I love the story of Joseph, he's a great and holy patriarch, but the bad things there do follow the comedy rule of threes
kinda chic to be obsessed with your appearance… your appearance before the judgment seat of Christ. are you ready? are you dressed for that???
Gambling is really the sin of our age and we need a Temperance movement to confront it.
Django Wexler@djangowexler.bsky.social · last wk.Somehow things that would have been a background gag in a Verhoeven movie are now just real
spending the afternoon drinking lacroix and playing durak with my wife on the patio
British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan was once asked what the greatest challenge for a statesman was. He famously replied: ‘Events, dear boy, events.'
The employee handbook at work specifically forbids wallet chains. I feel like if you're thinking of buying a chain wallet, and the employee handbook from your job factors into the decision, you might not be cut out for the chain wallet lifestyle
this is going to be an absolute mess and I’m pumped. it will have to have subtitles bc Middle English is largely unintelligible to us. but, even funnier, pronunciation at this time is a nightmare French was still a court language and so they’d have various dialectical French accents layered on top
a taste for the mainstream has to be learned, but babies are into harsh noise from day one
english isn't for cowards. if you're not saying 'torpify,' that's a skill issue. there's no Académie Française telling you what to do. if you try to type 'pallific' and freak out when you see a little red underline, maybe you're not ready to roll with the big dogs.
from the context of my lived experience i know what this sign is saying. but i think linguistically it is interestingly ambiguous
on the one hand it’s clear that “The Odyssey” will continue the long tradition of projecting modern ideals of character and value onto an ancient text whose ideas about these things are in fact quite different. on the other hand, lol you guys don’t even know that’s Odysseus, he’s gonna kill you all
Once when I was a barista, I had a customer demand that I list out for him the most profound spiritual experiences I've ever had
How NPR journalists feel pronouncing Arabic names hypercorrectly while delivering war propaganda
… Christian countries who keep the greater part of the universe in the iron grip of slavery. In these latter years they have covered the world in a dark cloud of apocalyptic fire: ‘the heavens & earth', now…reserved for fire in the day of judgement & perdition of ungodly men. — St. Sophrony of Essex
...Kingdoms pretending to the name of ‘Christian’, and their peoples, have worn the mask of piety, while ‘denying the power thereof.’ (cf. II Tim iii:5) They have lived, and live, like heathens. Strange as it may be, it is precisely the Christian countries who keep t... (more)— St. Sophrony of Essex
Ours is sometimes called the post-Christian age. But I personally, from what I know of the history of the world and of Christianity, am convinced that Christianity in its true dimensions has never yet been properly grasped by the great mass of people. Kingdoms prete... (more) — St. Sophrony of Essex
They should make toothpaste that's actually minty. I can handle it
I'm engaged, I got engaged in January, sorry for not keeping all of you up to date
"Anglo-american culture is the bulwark of civilization?" Buddy we barely have songs that start slow and get faster
St Cuthbert’s Church, Crayke, North #Yorkshire “St Cuthbert” window (2020) #HelenWhittaker The detail shows the Tale of the Affectionate Sea Otters who were reputed to have warmed & dried Cuthbert's feet after a night of him meditating & praying whilst standing in the sea. #StainedGlassSunday
Christians, instead of arming themselves with swords, extend their hands in prayer. — St. Athanasius of Alexandria