Scott Gunn

And I mean this as reassurance, not chastising you! I too have at times in my life wondered about all this. Took me backing up and seeing the beauty of the whole picture

One beautiful thing about the New Testament is that it repeatedly assures us that Christ’s death accomplishes our salvation. No elaborate medieval theories needed.

Atonement is like love itself in that it is a thing best experienced rather than rationalized.

I sincerely hope you're not suggesting all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.

Or that political platforms are ever actually adhered to with perfect fidelity?

I want to vote for a presidential candidate in 2028 with a two-item platform:

1. End Daylight Saving Time changes
2. Govern without doing dumb things

For me, RSV strike the perfect balance between aesthetics and biblical scholarship. And it works great with either Rite I or Rite II.

Notably, it features swaddling clothes rather than “bands of cloth”

…their system should have been configured to prevent this. They thanked me for finding a serious gap.

Really impressive response all around, and a good lesson in handling mistakes as learning opportunities!

It was at General Convention in Indianapolis. Setting up our booth, I inadvertently caused a routing loop that triggered a packet storm that took out their TCP/IP based power system. The cool thing is that the tech guys arrived in 1-2 minutes and weren’t mad at me! They said…

Wow. That’s impressive.

Nothing like that, but I once caused a blackout throughout an entire convention center and football stadium.

I need details.

I mean, it’s evergreen content.

“Just preach the ding-dang Gospel.”

Just got home after a wonderful time at the Episcopal Parish Network conference. I’m feeling inspired by many wonderful things happening across the church — and energized by many conversations with new and long-time friends.

I’ve considered this. A really great printed BCP would cost $250-300 retail. Do you think there’s a market?

…to tend the liturgies we have.

The PDFs from the OG 1979 are flawless. As we tinkered after that, we didn’t invest in quality control. We’re just chasing shiny things.

There should not be ANY errors in our official BCPs, I agree.

When we printed our BCP, I got an official PDF to start. We hired two teams of proofreaders, and we mixed more than 40 errors. Still, we missed some. We fixed a few more in the second printing, and we have a list for the third. This is our failing, sure. It is also a denominational failure… 1/2

It is failing queer Christians that empty and tepidly theologically liberal heterodoxy and even apostasy is often all that’s offered to us.

When why we need, just like everyone else, is the Good News of JESUS CHRIST, our Lord and Saviour. We need He who died for us. ⚓️

My usual seat at EPN plenaries. Plenty of legroom. ⚓️

Stopped by my seminary alma mater’s table and got to chat with Jesus and his mom. Always good to catch up with the Theotokos and her son.

Thanks, Berkeley Divinity School at Yale! ⚓️

Sean explains he’s asking us in the room to have a candid conversation with him — here, not online. So I’m signing off these comments.

I will say this: he’s reminding us of the centrality of the Gospel of Jesus Christ in powerful ways.

We ground our understanding of the world not in disdain for the world, but in embracing it.

Jesus came not to the righteous but to save sinners.

We are not living in unprecedented times. Read the Acts of the Apostles.

Re: social media: “you can have an unexpressed thought.”

He encourages us not to live on outrage or to believe that only things that happen on social media are real.

(My paraphrases, not his words)

Sean Rowe, presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church, is speaking here at the EPN Conference to rectors & deans.

He starts by saying the Episcopal Church will, “in a stunning turn of events,” have a strategy. ⚓️

episcopalparishes.org/2026-annual-...

A huge one!

Heading over to hang out with a WHOLE BUNCH of Episcopalians. CVG ✈️ CLT

I’m sorry for you. Hope you will, if you feel able, say something to your priest. I think I lot of folks don’t realize the damage they may do.

A prayer for peace 🙏

O God, Who hast made of one blood all nations, mercifully receive the prayers that we offer for our anxious and troubled world.
Send Thy light into our darkness, and guide the nations as one family into the ways of peace. ... 1/2

I guess people who don’t like “woke” must really hate Ephesians 5:14.

I mean, the Bible literally tells us to be woke. In every sense.

V: O Lord, open thou our lips
R: And our mouth shall stay quiet during the pre-flight safety instructions

CVG ✈️ ORD ✈️ PNS 🙏