Luke
@lukeamazooka.bsky.social
named after the Apostle&Skywalker. dance teacher/performer. baby contemplative Episcopalian✝️#Faithfully🌈. inclusive orthodoxy. independent thinker. quote/repost≠endorse.
*loosely* the 1979 Office lectionary skipping over 1 Corinthians 6:9-11 today
September 24, 2025 at 2:44 PM
*loosely* the 1979 Office lectionary skipping over 1 Corinthians 6:9-11 today
I can’t help but notice how evident the lines between the maximalist social left and the reformist social left these last days have been
September 13, 2025 at 7:08 PM
I can’t help but notice how evident the lines between the maximalist social left and the reformist social left these last days have been
O God, the Father of all, whose Son commanded us to love our enemies: Lead them and us from prejudice to truth: deliver them and us from hatred, cruelty, and revenge; and in your good time enable us all to stand reconciled before you, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
September 11, 2025 at 11:03 PM
O God, the Father of all, whose Son commanded us to love our enemies: Lead them and us from prejudice to truth: deliver them and us from hatred, cruelty, and revenge; and in your good time enable us all to stand reconciled before you, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
You know, it’s too bad the ‘79 Office Lectionary doesn’t include James ch. 1 during Proper 17, during which we ask the “the author and giver of all good things” to “increase in us true religion.”
September 6, 2025 at 4:17 PM
You know, it’s too bad the ‘79 Office Lectionary doesn’t include James ch. 1 during Proper 17, during which we ask the “the author and giver of all good things” to “increase in us true religion.”
Dear friends, I am going on a couple self retreats - first tomorrow then again in September. I’d appreciate your prayers and any advice you’d have for me.
August 17, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Dear friends, I am going on a couple self retreats - first tomorrow then again in September. I’d appreciate your prayers and any advice you’d have for me.
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I don’t know how anyone can read without a pencil.
August 15, 2025 at 8:58 AM
I don’t know how anyone can read without a pencil.
"The doctrine of the creeds, the enacted faith of the sacraments, were the essential preconditions of the experience itself. The faith with which I went to Selma has not changed: it has grown.. I began to know in my bones and sinews that I had been truly baptized into the Lord's
August 14, 2025 at 4:32 PM
"The doctrine of the creeds, the enacted faith of the sacraments, were the essential preconditions of the experience itself. The faith with which I went to Selma has not changed: it has grown.. I began to know in my bones and sinews that I had been truly baptized into the Lord's
My letter to the Presiding Bishop. Let me know any thoughts if you have the chance. open.substack.com/pub/lukeamaz...
Transcending Partisanship: A Response to the Most Rev. Sean Rowe's Independence Day Piece
Dear Bishop Rowe,
open.substack.com
August 8, 2025 at 12:47 AM
My letter to the Presiding Bishop. Let me know any thoughts if you have the chance. open.substack.com/pub/lukeamaz...
Sitting in the tension of the Office Gospel reading of Jesus’ spiritual authority above the elements of creation: physical lack, over the weather, and sickness—alongside Psalm 72 “He shall live as long as the sun and moon endure.” Is the endurance of the moon or sun a poetic symbol of eternity or
July 30, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Sitting in the tension of the Office Gospel reading of Jesus’ spiritual authority above the elements of creation: physical lack, over the weather, and sickness—alongside Psalm 72 “He shall live as long as the sun and moon endure.” Is the endurance of the moon or sun a poetic symbol of eternity or
Let nothing disturb you,
Let nothing frighten you,
All things are passing away:
God never changes.
Patience obtains all things
Whoever has God lacks nothing;
God alone suffices.
-- St. Teresa of Avila
-- St. Teresa of Avila
July 16, 2025 at 3:57 AM
Let nothing disturb you,
Let nothing frighten you,
All things are passing away:
God never changes.
Patience obtains all things
Whoever has God lacks nothing;
God alone suffices.
-- St. Teresa of Avila
-- St. Teresa of Avila
Here’s a piece I wrote on finding faith & spirituality after deconstruction. Big thank you to @earthandaltarmag.com for my first online publication. Thank you, @anachronistben.bsky.social, for the opportunity and your insightful editing. earthandaltarmag.com/posts/v29jyh...
RECONSTRUCTING IN THE ANGLICAN ORCHARD — Earth and Altar
The Christianity of my high school was a leaning overgrown tree, its roots intertwined with invasive undergrowth and creatures sheltering in its branches. My school affirmed the historic dogmas of the...
earthandaltarmag.com
June 30, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Here’s a piece I wrote on finding faith & spirituality after deconstruction. Big thank you to @earthandaltarmag.com for my first online publication. Thank you, @anachronistben.bsky.social, for the opportunity and your insightful editing. earthandaltarmag.com/posts/v29jyh...
Tasted God’s everlasting grace this morning at church. Thanks be to God! Happy Sunday!
June 29, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Tasted God’s everlasting grace this morning at church. Thanks be to God! Happy Sunday!
Since the Lord thus has redeemed us through His own blood, giving His soul for our souls, and His flesh for our flesh, and has also poured out the Spirit of the Father for the union and communion of God and man, imparting indeed God to men by means of the Spirit, and, on the
June 28, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Since the Lord thus has redeemed us through His own blood, giving His soul for our souls, and His flesh for our flesh, and has also poured out the Spirit of the Father for the union and communion of God and man, imparting indeed God to men by means of the Spirit, and, on the
#MorningPrayer on Long Beach Island, NJ
Glorify the Lord, O mountains and hills,
and all that grows upon the earth,
praise him and highly exalt him for ever.
…
All birds of the air, glorify the Lord, *
praise him and highly exalt him for ever.
Glorify the Lord, O mountains and hills,
and all that grows upon the earth,
praise him and highly exalt him for ever.
…
All birds of the air, glorify the Lord, *
praise him and highly exalt him for ever.
June 21, 2025 at 9:26 PM
#MorningPrayer on Long Beach Island, NJ
Glorify the Lord, O mountains and hills,
and all that grows upon the earth,
praise him and highly exalt him for ever.
…
All birds of the air, glorify the Lord, *
praise him and highly exalt him for ever.
Glorify the Lord, O mountains and hills,
and all that grows upon the earth,
praise him and highly exalt him for ever.
…
All birds of the air, glorify the Lord, *
praise him and highly exalt him for ever.
A worthwhile read by Matthew Vines
“We desperately need to recover our ability to make real progress again. But getting there will require… [a] return to the appeal to common humanity that once made it so successful.
…it would indeed be something to be proud of.”
substack.com/home/post/p-...
“We desperately need to recover our ability to make real progress again. But getting there will require… [a] return to the appeal to common humanity that once made it so successful.
…it would indeed be something to be proud of.”
substack.com/home/post/p-...
The Paradox of Pride
Visibility matters—but it cuts both ways.
substack.com
June 20, 2025 at 5:00 AM
A worthwhile read by Matthew Vines
“We desperately need to recover our ability to make real progress again. But getting there will require… [a] return to the appeal to common humanity that once made it so successful.
…it would indeed be something to be proud of.”
substack.com/home/post/p-...
“We desperately need to recover our ability to make real progress again. But getting there will require… [a] return to the appeal to common humanity that once made it so successful.
…it would indeed be something to be proud of.”
substack.com/home/post/p-...
June 18, 2025 at 2:45 AM
Sometimes I have a hard time bridging my gay Episcopal niche with my career in performing arts but thanks to theology nerd assistant stage managers, I have the encouragement I need for my posh British hotel manager scene 🤣
June 16, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Sometimes I have a hard time bridging my gay Episcopal niche with my career in performing arts but thanks to theology nerd assistant stage managers, I have the encouragement I need for my posh British hotel manager scene 🤣
Almighty God, who has revealed to your church your eternal Being of glorious majesty and perfect love as one God in Trinity of Persons: Give us grace that, like your bishop Basil of Caesarea, we may continue steadfastly in the confession of this faith and remain constant
June 14, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Almighty God, who has revealed to your church your eternal Being of glorious majesty and perfect love as one God in Trinity of Persons: Give us grace that, like your bishop Basil of Caesarea, we may continue steadfastly in the confession of this faith and remain constant
Almighty and everliving God, who through the Book of Common Prayer restored the language of the people in the prayers of your church: Make us always thankful for this heritage; and help us so to pray in the Spirit and with understanding, that we may worthily magnify your
June 13, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Almighty and everliving God, who through the Book of Common Prayer restored the language of the people in the prayers of your church: Make us always thankful for this heritage; and help us so to pray in the Spirit and with understanding, that we may worthily magnify your
"When she has discovered the advantage of this unitive love in Me, by means of which, she truly loves herself, extending her desire for the salvation of the whole world, thus coming to the aid of its neediness, she strives, inasmuch as she has done good to herself by the
June 12, 2025 at 4:58 PM
"When she has discovered the advantage of this unitive love in Me, by means of which, she truly loves herself, extending her desire for the salvation of the whole world, thus coming to the aid of its neediness, she strives, inasmuch as she has done good to herself by the
Grant, O God, that we may follow the example of your faithful servant Barnabas, who, seeking not his own renown but the well-being of your Church, gave generously of his life and substance for the relief of the poor and the spread of the Gospel; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives
June 11, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Grant, O God, that we may follow the example of your faithful servant Barnabas, who, seeking not his own renown but the well-being of your Church, gave generously of his life and substance for the relief of the poor and the spread of the Gospel; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives
“like living stones, let yourselves be built into a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.”
1 Peter 2:5 NRSV
Happy Pentecost!
1 Peter 2:5 NRSV
Happy Pentecost!
June 8, 2025 at 3:33 PM
“like living stones, let yourselves be built into a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.”
1 Peter 2:5 NRSV
Happy Pentecost!
1 Peter 2:5 NRSV
Happy Pentecost!
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Come Holy Spirit, come like a fire and burn. Come like a wind and cleanse. Convict, convert, and consecrate our hearts to our great good and to your great glory. In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. Amen.
--Fleming Rutledge
(The Pentecost Window, Messiah, St. Paul) ⚓
--Fleming Rutledge
(The Pentecost Window, Messiah, St. Paul) ⚓
June 8, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Come Holy Spirit, come like a fire and burn. Come like a wind and cleanse. Convict, convert, and consecrate our hearts to our great good and to your great glory. In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. Amen.
--Fleming Rutledge
(The Pentecost Window, Messiah, St. Paul) ⚓
--Fleming Rutledge
(The Pentecost Window, Messiah, St. Paul) ⚓
"…a man proves his patience on his neighbor, when he receives injuries from him. "Similarly, he proves his humility on a proud man, his faith on an infidel, his true hope on one who despairs, his justice on the unjust, his kindness on the cruel, his gentleness and benignity on the irascible.”
June 8, 2025 at 3:30 PM
"…a man proves his patience on his neighbor, when he receives injuries from him. "Similarly, he proves his humility on a proud man, his faith on an infidel, his true hope on one who despairs, his justice on the unjust, his kindness on the cruel, his gentleness and benignity on the irascible.”