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As someone with a strategically ambiguous relationship to Anglo-Catholicism,
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so there just isn't as much need for these paranoid excavations of "evil amongst us," the evil has just made itself highly obvious, they have flags and slogans and a political party in charge of a country. woke 2 is about power: how do we gain it back and what do we do with it after.
December 1, 2025 at 2:10 AM
so there just isn't as much need for these paranoid excavations of "evil amongst us," the evil has just made itself highly obvious, they have flags and slogans and a political party in charge of a country. woke 2 is about power: how do we gain it back and what do we do with it after.
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There isn't much of 2025 left, but Susanna Elm's new book promises to be the book of the year!!
The Importance of Being Gorgeous: Gender and Christian Imperial Rule in Late Antiquity
That cover is gorgeous, and it's open-access so you can just download it!
The Importance of Being Gorgeous: Gender and Christian Imperial Rule in Late Antiquity
That cover is gorgeous, and it's open-access so you can just download it!
December 1, 2025 at 7:53 AM
There isn't much of 2025 left, but Susanna Elm's new book promises to be the book of the year!!
The Importance of Being Gorgeous: Gender and Christian Imperial Rule in Late Antiquity
That cover is gorgeous, and it's open-access so you can just download it!
The Importance of Being Gorgeous: Gender and Christian Imperial Rule in Late Antiquity
That cover is gorgeous, and it's open-access so you can just download it!
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Trump just commuted the 7-year sentence of David Gentile, a private equity leader who helped defraud thousands of people out of some $1.6 billion, almost as soon as his prison stint began.
"I lost my whole life savings," one person wrote, adding, "I am living from check to check."
"I lost my whole life savings," one person wrote, adding, "I am living from check to check."
Trump Frees Fraudster Just Days Into Seven-Year Prison Sentence
www.nytimes.com
November 30, 2025 at 11:56 PM
Trump just commuted the 7-year sentence of David Gentile, a private equity leader who helped defraud thousands of people out of some $1.6 billion, almost as soon as his prison stint began.
"I lost my whole life savings," one person wrote, adding, "I am living from check to check."
"I lost my whole life savings," one person wrote, adding, "I am living from check to check."
Would kill for a dried poblano pepper right now
November 30, 2025 at 7:06 AM
Would kill for a dried poblano pepper right now
I am writing a serialized novella (serialized in the sense that, in all reality, I will just write these at 11pm the night before lol) called "The Next-Ins" about the disciples who did not quite make the cut to be Apostles. This is for my K-5th Sunday school class to read.
November 30, 2025 at 6:50 AM
I am writing a serialized novella (serialized in the sense that, in all reality, I will just write these at 11pm the night before lol) called "The Next-Ins" about the disciples who did not quite make the cut to be Apostles. This is for my K-5th Sunday school class to read.
Spent today cleaning while snowed inside
November 30, 2025 at 4:30 AM
Spent today cleaning while snowed inside
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Dimon practicing some risk management here is a big tell.
Dimon on why JPMorgan Chase is not funding WH Ballroom:
We have an issue, which is anything we do, since we do a lot of contracts with governments here and around the world, we have to be very careful how anything is perceived, and also how the next DOJ is going to deal with it.
We have an issue, which is anything we do, since we do a lot of contracts with governments here and around the world, we have to be very careful how anything is perceived, and also how the next DOJ is going to deal with it.
November 29, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Dimon practicing some risk management here is a big tell.
Culpepper's Matthew commentary is steeply discounted right now ($50 if you use the coupon vs. $90 on the WJK website). Bought it to use for the coming lectionary year ⚓
November 29, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Culpepper's Matthew commentary is steeply discounted right now ($50 if you use the coupon vs. $90 on the WJK website). Bought it to use for the coming lectionary year ⚓
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Variations (Progressive Motif) https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/483167
November 29, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Variations (Progressive Motif) https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/483167
I checked back on Twitter to see a post someone sent me and looked around. Everything is so dark and cynical and reductive. It's such a different mental health space than here honestly
November 29, 2025 at 5:22 PM
I checked back on Twitter to see a post someone sent me and looked around. Everything is so dark and cynical and reductive. It's such a different mental health space than here honestly
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Chicago - blizzard of 79
November 29, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Chicago - blizzard of 79
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i just sent off (yes on a saturday morning) a short response article replying to a short review article written by chris wright, both slated for publication together in the *journal of the evangelical missiological society*
my first time floating the interstellar bible idea in public
my first time floating the interstellar bible idea in public
November 29, 2025 at 2:59 PM
i just sent off (yes on a saturday morning) a short response article replying to a short review article written by chris wright, both slated for publication together in the *journal of the evangelical missiological society*
my first time floating the interstellar bible idea in public
my first time floating the interstellar bible idea in public
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“In days after Alaska, a European intel agency distributed a hard-copy report in an envelope to some of the continent’s most senior national security officials, who were shocked by the contents: Inside were details of the commercial and economic plans the Trump admin had been pursuing with Russia.”
Make Money Not War: Trump’s Real Plan for Peace in Ukraine
The Kremlin pitched the White House on peace through business. To Europe’s dismay, the president and his envoy are on board.
www.wsj.com
November 29, 2025 at 5:44 AM
“In days after Alaska, a European intel agency distributed a hard-copy report in an envelope to some of the continent’s most senior national security officials, who were shocked by the contents: Inside were details of the commercial and economic plans the Trump admin had been pursuing with Russia.”
++Rowan Williams: KB assumes "poverty is a lifestyle choice. Half an hour spent listening to the clients at any local food bank might persuade her otherwise. [How] could children or disabled people living in need be said to have failed in their responsibility? [This idea] is eccentric beyond belief"
Kemi Badenoch says welfare spending is unchristian
Kemi Badenoch says welfare spending is unchristian
Kemi Badenoch says welfare spending is unchristian
www.thetimes.com
November 29, 2025 at 5:08 AM
++Rowan Williams: KB assumes "poverty is a lifestyle choice. Half an hour spent listening to the clients at any local food bank might persuade her otherwise. [How] could children or disabled people living in need be said to have failed in their responsibility? [This idea] is eccentric beyond belief"
Ordered some thing from Walmart dot com. They cancelled my order "because it was flagged by our policy review team" but didn't say what the problem was. Very annoying!!!!
November 29, 2025 at 12:43 AM
Ordered some thing from Walmart dot com. They cancelled my order "because it was flagged by our policy review team" but didn't say what the problem was. Very annoying!!!!
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Also recognize that this unambiguous use of the military to commit murder of helpless noncombatants as they fought for life is a direct reflection of the virulent white supremacy that has seized our government, where every Latino man is a gangbanger in a de facto state of war against White America
November 28, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Also recognize that this unambiguous use of the military to commit murder of helpless noncombatants as they fought for life is a direct reflection of the virulent white supremacy that has seized our government, where every Latino man is a gangbanger in a de facto state of war against White America
Got these for my self- Christmas present
November 28, 2025 at 11:51 PM
Got these for my self- Christmas present
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In the richest city in the richest country on the planet, the thing we can’t afford is to forget those who are left hungry.
November 27, 2025 at 9:50 PM
In the richest city in the richest country on the planet, the thing we can’t afford is to forget those who are left hungry.
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Woke is coming back and There Will Be Lists
i do not regret to inform you we are going to win
November 28, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Woke is coming back and There Will Be Lists
Today is like the only day all year I actually buy things (other than necessities / replacements for stuff that breaks)
November 28, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Today is like the only day all year I actually buy things (other than necessities / replacements for stuff that breaks)
Does anybody have an answer to this. Theology books from 2025 that I should have read
Are there any good books in Theology that have come out in 2025? I have like completely stopped following new releases since graduating from seminary ⚓️
November 27, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Does anybody have an answer to this. Theology books from 2025 that I should have read
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Are there any good books in Theology that have come out in 2025? I have like completely stopped following new releases since graduating from seminary ⚓️
November 27, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Are there any good books in Theology that have come out in 2025? I have like completely stopped following new releases since graduating from seminary ⚓️
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Pierrot Lunaire https://www.wikiart.org/en/paul-klee/pierrot-lunaire-1924
November 27, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Pierrot Lunaire https://www.wikiart.org/en/paul-klee/pierrot-lunaire-1924