Every LGBTQ+ Christian I know is like a householder bringing out treasures old and new, the fullness of the tradition with the newness of ourselves, our souls and bodies which we bring fully to God The tradition lives in the living and we are equally its heirs

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“Natural beauty is not the only motivator of devotional practices at sea. Properly understood, the ocean is a terrifying and dangerous place.” Today’s essay is by William Yale. earthandaltarmag.com/posts/forms-of…

Is it just me or is seeing views making Twitter feel even more like a roiling ocean of indifference and selective outrage?

Merry Christmas everyone! Got to be a part of Christ’s being with us as subdeacon tonight

Not liking it or hating it, but a secret third thing Oh, I guess that’s just ignoring the post I don’t like

Officially halfway through CPE! Celebrating by being on call.

Made the mistake of trying to round on my hospital unit with the Chiefs game on. Much more important things afoot than a chat with the interloping chaplain

The only piece of advice to people taking GOEs that I can give as a GOE veteran is that sometimes you can do everything right and get knocked out on a technicality. IME the diocese should have your back in that scenario

Wishing @KaraNSlade a wonderful and happy birthday!

I may not have a high anthropology, but one thing that’s odd about low anthropology is the glorying in how sinful humans are, as if God gets bigger the more powerful sin is over humanity

That menswear guy Twitter keeps showing me: athletic shoes ruin classic outfits Me, wearing dress shoes as I run around the hospital, feet throbbing: Whatever you say, sir!

Spent some time with a few of my fellow Kansas Citians today

Protestant Bibles actually leave out the verse where at the Last Supper Jesus placed the bread on the disciples’ tongues except for Judas Iscariot who took it in the hand and intincted

Maybe the transfiguration isn’t about finding God on the mountaintop but going to the height and discovering that the one who has taken you with him all along is God The valley where we live our lives isn’t the arena of God’s absence, but God’s hiddenness in our midst

Inspo: I read this morning that God promised Moses at Mt. Horeb that after all his work was done, he would worship on that mountain. I expect that God works so with all of us. The wilderness we wander today will become our altar of praise before the end. Exodus 3:1-12

Inspo: Freedom never dies. It builds generation to generation - trauma’s opposite. Moses died in sight of freedom; Joshua entered it. So be strong and courageous. Meditate on it day and night and be fearless - God meditates on us. Joshua 1:1-9

Inspo: “Let the dead bury their own dead” isn’t Jesus being an edgelord for the likes. He’s setting us free from convention, from expectation and obligation to be free to serve him and all creation out of love and desire and not because we just have to #dailyoffice