Courtney Jones, as one untimely born

⬆️ this is us. Just the black cassock because that’s “street clothes” (depending, of course, where are you hail from as a cleric).

Y’all.

Oh! We’re gonna do this now. 😎

Rad.

That first time that I took off my collar and watched it be taken away is probably in my top five most memorable liturgical moments.

I should’ve mentioned that we *do not* do Eucharist on Good Friday.

At the Alleluia, as the altar guild restores everything that was stripped away, we re-vest for the Eucharist.

At the risk of starting discourse: during the stripping of the altar, we take off our vestments and fold them and hand them to the altar guild. I usually take off my collar and set it on top of the pile, then put on my cassock (no surplice), which is what I will wear until the great alleluia…

Holy smokes.

I’ll have to listen to the IBCK. (I’m interested to see if the podcast raised the same concerns I had, but will admit that I’m sympathetic to Haidt’s overall argument in that one.)

I’m gonna have to add this to my list. Maybe I can talk to the library into getting it? 🧐

I just wanna pop in here to say that the lemon is good because the ash combined with water can make a pre-cursor to lye, which is basic and can irritate (even burn) skin. The acid in the lemon will buffer that back down. I also always keep a slice of white bread around to wipe my hands with.

* just noting that this is directed abstractly and has much more to do with my feelings about the way we do theological education than with any actual murderous tendencies.

Last two business days of working on the paper that I have been dreading for three years. Mental state is somewhere between these two lyrics:
“Are you still … Still breathing?”
&
“But my heart is wild
And my bones are steam
And I could kill you* with my bare hands if I were free.”

Always a delightful experience!

I arrived at my Seattle office today to find a note on my desk from the diocesan altar guild. They had something I might be interested in, it said.
They were right! And now I have my own thurible. For teaching purposes, of course. 😂⚓️

I’m pretty quiet on the Internet because one of the things that Jesus is constantly having to save me from is scrapping in the comments. (This post inspired by my having made the mistake of logging onto Facebook yesterday. It’s unhinged over there.)

The first season is set in the week of Ash Wednesday, the second season is set in Holy Week.

One of the main characters keeps trying to sit down to write a sermon…

I think there’s only *one Anglican on staff now! Wild stuff. (*At least on a full-time basis… There are 3-4 Anglican adjuncts).

Not to throw my school under the bus, but: last year Vancouver School of Theology had Spring finals during Holy Week and Easter Week.

It reminded me of “home” (St. Andrew’s Amarillo) where there were regularly 8-9 folks in the altar party on any given Sunday. 💛

Christ Church is very high on lay ministry and shared ministry, so in my tenure I’ve tried to make sure that we make it a BFD every time somebody gets licensed. And actually, I liked having five extra people in the chancel so much that I may try to get them to all acolyte for Easter. 😜

This is a picture of eight people wearing church vestments. There are two deacons dressed in abs with green stoles, five worship leaders, dressed in cassock and surplice, and in the middle there is a priest wearing a green chasuble. Almost everyone is doing jazz hands, except for one more stern looking fella.

“Okay, this time with jazz hands.”
We commissioned our 5(!) newly licensed worship leaders on annual meeting Sunday. A very solid crew.

I laughed out loud at “ALL” 😂

Thanks for the input! And for the record, my impression thus far is that the Anglican Communion’s matrix really hasn’t trickled into Episcopal discourse around ordination. But I could be wrong! (Of note: The Association for Episcopal Deacons has a matrix, and it *is* being used in deacon formation.)

The aforementioned matrix: www.anglicancommunion.org/media/108798...

I know that it’s a little discordant that the world‘s on fire and I’m over here asking questions for a paper, but, those of you who attended a specifically Episcopal school for your MDiv: was your educational progress tracked in relation to the (TEAC) priestly competencies matrix? ⚓️

(incidentally, now I think my people understand why I always preach from a manuscript. Without it, yall got a hostage situation on your hands. 😂)

Update: pushed my report aside and decided to just cook for a minute.