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Okay I feel like I’m seeing an increasing number of businesses and events here in the Twin Cities require masks. Is it just me or is this a growing thing
February 11, 2026 at 11:16 PM
Okay I feel like I’m seeing an increasing number of businesses and events here in the Twin Cities require masks. Is it just me or is this a growing thing
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There doesn’t seem to any reason for it other than it slowly becoming a kind of left-coded signal and then as that happens people becoming more militant about it?
February 11, 2026 at 11:17 PM
There doesn’t seem to any reason for it other than it slowly becoming a kind of left-coded signal and then as that happens people becoming more militant about it?
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My son and I were so excited to see this #SuperbOwl in the daytime in an empty lot next to our house. Our first time seeing an owl in the wild!
February 8, 2026 at 6:39 PM
My son and I were so excited to see this #SuperbOwl in the daytime in an empty lot next to our house. Our first time seeing an owl in the wild!
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Traditionalism is not merely Neo-Pagan; it is so in a Julian the Apostate register of entirely contrived artificial reconstruction and self-defeating futility
February 9, 2026 at 1:20 AM
Traditionalism is not merely Neo-Pagan; it is so in a Julian the Apostate register of entirely contrived artificial reconstruction and self-defeating futility
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we pray you to set your passion, cross, and death between your judgment and our souls
February 8, 2026 at 5:40 PM
we pray you to set your passion, cross, and death between your judgment and our souls
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worthily lamenting
February 7, 2026 at 1:40 AM
worthily lamenting
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as the crucified body of thy dear Son was laid in the tomb and rested on this holy Sabbath, so we may await with him the coming of the third day, and rise with him to newness of life;
February 5, 2026 at 5:40 AM
as the crucified body of thy dear Son was laid in the tomb and rested on this holy Sabbath, so we may await with him the coming of the third day, and rise with him to newness of life;
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Jeremy Taylor in 'The Faith and Patience of the Saints; or, the Righteous Cause Oppressed', Part II, Sermon X, second volume of the Golden Grove sermons - a sense here, perhaps, in which Taylor's summary of the Wars of the Roses is meant to reflect the Wars of the Three Kingdoms:
February 5, 2026 at 9:40 AM
Jeremy Taylor in 'The Faith and Patience of the Saints; or, the Righteous Cause Oppressed', Part II, Sermon X, second volume of the Golden Grove sermons - a sense here, perhaps, in which Taylor's summary of the Wars of the Roses is meant to reflect the Wars of the Three Kingdoms:
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"...we can also see how the Articles of Perth - not least kneeling to receive the Sacrament - confirmed the place of the Jacobean Church of Scotland within an arc of episcopal national Churches of the Northern Kingdoms, stretching from Ireland to Sweden"
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'After the manner of the Reformed churches in Germany': the Articles of Perth, the Jacobean Church of Scotland, and the Churches of the Northern Kingdoms
Addressing how critics of the Articles of Perth condemned kneeling to receive the Sacrament as 'popish', David Lindsay, Bishop of Brechin (...
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February 5, 2026 at 9:41 AM
"...we can also see how the Articles of Perth - not least kneeling to receive the Sacrament - confirmed the place of the Jacobean Church of Scotland within an arc of episcopal national Churches of the Northern Kingdoms, stretching from Ireland to Sweden"
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What’s with all these ex-Anglican Catholic priests and laypeople who have “found the one true church and faith” and yet spend most of their time talking about how STUPID and UGLY their EX is whom they TOTALLY don’t even CARE or THINK about anymore? Extremely divorced midlife crisis guy energy
February 5, 2026 at 2:18 PM
What’s with all these ex-Anglican Catholic priests and laypeople who have “found the one true church and faith” and yet spend most of their time talking about how STUPID and UGLY their EX is whom they TOTALLY don’t even CARE or THINK about anymore? Extremely divorced midlife crisis guy energy
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1 Samuel 8 comes to mind (monarchy-touting trads hardest hit):
![10 So Samuel reported all the words of the Lord to the people who were asking him for a king. 11 He said, “These will be the ways of the king who will reign over you: he will take your sons and appoint them to his chariots and to be his horsemen, and to run before his chariots, 12 and he will appoint for himself commanders of thousands and commanders of fifties and some to plow his ground and to reap his harvest and to make his implements of war and the equipment of his chariots. 13 He will take your daughters to be perfumers and cooks and bakers. 14 He will take the best of your fields and vineyards and olive orchards and give them to his courtiers. 15 He will take one-tenth of your grain and of your vineyards and give it to his officers and his courtiers. 16 He will take your male and female slaves and the best of your cattle[b] and donkeys and put them to his work. 17 He will take one-tenth of your flocks, and you shall be his slaves. 18 And on that day you will cry out because of your king, whom you have chosen for yourselves, but the Lord will not answer you on that day.”
Israel’s Request for a King Granted
19 But the people refused to listen to the voice of Samuel; they said, “No! We are determined to have a king over us, 20 so that we also may be like other nations and that our king may govern us and go out before us and fight our battles.” 21 When Samuel heard all the words of the people, he repeated them in the ears of the Lord. 22 The Lord said to Samuel, “Listen to their voice and set a king over them.” Samuel then said to the Israelites, “Each of you return home.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:uvoenafwplcmnwjvub373eyq/bafkreiaw5szbx63fio4nxkotppcqm5ficaod3jxyw6vp5mh5keft4dlore@jpeg)
February 5, 2026 at 10:15 PM
1 Samuel 8 comes to mind (monarchy-touting trads hardest hit):
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From Zwingli's 'An Exposition of the Faith' (1531) - on the Lord's Supper, "with eye and palate we see and taste that Christ ..." (p.248):
February 4, 2026 at 5:31 PM
From Zwingli's 'An Exposition of the Faith' (1531) - on the Lord's Supper, "with eye and palate we see and taste that Christ ..." (p.248):
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"The Laudian apologia and rational for ceremonial conformity was no innovation but, rather, a call which was grounded in the Elizabethan Settlement."
Continuing my thoughts on Lake's 'On Laudianism'.
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Continuing my thoughts on Lake's 'On Laudianism'.
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Responding to Lake's 'On Laudianism': the Laudians and 'The Admonition to the Parliament' were both wrong?
Having previously indicated how unconvincing I find Lake's assessment of the general characteristics of the Elizabethan and Jacobean - tha...
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February 2, 2026 at 8:45 AM
"The Laudian apologia and rational for ceremonial conformity was no innovation but, rather, a call which was grounded in the Elizabethan Settlement."
Continuing my thoughts on Lake's 'On Laudianism'.
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Continuing my thoughts on Lake's 'On Laudianism'.
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but the very pure word of God, the holy Scriptures,
February 2, 2026 at 11:40 PM
but the very pure word of God, the holy Scriptures,
The Governmental Theory of the Atonement is a type or flavor of PSA, and the two can't be wholly cleaved from each other.
February 1, 2026 at 3:16 AM
The Governmental Theory of the Atonement is a type or flavor of PSA, and the two can't be wholly cleaved from each other.
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I am thankful for the corpus of Reformed Biblical commentaries, but I have to agree with the Arminian critique that the Crucifixion gets lost in strict predestinarian theologies. God ends up becoming impersonal because Election saves you and not Jesus.
January 31, 2026 at 8:03 PM
I am thankful for the corpus of Reformed Biblical commentaries, but I have to agree with the Arminian critique that the Crucifixion gets lost in strict predestinarian theologies. God ends up becoming impersonal because Election saves you and not Jesus.
The Book of Mormon probably resonated with the American frontier because Americans wanted to recast themselves as Jews recapitulating the history of a new Israel.
You can already do that with the Old Testmant though, which is what the Puritans did.
You can already do that with the Old Testmant though, which is what the Puritans did.
January 31, 2026 at 7:53 PM
The Book of Mormon probably resonated with the American frontier because Americans wanted to recast themselves as Jews recapitulating the history of a new Israel.
You can already do that with the Old Testmant though, which is what the Puritans did.
You can already do that with the Old Testmant though, which is what the Puritans did.
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Catholics still interested in “Reform of the Reform” might consider the example of the 2019 Book of Common Prayer by ACNA. It takes the best of the Liturgical Movement’s work in the 1979 Episcopal BCP, and reinjects key traditional Prayer Book principles in a sensible way. Best of both worlds
January 31, 2026 at 7:25 PM
Catholics still interested in “Reform of the Reform” might consider the example of the 2019 Book of Common Prayer by ACNA. It takes the best of the Liturgical Movement’s work in the 1979 Episcopal BCP, and reinjects key traditional Prayer Book principles in a sensible way. Best of both worlds
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"Eamon Duffy has described the 1662 settlement as 'the secure replanting of the Laudian ideal'. This replanting was the fruit of the blood of the Royal Martyr, our Josiah."
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"The British Josiah": the blood of the Royal Martyr and the restoration of the Laudian vision
On this 30th January, we turn to a 1660 sermon delivered on the anniversary of the day - as its title states - "on which that Sacred Martyr...
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January 30, 2026 at 8:47 AM
"Eamon Duffy has described the 1662 settlement as 'the secure replanting of the Laudian ideal'. This replanting was the fruit of the blood of the Royal Martyr, our Josiah."
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a simple service; since the matter is arranged
January 30, 2026 at 11:40 PM
a simple service; since the matter is arranged