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Arlie Coles
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Deep NLP/ASR researcher, linguist, musician, ecclesiological enthusiast, documentation zealot. MSc '20 @mila-quebec.bsky.social. 🇺🇲🇨🇦
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Arlie Coles @arliecoles.bsky.social · Feb 15
For transparency: I am serving on the Task Force for AI & IP whose survey is now going around (please take it!); I am a machine learning researcher myself; and I wrote this piece describing my own position some time ago: ⚓
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Episcopalians: your Task Force on Artificial Intelligence and Intellectual Property is meeting in person this week! Keep us in your prayers. ⚓
November 16, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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New for @livingchurch.bsky.social: ACNA Archbishop Steve Wood is accused of making sexual advances toward a staff member at his South Carolina church, as well as financial impropriety, plagiarism, and bullying.
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ACNA Primate Faces Misconduct Charges - The Living Church
Archbishop Steve Wood is accused of making sexual advances toward a staff member at his South Carolina church, as well as financial impropriety, plagiarism, and bullying.
livingchurch.org
October 24, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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Ecclesiastical and other news getting rough? Do you need a laugh? You do? I know you do. Give the cautionary tale of poor Canon Babbit a read at @earthandaltarmag.com and then make solid and dutiful plans to say your office! ⚓

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THE REV. CANON ÆTHELSTAN BABBIT — Earth and Altar
The following is a selection from Cautionary Tales for Careful Clerics , an original volume of humorous poetry recently released by St. Lazarus Press , the publishing arm of the Church of St. Jo...
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October 17, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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New for @livingchurch.bsky.social : Bishop Derek Jones’ lawyers describe the Jurisdiction of the Armed Forces & Chaplaincy as a business offering chaplaincy endorsements and allege the ACNA owes millions for trademark infringement and unfair competition.
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Inhibited Bishop Sues ACNA - The Living Church
Bishop Derek Jones’ lawyers describe the Jurisdiction of Armed Forces as a business selling chaplaincy endorsements and allege the ACNA owes millions for trademark infringement and unfair competition.
livingchurch.org
October 15, 2025 at 12:34 PM
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New for @livingchurch.bsky.social: The ACNA's Special Jurisdiction of the Armed Forces and Chaplaincy has attempted to secede from that church as its bishop, the Rt. Rev Derek Jones, faces allegations of misconduct.
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ACNA Inhibits its Chaplaincy Bishop - The Living Church
The Anglican Church in North America’s Special Jurisdiction of the Armed Forces and Chaplaincy has attempted to secede from that church as its bishop faces allegations of misconduct.
livingchurch.org
September 26, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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This book is now out! If you are a cleric or love a cleric, and you need a laugh (and it's clear we all do), and you'd like to support Canadian ecclesiastical art, then consider picking it up! ⚓
arliecoles.bsky.social Arlie Coles @arliecoles.bsky.social · Aug 8
Shameless plug for an upcoming book from St. Lazarus Press! Coming August 26: CAUTIONARY TALES FOR CAREFUL CLERICS, a new volume of humorous poetry that warns of clerical errors and their often lethal, always hilarious consequences. If you like Mascall & Belloc, you'll like this. ⚓
August 27, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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Shameless plug for an upcoming book from St. Lazarus Press! Coming August 26: CAUTIONARY TALES FOR CAREFUL CLERICS, a new volume of humorous poetry that warns of clerical errors and their often lethal, always hilarious consequences. If you like Mascall & Belloc, you'll like this. ⚓
August 8, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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New for @livingchurch.bsky.social : Troubled by an accusation of procedural misconduct, ACNA Bp. Stewart Ruch's closed trial has had three chief prosecutors in as many weeks. ⚓
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Chaotic Ruch Trial on Hold - The Living Church
Troubled by an accusation of procedural misconduct, the ACNA bishop’s closed trial has had three chief prosecutors in as many weeks.
livingchurch.org
August 2, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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In your charity, please pray for a friend's family member who is sick, in pain, and will likely reach the end in the next few days. ⚓
August 1, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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Each time a new set of AI stories begin to circulate: pray for us and pray again! ⚓
arliecoles.bsky.social Arlie Coles @arliecoles.bsky.social · Jun 25
Episcopalians: Your Task Force on AI & IP continues to work! Please keep on praying for us. ⚓
July 24, 2025 at 1:04 AM
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New for @livingchurch.bsky.social: The trial of ACNA Bp. Stewart Ruch has been halted by the sudden resignation of its prosecutor after a member of the Court for the Trial of a Bishop allegedly improperly questioned a prosecution's witness for over an hour.
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Ruch Trial Halted by Prosecutor's Resignation - The Living Church
Prosecutor Alan Runyan said the trial was "irreparably tainted" after a member of the court improperly questioned a witness for more than an hour.
livingchurch.org
July 23, 2025 at 12:50 AM
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The ecclesiastical trial of #ACNA bishop Stewart Ruch is slated to begin July 14. #news #Anglican
ACNA to Try Bishop on Mishandling Abuse Charges - The Living Church
According to three bishops who brought charges against him, the bishop did not initiate an investigation into allegations for nearly two years after hearing of a 9-year-old’s abuse.
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July 14, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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New for @livingchurch.bsky.social: The trial of Bp. Stewart Ruch III begins today. He is the second ACNA bishop to be tried and will face charges involving alleged mishandling of sexual abuse disclosures & habitual promotion of abusive ministers in his diocese.
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ACNA to Try Bishop on Mishandling Abuse Charges - The Living Church
According to three bishops who brought charges against him, the bishop did not initiate an investigation into allegations for nearly two years after hearing of a 9-year-old’s abuse.
livingchurch.org
July 14, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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Anglo-Catholics! 🕯️ You know and love this Anglican chant setting of the Angelus. But you never know where to find it or how to get just the parts of it you want. Well, fear no more. All in one spot here, sized for bulletin insert:
chanted-angelus-e22ada.gitlab.io
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June 30, 2025 at 1:51 AM
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Episcopalians: Your Task Force on AI & IP continues to work! Please keep on praying for us. ⚓
June 25, 2025 at 12:16 AM
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I wrote about a proposed canonical change in the ACNA that will come before the Provincial Council in about a week. The change involves codifying how legislation gets proposed -- *away* from the actual members of the legislature. ⬇️
June 8, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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I am once again begging. This sort of thing is inherent in how LMs work.
June 5, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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TEC friends here and not the other place, please consider following @acnatoo.bsky.social, who do great work at cataloguing and calling for change regarding misconduct in the ACNA. People from other backgrounds who find themselves in the ACNA and hit this need support and prayers from, yes, TEC. ⚓
June 2, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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I ought to post here more.
May 31, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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For those interested in Episcopal - Reformed Episcopal - ACNA history: I wrote about the early history of Cranmer Theological House, an REC seminary built with help from conservative Episcopalians & used to pilot many interesting ecclesiastical techniques in the 90s:
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Conservative American Anglicanism’s Forgotten Third Seminary - The Living Church
In an atmosphere of attempting turnaround, novel pedagogy, and outreach into the Anglican Communion, Cranmer House was founded as a new REC seminary—with substantial help from conservative Episcopalia...
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May 20, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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Shameless advertising for St. Lazarus Press and St. John the Evangelist in Montreal: pick up Francis Trench's meditation on St. John in observance of his feast before the Latin Gate! 15% off!
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May 10, 2025 at 10:18 PM
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Hi friends! Back from my Easter break with a Substack to share, about the misconduct policies in the Anglican Diocesan of Montreal. There have been questions lately about their suitability...and I have found that they are deeply, profoundly broken.
On the misconduct policies of the Anglican Diocese of Montreal
A look at a shockingly bad disciplinary system
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April 22, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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HELL TOOK A BODY, AND DISCOVERED GOD! ⚓
April 20, 2025 at 4:10 AM
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Friends, if you're keeping watch at the altar of repose tonight, please remember there a friend's grandfather who is acutely ill. ⚓
April 18, 2025 at 3:23 AM
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Where do I need to go to church in New Orleans for one Sunday? Is St Anna's the move? ⚓
March 25, 2025 at 8:56 PM