Lane, just out here existing

Although I got a different "you might relate to"; mine is William Temple—interesting to see that those vary based on specific answers and not just scores/titles

I've been curious in the Narthex to see who got the results closest to me and lo and behold you got the exact same score as me lol

As someone who recently moved from Texas for my wife's job, I love this so much. It's hard to describe to people the things I love about Texas despite everything and this puts some of that to words

Praying for Jamaica and thinking about what the people there are going through and what they will be needing in the coming days—always a good time to support relief work, but especially now ⚓

I grew up in a non-affirming church. When I was 16, I saw the dad of one of my church friends on Facebook defending trans people (and using the Bible in his defense). Idk if he even knows I saw that, but it was hugely important to me. Having affirming voices in those spaces can make such an impact

yep, still meditating on it—we had a guest preacher who's the pastor at a local Lutheran church and I am glad they did not shy away from it

Raised evangelical and feel very similarly. Bums me out a lot to have such a loss of connection with the music that helped shaped my faith to where it is now. I've found some folks whose music and values I am grateful for, most recently Thomas Austin—you may enjoy his music fwiw

Connections
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(and the only reason I put purple in second is based on having read yours, otherwise I would have put in green or yellow next)

I just went and did Connections right after seeing this and HARD AGREE! I found purple basically immediately and went "there's no way it's that one..." so saved it and then put blue in first because it was notably harder! Purple was definitely the easiest

Yeah, I was lucky as a kid—my parents basically didn't restrict my internet usage once I was about 10 and I easily could have ended up in really bad corners of the internet and only by happenstance ended up in good ones. But now I don't even know if it'd be possible to get that lucky

My heart aches and I am praying especially for the women and the queer people in the schisming churches.

I was surprised at how natural it felt tbh; I expected it to feel kind of jarring in scripture but it didn't really

I was reading some from yallversion.com at one point, which is a translation that uses y'all and, though I've got some other issues with the translation, it was really fun to read with the y'all (and on their web version they let you change the y'all to other English second person plurals)

English has so many good second person plural pronouns (y'all, youse, yinz) that are so stigmatized from bigotry and it's Wild. I lived in Texas for years and learned to say y'all and am committed to it now

It was the Eucharistic prayer currently in use when I started attending the parish that really made me feel at home in the Episcopal Church, and I remember kind of marveling at that being a way we could talk about creation and sin and redemption—so distinct from what I was raised with

It's my favorite Eucharistic prayer! I appreciate its theology and its language but I also have sentimental love for it

not particularly surprised to hear that's what you're hearing but saddened by it, regardless. will be keeping them in my prayers and keeping an eye out for ways to materially address the harm they have faced in and from the church

curious to see the impact of this—read it and was really not sure what it would be; honestly wondering what the view is from folks down in Florida on this and if it feels like a resolution there

This was how I felt recently when I tried and succeeded to do a few pushups! I've got shoulder issues and it really did not help

two post it notes arranged like comic panels. the first says 'GOD what a weird time to come out as trans' with a drawing of the author taking a photo of his top surgery. the second says 'I'M SO GLAD I CAME OUT AS TRANS' with the author against a backdrop of flames.

two moods (that are one mood)

what's wild to me about the supposed rapture date stuff is that in the evangelical world I was raised in, it was sacrilegious to predict the date of the rapture "no one knows the day or the hour", etc. etc.

Thank you for writing the ASU story—your coverage is really important and no one else does it as consistently. and I have so many thoughts on Brian Harrison and the people who I personally know who voted for him (I went to high school in Midlothian where he's the rep 🙃)

I've been going back and forth between orange and pink but I'd have to go with pink because I'm never gonna give up Panamanian food (I already miss the foods of my childhood I can't get in the US)

We talked about the Apostle's Creed in a sermon series in my evangelical church when I was in high school and that was a big deal. The Nicene Creed I learned about independently at some point because I was a church nerd reading up on church history and things like how the canon was decided

Would love to read it as a fellow trans A&M alum—is definitely something I've spent time thinking about too and have written some personal reflection on but nothing more substantial

I have a bracelet I have worn basically every day for the past six years since my sister gave it to me, and I realized I didn't have it on while getting ready for bed and cannot find it and am now Stressed. I looked all over our house to no avail and am hoping tomorrow I am better at looking

The five best (sweet) pies, in no particular order:

1. Shoofly Pie
2. Key Lime Pie
3. Pumpkin Pie
4. Chocolate Cream Pie
5. Apple Pie

I've got a soft spot for the NLT (it's the translation of my childhood, though I use it less often now) and it's interesting here: "I have a terrible baptism of suffering ahead of me, and I am under a heavy burden until it is accomplished." Not totally sure how I feel about it

Clicked to preorder directly from Church Publishing and it says it's not yet available 😅🥲

I think this is the key to why people in my life have been surprised that I (who just turned 25 recently) function and live my life as an adult. Or, probably more often the way that functions is—they are surprised at my age because they have seen me be an adult so much they think I must be older