Paul Simon - Slip Slidin' Away (from The Concert in Hyde Park) YouTube video by PaulSimonVEVO

ice storm in #Montreal today has left everything slick and left me humming "Slip Sliding Away" all day
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tC-Z...

Working while Anchorage sleeps, trail groomers are vital to keep a ski-crazy town active The Nordic Skiing Association of Anchorage maintains around 100 miles of trail throughout the municipality, including popular areas on the Hillside and at Kincaid Park.

God bless those who work (to groom cross-country ski trails) while others (me) sleep this night

www.adn.com/sports/skiin...

Update: Bishop Andrew died today
www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/202...

totally agreed on all points!

O God, it is your will to hold both heaven & earth in single peace. Let the design of your great love shine on waste of our wraths & sorrows & give peace to your Church, peace among nations, peace in our homes & peace in our hearts; through your Son Jesus Christ our Lord.

-Book of Alt. Services

I don't know Andrew Watson, bishop of Guildford in Church of England, but he is dying of inoperable cancer & has written beautiful letter to diocese that is worth reading as a testament to faith

it is the kind of thing we should expect from our bishops

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Bill Mazeroski, 89, Whose 9th-Inning Blast Made Pirates Champs, Is Dead

Nothing against the late Bill Mazeroski but this @nytimes obit describing him as hitting "most decisive" home run in World Series history is wrong

Joe Carter's 1993 home run was a come-from-behind walk-off home-run

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/21/s...

thanks: I'll look it up. I'm onto Ian McEwan's "What We Can Know," which is great: climate change, reflection on craft of history, all the good things (in fiction)

let me know what you think: I read Clear and thought it was ok; started Isola and got distracted and didn't get back to finish it

Principal's post: Necessity, the mother of invention (even in the church) The church needs to try new things and be free to explore creative new pathways. Yet, like many other institutions, it can be bound by tradition and custom, making it an unlikely place from which crea...

A very happy feast of Sts. Cyril and Methodius to all!

(And a reminder to be willing to tell others in the church: go for it, I've got your back)

montrealdio.ca/necessity-th...

Calvin Robinson Joins Sixth Denomination - The Living Church The controversial media personality is now a priest of the English Catholic Church, a continuing Anglican denomination with two parishes in Nebraska.

For a long time, I've wanted to do some research to figure out all the breakaway #Anglican denominations in North America.

But recently I've realized I can just follow Calvin Robinson's trajectory through the church and it's basically the same thing.

livingchurch.org/news/calvin-...

An apocalyptic Martin Luther King Making America "the truly great America that it is called to be.”

MLK Jr's last Sunday morning sermon has been speaking to me in these times: an apocalyptic address for an apocalyptic time

riskingchurch.substack.com/p/an-apocaly...

Who Might Be the Next Archbishop of Canterbury? - The Living Church Seemingly within moments of Justin Welby resigning, many articles began identifying potential successors. Two names are common to almost all the lists, and so I shall start with them.

today's little piece of delight

most read article of year at @livingchurch.bsky.social was about who could be next Archbishop of Canterbury and it never mentions the name of Sarah Mullaly, appointed in October

helpful perspective for all of us who watch the church

livingchurch.org/news/news-an...

Ah yes, the weekend of the Third Sunday of Advent: when everyone schedules everything involving absolutely everyone.

I'm going to need a weekend to recover from this weekend.

annual and enjoyable lunchtime conversation with colleagues today: which of the plot lines in "Love Actually" is most problematic and "ewwww" inducing?

so many to choose from!

Remembering today 17th century's Nicholas Ferrar who formed a religious community at Little Gidding and was so devoted to idea of commonwealth

How natural idea of wealth in common is to way of Jesus and how foreign it is to our world ⚓️

has something to do as well with the widespread unionization of higher-ed faculty in Canada; would be interested in a comparative study with the U.S. (where, true, some—but not all—institutions have much more money to throw around) but faculty are far less unionized

Join the host! Contribute to this project to get 6,000 oral history testimonies (one for each of the Riders of Rohan at Battle of Pelennor Fields, naturally) from fans of J.R.R. Tolkien

www.marquette.edu/library/arch... #nerdheaven

Special Pastoral Message on Immigration by the Bishops of the United States YouTube video by United States Conference of Catholic Bishops

this video from US Catholic bishops on immigration is good

#Episcopal bishops should do their pastoral letters in same way—I imagine there would be a bit more variety in wardrobe ⚓
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsMQ...

I asked it about the Communion of Saints and the answer was decent enough (can't figure out how to share link here)

I know how you feel about this but... it seems like this is the kind of thing that in the future (or now) people will be asking of AI, in which case we may be glad that the EpiscoBot exists: www.episcobot.com

it's not terribly user-friendly either, if you want to search within it for a term

Glossary of Terms

The online Episcopal Church Dictionary tends to be more historical but answers some of these types of queries www.episcopalchurch.org/glossary/

at least it's not in Comic Sans font

Great thread: 2 thoughts.

1) Replaces God as Creator with man as creator. Reminded of Pullman's "His Dark Materials" where God is The Authority (but not the Creator): what does authority independent of creation look like?

2) Connection to "end of history" eschatology and market triumphalism?

not sudden death but sudden victory: think positively!

Installation of the 106th Archbishop of Canterbury | Anglican Communion News Service Anglican Communion News Service

Is it:

a) entirely appropriate;
b) more than a little patronizing;
or c) a bit of both

that first female Archbishop of Canterbury will be enthroned on Feast of Annunciation? ⚓️
www.anglicannews.org/news/2025/10...

there's so many reasons not to watch and give any support to the professional sports industrial complex, and yet... #cantlookaway

I can still:
*name the starting line-up of the 1992 & 1993 Blue Jays
*remember where I was when Joe Carter caught the final out in 1992 and hit the walk-off homer in 1993

I have been waiting 32 years for tonight.

kind of impressed by the flag switcheroo in the outfield