Cameron Nations
@cameronandsurplice.com
Canon for Vocations, Episcopal Diocese of Alabama. My church job is to think about church jobs.
Writer. Reader. Cajun/creole food eater. Find me at theparochialreport.substack.com.
Writer. Reader. Cajun/creole food eater. Find me at theparochialreport.substack.com.
Inspired by something @scottagunn.bsky.social posted this summer, I finally finished writing this piece about why vitality in the #Episcopal Church might lie in living more fully into the wisdom of our canons, not less: open.substack.com/pub/theparoc...
All Are Called: Our Canons Are Clear, But Are We?
What would it look like for the Episcopal Church to live more fully into its own canons around vocational discernment? Is it even possible?
open.substack.com
September 8, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Inspired by something @scottagunn.bsky.social posted this summer, I finally finished writing this piece about why vitality in the #Episcopal Church might lie in living more fully into the wisdom of our canons, not less: open.substack.com/pub/theparoc...
Our 4 yr old started school last week at the cathedral school across from the diocesan offices. Today was their first chapel— basically a choral Morning Prayer service— and it was so lovely. What a great way to punctuate the week.
August 20, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Our 4 yr old started school last week at the cathedral school across from the diocesan offices. Today was their first chapel— basically a choral Morning Prayer service— and it was so lovely. What a great way to punctuate the week.
Been writing a lot on Substack this summer, but haven’t actually published much.
I’m making it a personal goal to change that this week!
I’m making it a personal goal to change that this week!
August 20, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Been writing a lot on Substack this summer, but haven’t actually published much.
I’m making it a personal goal to change that this week!
I’m making it a personal goal to change that this week!
I'm afraid (and rather disappointed) that I'm going to have to keep posting this, but just a reminder that cruelty is *always* a choice.
July 2, 2025 at 2:55 AM
I'm afraid (and rather disappointed) that I'm going to have to keep posting this, but just a reminder that cruelty is *always* a choice.
AND HE IS AMERICAN?
!!!!!!!! I was on a phone can and they choose a pope while I’m not paying attention!?????
May 8, 2025 at 5:57 PM
AND HE IS AMERICAN?
OK new pope seems to be the catalyst for me to actually post on social media again. Here we goooooo
May 8, 2025 at 5:57 PM
OK new pope seems to be the catalyst for me to actually post on social media again. Here we goooooo
Reposted by Cameron Nations
Big 10 expansion is outta control
The new Pope is an American (from Chicago), Robert Francis Prevost
May 8, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Big 10 expansion is outta control
!!!!!!!! I was on a phone can and they choose a pope while I’m not paying attention!?????
BREAKING NEWS: White smoke streams from a chimney atop the Sistine Chapel, signaling to the world that a new pope has been selected.
Holy white smoke, we have a new pope!
White smoke streamed from a chimney atop the Sistine Chapel, signaling to the world that the 133 cardinals inside have elected a new pope. But we don't yet know his identity.
www.npr.org
May 8, 2025 at 5:55 PM
!!!!!!!! I was on a phone can and they choose a pope while I’m not paying attention!?????
Oh gosh I had temporarily forgotten about this. Hosting the World Cup while we are alienating the whole world will be… interesting.
lol we’re really gonna host the World Cup next year
AP: Preliminary figures released Tuesday show visits to the U.S. from overseas fell 11.6% last month compared w/ the prev year.
Tourism was projected to rise by 9%, but is now anticipated to fall by roughly that same amount.
Bookings for US travel at a top Canadian site are down 40%.
Tourism was projected to rise by 9%, but is now anticipated to fall by roughly that same amount.
Bookings for US travel at a top Canadian site are down 40%.
April 8, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Oh gosh I had temporarily forgotten about this. Hosting the World Cup while we are alienating the whole world will be… interesting.
This is just insane
Aren't you tired of how central money is to our democracy?
To give a sense of out-of-kilter we are, a single state court race saw significantly more spending than the entire United Kingdom national election.
Thanks John Roberts!
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-bigges...
To give a sense of out-of-kilter we are, a single state court race saw significantly more spending than the entire United Kingdom national election.
Thanks John Roberts!
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-bigges...
April 2, 2025 at 2:59 AM
This is just insane
I mean this is the thing, isn't it? So many folks were already under the impression things were on fire (remember how many folks thought we were in a recession?) that the perspective of our reality is skewed in ways that change how the current administration's actions are understood.
The WSJ talked with Trump voters who see declines in their retirement accounts, but dismiss it in part because they believed the economy was bad before. One “said he wouldn’t be concerned even if the market continued to tumble through the summer.”
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
Meet the Trump Voters Downplaying Hits to Their 401(k)s
Major stock indexes have logged their worst start to a presidential term since 2009.
www.wsj.com
March 12, 2025 at 8:31 PM
I mean this is the thing, isn't it? So many folks were already under the impression things were on fire (remember how many folks thought we were in a recession?) that the perspective of our reality is skewed in ways that change how the current administration's actions are understood.
Man. Francis Collins is a person of deep faith and integrity. Would have loved for him to go out under better circumstances, celebrated in the way he deserves.
Dr. Frances Collins is leaving the National Institutes of Health, where he served as director from 2009 to 2021. The agency is facing cutbacks and restrictions under the Trump administration.
Legendary former NIH director retires from embattled agency
Dr. Francis Collins is leaving the National Institutes of Health, where he served as director from 2009 to 2021. The agency is facing cutbacks and restrictions under the Trump administration.
www.npr.org
March 3, 2025 at 1:17 AM
Man. Francis Collins is a person of deep faith and integrity. Would have loved for him to go out under better circumstances, celebrated in the way he deserves.
IT’S RACE DAY 🏁
Something I’m personally excited about: @indycar.com returns this weekend at St. Pete! New season, new broadcast partner, and the great @willbuxton.bsky.social in the booth. Can’t wait for Sunday’s race.
March 2, 2025 at 5:19 PM
IT’S RACE DAY 🏁
Need more grace in your life? Me too. That’s why I’m looking forward to #AshWednesday and the start of #Lent this week.
open.substack.com/pub/theparoc...
open.substack.com/pub/theparoc...
Trading Masks for Ashes
Tired of pretending that you have it all together? Me too. Good news: we’re heading into the most honest and liberating season of the year.
open.substack.com
March 2, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Need more grace in your life? Me too. That’s why I’m looking forward to #AshWednesday and the start of #Lent this week.
open.substack.com/pub/theparoc...
open.substack.com/pub/theparoc...
Something I’m personally excited about: @indycar.com returns this weekend at St. Pete! New season, new broadcast partner, and the great @willbuxton.bsky.social in the booth. Can’t wait for Sunday’s race.
March 1, 2025 at 2:35 AM
Something I’m personally excited about: @indycar.com returns this weekend at St. Pete! New season, new broadcast partner, and the great @willbuxton.bsky.social in the booth. Can’t wait for Sunday’s race.
Spent the last few days in Kansas City with hundreds of other Episcopalians for the Episcopal Parish Network conference, and even had the privilege of helping lead one of the workshops. It was a time of reunion, inspiration, and renewal— a much-needed dose of hope!
March 1, 2025 at 12:46 AM
Spent the last few days in Kansas City with hundreds of other Episcopalians for the Episcopal Parish Network conference, and even had the privilege of helping lead one of the workshops. It was a time of reunion, inspiration, and renewal— a much-needed dose of hope!
It also seems I should add “publicly funded medical research,” “our allies,” and “democracy” to the list of things I want to state emphatically I believe are good and “siding with/ceding power to our enemies” to the list of things that are bad. Sheesh.
So for my first post here I want to state emphatically that empathy is good, nazi salutes are bad, and that kindness, compassion, and mercy are *always* options. Cruelty is always a choice.
March 1, 2025 at 12:27 AM
It also seems I should add “publicly funded medical research,” “our allies,” and “democracy” to the list of things I want to state emphatically I believe are good and “siding with/ceding power to our enemies” to the list of things that are bad. Sheesh.
Reposted by Cameron Nations
By @katherinejwu.com
"The NIH... supported 99 percent of the drugs approved in the U.S. from 2010 to 2019. The agency has had a hand in “nearly all of our major medical breakthroughs over the past several decades,”
The NIH is in a struggle for its (and our) lives. This is existential to America:
"The NIH... supported 99 percent of the drugs approved in the U.S. from 2010 to 2019. The agency has had a hand in “nearly all of our major medical breakthroughs over the past several decades,”
The NIH is in a struggle for its (and our) lives. This is existential to America:
Inside the Collapse at NIH
Administration officials pressured NIH to avoid clear advice from the agency’s own lawyers to restart grant funding now.
www.theatlantic.com
February 27, 2025 at 5:29 PM
By @katherinejwu.com
"The NIH... supported 99 percent of the drugs approved in the U.S. from 2010 to 2019. The agency has had a hand in “nearly all of our major medical breakthroughs over the past several decades,”
The NIH is in a struggle for its (and our) lives. This is existential to America:
"The NIH... supported 99 percent of the drugs approved in the U.S. from 2010 to 2019. The agency has had a hand in “nearly all of our major medical breakthroughs over the past several decades,”
The NIH is in a struggle for its (and our) lives. This is existential to America:
So for my first post here I want to state emphatically that empathy is good, nazi salutes are bad, and that kindness, compassion, and mercy are *always* options. Cruelty is always a choice.
January 24, 2025 at 11:27 PM
So for my first post here I want to state emphatically that empathy is good, nazi salutes are bad, and that kindness, compassion, and mercy are *always* options. Cruelty is always a choice.