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Doggies being blessed with their family surrounding

Blessing of a stuffed monkey, Spider Man, and Captain America

Choir members chihuahua

Medusa the ball python 🫣

Mtr Samantha blessed creatures great, small, a few stuffed toys, photos, and even those cursed to slither on their bellies for eternity… 🥲 jk Medusa wasn’t so bad, I guess. 🥹 *gulp* ⚓️ #StMarysPhx #Episcopal #StFrancis

Made a friend at the blessing of animals today

Chapel table set for Mass

The elevation of the Most Holy Sacrament.

Maya the pup listening intently as Mtr Sam prays for all God’s creation.

Maya’s “blessing” (I missed the first one, this is totally staged lol

Went to Mass today for St. Francis’ feast. Mtr @sjchristopher.bsky.social preached a beautiful sermon on the radical faith of St. Francis, and how we tend to sanitize and make more palatable the radical prophets and saints of God who call us to the Gospel. Maya the 12 yr old doggie got a blessing!

First woman appointed to be the next Archbishop of Canterbury The Bishop of London, the Rt Revd Sarah Mullally, has been announced as the next Primate of All England

BREAKING: The next Archbishop of Canterbury is to be the Rt Revd Sarah Mullally, the Bishop of London since 2018, Downing Street has announced. She is to be the first woman to hold the post

#archbishopofcanterbury #nextABC #Archbishop106

www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/202...

Mass at St Mary’s

Baptism of Shiloh 🫶🏼

Baptism 2

Chrismation

Welcome to the fold, Shiloh. May water always be to you of the first medicine and gift from the Creator, to quench your thirst, and cleanse your body, mind, and spirit — and the womb from which we are born anew, in Christ, our Redeemer. 🫶🏼 Alleluia!

Page 1: Flyer from The Heritage Foundation Oversight Project titled “Transgender Ideology-Inspired Violent Extremism (TIVE): Background and FAQs on Need for an FBI Domestic Terrorism Designation.” The page defines “Transgender Ideology” and “TIVE,” outlining beliefs allegedly associated with them. It claims such ideology justifies violence against opponents or frames opposition as violence. The text references the alleged assassination of Charlie Kirk, urging the FBI to classify TIVE as domestic terrorism.

Page 2: Continuation of flyer with a section titled “Recent Instances of TIVE-Motivated Acts of Domestic Terrorism.” Lists multiple violent events from 2018 to 2025, attributing them to transgender ideology. Includes mugshots of two alleged attackers. Followed by a “Frequently Asked Questions and Key Terms” section, addressing whether transgender people are terrorists, comparing TIVE with “Nihilistic Violent Extremism,” and discussing FBI designations.

Page 3: Flyer continues with questions about Antifa and FBI terrorism classifications. States that Antifa and TIVE are separate categories. Lists ways the FBI classifies domestic terrorism and identifies typical characteristics of “TIVEs,” such as targeting Christians, mental illness, and online radicalization. Includes images: a “Trans Antifa” logo, a pink-blue-white-striped slogan image reading “Protect Their Right to Exist,” a photo of Audrey Hale with a firearm, and a close-up of a magazine with the words “Where is your God?”

Page 4: Section titled “Terminology Used by TIVE.” Defines terms including cisgender, deadnaming, Gillick competence, misgendering, “Right to Exist,” “Trans genocide,” and a phrase “You either have a live boy or dead girl, you choose.” Each is presented as terminology used in or associated with TIVE. Page layout is text-heavy, no additional graphics.

Heritage Foundation has released an absolutely insane policy proposal to label all trans people as domestic terrorists. It uses completely made up instances of terrorism and made up statistics but facts don't matter to them.

They want us all eradicated.

FBI Readies New War on Trans People “We’re looking at the entire web”

The FBI is preparing to label transgender people as “violent extremists” in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s murder:
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/fbi-readie...

It was *so* good, thank you so much!!!

Me giving the first lesson, from Isaiah.

Shiloh, me, Vicki

Two skillets going 40+ frybreads

Frybread

To celebrate Mtr. @sjchristopher.bsky.social’s ordination and her first Eucharist celebrated my Indigenous sisters and I made frybread for Indian tacos… we had so much homemade food, for a festive and beautiful occasion. 🥲 Thank you Lord for our new priest, her partner, and the St. Mary’s family. 🥰

Today was a very very good day :)))

New bio just dropped :)))

My first Mass will be at St. Mary’s in Phoenix on August 24th at 10:30am!

:))))))

I will admit, I would like to see a general norm develop in the Church against the use of generative AI to write *any* pastoral communication, including but not limited to sermons. I could be persuaded to the contrary, but right now my feeling is I'd like to see bishops prohibit it as plagiarism.

I know I’m biased, but if you’re going to turn to AI to generate a whole-ass sermon manuscript, just hang up your robes and clerical collar and be done done with it. ⚓️

He’s also one of the few party leaders that have been good on trans rights….i’m a fan, ngl

This is so wonderful! Congratulations!

Oh this is beautiful, thank you!

Tomorrow is my first day at my first clergy job, and it feels a little like getting ready for the first day of school 😭

Any advice?

the powers of sin and death

-will not have the final word
-must be actively resisted at every turn

I can’t stop thinking how Brad Lander’s NYC Council office had a snow shoveling program that would match neighbors who needed it with others who could shovel for them, and how much mutual aid could be scaled if we someone in local government to help coordinate and a modest amount of funding.

my dear friend ding once again knocks it out of the park with this beautiful and stunning reflection on womanhood, transness, and everyone (yes, even you) being on hormones—asking, once and for all, "what if cis people are the weird ones after all?"

Ding, The Cisgender Tipping Point - PhilPapers A generation of feminist theory following Time magazine’s 2014 proclamation of a “Transgender Tipping Point” has tried and failed to defend trans people’s “inclusion” in existing social institutions and philosophical conceptions of gender embodiment. This half-comic, fully-serious essay takes a sideways crack at centering trans people by centering cis people in the metaphysics of gender, by turning cis people into the object of our intellectual debate and scrutiny.

“If trans exclusion is lavender scare pivoted and trans inclusion queer assimilation gentrified, could you imagine if going on the offensive and turning cis people into a philosophical puzzle might just be what the gender metaphysician ordered?” So grateful for this chance to be playful yet serious:

remember that government-run grocery stores are the compromise. the principled left policy position is the forcible state seizure of the Park Slope Food Coop

Bishop Eaton once said of the creeds: "They are the fruit of centuries of the Holy Spirit's guidance and the Church's passionate debates. You're not going to churn out something better in an afternoon alone on your laptop."

I think about that a lot.

This is an absolutely brilliant piece on turning our thinking about gender on its head and making cisness appear strange - philosophy at its best! Go read it!

At your command all things came to be: the vast expanse of interstellar space, galaxies, suns, the planets in their courses, and this fragile earth, our island home

the single image every genuinely freedom-loving american has been waiting for

Will there be a Letterboxd list this year? 👀

oh no oh fuck they got me