Christopher Walsh
@deflatermaus.bsky.social
PhD candidate & book historian studying text, memory, & heritage @Rutgers. 🌈. Interests include Chinese history, East Asian languages, religious and theological book & print culture. Episcopal layman. Ritualist “in the modern sense of the word.”
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welcome to all the new followers and sorry in advance for all my very bad posts
the APA bishop deposed because of the Calvin Robinson saga (now in charge of a "non-geographic traditional Anglican diocese") is now posting about the guns he owns and being a "pro-gun bishop." A far cry from the days of Archbishop George Abbot.
November 27, 2025 at 1:41 PM
the APA bishop deposed because of the Calvin Robinson saga (now in charge of a "non-geographic traditional Anglican diocese") is now posting about the guns he owns and being a "pro-gun bishop." A far cry from the days of Archbishop George Abbot.
a trait I am very proud of having developed is an ability to start writing a comment on Reddit and then deleting it before I post.
November 26, 2025 at 10:09 PM
a trait I am very proud of having developed is an ability to start writing a comment on Reddit and then deleting it before I post.
A few thoughts from me about Christ's Kingdom.
See the King desired for ages
Reflections on Christ the King
open.substack.com
November 26, 2025 at 1:52 PM
A few thoughts from me about Christ's Kingdom.
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天朝物產豐盈，無所不有，原不藉外夷貨物以通有無
China is making trade impossible – Robin Harding in FT: ‘There is nothing that China wants to import, nothing it does not believe it can make better and cheaper, nothing for which it wants to rely on foreigners a single day longer than it has to.’ www.ft.com/content/f294...
www.ft.com
November 26, 2025 at 12:56 PM
天朝物產豐盈，無所不有，原不藉外夷貨物以通有無
🎶 One breaaaad, one bodddddyyy, one Lord of Allllll 🎶
November 23, 2025 at 2:31 AM
🎶 One breaaaad, one bodddddyyy, one Lord of Allllll 🎶
ok but try telling the Eastern Orthodox that the Body Wash proceeds from the Shampoo AND from the Conditioner and see where that gets you
14yo: if St Patrick was alive today, he’d probably try to explain the Trinity through men’s products that are like shampoo, conditioner, and body wash. It’s three in one and the only thing you need in the shower! Just like Jesus!
November 22, 2025 at 4:19 AM
ok but try telling the Eastern Orthodox that the Body Wash proceeds from the Shampoo AND from the Conditioner and see where that gets you
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"They are saying there is a specter, folks. Do you know that word? It's a very old fashioned word. It's a ghost. Anyway, this specter is haunting America. And it turns out the specter is called communism. Can you believe that? It's communism."
Trump in a room with a very charismatic person results in like half a day of Trump agreeing with everything that person said, so this has the potential to be very, very funny.
Trump says he’s meeting with “communist” Mamdani at the White House on Friday
November 20, 2025 at 2:13 AM
"They are saying there is a specter, folks. Do you know that word? It's a very old fashioned word. It's a ghost. Anyway, this specter is haunting America. And it turns out the specter is called communism. Can you believe that? It's communism."
I'm an Anglo-Catholic Episcopalian and not Orthodox but my anecdotal addition is there is interest in organized religion in general - my own priest has said he's talked to Gen Z folks who have said "I want a religion that asks something of me." There is a hunger for structure and meaning!
Essential reading on the state of Orthodox Christianity in America, featuring the unmatched expertise of @riccardiswartz.bsky.social
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Orthodox Church Pews Are Overflowing With Converts
www.nytimes.com
November 19, 2025 at 4:17 PM
I'm an Anglo-Catholic Episcopalian and not Orthodox but my anecdotal addition is there is interest in organized religion in general - my own priest has said he's talked to Gen Z folks who have said "I want a religion that asks something of me." There is a hunger for structure and meaning!
time well spent
reflect on same-sex relationships
November 18, 2025 at 1:34 AM
time well spent
I love this! I have been praying for a truly pocket-sized prayer book resource and this looks like it fits the bill!
We’re glad to share a new product: The Booklet of Common Prayer! It’s a passport-sized collection of prayers to take with you — fitting in your pocket, it has everything for daily prayer, seven days a week. Take the BCP (at least some of it) with you! shop.forwardmovement.org/product/2700 📕
November 17, 2025 at 6:23 PM
I love this! I have been praying for a truly pocket-sized prayer book resource and this looks like it fits the bill!
every line in this article is hilariously crazy! the last NINE popes were "globalist traitors?" Pius XI and XII??? It is so funny to watch lay Catholics become functional protestants when the Pope does something they don't like
“Pope Leo Is a Tool of Our Enemies”: Homan Leads MAGA Attacks as Hayworth, Others Pile On
It’s the latest MAGA attack on Pope Leo’s pro-immigrant stance. Disgraced border chief Tom Homan — caught taking a $50,000 bribe in a Cava takeout bag — led the charge against Leo and the bishops.
www.thelettersfromleo.com
November 15, 2025 at 11:05 PM
every line in this article is hilariously crazy! the last NINE popes were "globalist traitors?" Pius XI and XII??? It is so funny to watch lay Catholics become functional protestants when the Pope does something they don't like
chances are if you have ever seen a classic Japanese film, Tatsuya Nakadai was in it - Ran, Seven Samurai, Yojimbo! A legendary actor on the level of Toshiruo Mifune for decades.
In a 2005 interview, the actor said that in his twenties, he was carrying the load of "everyone's masterpieces." He worked closely with directors including Akira Kurosawa and Masaki Kobayashi. n.pr/4o3J8Xm
Tatsuya Nakadai, an icon of Japanese cinema, has died at 92
In a 2005 interview, the actor said that in his twenties, he was carrying the load of "everyone's masterpieces." He worked closely with directors including Akira Kurosawa and Masaki Kobayashi.
n.pr
November 13, 2025 at 1:12 AM
chances are if you have ever seen a classic Japanese film, Tatsuya Nakadai was in it - Ran, Seven Samurai, Yojimbo! A legendary actor on the level of Toshiruo Mifune for decades.
I've come back to a bit of substack writing with two recent pieces - I've written here about George Hendric Houghton, founder of New York's Church of the Transfiguration, and a leading Anglo-Catholic of the 19th century with a deep devotion to service. ⚓
"Every Inch the Christian Gentleman"
George Hendric Houghton, the Massachusetts Anglo-Catholic of Old New York
open.substack.com
November 11, 2025 at 6:12 PM
I've come back to a bit of substack writing with two recent pieces - I've written here about George Hendric Houghton, founder of New York's Church of the Transfiguration, and a leading Anglo-Catholic of the 19th century with a deep devotion to service. ⚓
I genuinely think that the right-wing's media ecosystem and their relationship to knowledge has resulted in a delusion about their actual power over narrative. They think they can just blame the Democrats and everyone will just... not be angry about not being able to buy food!
Fighting courts to cut off the grain dole is facially an insane thing for a government to do! Just begging to get blamed for an extremely destabilizing move for no benefit!
you would think this website knows about the existence of hyperbole
November 7, 2025 at 5:18 PM
I genuinely think that the right-wing's media ecosystem and their relationship to knowledge has resulted in a delusion about their actual power over narrative. They think they can just blame the Democrats and everyone will just... not be angry about not being able to buy food!
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this is the most successful a CIA officer has been at toppling a government in years.
November 5, 2025 at 1:13 AM
this is the most successful a CIA officer has been at toppling a government in years.
Pretty much, yeah.
November 4, 2025 at 2:32 AM
Pretty much, yeah.
Gotta love T. Noyes Lewis
From the Prayer Book Society of Canada: Today is All Souls’ Day (transferred from November 2). Image: “Place of Meeting,” Thomas Noyes-Lewis, 1862-1946).
A fitting image indeed for this last day of Allhallowtide with Remembrance Day next week ⚓
A fitting image indeed for this last day of Allhallowtide with Remembrance Day next week ⚓
November 3, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Gotta love T. Noyes Lewis
O Lord, thou wilt hear the desire of the meek; thou wilt strengthen their heart, thou wilt incline thy ear to do justice to the fatherless and the oppressed, so that man who is of the earth may strike terror no more.
After repeatedly requesting permission and following all the official guidelines, Catholic bishop, priests, sisters and lay people were refused permission to distribute Communion to migrants in ICE detention center, on All Saints Day. A religious freedom issue: www.ncronline.org/news/ice-aga...
ICE again prevents Chicago Catholics from bringing Eucharist to immigrant detainees
More than 2,000 faithful gathered to pray outside the Broadview ICE Detention Center Nov. 1, but the group's main request — to bring Communion to detainees — was rejected by federal immigration offici...
www.ncronline.org
November 2, 2025 at 8:57 PM
O Lord, thou wilt hear the desire of the meek; thou wilt strengthen their heart, thou wilt incline thy ear to do justice to the fatherless and the oppressed, so that man who is of the earth may strike terror no more.
lol what an incredible misreading of what I actually posted
November 2, 2025 at 8:12 PM
lol what an incredible misreading of what I actually posted
I'm a big old Anglo-Catholic and am broadly in favor of enculturation in the Episcopal Church but I would not like to see Dia de los Muertos altars in the sanctuaries of our churches. absolutely does not belong. Put it in the parish hall or the gym or the common room or wherever else.
November 2, 2025 at 6:48 PM
I'm a big old Anglo-Catholic and am broadly in favor of enculturation in the Episcopal Church but I would not like to see Dia de los Muertos altars in the sanctuaries of our churches. absolutely does not belong. Put it in the parish hall or the gym or the common room or wherever else.
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NEW from me: An Episcopal priest — a Kenyan national who works with the Texas Department of Criminal Justice — has been detained by ICE, says diocese.
The area bishop, reached via email, told me church officials still “do not know yet why he was targeted.” religionnews.com/2025/11/02/e...
The area bishop, reached via email, told me church officials still “do not know yet why he was targeted.” religionnews.com/2025/11/02/e...
Episcopal priest has been detained by ICE in Texas, says diocese
(RNS) — 'We do not know yet why he was targeted', said the Rt. Rev. C. Andrew Doyle, who leads the Diocese of Texas.
religionnews.com
November 2, 2025 at 6:29 PM
NEW from me: An Episcopal priest — a Kenyan national who works with the Texas Department of Criminal Justice — has been detained by ICE, says diocese.
The area bishop, reached via email, told me church officials still “do not know yet why he was targeted.” religionnews.com/2025/11/02/e...
The area bishop, reached via email, told me church officials still “do not know yet why he was targeted.” religionnews.com/2025/11/02/e...
Went to a book sale at the seminary of the Reformed Episcopal Church (for $1 a book, hard to pass up) and left with a variety of oddities including a translation of the Armenian liturgy, a two-volume work of the life of Cardinal Manning, and a few unusual 20th century service books.
November 1, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Went to a book sale at the seminary of the Reformed Episcopal Church (for $1 a book, hard to pass up) and left with a variety of oddities including a translation of the Armenian liturgy, a two-volume work of the life of Cardinal Manning, and a few unusual 20th century service books.
I would go so far as to say that using AI for any pastoral work is akin to the sin of the Golden Calf, or the misuse of the brass serpent the necessitated its destruction.
it is always nerve-wracking to take a position on a question not-yet-resolved, but that's the only time when taking a position can actually be meaningful, so
I think that using AI to "automate pastoral work" is an indefensible abdication of, and damning misunderstanding of, one's duty as a cleric
I think that using AI to "automate pastoral work" is an indefensible abdication of, and damning misunderstanding of, one's duty as a cleric
“AI assistants for automating pastoral work”
October 28, 2025 at 6:07 PM
I would go so far as to say that using AI for any pastoral work is akin to the sin of the Golden Calf, or the misuse of the brass serpent the necessitated its destruction.
a consequence of the aesthetic victory of the Anglo-Catholic movement in TEC is that broad church parishes that have adopted soft catholic practices often totally ignore the tradition and theology behind them or go off-piste into the realm of folk religion
October 28, 2025 at 3:28 PM
a consequence of the aesthetic victory of the Anglo-Catholic movement in TEC is that broad church parishes that have adopted soft catholic practices often totally ignore the tradition and theology behind them or go off-piste into the realm of folk religion