Me to time traveler from 2016: Sports are on 14 different streaming platforms. Them: I bet Amazon and Netflix invested in production values. Me: No, games look terrible. Them: All those extra channels means more women and bipoc broadcasters? Me: Also no. Plus it costs more. Them: goes back to 2016.

Mark [Jesus rushes around "immediately" does everything, then dies, ends on CLIFFHANGER] Luke [Jesus cinematic universe with Acts] Matthew [so much gnashing of teeth] John [Jesus, my dude, shut up every now and then] And fwiw fave non canonicals next 1/2

Wait till someone tells him even old New York was once New Amsterdam. [fwiw current Turkish administration has increasingly made life difficult for Christians, restarted worship at Hagia Sophia after it had been a museum for decades and Blue Mosque, a huge active mosque, is literally across street.]

Had a meeting canceled so was excited to dig into a project I haven't had time to do and then suddenly realized this is the Old Person version of 25-year-old me finding $20 in the pocket of an old coat. Unexpected found time is better than unexpected found money! I'm OLD.

Just a regular reminder gambling was incredibly heavily regulated for the 20th century because it corrupts everything and apparently our historically myopic society is going to learn these lessons all over again www.nbcnews.com/business/bus...

This is like saying St Patrick was sent as a missionary bishop to the Irish Free State. Turkey didn’t exist in the 3rd century as a political entity for the main reason there were no Turks there at the time. Using thaumaturge…damn, no notes, that’s a baller move.

“And unanimously has that election, and most happily has that consecration, been effected.” Journal of the 1823 General Convention of the Episcopal Church describing the election and ordination of John Ravenscroft as 1st bishop of diocese of North Carolina.

Creator of Archie comics is from town next door to mine and there’s a statue to commemorate that and…it will haunt your dreams.

WFNX 101.7 in Boston alt rock radio Hydrox cookies close 2nd

My uncle once told me no funeral and I said “What are you gonna do about it, you’ll be dead and if you haunt me I’ll go exorcist on you.” Then we laughed and I told him the funeral is also about those who grieve and love you, not just about you. So we eventually agreed to an acceptable service…

This is what happens at 6:32am and the walk is already an unacceptable two minutes late.

No coincidence that I came across the street sign for my morning walk on 4/20? #Nice #420

Me in 1997 or 1998. Jesus dressed as Jedi standing behind Philips Brooks outside of Trinity Church in Copley Square. “It’s over, Philips, I have the high ground.”

I took my mother off ventilator Jan 2021 and watched her die from the Covid that destroyed her lungs and caused her brain to swell. F**k all conspiracy a**holes everywhere who are incapable of basic human decency or doing anything that impacts your self-centered lives. We have nothing to discuss.

1 Kings 20:21 for Tanakh, Mark 2:7 for the New Testament

Was reminded of a sick burn by my grandma today. She had a minister at her church she didn't like, would refer to him as "The Twerp". Asked her once how things were going. She said "He finished his PhD". Short pause. Then she says "Guess I have to call him Dr. Twerp now." And, reader, she did.

“All we are, is dust in the wind.”

Just got my Weird Al concert tickets...as Pink says in Dazed and Confused, "Top priority of the summer." #WeirdAl #BiggerandWeirder2026

Further demonstrating the hellscape that is 2026, the first four games of the Celtics opening round playoff series are on four different viewing platforms.

What, so it’s, like, a travel book about truly awful church services he’s attended?

Had a long day of hospital visits then meeting friends for dinner. Completely forgot I was dressed as clergy, went to bar. Also forgot it was Halloween. Barman goes “Nice costume.” Not wanting to get into it, said “Thanks.” Then says “What do you actually do?” I reply, “Ah, just some clerical job.”

Remember when the cops got the Mother Emmanuel shooter Burger King on the way to jail because he’s said he was hungry? Well the racist Walmart shooter gets plea deal. America, where people who massacre black people in premeditated racist rampages get a deal but wants to execute everyone else…

Your doctor giving you good news about that biopsy result…

Ah, Marcionism, the heresy born anew in each generation.

Your annual Quasimodo Sunday reminders: 1) John’s gospel never says Thomas actually touched Jesus’ wounds; and 2) use Bible translations that say “Jewish leaders” or “authorities” otherwise you are complicit in blanket condemnation of the Jewish people for Jesus’ death. #quasimodoSunday #stthomas

To my high school physics teacher and the whole conservation of matter / matter is neither created nor destroyed thing: if that’s true then how the hell do you explain where all the dog hair in the house comes from

Greatest gif in the history of the internet dropped today. I feel accepted and seen, this woman is me in most church meetings…

Paul Avis has compelling arguments here about Nairobi-Cairo Proposals for Anglican Communion along w/ shocking historical error. He claims Episcopal Church "derives its episcopate from Scottish Episcopal Church" & by provisions of Proposal would not have “historic link with see of Canterbury." 1/4

Strong Grandpa Simpson vibes here…

All hail Pope Cletus I from the Holy See of Branson, Missouri.

The Internet can take the rest of the night off, this Flavius Claudius Julianus sick ass burn is hotter than Greek fire on a trireme

Fun facts about the Avignon Papacy: Fun Fact 1: it actually wasn't all that bad! Fun Fact 2: Avignon was not technically under the French crown at the time, which gave French kings plausible deniability for their occasional meddling. AMA about the #AvignonPapacy!

I tell my students "it's not often when studying church history comes in handy, but when it does, it's usually not good." As a reminder only reason there was an Avignon papacy is Philip IV of France had Boniface VIII murdered for opposing his efforts to tax the French church.

Describe your Bluesky account in a single image

First hike of 2026! View of Little Squam Lake from South Peak in Whitten Woods.

People often talk about sounds which have disappeared because of technology (a typewriter, a modem warble) but not other senses: for instance the weight of carrying 25 term papers in an overstuffed briefcase and pain caused grading by hand with a pen when now they're all submitted electronically.

Just wait till all the people who got Maximos the Confessor google him to find out how he got the name…

People often talk about how GenXers thought quicksand would be a lot more common danger b/c of media we consumed but less common is noting that we thought grown ups ate hasenpfeffer on a regular basis b/c of our truly prodigious Looney Tunes consumption...

No notes for Ape vs Mecha Ape summary in Spanish.

Given the bipartisan accountability we're seeing for renaming things named for Cesar Chavez b/c of sexual violence and misconduct involving children -- LET'S DO THOMAS JEFFERSON NEXT.

I don't have a joke about history, I just point out to you nearly everything you were taught was a lie shaped by the wealthy and powerful to erase the voices and experiences of the marginalized.

Anything by James Taylor Informer by Snow Arms wide open by creed Any Paul Westerberg solo work

Made the corned beef and cabbage for the ancestral feast day. Used the entire Irish Spice Rack: salt, pepper, butter. #stpatricksday

"The cause of labour is the cause of Ireland; and the cause of Ireland is the cause of labour." James Connolly, 1868-1916 God's curse upon you, Lord Trevelyan / may your great Queen Victoria rot in hell / till England & its empire answer under heaven / For the crimes they committed in Black '47

My PhD is in Patristics I HAZ LIST. Papias/Sayings of the Lord On First Principles/Origen original Greek Acts/Councils Nicaea & Constantinople (381) Gospel of Peter (I want to know what else Talking Cross Says) I read Philostorgius' Bibliotheca & weep at books he mentions we don't have. AND MORE

So the Episcopal Church Daily Office lectionary has the Joseph cycle right now. Have read Joseph story a billion times. I've seen Dreamcoat and in my youth I was in Dreamcoat. But there was one line which jumped out at me 1/4