsense to last them a lifetime

“AI” isn’t a tool or technology or even a cluster of technologies with a misleading name. It’s the infrastructure at the foundation of a form of capitalism dependent on data brokering. We should be teaching our students about this and not teaching them about “responsible” use.

A very moving Christ the King homily given by the Rev. Mtr. Samantha Christopher ( @sjchristopher.bsky.social) at St. Mary’s Episcopal Church in PHX!

"Drink ye all of this; for this is my Blood of the New Testament, which is shed for you, and for many, for the remission of sins. Do this, as oft as ye shall drink it, in remembrance of me."

I keep running into ministers posting (in private forums) about how they use ChatGPT for their sermons, and, my sibling in Christ, the Holy Ghost designed and formed your mouth to speak God's Word, your heart to hear it, your mind to contemplate it - why do you reject the gifts God has given you?

Just to be clear, it’s all convos with Satan

ngl not even my city but this got me bawling. imagine being included instead of toewalked around or stepped on. imagine them being normal to and about us.

Zohran's victory speech is a masterclass in political communication. I'm convinced that he will go down as one of the left's greatest orators of the 21st century if not of all time.

All Souls at St. Mary’s Episcopal Church was a success. New vestment set is 🔥 Meant to post last night but I’m zonked lately.

Said the first All Souls' Requiem at my parish in living memory tonight! Always a gift to get to serve with my fiance AND to have a guest Deacon join us (Yes I know we didn't use unbleached beeswax....that's a goal for next year)

we, worthily lamenting our sins and acknowledging our wretchedness,

Mtr Samantha blessed creatures great, small, a few stuffed toys, photos, and even those cursed to slither on their bellies for eternity… 🥲 jk Medusa wasn’t so bad, I guess. 🥹 *gulp* ⚓️ #StMarysPhx #Episcopal #StFrancis

Made a friend at the blessing of animals today

Went to Mass today for St. Francis’ feast. Mtr @sjchristopher.bsky.social preached a beautiful sermon on the radical faith of St. Francis, and how we tend to sanitize and make more palatable the radical prophets and saints of God who call us to the Gospel. Maya the 12 yr old doggie got a blessing!

BREAKING: The next Archbishop of Canterbury is to be the Rt Revd Sarah Mullally, the Bishop of London since 2018, Downing Street has announced. She is to be the first woman to hold the post #archbishopofcanterbury #nextABC #Archbishop106 www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/202...

Welcome to the fold, Shiloh. May water always be to you of the first medicine and gift from the Creator, to quench your thirst, and cleanse your body, mind, and spirit — and the womb from which we are born anew, in Christ, our Redeemer. 🫶🏼 Alleluia!

Heritage Foundation has released an absolutely insane policy proposal to label all trans people as domestic terrorists. It uses completely made up instances of terrorism and made up statistics but facts don't matter to them. They want us all eradicated.

The FBI is preparing to label transgender people as “violent extremists” in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s murder: www.kenklippenstein.com/p/fbi-readie...

To celebrate Mtr. @sjchristopher.bsky.social’s ordination and her first Eucharist celebrated my Indigenous sisters and I made frybread for Indian tacos… we had so much homemade food, for a festive and beautiful occasion. 🥲 Thank you Lord for our new priest, her partner, and the St. Mary’s family. 🥰

Today was a very very good day :)))

New bio just dropped :)))

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I will admit, I would like to see a general norm develop in the Church against the use of generative AI to write *any* pastoral communication, including but not limited to sermons. I could be persuaded to the contrary, but right now my feeling is I'd like to see bishops prohibit it as plagiarism.

I know I’m biased, but if you’re going to turn to AI to generate a whole-ass sermon manuscript, just hang up your robes and clerical collar and be done done with it. ⚓️

Tomorrow is my first day at my first clergy job, and it feels a little like getting ready for the first day of school 😭 Any advice?

the powers of sin and death -will not have the final word -must be actively resisted at every turn

I can’t stop thinking how Brad Lander’s NYC Council office had a snow shoveling program that would match neighbors who needed it with others who could shovel for them, and how much mutual aid could be scaled if we someone in local government to help coordinate and a modest amount of funding.

my dear friend ding once again knocks it out of the park with this beautiful and stunning reflection on womanhood, transness, and everyone (yes, even you) being on hormones—asking, once and for all, "what if cis people are the weird ones after all?"

“If trans exclusion is lavender scare pivoted and trans inclusion queer assimilation gentrified, could you imagine if going on the offensive and turning cis people into a philosophical puzzle might just be what the gender metaphysician ordered?” So grateful for this chance to be playful yet serious:

remember that government-run grocery stores are the compromise. the principled left policy position is the forcible state seizure of the Park Slope Food Coop

Bishop Eaton once said of the creeds: "They are the fruit of centuries of the Holy Spirit's guidance and the Church's passionate debates. You're not going to churn out something better in an afternoon alone on your laptop." I think about that a lot.

This is an absolutely brilliant piece on turning our thinking about gender on its head and making cisness appear strange - philosophy at its best! Go read it!

At your command all things came to be: the vast expanse of interstellar space, galaxies, suns, the planets in their courses, and this fragile earth, our island home

the single image every genuinely freedom-loving american has been waiting for

oh no oh fuck they got me

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I couldn't let that Confessore piece slide. It was such a disgusting hit piece on a vulnerable community in a moment of crisis. I dissected the article and why its framings are dishonest at best and outright lies of ommission at worst. www.thedissident.news/anatomy-of-a...