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interesting thought, maybe along these lines we could similarly bundle some streaming services together so that you had one place to watch a lot of different programming

the penne opticon

this is also consistent with my experience of preaching. the parts i am proudest of/think are the best usually go unremarked-upon, and the parts i am least sure of are the parts people always single out as meaningful. that's what the Holy Spirit looks like at work, imho.

i like to say that mercy should abound--except in the sermon editing process.

this may not be your experience, though, so if it is not helpful please do ignore it.

but ever since hearing this, it has been true in my life. the alienation is because there is something in my life or about myself that i don't feel comfortable bringing to God. but the instant i do, i find God is (still) there, and that grace (still) abounds.

so i want to be very careful in saying that i am not trying to pathologize feelings of alienation. but i once had someone tell me that the remedy for feelings of alienation was repentance, confession, absolution. i don't mean this at all to say that alienation is your *fault*...

are you saying he is bizarro rosario?

well now i kind of want to make a "baptized babies don't know ANYTHING" tee shirt

gargoyles are way less serious when you realize that their name is onomatopoeia

that is supposed to be "buttrick," sorry, just saw the typo

The last time the US Government and the Vatican had this much beef between them was Hudson Hawk.

both in your own tradition and in some others.

the two texts that i see referenced most often are craddock's _preaching_ and butteick's _homiletic: moves and structures_. however, my two cents is that books will only get you so far, and that your time may actually be better spent listening to a variety of really good preachers...

people could not even pronounce my name growing up and now there are tons of us? give me a break

my hottest lectionary take is that we should read (portions of) acts as the gospel reading in year c

tavener's funeral ikos, if it is not already on there, is not exactly season-specific

listen, the torment nexus is here to stay. do you want to be rendered obsolete by being the last person on earth who doesn't know how to obtain the minimum amount of torment from the nexus?

yeah, it was pretty egregious. literally no one had recommended self-medicating, but he sure annihilated that straw man!

that guy was wrong from the jump and then amazingly decided to just get wronger.

as a constituent and a fellow clergy person, i would just like to say that i find this a supremely embarrassing thing to say. the threatened extermination of human life is not a distraction from economic policy.

worst kind of loss in baseball

too soon!

new Dudes Rock just dropped

l: selflessness
r: selfishness
t: spiritual
b: secular

lol got em

plus serving on chapel planning teams where you planned and carried out most of the chapel services for the week, plus leading worship regularly as part of small groups that met with faculty advisors.

i went to an episcopal seminary, and i think it was technically three: one historical liturgics, one essentially liturgical theology, and one practicum. there were also a number of additional liturgics electives, plus homiletics.