Meredith McKay
@akidmer.bsky.social
D.Min, Director of Campus Ministry. Writing/thinking about trauma, trauma-informed care, faith, and pop culture nods to Ignatian spirituality.
Mostly responsible asthmatic. Enthusiast about most things.
She/her/hers | handle pronounced “atta kid, Mer”
Mostly responsible asthmatic. Enthusiast about most things.
She/her/hers | handle pronounced “atta kid, Mer”
Haven’t been on Bluesky in months but I’m here for my annual plea for the mayor of Spokane to call a Minnesotan to consult about winter road management, since Spokane’s current strategy leads to the morning commute taking place on a skating rink (which is preventable!!!!)
December 2, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Haven’t been on Bluesky in months but I’m here for my annual plea for the mayor of Spokane to call a Minnesotan to consult about winter road management, since Spokane’s current strategy leads to the morning commute taking place on a skating rink (which is preventable!!!!)
Feels like a good day to remind people that turning off “auto-play” on videos on social media apps is typically an option in the settings
September 11, 2025 at 1:30 AM
Feels like a good day to remind people that turning off “auto-play” on videos on social media apps is typically an option in the settings
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It is incredibly simple to acknowledge that violence in any form is awful and erodes society.
September 10, 2025 at 7:39 PM
It is incredibly simple to acknowledge that violence in any form is awful and erodes society.
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I don’t really think that there’s any difference between calling human beings “NPCs” or calling them cockroaches or “human animals” or any other classic rhetoric of dehumanization and I find it pretty worrying that people who are otherwise concerned with respectability have adopted its use
August 23, 2025 at 11:05 PM
I don’t really think that there’s any difference between calling human beings “NPCs” or calling them cockroaches or “human animals” or any other classic rhetoric of dehumanization and I find it pretty worrying that people who are otherwise concerned with respectability have adopted its use
I’m rewatching The Good Place and being reminded how incredible D’Arcy Carden is in this. Stellar work all around
August 17, 2025 at 4:58 PM
I’m rewatching The Good Place and being reminded how incredible D’Arcy Carden is in this. Stellar work all around
Someday in the not-too-distant future, I’ll need to buy a new car. It occurred to me this morning that I’ve been putting equal energy into saving for said car and hoping a new car will just magically be offered to me somehow
August 11, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Someday in the not-too-distant future, I’ll need to buy a new car. It occurred to me this morning that I’ve been putting equal energy into saving for said car and hoping a new car will just magically be offered to me somehow
Check out my video with Catholic Women Preach this week! I talk faith, fear, and confess being a well-intentioned but irritating grammar snob as a child. www.catholicwomenpreach.org/preaching/08...
Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time: Aug 10, 2025
Meredith McKay reflects on the readings for Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time. Wisdom 18:6-9 | Hebrews 11:1-2, 8-19 | Luke 12:32-48
www.catholicwomenpreach.org
August 10, 2025 at 2:22 AM
Check out my video with Catholic Women Preach this week! I talk faith, fear, and confess being a well-intentioned but irritating grammar snob as a child. www.catholicwomenpreach.org/preaching/08...
My latest on substack, addressing the super light and fun subject of good and evil. Including a good midwestern Tupperware metaphor: open.substack.com/pub/meredith...
monsters next door
on the messiness and proximity of good and evil
open.substack.com
July 30, 2025 at 4:39 AM
My latest on substack, addressing the super light and fun subject of good and evil. Including a good midwestern Tupperware metaphor: open.substack.com/pub/meredith...
“…because most of them were—and here I will use a technical term—kind of weird about women.” This piece from @mollieoreilly.bsky.social is excellent (and a far more sophisticated take than my recent substack lament about women in the CC) www.commonwealmagazine.org/pope-leo-and...
Pope Leo and Women
Instead of an assembly of men trying to come up with a theology that explains women, I want to see the Church settle on one theology for everyone.
www.commonwealmagazine.org
July 16, 2025 at 1:09 AM
“…because most of them were—and here I will use a technical term—kind of weird about women.” This piece from @mollieoreilly.bsky.social is excellent (and a far more sophisticated take than my recent substack lament about women in the CC) www.commonwealmagazine.org/pope-leo-and...
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It doesn't matter if they are ever coming for you.
It was always ever already too much that they were coming for anyone.
It was always ever already too much that they were coming for anyone.
July 10, 2025 at 12:28 AM
It doesn't matter if they are ever coming for you.
It was always ever already too much that they were coming for anyone.
It was always ever already too much that they were coming for anyone.
Absolutely stuck doomscrolling because there’s a fire weather watch, spontaneous fires, an arsonist active in my area, and the rest of the world feels literally and figuratively on fire help
July 10, 2025 at 12:18 AM
Absolutely stuck doomscrolling because there’s a fire weather watch, spontaneous fires, an arsonist active in my area, and the rest of the world feels literally and figuratively on fire help
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I’m sorry this is not an acceptable series of words
BREAKING: Massive explosion at fireworks factory in Yolo County, California.
July 2, 2025 at 2:39 AM
I’m sorry this is not an acceptable series of words
Just another day where the thought crosses my mind that the US Catholic Church missed a real marketing opportunity by not referring to Laudate Deum as “Laudatwo Si’”
July 1, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Just another day where the thought crosses my mind that the US Catholic Church missed a real marketing opportunity by not referring to Laudate Deum as “Laudatwo Si’”
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we'll give you a coupon for $50 off an adoption if you dump your boyfriend at the shelter
June 30, 2025 at 4:56 PM
we'll give you a coupon for $50 off an adoption if you dump your boyfriend at the shelter
In The Incredibles, when Frozone’s wife says “I am the greatest good you are EVER gonna get,” she is embodying the Ignatian principle of Magis. In this essay, I will…
June 26, 2025 at 7:55 PM
In The Incredibles, when Frozone’s wife says “I am the greatest good you are EVER gonna get,” she is embodying the Ignatian principle of Magis. In this essay, I will…
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In this time of unwarranted provocation and threatened retaliation, when so many of us are afraid and seeking our center; two prayers to breathe into our core:
Lord, make me an instrument of your peace:
where there is hatred, let me sow love
Icon: 'Saint Francis and Sultan Al-Kamil' Br. Bob Lentz
Lord, make me an instrument of your peace:
where there is hatred, let me sow love
Icon: 'Saint Francis and Sultan Al-Kamil' Br. Bob Lentz
June 22, 2025 at 2:37 AM
In this time of unwarranted provocation and threatened retaliation, when so many of us are afraid and seeking our center; two prayers to breathe into our core:
Lord, make me an instrument of your peace:
where there is hatred, let me sow love
Icon: 'Saint Francis and Sultan Al-Kamil' Br. Bob Lentz
Lord, make me an instrument of your peace:
where there is hatred, let me sow love
Icon: 'Saint Francis and Sultan Al-Kamil' Br. Bob Lentz
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Yes. I am right. I am seeing how Chat GPT is ruining students critical thinking and writing skills in real time. It is not the future. It is a tool designed to render the populace helpless, to make people doubt their innate intelligence, and to foster overreliance on technology.
@roxanegay.bsky.social maybe you’re right.
A new study from MIT’s Media Lab (not yet peer-reviewed & small sample size): ChatGPT May Be Eroding Critical Thinking Skills. [time.com]
June 19, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Yes. I am right. I am seeing how Chat GPT is ruining students critical thinking and writing skills in real time. It is not the future. It is a tool designed to render the populace helpless, to make people doubt their innate intelligence, and to foster overreliance on technology.
Most recent post on substack inspired by my obsession with my backyard cherry trees: meredithmckay.substack.com/p/the-parabl...
The Parable of the Cherry Trees
Fruits of the spirit (and a morning ritual in a backyard garden)
meredithmckay.substack.com
June 18, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Most recent post on substack inspired by my obsession with my backyard cherry trees: meredithmckay.substack.com/p/the-parabl...
As ever, grateful for local news coverage
Gearing up to skeet about the added item to the city council agenda approving but ending the mayor’s emergency declaration over the protests last week.
June 17, 2025 at 2:13 AM
As ever, grateful for local news coverage
Is 6pm too early to go to bed? Asking on behalf of my jet lag
June 17, 2025 at 1:07 AM
Is 6pm too early to go to bed? Asking on behalf of my jet lag
Why on earth is there so much slop out there with fake pope quotes???? And why are so many people falling for it???
June 15, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Why on earth is there so much slop out there with fake pope quotes???? And why are so many people falling for it???
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Fox hosts, parroting DHS, claimed Sen. Padilla "ran at,” "lunged at," and tried to “bum-rush” Kristi Noem. Video disproves their claims, showing Padilla standing calmly across the room asking his question as security grabs him.
June 13, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Fox hosts, parroting DHS, claimed Sen. Padilla "ran at,” "lunged at," and tried to “bum-rush” Kristi Noem. Video disproves their claims, showing Padilla standing calmly across the room asking his question as security grabs him.
