The Rev. Andy ABOLISH ICE McQuery

Hi. I’m not super active on this site, but I’m taking a break from social media for Lent. See you after Easter.

Agreed! The Lectionary Page website has been updated to include the propers for every day of Lent. Huzzah!
www.lectionarypage.net

In times of crisis, you must cope

Ooooohhhhhh

Wow, did I miss that memo

ChatGPT, how do I make a Saturday a Tuesday and also why

Star Wars (1977)
Gandhi (1982)
Amadeus (1984)

Whether it's Oberlin students asking for trigger warnings or ICE agents gunning down Americans, both sides have a trigger problem.

I hate capitalism

Great piece. Yes. And, many think art is supposed to be decorative or entertaining, evaluated on the basis of: do I like it, is it popular, is it profitable? (Or better, can I make money off someone else's work?) The idea that art shouldn't touch the political realm is nuts and ahistorical.

That unsettling moment when you suspect your cat studied under Pai Mei.

There is nothing wrong with border security. Perfectly reasonable to know who's coming and going, and why. EVERYTHING wrong with roving gangs of armed, masked, anonymous goons kidnapping people off the street (or from their homes, or their jobs) because they "look" like they don't "belong" here.

I confess I have not really considered how challenging it must be to be a billionaire in this environment. 😒

I recall the adult friend who remarked, “Oh, I didn’t know Noah’s Ark was a Bible story.”

I was pretty aesthetic in high school

Who would Jesus pepper spray?

Kennedy Center Responds To Philip Glass Symphony Withdrawal By Blaming “Leftist Activists” – Update UPDATE, with Kennedy Center response: Composer and pianist Philip Glass is the latest artist to sever ties with the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C. over the institution’s take-over by President Dona...

"Roma Daravi, Vice President of Public Relations at the Trump Kennedy Center, said, “We have no place for politics in the arts...""

DO YOU KNOW WHAT ART IS???

Maybe; and also see Amy Jill Levine’s exegesis about a rich person badgering the judiciary.

My own training/tradition is that stoles are removed for the foot-washing, but to see the Bishop of Rome in a deacon's stole says some very good things.

Fourteen hardy souls made it to Mass this morning for the Conversion of St Paul, including a 90+ something guy and a blind woman. I love my parish! Stay safe out there.

I lived and worked in Salem, OR during the pandemic a mile or so from the capitol and I remember the Proud Boys rallying with sidearms and AR-15s slung over their shoulders -- because of the "tyranny" of masks and social distancing. Assholes.

It is the sickest irony and I'm so mad.

It's so affirming to see how many share my utter disdain for that self-important windbag

Well, this could make the Office more fun. Come ‘ere, Curry, time for the next episode of Adventures with Paul

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As clergy I need a cap that says "Closed Mondays"

Kind of like how the mainline Protestant denominations and the Democrats both appropriate each other when it's useful for the optics but refuse to engage the deeper implications.

So, here's a person -- on the ground, with their arms constrained behind them, with at least two people holding them down -- and a third person is pepper-spraying them in the face from a couple inches away? This is not law enforcement or immigration control, this is sadism.

Chidi voice: China is literally the #1 producer of wind energy in the world.
www.reuters.com/world/china/...

I mean, Jesus would NEVER stage a protest in a place of worship. (Guercino, "Expulsión de los mercaderes del Templo," public domain.)