me about fandoms an hour ago: don’t stan anything. how do you think things got so bad me when I hear the new Amy Grant song: SEE WHAT MY QUEEN HAS DONE FOR US. DID I NOT TELL YOU SHE REIGNS. GROVEL YOU INSOLENT WORMS

Many of our leaders seemed to have been formed by the idea that their good intentions should be the measure of the ethics of their actions. I don’t think we can afford to operate by that idea anymore. +

This seems familiar

B/c boundary-less-ness cuts both ways in mission-driven orgs. It also leads to stretched thin leaders who learn to justify creative workarounds or who enjoy the ease with which they can make things happen.

Part of the problem w/episcopal hero worship built on eva celebrity culture is that we cannot envision that someone likeable, devout, & charismatic can have done good things *and also* made grave errors that might have workplace consequences. +

Another round of the worst ACNA question game: is it episcopal incompetency, bishops behaving badly, or some combo of the two? Seems like leaders being “above reproach” should be more important in a denomination that claims to value biblical authority 🧵 www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...

My youngest sister nearly died of meningitis as an 8-month-old. The meningitis vaccine had just come out, but it wasn’t yet available in our rural area. The turn against vaccines baffles and saddens me. People—children—will die who simply didn’t have to.

My 10 year old announced that he’s starting the Church Kids Resistance Movement for our congregation. From what I can tell, this is mostly elementary kids who don’t want teenagers to use their Babysitter Voice and have decided that the best solution(?) is to organize

hey @durbin.senate.gov, your phone lines aren't taking messages again, and as a constituent with a direct and immediate complaint, I think that sucks

Hi, I’m precipitous labor of a footling breech presentation

Please help this family. The father has been detained and ICE is not giving him his daily anti-seizure medication. www.zeffy.com/en-US/donati...

This story is wild to me

snakes leave behind whole skins. all manner of flying creatures, not just butterflies, do them one better, whole new selves from wriggling worms. rocks into gems. mystics die to the flesh to be reborn in the spirit. rebirth is the rule, not the stray exception, if we can grasp it

the use of these metaphors seems limited! strongly limited! when you get through tunnel to the light: what's out there? when you find the key in the drawer: do you actually want to open that door?

there's no tunnel, to be clear! nor light! these are metaphors! we could as easily say: the surface above the water; the doorknob in the darkness; the key at the bottom of the junk drawer; and so on, and so on

It is unclear why the ACNA decided to hand Bp. Dobbs the powers of an unelected archbishop amidst national scrutiny. www.acnatoo.org/acnatoo-news...

BRB naming my eccentric, inexplicable, but ultimately helpful tech company Bombadil.

Just watched the new Knives Out and I think it's really important you know that the scene in the Seminary's Gym is filmed in the same place Rick Astley filmed the music video for Never Gonna Give You Up. I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.

Fort Christmas XV, constructed by @bladebarringer.com and the kids. It’s the first time I’ve been hands off with the annual blanket fort. My stupid little back injury wouldn’t really let me bend in the way I’d have needed to bend to execute the kids’ design.

Praying all the ghosts of Christmas past are really ready to put in the work this year

NEEEEEEED

A gritty reboot of the Grinch in which he is more like Satan in Job.

My pastor’s out here pre-writing my epitaph

Panic! at the Discogenic Back Injury

According to data from @christianityon.bsky.social this is a common escape route from high control groups — “I can suffer through this, but I won’t ask my kids to, so let’s get out of here.” We talked about it some here. christianityonthespectrum.podbean.com/e/qa-autism-...

The reporting from RNS and WP is good and accurate. However, it doesn’t capture the grown-theater-kid energy that is a key ingredient in Stewart’s (and by extension, Rez’s) whole deal.

<Andrew Peterson voice> gather round, ye children, come, listen to an old,* old^ story+ *2022 ^not novel or unique, but common among others who participated +indeterminate thread about what it was like to be interviewed by the lawyer who became the expert witness for the Ruch defense

"I can't believe I feel funny after standing up", says woman with Standing Up Makes Me Feel Funny Disease

Oh I guess they had extras of Donald Trump’s name lying around to put on the Kennedy Center from all the ones they took off the Epstein files.

Reading parts of that verdict was like listening to “Your Fault” from Into the Woods.

If Stewart et al had been exonerated after a fair and thorough process, I might still have reservations (Rezervations?) about taking my own kids there but I wouldn’t be so worried for people in my community still under their care.

I also *do not want to board* a plane being built while I’m flying in it. Nope. Not how aeronautical engineering works.

I wouldn’t be much more inclined to trust an incompetent, immature doctor/lawyer/counselor/teacher than I would be to trust a malicious one. Malice is not the only way to be disqualified from a job! Not even the most common way! You can be a sincere, kind person and still be bad at your job.

Someone recently shared a new circulating letter asking the province for an audit into the provincial response. I will probably sign, but you know what? It seems pointless, because it relies on the goodwill of men who have shown themselves to be untrustworthy. +

Imagine knowing all of this and still expecting any of these ppl to talk to you or your trial. And then imagine being angry they won't or upset that they instead went public...and discounting anything they did say publicly as hearsay. +

My stakes were comparatively low, but I testified in the investigation in the condition of anonymity, only to find out after that other interviewees were asked to rank my personal credibility in a five point scale. That is not anonymity!

I promise you that dark humor was not step 1

Co-sign, while I’m signing things online. Marissa has been clear-eyed throughout this whole mess, and the book she coauthored is mandatory reading if you have any American evangelical background at all.

I am always thinking this

The kind of day where people keep saying “clown show” and I have to adjust it from “a deliberately uncomfortable performance that invites/demands audience influence; not improv/mime/standup but some overlap” to what people actually mean, which is more like “these people are incompetent.”

I read the ACNA court summary. TLDNR version Ppl at fault: -whistleblowers -survivors/advocates -bishops & others who brought presentments -prosecutor Runyan -unnamed provincial leaders Ppl not at fault: -Bp Ruch -Ecclesiastical court More thoughts here: threadreaderapp.com/thread/20011...

Is this the best time or the worst time to rewatch WAKE UP DEAD MAN

There's the part* you've braced yourself against and then there's the other part** *not guilty **the only harsh words in the verdict reserved for whistle blowers and advocates

Tis the season for me to tell people that this is by Everett Patterson, a Portland, OR artist and excellent guy www.everettpatterson.com?p=1835

cookie monster, crying, as the body of christ just crumbles and falls from his mouth

Question below for people who have now seen WAKE UP DEAD MAN:

When I meet an autist that describes themselves as high masking it often becomes increasingly more obvious over time that it is less that they are "high masking" and more that they have polite friends who have decided their eccentricities are charming.

I love everything about this conversation, and I’m especially delighted that it began with @themountaingoats.bsky.social chat

All I want for Christmas is this Advent calendar…