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PC(USA) Minister, Conductor/Composer, Whovian, #faithfullylgbt ; RevJATB #9247 ; @knowtea .bsky.social; @knowtea @deacon .social; ; he/him
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I love (not) how Elf on the Shelf is marketed as a “beloved Christmas tradition.” My brethren and sistren in Christ, Elf on the Shelf started in 2005.
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Whenever I see an ambulance on the road, I say a brief prayer. I have done this for as long as I can remember. Anyone else?
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@GuthrieGF
That God “changed Saul’s name to Paul.” Didn’t happen. He had a Hebrew name (Shaul) and as a Roman citizen had a Latin name too (Paulus). He is referred to as Paul not after his conversion, but after he starts ministering to the Gentiles.
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Pledging allegiance to the American flag, or the flag of any nation, during a worship service or denominational gathering, is idolatry. 100% idolatry. I said what I said.
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Why do conservatives think “pronouns in bio” is such an own?
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@WNCathedral
I thought this MUST be a misunderstanding. Surely they weren’t charging money, I thought. But I clicked through and they are! I can see doing tickets (free ones) for crowd control, but not charging admission for CHURCH!
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If I forget to take my antidepressant, I feel it. My mind and body notice. I wish I didn’t have to take medication. But I’m learning not to be ashamed of it any more than I’m ashamed to wear contact lenses: my brain needs help just like my eyes do. That’s all it is.
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I would like to thank
@RevDaniel
for randomly mentioning me in a tweet, because as a result I have gained 13 new followers in the past 5 minutes.
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My own thread about the rainbow: evangelicals, maybe make sure you know what the Bible actually says before you start telling the rest of us what the rainbow symbolizes in Genesis.
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I know the liturgical color for today is white, but I think this one works for Trinity Sunday, too. 😀
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The Word of God is a person, not a book.
The Bible doesn’t contain the Word of God‚ it IS the Word of God. FOLLOW for more
#TRUTH
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@MikeCiandella
Right. It was marketed as a “tradition” in 2005. Never would have become a thing were it not for social media & parents trying to one-up each other.
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Happy Star Wars Day to my friends who are celebrating. Annual reminder that I only celebrate Orthodox Star Wars Day, which is in five weeks.
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This is a
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stan account, and let me just tell you all that being a lectionary preacher has made me a much better preacher because it forces me to wrestle with texts I might not otherwise preach from.
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Was there ever such a thing as Frosted Maxi-Wheats?
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The Bible
Is there any other product like Q tips that is used almost exclusively in a way that the product warns against?
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Some guy on Faux News is talking about $90 turkeys? They were 99 cents a pound at Kroger. I got my kids (and their mom) a nice 20-lb turkey for $20. Thing is, Fox viewers are so gullible they’ll believe it.
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I was on call at work tonight and did not get called in. Really glad I didn’t, because it meant I got to attend Zoom Bible Study with
@StJohnsDixie
.
@RevDaniel
is absolutely a treasure. So grateful for his ministry in my life. Y’all just don’t even know.
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Evangelicals be like “I was raised Methodist/Presbyterian/Lutheran/Catholic/Episcopal but then I became a Christian.”
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I was ordained as a minister of word & sacrament on this day, the Feast of St Michael and All Angels, 27 years ago.
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Thanksgiving dinner didn’t happen bc L was in the hospital. Xmas dinner didn’t happen bc I just couldn’t. So this is 2nd Day of Christmas Dinner.
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I understand the sentiment, but for me it’s not about being a “seasonal purist,” it’s about hating the way capitalism has trampled and trashed the liturgical calendar, which is fundamental to my spiritual life.
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Tl, dr: Genesis says God put the rainbow in the sky to remind God of God’s covenant with creation, not to remind us of anything. So just stop it.
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Really good thread here.
I’m celibate. I follow historic Christian teaching on sexual ethics by default. Straight people who practice contraceptive sex don’t.
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I got home at a decent hour last night for a change, so I watched 4 episodes of “Schmigadoon.” As one who has played for/conducted many musicals and knows ALL the show tunes because of playing for so many auditions, I loved it. The dialogue, lyrics, and music are all on point.
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Lovely gifts from my congregation, choir, and ministers for my last Sunday today.
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I just learned that my aunt, who was like a mother to me, has died. Requiescat in pace.
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God “hangs up his war bow,” so to speak. As a promise/reminder to WHOM? Not us. To God. God says, “When the bow is seen in the clouds, I will remember my covenant.”
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After the flood, God says, “I have set my bow in the clouds, and it shall be a sign of the covenant between me and the earth. When I bring clouds over the earth and the bow is seen in the clouds, I will remember my covenant that is between me and you and every living creature.”
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St Stephen’s, Cahaba Heights (AL), just after midnight last night:
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@rywig
I’m in favour of calling things what they are—e.g. you won’t catch me calling the narthex a “lobby,” BUT when I heard an Episcopalian refer to the chalice-bearer as the “chalcifer,” I cackled. I mean I’m bougie but that’s a whole other level of bougie.
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@RevDaniel
“Um, hello, Pastor Nilsson? Um, yeah, the guy at the Winn-Dixie just asked me ‘Paper or plastic?’ and I need your advice.”
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@RevDaniel
@RealLyndaCarter
She’s Wonder Woman: she can read thousands of conversations at once. While flying her plexiglas airplane.
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@emilyeh3345
@magikarpolycarp
Meanwhile something like 80% of single, straight evangelical Christians are sexually active and no one bats an eye. Double standard, anyone?
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No. Today is the 8th Day of Christmas. Christmas isn’t over just because the retailers say it is.
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This bow is one of many, many “covenant memorials” in the Bible. Moses was told to put the tablets of the law, a jar of manna, and Aaron’s staff in the Ark of the Covenant “as memorials before YHWH.”
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My aunt’s funeral is in about 3 hours. With the exception of her & my uncle, I’ve been minimized, discounted, ignored, discouraged, insulted, humiliated, passed over, and despised all my life by the people who are supposed to care.
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@tweetjjtweet
Youngest was born in 2006, so ours never did it. I hate that so many parents think they “have” to do it, like it’s something that’s always been done. Um, no.
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My “heritage” includes tobacco plantation owners in Virginia and NC, which means slave owners. Not something to celebrate: it’s something to repent of!
"My Confederate flag isn't about hate, it's about honoring my Southern heritage!"
Nope. It's a hate symbol, hon.
I honor my German heritage by eating sauerkraut and potato salad, not flying a swastika from the back of a butt-ugly pickup. Go eat some cornbread and shut up.
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Every Sunday is about Jesus: not Mom, Dad, organised labor, the USA, or the military. It amazes me how churches that wouldn’t dream of celebrating Trinity or Transfiguration will fall all over themselves to celebrate civil observances. And in so doing, we alienate & hurt people.
If going to church on Mother's Day is simply an exercise in holding in your tears until you can unleash them in the car on the way out of the parking lot, just stay home today. It's okay. You won't lose your salvation and the church won't fold. You aren't the only one that has to
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Great Bible study tonight with
@StJohnsDixie
and
@RevDaniel
. Our discussion about evangelism reminded me of this cartoon:
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Conservatives think it’s hilarious to mock people with disabilities, from Trump making fun of a reporter’s disability to his making fun of Biden’s stutter to Ann Coulter doubling down on her use of the “r” word to all of you who throw around the term “libtard.”
Increasingly convinced the editors of the Babylon Bee do not know Jesus
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@BeccaHope24
I had to explain to my local Publix supermarket why no one was buying all the Matzah they had on display for Chanukah.
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We place them before God as a covenant memorial, for God to remember God’s covenant: in this case the covenant of redemption.
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So these items, by being in the Ark, were right in front of God’s face, so to speak, as “covenant memorials” emblems to remind God of God’s own covenant. Just like the Rainbow was there to remind God of God’s covenant.
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I went to the party. Stayed about 90 minutes. It was crowded but I saw some people I hadn’t seen in a long time. It was nice. Hot with all those people in there. Went outside on the deck but then it started raining. Overall though I’m glad I pushed through and went.
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If you’ve never been to an evangelical church, it may surprise you that the reading of scripture as a discrete element of worship is often non-existent. The preacher will drop in pull quotes to back up his (always his) sermon. Singing Psalms and Canticles doesn’t happen either.
Some churches just never quote Mary’s song in its entirety at any point during advent nor take its message seriously at any point in their ministry and I am saddened that one of the greatest prayers of justice we have available thru the mother of Jesus is just ignored like that.
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@FatherTim
Online church led me to a Monday night spiritual conversations group and a Tuesday night Bible study, both of which have literally kept me alive this year. No exaggeration.
@mattnightingale
@RevDaniel
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The Eucharist is not a re-enactment of the Last Supper or a funeral for a dead Jesus. The celebrant places the bread and wine on the altar “as a memorial before YHWH.” The bread and wine are there for the same reason the manna was in the Ark.
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The Ark was placed in the Holy of Holies in the tabernacle. It was seen as “God’s footstool.” God was described as being “enthroned above the cherubim” which were on the lid of the Ark.
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You know what’s funny (not)? People getting high-fived On Here for talking about how Jesus loved the outcast when those same people have treated me like utter garbage and made it clear that I am NOT welcome. Hypocrisy is so enjoyable, isn’t it?
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Apparently the CofE will do anything to get people to attend church these days.
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Similarly, Jesus, in instituting the Sacrament of Holy Communion, doesn’t say, “Do this to remember me.” He says, literally, “Do this as my memorial.” The bread and the wine are NOT there for us to think about Jesus’ death and get sad.
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Hello Twitterverse. I got asked out on a date and I said yes. This has never happened to me, ever. I will be taking questions at this time, reserving the right to answer or ignore them as I see fit.
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If you pray, pray for L. She got home from hospital last night, pulled her g-tube out this evening, and they are on the way back to the hospital they just left last night! (90 minute drive.) Pray there is not a super long ER wait, and pray for her bc the ER is a major stressor.
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Umm, did I say anything about gay ANYTHING, let alone gay sex??? What is WRONG with these people?
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Thanks to everyone who participated tonight in Bible Study at
@StJohnsDixie
. Thanks to
@RevDaniel
for inviting me to lead it & to preach this coming Sunday. And thanks to everyone for not telling me I sound just like Foghorn Leghorn (even if you may have been thinking it)!
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Say what you will about me, but I make EXCELLENT corn bread.
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Feast of St Michael and All Angels. 26th anniversary of my ordination.
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@RevDaniel
I mean I’ve met some bears I wouldn’t mind spending time alone with in the forest …
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@MBlownGaming
@Lesdoggg
@1stPlayerTokens
False comparison. Pride Flag is about inclusion. Posting the Decalogue is about exclusion. The 1st table of the Law is about worship: who is to be worshiped, how that deity is to be worshiped, and the day of worship. That excludes students who worship a different god or no god.
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So all likes are now private. But just know I liked your Tweet. Yes, you.
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Ok who came up with “Moms 4 Luberty?” Because that’s pretty good.
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I don’t get to preach very often, but when I do I realise how much I miss it. Just not every Sunday: did that for about 10 years. I don’t know how you all do it. Grateful tonight for
@StJohnsDixie
and
@RevDaniel
for this opportunity.
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The ex called me today bc L was behaving terribly. Once we talked L down together we were able to talk and even have a laugh together. It’s good to be able to do that again.
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One service down, about to de-albify myself, go find food, and then swap the alb for a choir cassock to sing in the late service at St Stephen’s.
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Music director of the church L and I have been attending sent me a lovely note thanking me for sharing my “gorgeous voice” by singing in the choir Xmas Eve. That made me feel good, esp after a confidence-shattering incident this past summer.
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OT but “Ontarians” sounds like a Doctor Who alien species.
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@RevDaniel
All you have to do is look at the Queen’s hair in each episode to know it doesn’t take itself seriously. 🤣
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Pray for my ex please, and L, and my two boys, F & H. Can’t go into specifics but they need divine intervention and they need it 10 minutes ago.
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Bisexual Pastor + Billy Graham Rule = I can never be around anyone at all.
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L still has fever & cannot go to her Valentine dance tonight. She is really down.
@StJohnsDixie
friends, can you send her some messages to cheer her up?
@shinnewn
@RevDaniel
@lighthousekat
@MCSearing
(and everyone else!)
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Dear Birmingham, AL shoppers: they are called Christmas crackers, not “Christmas poppers.” Trust me on this. We are not that kind of store.
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Took L to the Greek Festival tonight at Holy Trinity/Holy Cross. Gyros, Greek salads, spanikopita, tyropita, loukoumades, Greek coffee. Went into the church proper, which is beautiful. Went outside to watch children do some traditional Greek dances. A good evening.
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L had a Special Olympics competition today. She told me she got 2 ribbons but didn’t show them to me. I just found them. She got 1st in one event and 2nd in another! She wouldn’t tell me something like that bc it doesn’t matter to her: all that matters to her is that she had fun.
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@m_tisserand
Having lived in Louisiana and consumed many muffulettas, this makes perfect sense to me.
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Bourbon Pecan Pie with a bourbon-pecan crust.
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Hi, new followers and old followers who are reading this for the first time! My name is John Allen Bankson. Yes, “John Allen” is my first name: I’m a Presbyterian minister, musician (pianist, struggling/aspiring organist, conductor), and Doctor Who enthusiast. Come on in!
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So grateful for
@StJohnsDixie
Tuesday night Bible Study. I learn so much each week. And the people are great. Sometimes, you might even get a fab recipe for strawberry-rhubarb trifle!
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Those of you on Twitter who are praying people: I have a 2nd interview (via Zoom) in a little less than 3.5 hours. (3 pm eastern, 2 pm central) and am really feeling inadequate to the task.
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If any of you people refers to my funeral as a “celebration of life,” I will come back and haunt you in the most obnoxious ways possible.
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Extremely important thread.
The erasure of the Black church tradition and Black Christians in the current public discourse around religion is *strong*. White Christians in the U.S. and their issues do not comprise the whole of Christianity. A 🧵...
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