Matt Mardis-LeCroy
@mattml.bsky.social
Presbygational pastor with one foot in PA and one in NJ. Pleased to be here, mostly.
Pretty great start to the fall at College Hill Presbyterian Church!
September 8, 2025 at 11:27 AM
Pretty great start to the fall at College Hill Presbyterian Church!
Reposted by Matt Mardis-LeCroy
Among the greatest promotional photos of all time are these for the 1990 television movie of IT, where it looks like a prestige legal drama about a firm of hot young lawyers and one associate who likes to dress up like a clown.
July 24, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Among the greatest promotional photos of all time are these for the 1990 television movie of IT, where it looks like a prestige legal drama about a firm of hot young lawyers and one associate who likes to dress up like a clown.
Reposted by Matt Mardis-LeCroy
"Sadness is like a little bit of an emotional death but not a defeat if you can find a way to laugh about it. Because that laughter keeps you from having fear of it, and fear is the thing that keeps you turning to evil devices to save you from the sadness."
-- Stephen Colbert
-- Stephen Colbert
July 18, 2025 at 2:29 PM
"Sadness is like a little bit of an emotional death but not a defeat if you can find a way to laugh about it. Because that laughter keeps you from having fear of it, and fear is the thing that keeps you turning to evil devices to save you from the sadness."
-- Stephen Colbert
-- Stephen Colbert
Reposted by Matt Mardis-LeCroy
What’s a shark’s favourite novel?
A Farewell to Arms
A Farewell to Arms
July 14, 2025 at 9:26 AM
What’s a shark’s favourite novel?
A Farewell to Arms
A Farewell to Arms
Reposted by Matt Mardis-LeCroy
Happy 4th of July, Batman.
July 4, 2025 at 3:44 AM
Happy 4th of July, Batman.
Reposted by Matt Mardis-LeCroy
Your Tired, Your Poor...
July 4, 2025 at 2:14 AM
Your Tired, Your Poor...
10 years of civil marriage equality!
And these rights are less secure right now than at any moment in the last ten years.
Celebration? Sure.
Complacency? Nope.
And these rights are less secure right now than at any moment in the last ten years.
Celebration? Sure.
Complacency? Nope.
June 26, 2025 at 3:58 PM
10 years of civil marriage equality!
And these rights are less secure right now than at any moment in the last ten years.
Celebration? Sure.
Complacency? Nope.
And these rights are less secure right now than at any moment in the last ten years.
Celebration? Sure.
Complacency? Nope.
Reminds me of a parishioner in my first church -Little Neck, Queens, some 20 years ago- who would vent and grouch to me about all the Koreans "taking over the neighorhood."
He was deeply, proudly incredibly Irish.
The irony was not lost on me.
He was deeply, proudly incredibly Irish.
The irony was not lost on me.
Some perspective on the great conservative freak-out about Mamdani in NYC:
campaign-trails.ghost.io/the-not-so-g...
campaign-trails.ghost.io/the-not-so-g...
The Not-So-Great Replacement Theory, Revisited
The success of Zohran Mamdani in the mayoral primary in New York City has predictably set of the worst possible takes from the worst possible people. And while I'm generally loathe to drag out any pos...
campaign-trails.ghost.io
June 26, 2025 at 1:22 AM
Reminds me of a parishioner in my first church -Little Neck, Queens, some 20 years ago- who would vent and grouch to me about all the Koreans "taking over the neighorhood."
He was deeply, proudly incredibly Irish.
The irony was not lost on me.
He was deeply, proudly incredibly Irish.
The irony was not lost on me.
Pray for Minnesota.
Pray for our country.
Just...pray.
Pray for our country.
Just...pray.
June 14, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Pray for Minnesota.
Pray for our country.
Just...pray.
Pray for our country.
Just...pray.
The Gospel reading for Morning Prayer is a little on the nose.
May all of us see, welcome and work for the things that make for peace...
May all of us see, welcome and work for the things that make for peace...
June 13, 2025 at 11:29 AM
The Gospel reading for Morning Prayer is a little on the nose.
May all of us see, welcome and work for the things that make for peace...
May all of us see, welcome and work for the things that make for peace...
Long, long, long ago -when Steve Taylor produced their records- the Newsboys were...kind of good, actually? But they stop collaborating w/Taylor, Tait comes in, they become a bland, boring cog in the CCM machine. With gross politics.
So...this tracks.
www.usatoday.com/story/entert...
So...this tracks.
www.usatoday.com/story/entert...
Christian rock band respond to former member's drug abuse, sexual assault allegations
Newsboys respond to troubling news regarding their former lead singer, Michael Tait. " If you are a victim, we urge you to come forward," they said.
www.usatoday.com
June 9, 2025 at 1:26 AM
Long, long, long ago -when Steve Taylor produced their records- the Newsboys were...kind of good, actually? But they stop collaborating w/Taylor, Tait comes in, they become a bland, boring cog in the CCM machine. With gross politics.
So...this tracks.
www.usatoday.com/story/entert...
So...this tracks.
www.usatoday.com/story/entert...
"I need a fashion opinion, even though you're a middle-aged man." -my daughter, to me, just now.
May 22, 2025 at 8:27 PM
"I need a fashion opinion, even though you're a middle-aged man." -my daughter, to me, just now.
Name them! Shame them!
Watching so-called progressive Christian "influencers" and preachers use AI stealing the work of scholars and literary writers is so intellectually dishonest that I have no words to describe my rage.
If you are a liberal Christian, your entire tradition is built on academic credibility.
If you are a liberal Christian, your entire tradition is built on academic credibility.
May 22, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Name them! Shame them!
Pope Francis could see the humanity of trans people. Why is it hard for so many American Christians?
How do mainline Protestants get outflanked...by the pope?
How do mainline Protestants get outflanked...by the pope?
At his invitation, a group of transgender women formed an honor guard and greeted the coffin of Pope Francis when it arrived for internment at Santa Maria Maggiore Basilica today
uk.news.yahoo.com/transgender-...
uk.news.yahoo.com/transgender-...
Transgender mourners to greet Pope’s coffin
Transgender women will greet the Pope’s coffin at the church where he will be buried.
uk.news.yahoo.com
April 26, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Pope Francis could see the humanity of trans people. Why is it hard for so many American Christians?
How do mainline Protestants get outflanked...by the pope?
How do mainline Protestants get outflanked...by the pope?
Here @trippfuller.bsky.social says what I was trying to say in my Good Friday sermon -but he does it better.
Worth a read.
Worth a read.
April 19, 2025 at 1:06 AM
Here @trippfuller.bsky.social says what I was trying to say in my Good Friday sermon -but he does it better.
Worth a read.
Worth a read.
Yesterday, College Hill Presbyterian Church had its best non-holiday Sunday attendance since before Covid.
It is so strange to see my congregation doing so well when so many things...aren't.
It is so strange to see my congregation doing so well when so many things...aren't.
April 7, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Yesterday, College Hill Presbyterian Church had its best non-holiday Sunday attendance since before Covid.
It is so strange to see my congregation doing so well when so many things...aren't.
It is so strange to see my congregation doing so well when so many things...aren't.
It's Thursday morning, almost 11, and I know enough about this Sunday's sermon to tell you that it will be:
1. Brief.
2. Directed at myself (more than usual) and
3. Kinda scary?
Working Title: "The Secret to Great Comedy"
See you in church.
collegehillpc.org
1. Brief.
2. Directed at myself (more than usual) and
3. Kinda scary?
Working Title: "The Secret to Great Comedy"
See you in church.
collegehillpc.org
College Hill Presbyterian Church
collegehillpc.org
April 3, 2025 at 2:58 PM
It's Thursday morning, almost 11, and I know enough about this Sunday's sermon to tell you that it will be:
1. Brief.
2. Directed at myself (more than usual) and
3. Kinda scary?
Working Title: "The Secret to Great Comedy"
See you in church.
collegehillpc.org
1. Brief.
2. Directed at myself (more than usual) and
3. Kinda scary?
Working Title: "The Secret to Great Comedy"
See you in church.
collegehillpc.org
God is not angry. God is sad.
And in God's grief lies our salvation.
More about that on Sunday...
And in God's grief lies our salvation.
More about that on Sunday...
March 12, 2025 at 6:56 PM
God is not angry. God is sad.
And in God's grief lies our salvation.
More about that on Sunday...
And in God's grief lies our salvation.
More about that on Sunday...
I know that, in so many ways, the world is such a dumpster fire right.
And. Yet.
I get to do the best work with the best people. I am so grateful. And also kind of...embarassed?
It's weird.
And. Yet.
I get to do the best work with the best people. I am so grateful. And also kind of...embarassed?
It's weird.
March 11, 2025 at 12:54 AM
I know that, in so many ways, the world is such a dumpster fire right.
And. Yet.
I get to do the best work with the best people. I am so grateful. And also kind of...embarassed?
It's weird.
And. Yet.
I get to do the best work with the best people. I am so grateful. And also kind of...embarassed?
It's weird.
Hopped up on the good Sudafed, I have written the first draft of Sunday's sermon.
Working title?
"Sinners in the Hands of a Curious God."
Working title?
"Sinners in the Hands of a Curious God."
March 6, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Hopped up on the good Sudafed, I have written the first draft of Sunday's sermon.
Working title?
"Sinners in the Hands of a Curious God."
Working title?
"Sinners in the Hands of a Curious God."