Scott D. Hendricks 📜🪶🪔
@scottdhendricks.bsky.social
Sweat, tears, & books • Music, memoir, & pilgrimage • Bible, early monasticism, Origenian tradition, Maximus the Confessor, Isaac the Syrian, & the Philokalia • I am a microcosm.
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It does no good to look askance at each other. (See alt text of this image for pertinent song lyric.)
November 30, 2025 at 5:04 PM
It does no good to look askance at each other. (See alt text of this image for pertinent song lyric.)
Your annual reminder that HAH Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew knows how to set a fine example with the positive energy we need in today’s world.
November 27, 2025 at 2:36 AM
Your annual reminder that HAH Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew knows how to set a fine example with the positive energy we need in today’s world.
The greatest subplot to The Way of a Pilgrim is wondering how he managed a Bible well over 2,000 pages and a Philokalia by St. Paisius Velichkovsky in his coat and nap sack.
November 23, 2025 at 12:45 PM
The greatest subplot to The Way of a Pilgrim is wondering how he managed a Bible well over 2,000 pages and a Philokalia by St. Paisius Velichkovsky in his coat and nap sack.
☦️ “By the grace of God I am a Christian, by my deeds a great sinner, and by my calling a homeless wanderer of humblest origin, roaming from place to place.” 📿
November 23, 2025 at 5:52 AM
☦️ “By the grace of God I am a Christian, by my deeds a great sinner, and by my calling a homeless wanderer of humblest origin, roaming from place to place.” 📿
(h/t for meme template revival @blueberrymill.bsky.social)
November 23, 2025 at 5:32 AM
(h/t for meme template revival @blueberrymill.bsky.social)
Do not
Tell me what I can and cannot do When I rock
Original material, my crew non-stop
Tell me what I can and cannot do When I rock
Original material, my crew non-stop
November 23, 2025 at 5:31 AM
Do not
Tell me what I can and cannot do When I rock
Original material, my crew non-stop
Tell me what I can and cannot do When I rock
Original material, my crew non-stop
Be here now, with the original rocker, Johann Sebastian Bach — S.D.G.
November 23, 2025 at 4:48 AM
Be here now, with the original rocker, Johann Sebastian Bach — S.D.G.
When you want to be “A Pilgrim” but you’re on a budget.
November 22, 2025 at 12:56 AM
When you want to be “A Pilgrim” but you’re on a budget.
Your last-saved meme is your moral philosophy.
November 18, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Your last-saved meme is your moral philosophy.
Ever since we moved I haven’t been able to find these lovely bookends. I plan to relocate my study workbench from the basement but I wish I knew where my bookends are.
November 11, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Ever since we moved I haven’t been able to find these lovely bookends. I plan to relocate my study workbench from the basement but I wish I knew where my bookends are.
The Westminster Handbook of Origen by John Anthony McGuckin, entries ad hoc.
My understanding of the first Origenist crisis is limited so I’m trying to broaden it with volumes I have in my library.
My understanding of the first Origenist crisis is limited so I’m trying to broaden it with volumes I have in my library.
October 25, 2025 at 10:17 PM
The Westminster Handbook of Origen by John Anthony McGuckin, entries ad hoc.
My understanding of the first Origenist crisis is limited so I’m trying to broaden it with volumes I have in my library.
My understanding of the first Origenist crisis is limited so I’m trying to broaden it with volumes I have in my library.
In case you forgot that the Origenian vision of the resurrected body is orbital and DBH called baseball A Perfect Game, . . .
October 16, 2025 at 1:59 AM
In case you forgot that the Origenian vision of the resurrected body is orbital and DBH called baseball A Perfect Game, . . .
October 5, 2025 at 8:05 PM
[If you see this, quote with the energy you bring to BlueSky]
Nobody:
Me not caring that nobody cares:
Nobody:
Me not caring that nobody cares:
September 16, 2025 at 2:35 AM
[If you see this, quote with the energy you bring to BlueSky]
Nobody:
Me not caring that nobody cares:
Nobody:
Me not caring that nobody cares:
I hope some of you will enjoy this short video of Fr. Roman giving a talk at an Antiochian Orthodox parish in TN from 1997. You can find the whole talk on YouTube but this is my favorite part.
September 8, 2025 at 1:03 AM
I hope some of you will enjoy this short video of Fr. Roman giving a talk at an Antiochian Orthodox parish in TN from 1997. You can find the whole talk on YouTube but this is my favorite part.
Today we remember our father among the saints, Maximus the Confessor.
August 13, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Today we remember our father among the saints, Maximus the Confessor.
This Sunday, August 10th, the President of the U.S. published a notice on his Truth Social network that he would be beautifying Washington D.C. by moving all its homeless people out of the district.
He fails to acknowledge the beauty & humanity of these people without a home.
He fails to acknowledge the beauty & humanity of these people without a home.
August 12, 2025 at 11:19 PM
This Sunday, August 10th, the President of the U.S. published a notice on his Truth Social network that he would be beautifying Washington D.C. by moving all its homeless people out of the district.
He fails to acknowledge the beauty & humanity of these people without a home.
He fails to acknowledge the beauty & humanity of these people without a home.
I guess I shouldn’t be surprised that my feed is not Roman Catholic enough to have notified me that this meme will be relevant again.
www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news...
www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news...
July 31, 2025 at 5:57 PM
I guess I shouldn’t be surprised that my feed is not Roman Catholic enough to have notified me that this meme will be relevant again.
www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news...
www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news...