Rev. Carson Hollis
@carsonhollis.bsky.social
Baptist pastor in the CBF | Connor’s husband | Chickpea’s (cat) dad | He/him/his
From preaching to being a protest chaplain to presiding over the Table in the most interesting of places, my first year of ministry is in the books!
December 1, 2025 at 1:11 PM
From preaching to being a protest chaplain to presiding over the Table in the most interesting of places, my first year of ministry is in the books!
One year of ordained ministry is in the books. It’s been a beautiful, humbling first year of being the Reverend Carson Hollis.
December 1, 2025 at 12:58 PM
One year of ordained ministry is in the books. It’s been a beautiful, humbling first year of being the Reverend Carson Hollis.
For the “Advent police” among us:
November 30, 2025 at 3:21 PM
For the “Advent police” among us:
Today is the Feast Day of St Andrew: Apostle, Martyr, and patron saint of Scotland! Latha fèill Anndrais sona dhuibh!
November 30, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Today is the Feast Day of St Andrew: Apostle, Martyr, and patron saint of Scotland! Latha fèill Anndrais sona dhuibh!
Yearly share.
November 30, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Yearly share.
Merry Christmas!
November 28, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Merry Christmas!
Happy Thanksgiving!
November 27, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Happy Thanksgiving!
“God’s archē [monarchy] is the rule of personhood, love, and communion, a ‘personarchy’ or ‘communionarchy.’” —Catherine Mowry LaCugna, God for Us: The Trinity and Christian Life (San Francisco: HarperCollins, 1991), 390-91
#ChristTheKingSunday
#ChristTheKingSunday
November 23, 2025 at 2:40 PM
“God’s archē [monarchy] is the rule of personhood, love, and communion, a ‘personarchy’ or ‘communionarchy.’” —Catherine Mowry LaCugna, God for Us: The Trinity and Christian Life (San Francisco: HarperCollins, 1991), 390-91
#ChristTheKingSunday
#ChristTheKingSunday
Yearly share.
November 20, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Yearly share.
I just finished the book of Malachi, which means my annual cover-to-cover Bible reading is complete! I have read all 66 books of the Protestant canon, having started on January 1st of this year. This makes something like my ninth time doing this consecutively.
November 12, 2025 at 2:58 AM
I just finished the book of Malachi, which means my annual cover-to-cover Bible reading is complete! I have read all 66 books of the Protestant canon, having started on January 1st of this year. This makes something like my ninth time doing this consecutively.
I finally have the time I need to sit down and drink a proper cuppa. Happy Friday, y’all!
November 7, 2025 at 4:47 PM
I finally have the time I need to sit down and drink a proper cuppa. Happy Friday, y’all!
Seems about right for this Queer Baptist minister!
November 4, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Seems about right for this Queer Baptist minister!
I wait all year to post this. Merry Christmas!
November 1, 2025 at 4:01 AM
I wait all year to post this. Merry Christmas!
Because of Luther’s actions taken on this day in 1517, my husband and I can be married in a church, I can be an ordained pastor, and my sisters in Christ can be clergy. For all the harms Protestantism has wrought, I’m thankful for these unique gifts Protestantism has given to the Church catholic.
October 31, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Because of Luther’s actions taken on this day in 1517, my husband and I can be married in a church, I can be an ordained pastor, and my sisters in Christ can be clergy. For all the harms Protestantism has wrought, I’m thankful for these unique gifts Protestantism has given to the Church catholic.
“Crux sola nostra teologia.” —Rev. Dr. Martin Luther, from his lectures on the Psalms | #ReformationDay
October 31, 2025 at 1:50 PM
“Crux sola nostra teologia.” —Rev. Dr. Martin Luther, from his lectures on the Psalms | #ReformationDay
“I am a Baptist, but I am more than a Baptist. All things are mine; whether Francis of Assisi, or Luther, or Knox, or Wesley; all are mine because I am Christ’s. The old Adam is a strict denominationalist; the new Adam is just a Christian.”
—Rev. Dr. Walter Rauschenbusch
—Rev. Dr. Walter Rauschenbusch
October 29, 2025 at 4:18 PM
“I am a Baptist, but I am more than a Baptist. All things are mine; whether Francis of Assisi, or Luther, or Knox, or Wesley; all are mine because I am Christ’s. The old Adam is a strict denominationalist; the new Adam is just a Christian.”
—Rev. Dr. Walter Rauschenbusch
—Rev. Dr. Walter Rauschenbusch
Blessed Reformation Sunday!
Post tenebras lux—out of darkness, light.
“For by grace you have been saved through faith; and this is not of yourselves, it is the gift of God; not a result of works, so that no one may boast!” —Ephesians 2:8-9
Post tenebras lux—out of darkness, light.
“For by grace you have been saved through faith; and this is not of yourselves, it is the gift of God; not a result of works, so that no one may boast!” —Ephesians 2:8-9
October 26, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Blessed Reformation Sunday!
Post tenebras lux—out of darkness, light.
“For by grace you have been saved through faith; and this is not of yourselves, it is the gift of God; not a result of works, so that no one may boast!” —Ephesians 2:8-9
Post tenebras lux—out of darkness, light.
“For by grace you have been saved through faith; and this is not of yourselves, it is the gift of God; not a result of works, so that no one may boast!” —Ephesians 2:8-9
This is all of my theology—all of it!—summarized in a short prayer. My commitment to Social Trinitarianism, my understanding of a Kenotic and Relational Christology, my thoughts on sin as a rupture of love, my ecclesiology which sees the Church as the (re)knitted family, all of it. Right here.
October 15, 2025 at 1:49 PM
This is all of my theology—all of it!—summarized in a short prayer. My commitment to Social Trinitarianism, my understanding of a Kenotic and Relational Christology, my thoughts on sin as a rupture of love, my ecclesiology which sees the Church as the (re)knitted family, all of it. Right here.
Happy National Coming Out Day, my friends! This gay pastor loves you—but more importantly, God loves you just as you are. God made you in all the vibrant and beautiful ways that make you “you.” Whether you’re already out or still in the closet, nothing will change that truth.
October 11, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Happy National Coming Out Day, my friends! This gay pastor loves you—but more importantly, God loves you just as you are. God made you in all the vibrant and beautiful ways that make you “you.” Whether you’re already out or still in the closet, nothing will change that truth.