Matt
@mattjulius.bsky.social
Theology // Liturgy // Church // Society//Wife
Liberal Protestant
Uniting Church in Australia
Views are my own, and do not reflect my employer, my church, or most rational human beings.
Liberal Protestant
Uniting Church in Australia
Views are my own, and do not reflect my employer, my church, or most rational human beings.
The blessing of God
whose mercies are as manna
new each morning
food for the journey.
whose mercies are as manna
new each morning
food for the journey.
December 10, 2025 at 8:33 AM
The blessing of God
whose mercies are as manna
new each morning
food for the journey.
whose mercies are as manna
new each morning
food for the journey.
Broke: worshipping the economy
Woke: worshipping God
Bespoke: worshipping the economic Trinity
Woke: worshipping God
Bespoke: worshipping the economic Trinity
December 2, 2025 at 6:39 AM
Broke: worshipping the economy
Woke: worshipping God
Bespoke: worshipping the economic Trinity
Woke: worshipping God
Bespoke: worshipping the economic Trinity
Sarah Hanson-Young on the new environmental laws, about coal and gas projects: "they'll be getting fast yeses, unless we put them in the slow lane."
Is she suggesting bureaucratic inefficiency is a deliberate policy of the Greens? +
Is she suggesting bureaucratic inefficiency is a deliberate policy of the Greens? +
November 23, 2025 at 12:40 AM
Sarah Hanson-Young on the new environmental laws, about coal and gas projects: "they'll be getting fast yeses, unless we put them in the slow lane."
Is she suggesting bureaucratic inefficiency is a deliberate policy of the Greens? +
Is she suggesting bureaucratic inefficiency is a deliberate policy of the Greens? +
Writing my newsletter for work, and honestly I think I've gotten the Hebrew and Greek to an acceptable amount.
November 20, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Writing my newsletter for work, and honestly I think I've gotten the Hebrew and Greek to an acceptable amount.
Reading Fleming Rutledge's book on the Crucifixion. Stunning. We're in the deep waters now.
Struck by the idea that what is powerful in the incarnation is not God's becoming human, but precisely God's become de-humanised.
Struck by the idea that what is powerful in the incarnation is not God's becoming human, but precisely God's become de-humanised.
November 11, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Reading Fleming Rutledge's book on the Crucifixion. Stunning. We're in the deep waters now.
Struck by the idea that what is powerful in the incarnation is not God's becoming human, but precisely God's become de-humanised.
Struck by the idea that what is powerful in the incarnation is not God's becoming human, but precisely God's become de-humanised.
Trinity — beyond the immanent / economic distinction
Christology — beyond Chalcedonian metaphysics
Anthropology — imago Christi > imago Dei
Christology — beyond Chalcedonian metaphysics
Anthropology — imago Christi > imago Dei
November 1, 2025 at 6:39 AM
Trinity — beyond the immanent / economic distinction
Christology — beyond Chalcedonian metaphysics
Anthropology — imago Christi > imago Dei
Christology — beyond Chalcedonian metaphysics
Anthropology — imago Christi > imago Dei
My wife asking if I've read a particular book.
Me: did it literally happen ... to some 19th century Germany theologian? Otherwise I probably haven't read it.
Me: did it literally happen ... to some 19th century Germany theologian? Otherwise I probably haven't read it.
November 1, 2025 at 6:25 AM
My wife asking if I've read a particular book.
Me: did it literally happen ... to some 19th century Germany theologian? Otherwise I probably haven't read it.
Me: did it literally happen ... to some 19th century Germany theologian? Otherwise I probably haven't read it.
I'm sitting in an Indian restaurant in NSW, having just followed up some work in the Wimmera, and had a call about Bendigo as I got off the train ... And I probably need to use my lunch break to make a call about my home Congregation in Northcote. It really is a funny life.
October 29, 2025 at 1:43 AM
I'm sitting in an Indian restaurant in NSW, having just followed up some work in the Wimmera, and had a call about Bendigo as I got off the train ... And I probably need to use my lunch break to make a call about my home Congregation in Northcote. It really is a funny life.
Theology is mostly about learning to have the same conversation.
October 28, 2025 at 10:11 AM
Theology is mostly about learning to have the same conversation.
The perichoretic dance of God is not the eternal dance within the Godhead, but God's eternal dance with creation itself.
October 27, 2025 at 6:48 AM
The perichoretic dance of God is not the eternal dance within the Godhead, but God's eternal dance with creation itself.
To preside is not to MC. Let the reader understand.
October 26, 2025 at 11:14 AM
To preside is not to MC. Let the reader understand.
I conceptualise my theology as being like a sourdough starter or a scoby. It's alive, it changes over time, it's shaped in new ways by what it interacts with. It functions to affect other things, rather than being the focus itself.
October 22, 2025 at 10:27 PM
I conceptualise my theology as being like a sourdough starter or a scoby. It's alive, it changes over time, it's shaped in new ways by what it interacts with. It functions to affect other things, rather than being the focus itself.
I was talking someone today about weddings, and the vow from Ruth really struck me as a perfect wedding text:
Where you go, I will go;
where you lodge, I will lodge;
your people shall be my people
and your God my God. +
Where you go, I will go;
where you lodge, I will lodge;
your people shall be my people
and your God my God. +
October 20, 2025 at 11:13 PM
I was talking someone today about weddings, and the vow from Ruth really struck me as a perfect wedding text:
Where you go, I will go;
where you lodge, I will lodge;
your people shall be my people
and your God my God. +
Where you go, I will go;
where you lodge, I will lodge;
your people shall be my people
and your God my God. +
Putting together the agenda for our next church council meeting. We've got a whole correspondence section for once — we never get mail!
October 20, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Putting together the agenda for our next church council meeting. We've got a whole correspondence section for once — we never get mail!
Diversity enables unity.
October 19, 2025 at 5:07 AM
Diversity enables unity.
I don't really know what this is, but being the chair of the church council of a liberal church in Northcote and having vegan leather blundstones just seems right ...
October 18, 2025 at 1:30 AM
I don't really know what this is, but being the chair of the church council of a liberal church in Northcote and having vegan leather blundstones just seems right ...
I swear my mate had a parable about specks and planks ... The way white people immediately turn gender politics issues into critiques of non-white cultures and communities is wild.
Of course the feminist project traverses cultures and work is urgently needed in minority culture communities. +
Of course the feminist project traverses cultures and work is urgently needed in minority culture communities. +
October 16, 2025 at 12:08 AM
I swear my mate had a parable about specks and planks ... The way white people immediately turn gender politics issues into critiques of non-white cultures and communities is wild.
Of course the feminist project traverses cultures and work is urgently needed in minority culture communities. +
Of course the feminist project traverses cultures and work is urgently needed in minority culture communities. +
It's will never not be funny how many of my friends with ADHD constantly forget to take their memory pills.
October 12, 2025 at 10:19 PM
It's will never not be funny how many of my friends with ADHD constantly forget to take their memory pills.
This is actually the bind in US politics — and why for many in the global south it's a pox on both houses.
Dems have an America First agenda too, don't get it twisted. It's just that their America First agenda is as global hegemon not isolationism. +
Dems have an America First agenda too, don't get it twisted. It's just that their America First agenda is as global hegemon not isolationism. +
“Stabilizing Argentina is ‘America First’.”
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October 11, 2025 at 12:25 AM
This is actually the bind in US politics — and why for many in the global south it's a pox on both houses.
Dems have an America First agenda too, don't get it twisted. It's just that their America First agenda is as global hegemon not isolationism. +
Dems have an America First agenda too, don't get it twisted. It's just that their America First agenda is as global hegemon not isolationism. +
I have a terrible joke about how people always rate the first few days of October out of 10.
Today's 10/10
Today's 10/10
October 9, 2025 at 11:02 PM
I have a terrible joke about how people always rate the first few days of October out of 10.
Today's 10/10
Today's 10/10
I love Michelle Bullock pressers.
Governor: rates are on hold, I don't provide forward guidance.
Q1: can we have some forward guidance?
Q2: why haven't houses gotten cheaper?
Q3: inflation is down but prices still rise, riddlee this?
Q4: any chance we can get some forward guidance?
Governor: rates are on hold, I don't provide forward guidance.
Q1: can we have some forward guidance?
Q2: why haven't houses gotten cheaper?
Q3: inflation is down but prices still rise, riddlee this?
Q4: any chance we can get some forward guidance?
September 30, 2025 at 9:09 AM
I love Michelle Bullock pressers.
Governor: rates are on hold, I don't provide forward guidance.
Q1: can we have some forward guidance?
Q2: why haven't houses gotten cheaper?
Q3: inflation is down but prices still rise, riddlee this?
Q4: any chance we can get some forward guidance?
Governor: rates are on hold, I don't provide forward guidance.
Q1: can we have some forward guidance?
Q2: why haven't houses gotten cheaper?
Q3: inflation is down but prices still rise, riddlee this?
Q4: any chance we can get some forward guidance?
Reposted by Matt
He has cast down the mighty from their thrones
September 29, 2025 at 5:33 PM
He has cast down the mighty from their thrones
Reposted by Matt
I made a meme inspired by an r/Episcopalian post. ⚓
September 29, 2025 at 7:11 PM
I made a meme inspired by an r/Episcopalian post. ⚓