Neil Alan Willard

Screenshot of a public Facebook post by Clara Mun (wife of Bishop Suffragan Allen Shin of the Episcopal Diocese of New York): “Please pray for YeonSoo Go, daughter of Rev. Kyrie Kim, Episcopal priest in The Episcopal Diocese of New York! YeonSoo is student at Purdue university and was detained by ICE after her visa interview at federal immigration court. This is wrong! #FreeYeonsoo #FreeKetty #Freethemall” Photo of Yeonsoo Go with her mother who is wearing a clerical collar, both smiling, as they stand in front of the altar in an Episcopal church that is decorated for Christmas.

According to my friend and divinity school classmate Bishop Matthew Heyd of the Episcopal Diocese of New York, Yeonsoo Go, daughter of an Episcopal priest, is being detained at a facility with no beds or showers or hot food. ⚓️

Greetings from the Lone Star State.

Wild times down here. Wild times.

Greetings from the Lone Star State.

Wild times down here. Wild times.

Greetings from the Lone Star State.

Wild times down here. Wild times.

Quorum breaks have been a tactic in Texas Politics since 1870, but they've only ever really been symbolic gestures. They've almost never succeeded in stopping legislation because of the Governor's power to call special sessions without limit. -OS

Greetings from the Lone Star State.

Wild times down here. Wild times.

Screenshot of a public Facebook post by Clara Mun (wife of Bishop Suffragan Allen Shin of the Episcopal Diocese of New York): “Please pray for YeonSoo Go, daughter of Rev. Kyrie Kim, Episcopal priest in The Episcopal Diocese of New York! YeonSoo is student at Purdue university and was detained by ICE after her visa interview at federal immigration court. This is wrong! #FreeYeonsoo #FreeKetty #Freethemall” Photo of Yeonsoo Go with her mother who is wearing a clerical collar, both smiling, as they stand in front of the altar in an Episcopal church that is decorated for Christmas.

According to my friend and divinity school classmate Bishop Matthew Heyd of the Episcopal Diocese of New York, Yeonsoo Go, daughter of an Episcopal priest, is being detained at a facility with no beds or showers or hot food. ⚓️

Emails, all the emails of the universe. ☀️

Emails, all the emails of the universe. ☀️

you should not feel sorry for me about how often I encounter weird little reply guys in my mentions.

i absolutely view it the same way as gentleman naturalists once viewed collecting weird bug specimens in the Victorian era.

Photo of a woman wearing a necklace of pearls.

Photo of an old, two-story farmhouse with a front porch.

DEATH STRIKES THRICE Winston-Salem, Aug. 1—(AP)—Death struck three times in the same Winston-Salem family within 38 hours this weekend. W.C. Tucker, 78, on Route 6, Union Cross community, died at 6 p.m. Saturday at his home. At 6 a.m. today his wife, Mrs. Asia Bodenhamer Tucker, 73, died of a heart attack at the home. An hour and one-half-later their daughter, Mrs. Clara Tucker Willard of High Point, died of a heart attack just after arriving at the home of her parents.

On this date in 1949, my grandmother Clara Tucker Willard (pictured below) died at the home of her parents (pictured below), both of whom had died hours earlier and would be buried the following day in a double funeral at Union Cross Moravian Church in Forsyth County, North Carolina.

Clara’s paternal grandparents were Lincoln Republicans during Reconstruction and other relatives were Southern Unionists in the Old North State during the War of the Rebellion.

Photo of two recumbent white marble headstones in a Moravian cemetery.

It seems appropriate that buried there in God’s Acre next to Charlie Tucker, Clara’s father, is Dr. John Lewis Johnson, a founder and leader of a secret Unionist society during the Rebellion known as the Heroes of America.

The H.O.A. had a nickname, the Red Strings, which comes from the story of a scarlet thread in the Book of Joshua used as a secret sign to protect a woman and her household in Jericho after she helped two spies on a reconnaissance mission escape by lowering them down the city wall with a red rope. ⚓️

The H.O.A. had a nickname, the Red Strings, which comes from the story of a scarlet thread in the Book of Joshua used as a secret sign to protect a woman and her household in Jericho after she helped two spies on a reconnaissance mission escape by lowering them down the city wall with a red rope. ⚓️

Photo of two recumbent white marble headstones in a Moravian cemetery.

It seems appropriate that buried there in God’s Acre next to Charlie Tucker, Clara’s father, is Dr. John Lewis Johnson, a founder and leader of a secret Unionist society during the Rebellion known as the Heroes of America.

Clara’s paternal grandparents were Lincoln Republicans during Reconstruction and other relatives were Southern Unionists in the Old North State during the War of the Rebellion.

Photo of a woman wearing a necklace of pearls.

Photo of an old, two-story farmhouse with a front porch.

DEATH STRIKES THRICE Winston-Salem, Aug. 1—(AP)—Death struck three times in the same Winston-Salem family within 38 hours this weekend. W.C. Tucker, 78, on Route 6, Union Cross community, died at 6 p.m. Saturday at his home. At 6 a.m. today his wife, Mrs. Asia Bodenhamer Tucker, 73, died of a heart attack at the home. An hour and one-half-later their daughter, Mrs. Clara Tucker Willard of High Point, died of a heart attack just after arriving at the home of her parents.

On this date in 1949, my grandmother Clara Tucker Willard (pictured below) died at the home of her parents (pictured below), both of whom had died hours earlier and would be buried the following day in a double funeral at Union Cross Moravian Church in Forsyth County, North Carolina.

Detail from the front page of the Star Tribune newspaper on August 2, 2007, about the collapse of the I-35W bridge over the Mississippi River during the evening rush hour on August 1, 2007.

I remember hearing live coverage of this on the radio as I was driving home 18 years ago today when we lived in the Twin Cities.

Gah! 😬

Detail from the front page of the Star Tribune newspaper on August 2, 2007, about the collapse of the I-35W bridge over the Mississippi River during the evening rush hour on August 1, 2007.

I remember hearing live coverage of this on the radio as I was driving home 18 years ago today when we lived in the Twin Cities.

The Willards went to see “The 39 Steps” at Main Street Theater in Houston, which isn’t on Main Street. But it used to be on Main Street because it began on the little stage in Autry House on the campus of Palmer Memorial Episcopal Church.

I always look for an old playbill on the wall at the current theater with Autry House listed as the location. ⚓️

I always look for an old playbill on the wall at the current theater with Autry House listed as the location. ⚓️

The Willards went to see “The 39 Steps” at Main Street Theater in Houston, which isn’t on Main Street. But it used to be on Main Street because it began on the little stage in Autry House on the campus of Palmer Memorial Episcopal Church.

But “LXX + Appendix” wouldn’t work since it doesn’t exactly roll off the tongue. 🤣

And the Jewish New Testament scholar Amy-Jill Levine encourages Christians to use this language as long as we understand “old” as venerable rather than outdated.

Comment on Bluesky: They did at my wedding (18 years ago). The priest beforehand told us no one would say anything, but if they did, he would “handle it.” Reply to that comment: I would like to hear more about your Tony Soprano-esque priest.

This exchange in response to the question in the original post did make me chuckle.

This description is so Houston