John Wakefield
@fthrjohn.com
Episcopal priest now in South Haven, MI, USA. 📕 YSR. 3x Girldad. Ex-sportswriter. Leeds United fan. LOTR & Narnia, of course. STL-SEA-CLT. fthrjohn.com
Find me in real life at @epiphanysouthhaven.org.
Find me in real life at @epiphanysouthhaven.org.
One hour left to go, but we’ve been driving in the snow for three hours. At least the Midwest knows how to handle ice…. Only one truck in the ditch so far.
a jeep is driving down a snow covered road .
ALT: a jeep is driving down a snow covered road .
media.tenor.com
November 29, 2025 at 4:03 PM
One hour left to go, but we’ve been driving in the snow for three hours. At least the Midwest knows how to handle ice…. Only one truck in the ditch so far.
Leaving our Tennessee Thanksgiving early today to make sure we’re back in Michigan for Advent 1 on Sunday. We’re projected to get 8-11 inches of snow this weekend.
Prayers for safe driving welcome. 📕
Prayers for safe driving welcome. 📕
A lot of snow, rain and cold weather await travelers for the rest of the Thanksgiving holiday weekend, with winter storm warnings posted Friday across the northern part of the country and more snow falling over the Great Lakes region. https://to.pbs.org/4irQW3F
Storm warnings stretch across northern U.S., bringing wintry and risky conditions
A lot of snow, rain and cold weather await travelers for the rest of the Thanksgiving holiday weekend, with winter storm warnings posted Friday across the northern part of the country and more snow fa...
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November 28, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Leaving our Tennessee Thanksgiving early today to make sure we’re back in Michigan for Advent 1 on Sunday. We’re projected to get 8-11 inches of snow this weekend.
Prayers for safe driving welcome. 📕
Prayers for safe driving welcome. 📕
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Elon Musk and the Trump administration gleefully shutting down USAID “has already caused the deaths of six hundred thousand people, two-thirds of them children.”
People throw around terms like genocide quite freely online but it’s hard to find other words to describe this level of man-made death.
People throw around terms like genocide quite freely online but it’s hard to find other words to describe this level of man-made death.
USAID shutdown has led to hundreds of thousands of deaths | Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
The Trump administration’s decision to shut down the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has resulted in hundreds of thousands of deaths from infectious diseases and malnutrition, accord...
hsph.harvard.edu
November 28, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Elon Musk and the Trump administration gleefully shutting down USAID “has already caused the deaths of six hundred thousand people, two-thirds of them children.”
People throw around terms like genocide quite freely online but it’s hard to find other words to describe this level of man-made death.
People throw around terms like genocide quite freely online but it’s hard to find other words to describe this level of man-made death.
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Hobby Lobby Evangelicalism has broken containment (laudatory)
November 28, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Hobby Lobby Evangelicalism has broken containment (laudatory)
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you’ve seen:
1. Jonsi
2. The Head and the Heart
3. Mumford and Sons
4. K’naan
5. Josh Garrels
(Plus endless 90’s Christian bands) 😂
1. Jonsi
2. The Head and the Heart
3. Mumford and Sons
4. K’naan
5. Josh Garrels
(Plus endless 90’s Christian bands) 😂
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you’ve seen:
1. Plains (Katie Crutchfield)
2. Patty Griffin
3. Celine Dion
4. Coheed & Cambria
5. Lady Gaga
1. Plains (Katie Crutchfield)
2. Patty Griffin
3. Celine Dion
4. Coheed & Cambria
5. Lady Gaga
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you’ve seen:
1. Sara Bareilles
2. Madonna
3. Kylie Minogue
4. Beyoncé
5. Lady Gaga
1. Sara Bareilles
2. Madonna
3. Kylie Minogue
4. Beyoncé
5. Lady Gaga
November 28, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you’ve seen:
1. Jonsi
2. The Head and the Heart
3. Mumford and Sons
4. K’naan
5. Josh Garrels
(Plus endless 90’s Christian bands) 😂
1. Jonsi
2. The Head and the Heart
3. Mumford and Sons
4. K’naan
5. Josh Garrels
(Plus endless 90’s Christian bands) 😂
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November 28, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Reposted by John Wakefield
I don’t think you understand how hard it is to explain to two very uninterested kids how important it is for mom and dad to see Long Island’s own Busta Rhymes perform with the Ninja Turtles at the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade
November 27, 2025 at 4:50 PM
I don’t think you understand how hard it is to explain to two very uninterested kids how important it is for mom and dad to see Long Island’s own Busta Rhymes perform with the Ninja Turtles at the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade
🙋♂️
Shoutout to all the clergy out there who serve as their family’s “Designated Prayer” on Thanksgiving.
November 27, 2025 at 10:12 PM
🙋♂️
I have a 30+ year history with this game, even went to it with Abbey back in 2012, but living in Michigan again, the Thanksgiving Lions loss tradition still hurts too much. Should’ve gone with the Dog Show.
a lion cub from the movie the lion king looking sad
ALT: a lion cub from the movie the lion king looking sad
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November 27, 2025 at 9:17 PM
I have a 30+ year history with this game, even went to it with Abbey back in 2012, but living in Michigan again, the Thanksgiving Lions loss tradition still hurts too much. Should’ve gone with the Dog Show.
This morning, Macy’s gave us Busta Rhymes and the Ninja Turtles, followed by Lil Jon and Toys R Us. I feel specifically targeted here. 😂 Happy Thanksgiving!
November 27, 2025 at 4:59 PM
This morning, Macy’s gave us Busta Rhymes and the Ninja Turtles, followed by Lil Jon and Toys R Us. I feel specifically targeted here. 😂 Happy Thanksgiving!
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NEW: The first two years of Massachusetts' millionaire tax has raised $3 billion more than expected.
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
Millionaire Tax That Inspired Mamdani Fuels $5.7 Billion Haul in Massachusetts
A millionaire levy in Massachusetts that New York City mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani holds up as a model for taxing the rich has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing...
www.bloomberg.com
November 12, 2025 at 4:01 PM
NEW: The first two years of Massachusetts' millionaire tax has raised $3 billion more than expected.
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
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"The moral pretenses of Imperial Rome, the millennial claims of Nazism, the arrogance of Marxist dogma, the anxious insistence that America be "number one" among nations are all versions of Babylon's idolatry...."
November 26, 2025 at 12:21 AM
"The moral pretenses of Imperial Rome, the millennial claims of Nazism, the arrogance of Marxist dogma, the anxious insistence that America be "number one" among nations are all versions of Babylon's idolatry...."
My new team, the Detroit Tigers, hosts my childhood team, the St. Louis Cardinals, on MLB Opening Day this year. Very excited… until I saw Opening Day is also Good Friday.
I’m a little busy. ⚾️ 📕 #clergyproblems
I’m a little busy. ⚾️ 📕 #clergyproblems
November 24, 2025 at 11:49 PM
My new team, the Detroit Tigers, hosts my childhood team, the St. Louis Cardinals, on MLB Opening Day this year. Very excited… until I saw Opening Day is also Good Friday.
I’m a little busy. ⚾️ 📕 #clergyproblems
I’m a little busy. ⚾️ 📕 #clergyproblems
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Again, the existential question hanging over the AI boom — which makes the biggest deal out of generative AI instead of, say, medical uses — has been: why are we pouring so much money into this?
Musk’s answer here seems to be, at least partially, something like “to degrade your friends at parties.”
Musk’s answer here seems to be, at least partially, something like “to degrade your friends at parties.”
Everything about this might be the saddest thing I’ve ever seen
November 24, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Again, the existential question hanging over the AI boom — which makes the biggest deal out of generative AI instead of, say, medical uses — has been: why are we pouring so much money into this?
Musk’s answer here seems to be, at least partially, something like “to degrade your friends at parties.”
Musk’s answer here seems to be, at least partially, something like “to degrade your friends at parties.”
The reality of having Leeds United back in the Premier League is somewhat bleak… I have to cheer for teams like Chelsea to stomp teams like Burnley just so that Leeds can stay up. It feels like betraying my underdog morals on a weekly basis. 🤷♂️ #mot
a soccer player wearing a white shirt with srotop written on it
ALT: a soccer player wearing a white shirt with srotop written on it
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November 22, 2025 at 1:53 PM
The reality of having Leeds United back in the Premier League is somewhat bleak… I have to cheer for teams like Chelsea to stomp teams like Burnley just so that Leeds can stay up. It feels like betraying my underdog morals on a weekly basis. 🤷♂️ #mot
November 20, 2025 at 1:22 PM
We saw our old stomping grounds on TV tonight, not a joyful thing for us. Stand strong, Charlotte: the eye of Sauron will inevitably turn its gaze elsewhere soon. 🙏 #mustertherohirrim
November 18, 2025 at 3:40 AM
We saw our old stomping grounds on TV tonight, not a joyful thing for us. Stand strong, Charlotte: the eye of Sauron will inevitably turn its gaze elsewhere soon. 🙏 #mustertherohirrim
This is domestic terrorism.
Brian Krassenstein
A Charlotte man was stopped twice by ICE. The first group checked his ID and let him go. Minutes later, another set of agents rolled up, smashed his window, dragged him out, and assaulted him
He was a U.S. citizen…
A Charlotte man was stopped twice by ICE. The first group checked his ID and let him go. Minutes later, another set of agents rolled up, smashed his window, dragged him out, and assaulted him
He was a U.S. citizen…
November 16, 2025 at 3:30 AM
This is domestic terrorism.
Charlie the church dog, now officially in residence. Welcomed to the family on October 27, already runs the Church of the Epiphany as of November 5.
📕 ⚓️ #dogsofbluesky
📕 ⚓️ #dogsofbluesky
November 6, 2025 at 1:15 AM
Charlie the church dog, now officially in residence. Welcomed to the family on October 27, already runs the Church of the Epiphany as of November 5.
📕 ⚓️ #dogsofbluesky
📕 ⚓️ #dogsofbluesky
Preached yesterday about how even the most outcast of the outcasts (and even the rich!) can respond to Christ’s love… by feeding the poor.
⚓️ 📕 www.witnesstolight.com/awlwus/
⚓️ 📕 www.witnesstolight.com/awlwus/
A Wee, Little, Wealthy, Unlikely Saint
St. Zacchaeus saw Jesus coming, ran toward him, climbed a tree to see him, and then gave what he could give so that he could walk in the way of love.
www.witnesstolight.com
November 3, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Preached yesterday about how even the most outcast of the outcasts (and even the rich!) can respond to Christ’s love… by feeding the poor.
⚓️ 📕 www.witnesstolight.com/awlwus/
⚓️ 📕 www.witnesstolight.com/awlwus/
Just had a beautiful afternoon service at @epiphanysouthhaven.org called “Claiming the Unclaimed,” where we honor those left behind at our local funeral home. Ten souls honored today, 24 in attendance.
For Wanda, Thomas, Phyllis, Robert, Carlin, Polly, Joseph, Edward, Timothy, and Luis, we pray. 📕
For Wanda, Thomas, Phyllis, Robert, Carlin, Polly, Joseph, Edward, Timothy, and Luis, we pray. 📕
November 1, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Just had a beautiful afternoon service at @epiphanysouthhaven.org called “Claiming the Unclaimed,” where we honor those left behind at our local funeral home. Ten souls honored today, 24 in attendance.
For Wanda, Thomas, Phyllis, Robert, Carlin, Polly, Joseph, Edward, Timothy, and Luis, we pray. 📕
For Wanda, Thomas, Phyllis, Robert, Carlin, Polly, Joseph, Edward, Timothy, and Luis, we pray. 📕
Got to experience my own church as a “visitor” today because we had a guest preacher/presider… I wore a St. Louis Blues sweatshirt and old jeans. Whole experience is highly recommended if you can swing it.
So, so thankful I get to do this work in this place. 📕 @epiphanysouthhaven.org
So, so thankful I get to do this work in this place. 📕 @epiphanysouthhaven.org
October 27, 2025 at 2:35 AM
Got to experience my own church as a “visitor” today because we had a guest preacher/presider… I wore a St. Louis Blues sweatshirt and old jeans. Whole experience is highly recommended if you can swing it.
So, so thankful I get to do this work in this place. 📕 @epiphanysouthhaven.org
So, so thankful I get to do this work in this place. 📕 @epiphanysouthhaven.org
Privileged to hear Presiding Bishop Sean Rowe speak at our diocesan convention today. When asked for parting advice, he simply said, “I’m not the first to say it, but seek first the kingdom… and all the other things will come.” About cried. Really, really great.
📕 @greatlakesepisco.bsky.social
📕 @greatlakesepisco.bsky.social
October 25, 2025 at 2:42 AM
Privileged to hear Presiding Bishop Sean Rowe speak at our diocesan convention today. When asked for parting advice, he simply said, “I’m not the first to say it, but seek first the kingdom… and all the other things will come.” About cried. Really, really great.
📕 @greatlakesepisco.bsky.social
📕 @greatlakesepisco.bsky.social