Marshall M.Div
@marshman503.bsky.social
Mental Health Advocate // B.A., M. Div // Randolph-Macon College, ‘19 // Union Presbyterian Seminary ‘22 // Inclusively Orthodox Episcopalian // He/Him
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Marshall M.Div
@marshman503.bsky.social
· Jul 14
Hello! My name is Marshall and I am an MLIS student online from here in Raleigh, NC! I also have an M. Div and a BA in religious studies. I’m deeply interested in all things theology but also in all things library! In my spare time, I read cookbooks like novels! Ask me anything you’d like!
Just a thread of some of my favorite religious art at the Chrysler Museum of Art in Norfolk, VA! 🕯️
February 9, 2026 at 3:19 PM
Just a thread of some of my favorite religious art at the Chrysler Museum of Art in Norfolk, VA! 🕯️
“Finally, it is not a ministry you do on your own. The Ordinal makes this clear. Ordained ministry is exercised in relationships of ordered accountability. The gospel is much too important and far too precious for anyone to think they can go it alone.” (p. 75) ⚓️
Stephen Cottrell’s “On Priesthood” is such a good book yall. I tried to finish it in January but had too much going on so now I’m on a weekend away and deeply enjoying this at a little coffee shop overlooking the water. ⚓️
February 7, 2026 at 8:34 PM
“Finally, it is not a ministry you do on your own. The Ordinal makes this clear. Ordained ministry is exercised in relationships of ordered accountability. The gospel is much too important and far too precious for anyone to think they can go it alone.” (p. 75) ⚓️
Stephen Cottrell’s “On Priesthood” is such a good book yall. I tried to finish it in January but had too much going on so now I’m on a weekend away and deeply enjoying this at a little coffee shop overlooking the water. ⚓️
February 7, 2026 at 2:24 PM
Stephen Cottrell’s “On Priesthood” is such a good book yall. I tried to finish it in January but had too much going on so now I’m on a weekend away and deeply enjoying this at a little coffee shop overlooking the water. ⚓️
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GM: Charisma check.
Mamdani: [rolls natural 20]
GM: that’s a d6 how did you
Mamdani: [direct to camera] Did you know you can check out board games at your local public library? 😊
Mamdani: [rolls natural 20]
GM: that’s a d6 how did you
Mamdani: [direct to camera] Did you know you can check out board games at your local public library? 😊
February 7, 2026 at 5:01 AM
GM: Charisma check.
Mamdani: [rolls natural 20]
GM: that’s a d6 how did you
Mamdani: [direct to camera] Did you know you can check out board games at your local public library? 😊
Mamdani: [rolls natural 20]
GM: that’s a d6 how did you
Mamdani: [direct to camera] Did you know you can check out board games at your local public library? 😊
As a transplant patient, we are told that every missed dose increase your chances of rejection double (from 1%-2% for example) every time you don’t take your daily anti-rejection meds. This will either further disable or kill this man. This is pure evil incarnate.
A man taken into custody in Rochester Thursday by federal immigration agents and now held at the Whipple Federal Building in the Twin Cities is a recent organ transplant recipient who is without his needed anti-rejection medication, state Rep. Kim Hicks tells MPR News.
Transplant recipient arrested by federal agents in Rochester needs medicine, state representative says
State Rep. Kim Hicks told MPR News she drove to the Whipple Federal Building near Ft. Snelling Thursday night to give the man his medication but authorities wouldn't take it without a doctor's note. S...
www.mprnews.org
February 7, 2026 at 1:19 AM
As a transplant patient, we are told that every missed dose increase your chances of rejection double (from 1%-2% for example) every time you don’t take your daily anti-rejection meds. This will either further disable or kill this man. This is pure evil incarnate.
So I’ve seen the Grammys stuff I care about for the most part and let me tell you, honoring Ozzy with “War Pigs” in this political climate hits so hard. Like the entire third verse being belted by Post Malone?? Absolute chills.
February 4, 2026 at 5:15 AM
So I’ve seen the Grammys stuff I care about for the most part and let me tell you, honoring Ozzy with “War Pigs” in this political climate hits so hard. Like the entire third verse being belted by Post Malone?? Absolute chills.
Biting my tongue in my library class when a student used ChatGPT for a PowerPoint presentation and was praised by the professor for using it “well” and I’m just…I’m having a time. Like…use it for whatever personal shit you want but using it in academic settings feels damnable to me.
February 2, 2026 at 11:24 PM
Biting my tongue in my library class when a student used ChatGPT for a PowerPoint presentation and was praised by the professor for using it “well” and I’m just…I’m having a time. Like…use it for whatever personal shit you want but using it in academic settings feels damnable to me.
A bag of frozen peppers and onions, a can of crushed San Marzano tomatoes, some dried oregano, and a box of pasta and you’ve got like 2 lunch/dinner meals ready to go. Throw everything but the pasta in a pan, cook it down for like 30 min, boom: Pasta sauce that’s at least 2x as good as jarred!
People sometimes respond to this discourse by sharing their easiest, cheapest cooking-at-home recipes though and I encourage this!!
no. no, we are not doing grocery vs takeout discourse again. i swear to god, i will turn this website around and give all of you something to really cry about.
February 2, 2026 at 6:44 PM
A bag of frozen peppers and onions, a can of crushed San Marzano tomatoes, some dried oregano, and a box of pasta and you’ve got like 2 lunch/dinner meals ready to go. Throw everything but the pasta in a pan, cook it down for like 30 min, boom: Pasta sauce that’s at least 2x as good as jarred!
If you’re wondering how cathartic, the opener to the record is just Sid Wilson screaming “Death” over dissonant sound from his DJ set for like a whole minute because he lost his grandfather and wasn’t able to see him before he died.
Hi I know no one here signed up for my music takes but I’ve had a rough couple weeks emotionally and Slipknot’s “Iowa” record is really getting me through it. Just thought everyone who’s not into metal should know that this album is catharsis made sound.
February 2, 2026 at 6:38 PM
If you’re wondering how cathartic, the opener to the record is just Sid Wilson screaming “Death” over dissonant sound from his DJ set for like a whole minute because he lost his grandfather and wasn’t able to see him before he died.
Hi I know no one here signed up for my music takes but I’ve had a rough couple weeks emotionally and Slipknot’s “Iowa” record is really getting me through it. Just thought everyone who’s not into metal should know that this album is catharsis made sound.
February 2, 2026 at 3:20 PM
Hi I know no one here signed up for my music takes but I’ve had a rough couple weeks emotionally and Slipknot’s “Iowa” record is really getting me through it. Just thought everyone who’s not into metal should know that this album is catharsis made sound.
The super fun battle of "Is my random desire for monastic community a calling from God, or do I need to go up on my antidepressant and call a friend?" ⚓
February 1, 2026 at 12:04 AM
The super fun battle of "Is my random desire for monastic community a calling from God, or do I need to go up on my antidepressant and call a friend?" ⚓
In this way, the librarian and the parish priest have so much in common and I truly and deeply need to write on the idea. ⚓️
“We [the librarians] know our people very well…we go to their funerals, we go to their parties. We participate with them in the ongoing journey of life” 📚
January 31, 2026 at 6:55 PM
In this way, the librarian and the parish priest have so much in common and I truly and deeply need to write on the idea. ⚓️
Just started Watching PBS’ “Free For All: The Public Library” and boy howdy I am ✨emotional✨ already
January 31, 2026 at 6:39 PM
Just started Watching PBS’ “Free For All: The Public Library” and boy howdy I am ✨emotional✨ already
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Monasticism is the opposite of this because it's the opposite of "productivity" according to the world.
This is the piece of the day - please enjoy the absolute insanity of Grindcore or How the Tech Bros like to work 9am to 9pm and fill the rest with workouts, Paleo diets and Chinese peptides. By @mshannahmurphy.bsky.social as.ft.com/r/6da0e29b-1...
Grindcore is the new hustle culture
[FREE TO READ] In Silicon Valley, long hours have fused with a monastic male wellness aesthetic
as.ft.com
January 29, 2026 at 5:55 PM
Monasticism is the opposite of this because it's the opposite of "productivity" according to the world.
Thinking about my academic libraries class focusing on things like high tech studios and engineering makerspaces rather than, idk, shit liberal arts students might need. Being a religious studies student neither the library nor career center was made for anyone other than high ROI majors.
January 26, 2026 at 11:48 PM
Thinking about my academic libraries class focusing on things like high tech studios and engineering makerspaces rather than, idk, shit liberal arts students might need. Being a religious studies student neither the library nor career center was made for anyone other than high ROI majors.
Told my mother excitedly about a restaruant in town that works on a pay-what-you-can model for breakfast and lunch 5 days a week and her response? Not joy with me. Not "wow that's so cool!" Nope. Her response was one of "well, they'll run outta money eventually"...
January 26, 2026 at 9:43 PM
Told my mother excitedly about a restaruant in town that works on a pay-what-you-can model for breakfast and lunch 5 days a week and her response? Not joy with me. Not "wow that's so cool!" Nope. Her response was one of "well, they'll run outta money eventually"...
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a really good example: Matt serves at a queer-inclusive church in Minneapolis. If you find this kind of spiritual language to be inspiring and connecting, or even makes you curious: check out a queer-affirming church!
January 25, 2026 at 11:20 PM
a really good example: Matt serves at a queer-inclusive church in Minneapolis. If you find this kind of spiritual language to be inspiring and connecting, or even makes you curious: check out a queer-affirming church!
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[spins chair around] it looks like you're trying to figure out how to say "yeah, there's a lot of jerks in here, and in our history, and we have much to atone for, but we're not all bad, and some of us are trying to work for peace and justice." and I'd like to invite yall to a queer-affirming church
January 21, 2026 at 7:31 PM
[spins chair around] it looks like you're trying to figure out how to say "yeah, there's a lot of jerks in here, and in our history, and we have much to atone for, but we're not all bad, and some of us are trying to work for peace and justice." and I'd like to invite yall to a queer-affirming church
“From that time Jesus began to proclaim, ‘Repent, for the kingdom of heaven has come near.’” (Matthew 4:17)
Just Jesus really speaking to my heart that the moment this morning. ⚓️
Just Jesus really speaking to my heart that the moment this morning. ⚓️
January 25, 2026 at 4:22 PM
“From that time Jesus began to proclaim, ‘Repent, for the kingdom of heaven has come near.’” (Matthew 4:17)
Just Jesus really speaking to my heart that the moment this morning. ⚓️
Just Jesus really speaking to my heart that the moment this morning. ⚓️
Me: Oh I’m gonna listen to a fun new band to distract myself from life!
“Loose ends / There’s never closure / Even when there is”
Anyways divorce hurts even after the paperwork is filled out and everyone leaves the courtroom…
“Loose ends / There’s never closure / Even when there is”
Anyways divorce hurts even after the paperwork is filled out and everyone leaves the courtroom…
a close up of a man 's face with tears running down his face
ALT: a close up of a man 's face with tears running down his face
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January 25, 2026 at 4:09 AM
Me: Oh I’m gonna listen to a fun new band to distract myself from life!
“Loose ends / There’s never closure / Even when there is”
Anyways divorce hurts even after the paperwork is filled out and everyone leaves the courtroom…
“Loose ends / There’s never closure / Even when there is”
Anyways divorce hurts even after the paperwork is filled out and everyone leaves the courtroom…
“Fuck it all, fuck this world! Fuck everything that you stand for!” - Slipknot
“Nazi punks, fuck off!” - Dead Kennedys
“You finally made it home, draped in the flag that you fell for. And so it goes, the ashes of the wake” - Lamb Of God
Metal and punk has plenty to say for this moment. 🤘
“Nazi punks, fuck off!” - Dead Kennedys
“You finally made it home, draped in the flag that you fell for. And so it goes, the ashes of the wake” - Lamb Of God
Metal and punk has plenty to say for this moment. 🤘
January 24, 2026 at 10:33 PM
“Fuck it all, fuck this world! Fuck everything that you stand for!” - Slipknot
“Nazi punks, fuck off!” - Dead Kennedys
“You finally made it home, draped in the flag that you fell for. And so it goes, the ashes of the wake” - Lamb Of God
Metal and punk has plenty to say for this moment. 🤘
“Nazi punks, fuck off!” - Dead Kennedys
“You finally made it home, draped in the flag that you fell for. And so it goes, the ashes of the wake” - Lamb Of God
Metal and punk has plenty to say for this moment. 🤘
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Another legal observer murdered by ICE in Minneapolis about 15 minutes ago. God damn this country.*
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* I fully mean this in the technical and theological sense.
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* I fully mean this in the technical and theological sense.
January 24, 2026 at 3:46 PM
Another legal observer murdered by ICE in Minneapolis about 15 minutes ago. God damn this country.*
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* I fully mean this in the technical and theological sense.
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* I fully mean this in the technical and theological sense.
“…people who believe in the resurrection, in God making a whole new world in which everything will be set right at last, are unstoppably motivated to work for that new world in the present.” N.T. Wright, Surprised By Hope
January 24, 2026 at 4:41 PM
“…people who believe in the resurrection, in God making a whole new world in which everything will be set right at last, are unstoppably motivated to work for that new world in the present.” N.T. Wright, Surprised By Hope
We talk about the current admin being very mob like but like…the mob had rules. It had Omertà, it had so many internal divisions. This admin wouldn’t know any of that if it bit them.
January 23, 2026 at 8:22 PM
We talk about the current admin being very mob like but like…the mob had rules. It had Omertà, it had so many internal divisions. This admin wouldn’t know any of that if it bit them.
Quoted Augustine in a post-session email to my therapist today and thought I'd share his words here as well as they are relevant to...everything: "It is unavoidable, after all, that you should be saddened; but when you feel sad, let hope console you." (Augustine, Sermons 173.3; cf. 1 Thess 4:13) 🕯️
January 20, 2026 at 3:27 PM
Quoted Augustine in a post-session email to my therapist today and thought I'd share his words here as well as they are relevant to...everything: "It is unavoidable, after all, that you should be saddened; but when you feel sad, let hope console you." (Augustine, Sermons 173.3; cf. 1 Thess 4:13) 🕯️