Elaine Elizabeth Belz
@eebelz.bsky.social
Theologian, poet, Detroiter, churchgeek.
Asst Prof, Theology, etseminary.edu
Cathedral Choir; Docent; etc., detroitcathedral.org
Some of my writing:
https://earthandaltarmag.com/posts?author=61a8100919657473c2d902d1
https://beltmag.com/putting-down-roots
Asst Prof, Theology, etseminary.edu
Cathedral Choir; Docent; etc., detroitcathedral.org
Some of my writing:
https://earthandaltarmag.com/posts?author=61a8100919657473c2d902d1
https://beltmag.com/putting-down-roots
Pinned
This doesn't only apply to cinema, of course! "Art opens up what is possible."
Some inspiring words on cinema in the streaming era from the Pope.
Yes, THAT Pope.
Yes, THAT Pope.
November 17, 2025 at 7:37 PM
This doesn't only apply to cinema, of course! "Art opens up what is possible."
Feeling unusually lousy today, but it's just ramped-up normal lousy, & I can't figure out why (among many possible reasons). This is why I always feel bad for PCPs—everyone says "I'm tired & I have a headache" & Dr's supposed to figure out why. The older I get, ofc, the more reasons there could be.
November 13, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Feeling unusually lousy today, but it's just ramped-up normal lousy, & I can't figure out why (among many possible reasons). This is why I always feel bad for PCPs—everyone says "I'm tired & I have a headache" & Dr's supposed to figure out why. The older I get, ofc, the more reasons there could be.
Full of physical and creative/intellectual energy right now, but instead, I'm doing bookkeeping. GAH!
November 12, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Full of physical and creative/intellectual energy right now, but instead, I'm doing bookkeeping. GAH!
Choral Evensong for Veteran's Day Observance
YouTube video by Cathedral Church of St. Paul, Detroit
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November 10, 2025 at 7:04 PM
I’m no longer a grad student, so this isn’t for me, sadly. But this was one of the key topics in my dissertation! (Of course Stoler was in my bibliography! Her choice of the term “ruination” is spot on.)
November 9, 2025 at 6:04 PM
I’m no longer a grad student, so this isn’t for me, sadly. But this was one of the key topics in my dissertation! (Of course Stoler was in my bibliography! Her choice of the term “ruination” is spot on.)
My poems in the gallery at Grosse Pointe Congregational Church. The wheelbarrow poem is my response to Marguerite Carlton’s photo.
November 8, 2025 at 4:18 PM
My poems in the gallery at Grosse Pointe Congregational Church. The wheelbarrow poem is my response to Marguerite Carlton’s photo.
A rare morning where there’s nowhere I have to be… Lying in bed, listening to the rain.
November 7, 2025 at 1:01 PM
A rare morning where there’s nowhere I have to be… Lying in bed, listening to the rain.
Reposted by Elaine Elizabeth Belz
"Let me be clear: The president has both the funding and the authority to fund SNAP during a shutdown. In fact, every other president in every other shutdown has done so. People going hungry in this instance is a choice that this president has made.”
Gov. Andy Beshear
Gov. Andy Beshear
November 6, 2025 at 4:38 AM
"Let me be clear: The president has both the funding and the authority to fund SNAP during a shutdown. In fact, every other president in every other shutdown has done so. People going hungry in this instance is a choice that this president has made.”
Gov. Andy Beshear
Gov. Andy Beshear
Opening this Thursday night!
If you’re in the Detroit area, mark your calendar now for January 10 when I and so many of my favorite poets will read our poems, & the artists will talk about their work. Books for sale $10/ea with all the poems and art!
If you’re in the Detroit area, mark your calendar now for January 10 when I and so many of my favorite poets will read our poems, & the artists will talk about their work. Books for sale $10/ea with all the poems and art!
November 5, 2025 at 8:25 AM
Opening this Thursday night!
If you’re in the Detroit area, mark your calendar now for January 10 when I and so many of my favorite poets will read our poems, & the artists will talk about their work. Books for sale $10/ea with all the poems and art!
If you’re in the Detroit area, mark your calendar now for January 10 when I and so many of my favorite poets will read our poems, & the artists will talk about their work. Books for sale $10/ea with all the poems and art!
My thoroughly GenX self still refuses to pay to stream music I own. I suppose when my 100-disc CD player dies, I might have no other option.
November 3, 2025 at 5:29 PM
My thoroughly GenX self still refuses to pay to stream music I own. I suppose when my 100-disc CD player dies, I might have no other option.
🙄 Oh Adobe. Even my ADHD brain doesn't think 15 pages is that long.
It's an academic article, not a business memo.
It's an academic article, not a business memo.
October 29, 2025 at 5:12 PM
🙄 Oh Adobe. Even my ADHD brain doesn't think 15 pages is that long.
It's an academic article, not a business memo.
It's an academic article, not a business memo.
Jesus looks like he’s annoyed with a mosquito.
October 27, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Jesus looks like he’s annoyed with a mosquito.
Today's Wordle is one of my all-time favorite words.
And I first encountered it in a Sylvia Plath poem, oddly enough. It's her birthday today. (And also her favorite poet, Dylan Thomas'. My mom insists I was not born a week early...)
And I first encountered it in a Sylvia Plath poem, oddly enough. It's her birthday today. (And also her favorite poet, Dylan Thomas'. My mom insists I was not born a week early...)
October 27, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Today's Wordle is one of my all-time favorite words.
And I first encountered it in a Sylvia Plath poem, oddly enough. It's her birthday today. (And also her favorite poet, Dylan Thomas'. My mom insists I was not born a week early...)
And I first encountered it in a Sylvia Plath poem, oddly enough. It's her birthday today. (And also her favorite poet, Dylan Thomas'. My mom insists I was not born a week early...)
Reposted by Elaine Elizabeth Belz
October 19, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Reposted by Elaine Elizabeth Belz
This is how we remind corporations who actually holds the power in this abusive relationship.
They bent to Trump this year because they thought obedience was good for business.
Time to remind them who signs the checks.
psychopete1.substack.com/p/black-out-...
They bent to Trump this year because they thought obedience was good for business.
Time to remind them who signs the checks.
psychopete1.substack.com/p/black-out-...
🖤 Black Out Black Friday
Why We Do It — and Why We Don’t Go Back
psychopete1.substack.com
October 19, 2025 at 9:37 PM
This is how we remind corporations who actually holds the power in this abusive relationship.
They bent to Trump this year because they thought obedience was good for business.
Time to remind them who signs the checks.
psychopete1.substack.com/p/black-out-...
They bent to Trump this year because they thought obedience was good for business.
Time to remind them who signs the checks.
psychopete1.substack.com/p/black-out-...
On Friday, I was invited to give the homily at today's Evensong for the Feast of St. Luke (observed).
Here it is (the text, posted on my blog): eebelz.com/2025/10/19/b...
Here it is (the text, posted on my blog): eebelz.com/2025/10/19/b...
October 19, 2025 at 9:39 PM
On Friday, I was invited to give the homily at today's Evensong for the Feast of St. Luke (observed).
Here it is (the text, posted on my blog): eebelz.com/2025/10/19/b...
Here it is (the text, posted on my blog): eebelz.com/2025/10/19/b...
Reposted by Elaine Elizabeth Belz
I know Donald Trump is a pathological liar, malignant narcissistic sociopath, racist, antisemite, misogynist, xenophobe, homophobe, transphobe, hater of our troops and believer in euthanizing folks with disabilities, but we too often forget that he's *also* an adjudicated rapist and convicted felon.
October 18, 2025 at 8:10 PM
I know Donald Trump is a pathological liar, malignant narcissistic sociopath, racist, antisemite, misogynist, xenophobe, homophobe, transphobe, hater of our troops and believer in euthanizing folks with disabilities, but we too often forget that he's *also* an adjudicated rapist and convicted felon.
What a great project here in Detroit & Hamtramck! If you can, toss some change his way. The link has a couple of payment options that includes CashApp.
If you'd like to support this effort you can visit buymeacoffee.com/cyclesixmile
You can let me know how you'd like the money to be used, either to buy bike locks or bike lights for students, or to buy food, warming supplies, hygiene supplies, or bus passes for people who I see on my rides.
You can let me know how you'd like the money to be used, either to buy bike locks or bike lights for students, or to buy food, warming supplies, hygiene supplies, or bus passes for people who I see on my rides.
October 13, 2025 at 3:13 PM
What a great project here in Detroit & Hamtramck! If you can, toss some change his way. The link has a couple of payment options that includes CashApp.
Reposted by Elaine Elizabeth Belz
We need work requirements for Congress.
October 13, 2025 at 12:56 PM
We need work requirements for Congress.
Usual Monday morning barrage of, well, everything...but it's still not even noon, and someone called me a "godsend." I'll take it.
October 13, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Usual Monday morning barrage of, well, everything...but it's still not even noon, and someone called me a "godsend." I'll take it.
Reposted by Elaine Elizabeth Belz
Except he wouldn’t even say “thanks.”
October 8, 2025 at 8:35 AM
Except he wouldn’t even say “thanks.”
Saw an Indiana license plate this morning. It had the slogan, "The Crossroads of America."
Yes, there are lots of ways to drive through Indiana. Their slogan is better than another way it could have been worded: "Indiana—You'll Get Through It Somehow."
(Srsly tho, no shade to my neighbor state!)
Yes, there are lots of ways to drive through Indiana. Their slogan is better than another way it could have been worded: "Indiana—You'll Get Through It Somehow."
(Srsly tho, no shade to my neighbor state!)
October 7, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Saw an Indiana license plate this morning. It had the slogan, "The Crossroads of America."
Yes, there are lots of ways to drive through Indiana. Their slogan is better than another way it could have been worded: "Indiana—You'll Get Through It Somehow."
(Srsly tho, no shade to my neighbor state!)
Yes, there are lots of ways to drive through Indiana. Their slogan is better than another way it could have been worded: "Indiana—You'll Get Through It Somehow."
(Srsly tho, no shade to my neighbor state!)
This is important. The use of the word "constructs" here is important. Social constructs and media reporting, as we keep seeing, distort people's perception of the world and their thinking.
Being targeted for police violence constructs people as criminals. Cops beat someone and the news refers to the victim as a suspect.
October 6, 2025 at 6:13 PM
This is important. The use of the word "constructs" here is important. Social constructs and media reporting, as we keep seeing, distort people's perception of the world and their thinking.
Reposted by Elaine Elizabeth Belz
No one is covering the GOP's scheme to rig congressional maps for 2026 as closely as Democracy Docket. It is providing gavel to gavel coverage of the ongoing hearing over whether the Texas gerrymander will be in place for the midterms.
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October 6, 2025 at 1:36 AM
No one is covering the GOP's scheme to rig congressional maps for 2026 as closely as Democracy Docket. It is providing gavel to gavel coverage of the ongoing hearing over whether the Texas gerrymander will be in place for the midterms.
Support its work by subscribing now. hubs.ly/Q03M8rql0
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