Claire Brown

lol are you at EPN??

What’s your deadline? I could probably revise part of my stm thesis for this but ya know…. Solo priest on the cusp of lent has some things going on

“To trust in violent force is to deny God.”
Loving this call to radical peacemaking, spiritual renewal, and resistance from Dr. Dennis Dickerson at TWU this morning. A little bit of schola prophetorum here in Athens! 🔥❤️

I just feel like my sermon joke that the reading from Luke today really slaps went under appreciated

Big week around here —
the big kid went to his first dance!
medium kid continues to astound with reading skills!
littlest kid moved into her own room!
spouse went up to the statehouse for housing equity!
I finished a way past due writing project!
the dog stole a tamale!

go team!

The Antidote to Overwhelm & Despair: The Three Circles of Responsibility — Backstory Preaching In the face of overwhelming harm, we can be tempted to despair. It feels like too much. Our life and voice seem so small. But we are not without agency. We do have some control and influence. Unders...

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Good word for preachers and all humans

I have great taste

One of the absolute most fatal flaws of progressivism as a mindset (little p that is) is the idea that we only work because we will actually bring about the utopia.

For the Christian, the true rooting of our work is in faithfulness to the call of God and the desire to witness to Resurrection.

a group of men are standing in a store and one of them is saying the music ALT: a group of men are standing in a store and one of them is saying the music

Same

Today in the life of a priest—sitting in at general sessions court. There isn’t enough coffee in the world for this.

🎤 is this thing on?