djgrieser.bsky.social
Episcopal priest, cat feeder, ballroom dancer. Spent 15 years toiling in the fields of academe: teaching religious studies and researching early modern religious history.
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I’d be happy if we banished pancakes from the Episcopal Church forever
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My muscles are sore after shoveling the walks. Numbers slightly down because of the weather but some visitors, an adult inquiring about baptism, choir appreciation lunch celebrating our Music Director’s 20th anniversary at Grace
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Well, this was the 2000s and I was surprised already then that their interpretive certainty was based on an almost total ignorance of the text.
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I’m not at all empathetic because I taught intro to bible for ten years to mostly Southern Baptists, PCA’s and nondenominational Evangelicals
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I mean, is there any historical moment with more sex and violence?
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Andrea Mantegna 1431-1506, Presentation of Christ in the Temple, (c. 1460-1464); Pinacoteca Querini Stampalia, Venice.
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I doubt he’s read either Aquinas or Augustine. But if he starts quoting “Compel them to come in,” we’ll know.
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I love ribbing them about it.
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The classic treatment of the debate between Luther and Zwingli is by Walther Köhler. But really just read the primary sources and draw your own conclusions.
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Self-importance
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We had a large crowd; members I haven’t seen recently; visitors looking for a church. We’re doing a series on LGBTQ+ inclusion some came for that.
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We sang it, too
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Still waiting for my January issue of the MQR
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Any of the parishes in Madison, WI. Mine, Grace, is beginning a series on LGBT+ inclusion on Sunday: www.gracechurchmadison.org
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The Sixteenth Century Studies Conference will be. But don’t forget the anniversary of Swiss Anabaptism, good bit of overlap there
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Back when we rented space to a homeless shelter, we provided regular community meals to shelter guests and others. One night a police officer showed up looking for someone. Instinctively, I refused him entrance to the dining area. He stood around for a few minutes and left.
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Rollercoaster this week. On Tuesday, low of 1. High of 43 in Madison, WI tomorrow. Monday forecast high 2, low -11.
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We had to quit watching it. My wife was too triggered
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I was stymied by the first question. I and most priests I've worked with dress in cassock-alvb, stole, chasuble, which seems not to be an option
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There’s a deeper theological point here: we are supposed to be preaching the Word of God: words that connect us to The Word. AI severs that relationship to the Word.