Yeah barely any of it got done today. I got like a page done, if that. Guess I won’t be at church tomorrow cause I work 2-10:30 tomorrow and don’t have time otherwise to work on this thing that’s due Monday.
I’m just exhausted and also depressed which is a terrible combo to try and get all the things done I need to today. I might have to skip church tomorrow unfortunately purely to get things done and I really hate that such a thing is so common in my life right now. I’m having to miss out on so much…
I have a paper due Monday. Today is my first day off in over a week and my only time to finish the paper…and I have been struggling to get started since like 1…I am not having a good day.
Is it like…young enough to be cute and funny or like…old enough that they should know not to? Idk my opinion on such things is nuanced among super young kids (like when a baby gives you the finger, it’s just cute and funny IMO) vs. when an 8-12 year old does it a lot and should totally know better.
Yeah my dad was AF intelligence during the war so his interactions with ground combat units was slim to my knowledge. I was def introduced to military ritual by attendance at his VMI alumni events and discussions of how a military college functioned! Would love to chat sometime about it all!
Fascinating! My dad was Vietnam era and never told me about this/never did it so I’m assuming it came about sometime later? There’s a kind of ritual symbolism in the military that I’m sure has been discussed by religious experts but I’d love to dive deep into it some day!
Every time my academic libraries professor has talked about showing the value of the library by showing a “return on investment” for the university by putting in things that appeal to the most lucrative STEM departments I want to pull my damn hair out.
lol I’ve gotten healthcare at Duke for almost a combined decade or more and I did my CPE at UVA so I can’t wait for this!
Oh! I’ve also got many audiobooks including “Paladin’s Grace”, “Hammet”, “Canticle”, and “Hekate: The Witch”!
Oh so we’re not just doing war crimes but also bragging about them? A sure fire way to get your ass dragged to the Hauge IMO but who knows what’ll happen.
I’ve also got out “A Thousand Ships” by Natalie Haynes and “More Than Enough” by Anna Quindlen. Anyone have fiction they’re reading rn that they’d recommend?
This is all me trying to become more well rounded in my reading of fiction. I don’t watch TV or Movies, besides sports, so I’m trying to get better at reading fiction instead. I feel bad working at a library and not knowing fiction to recommend to folks.
Among other general fiction, I’m checking these religious fiction books out from the library I work at. One surrounding Julian of Norwich and Margery Kempe (Revelations) and one about the death of Henry I and his daughter Maude, the Countess of Anjou (When Christ and his Saints Slept) ⚓️
I lost a lot of clothes in the divorce simply by not grabbing everything from the apartment I should have. I hope that wasn’t one of them 😭
Idk where it is these days but I had a Scottish hockey friend years ago mail me a kilt from the Wacken metal festival in Germany and I adored that thing!
Yeah! 16th century Lutheran doctrinal statement containing the creeds, the Augsburg confession, etc. My point isn’t that Anglicans should care about the Concordia, but that those coming from other mainline traditions struggle with our doctrine because it’s simply not as fleshed out as some others.
Anyone have advice on dealing with ultra conservative relatives that you can’t exactly just disaffiliate yourself from? Like I’m talking supports the current admin in everything they’ve done in the past 15 months, from immigration to war, they support it all. I just feel hopeless hearing it.
My seminary internship site was instructed on the paperwork to have drills and to go through it with us. A guy in my undergrad parish conceal carried regularly which made me very uncomfortable but it was also semi-rural VA so I wasn’t surprised.
Yeah I was brought up during seminary by a mentor who gave 20 minute theology lecture sermons so…idk how to do that 😹
Yeah okay this is better than all my rambling tbh.
I think folks think we don’t teach or preach a “correct” answer because in other traditions there are so many teachings that spell things out very clearly (Book of Confessions for Presbys, Concordia and Augsburg among others for Lutherans, The Catechism for Catholics) that we don’t really have IMO
I was thinking about this yeah…and I despise that it’s a genuine thought to be had.
IMO: orthodoxy is summarized quite well for Anglicans in the Apostles, Nicene, and (if you want to get granular) Athanasian Creeds which sit alongside the 39 Articles, and other such writings, (such as Chicago-Lambeth). I think inclusive orthodoxy, though occasionally cringy, is important too.
I feel like this is dependent on whether you’re trying to find what’s called “orthodoxy” or whether you’re talking about trying to make the New Testament into one monotone voice, something that like with the rest of scripture, is a fruitless task. These are two different discussions IMO.
The news is really fucking grim today but I saw on the Book of Faces site that an Episcopal church in Brooklyn did a performance of Hildegard’s “Ordo Virtutum” and that honestly makes me smile amid…everything.
“Can’t you just calmly explain it to her?” HA! If I explain anything about my health that doesn’t fit her preconceived notions, physical or mental health, she disagrees. Despite me knowing my body best AND because I actually listen to my doctors. But this woman is anti-vax even for dogs so…🤷♂️
Fun fact, my mother still very much thinks this way about all my mental health medication. She keeps insisting I “wean off” my ADHD meds and my antidepressants as if that’s how that works at all. 🙃
Don’t make me tap the Marcionism sign.
At one of my parish internships I helped with the parochial report and we defined Communicant in Good Standing as anyone who’d received communion in the last year, at home or in the parish and had not done anything to harm the church or its members. With all you do I’d consider you one tbh.
I’ve always read it as a different thing. There’s “Confirmed Communicant In Good Standing” which is I believe required to be on things like the vestry and then there’s “Communicant in Good Standing” which is just a member of a parish who, by whatever metric, is considered a communicant.
