I have been invited to attend the Bishop’s Commission on Ministry in April, moving on to the next step in my ordination hopes.

Pray for me, a sinner.

The best use of AI (in my view) is: “here’s a list of stuff in my fridge. Suggest a recipe using only these items”.

Episcopalian Reddit has a bunch of people just now finding out that we aren’t Congregationalists. “What do you mean my parish can’t violate the Canons? We really want to!”

I’ve taken this at least a dozen times. I think I’ve gotten Old High each time.

I’m no ethicist, but corporate-style ethics, which generally pretends to be agnostic about all but “universal human values” strikes me as historically illiterate.

Taking some mandatory AI training for my job, and apparently “promoting human values” is a principle of good AI. This has me going full Tom Holland. Where do they think these “universal human values” come from??

I and the rest of the Vestry had to push back against this in my parish. The clergy lovingly accepted our push-back, but I just can’t understand being willing to advertise one’s intent to violate the canons in the bulletin.

My Jollie Olde Christmas May have gone too far: I can’t get ‘The Boar’s Head Carol’ out of my head after singing it five times through.

3: namely English, Spanish, Greek

I’m going to sound like a crazy libertarian here (I’m not), but I think some small minority of people resent the civic value provided by churches precisely because the state isn’t providing it. Replacing church-supplied social services with tax-funded ones seems a net negative.

Sometimes I think it’s a rubric of “it was revealed to me in a dream”. Or maybe the Holy Spirit directing choices. Both equally likely, I reckon.

Cooperstown, NY

Will you be ordained to the diaconate while still in seminary? I know it varies by diocese.

One of the theological hills I will die on is that Christianity is, at root, not about how we get saved. It’s about how we respond to the fact of our salvation, which we get for free by God’s Grace.

Not to mention their cool old church. Like bro we took those over in the reign of good king Henry

Me please! About two-thirds of the way through COM.

I don’t know what a feed is, but this sounds like a thing for me (TEC)

In my experience, esp. in traditions where the creeds are not a part of regular Sunday worship, he actually *does* need to correct people about this. Maybe not within Anglicanism, but his reach is far wider than that.

It just seems like a really weird thing to get hung up on. To the extent that (a) I can’t impact it, and (b) my daily calling isn’t impacted by the answer to this question, I kinda just…don’t care?

Assuming you’re talking about TN, I think it’s partially cost of living and partially just Evangelical culture

Guys, I preached yesterday! Didn’t vomit or faint or anything.

I still haven’t recovered from Father Brown wearing a maniple as a stole, over a surplice.

The Episcopal discernment process be like:

It’s a shame, and I think driven by our image of ourselves as a place for disaffected RCs and Evangelicals.

Among growing parishes, very little of the growth is from previously un-Christian people.

Had to do the Morning Prayer podcast today because my dog got sprayed by a skunk and needed an immediate bath.

Ora et labora et odor-a.

And I know brown shoes aren’t entirely kosher, but what can I say? I’m something of an ecclesiastical bad boy

Pumpkin socks + not sweating in my cassock. It’s fall y’all!

Do you think this whole Tommy Tuberville thing is just revenge on regular folks who think they know something about football?