Very intrigued by this conceptually (and at first thought find it very compelling!) but would also love for you to expand on this if you'd like to!—the phrasing of trans vocation in particular isn't something I'd heard before but that I think I vibe with
Tbh I think that one is a case of book-to-movie adaptation suffering, whereas the other adaptations worked much better. It struggles a lot with communicating the internal world of Snow, which is a main focus of the book and without which the story is much worse
There's no direct relationship between them that I've seen looking at different dialects. And fwiw, I pronounce cot and caught differently but say cran
This is a tough question to ask someone who is in discernment who has a background in science!! Honestly, my answer is whichever you think would be more fun to talk about because that makes it more interesting to listen to
I was among those who asked about control data so will say something to my rector on Sunday about this!
and this is why the usa will always be more american (continent) than european
OOF. Yeah, that sounds way more intense than the one I attended
I didn't even realize it was part of a denomination when I first went there and when I did, from the cursory research I did, I knew it started in California with Chuck Smith but did not know any of that 😅 Wild that he just kept trying to guess
That's absolutely wild. The Calvary Chapel I attended (for my first couple years of college) felt basically indistinguishable from a generic evangelical non-denom (which is to say, southern baptist-adjacent)
Wait what?? Did not know that Calvary Chapel had a history of a rapture prophecy and I attended a Calvary Chapel for two years (would not have if I'd known that even at the time because even evangelical me thought rapture prophecies were heresy). I would love to learn more about this!
(I am very grateful to the people who spent time archiving basically the entirety of the federal government websites prior to this administration because of the rightful concerns they'd try to take things down and/or alter them, like they have done)
Agreed that it's bullshit. If you'd like to be able to share a version of the resource that doesn't have that, my only thought is to share an archived version from before this administration (like this one: web.archive.org/web/20250119...). Just wanted to share that option even though it's not ideal
YES I would love that!
Hey, there's also two of us in discernment up in the Diocese of Albany not too far away fwiw (I'm one of them, and am always really grateful to see active trans clergy!)
Thanks! That's super interesting. Gotta see if I can find similar stats for the church at large to compare against or if no one has done that kind of surveying 😅
Would be curious if some of that data might already exist somewhere just generally without respect to growth for some of these things—would be interesting to see which show a difference and which are generally trends in the church regardless of growth
Super helpful, that was part of what I was curious about—didn't know if there was a "control" so to speak of non-growing churches/general population to see which things are unique to them vs. may be similar across the board
(just curious what granularity of data exists and to see how distinct of a difference this is, especially as an aspirant to the priesthood whose life circumstances might not allow for residential seminary 😅)
I saw in replies you're planning to publish your findings in blog post(s) at some point, so if that will come as part of that, happy to wait!
And would love a more comprehensive breakdown if you have it on residential vs. non-residential seminary, or other approved educational routes, like I know some diocese have approved alternate paths for bivocational priests
I'm curious on number 3: what is the percentage in the survey for churches that are NOT growing for full-time residential seminary?
It's been both so very long and not nearly long enough since I thought about the EvangeCube
Mostly off bluesky for Lent, but would encourage people to read this. It's about my alma mater, Texas A&M, and I share so many of Gwen's complicated feelings around it as someone who also had a fairly positive experience there as a queer/trans person
❤️ thank you for writing this
You're making me miss Lancaster; it's been too long since I've been back, gotta get down there sometime
(also not expecting actual answers to these questions unless you feel like it, mostly rhetorical and venting at the absurdity of everything Cass does and at the real harm it causes)
It's just the frustration I have at the lines they get to draw deciding what is "feminine" and "masculine" enough to be acceptable that's just absurd (what names are "boy" and "girl" names? I've met cis men and cis women with my name before, for example)
Like at some level, what counts as "social transition"? What level of gender conformity are we policing? When I was 12 and wore that tuxedo, I had never heard of trans people and wouldn't for multiple years, and even then wouldn't consider transition myself for multiple more years
It seems like she would be upset that my (evangelical, conservative) parents let me wear a tuxedo for my band concert in middle school as opposed to a black dress (a choice I made ostensibly bc the school provided the tuxedos but you had to provide your own dress and I didn't own a black dress)
That is GORGEOUS!