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B. Edward Simmons
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high school humanities teacher | Taiwan 🇹🇼 | TEC ordination candidate | amateur runner

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New goal in these trying times: cultivate deep obscurity. Like the nutrients in the soil, be the person who loves so deeply and so thoroughly that things around you grow. But nobody looks at the soil. Only the plants.
My protestant love: the deep engagement with scripture and focus on experience of grace

My catholic love: the euchsrist and mystical tradition (especially ignatian stuff)
More protestant leaning anglicans: what catholic perspective or theology do you appreciate most?

More catholic leaning anglocans: what protestant perspective or theology do you appreciate most?

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November 12, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Narthex clergy peeps - can anyone recommend a vestment garment travel bag that they have had success with? I am starting to have to preach more regularly in other cities, and I have to take the train with my robes. The one on Almy feels way too expensive though. I am poor. ⚓️
November 12, 2025 at 7:59 AM
Not surprising. The sweet spot is right in the middle! :)
November 2, 2025 at 6:25 AM
Lord Jesus please let him raise some good trouble.
Pope Leo tells US bishops to address Trump's immigration crackdown

www.reuters.com/world/pope-l...
October 8, 2025 at 12:43 PM
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happy feast day of Saint Ignatius of Loyola!
July 31, 2025 at 12:07 PM
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starting to think we should give "strange women lying in ponds distributing swords" a chance as a basis for our system of government
August 1, 2025 at 12:07 AM
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"Prior to the neatly formulated questions of systematizing intelligence, there is the deep-set wonder in which all questions have their source and ground. As an expression of the subject, art would show forth that wonder in its elemental sweep."

Bernard Lonergan, Insight, 208
July 29, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Pilgrimage to Musee d’Orsay for a sabbath day
July 22, 2025 at 8:19 AM
Solitude
July 20, 2025 at 12:21 PM
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If Moo Deng were to move to the oldest continuous European settlement in North America, she could be Hippo of Augustine.
July 13, 2025 at 3:24 AM
When did First Things become such a parody of its former self?
June 27, 2025 at 3:19 PM
“The middle is not given to us as a mere means; it is the place of a way, a passage. Agapeic mind passes towards what is offered in the middle, not simply for some conceptual return to itself, but because the being of the other offers itself for a celebrating, affirming thought.”
June 23, 2025 at 7:21 AM
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A 🧵 for these strange times inspired by the late Walter Brueggemann. ⚓️
Pharaoh irritated on Juneteenth and tweeting throughout his kingdom:
June 20, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
June 19, 2025 at 11:21 AM
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Enjoyed taking a walk around New Haven with 3,000+ friends this afternoon. ⚓️

So many people asked take a photo of my sign, many because they wanted to look up the verse. I think I got more people to look at a Bible today than I have in my whole ordained ministry so far. 🙃
June 15, 2025 at 3:01 AM
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“At its best, our church is capable of moral clarity and resolute commitment to justice. I believe we can bring those strengths to bear on this gathering storm.” - Presiding Bishop Sean Rowe in his latest letter to The Episcopal Church 🕯️
Acting faithfully in troubling times: A letter from Presiding Bishop Rowe
www.episcopalchurch.org
June 13, 2025 at 6:50 AM
What are your best book recommendations on the priesthood/priestly vocation? ⚓️ #wat #cofe
June 11, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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“Kierkegaard reserved his harshest criticism for the cultural elites who were content to admire Christianity for its psychological benefits, political vigor, moral guidance, or other cultural advantages. ‘What a dreadful falsehood it is to admire the truth, instead of following it.’” —Daniel Goodman
Kierkegaard’s Attack on Cultural Christianity
Those who champion Christianity for its moral values, aesthetic appeal, psychological benefits, and civilizing influence are nothing but swindlers.
www.plough.com
May 23, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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there is the possibility of congregational reaction ranging from confusion to anger
May 19, 2025 at 5:30 AM
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new pope realized the usa sucks at a young age and got the fuck out of dodge and prayed it up in peru until he got the call up to the catholic big leagues in the V.C.
May 9, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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This is an incredibly revealing self-own.
May 5, 2025 at 1:33 PM
#narthex and #WAT people - has anyone heard news of Volume 3 coming from our beloved Katherine Sonderegger? I need some depth for my summer reading, and it just occurred to me it’s been 5 years since Volume 2! ⚓️
April 29, 2025 at 5:00 AM
Can you go so deep into a patristic author (like, say, Augustine) that you can get past the missteps, the limitations, the colonialism of the legion of interpreters who turned an African monk into a bastion of Christendom? Asking for a friend. ⚓️
April 24, 2025 at 10:30 AM