Ryan Turnbull

If we whittle down faculties and compete for online students we will just consolidate education into a few content providers until all scholarship is done by a handfull of profs and a bunch of bestseller-chasing influencers. The last to notice will be churches who haven't valued education in years.

I’m not saying you *can’t* meet Jesus in your local mega church but I am asking why you’d let there be so many impediments to it.

Weekend! One quick little trip to Toronto (Sun-Tues) for some work meetings and then I’m on Christmas holidays somehow. Can’t believe 2025 is coming to an end already.

Book mail!

Thanks @drewkadel.bsky.social! Really looking forward to digging in!

Check out this incredible print of St Margaret that one of our parishioners made for our Anglican Poetics Project series.

He’s gotten worse somehow?

The Vancouver School of Theology Receives Major Grant from Lilly Endowment to Establish the Reimagining Theological Education Project - Vancouver School of Theology Download FULL Media Release (PDF) December 5th, 2025 The Vancouver School of Theology has received a grant of $9,923,200 USD from Lilly Endowment Inc. to help establish Reimagining Theological Educati...

Beyond jazzed to take part in this work with our sibling schools across Canada.

vst.edu/the-vancouve...

He’s on track to undo a century of public health gains.

For some reason the FB algorithm has alerted me to a war being raged among the conservative influencer pastors over whether or not sending your kid to public school is a sin worthy of church discipline. So, good to know they’re being normal.

Beating pensions into pistols, or however that verse goes.

They’re not doing any of this because it’s rationally coherent.

It’s really too bad Ivermectin doesn’t work on brain worms.

Serving the Prince of Peace by investing in the arms trade.

Church of England begging for an incredibly harsh Judgement as we round into the Second Sunday of Advent.

The Anglicans need to invent their own rave-priest like Padre Guilherme.

Starting now!

Getting tired of living in fear of my inbox.

Oh so universities have just given up.

Will do! Yeah she’s fantastic. I’m really looking forward to this one. I got her to do a reading for us and an open mic earlier this year and she killed it. Her husband Paul Dyck has been the one helping me organize this lecture series.

This is tonight. It’s the last event of our Anglican Poetics Project. Hope to see some of you there.

This whole list is gold, what you talking about?

Statement on Christian nationalism from the Anglican Church of Canada - Anglican Church of Canada "Christian nationalism demands that Christianity be privileged by the state and implies that to be a good Canadian, one must be Christian. This ideology can provide cover for discrimination against ma...

Statement on Christian Nationalism

www.anglican.ca/news/stateme...

I got a day job a couple years back and that’s really made it difficult to keep up appearances.

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Apparently I made it into Begonia’s top 500 listeners this year.

Nobody is asking for this!

Religion note: Remember that pastor who was arrested protesting an ICE detention facility outside Chicago recently? The one who was photographed on the ground as officers arrested him?

That's Rev. Michael Woolf, and this is his church.

That pepper has SEEN things.

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I think this Adam Curtis docuseries from a few years ago pretty definitively argues that this is correct. youtube.com/playlist?lis...