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Earth & Altar + SSJE are launching a new collaboration: A Silent Rebellion — an every other week series featuring writings from Anglican religious orders. Reflections on community life, kindness, commitment, and the freedom found in limitation—rooted in vowed life, offered for the whole church.

A Silent Rebellion — Earth and Altar

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Any book recs like Fifth Sun by Townsend? I loved it

Fantastic book!! very German in thoroughness

Is anyone thinking of writing something for this special issue on sexual ethics in Anglican Theological Review? ⚓️ Trying to discern whether I should take some time to… www.anglicantheologicalreview.org/special-issu...

the new Knives Out is AMAZING!! Which of the screenwriters is going to a gospel-preachin church?

The Virgin Birth is the true response to "toxic masculinity"

I’m realizing the WOKE Common Worship lectionary believes in Deutero-Isaiah ⚓️

I’d never heard of this bit of John of St Thomas’ commentary on the Summa where he says baptizing someone in the name of the “Parent, Offspring, and the Proceeding One” would be valid, we just shouldn’t do it out of prudence ⚓️

Let’s pray for Sarah++, poor thing ⚓️

Believing other religions are other other religions and that we can love each other without pretending our worship can be a holy mush isn’t bigotry.

Why do folks think cathedrals are some magic special sort of church that isn’t explicitly Christian? Most of the people who built medieval cathedrals would’ve burned us ALL at the stake.

very disappointing to see that Varghese’s installation at St John the Divine NYC included readings from non-Xian scriptures. This is not allowed in the Episcopal Church. However much the cathedral wants to be a community center, it is NOT a catch-all religious house. ⚓️

Arrived in Oxford at last! Any advice for a new theology DPhil student?

I'd go even more specific here and say that in selling people on Christ that means much more than just "he was a swell guy with great ideas." Jesus's teaching doesn't really make much sense in toto except against the eschatological horizon, and that doesn't make much sense sans resurrection.

Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li@sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 12mo ago

hot take: religiosity is declining and all these mainline denominations keep trying to pass themselves off as social clubs but you can't sell people on christianity if you can't sell them on christ the same is true of liberalism: if we can't sell people freedom all the other stuff is inessential.

Look, I have an EXCELLENT translation of the liturgy

Fr Chase 🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁@kalanthropos.bsky.social · 12mo ago

I thought "hell yeah, I agree with a nat cat reporter editorial," but then it turns out the English translation they want is the 1998 one. Why does that always turn out to be the case? www.ncronline.org/opinion/gues...

In this piece, I argue that universalism, just as it fixes so many other theological debates (Calvinism vs Arminianism, eg), can help us boldly evangelize and hold to the boundaries our confession without worrying that’s exclusionary. I’d love for you to read it and let me know what you think! ⚓️

Earth & Altar@earthandaltarmag.com · 12mo ago

“I’m convinced that a firm trust in universal restoration can heal underlying anxiety that often hampers our maintenance of orthodoxy and our mission of evangelization.” Today’s essay is by Andrew Raines earthandaltarmag.com/posts/di5uid...

Best resources on 1 Cor 11:7? Always reads so wild to me. “Man is the image and glory of God, but woman is the glory of man.” Women not in the image of God??

my God I love Katherine Sonderegger youtu.be/9Wm4V-a5LA8?...

The Question of Divine Omnipotence: Dr. Katherine Sonderegger’s Systematic Theology

YouTube video by THE CHARGE with Dennis Metzler

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So intrigued by this “The Fourth Lesson” set. Like the TEC collection by Wright, it’s a book of 4th readings for the 3-lesson DO lectionary which the CofE tried but we kept in the 1979 BCP. Intead of Fathers tho, it’s Lewis, Chardin, Tillich, Barth, Spurgeon, Farrer… I see why it didn’t last. ⚓️

Instead of having Track 1 where we go thru the OT but the it’s disconnected to the epistle and gospel, we should in Pentecostide have the OT lesson govern the theme rather than the gospel. Bc I love the idea of really going thru the OT, but it’s really annoying it’s irrelevant to other readings ⚓️

Every time I come across the “serpents for fish” line our gospel today, I wonder if Jesus intends the resonance I hear between it and Numbers 21 and 11. Could Jesus be implying something about how Numbers portrays his Father? It feels like an improper suggestion, but I really do wonder. ⚓️

I’m plenty happy with the 79 BCP offices, but seeing that Canada has approved their own version of Common Worship Daily Prayer (called Prayer without Ceasing), I wonder if TEC could do something similar, but make it better ⚓️ www.anglican.ca/wp-content/u...

The son of Episcopal Bp TA Frazier just left 30 boxes of his books by for the free shelves at Duke Div library. Happy day

I feel robbed that the '79 DO lectionary tried to keep me from the pleasure of reading about David's dowry of foreskins for Michal today. ⚓️

I enjoyed subdeaconing for the first time yesterday! I’m not sure I’m quite a Ritual Noteser (or an enthusiast of Italian-cut vestments), but it was such a prayerful and worshipful experience. I’m glad to be taught how to do this in TEC, where this level of precision feels less common now.

just to remind everyone, TEC is supposed to vote on approving Rite I in contemporary English next GC, so we've prepared some proposed renderings for them. I really hope this goes thru! ⚓️ episcopalchant.com/eucharist/eu...

Episcopal Chant: A Liturgical Chant Database

Interactive and downloadable chant settings of liturgical texts approved for use in The Episcopal Church.

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I finally finished re-typesetting Bicknell’s commentary on the 39 Articles—hope folks find it helpful! ⚓️ www.amazon.com/Theological-...

A Theological Introduction to the Thirty-Nine Articles of the Church of England

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With the high and holy Episcopal feast day of July 4 tomorrow, I find it funny how I’ve moved from being very Hauerwasian and anti-flags in church, etc. to now being actually very pro- (good) civil religion.

I was today years old when I learned the episcopal church made a “HIP HOP BCP”, translating Cranmer and Galley into South Bronx. It’s… somethin