Caitlyn Ference-Saunders
@caitmsaunders.bsky.social
RYT500 & TCTSY-F, MAT | trauma-sensitive yoga facilitator & postulant in the #episcopalchurch | "I love you" as in "I will fight unendingly for a world where you are free" | she/her
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some thoughts on grief.
This is not the essay I thought I would write for my Substack debut.
open.substack.com
trends for summer: writing intimate reflections on grief, love, and longing.
Jeff Baker got a room full of Episcopalians to start yelling "Amen!", "C'mon!", and "Preach!" at this year's EDLA Diocesan Convention.
It's well worth the listen and a reminder of what the practical implications of living out Christ's love looks and feels like.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QI9S...
It's well worth the listen and a reminder of what the practical implications of living out Christ's love looks and feels like.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QI9S...
Canon Jeff Baker | 2025 Margaret Parker Lecture | 11.8.25
YouTube video by Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles
www.youtube.com
November 13, 2025 at 1:58 AM
Jeff Baker got a room full of Episcopalians to start yelling "Amen!", "C'mon!", and "Preach!" at this year's EDLA Diocesan Convention.
It's well worth the listen and a reminder of what the practical implications of living out Christ's love looks and feels like.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QI9S...
It's well worth the listen and a reminder of what the practical implications of living out Christ's love looks and feels like.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QI9S...
new space!? So thankful to St. James' South Pasadena for allowing me to continue to grow a yoga program alongside my postulancy work.
I believe deeply that to use our sacred spaces well, we must think about all the ways we can gather and nourish, including outside of our normal worship rhythms.
I believe deeply that to use our sacred spaces well, we must think about all the ways we can gather and nourish, including outside of our normal worship rhythms.
November 11, 2025 at 3:56 PM
new space!? So thankful to St. James' South Pasadena for allowing me to continue to grow a yoga program alongside my postulancy work.
I believe deeply that to use our sacred spaces well, we must think about all the ways we can gather and nourish, including outside of our normal worship rhythms.
I believe deeply that to use our sacred spaces well, we must think about all the ways we can gather and nourish, including outside of our normal worship rhythms.
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Maybe nobody in the great big world cares about this.
But the public libraries in tiny Jefferson County in Northern Appalachia were in danger of losing their tax funding thanks to right-wing book banners. And we won. The library's funding is safe!!!!!
But the public libraries in tiny Jefferson County in Northern Appalachia were in danger of losing their tax funding thanks to right-wing book banners. And we won. The library's funding is safe!!!!!
November 5, 2025 at 2:53 AM
Maybe nobody in the great big world cares about this.
But the public libraries in tiny Jefferson County in Northern Appalachia were in danger of losing their tax funding thanks to right-wing book banners. And we won. The library's funding is safe!!!!!
But the public libraries in tiny Jefferson County in Northern Appalachia were in danger of losing their tax funding thanks to right-wing book banners. And we won. The library's funding is safe!!!!!
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Just because we beat them doesn’t mean we should continue to let billionaires spend whatever they want on elections.
November 5, 2025 at 5:13 AM
Just because we beat them doesn’t mean we should continue to let billionaires spend whatever they want on elections.
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Couple things I learned today:
- Seniors are extremely fired up about this
- "Fuck ICE" is a normie position now
- People are MASSIVELY pissed off about Sen. Padilla being wrestled to the ground in LA
- We all we got, we all we need
- Seniors are extremely fired up about this
- "Fuck ICE" is a normie position now
- People are MASSIVELY pissed off about Sen. Padilla being wrestled to the ground in LA
- We all we got, we all we need
June 15, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Couple things I learned today:
- Seniors are extremely fired up about this
- "Fuck ICE" is a normie position now
- People are MASSIVELY pissed off about Sen. Padilla being wrestled to the ground in LA
- We all we got, we all we need
- Seniors are extremely fired up about this
- "Fuck ICE" is a normie position now
- People are MASSIVELY pissed off about Sen. Padilla being wrestled to the ground in LA
- We all we got, we all we need
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No Kings Day should probably just be a regular American holiday. Take over Flag Day but turn it (literally) upside down like the medieval Feast of Fools. And add burning effigies
June 14, 2025 at 11:42 PM
No Kings Day should probably just be a regular American holiday. Take over Flag Day but turn it (literally) upside down like the medieval Feast of Fools. And add burning effigies
trends for summer: writing intimate reflections on grief, love, and longing.
some thoughts on grief.
This is not the essay I thought I would write for my Substack debut.
open.substack.com
May 26, 2025 at 7:17 PM
trends for summer: writing intimate reflections on grief, love, and longing.
One a personal note, this Holy Week was one of the most profound for me. This year, the love I have for my community and the love I witness among them absolutely knocked me over. I cannot adequately express the joy I felt serving with them as we journeyed through last week.
April 21, 2025 at 6:02 PM
One a personal note, this Holy Week was one of the most profound for me. This year, the love I have for my community and the love I witness among them absolutely knocked me over. I cannot adequately express the joy I felt serving with them as we journeyed through last week.
This is the consistent love of God incarnate: nightly calls with those under siege. May we all follow this example in the way we care for, fight for, and build up the least powerful among us.
Gaza's Christians 'heartbroken' for pope who phoned them nightly reut.rs/4jABv8K
April 21, 2025 at 5:44 PM
This is the consistent love of God incarnate: nightly calls with those under siege. May we all follow this example in the way we care for, fight for, and build up the least powerful among us.
It's really such a gift, in the midst of everything to get to hold space for out yoga group at St. James'. I often find myself looking at this photo from after class. I can feel the presence of each of the people who belong with those mats, their softness, their selfness, their hope. It heartens me.
April 4, 2025 at 2:52 AM
It's really such a gift, in the midst of everything to get to hold space for out yoga group at St. James'. I often find myself looking at this photo from after class. I can feel the presence of each of the people who belong with those mats, their softness, their selfness, their hope. It heartens me.
The consistency of this man 👏👏👏
Where Do We Go From Here?
YouTube video by Bernie Sanders
www.youtube.com
April 4, 2025 at 2:21 AM
The consistency of this man 👏👏👏
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My evening thought is that I suspect a great many Americans, in the period after 1989, grew very used to a world in which it didn't matter *that* much who they elected (to them).
They had the rule of law, the most prosperous economy in human history, the long peace.
But it always mattered.
They had the rule of law, the most prosperous economy in human history, the long peace.
But it always mattered.
April 3, 2025 at 3:48 AM
My evening thought is that I suspect a great many Americans, in the period after 1989, grew very used to a world in which it didn't matter *that* much who they elected (to them).
They had the rule of law, the most prosperous economy in human history, the long peace.
But it always mattered.
They had the rule of law, the most prosperous economy in human history, the long peace.
But it always mattered.
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"What I and many others raised in religious homeschooling communities offer is an inconvenient truth: that previous generations already tried to build this utopia, and they lost their children in the process."
~ @abbinye.bsky.social for @religiondispatches.bsky.social
~ @abbinye.bsky.social for @religiondispatches.bsky.social
Want to Know What a Project 2025 World Looks Like? Just Ask the Homeschoolers Who Lived it
Although President Trump’s executive order on elections signed earlier this week is probably unconstitutional, it closely resembles the stalled SAVE Act, which requires voters to present a passport or...
religiondispatches.org
March 29, 2025 at 3:03 AM
"What I and many others raised in religious homeschooling communities offer is an inconvenient truth: that previous generations already tried to build this utopia, and they lost their children in the process."
~ @abbinye.bsky.social for @religiondispatches.bsky.social
~ @abbinye.bsky.social for @religiondispatches.bsky.social
Casey continues to be the one person whose internet writing I am willing to regularly pay for. This whole series has been stunning, but this essay really worked into my bones—reminding me of our own flight from NELA and what it means to build life together in its many forms.
ICYMI: Body Building, part eight: Los Angeles is burning
Body Building, part eight: Los Angeles is burning
I wasn’t loving irrationally, in spite of the difficult parts, as I feared; rather, the difficult parts were made rational by, were a testament to, the overwhelming love I felt, as I’d hoped.
dlvr.it
March 27, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Casey continues to be the one person whose internet writing I am willing to regularly pay for. This whole series has been stunning, but this essay really worked into my bones—reminding me of our own flight from NELA and what it means to build life together in its many forms.
I just discovered the joy of beans on toast. I have never thought this was a good idea. However, perhaps due to the particularly Englishness of today's grey skies, as I was frying some seed bread, I thought, the tomato & herb stewed beans I have a little of would be so lovely on this.
March 27, 2025 at 6:29 PM
I just discovered the joy of beans on toast. I have never thought this was a good idea. However, perhaps due to the particularly Englishness of today's grey skies, as I was frying some seed bread, I thought, the tomato & herb stewed beans I have a little of would be so lovely on this.
According to Francis Weller the two primary sins of “Western Civilization” are amnesia and anesthesia (not empathy). “When we are lost in…the Great Forgetting we slip into a mode of being that neglects the wider bonds of our belonging…when we forget, we are able to do untold damage.”
March 25, 2025 at 2:31 PM
According to Francis Weller the two primary sins of “Western Civilization” are amnesia and anesthesia (not empathy). “When we are lost in…the Great Forgetting we slip into a mode of being that neglects the wider bonds of our belonging…when we forget, we are able to do untold damage.”
First swim of the season complete! Many thanks to the good folks at Glassell Park Pool and our local @lacity.bsky.social parks. These kind of neighborhood resources are some of the best things our city does. Our police budget is not one of the best things our city does.
March 25, 2025 at 5:18 AM
First swim of the season complete! Many thanks to the good folks at Glassell Park Pool and our local @lacity.bsky.social parks. These kind of neighborhood resources are some of the best things our city does. Our police budget is not one of the best things our city does.
Good reminder this morning.
"When people see others as willing to fight, they believe they can fight too. The will to fight doesn’t go out of a community unless the individuals in that community give up their faith in their cause."
"When people see others as willing to fight, they believe they can fight too. The will to fight doesn’t go out of a community unless the individuals in that community give up their faith in their cause."
Here. I wrote about the point of deciding to just fight and die on a hill rather than endlessly calculating the best moment to put up an opposition.
othermeans.io/p/going-down...
othermeans.io/p/going-down...
Going Down Swinging
The Point of Putting Up a Fight
othermeans.io
March 18, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Good reminder this morning.
"When people see others as willing to fight, they believe they can fight too. The will to fight doesn’t go out of a community unless the individuals in that community give up their faith in their cause."
"When people see others as willing to fight, they believe they can fight too. The will to fight doesn’t go out of a community unless the individuals in that community give up their faith in their cause."
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Hey Americans, call your senators (especially the ones below, if you're their constituent!). Find their numbers at 202-224-3121 or at 5calls.org. If you don't get a person, you can still leave a voicemail asking them to vote NO on cloture and no on the Republican spending bill.
March 13, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Hey Americans, call your senators (especially the ones below, if you're their constituent!). Find their numbers at 202-224-3121 or at 5calls.org. If you don't get a person, you can still leave a voicemail asking them to vote NO on cloture and no on the Republican spending bill.
Really enjoying the lectures at the Pourdavoud Institute's conference: "The Bible in Its Ancient Iranian Context". Today and tomorrow, you can watch the conference for free on their website: pourdavoud.ucla.edu/event/the-bi...
The Bible in Its Ancient Iranian Context - Pourdavoud Institute - UCLA
March 13-14, 2025 | 306 & 314 Royce Hall UCLA An International Conference Convened by: M. Rahim Shayegan, UCLA William Schniedewind, UCLA Catherine Bonesho, UCLA Co-sponsored by: The Pourdavoud Instit...
pourdavoud.ucla.edu
March 13, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Really enjoying the lectures at the Pourdavoud Institute's conference: "The Bible in Its Ancient Iranian Context". Today and tomorrow, you can watch the conference for free on their website: pourdavoud.ucla.edu/event/the-bi...
Everything I haven’t yet done today. IYKYK.
March 12, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Everything I haven’t yet done today. IYKYK.
All of this thread. And, as a teacher-practitioner-postulant, it brings me so much joy when something I say offhand lights up a whole new thought-room for someone. In that moment, your discovery invites me to remember that feeling of my world opening up too.
one of the biggest things you get out of teacher-school that it seems like you also get at divinity school is: "the people who need you most have not heard at all the things you've heard, loved, internalized 1000 times."
in order to help them you have to make fresh what is no longer fresh for you.
in order to help them you have to make fresh what is no longer fresh for you.
March 12, 2025 at 5:58 PM
All of this thread. And, as a teacher-practitioner-postulant, it brings me so much joy when something I say offhand lights up a whole new thought-room for someone. In that moment, your discovery invites me to remember that feeling of my world opening up too.
Still out here calling senators. You can too!
House Democrats held strong against the Musk-Takeover Spending Bill Yesterday. We need your help to ensure that the Senate Democrats do the same. Follow the link and script below to make calls. This vote happens TODAY!
indivisible.org/resource/cal...
indivisible.org/resource/cal...
CALL NOW: Tell Senate Democrats to Hold the Line Against the Extreme MAGA Continuing Resolution
indivisible.org
March 12, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Still out here calling senators. You can too!
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we have a deluge of red flags rolling out at us right now and i think it's very important for everyone to ask themselves honestly "what am i going to do with this information?"
February 28, 2025 at 7:59 PM
we have a deluge of red flags rolling out at us right now and i think it's very important for everyone to ask themselves honestly "what am i going to do with this information?"