Benjamin Garren
@wokehtklim.bsky.social
he/him (ish)... queer communist priest... University Chaplain not believing in the God you don't believe in either...
The issue with Inclusive Orthodoxy is that it requires minimal introspection by the cis-het population on the ramifications of the cis-het patriarchy. This is in regard to both their continued complicity to abusive systems but also how their own sense of sexuality and gender are malformed.
November 7, 2025 at 4:54 PM
The issue with Inclusive Orthodoxy is that it requires minimal introspection by the cis-het population on the ramifications of the cis-het patriarchy. This is in regard to both their continued complicity to abusive systems but also how their own sense of sexuality and gender are malformed.
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The Polari Prize has been "Paused"
August 18, 2025 at 10:39 AM
The Polari Prize has been "Paused"
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Straight person who hadn't heard of the Polari Prize until last week: the trans mob have ruined my favourite literary prize
August 18, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Straight person who hadn't heard of the Polari Prize until last week: the trans mob have ruined my favourite literary prize
The Plot of "My Brother's Name is Jessica" but about a lesbian would be: brother rejoices because his lesbian sister goes to ex-gay ministry and becomes the submissive wife to a patriarchal youth pastor all to save daddy's political career. No LGB person would value such a novel.
August 15, 2025 at 5:06 PM
The Plot of "My Brother's Name is Jessica" but about a lesbian would be: brother rejoices because his lesbian sister goes to ex-gay ministry and becomes the submissive wife to a patriarchal youth pastor all to save daddy's political career. No LGB person would value such a novel.
As a gay man who is a survivor of sexual assault and who has been assumed to be a girl or trans amidst such... I am not provided any defense that allows me to be transphobic. This is equally true for John Boyne whose transphobia is well documented and not dismissible on account of being a survivor.
Polari prize update: John Boyne has now made a statement. I'm putting it below.
August 14, 2025 at 3:14 PM
As a gay man who is a survivor of sexual assault and who has been assumed to be a girl or trans amidst such... I am not provided any defense that allows me to be transphobic. This is equally true for John Boyne whose transphobia is well documented and not dismissible on account of being a survivor.
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Keeping track of people withdrawing from the Polari Prize Longlist over the inclusion of proud self-described "TERF" John Boyne.
Let me know as we get updates on authors pulling their books in protest.
Let me know as we get updates on authors pulling their books in protest.
August 9, 2025 at 10:17 AM
Keeping track of people withdrawing from the Polari Prize Longlist over the inclusion of proud self-described "TERF" John Boyne.
Let me know as we get updates on authors pulling their books in protest.
Let me know as we get updates on authors pulling their books in protest.
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Like, surely some of y’all have known people who genuinely profess all the right political beliefs and maybe even act in pursuit of their realization and also are just mean as an absolute snake interpersonally
Surely it’s not just me
Surely it’s not just me
But I have become convinced that this isn’t the right framework, or at least not the only useful one
I find a three part framework more useful: God cares about, in alphabetical order
1. Communal-societal justice
2. Interpersonal morality
3. Worship/pious living
I find a three part framework more useful: God cares about, in alphabetical order
1. Communal-societal justice
2. Interpersonal morality
3. Worship/pious living
July 20, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Like, surely some of y’all have known people who genuinely profess all the right political beliefs and maybe even act in pursuit of their realization and also are just mean as an absolute snake interpersonally
Surely it’s not just me
Surely it’s not just me
There was not some political movement that found a charismatic leader in Trump. Trump's charisma managed to gather a base of disparate groups into a political movement. The "uniparty" creation by Musk is the first visible fracturing of this coalition.
July 7, 2025 at 7:29 PM
There was not some political movement that found a charismatic leader in Trump. Trump's charisma managed to gather a base of disparate groups into a political movement. The "uniparty" creation by Musk is the first visible fracturing of this coalition.
⚓️ Adaptions from Benson's Course of Meditations: Rogation Monday.
"If we do not utter our desires to God, we cannot be living in the fellowship of His Life, for Christ is ever speaking to God."
The goal of prayer is to bring all of our desires to God in their first articulation.
"If we do not utter our desires to God, we cannot be living in the fellowship of His Life, for Christ is ever speaking to God."
The goal of prayer is to bring all of our desires to God in their first articulation.
May 19, 2025 at 4:04 PM
⚓️ Adaptions from Benson's Course of Meditations: Rogation Monday.
"If we do not utter our desires to God, we cannot be living in the fellowship of His Life, for Christ is ever speaking to God."
The goal of prayer is to bring all of our desires to God in their first articulation.
"If we do not utter our desires to God, we cannot be living in the fellowship of His Life, for Christ is ever speaking to God."
The goal of prayer is to bring all of our desires to God in their first articulation.
⚓️ Adaptions from Benson's Course of Meditations: Easter Tuesday.
"How much of the anxiety of life would be removed if we expected our acts to prosper because of Christ's bidding, instead of letting our minds dwell upon the apparent prospects of success."
This is not a platitude.
"How much of the anxiety of life would be removed if we expected our acts to prosper because of Christ's bidding, instead of letting our minds dwell upon the apparent prospects of success."
This is not a platitude.
April 23, 2025 at 6:29 PM
⚓️ Adaptions from Benson's Course of Meditations: Easter Tuesday.
"How much of the anxiety of life would be removed if we expected our acts to prosper because of Christ's bidding, instead of letting our minds dwell upon the apparent prospects of success."
This is not a platitude.
"How much of the anxiety of life would be removed if we expected our acts to prosper because of Christ's bidding, instead of letting our minds dwell upon the apparent prospects of success."
This is not a platitude.
⚓️ Adaptions from Benson's Course of Meditations: Easter Tuesday.
"We seldom fear to be elevated by nature to things beyond ourselves. Yet such elevation is always dangerous. We fear when God, Who is a spirit, comes to us and yet unless he does come to us we must perish."
"We seldom fear to be elevated by nature to things beyond ourselves. Yet such elevation is always dangerous. We fear when God, Who is a spirit, comes to us and yet unless he does come to us we must perish."
April 22, 2025 at 4:53 PM
⚓️ Adaptions from Benson's Course of Meditations: Easter Tuesday.
"We seldom fear to be elevated by nature to things beyond ourselves. Yet such elevation is always dangerous. We fear when God, Who is a spirit, comes to us and yet unless he does come to us we must perish."
"We seldom fear to be elevated by nature to things beyond ourselves. Yet such elevation is always dangerous. We fear when God, Who is a spirit, comes to us and yet unless he does come to us we must perish."
⚓️ Adaptions from Benson's Course of Meditations: Easter Monday.
"The natural heart wonders at the risen life -- in the world and not of it -- indifference not through ignorance, but by reason of higher, truer knowledge."
There is no ignorance of suffering within the Easter Journey.
"The natural heart wonders at the risen life -- in the world and not of it -- indifference not through ignorance, but by reason of higher, truer knowledge."
There is no ignorance of suffering within the Easter Journey.
April 21, 2025 at 9:20 PM
⚓️ Adaptions from Benson's Course of Meditations: Easter Monday.
"The natural heart wonders at the risen life -- in the world and not of it -- indifference not through ignorance, but by reason of higher, truer knowledge."
There is no ignorance of suffering within the Easter Journey.
"The natural heart wonders at the risen life -- in the world and not of it -- indifference not through ignorance, but by reason of higher, truer knowledge."
There is no ignorance of suffering within the Easter Journey.
⚓️ Adaptions from Benson's Course of Meditations: Easter Even.
"The prisoners of hope worship Him with holy joy as they find the Light of His Presence filling the dark region in which they had been held."
Where are you imprisoned by hope for something greater? Where is the dark region of your life?
"The prisoners of hope worship Him with holy joy as they find the Light of His Presence filling the dark region in which they had been held."
Where are you imprisoned by hope for something greater? Where is the dark region of your life?
April 19, 2025 at 5:01 PM
⚓️ Adaptions from Benson's Course of Meditations: Easter Even.
"The prisoners of hope worship Him with holy joy as they find the Light of His Presence filling the dark region in which they had been held."
Where are you imprisoned by hope for something greater? Where is the dark region of your life?
"The prisoners of hope worship Him with holy joy as they find the Light of His Presence filling the dark region in which they had been held."
Where are you imprisoned by hope for something greater? Where is the dark region of your life?
⚓️ Adaptions from Benson's Course of Meditations: Thursday of Holy Week.
"Jesus imprisoned by our senses."
Specifically how Jesus came to be imprisoned by the Kiss of Judas, who is trying to catfish Jesus for whatever schemes Judas has going. Judas is awake and disrupts Jesus loneliness.
"Jesus imprisoned by our senses."
Specifically how Jesus came to be imprisoned by the Kiss of Judas, who is trying to catfish Jesus for whatever schemes Judas has going. Judas is awake and disrupts Jesus loneliness.
April 17, 2025 at 5:18 PM
⚓️ Adaptions from Benson's Course of Meditations: Thursday of Holy Week.
"Jesus imprisoned by our senses."
Specifically how Jesus came to be imprisoned by the Kiss of Judas, who is trying to catfish Jesus for whatever schemes Judas has going. Judas is awake and disrupts Jesus loneliness.
"Jesus imprisoned by our senses."
Specifically how Jesus came to be imprisoned by the Kiss of Judas, who is trying to catfish Jesus for whatever schemes Judas has going. Judas is awake and disrupts Jesus loneliness.
⚓️ Adaptions from Benson's Course of Meditations: Wednesday of Holy Week.
"Consider the Loneliness of a Redeemer in the consciousness of his work."
At some point Jesus has moved past the starkest point of loneliness, of desperation, of loss experienced by any human being.
"Consider the Loneliness of a Redeemer in the consciousness of his work."
At some point Jesus has moved past the starkest point of loneliness, of desperation, of loss experienced by any human being.
April 17, 2025 at 12:57 AM
⚓️ Adaptions from Benson's Course of Meditations: Wednesday of Holy Week.
"Consider the Loneliness of a Redeemer in the consciousness of his work."
At some point Jesus has moved past the starkest point of loneliness, of desperation, of loss experienced by any human being.
"Consider the Loneliness of a Redeemer in the consciousness of his work."
At some point Jesus has moved past the starkest point of loneliness, of desperation, of loss experienced by any human being.
The Margaret Thatcher Chantry Chapel of the Falkland Islands experienced an uptick in mass requests in the past months. Prayers for a return to reasoned NeoLiberal practices are now being requested from those who never thought they would remember fondly Our Iron Lady and seek out her intervention.
April 8, 2025 at 2:35 PM
The Margaret Thatcher Chantry Chapel of the Falkland Islands experienced an uptick in mass requests in the past months. Prayers for a return to reasoned NeoLiberal practices are now being requested from those who never thought they would remember fondly Our Iron Lady and seek out her intervention.
⚓️ Adaptions from Benson's Course of Meditations: Fifth Sunday In Lent.
"The mind that wills to do the will of God will recieve the illumination of God"
What causes religious authority to stumble? A certainty that they are illumined versus a longing to do the will of God.
"The mind that wills to do the will of God will recieve the illumination of God"
What causes religious authority to stumble? A certainty that they are illumined versus a longing to do the will of God.
April 6, 2025 at 5:33 PM
⚓️ Adaptions from Benson's Course of Meditations: Fifth Sunday In Lent.
"The mind that wills to do the will of God will recieve the illumination of God"
What causes religious authority to stumble? A certainty that they are illumined versus a longing to do the will of God.
"The mind that wills to do the will of God will recieve the illumination of God"
What causes religious authority to stumble? A certainty that they are illumined versus a longing to do the will of God.
Every once in a while I am in the midst of doing liturgical work and deep in the psalms and remember the OT History professor who lowered a grade on a paper because I referenced liturgical use of poetry within the OT. I was told that Hebrew Scripture has no poetry and no internal liturgy.
April 2, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Every once in a while I am in the midst of doing liturgical work and deep in the psalms and remember the OT History professor who lowered a grade on a paper because I referenced liturgical use of poetry within the OT. I was told that Hebrew Scripture has no poetry and no internal liturgy.
I pray incessantly
For the conversion
Of the prodigal son's brother.
Ever in my ear
Rings the dead warning
"This one [the prodigal] has awoken
From his life of sin.
When will the other [the brother]
Awaken
From his virtue?
-Dom Helder Camara
For the conversion
Of the prodigal son's brother.
Ever in my ear
Rings the dead warning
"This one [the prodigal] has awoken
From his life of sin.
When will the other [the brother]
Awaken
From his virtue?
-Dom Helder Camara
March 30, 2025 at 10:13 PM
I pray incessantly
For the conversion
Of the prodigal son's brother.
Ever in my ear
Rings the dead warning
"This one [the prodigal] has awoken
From his life of sin.
When will the other [the brother]
Awaken
From his virtue?
-Dom Helder Camara
For the conversion
Of the prodigal son's brother.
Ever in my ear
Rings the dead warning
"This one [the prodigal] has awoken
From his life of sin.
When will the other [the brother]
Awaken
From his virtue?
-Dom Helder Camara
An Open Letter from concerned Young Adult and Campus Ministers in the Episcopal Church. ⚓️
To our fellow Episcopalians, Christians, and all our neighbors,
As Young Adult and Campus Ministers of the Episcopal Church we are grieved to hear of the injustice perpetrated upon Mahmoud Khalil,
To our fellow Episcopalians, Christians, and all our neighbors,
As Young Adult and Campus Ministers of the Episcopal Church we are grieved to hear of the injustice perpetrated upon Mahmoud Khalil,
March 30, 2025 at 9:09 PM
An Open Letter from concerned Young Adult and Campus Ministers in the Episcopal Church. ⚓️
To our fellow Episcopalians, Christians, and all our neighbors,
As Young Adult and Campus Ministers of the Episcopal Church we are grieved to hear of the injustice perpetrated upon Mahmoud Khalil,
To our fellow Episcopalians, Christians, and all our neighbors,
As Young Adult and Campus Ministers of the Episcopal Church we are grieved to hear of the injustice perpetrated upon Mahmoud Khalil,
⚓️ Adaptions from Benson's Course of Meditations: Fourth Sunday In Lent.
"The Sea of Galilee : The Nations of the World"
Christ's miniseries are not principally in the center but at the margins. A margin expanding from the backwater of Galilee through out the nations by the backwaters.
"The Sea of Galilee : The Nations of the World"
Christ's miniseries are not principally in the center but at the margins. A margin expanding from the backwater of Galilee through out the nations by the backwaters.
March 30, 2025 at 5:46 PM
⚓️ Adaptions from Benson's Course of Meditations: Fourth Sunday In Lent.
"The Sea of Galilee : The Nations of the World"
Christ's miniseries are not principally in the center but at the margins. A margin expanding from the backwater of Galilee through out the nations by the backwaters.
"The Sea of Galilee : The Nations of the World"
Christ's miniseries are not principally in the center but at the margins. A margin expanding from the backwater of Galilee through out the nations by the backwaters.
"Persistent prayer is the refusal to live in oppression and exploitation until justice is established."
~Musa W. Dube
~Musa W. Dube
March 26, 2025 at 4:48 PM
"Persistent prayer is the refusal to live in oppression and exploitation until justice is established."
~Musa W. Dube
~Musa W. Dube
⚓️ Adaptions from Benson's Course of Meditations: Third Sunday In Lent.
We come to a moment when a demon is cast out and a man begins to speak. The way to overcome ableist readings is to name that Satan has seized the tongues of our very souls in a way more crippling than being non-verbal.
We come to a moment when a demon is cast out and a man begins to speak. The way to overcome ableist readings is to name that Satan has seized the tongues of our very souls in a way more crippling than being non-verbal.
March 26, 2025 at 4:16 PM
⚓️ Adaptions from Benson's Course of Meditations: Third Sunday In Lent.
We come to a moment when a demon is cast out and a man begins to speak. The way to overcome ableist readings is to name that Satan has seized the tongues of our very souls in a way more crippling than being non-verbal.
We come to a moment when a demon is cast out and a man begins to speak. The way to overcome ableist readings is to name that Satan has seized the tongues of our very souls in a way more crippling than being non-verbal.
⚓️ Adaptions from Benson's Course of Meditations: Second Sunday In Lent.
And behold a woman of Canaan came out of the same coasts, and cried unto Jesus, saying "have mercy on me".
Our meditation today is to have empathy with the woman of Canaan on account of our shared condition.
And behold a woman of Canaan came out of the same coasts, and cried unto Jesus, saying "have mercy on me".
Our meditation today is to have empathy with the woman of Canaan on account of our shared condition.
March 16, 2025 at 6:20 PM
⚓️ Adaptions from Benson's Course of Meditations: Second Sunday In Lent.
And behold a woman of Canaan came out of the same coasts, and cried unto Jesus, saying "have mercy on me".
Our meditation today is to have empathy with the woman of Canaan on account of our shared condition.
And behold a woman of Canaan came out of the same coasts, and cried unto Jesus, saying "have mercy on me".
Our meditation today is to have empathy with the woman of Canaan on account of our shared condition.
⚓️ Adaptions from Benson's Course of Meditations: First Tuesday In Lent.
"Religion, instead of being a life of immediate communion with God, is changed into earthly acts according to human convenience."
What is too often the questions concerning clergy and congregational leaders?
"Religion, instead of being a life of immediate communion with God, is changed into earthly acts according to human convenience."
What is too often the questions concerning clergy and congregational leaders?
March 11, 2025 at 4:32 PM
⚓️ Adaptions from Benson's Course of Meditations: First Tuesday In Lent.
"Religion, instead of being a life of immediate communion with God, is changed into earthly acts according to human convenience."
What is too often the questions concerning clergy and congregational leaders?
"Religion, instead of being a life of immediate communion with God, is changed into earthly acts according to human convenience."
What is too often the questions concerning clergy and congregational leaders?