Gray Robed Monk
@grayrobedmonk.bsky.social
Former gifted-and-talented seminarian. Burgeoning thousandaire. Wanderer in the spaces between the empire of capitalism and the coming economy of God.
If Jesus is Lord, then the Market God is not.
How do we report the Market God to HR?
If Jesus is Lord, then the Market God is not.
How do we report the Market God to HR?
I suppose someone could resist grace forever, but it seems implausible.
No one is so bad off that they’d fight resting into grace through all eternity, not even the devil (if there were one).
Eventually, the most obstinate will need a break and take the nap that heals them for eternity.
No one is so bad off that they’d fight resting into grace through all eternity, not even the devil (if there were one).
Eventually, the most obstinate will need a break and take the nap that heals them for eternity.
December 14, 2025 at 10:36 PM
I suppose someone could resist grace forever, but it seems implausible.
No one is so bad off that they’d fight resting into grace through all eternity, not even the devil (if there were one).
Eventually, the most obstinate will need a break and take the nap that heals them for eternity.
No one is so bad off that they’d fight resting into grace through all eternity, not even the devil (if there were one).
Eventually, the most obstinate will need a break and take the nap that heals them for eternity.
One day behind you. It’s the worst.
December 13, 2025 at 2:36 PM
One day behind you. It’s the worst.
I post this every year — for so long I’ve forgotten whose joke it is — but damnit do I love it.
December 3, 2025 at 12:02 PM
I post this every year — for so long I’ve forgotten whose joke it is — but damnit do I love it.
Reposted by Gray Robed Monk
Like a summer intern, AI is eager to impress and has a lot of potential to contribute.
It’s still wrong sometimes and has no experience of the real world, but it’s still good at what it’s good at. So as long as you don’t buy into the hype, it can be helpful now and then.
It’s still wrong sometimes and has no experience of the real world, but it’s still good at what it’s good at. So as long as you don’t buy into the hype, it can be helpful now and then.
November 26, 2025 at 4:01 AM
Like a summer intern, AI is eager to impress and has a lot of potential to contribute.
It’s still wrong sometimes and has no experience of the real world, but it’s still good at what it’s good at. So as long as you don’t buy into the hype, it can be helpful now and then.
It’s still wrong sometimes and has no experience of the real world, but it’s still good at what it’s good at. So as long as you don’t buy into the hype, it can be helpful now and then.
Oh wow. That’s a really high christology and very Lutheran! (Don’t know why I’m surprised it was so Lutheran lol!)
I could probably say all the things he said about Christ, but about God (or perhaps the Godhead, to get technical). I’d struggle to say those things about “Christ.”
I could probably say all the things he said about Christ, but about God (or perhaps the Godhead, to get technical). I’d struggle to say those things about “Christ.”
November 23, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Oh wow. That’s a really high christology and very Lutheran! (Don’t know why I’m surprised it was so Lutheran lol!)
I could probably say all the things he said about Christ, but about God (or perhaps the Godhead, to get technical). I’d struggle to say those things about “Christ.”
I could probably say all the things he said about Christ, but about God (or perhaps the Godhead, to get technical). I’d struggle to say those things about “Christ.”
Thank you, that’s helpful. Having grown evangelical/charismatic, I default to hearing “in and through” in their demeaning way. I’ll have to refresh my memory on Bonhoeffer. Maybe he’ll have a way back into that language for me.
November 23, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Thank you, that’s helpful. Having grown evangelical/charismatic, I default to hearing “in and through” in their demeaning way. I’ll have to refresh my memory on Bonhoeffer. Maybe he’ll have a way back into that language for me.
I’m getting more comfortable having a theological metaphysics these days, but not one that involves “Christ” language. I want my metaphysics to be relational and my christology low, low, low.
I’m at at the “dipping my toes in the water” stage of using “Christ” language lol.
I’m at at the “dipping my toes in the water” stage of using “Christ” language lol.
November 23, 2025 at 12:51 PM
I’m getting more comfortable having a theological metaphysics these days, but not one that involves “Christ” language. I want my metaphysics to be relational and my christology low, low, low.
I’m at at the “dipping my toes in the water” stage of using “Christ” language lol.
I’m at at the “dipping my toes in the water” stage of using “Christ” language lol.
Nothing is springing to mind that we do “in and through” another person, except *maybe* in some corporate business sense. But I still don’t think that would our first choice of language.
November 23, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Nothing is springing to mind that we do “in and through” another person, except *maybe* in some corporate business sense. But I still don’t think that would our first choice of language.
Paul’s “in and through” is just too metaphysical for me.
Or perhaps it’s attaching “Christ” language to it that’s too much for me. I have no problem with “in him we live and move and have our being” on Mars Hill. But then that isn’t Christ language there lol.
Or perhaps it’s attaching “Christ” language to it that’s too much for me. I have no problem with “in him we live and move and have our being” on Mars Hill. But then that isn’t Christ language there lol.
November 23, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Paul’s “in and through” is just too metaphysical for me.
Or perhaps it’s attaching “Christ” language to it that’s too much for me. I have no problem with “in him we live and move and have our being” on Mars Hill. But then that isn’t Christ language there lol.
Or perhaps it’s attaching “Christ” language to it that’s too much for me. I have no problem with “in him we live and move and have our being” on Mars Hill. But then that isn’t Christ language there lol.
“Beloved, let us love one another, because love is from God; everyone who loves is born of God and knows God. Whoever does not love does not know God, for God is love.”
— 1 John 4:7-8
— 1 John 4:7-8
November 23, 2025 at 3:55 AM
“Beloved, let us love one another, because love is from God; everyone who loves is born of God and knows God. Whoever does not love does not know God, for God is love.”
— 1 John 4:7-8
— 1 John 4:7-8
Selfless generosity is either a thing or it isn’t. Whichever way it goes tells us profound things about the how we should make the choices we find ourselves in front of.
If selfless generosity is a thing, we should be working to become more generous. If it’s not, who gives a damn what we do?
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If selfless generosity is a thing, we should be working to become more generous. If it’s not, who gives a damn what we do?
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November 23, 2025 at 3:55 AM
Selfless generosity is either a thing or it isn’t. Whichever way it goes tells us profound things about the how we should make the choices we find ourselves in front of.
If selfless generosity is a thing, we should be working to become more generous. If it’s not, who gives a damn what we do?
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If selfless generosity is a thing, we should be working to become more generous. If it’s not, who gives a damn what we do?
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For the theology nerds out there, this understanding of presence requires that God be passible.
To be present with someone (at least) means being with them in their pain. An impassible God can’t do that, or won’t.
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To be present with someone (at least) means being with them in their pain. An impassible God can’t do that, or won’t.
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November 23, 2025 at 3:55 AM
For the theology nerds out there, this understanding of presence requires that God be passible.
To be present with someone (at least) means being with them in their pain. An impassible God can’t do that, or won’t.
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To be present with someone (at least) means being with them in their pain. An impassible God can’t do that, or won’t.
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