Meredith McKay

Feels like a good day to remind people that turning off “auto-play” on videos on social media apps is typically an option in the settings

It is incredibly simple to acknowledge that violence in any form is awful and erodes society.

I don’t really think that there’s any difference between calling human beings “NPCs” or calling them cockroaches or “human animals” or any other classic rhetoric of dehumanization and I find it pretty worrying that people who are otherwise concerned with respectability have adopted its use

I’m rewatching The Good Place and being reminded how incredible D’Arcy Carden is in this. Stellar work all around

Someday in the not-too-distant future, I’ll need to buy a new car. It occurred to me this morning that I’ve been putting equal energy into saving for said car and hoping a new car will just magically be offered to me somehow

Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time: Aug 10, 2025 Meredith McKay reflects on the readings for Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time. Wisdom 18:6-9 | Hebrews 11:1-2, 8-19 | Luke 12:32-48

Check out my video with Catholic Women Preach this week! I talk faith, fear, and confess being a well-intentioned but irritating grammar snob as a child. www.catholicwomenpreach.org/preaching/08...

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Idk I had a pilot come out of the cockpit on a flight a couple weeks ago to say he knew there had been lots of issues lately but “not on his plane, not on his watch, and he takes it seriously to get us to where we’re going safely” and that was nice and also yikes

monsters next door on the messiness and proximity of good and evil

My latest on substack, addressing the super light and fun subject of good and evil. Including a good midwestern Tupperware metaphor: open.substack.com/pub/meredith...

same re: my dog

Pope Leo and Women Instead of an assembly of men trying to come up with a theology that explains women, I want to see the Church settle on one theology for everyone.

“…because most of them were—and here I will use a technical term—kind of weird about women.” This piece from @mollieoreilly.bsky.social is excellent (and a far more sophisticated take than my recent substack lament about women in the CC) www.commonwealmagazine.org/pope-leo-and...

It doesn't matter if they are ever coming for you.

It was always ever already too much that they were coming for anyone.

The water fountain 👀💀💀

A map showing current active and contained wildfires in the Pacific Northwest (there’s a whole hell of a lot of them)

Absolutely stuck doomscrolling because there’s a fire weather watch, spontaneous fires, an arsonist active in my area, and the rest of the world feels literally and figuratively on fire help

I’m sorry this is not an acceptable series of words

Just another day where the thought crosses my mind that the US Catholic Church missed a real marketing opportunity by not referring to Laudate Deum as “Laudatwo Si’”

a reddit post with the title "Best place to dump my boyfriend in the Omaha metro area"

a response saying "Nebraska humane society. So he can get a new friend after you put your relationship down."

we'll give you a coupon for $50 off an adoption if you dump your boyfriend at the shelter

In The Incredibles, when Frozone’s wife says “I am the greatest good you are EVER gonna get,” she is embodying the Ignatian principle of Magis. In this essay, I will…

In this time of unwarranted provocation and threatened retaliation, when so many of us are afraid and seeking our center; two prayers to breathe into our core:

Lord, make me an instrument of your peace:
where there is hatred, let me sow love

Icon: 'Saint Francis and Sultan Al-Kamil' Br. Bob Lentz

HONEY. I gasped. Omg

Yes. I am right. I am seeing how Chat GPT is ruining students critical thinking and writing skills in real time. It is not the future. It is a tool designed to render the populace helpless, to make people doubt their innate intelligence, and to foster overreliance on technology.

Yes! My parents were big fans of W but I still remember lengthy dinner conversations many times leading up to it, discussing/debating/wondering

The Parable of the Cherry Trees Fruits of the spirit (and a morning ritual in a backyard garden)

Most recent post on substack inspired by my obsession with my backyard cherry trees: meredithmckay.substack.com/p/the-parabl...

Meredith wearing a yellow shirt and showing off a brand new hydrangea tattoo on her bicep, covered by tegaderm

A new addition

As ever, grateful for local news coverage

Is 6pm too early to go to bed? Asking on behalf of my jet lag

Better than I’ve done 🤷🏻‍♀️

Oooh, good on you!!!

It’s so bad and so frequent that I don’t even have the energy to tell people that it’s fake?