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Josh Hale calls out «Éala! Éarendel engla beorhtast…»
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Are we not what we consistently love? I love: Christie + 4 Starfleet cadets, UMC pastoring, sci-fi, words, hosting meals & tending bar, Middle-earth, theology, Rice Owls, baseball (go Astros!), making music, all things British. Jesus. Coffee.
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My wife (who doesn’t skeet but you can find her on FB) & I are celebrating 21 years of marriage today! I love having our anniversary so close to Christmas (even as a clergy couple!)—I am always expecting something wonderful in my life thanks to our grace-filled marriage. Happy anniversary, Christie!
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Friends, there;s no good way to give you this news (and I still so much watt to believe it's a terrible nightmare: but it's not.) Briefly: gone now, untimely, unexpectedly, and already so very much missed: @peter.petermorwood.com www.tumblr.com/dduane/78306...
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The 'Jesus Christ Superstar' film isn't just an adaptation of a musical. It's a meta-commentary on the very act of retelling the Passion. Prepare for a rewatch.
🧵🕯️⚓📕
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“Your habits are the things that make up a good life.”
Plus, a great little sidebar on “faith is the evidence of things that are hoped for & substance of what you can’t see.”
Temple College Jazz Festival has Sean Jones as its featured performer today, & he’s supposed to be having class with the high schoolers but really he’s preaching.

“Development requires *a lot* of honesty, with yourself.”

Great music, and then there’s the wisdom.
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𝗠𝗔𝗥𝗞 𝗥𝗢𝗧𝗛𝗞𝗢, Untitled, 1970
Oil on canvas
68 × 54 in.
What is thought to be Rothko's penultimate painting before his death in 1970
© 2025 Kate Rothko Prizel and Christopher Rothko/ ARS

♥ 𝚖𝚊𝚔𝚎 𝚊 𝚝𝚊𝚡 𝚍𝚎𝚍𝚞𝚌𝚝𝚒𝚋𝚕𝚎 𝚍𝚘𝚗𝚊𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗, 𝚜𝚒𝚐𝚗 𝚞𝚙 𝚏𝚘𝚛 𝚖𝚊𝚒𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚕𝚒𝚜𝚝 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚖𝚘𝚛𝚎 𝚊𝚝 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚔 𝚒𝚗 𝚋𝚒𝚘
Think I’ve settled on a title for my dissertation whenever I actually embark on a PhD—

“Happiest Place on Earth: Disneybounding as Pilgrimage in an Advanced Stage Capitalist-Monotheist Syncretism.”

#religiousstudies #thepathismadebywalking20000steps #withachurro #whodoitalktoatcambridge
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Hi.

If you’re a religious organization that uses federal funds to do your work, but are now frozen out of using those funds, feel free to drop me a DM or, more securely, a line over Signal (in bio).

Same goes federal workers who work on/with religion, but are facing cuts.
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Jesus said, “If you continue in my word, you are truly my disciples, and you will know the truth, and the truth will make you free.” #morningprayer 📕

🔥 🔥 🔥
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Rulers of earth, give ear! Should you not justice show?
Will God your pleading hear, while crime and cruelty grow?
Do justly; love mercy; walk humbly with your God.
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A letter from the Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Texas.

“I never thought I would live in a time when the United States government would censure a bishop, jeopardize religious free speech, or threaten to take people while they attend worship.” ⚓️
Just saying I love how this bsky moment has apparently brought together several disparate moments of my personal history. Very it’s a small world moment :) 🦉
Were we on Twitter? Don’t know. But I do love all your content (like Sam loves his cookware!), so there’s that.
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From all evil and mischief;
from pride, vanity and hypocrisy;
from envy, hatred and malice;
and from all evil intent,
*good Lord, deliver us.*
daily.commonworship.com/prayers/lita...
#JustSaying
#KyrieEleison
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Roses are redde
Noble are the manatees
Yf we wante a bettir future
Teach artes & humanityes
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I’m enjoying quoting The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in worship, alongside Abp Oscar Romero &c &c, to confound my neighbors & members who are vulnerable to some cognitive dissonance in their faith & politics.
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that you may remember in truth all your sins and his unfailing mercy