joshthejust.bsky.social
Episcopal priest, rector, Appreciative Inquiry facilitator, ACPE, Inc. Certified Educator Candidate, and clergy coach. Opinions, for better and, more likely, for worse, are mine, not my parish’s or bishop’s. (He/him) 🏳️🌈⚾️🕹️🎲
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I did not cry on the Acela to NYC today, so I’m killing it. (I have cried on the Acela and the Northeast Regional in the past three months, so…)
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Uh, everything’s under control. Situation normal. Uh, we had a slight weapons malfunction, but uh… everything’s perfectly all right now. We’re fine. We’re all fine here now, thank you. How are you?
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Our Lord would use Keynote.
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*Yale Law Students. The missing word was important…
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I remember when he was just the awful classmate the Yale Students complained about to anyone who would listen. (Takes like this are why they didn’t like him.)
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That sounds like a crappy sermon.
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Thank you! That’s different from the guidance I found. I was told to turn off “connected experiences” which also turns of OneDrive connectivity.
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Where did you find the answer? I turned off what the instructions said to turn off, and I still get the prompts in word.
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The one good thing about our website (which is getting redesigned this year) is that it is so low in Google results that scammers have yet to scrape my email address. We averaged 3 a month when I was an interim, and the first started my first day in the office.
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The only saving grace is that the CPG is incredibly risk averse, and they listen to legal. They definitely have better cybersecurity than the national church or any diocese.
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The problem with blind spots is that you have to admit they exist to address them.
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I just hope the Pension Fund pays more attention to this (surely legal has told them to), since that’s where all the truly sensitive info lives. But I don’t have high confidence.
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I typed and deleted waaay too many snarky responses. The charitable thing to say is that technological literacy is not high within our leadership. It’s a huge blind spot.
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I never thought I would say this, but I miss Clippy. It was easy to turn him off!
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And all the issues with public transit in Baltimore City are exponentially worse in the County by design. Gotta love racism (structural and otherwise) killing the plan of a City/County Metro system.
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I live in Dundalk and work in Odenton, so even if none of the bus lines were delayed, it would still take over three times the time to walk and take transit than it would to drive to work. I really feel the pain of Hogan vetoing the Red Line out of spite.
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I wish I could walk to work, but it’s not feasible. I don’t want to live in NYC, but I wish Baltimore had better transit.
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This is one of my favorite parts of the days I travel to NYC for my CPE job. Between subway and walking, I can get 3-4 hours of audiobook time in round trip.
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Down here, it’s our time.
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I love everything about this.
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My favorite part is when I sleep wrong and then can’t move my neck for a day.
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It’s not like CPG needs the money, either. I’m on my husband’s insurance now (the diocesan office hasn’t yet figured out that forcing my parish to pay for insurance might help our actuarial tables), but I have had many moments of screaming into the void at CPG for medications…
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The altar guild at the parish that sponsored me for ordination has a “Holy Hoover” which is only used to clean up the crumbs from the altar rail. They then reverently dispose of them.
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Just when I think my opinion about The Living Church couldn’t get lower…
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This sounds preferable to the questionable church coffee I run on.
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Honestly, these are very relatable opinions.
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💖 I’m so glad you’re ✨✨thriving✨✨. 💖
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That is an awesome blazer.
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Here’s me with the altar party before the Celebration of New Ministry on Thursday.
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The bishop liked my shows, and honestly that’s all that matters. 😉 ⚓️
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Fun fact: Jeffrey Rowthorn told my seminary class that Lord, you gave the Great Commission was set to Abbot’s Leigh. I forget which hymn tune he had in mind when he wrote it.
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I hate this so much.
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Care to share?
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The 400 meter, because I threw up in gym class running it.
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I love how confident people always are that it couldn’t happen here.
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(I feel like I should say this is not a bit. Armadillos actually carry leprosy.)
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You can’t eat roadkill snake in Texas. It may have gotten leprosy from the roadkill armadillo.
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Texas and Florida are in a constant game of “hold my beer.”
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I’ve eaten snake.
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Some of the earliest research on secondary trauma was conducted on rural clergy and proved exactly this point and how damaging it was to them.
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And I’m grateful for the change, but I also wonder how much less wounded I would be if I’d gotten support all along, rather than 12 years in.
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This has largely been my experience as well. We just had a transition from mostly Boomer to mostly GenX senior diocesan staff positions, and the last two times I’ve called the diocese, I’ve actually gotten tangible support.
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“The Bishop of Rome hath no jurisdiction in this realm of reactionary tradcath opinion writing…” etc
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It’s a red flag if an Episcopal priest suddenly decides to become a Catholic layperson. If they refused to obey their bishop before, why should the obey the Bishop of Rome now?