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PhD candidate & book historian studying text, memory, & heritage @Rutgers. 🌈. Interests include Chinese history, East Asian languages, religious and theological book & print culture. Episcopal layman. Ritualist “in the modern sense of the word.”
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why does the pope look like he's reviewing the successful launch of a Hwasong-12 rocket over the Sea of Japan

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spotted on the TEC subreddit - when were these leatherbound 1979 BCPs produced? I cannot find any information about them online. An earlier version of the Chancel Edition now out of print? ⚓

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TEC should cash in on the LABUBU craze and release a blind box series of plushie versions of Lesser Feast and Fasts figures. Get one Kpop idol with a stuffed Jackson Kemper on their belt at a concert and The Youth will come flocking in

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seems legit

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not that anyone needs to subject themselves to this but the TEC subreddit thread on the intinction article is predictably a trash fire of bad faith discussion and willful ignorance

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And now, the predecessor of Michel le Quien's work rejecting the validity of Church of England Holy Orders. Pierre le Courayer's defense of the validity of English orders was written anonymously in the 1720s, but he affixed his name to it later and was condemned by the French Catholic leaders. ⚓

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I'll be in Ireland in September and hope to get my hands on some Church of Ireland prayer books. Are there any recommendations for bookshops to look through or churches that might have some stock? I would defer to @laudablepractice.bsky.social 's knowledge as Bluesky's C of I doyen! ⚓

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What a joy to receive the blessing of Fr. Ignacio after his first Mass at @littlechurchnyc.bsky.social as a new priest - God keep him in the palm of his hand on his life of ministry!

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I joked a while back about "Anni di Piombo" vibes in the US but it really does feel like the Years of Lead are here

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Which is funny, because the OSS was a largely competent organization run by guys outside the WASP sphere - Allison Thomas, leader of Deer Team, who worked with Ho Chi Minh during the war, was from Lansing MI

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big if true

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feeling very "Nicholas Trigault in the late Ming" today

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inventing a new kind of Christian apologetics which says it's not idolatry because offset printing doesn't require engraving, is this anything

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I'd have thought busting grad student unions and arresting pro-Palestinian demonstrators would go over well in Florida

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Any TEC folks here who have used Bruce Ford's American Gradual? Sadly Bruce passed away this year so the planned second volume of modern notation is likely to never appear. ⚓

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who will be our Hou Fangyu? Who will be our Shi Kefa?

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Reviewing the Confraternity intercessions for June, I very much like the nature of the prayers (not everyone's gonna love "a Petrine primary acceptable to all Christians" tho). Prayer Book Societies, then a few days later the Society of Mary. Very irenic! ⚓

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(youth pastor voice) I know you're all eager for burgers from Five Guys but first I want to talk to you about Twelve Guys and some of their unbelievable fish sandwiches. Let's open our Bibles to Matthew 14:13 -

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