She asked for crumbs and Cranmer gave her words to the whole church. Every Prayer of Humble Access is her plea, prayed at the rail by all of us. Mercy that wide is the day's whole sermon. hitchhikingthebible.blogspo... #Episcopal

God breathed into dust and it became a living soul. Every breath since is a gift returned. Breathing is integral to your body’s particular prayer and attentiveness. Keep one quiet breath for God today. From Unabashed Faith (2025). cadoyle.substack.com #Anglican

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Look to the rock from which you were hewn, Isaiah says, and to the quarry from which you were dug. Before God sends the people forward, God sends them back to the stone. Memory is a form of courage. cadoyle.substack.com #Anglican #PublicTheology

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At Pentecost the Spirit fell on the whole house, and every tongue found its word. Machines speak as they are taught; the church speaks as she is breathed upon. From Beyond Code and Creed (forthcoming). cadoyle.substack.com #AIandFaith #Episcopal

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At the footwashing we kneel with a basin and a towel, and the whole gospel fits in that water. God's mission of reconciliation and love is revealed in service to our neighbor that transforms lives and restores dignity. A Generous Community (2015). cadoyle.substack.com #Anglican

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You tell me I am clad in righteousness, but I still feel undeserving. You cover me anyway. You call me yours anyway. You just asked me to come. So here I am. From A Bagman's Prayer Book, in this week's study: hitchhikingthebible.blogspo... #Anglican

An enemy sowed weeds while the whole household slept. Our savings grew in that same dark, into the very machines we now question. The master refuses the purge and forbids the sleep. Keep watch. From While We Slept (2026). cadoyle.substack.com #AIandFaith #Episcopal

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Take heart, it is I. Peter climbs over the side toward a voice he trusts. He walks until he watches the wind instead of the face calling him, and the water remembers it is water, and God's, for Christ's hand is there.

Proper 14A, August 9, 2026

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A toddler cries out during the reading. The bread is broken anyway. The child in the aisle is a holy question set among us, and the Church answers with open hands: whoever receives a little child receives Christ himself. cadoyle.substack.com/p/cari... #Episcopal

An astronaut carried communion cups to the space station. The eternal entered the temporal and consecrated it rather than escaping it. Creation stays holy past every boundary we cross. From The Communion Cup in Orbit. cadoyle.substack.com/p/the-... #PublicTheology

A toddler's cry interrupts the reading. A parent slips out, returns, apologetic. The Prayer Book dares to say whoever receives a little child in the name of Christ receives Christ himself. The child in the aisle is the sacrament, never the interruption. cadoyle.substack.com #Anglican

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A bishop lays a hand on a bowed head, and grace moves through skin. No signal does that. Unabashed Faith (2025) names a wired age: hearts crowded, bodies alone. Christ answers with flesh, bread, water, oil. Come be touched. Come be whole. cadoyle.substack.com #Episcopal #PublicTheology

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Love that stays only in the mind never feeds anyone. Mercy becomes real in touch, in bread placed in open hands, in wounds tended rather than described. This is the flesh the Incarnation blesses. cadoyle.substack.com #PublicTheology

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Jesus watches the treasury and sees a widow's two small coins. Tonight a woman in Nairobi labels images so a machine can speak, paid by the task, unnamed in what she built. This essay asks us to see her as Christ saw the widow.

AI, the Gig Economy, and the Anglican Word

6 in the AI Series: A Paper on The Invitation and the Obligation of Global AI for the Anglican Communion

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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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Oil on a forehead. Water on a head. Bread in an open palm. An embodied theology begins with an impertinent assumption: God cares about bodies. Mercy has hands before it has opinions. My essay Embodied Mercy and Common Life: cadoyle.substack.com/p/embo... #Episcopal

Embodied Mercy and Common Life

An Anglican Witness in an America of Precarity

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In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was God. Before you had a name to answer to, you were already spoken. The creature begins already spoken, held in being as a word is held in a sentence, owing its standing to the Word who utters it. cadoyle.substack.com #AnglicanRealism

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The priest breaks the bread where every eye can see the hands do it. A machine can arrange the words of a blessing. Only a body can offer one. Personhood is relation and gift long before it is ever intelligence. cadoyle.substack.com/p/arti... #AIandFaith

Artificial Intelligence and Human Identity

A Reflection on Antiqua et Nova

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Bosch painted the Last Judgment as a world on fire, and still the church sings the Te Deum in the middle of it. Hope is a practice a body performs together. From my essay A Church That Embodies Hope: cadoyle.substack.com/p/a-ch... #Episcopal

A Church that Embodies Hope

Thoughts on Eternity

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Jesus gathered a community by invitation. Come and see. Follow me. Abide in my love. Authority that sounds like welcome. We steward one another because relationships are sacred, never because they are useful. My essay Relational Stewardship: cadoyle.substack.com/p/rela... #Episcopal

Relational Stewardship

Embodied Life Together

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The laborers stood in the marketplace until the vineyard owner called them by name. Algorithms now do much of the calling, yet vocation remains God's word to a worker. From my essay AI, the Gig Economy, and the Anglican Word: cadoyle.substack.com/p/ai-t... #AIandFaith

AI, the Gig Economy, and the Anglican Word

6 in the AI Series: A Paper on The Invitation and the Obligation of Global AI for the Anglican Communion

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Mary supposed he was the gardener. Hope stood before her, risen and alive. The church carries that garden morning into the world as the risen body of Christ. From my essay A Church That Embodies Hope: cadoyle.substack.com #Episcopal #Hope

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Now we see in a mirror, dimly. Paul hands the church its posture for a shouting age: we know in part, so we speak with humility and love. Public theology begins at that dim mirror. From my essay Through a Glass Darkly: cadoyle.substack.com #PublicTheology #Episcopal

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Jesus healed with his hands, broke bread with his hands, washed feet with his hands. The human is the medium through which grace becomes tangible. Machines compute; grace travels by hand. From my essay The Ministry of Presence: cadoyle.substack.com #AnglicanRealism #AI

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Before sunrise Jesus went out to a lonely place and prayed. The day had its plans for him; he met God first. Faith is itself an act of resistance. Keep a quiet hour this morning before the scroll. From my book Unabashed Faith: amazon.com/dp/B0F41GXFCR #Episcopal

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A sower walks the shore of Galilee, flinging seed on path, rock, thorn, and good soil. The wonder is the sowing itself, so generous it spares nothing. Be good earth today, then become a sower too. hitchhikingthebible.blogspo... #Episcopal

Proper 10A, July 12, 2026

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Treasure in a field, pearl of great price, a net for every kind. Sunday's parables set God at the center, the merchant who gives all to redeem his beloved. Proper 12A: hitchhikingthebible.blogspot.com/2014/07/prop... #SermonPrep

Proper 12A, July 26, 2026

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Jesus walked a grain field on the sabbath, making a way for his friends as they ate. His sabbath is wide as creation: food for the hungry, healing for the sick, rest for the weary. Keep a sabbath hour today. From my sermon Making Way (2018). cadoyle.substack.com #Episcopal

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Jacob woke and cried, surely the Lord is in this place! In Jesus the ladder becomes a living Bethel, God dwelling with us. My Proper 11A reflections: hitchhikingthebible.blogspot.com/2014/07/prop... #Episcopal

Proper 11A, July 19, 2026

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New every morning are the mercies of God, sings the prophet; great is your faithfulness. Before the day asks anything of you, receive what it gives: mercy fresh as bread at dawn. cadoyle.substack.com #Episcopal

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