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Orthodox Christian. MDiv&ThM. Writes theology of disability & Accessible Church School curricula. Senior editor @ParkEndBooks #ActuallyAutistic
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Much as I love secluded saints on holy mountains, I think we need the examples and wisdom of sea level saints these days. Scrappy salty fisherfolk, moms and dads, people who can’t afford to go to the doctor, people who care and don’t have the answers but know God, know prayer.
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St. John Chrysostom said that if you can't find Christ in the beggar at the door, you won't find Him in the chalice. I want to add to that.
If you can't find Christ in the person who needs to rock on the floor/make noises to stay in church, you won't see Christ in the chalice.
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Back in 2007, I TAed Dr. Emmanuel Katongole's course on the Rwandan Genocide. Every session, a student would try to argue that the genocide couldn't have happened if only there had been an *authentic* Christianity among the Hutu who killed the Tutsi ...
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Imagine trying to LARP late medieval Christianity but leaving out the Abbesses and queens. It’s almost like these arguments from “tradition” are ahistorical, or based on 1980s Focus on the Family pamphlets instead of the wide range of historical Christian women saints.
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I wish more Christians saw literature as a way to learn about the richness of the world, oneself, others, and accessing the numinous.
I keep coming across people who reject beautiful books because they've reduced the act of reading into moralism practice. Reach beyond fables!
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Today my mom video called my siblings and me to tell us she probably has lung cancer. I will need to move her into our house in the near future if so. Prayers, please, for my mom and all of us in this time of huge transitions.
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Remembering the kindness of God who created plants for us to touch.
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If someone teaches you "church history" and leaves out the women, they have left out church history.
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Xristos Anesti! Christ is Risen! Kali Anastasi! Happy Easter! Kalo Pascha!
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@KelgoreTrout
The fat, funny, hyper-competent but overlooked secretly great fighter who steps in and solves the problems (but without being judgmental because she’s also self-deprecating) after her thin protagonist friend ruins everything. Also she can sing.
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@clhubes
That was low rise jeans and paper thin tees over camis. My students wore those and the tiny clips plus shiny beige lipstick.
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I’m 44 today. For my birthday I want a quiet Good Friday with my family and vegan scones for tea.
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People wouldn’t let a plumber fix their shower if the “plumber” was a dude with no training except a year of watching YouTubers argue over the best brand of faucets, but they’ll pick up & leave a church when a rando on the internet tells them they know better than bishops.
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Don't let yourself off the hook by imagining that your faith is authentic and theirs isn't. We have failed each other in the Church by not teaching people to know themselves as members of the Body of Christ. Without that teaching, that anchor in the physical reality of grace,
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@janjowen
I’m so sorry they were cruel to you. Your words were wise and helpful and healing. Thank you for sharing your experience and wisdom with us.
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I got my 2nd Pfizer dose a couple of weeks ago. I’d suffered from long haul Covid for ~a year. Yesterday my eloper took off, & I ran to chase him. Our friend caught him & got him to safety. As I hugged my son, I realized I *ran* & could breathe. I’m almost well! Thanks be to God!
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@bagelpicbot
Thin women eating only large quantities of sweets, snack foods or fast food in films/TV.
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"Christian" means nothing without the Body of Christ. There is no demagogue who can stand alongside God. But people will only understand the question, "Who is like God?" when they meet God through their senses, when we teach the Incarnation so they know it through their bodies.
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There's a strand in Orthodox circles that pretends it's impious to be grateful for the advancement of women in society. It doesn't sit well with the Gospels where we see the female disciples of the Lord, or with St. Paul's words that there is "neither male nor female" in Christ.
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Jesus often ate with sinners, but it was a righteous man who betrayed Him to other righteous men. Being righteous doesn’t count for much without love. Not much at all: a handful of silver, a belated recognition of wrong priorities, an empty hand, a bloodied field. Nothing saved.
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But the decision to allow state politics to give meaning to human bodies displaced the Body of Christ in the people's way of imagining themselves. Right now, a lot of people are tempted to think that the insurrectionists would back down if they had *authentic* Christianity,...
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First rule of theology club is that you can't do theology if you're not participating in God. That means praying, practicing virtues in imitation of Christ, and participating in sacraments as much as possible in your circumstances. Theology is not done by fighting online.
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Reading St. Gregory of Nyssa’s sermons on the Beatitudes and came across this gem:
“The Lord does not say it is blessed to know something about God, but to have God present within oneself.”
This is so beautiful.
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AXIA! AXIA! AXIA!
Bishop Ordains Orthodox Christian Woman as Deaconess in Response to Unique Needs in Africa
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@tsh
@HaleyCarrots
Agreed. I feel like my role in the house has shifted to the ministry of countenance. I bring my actual face paying full attention to each person, one on one. I remember the older women in my family doing this for us when I was little. Now it’s essential. It always was.
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The West versus Orthodoxy is a marketing ploy, not a theological reality.
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@laurenboebert
Maybe you set your clocks back a couple of weeks instead of an hour? We do in fact have a President-Elect, Joe Biden. Bless your heart.
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people cannot see themselves as otherwise than the version of themselves whoever is most persuasive and tells the most enchanting story. We need to teach faith anchored in the senses so that our imaginations and our lives are shaped by the Incarnate God.
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One of the gems of the Western Christian tradition is the icon pattern of the Virgin Mary reading when Arch. Gabriel comes to her in the Annunciation. It saddens me to see the anti-intellectual, misogynistic discourse here today that goes so heavily against sacred tradition.
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But they have given over their imaginations about the meaning of their bodies to a particular political ideology. They go to the same churches as people who find their behavior reprehensible and see that their actions are illegal and unhinged.
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My mom (patron saint Winnifred) entered hospice care in my home yesterday afternoon. We would appreciate your prayers. For those who have restrictions on Altar prayers, she's a Roman Catholic Christian, and we're Orthodox Christians.
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Culture wars are not holy. Demonizing a segment of the population as a way to gain power is not holy. Killing people is not holy.
Every human being is holy to the Creator.
Every human face is an icon of Christ.
Every.
Human.
Face.
Is.
Holy.
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On Sunday, all of the usual members who were able came to church at my Orthodox parish. The Russian and Ukrainian ladies who have been looking after each other over the years were still friends. Kinship in Christ can supercede nationalism & politics if we let it.
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Lord, have mercy. My cousin brought the Rona to my Mom, too. She's medically fragile and in the probable impact area of the developing tropical storm. Please pray for us all as we figure out safe places and quarantine logistics. And most of all, for my family to survive the Rona!
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There cannot be generous discussion and difference of opinions in the Church when many people are deluded as the Trumpist conspirators are. Outside of bodily formation as members of Christ's Body, there is no genuine faith & love between Christians.
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Please pray for my parents in-law, Kenneth and Sheila. They’re both over 70 and tested positive for the coronavirus. My father in law is in the hospital now.
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My book had a child!
Building on Of Such is the Kingdom: A Practical Theology of Disability (AFP, 2019), my new release, Accessible Church School: Incarnational Practices for Participating in God (PEB) focuses on
#christianed
Practical Theology+examples+floor plans+price points.
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The quality that non-autistic writers get wrong about autistic characters is complexity. They think that our minds are overly simple, but they’re overly complex. It’s why I’m working on writing books for my children & looking for other autistic authors to publish.
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I keep thinking about sea level saints, and I feel like it’s a life goal, a direction, rather than another list of spiritual success stories. Sea Level Saints have to find peace without silence, without order. It’s an asceticism we could all use.
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Why are ☦️ so polemic on X?
Recent converts are largely from Arian sects that don’t know they’re Arian & from fundamentalisms that don’t know they’re fundamentalist. Imported rigidity & obsession with “roles” are clashing with the native universalism & egalitarianism in Theosis.
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Sea level saints give someone a dollar or a taco even if the person asking is stoned. They love like water, which will always find its way over or around or through an obstacle.
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Christ is Risen! I commissioned this version of The Joy of All Who Sorrow icon by the hand of Elina Pelikan for
#AccessibleChurchSchool
and disability ministries. The painted icon is underway, but feel free to share this digital icon wherever it will be treated reverently.
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Their hearts beat, “mercy.” Their hearts beat, “holy.” Their hearts beat, “Jesus.” They can rhyme anything with that song.
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Sea level saints endure because love endures. They know that a bad year or a wrecked life can still move towards God. Like water that can lift and pull anything, salvation starts where you are. God lifts you like the water.
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It's not sufficient to say you love Mary, the Mother of God, if you hate her daughters. You cannot honor God the Father by mocking & silencing His daughters. It's important to recognize the impiety in misogyny, because the people who promote it pretend they do so from devotion.
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@darterdancer
Greet the hosts, say hi to someone else who looks alone, and then seek out the cats/dogs.
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@natgrace79
It’s a beautiful way to pray that we’re happy to share! As long as you treat a holy icon with reverence, you won’t go wrong. Praying with icons is an ancient custom. I believe that Rowan Williams has a few books that could be a gentle introduction in language you find familiar.
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I just lit the incense for 3pm prayers. We'll keep it going till Compline. Anyone want to be prayed for?
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I survived Covid-19 in March, and I have only started to regain what approaches actual health in the past month. I wouldn’t wish it on anyone. My prayers are with everyone sick with this terrible illness. Lord, have mercy.
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Not baptism. Not family. Not church membership. An invented idea. But the week before the killings started, these people were in church together. Did the faith stop being authentic? Did grace have an expiration date? No.
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Friends, I'm happy to announce the launch of my small press, Park End Books. We're focused on accessible church school curricula and bringing to market emerging Orthodox, Catholic, and saint & Creed-loving Protestant writers. Please follow
@parkendbooks
and pray for us!
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@akmcclen
Agreed. Full-spectrum pastoral and spiritual care of women is sorely lacking, and it needs to come in large part from other women.
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You can be the pebble that redirects the stream to where it’s needed. Sea level saints are all in with God and will pray for the stuff that’s too embarrassing to print on a church bulletin. They’ve seen some stuff & know how to recognize God’s power in the worst parts.
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Christian authority isn’t based on YouTube subscribers. It’s centered on real life discipleship in the Catholic and Apostolic ongoing life of the Holy Spirit in the Church. Our lambs are being eaten by the internet charlatans. What do we do about it?
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The number of faithful Christians who don't even know that there are deaconess saints is astonishing. Not to mention the Equals to the Apostles who were women. Beware of ones who come misapplying quotations of ignored canons, but who haven't read the Letters to St. Olympia.
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You are very welcome to visit an Orthodox Church even if you’re not Orthodox. You’re invited, and we would love to show you around.
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I absolutely LOVE the Orthodox Church. 🫰🏻☦️🫰🏻
Inviting me or anyone else to apostasy for the sake of not challenging your ignorant misunderstandings shows that you do not. Lord, have mercy on us all.
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The most disappointing development of 2020 is watching Christians who won’t wear masks mistake fatalism and refusing to be responsible with Christian freedom.
God gives wisdom and discernment freely, and we will be held accountable if we fail to use them.
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I’m about to head to St. Anthony’s monastery in Florence, AZ before I head back to Texas. Anyone need a particular prayer while I’m there? I can read your name at the relics.
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was something else going on? The false tribal narrative promoted by the colonial ID cards had a powerful effect on how people imagined themselves. When radio personalities demonized the Tutsi and called for their slaughter, the ID cards were the markers between people...
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Took a friend with me on my last hike of 2021. I sang hymns as I trekked through the swamp and woods.
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Today when Father began to sing, “Arise, O God…” and throw the bay leaves, my youngest son, who usually wears hearing protection in public for his strong sensory needs, took off his headphones and laughed with joy. 🥹 Kali Anastasi!
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Christians demonize each other so easily because they don't know how to imagine themselves primarily as Christian persons in communion instead of citizens in a fractious state. What claims our imagination of our bodies and daily lives, sets the narrative for how we relate.
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Something cool about the churches that read from The Gospel book each week is that the little kids are formed by thinking of The Gospel as a moment of joy when the golden book is brought out. It’s not isolated stories, but one memory anchor.
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From the 8th Century Byzantine Rite (MS Barberini 336) cited in Ordination rites of the ancient churches of East and West : Bradshaw, Paul F (linked in replies)
PRAYER FOR THE ORDINATION OF A DEACONESS
After the holy oblation has been made and the doors are open, before the
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American Christianity suffers from the legacy of de facto establishment of Protestant Christian religion. The lack of official establishment has made it harder for Christians to understand themselves apart from the posturing of American political factions and parties.
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I cried at the dentist office today because it was the first time I have had to sit still since the news about my mom. But my dentist and the staff there are awesome people and are ok with people being humans. Compassion changes everything.
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Sweet dear honey children of ☦️Twitter, we are not called to defend ourselves. Take up your prayers & ask that God smite the evil spirits who attack the peace of Christ’s church. By the intercession of the Theotokos, Archangel Michael, John the Forerunner, & all the saints! 🙏🏼☦️
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My daughter brought me these violets from our yard. Spring is so sweet. Joyous Holy Week!
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This is what we see in the Holy Theotokos the Virgin Mary. She became so much like God that He became like her (& us all) taking on flesh from the Holy Virgin. Our salvation is because of the Theosis of a woman who was so on fire with the love of God that she is our Burning Bush.
For Christians, the highest calling of women is to be like God.
If you want a family “role” to understand this, it’s daughter of God. Women are called to every virtue, no matter their vocations and particular circumstances.
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@LauraRbnsn
On the rare occasions that I set my cart in a nonstandard place, it’s because I have disabled kids & a disability. I can’t afford to leave the kids alone the extra 30 seconds to a minute to find inconvenient corrals, & sometimes it hurts too much to walk to waste the energy.
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Having a theological education is NOT meant for arguments online. It’s for visiting your cousins in order to read aloud from Fordyce’s Sermons!
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For Christians, the highest calling of women is to be like God.
If you want a family “role” to understand this, it’s daughter of God. Women are called to every virtue, no matter their vocations and particular circumstances.
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I love the Orthodox Christian embrace of prayer in the midst of chaotic life instead of tucked away from it. Internet photos of lone contemplatives aside, most prayer happens in sensory-rich, loud daily life, right by the dog who steals cheese & the underwatered houseplant.
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I find it ironic when laypeople with "monastic" pretensions often try to squelch & control others into bland uniformity & niceness, but actual monks & nuns tend to look for Christ in the very person before them, in all their idiosyncracies, as they are the glory of God.
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My plan is to continually ask the saints to help me so I can crowd surf into heaven on the great cloud of witnesses. (This is my biggest life hack.)
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who were their neighbors as well as fellow Catholics. The slaughters took place in houses, fields, and even churches–shared churches where the murderers attended with the ones they murdered. So was the faith only genuine or authentic for the victims, or ...
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This is even better than paraphrasing CS Lewis in these trying times! 😄
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In the new prayer corner tent the children bring palms to the Holy Theotokos. They also brought a lily this week because we were looking ahead to the Annunciation. Interactive prayer corners can be shelters or shelves. Giving an action with prayer engages the attention fully.
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Still scratching my head over a journal publishing someone saying that autistic people can’t relate to other persons as persons & basing a theological argument on that 💩🔥💩take.
Autistic people don’t lack relatability. Some lack communication SKILLS, which are ACQUIRABLE.
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I condemn and renounce white supremacy. May God rebuke it along with every other work of the devil.
☦️Spit, spit, spit. ☦️🌬🌬🌬☦️
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Thank you for this.
Image of St. Jerome quote: “Read often, learn all that you can. Let sleep overcome you, the roll still in your hands; when your head falls, let it be on the sacred page.”
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I'm reading St. John Chrysostom's Letters to Saint Olympia, and I'm struck by how deeply the language is steeped in the Liturgy they served together as priest and deaconess. He speaks peace to her with rubrics from the Altar & the refrains of litany. Beautiful.
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Or people who try to excise St. Phoebe and St. Thekla from the ministry of St. Paul. Tell your tales to the 6th and 7th Century icons of these women that your ancestors died to preserve, and to the deaconesses tortured by Pliny:
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Because I post a lot about saints, the Twitter algorithm thinks I am interested in football.
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One thing I notice as I age is how often inflexible thinking is mistaken for righteousness.
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Orthodox Christians wanting to talk about patristic visions of secular government without reading St. Augustine's City of God might want to consider the possibliity that they don't know the patristic vision for discerning fielties between Church & state.
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I’ve been recording a podcast about being an autistic Christian, and it’s made me realize that my low regard for social niceties has saved my prayer life many times over. I wonder how many people wouldn’t lose their faith if they weren’t worried about being polite to God?
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My long haul Covid has caused arthritis in my fingers, elbows, knees, and ankles. We're going to cancel our March call for proposals to give me more time to heal, but we're still bringing several beautiful and insightful books to market this year. Thanks for your understanding.
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We’re celebrating the Sunday of the Myrrh-Bearing Women tomorrow. It’s my favorite part of the Paschal season, because I have the children mix myrrh and spices. The house smells amazing for weeks, an olfactory call to give thanks.
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This is iconic. We look like God when we love each other.
@Somemyrrh
One of the most beautiful moments in church was at an Orthodox Cathedral in Dallas. Our daughter with autism was on floor flapping looking at Jesus in the dome. Another child simply laid down beside her looked at Jesus and flapped too.
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Working on an essay on personhood and online Christian discourse, but my long haul Covid hands are slowing me down. Would appreciate prayers.
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