Looking at Jesus seriously changes things; if we do not want to be changed, it is better not to look too hard or too long. --Rowan Williams

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James Talarico@jamestalarico.bsky.social · yesterday

The American Dream has become an American Nightmare. It’s too expensive to buy a home. It’s too expensive to get married and have kids. It’s too expensive to retire comfortably. The top 1% put the American Dream behind a paywall.

When you do a little weeding, the need for more weeding becomes apparent.

Mercifully grant that we, being delivered from the disquietude of this world, may by faith behold the King in his beauty. Happy Feast of the Transfiguration, dear ones! 🕯

At the State Fair it’s just that easy.

What’s a novel you’ve read that was really engaging, great plot, plenty of action, but for whatever reason would be impossible to adapt for the screen?

Love is the fulfillment of the law.

I grew up in a brick house. Barely discernable here, but it was one of many on our block. You don't see brick houses any more. 😒 Apparently bricks take more work to make than aluminum siding.

Hosea 9- Because every thing God's people did under God was an act of holiness, now that they've gone to Baal, every act of work, every bite of food, every action they take is a sacrilege. Day by day, they move farther from God. This feels very true to me. 🕯

So much yes to this!

Fibonacci Sequins@brentwaggoner.bsky.social · 2d ago

No one is more self righteous then people who can't shut up about how both sides are equally wrong.

Smiling.

Fibonacci Sequins@brentwaggoner.bsky.social · 2d ago

I thought the era where all the worship music sounded like U2 was bad but that's mostly because I didn't anticipate an era where all the worship music sounded kind of like Nickelback

Five loaves, two fish, and a hillside of hungry people. He blesses, breaks, gives, and the deserted place becomes a table. Grace abounds in the fields as surely as in our sanctuaries. Today's study:

Proper 13A August 2, 2026

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Adapting September's Prayers of the People which were written by JMM, two choir directors ago! Still love him and miss him.🕯

🎵 Some people call be the space cowboy; Some call me the gangster of love.🎵 from the REAL Steve Miller

Transfiguration tomorrow. Totally ready for it.

YIL where ambergris comes from!

Summer is moving on. Time to start dead-heading (daisies etc)

Inestimable!

BCP Minus Context@bcpminuscontext.bsky.social · 3d ago

thine inestimable love

Everyone says the Church is dying, but what I see nearby is growth and thriving.

Wisdom remains, while today's transient fashions let the weeds grow higher around it.

Reading this "light" history of ordinary life. Perfect for my present mental state.

The teenaged daughter of a somewhat new parishioner was the cross bearer yesterday, and it made me weep. Why let some kid do this? What does she believe? Look how shes dressed! Then the tears! 🕯I saw everything.

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. John 1 EveningPrayer Seriously!

Gideon and the fleece - just one more time, Lord, so I can be sure. ❤️🕯🤣

omne solum forti patria est, ut piscibus aequor,      ut volucri vacuo quicquid in orbe patet. “To the brave every land is the homeland, as to fishes the sea, as to birds the whole open space of the empty world.” (Ovid, Fasti I.494, trans. Wiseman)

For those who dismiss the feeding of the 5,000, Tracy Chapman would like a word: 🎵 My God is good in the kitchen Make a good meal from bread and fishin' Feed the hungry, pour the wine, Everybody welcome to have a good time. Sit at his table, Enjoy the food. 🎵

My gospel Playlist lasted exactly as long as it took me to marinate today's lamb chops and fry up the eggplant side dish. Won't God do it!

Remembered how a fellow parishioner once laughed at me for believing that the feeding of the 5,000 actually happened. Tears in my eyes at the gospel reading today. I'm a biblical literalist. 🕯😮‍💨

Family dinner last night, and we had a long discussion about how animals can think without words.

My weekly meditation is up. I love that the gospels tell us again and again that Jesus looked upon the crowds and felt compassion for them. That detail about Him has informed and defined so much of my approach to ministry. It is in this weeks gospel reading, and it made it into the title as well.

Urban Monastic@urbanmonastic.org · 5d ago

Every year I continue to learn new ways of seeing His compassion at work in myself & in our world. Every year His compassion becomes more miraculous. There are even moments where I am invited to be a conduit for the compassion of Christ. A Lectionary Meditation for our 18th Week of Ordinary Time 👇