Chris
@farrarc0.bsky.social
“For the means of grace, and for the hope of glory.”
Episcopal seminarian, firefighter, liturgy nerd, follower of Francis and Clare. Recovering politico.
Episcopal seminarian, firefighter, liturgy nerd, follower of Francis and Clare. Recovering politico.
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if we die, we die
November 18, 2025 at 8:29 PM
if we die, we die
Is anyone in Big TEC or leadership writing about how the church is going to/should handle marriage if Obergerfell is overturned? The canons require that "Every Member of the Clergy of this Church shall conform to the laws of the State governing the creation of the civil status of marriage." ⚓
October 15, 2025 at 12:08 AM
Is anyone in Big TEC or leadership writing about how the church is going to/should handle marriage if Obergerfell is overturned? The canons require that "Every Member of the Clergy of this Church shall conform to the laws of the State governing the creation of the civil status of marriage." ⚓
Imagining a new curate sweating trying to determine if this is actually serious, or just ordinary, trouble ⚓️
August 15, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Imagining a new curate sweating trying to determine if this is actually serious, or just ordinary, trouble ⚓️
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It's been 60 years since the murder of Jonathan Daniels! Lord have mercy on us.🕯
August 14, 2025 at 10:12 AM
It's been 60 years since the murder of Jonathan Daniels! Lord have mercy on us.🕯
Interesting tidbit - the Clergy Compensation Report defines "full-time" for clergy as 28.85 hours a week (1,500 hours a year) or more. I wonder what the actual average hours per week for full-time clergy is? ⚓
Church Pension Group | Clergy Compensation Report
www.cpg.org
August 12, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Interesting tidbit - the Clergy Compensation Report defines "full-time" for clergy as 28.85 hours a week (1,500 hours a year) or more. I wonder what the actual average hours per week for full-time clergy is? ⚓
Anyone have the offices pointed for chant? Episcopal Chant only has compline, and I can’t seem to find the others anywhere online… ⚓️
July 28, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Anyone have the offices pointed for chant? Episcopal Chant only has compline, and I can’t seem to find the others anywhere online… ⚓️
Anathema. The argument that "life is just a lot" is so disappointing. If you need a sabbatical, engage your bishop, find supply clergy, read from the Book of Homilies. Ask for help - that's okay! But priests owe their congregation the sacraments, prayer, and faithful preaching... ⚓
Are AI sermons ethical? Clergy consider where to draw the line.
Much of the debate involves grappling with the question of whether AI is being used as a replacement for a sacred human project or whether it's a tool in the service of that project.
www.ncronline.org
July 23, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Anathema. The argument that "life is just a lot" is so disappointing. If you need a sabbatical, engage your bishop, find supply clergy, read from the Book of Homilies. Ask for help - that's okay! But priests owe their congregation the sacraments, prayer, and faithful preaching... ⚓
Hot take: AI is bad and the Church should shun it. ⚓️
July 23, 2025 at 12:03 AM
Hot take: AI is bad and the Church should shun it. ⚓️
I am increasingly convinced that Clinical Pastoral Education, as currently presented, is an outdated, subpar method of preparing clergy to provide pastoral care and should be changed or the canonical requirement removed. ⚓️
July 22, 2025 at 10:50 PM
I am increasingly convinced that Clinical Pastoral Education, as currently presented, is an outdated, subpar method of preparing clergy to provide pastoral care and should be changed or the canonical requirement removed. ⚓️
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Trying to wrap my head around the fact that nearly 30% of 2025 GOE candidates were non-proficient in Scripture (the worst of any category). Let that sink in: not theology, not ethics, not liturgy, but the Bible. What does that say about biblical literacy among our candidates for ordination? ⚓
July 7, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Trying to wrap my head around the fact that nearly 30% of 2025 GOE candidates were non-proficient in Scripture (the worst of any category). Let that sink in: not theology, not ethics, not liturgy, but the Bible. What does that say about biblical literacy among our candidates for ordination? ⚓
I really struggle with this sort of thing. Why does one person get to write an entirely new version of the Eucharistic service, including a new translation of the Nicene Creed? Why do they get to use it to replace the BCP service in their parish? ⚓ episcopalnewsservice.org/pressrelease...
St. Stephen’s DC using ‘Rite 4: An Experimental Liturgy for the Eucharist’
St. Stephen & the Incarnation Episcopal Church, Washington DC, has begun using Services A & B from Rite 4: An Experimental Liturgy for the Eucharist, Based on the Book of Common Prayer. St…
episcopalnewsservice.org
June 25, 2025 at 7:04 PM
I really struggle with this sort of thing. Why does one person get to write an entirely new version of the Eucharistic service, including a new translation of the Nicene Creed? Why do they get to use it to replace the BCP service in their parish? ⚓ episcopalnewsservice.org/pressrelease...
Stolen from the other place - "Literally me and my feelings about the church." ⚓
June 7, 2025 at 1:40 AM
Stolen from the other place - "Literally me and my feelings about the church." ⚓
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Yesterday my bishop said to all clergy, “I want to be very clear about this: If you are not willing to speak up, protect, & even lay down your life for all LGBTQ+ folks, immigrants, refugees, & other targeted minorities in this diocese then come & talk to me. I will help you find a new diocese.” 🙏
April 16, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Yesterday my bishop said to all clergy, “I want to be very clear about this: If you are not willing to speak up, protect, & even lay down your life for all LGBTQ+ folks, immigrants, refugees, & other targeted minorities in this diocese then come & talk to me. I will help you find a new diocese.” 🙏
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"Today there isn’t a single state, metropolitan area, or county in the United States where a full-time worker earning the local minimum wage can afford a two-bedroom apartment."
"The myth that hard work will lead to stability has been shattered, revealing a stark disconnect between the story America tells about itself and the reality of deepening precarity.”
An excerpt from my book, There Is No Place for Us, is out today in @literaryhub.bsky.social:
An excerpt from my book, There Is No Place for Us, is out today in @literaryhub.bsky.social:
The Paradox of Prosperity: How Urban Renewal Pushes Workers to the Periphery
By the time I met Cokethia Goodman and her children, they had been homeless for three months. Their ordeal began on an afternoon in August 2018, when Cokethia discovered a terse letter from her lan…
lithub.com
March 31, 2025 at 4:18 PM
"Today there isn’t a single state, metropolitan area, or county in the United States where a full-time worker earning the local minimum wage can afford a two-bedroom apartment."
I know it's the date of his death, but there's something depressingly ironic about F.D. Maurice's feast day being April 1. Founder of Christian socialism, champion of the working man, creator of co-operative associations.... commemorated on April Fool's Day. Fool for Christ, perhaps? ⚓
April 1, 2025 at 2:33 PM
I know it's the date of his death, but there's something depressingly ironic about F.D. Maurice's feast day being April 1. Founder of Christian socialism, champion of the working man, creator of co-operative associations.... commemorated on April Fool's Day. Fool for Christ, perhaps? ⚓
Since starting our death penalty prayer ministry at the beginning of the school year, we're held execution vigils and prayed for 20 men who have been murdered by the state, the victims of the crimes they were convicted of, and the families of both. ⚓ 1/3
March 19, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Since starting our death penalty prayer ministry at the beginning of the school year, we're held execution vigils and prayed for 20 men who have been murdered by the state, the victims of the crimes they were convicted of, and the families of both. ⚓ 1/3
Anyone have a set of liturgies for the full office, including the minor hours? Thinking of prime, MP, terce, sext/noonday prayer, none, EP, and compline. I've looked at Littedale's The Priest's Prayer Book but would be massive work to OCR and reset the entire thing. ⚓
February 24, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Anyone have a set of liturgies for the full office, including the minor hours? Thinking of prime, MP, terce, sext/noonday prayer, none, EP, and compline. I've looked at Littedale's The Priest's Prayer Book but would be massive work to OCR and reset the entire thing. ⚓
My takeaway so far from New Testament II ⚓
February 18, 2025 at 3:52 AM
My takeaway so far from New Testament II ⚓
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"Those who cannot see Christ in the poor are atheists indeed." #DorothyDay #PrayForAmerica
February 16, 2025 at 8:11 PM
"Those who cannot see Christ in the poor are atheists indeed." #DorothyDay #PrayForAmerica
A priest recently referred to me as “unusually liturgically aware” and honestly I’ll be riding that high for a while ⚓️
February 14, 2025 at 3:51 PM
A priest recently referred to me as “unusually liturgically aware” and honestly I’ll be riding that high for a while ⚓️
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Paul writing about Peter in Galatians 2:
February 11, 2025 at 12:21 AM
Paul writing about Peter in Galatians 2:
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BOURDAIN: so ive had joints of mutton everywhere. exeter, wroexeter, berwick. Ive never seen a joint of mutton prepared like this
MEDIEVAL SPIT-BOY: we roaste thee meat under a pafte which keeps the juices, and renders the meat moft tendere
BOURDAIN: *chuckling* wow
MEDIEVAL SPIT-BOY: we roaste thee meat under a pafte which keeps the juices, and renders the meat moft tendere
BOURDAIN: *chuckling* wow
January 19, 2025 at 12:25 AM
BOURDAIN: so ive had joints of mutton everywhere. exeter, wroexeter, berwick. Ive never seen a joint of mutton prepared like this
MEDIEVAL SPIT-BOY: we roaste thee meat under a pafte which keeps the juices, and renders the meat moft tendere
BOURDAIN: *chuckling* wow
MEDIEVAL SPIT-BOY: we roaste thee meat under a pafte which keeps the juices, and renders the meat moft tendere
BOURDAIN: *chuckling* wow
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that Korea does this, immediately, in the face of actual soldiers trying to impose martial law - when members of our own congress voted for a coup hours after the J6 mob stormed congress, and the coup instigator won the next election - is about as scathing an indictment of America as I’ve ever seen
190 present, 190 voted to DEMAND END TO MARTIAL LAW DECLARATION
December 3, 2024 at 4:19 PM
that Korea does this, immediately, in the face of actual soldiers trying to impose martial law - when members of our own congress voted for a coup hours after the J6 mob stormed congress, and the coup instigator won the next election - is about as scathing an indictment of America as I’ve ever seen
Anyone have suggestions on where to start with the slum priests or Anglican Socialism? I’ve dipped my toes in with Conrad Noel, but am starting from complete ignorance. ⚓️
November 10, 2024 at 11:42 PM
Anyone have suggestions on where to start with the slum priests or Anglican Socialism? I’ve dipped my toes in with Conrad Noel, but am starting from complete ignorance. ⚓️