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Episcopal Priest. Laudian. 1662 BCP Stan. The opinions expressed here do not necessarily reflect those of my parish or diocese, and are also 100% correct.
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Eastern Orthodox plane
This is what the interior of a Boeing 787 looks like before the seats are installed.
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Young Ratzinger looks like he'd be a prolific poaster
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The Episcopal Church: *bleeds attendance and membership for decades, fails to reach and retain younger generations, closes churches left and right*
Episcopalians: We should revise the hymnal
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If you hate Paul, remember that the same guy who wrote the Gospel of Luke also wrote the Acts of the Apostles, and Acts has a pretty high opinion of Paul
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Couldn’t get more on the nose than shooting a sidearm in cassock and soutane and quoting a fake Bible verse from a movie
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Interviewer: What’s this gap in your resume?
Me: I was driven from among men, and ate grass like an ox, and my body was wet with the dew of heaven till my hair grew as long as eagles’ feathers, and my nails were like birds’ claws.
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Please pray for me. The black dog is afflicting me for the first time in awhile
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You know what I miss about being an Anglo-Catholic? Not the vestments, not the ceremonial, not the music, not the literary heritage. What I miss is the commitment to and love of the poor. I miss Anglo-Catholic socialism.
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@extrasalt513
>woman says the gospel of thomas is good
>man quotes embarrassing verses from the gospel of thomas
>woman clearly doesn’t recognize it
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Listening to a podcast in which a couple of Eastern Orthodox priests decry the use of Platonism in theology. Bro, the call is coming from inside the house
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Baptized a baby recently who was the most serene baptismal candidate I’ve ever seen. She looked right into my eyes as I was pouring the water, and it felt I was staring into the whole universe
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Gonna give Naomi a thesaurus and blow her mind
3/ At the Sermon on the Mount Jesus was not approached by his "disciples". He was approached by "learners."
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I see everybody talking about how the new ACNA archbishop is pro-WO (yawn) and nobody taking about the fact that whatever this is can be found on his parish’s website
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"And there appeared a great wonder in heaven; a woman clothed with the sun"
When I was a kid I used to think this lady on the box of raisins was the Virgin Mary
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Cool, where does it say that in the Bible?
“A Christian should love his children over other children, his parents over other parents, his kin over other kin, his nation over other nations.”
—Stephen Wolfe (
@PerfInjust
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"In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, and his train filled the temple."
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PSA, which apparently some people need to hear: “Light” and “darkness” language in the Scriptures has absolutely nothing to do with race
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St. Paul: *Leaning against the alley wall, flipping a coin and smoking a cigarette* Yeah, I’m the guy your mainline pastor warned you about
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@raskolnikov_33
These are not prophetic words. These are functionally no different than horoscopes.
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@paleomexicano
There's a reason my ancestors converted to Christianity. Their old gods proved weak
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Neither transsubstantiation nor memorialism but a secret third thing
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Cain founds the first city on murder. God uses the city as a picture of new creation.
Noah invents wine and gets drunk. God uses wine to give us his life in Holy Communion.
The Israelites demand a king for sinful reasons. God uses that kingship to save humanity.
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The world has lost, more importantly than a monarch, a great disciple of Christ. I will miss her Christmas and Easter addresses, which were better than many sermons preached by clergy
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Popular media consistently misunderstands Christianity, not just doctrinally but culturally. I’m watching The Boys right now, for example, and wondering what evangelical Baptist-type pastor who frequents CCM festivals ever wears a clerical collar
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Guy who starts a “Celtic service” but it’s just getting together and singing Scottish metrical psalms
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My cousin just got baptized at age 41, take this L Satan
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Cope and seethe
The Coronation rite of King Charles is the English version of LARPing as medieval Catholics while simultaneously denying the substance of true Catholicism. It’s a mockery of Christian monarchy.
St Edward and St Thomas More, pray for us.
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Disappointed to hear that he will no longer be Mr. Potato Head. Having gone Anglo-Catholic, he is now Father Potato Head
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Between this one and the druid pic, how does Rowan Williams have so many wild photos?
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Blocking a blasphemous account first thing in the morning
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“Religious studies”
It's commonly known that ethicists are the least ethical people. Are there any other fields like that? Where the people in the field are the worst at what they do?
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Yeah like imagine how crazy it would be if “Silent Night” was composed by a Catholic specifically to be accompanied by guitar can you even imagine
last night at midnight mass, the choir brought out multiple guitars to sing carols and my grandfather loudly whispered, “what are we, Protestants?”
Merry Christmas!
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Every Episcopal church has a group of old men have a Bible study one Saturday a month at 7am and call themselves "the Misfits" or something
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Important note: "the priesthood of all believers" ≠ "the presbyterate of all believers"
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The verse you quoted literally appears in the canonical gospels
@naomirwolf
There are several books missing too - like the Gospel of Thomas, for example - and that is definitely worth reading.
I bought The Nag Hammadi Scriptures, edited by Marvin Meyer. There are many interesting quotes attributed to Jesus that aren't in the NT. Most of them empower
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God’s mercy and grace are not based on any merit of ours and that’s good, actually
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I like how, at some point, all of us under 40 spontaneously decided we didn't need to have a printer in our house
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Tfw you check the Septuagint because your Greek is way better than your Hebrew
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Guy who thinks the Pentateuch was compiled by a redactor and that redactor was Moses
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But lo! there breaks a yet more glorious day;
The saints triumphant rise in bright array;
The King of glory passes on his way.
Alleluia, Alleluia!
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Increasingly thinking that Calvinism may be the most misunderstood/mischatacterized theological tradition
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Silence atheist
Maybe a little less regressive Baal/nature-worship and a little more concentration on the redemption of lost souls
Just a thought
@Pontifex
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“The blood of the grape” is a pretty metal way for the Bible to describe wine
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You want me to sit by a fire? The thing that killed Cranmer?
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@elmago3221
I love how the tweet in question implies that Mary somehow wasn’t a woman if she didn’t have sex
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I find myself frustrated with the continual impulse of mainline churches to keep kids out of church out of some misguided impression that they're too young for it. I just had a staff meeting in which it was proposed that middle- and high- schoolers meet for youth during church!
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You may look at this headline and not be surprised that Ehrman is denying biblical doctrine, but he’s actually claiming that neither the Bible nor the early Church say that Jesus is YHWH. Which is patently absurd if you have a PhD and are, presumably, capable of reading
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There was a time when high churchmen were happy to assent to the Articles, low churchmen were happy to wear vestments, and everyone was happy to follow the Prayer Book
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Christian Zionists are fucking disgusting. Enemies of Christ. Pure and simple.
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Guy who wants the flags in the church but he means the Episcopal flag and the red flag of socialism
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I don't get it. Becoming more of a Classical Theist made me more Reformed.
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I know I'm not the first person to observe this, but a huge reason for the decline in TEC (and the mainline in general) has been a utter lack of confidence in our own tradition's identity and charism
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Me, reading the Old Testament: I’m really getting into the lore
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One of the beautiful things about the Daily Office is that each of the Psalms becomes and old friend that you’re happy to see again
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Sometimes I just think about the fact that, in the Middle Ages, the Pashal Candle at Salisbury Cathedral was 36 feet tall
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I don’t know who needs to hear this, but the tippet goes OVER the hood
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Thinking about how Calvinist Eucharistic theology (which is basically also classical Anglican Eucharistic theology) got conflated with Zwinglianism, which made it easier for certain parties to dismiss it
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“Youth ministry” used to be just making kids memorize the Catechism and then quizzing them on it at Evensong
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After seeing this picture of the Prayer Book Litany many times, I’ve only just now noticed that the minister has his hands in the orans position!
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The liberal mainliners who love Pelagius would have a cow if they actually me him. They'd think he was just a big legalist (which, to be fair, he was)
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I know I’m throwing stones from my glass house, but literally the only thing holding the ACNA together is opposition to gay marriage. That’s just not a strong enough foundation
Is there a theological position that could get a clergyman removed in the ACNA? I’m beginning to wonder.
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Pleasantly surprised to see the National Cathedral using a relatively straightforward Rite I burial office for Colin Powell's funeral
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Me looking at other dioceses who already have the common cup back
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"And I saw the holy city, New Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband."
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Normal people at the beach: It’s so relaxing just to watch the waves roll in
Me at the beach: One day the Beast will rise from the seashore
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The guy who invented movie theaters really read Plato’s Allegory of the Cave and said “I can make money from this”
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If I were given a free pass to make one liturgical change with absolutely no complaints from my parishioners, it would be getting rid of birthday and anniversary blessings
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Me: I don’t like CCM
Also me: No power of hell, no scheme of man, can ever pluck me from his hand! 😭
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@UnrighteousD
The first step to decolonizing your faith is to listen unquestioningly to a South American lady with a suspiciously German surname
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Becoming more and more convinced that 10-15 minutes is too short for a sermon
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Reminder that Corpus Christi is not an Anglican feast day. Today is the Feast of St. Barnabas the Apostle
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I love how Episcopalians can’t seem to decide between Shrove Tuesday and Mardi Gras
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“She just carried God in her womb for nine months and nourished him at her breast, no big deal”
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