This is not a post about me being frustrated with my wife. This is a post about my wife being deeply and abidingly forgiving of me. FYI

You aren't responsible for what you did not do.
BUT
You actually are responsible for what you are willing to defend.

So I don't know what you're up to in your life that you're saving for a New Year's Resolution or something but like... Don't you dare wait. Life is short. Death is coming. Whatever it is...

Get out there and improve yourself.

Oh you read half a sentence in Thessalonians and so now you believe children should starve? That's not conservative Christianity. A conservative Christian would look at Jesus saying to feed people and they would do it no matter the cost because it is what was commanded by the Lord.

Those are, in short, all conservative.

That vocabulary doesn't line up with 21st century American politics. But we've been here longer than either major American political party. We've been here longer as Anglicans than the idea of the modern nation state. We don't have to use their vocabulary.

We are members of the Anglican communion and inheritors of a tradition which measures conservativism by the historical witness of scripture, adherence to the Creeds and councils of the early church, and affirmation of other historically attested positions that we do not ourselves hold.

In short, if you've made it this far, I am very tired of my colleagues referring to themselves as progressive clergy when you can sit down and ask them what they believe and they start quoting Augustine or Athanasius or Gregory or Maximus or they start talking about the Chalcedonian definition.