has something to do as well with the widespread unionization of higher-ed faculty in Canada; would be interested in a comparative study with the U.S. (where, true, some—but not all—institutions have much more money to throw around) but faculty are far less unionized

I asked it about the Communion of Saints and the answer was decent enough (can't figure out how to share link here)

I know how you feel about this but... it seems like this is the kind of thing that in the future (or now) people will be asking of AI, in which case we may be glad that the EpiscoBot exists: www.episcobot.com

it's not terribly user-friendly either, if you want to search within it for a term

The online Episcopal Church Dictionary tends to be more historical but answers some of these types of queries www.episcopalchurch.org/glossary/

at least it's not in Comic Sans font

Great thread: 2 thoughts.

1) Replaces God as Creator with man as creator. Reminded of Pullman's "His Dark Materials" where God is The Authority (but not the Creator): what does authority independent of creation look like?

2) Connection to "end of history" eschatology and market triumphalism?

not sudden death but sudden victory: think positively!

there's so many reasons not to watch and give any support to the professional sports industrial complex, and yet... #cantlookaway

kind of impressed by the flag switcheroo in the outfield

this is a persuasive analogy but... there's a difference between enclosing commons and using copyrighted works, is there not? copyright is part and parcel of private property and capitalism

Here in the Diocese of Montreal we seated our new bishop today and it moved me in all the right ways: deep sense of the Holy Spirit moving in the church this Francistide

and arguably only a thing in its current iteration since about 1952—and can become another thing, if we want it to be

Of course, the rest of that passage is important too: "The great dragon was thrown down...the deceiver of the whole world."