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episcopal priest, phd candidate in theology, amateur interest in emergency medicine and construction technologies. wife guy to bailey.

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yes, i'm aware about the bible
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We're each of us alone, to be sure. What can you do but hold your hand out in the dark?
November 26, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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“By offering this gift, we could make a real difference in the lives of children and youth and families in Gaza and elsewhere in the Palestinian territories,” said Bishop Sally French of the Episcopal Diocese of New Jersey.
religionnews.com/2025/11/21/e...
New Jersey Episcopal diocese gives $1 million to treat Palestinian children
(RNS) — Part of a little-used fund in the Diocese of New Jersey established 100 years ago to support medical care for children will now help Palestinian youth in Gaza.
religionnews.com
November 26, 2025 at 1:30 PM
dude what if behn actually wins
November 26, 2025 at 1:21 PM
you know what’s a great pie? strawberry rhubarb
November 26, 2025 at 3:51 AM
in my own experience only, as LLMs get “better,” all I am seeing is the production of texts that are just as wrong as they ever were, in ways that are just as fatally bad, but which now appear more consistently plausible to someone who doesn’t know what they’re talking about
November 26, 2025 at 12:20 AM
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NEW: Earlier this month, I spent the day with the Luhmanns — a family rooted in theologically conservative Christianity.

In the morning, the homeschooled teenage sons tracked ICE.

In the afternoon, the mother aided an immigrant mother whose partner was deported. religionnews.com/2025/11/25/h...
How one conservative Christian family is pushing back against ICE
A coalition of activists, everyday citizens and people of faith — including theologically conservative Christians — who have pooled resources and learned new technologies to mount an effort they say i...
religionnews.com
November 25, 2025 at 11:48 PM
thanksgiving dispatch: all of the cousins, including the generally apolitical ones, are mcfreaking losing it about their health insurance premium increases
November 25, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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I refuse to create an ordinality of desserts with filling baked in a crust. They're all good.
November 25, 2025 at 9:34 PM
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Yeah, “adults start to learn less well once they become middle-aged but they’re also more stable then” is an equally valid read of the same data! But not one that folks who want to see their age as the definition of unmarked “adulthood” are as likely to choose
November 25, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Ironically as someone who loathes the rhetorical uses of “brain development” to set social policy, I am delighted by this

On account of

Of course adolescence does not last into your thirties
Adolescence lasts into 30s - new study shows four pivotal ages for your brain

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cgl6klez226o?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=rss
November 25, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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our common life depends upon each other's toil
November 25, 2025 at 6:45 PM
damn. this is good stuff
1. This is a must read Apostolic letter from Pope Leo entitled “Unitate Fidei” (The Unity of Faith)
2. I’m so hopeful in Pope Leo, and I pray for unity.

“…that we may be one.”

John 17:20-26 🫶🏼
Apostolic Letter In Unitate Fidei on the 1700th Anniversary of the Council of Nicaea (23 November 2025)
LEO XIV APOSTOLIC LETTER IN UNITATE FIDEI ON THE 1700 th ANNIVERSARY OF THE COUNCIL OF NICAEA ____________
www.vatican.va
November 25, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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A noticeable trend here: people who challenge the Trump administration are often mocked in the same way by officials — by questioning whether they hold the title given to them.

Note: Kelly is a retired Navy Captain, Black is a pastor, and Budde is a bishop.
November 25, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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It used to be the case that a mission of forming young people for leadership was understood to be exclusively aimed at boys. That's no longer true. Hegseth wants to get back something that can't be restored—the culture-wide assumption that power and influence should belong only to (white) men.
November 25, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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This is the Scout Law (say it with me!): "A Scout is trustworthy, loyal, helpful, friendly, courteous, kind, obedient, cheerful, thrifty, brave, clean and reverent." Scouting America hasn't changed its values at all. It has simply recognized that they aren't exclusively male.
Is it a 'masculine value' to melt down about some new fake shit every week?
November 25, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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BREAKING: This is huge news, the EU's equivalent of the 🇺🇸Supreme Court's 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges ruling.

🇪🇺Court of Justice just ruled all 🇪🇺countries must recognise same-sex marriages granted in other member states.

This effectively legalises gay marriage across 🇪🇺
www.reuters.com
November 25, 2025 at 10:10 AM
I did not have menswear guy doing a thread about Mere Christianity on my bingo card for this week, gotta say
November 23, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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Journalist challenge: Use “Machine Learning” when you mean machine learning and “LLM” when you mean LLM. Ditch “AI” as a catch-all term, it’s not useful for readers and it helps companies trying to confuse the public by obscuring the roles played by different technologies. 🧪
November 22, 2025 at 4:50 PM
call me a luddite, but a tool that generates "reports" full of made-up content is not "efficient" no matter how much faster or cheaper it is than having humans write... a real report
November 23, 2025 at 3:56 AM
I had an extremely well thought out career plan (law school --> air force JAG) which ended abruptly when god absolutely clotheslined me with a call to ordained ministry, initially via my youth pastor asking if I wanted her to teach me NT greek
What’s the lore behind choosing your career path ?
November 23, 2025 at 3:29 AM
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I confess to you and to the Church
November 22, 2025 at 12:40 PM
for those whose eyes have as yet been spared, it seems that "bamboo" and "harvest" are good word to put on a seven day mute. I do not know what they mean in context and very much do not wish to

please use alt text on your screenshots
November 22, 2025 at 1:41 PM
*wakes up*

*checks tl*

*mutes some words*

*checks tl*

*mutes some more words*
November 22, 2025 at 1:31 PM
what is HAPPENING
BREAKING: Marjorie Taylor Greene says she's resigning from Congress — effective January 5, 2026.
November 22, 2025 at 1:12 AM
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(That she and I may grow old together)
November 21, 2025 at 10:40 PM