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What many people don’t know about Jonathan Daniels is that he was a VMI grad and elected to be the commencement speaker for his class. He chose not to commission into the military but experienced all of the Corps of Cadets discipline.

For clergy, for instance, paperwork includes ensuring our churches are staffed with qualified and vetted volunteers; or ensuring our member rolls are updated; or communicating with our churches and our denominations about core data re church health; all *essential stuff* that you have expertise for!

Check THIS out, Daniel!

So similar to what Trump Pere did in the 70's in Queens...

“One of the chants that has become ubiquitous at these protests at Broadview is, ‘Love your neighbor, love your God, save your soul and quit your job,’” said Black, who pastors at the First Presbyterian Church of Chicago. “Everybody chants that.” ⚓️

listen. when dolly parton’s sister says it’s time for us all to be prayer warriors for dolly. you fucking pray for dolly

I think about what Kavanaugh accuser Christine Blasey Ford said about her assault by him, that it was his and his buddies laughter that she couldn’t get out of her head.

What is happening right now is what rape culture looks like as government.

Happy feast of William Tyndale to all of us who can read the bible in our own native language.🕯

Look. Invading our own country is about as straightforward a case as you can have for impeachment. The GOP abandoning the Constitution is kind of the only story there is and it gets no coverage.

Fun fact, but the reason the UK has a ROYAL Navy and Air Force but it's the BRITISH Army is that Parliament has to regularly reauthorize the existence of a standing army.

The Map Center Presents: How Maps Lie Join Andrew Middleton of The Map Center in Pawtucket, RI for a fun and informative talk on how maps tell all sorts of stories. Learn how historical and contemporary maps are...

If you're in the Boston area and you want to see some cool maps and learn about why we shouldn't always trust them, join me for my library talk "How Maps Lie" this friday! newtonfreelibrary.libcal.com/event/14866807

COVID-19 infection associated with increased risk of new-onset vascular dementia in older adults Prior COVID-19 infection was associated with a 41% increased risk of all-cause dementia.

COVID-19 and other viruses that spread through the respiratory route linked to the onset of vascular dementia.

Clean the air. Crosswords alone are not enough.

www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/cov...

And when you are at the upper level of knowledge of one area, generally you not only admit the limits of your knowledge in that area, but also are very aware of how little you know in other areas.

1/?) Something we need to talk about on social media but mostly don't is levels of expertise. So I'm gonna take a shot at that.

Level 0: I never heard of X.

Level 1: I have heard of X, so I think I know all about it.

Level 3: I read the Wikipedia article about X, so I'm sure I know...

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Amid protests, church hosts Southlake-Keller’s first Pride festival A Pride festival at a church on the Southlake-Keller border drew hundreds of attendees in support of the LGBTQ community Saturday.

“A woman approached the rector and told him that if an event like this had existed when her son was younger, he might not have died by suicide. ‘That’s why I’m doing this,’ Bentrup said. ‘My hope is that there is a kid who will still be alive in 10 years because we did this today.’” ⚓️

Unironically this is an excellent process for reading Scripture

Massive institution run by men gets run into the ground in some profound way ➡️ figurehead resigns so people will stop yelling at him ➡️ First Woman Figurehead is appointed to the impossible task of uniting and cleaning up an institution whose wounds have been left to fester for decades/ centuries.

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I’m old enough to remember when ++KJS carrying her miter under her arm in procession was a nominal act of protest because women couldn’t be bishops there 📕

LA folks grab your N95s and close your windows. Turn on your air filters if you have them.

Massive immigration raid on Chicago apartment building leaves residents reeling: 'I feel defeated' The Department of Homeland Security said federal agents with Border Patrol, the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives arrested 37 people in the raid.

My god.

“Watson said she saw agents dragging residents, including kids, out of the building without any clothes on and into U-Haul vans. Kids were separated from their mothers…’It was heartbreaking to watch…seeing kids coming out buck naked and taken from their mothers, it was horrible.’”

ICE lied about the person it shot, claiming he was a "criminal," but NBC finds that he had no criminal history whatsoever. Not even traffic tickets in 12 years! It also lied about the extent of the injuries to its agents....

the specific language of “break bread with” and “visit him in prison” is so striking to me, used in condemnation this way

One of the things that is especially remarkable about this is that Leo is NOT Francis—he’s known for being quiet, deliberative, considered in his speech, for NOT making the kinds of off-the-cuff comments Francis was famous for.

Woman yelling at cat meme with the woman titled "Me" and saying "You can't just call everything you like 'Celtic' Christianity." The cat is labeled "Boomers" and says "Celtic Lord's Prayer."

I made a meme inspired by an r/Episcopalian post. ⚓

And it’s full of typos. Unless they’ve corrected them recently.

Blue cities should tear up the roads in front of ICE facilities and then start decades of community engagement and input sessions to rebuild them. Let's harness our core competencies.

Then the ACW President said, “I pay thee, therefore, Father, that thou wouldest have Lazarus say something after church on Sunday about the Fall Sale — for we have a lot of parishioners—that he may testify unto them, that they may also come into this place of torment and support our Fall Sale.” ⚓

whoever is running the most effective “PRIMARY ALL OF THEM. YES, ALL. I SAID ALL. I MEAN ALL” campaign can have literally all my money, time, and social media followers. Congressional fire sale, everything must go, no substitutions, all sales final. I’m so serious. this is irredeemable

"Who would have predicted this?"

- Black women did.
- Trans people did.
- The *entire* disability community did.
- The anarchists did.
- Post-Evangelicals did.

"Well why didn't I hear them."

You did. But you disregarded us as "extremists" and "alarmists". And you are still calling us that.

The people in your parish are now 6 years older than they were prepandemic.