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@mtrkdjoyce.bsky.social

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episcopal priest, phd candidate in theology, amateur interest in emergency medicine and construction technologies. wife guy to bailey. she/her

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opera trinitatis ad extra indivisa sunt @mtrkdjoyce.bsky.social · Jan 29

“We believe that, in obedience to Jesus Christ, its only head, the church is called to confess and to do all these things, even though the authorities and human laws might forbid them and punishment and suffering be the consequence.

Jesus is Lord.”

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opera trinitatis ad extra indivisa sunt @mtrkdjoyce.bsky.social · 1d

*lies down on ground*

okay my lecture for this afternoon is prepped

as prepped as it's gonna be, anyway

now time to GRADE

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opera trinitatis ad extra indivisa sunt @mtrkdjoyce.bsky.social · 1d

ICE threatened to shoot. the driver of an ambulance. that ICE was preventing. from carrying a patient to the hospital.

Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 1d

ICE agents blocked an ambulance that was trying to take an injured protester to hospital.

"We are still not being allowed to leave by ICE officers.” an EMT said on radio

When driver tried to get out, an agent yelled, "DON’T YOU EVER DO THAT AGAIN, I WILL SHOOT YOU"

www.wweek.com/news/2025/10...

Documents Allege a Federal Agent at Portland ICE Threatened to Shoot an Ambulance Driver

Feds delayed medics who had come to pick up an injured protester. Then, according to confidential incident reports, the agents became aggressive.

www.wweek.com

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Emily McGovern @emilyscartoons.bsky.social · Sep 7

Nuns

Nun 1: Tis a niewe Passtime, Sister. With these two Padells the participants Knocke the Sphere Hither & Thither

Nun 2: Bedev -
Nun 1: Before we Categoryse, Sister. Did I mention that the Sphere is saide to containe the Spirit of Satan?

...

Nun 2: Let us Knocke Him
Nun 1: Very goode Sister

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opera trinitatis ad extra indivisa sunt @mtrkdjoyce.bsky.social · 1d

no, but that's a good shout! I'll poke around a little while longer - it's a casual curiosity, not a current liturgical need - but will definitely ask him next time we see each other, if not sooner

opera trinitatis ad extra indivisa sunt @mtrkdjoyce.bsky.social · 1d

thank you!!

opera trinitatis ad extra indivisa sunt @mtrkdjoyce.bsky.social · 1d

okay anglican choral tradition ppl: are there any choral anthems you know of that utilize the first part of the funeral reading from 1 Corinthians 15? Especially looking for something that includes 15:26. ⚓

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opera trinitatis ad extra indivisa sunt @mtrkdjoyce.bsky.social · 1d

and it's still up for debate whether it's worth it lol

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opera trinitatis ad extra indivisa sunt @mtrkdjoyce.bsky.social · 1d

it was free

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opera trinitatis ad extra indivisa sunt @mtrkdjoyce.bsky.social · 1d

no idea, I'm afraid. I'm working from a scan on course reserve, and the cover sheet doesn't include edition info

opera trinitatis ad extra indivisa sunt @mtrkdjoyce.bsky.social · 1d

barth on faith as choice reminds me of some newman oxford homilies on the moral valance of faith contra "knowledge"

opera trinitatis ad extra indivisa sunt @mtrkdjoyce.bsky.social · 1d

I think the kinds of thoughts she puts down on paper, and which her words inspire in me, are prayer! because they are thoughts of one encountered and loved, not thought of a concept, an idea and abstraction to be located on a chess board with other ideas and abstractions

opera trinitatis ad extra indivisa sunt @mtrkdjoyce.bsky.social · 1d

"It can neither be substituted for them nor ranged with them, and, save with the greatest caution, it cannot even be compared with them."

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opera trinitatis ad extra indivisa sunt @mtrkdjoyce.bsky.social · 1d

"It is the Primal Origin by which they all are dissolved, the consummation by which they all are established. The power of God stands neither at the side of nor above-supernatural I-these limited and limiting powers. It is pure and preeminent and beyond them all."

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opera trinitatis ad extra indivisa sunt @mtrkdjoyce.bsky.social · 1d

"Being completely different, it is the KRISIS of all power, that by which all power is measured, and by which it is pronounced to be both something and-nothing, nothing and-something. It is that which sets all these powers in motion and fashions their eternal rest."

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opera trinitatis ad extra indivisa sunt @mtrkdjoyce.bsky.social · 1d

"It must not be confounded with any high, exalted force, known or knowable. The power of God is not the most exalted of observable forces, nor is it either their sum or their fount."

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opera trinitatis ad extra indivisa sunt @mtrkdjoyce.bsky.social · 1d

"...no divinity which NEEDS ANYTHING, any human propaganda (Acts xvii. 24, 25), can be God. God is the unknown God, and, precisely because He is unknown, He bestows life and breath and all things. Therefore the power of God can be detected neither in the world of nature nor in the souls of men."

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opera trinitatis ad extra indivisa sunt @mtrkdjoyce.bsky.social · 1d

to read him say, verbatim, "Christian Apologetics is meaningless" would have utterly blown my mind as an adolescent

I often wonder if I would not have had to wander so far if I had been offered something like this when I was detaching myself from the theology of my childhood church

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opera trinitatis ad extra indivisa sunt @mtrkdjoyce.bsky.social · 1d

an hour of study is only *sometimes* equivalent to an hour of prayer, I think. few theologians write in a way that produces genuine love for God in my heart and not just thoughts about God in my mind. Barth is one. (Sonderegger is another.)

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opera trinitatis ad extra indivisa sunt @mtrkdjoyce.bsky.social · 1d

the sheer scope of Barth Studies always intimidates me badly, because I am always afraid someone is going to chide or correct me, but I am reading a portion of his commentary on Romans for the first time and it is just SO good

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opera trinitatis ad extra indivisa sunt @mtrkdjoyce.bsky.social · 1d

no, but I need to!

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opera trinitatis ad extra indivisa sunt @mtrkdjoyce.bsky.social · 1d

I do not feel like the capacities of this particular laptop are constrained by it being linux instead of windows, I guess is what I am saying

opera trinitatis ad extra indivisa sunt @mtrkdjoyce.bsky.social · 1d

and I think that I do normal things with my computer. the only thing it Not Does Very Good is gaming, but honestly I could probably do that on Linux too if I had a different laptop - it's primarily a hardware constraint; this old thinkpad could not run modern games as a PC either

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opera trinitatis ad extra indivisa sunt @mtrkdjoyce.bsky.social · 1d

getting my printer set up was hard but that's always a pain on any os

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opera trinitatis ad extra indivisa sunt @mtrkdjoyce.bsky.social · 1d

I use ZorinOS (linux) and my sound works and I don't have to talk to people about... the command line? drivers? I honestly do not know what the things are that the Linux People are talking about well enough to even come up with real examples

you too can be a normie Linux user with ZorinOS

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opera trinitatis ad extra indivisa sunt @mtrkdjoyce.bsky.social · 1d

genuine disagreement over definition, or over whose definition is salient in a given context, is a real source of disagreement! but not all disagreement over definition is "no true scot." it's fair play to point out a definition motivated by non-shared principles; less so to assert *logical fallacy*

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