Josh Rodriguez-Hobbs
@joshthejust.bsky.social
Episcopal priest, rector, Appreciative Inquiry facilitator, ACPE, Inc. Certified Educator, and clergy coach. Opinions, for better and, more likely, for worse, are mine, not my parish’s or bishop’s. (He/him) 🏳️🌈⚾️🕹️🎲
My senior warden is the best. ⚓️
November 19, 2025 at 3:34 PM
My senior warden is the best. ⚓️
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Jesus: Which of you, if your son asks for bread, will give him a stone?
Christian Nationalists: *raise their hands in unison*
Christian Nationalists: *raise their hands in unison*
November 1, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Jesus: Which of you, if your son asks for bread, will give him a stone?
Christian Nationalists: *raise their hands in unison*
Christian Nationalists: *raise their hands in unison*
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I am usually in the camp of 'all reading is good' but in some very rare cases an absolute dunderhead will pick up a book and be like "the hobbits are a direct endorsement of fascist racial supremacy" and I don't think it's really helping them or anyone else, like maybe reading actually isn't for you
October 30, 2025 at 10:21 AM
I am usually in the camp of 'all reading is good' but in some very rare cases an absolute dunderhead will pick up a book and be like "the hobbits are a direct endorsement of fascist racial supremacy" and I don't think it's really helping them or anyone else, like maybe reading actually isn't for you
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I hate this.
Tolkien hated Nazism, and he also hated apartheid.
Tolkien hated Nazism, and he also hated apartheid.
DHS just posted a Lord of the Rings meme as an appeal to join ICE
October 29, 2025 at 8:52 PM
I hate this.
Tolkien hated Nazism, and he also hated apartheid.
Tolkien hated Nazism, and he also hated apartheid.
Props to the Christian Century for publishing an amazing piece that wouldn’t be permitted in most Mainline pulpits. ⚓️
Abolish ICE, and don’t stop there
Law enforcement officers generally resist any attempt to bring them to heel, and they are usually...
www.christiancentury.org
October 29, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Props to the Christian Century for publishing an amazing piece that wouldn’t be permitted in most Mainline pulpits. ⚓️
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J. D. VANCE: We need to end DEI.
MONKEY’S PAW: (raises one finger)
MONKEY’S PAW: (raises one finger)
BREAKING: Pope Leo XIV is set to effectively disband Opus Dei in the coming weeks.
This would be the most sweeping internal reform of his pontificate — and a dramatic continuation of Pope Francis’s legacy.
This would be the most sweeping internal reform of his pontificate — and a dramatic continuation of Pope Francis’s legacy.
NEW: Pope Leo Set To Break Up Opus Dei
If Pope Leo does indeed approves a plan that effectively dissolves Opus Dei’s structure, it would be the most significant internal action of his short pontificate to date.
open.substack.com
October 17, 2025 at 2:48 AM
J. D. VANCE: We need to end DEI.
MONKEY’S PAW: (raises one finger)
MONKEY’S PAW: (raises one finger)
Life is crazy, so what’s a little puppy chaos added to the mix. Meet Sugar.
October 4, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Life is crazy, so what’s a little puppy chaos added to the mix. Meet Sugar.
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"In an age that craves certainty and tribalism, Anglicanism offers something quieter and stronger shaped by prayer and lit from within by the glory of Christ. That is what gives me hope."
– The Rt Rev and Rt Hon Dame Sarah Mullally, Archbishop of Canterbury-designate, in her address this morning 🕯️
– The Rt Rev and Rt Hon Dame Sarah Mullally, Archbishop of Canterbury-designate, in her address this morning 🕯️
October 3, 2025 at 11:39 AM
"In an age that craves certainty and tribalism, Anglicanism offers something quieter and stronger shaped by prayer and lit from within by the glory of Christ. That is what gives me hope."
– The Rt Rev and Rt Hon Dame Sarah Mullally, Archbishop of Canterbury-designate, in her address this morning 🕯️
– The Rt Rev and Rt Hon Dame Sarah Mullally, Archbishop of Canterbury-designate, in her address this morning 🕯️
As of this afternoon, I got to drop the “Candidate.” I am officially a Certified Educator in the Association for Clinical Pastoral Education. It was a long road, and I’m glad I stuck with it.
September 23, 2025 at 12:38 AM
As of this afternoon, I got to drop the “Candidate.” I am officially a Certified Educator in the Association for Clinical Pastoral Education. It was a long road, and I’m glad I stuck with it.
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Sauron Was Practicing Metallurgy The Right Way by Ezra Klein
September 19, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Sauron Was Practicing Metallurgy The Right Way by Ezra Klein
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IT DOESN’T
IT DOESN’T DO THAT AT ALL
IT REFRAMES PREVENTABLE DEATHS AS INEVITABLE AND VICTIMS AS WILLING MARTYRS WHO ARE ACTUALLY BETTER OFF DEAD NOW
IT IS A DIABOLICAL THING TO SAY IF YOU ARE IN A POSITION TO STOP THIS SHIT AND REFUSING TO DO IT
IT DOESN’T DO THAT AT ALL
IT REFRAMES PREVENTABLE DEATHS AS INEVITABLE AND VICTIMS AS WILLING MARTYRS WHO ARE ACTUALLY BETTER OFF DEAD NOW
IT IS A DIABOLICAL THING TO SAY IF YOU ARE IN A POSITION TO STOP THIS SHIT AND REFUSING TO DO IT
Fox News' Trey Gowdy: "The only thing that can give us any modicum of peace at all is those two children are with the person who loved them the very most, the person who created them, that being Jesus. That is the only thing that can possibly give parents in the future any modicum of peace."
August 27, 2025 at 7:41 PM
IT DOESN’T
IT DOESN’T DO THAT AT ALL
IT REFRAMES PREVENTABLE DEATHS AS INEVITABLE AND VICTIMS AS WILLING MARTYRS WHO ARE ACTUALLY BETTER OFF DEAD NOW
IT IS A DIABOLICAL THING TO SAY IF YOU ARE IN A POSITION TO STOP THIS SHIT AND REFUSING TO DO IT
IT DOESN’T DO THAT AT ALL
IT REFRAMES PREVENTABLE DEATHS AS INEVITABLE AND VICTIMS AS WILLING MARTYRS WHO ARE ACTUALLY BETTER OFF DEAD NOW
IT IS A DIABOLICAL THING TO SAY IF YOU ARE IN A POSITION TO STOP THIS SHIT AND REFUSING TO DO IT
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I’m currently being very insistent with ChatGPT that William Howard Taft had something to do with the creation of Rogue one with my source being a dream—and every time it “creates” a more plausible way that that’s true.
August 8, 2025 at 1:29 AM
I’m currently being very insistent with ChatGPT that William Howard Taft had something to do with the creation of Rogue one with my source being a dream—and every time it “creates” a more plausible way that that’s true.
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What the F are we doing, people????
August 5, 2025 at 9:21 PM
What the F are we doing, people????
Why not?
Let's do this. One like, one book we love.
One like, one thing I hate
July 27, 2025 at 1:05 AM
Why not?
My church got a last minute invitation to march in a local pride parade. I almost said no because I didn’t think we could pull together volunteers in time. I’m so glad I was wrong. ⚓️
June 19, 2025 at 10:36 PM
My church got a last minute invitation to march in a local pride parade. I almost said no because I didn’t think we could pull together volunteers in time. I’m so glad I was wrong. ⚓️
Today, for the first time, the Easter Bunny visited my church on Easter. It was the best thing ever.
April 20, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Today, for the first time, the Easter Bunny visited my church on Easter. It was the best thing ever.
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Tradition states that last night Jesus emptied out all the jails. Spent Saturday night telling people “I don’t care what you did, people weren’t made for prisons.” The next day to prove His point He broke out of solitary. It is finished. Easter is incompatible with the carceral state. Happy Easter.
April 20, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Tradition states that last night Jesus emptied out all the jails. Spent Saturday night telling people “I don’t care what you did, people weren’t made for prisons.” The next day to prove His point He broke out of solitary. It is finished. Easter is incompatible with the carceral state. Happy Easter.
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![Lucille Bluth (labelled 'Gandalf') saying "if you're saying I play favorites, you're wrong. i love all of my hobbits equally." Then in a panel labelled [earlier that day] she says "I don't care for Pippin."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:yjoi7gqhwmjxxhlv6c3ic75r/bafkreighomrjmhrc4eogpv7isemwe2l33iy5lukd7hmhedeb2sirsbo3ti@jpeg)
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That hast by tyranny these many years
Wasted our country, slain our citizens,
And sent our sons and husbands captivate.
Wasted our country, slain our citizens,
And sent our sons and husbands captivate.
April 9, 2025 at 12:54 AM
That hast by tyranny these many years
Wasted our country, slain our citizens,
And sent our sons and husbands captivate.
Wasted our country, slain our citizens,
And sent our sons and husbands captivate.
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sorry but if you don't wanna get primaried, the bar now is "I think Chuck Schumer should be replaced as leader."
March 14, 2025 at 8:58 PM
sorry but if you don't wanna get primaried, the bar now is "I think Chuck Schumer should be replaced as leader."
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We are truly sorry and we humbly repent.
March 14, 2025 at 9:55 PM
We are truly sorry and we humbly repent.
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I tried to take the kiddo to see Moana 2 today. We made it about 40 minutes before it got “too scary” and he insisted we leave. Anyone want to tell me what happens?
November 29, 2024 at 9:11 PM
I tried to take the kiddo to see Moana 2 today. We made it about 40 minutes before it got “too scary” and he insisted we leave. Anyone want to tell me what happens?
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when you're old enough to have had a xanga and myspace and you're starting over on a new social media app in the year of our lord 2024:
November 17, 2024 at 9:31 PM
when you're old enough to have had a xanga and myspace and you're starting over on a new social media app in the year of our lord 2024: