Advent starts today for Orthodox Christians. @somemyrrh.bsky.social has wisdom to share with priests and teachers during this season. She wants them to know that the normal disciplines of Advent don't always work for disabled folks.
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Other correlations.
25.09.2025 14:26 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Me to my dog as I make tea:
The ring cannot be destroyed by any craft we here possess. The ring was made in the fires of Mt. Doom; only there can it be unmade.
Trump Administration Live Updates: Judge Says President’s L.A. Troop Deployment Was Illegal www.nytimes.com/live/2025/09...
02.09.2025 18:45 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Happy Liturgical New Year!
Glad we don’t have to make New Year’s resolutions because my main goal this month is to make a Hobbit September and to spend time at coffee hour after church.
I forgot I had bluesky for several months. I have been on substack & Meta* and just outside on my porch or working in my bookshop. It’s good to see familiar names of thoughtful people here! I’ll try to check in more often.
*but not Threads because it hogs space on my old phone
This reminds me of the lyrics to Taylor Swift’s “Now That We Don’t Talk”
“You grew your hair long
You got new icons
And from the outside it look like
You’re trying lives on.”
It’s ok to stay your own name.
Thank you!
01.09.2025 00:33 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Outstanding points by @somemyrrh.bsky.social:
“We live in a time when American Christianity is overrun with male authoritarianism and the complementarian view of women as lesser beings that has allowed Arianism to once again fester among us—as soon as you embrace the idea…
"Where Are All the Women?" by Summer Kinard @somemyrrh.bsky.social is a powerful call to remember—and restore—the vital role of women in the Church.
From the great women martyrs and deaconesses of Nicaea to the hidden saints who shaped Orthodoxy, history testifies:
There it is…
07.05.2025 12:54 — 👍 21514 🔁 5543 💬 349 📌 192I see this happen a lot: the privileging of opinions of people in paid positions over the contributions of subject matter experts or people with lived experience. It’s killing ministries by driving away experts who could offer effective help.
24.03.2025 17:22 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Happy to offer the weather detection services of my arthritic knee to my fellow Americans. Everyone with a weather detecting joint, our patriotic moment has come.
22.03.2025 20:27 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
open.substack.com/pub/somemyrr...
In which I criticize golden age myths, biblical womanhood, complementarianism, online fasting culture, anti-deaconess movements, and hell.
can't believe it's 2025 and i'm stressed about tariffs and measles, like am i a character in an american girl book
03.03.2025 21:09 — 👍 42488 🔁 8531 💬 320 📌 195People want to call out gluttony as an original sin because it’s harder to get a group to fight being deceived by bullshitters offering power than it is to set up parameters for group fasting. It wasn’t the food that was the problem; it was the attempt at life without relationships.
02.03.2025 22:16 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Fiona Griffiths' book on the priests who served female monastic communities is now open access online:
doi.org/10.58117/M4H...
Oh. Wow! I have the expensive printed copy, but I have wanted to share this with others. Thank you for sharing this.
02.03.2025 22:13 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Goals
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My latest post has a food conversation starting preview but gets to the point in the paid subscriber section. open.substack.com/pub/somemyrr...
28.02.2025 18:23 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0That sounds perfect! Thank you!
25.02.2025 04:47 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Now that I have left behind the cesspool that once was Twitter, I have more time for my hobby of singing this entire violin solo. #reset
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If I want to do a “Guess How Many ___ in the Jar” giveaway, what should I put in the jar?
21.02.2025 22:57 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Thanks, Charli!
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My latest substack is free for now. I talk about the abuse of the gift of coregulation and the ways that eugenic fundamentalist cultiness shows up in American Orthodox Christianity.
open.substack.com/pub/somemyrr...
The pope rebukes Trump over migrant deportations and refutes VP Vance's theology www.npr.org/2025/02/11/g...
11.02.2025 20:27 — 👍 978 🔁 160 💬 30 📌 21Since JD Vance just converted to Catholicism 5 minutes ago, he might not know this: the Pope authoring a letter where he goes out of his way to correct you, specifically, is considered "bad" in the Catholic tradition
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