High Church Raccoon⛪️🦝

I received a substantial refund from a hospital in late 2025.

For a scan I had in...
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...2022.

I was so confused until I saw very tiny detail listing the date of the procedure.

Anyway, "Netanyahu convinced the idiots that this was a good idea and literally no other nation agreed" is going to be the dumbest reason Americans die on foreign soil.

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Remember when SCOTUS said the executive branch overstepped by forgiving student loans without congressional authorization?

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...in two months, the administration has used military force to abduct one head of state and kill another. And Congress has not voted on either action.

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"Somone was on our feed for five seconds" shouldn't count as attendance, but I have no way of estimating how many people engaged in a substantial way.

And the official guidance? Number of views over seven days, multiiplied by two. Or just guess.

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We're nearly six years into "even tiny churches stream," and we still don't have a single consistent way to determine "online attendance."

FB says we we had nearly 30 viewers of our live stream on a given Sunday. Total view time of the 60 minute service? 3:51:00.

Suffice it to say, the histories of the Episcopal Church, UCC, and Southern Baptist Convention, the distinct origins of the LCA and LCMS, and the ongoing divisions within the UMC reveal a far more complicated originstory than "Protestants were the establishment, thus they're conservative."

I didn't start an argument on American relgious and poltical history On Here.

Please clap.

Gawain will be played by Jason Mantzoukas.

Which is my custom as well - but my surplice is at home.

Chat, in the absence of proper vestments, what should I wear for Lenten midweek vespers tonight?

A) Cassock only
B) Cassock and stole
C) Alb and stole

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What has two thumbs and left his surplice at home?

FKA Revive Church

FKA The Gathering

FKA Fayeteville First Baptist

Bleak thought of the night:

Who's the designated survivor in this cesspool of an administration?

That's gotta be like three dudes, max, and they're all the sort of milquetoast car salesmen who are undecided three weeks before an election because the only time they bother to keep up with the news is when it preempts whatever's showing on broadcast television.

The more I think about this, the more it ticks me off. WHO IS THIS FOR?

Who is so out-of-the-loop about current events that they need this pointed out but is also reading the Post's play-by-play of the SotU?

"Trump loves the word 'tariff' and hates the word 'affordability.' He has called affordability a 'hoax' invented by Democrats to criticize his record."

Real sharp analaysis from the staff, worth the subscription.

Costco Executive membership coming in clutch, getting that full extra hour of CEO correspondence.

Glad it's not just my 4yo with the cool/weird/macabre church obsessions.

PKs are just built different.

A reminder about watching any Trump speech:

We considered ourselves to be a powerful culture.
This place is not a place of honor.
No highly esteemed deed is commemorated here.
Nothing valued is here.
What is here was dangerous and repulsive to us.

Meanwhile, WaPo is talking about his tie color and bets on how long his speech will go.

This is what happens when the owner burns a newspaper to the ground because he worried the aspiring dictator would cost him a few extra million in the couch cushions.

An entire decade of "He's truly miserable, but what if he turns it around out of nowhere and somehow doesn't sit on his own balls?"

It's early yet, but Hooker's commanding lead over Cranmer in #LentMadness has me shooketh.

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*talking about the name Roger, mentioning I dislike it because of the show Doug*

My brain, out of nowhere: His last name was Klotz. With a K.

...I don't remember the entire Greek alphabet, but sure, why not recall the surname of an antagonist on a 30yo cartoon.

Hot Take: Every Democrat should skip the SotU in protest *except* those that faced down failed indictment attempts. Put Mark Kelly et al along the aisle and stare the man down as he walks in.

Better yet, front row and don't rise when he enters.

But what if I bought another moka pot? And a dedicated induction cooktop?

And a siphon brewer just for the vibes?

Current hyperfixation: watching the soothing British guy teach me better ways to make my coffee.

Trying to talk myself out of spending hundreds of dollars on new brewing methods.

incentivizing ever-larger machines which expend those resources and have just recently rolled back regulations which allowed the EPA to set efficiency standards for the aforementioned machines, right?

As long as we're not doing any of that, we don't need the Strait of Hormuz.

It's not like we rely on natural resources from that part of the world and that, despite knowing the extraction of said resources is detrimental to our health & energy security, have refused to invest in infrastructure to utilize renewable resources readily available in our own territory while also

*checks news*

*sees tariffs decision*

Aaaaaaaand now it's time to go order those Italian clergy polo shirts I like.