Rachel Toombs
@raygraves.bsky.social
Assistant Prof of OT @ CDSP
Deacon & Director of Formation @ Ascension Episcopal Church (Stillwater, MN)
Deacon & Director of Formation @ Ascension Episcopal Church (Stillwater, MN)
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The Church Divinity School of the Pacific (CDSP) invites applicants for a tenure-track or tenured faculty position in Practical Theology for its hybrid MDiv program.🕯️📕⚓
The Church Divinity School of the Pacific (CDSP) invites applicants for a tenure-track or tenured faculty position in Practical Theology for its hybrid MDiv program.🕯️📕⚓
August 20, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Please share far and wide!
The Church Divinity School of the Pacific (CDSP) invites applicants for a tenure-track or tenured faculty position in Practical Theology for its hybrid MDiv program.🕯️📕⚓
The Church Divinity School of the Pacific (CDSP) invites applicants for a tenure-track or tenured faculty position in Practical Theology for its hybrid MDiv program.🕯️📕⚓
I am building a new class for CDSP called FORMING EPISCOPAL COMMUNITIES. Focus will be on formation, discipleship, and vocation.
What books, resources, etc should be on my radar? 🕯️
What books, resources, etc should be on my radar? 🕯️
May 17, 2025 at 2:48 PM
I am building a new class for CDSP called FORMING EPISCOPAL COMMUNITIES. Focus will be on formation, discipleship, and vocation.
What books, resources, etc should be on my radar? 🕯️
What books, resources, etc should be on my radar? 🕯️
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Those trying to understand the tariffs as economic policy are dangerously naive.
No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief.
1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.
No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief.
1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.
April 3, 2025 at 3:29 AM
Those trying to understand the tariffs as economic policy are dangerously naive.
No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief.
1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.
No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief.
1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.
An excellent use of Flannery’s “Displaced Person” to speak about the current evils of the treatment of our neighbor: catholicoutlook.org/the-ordo-amo...
February 20, 2025 at 1:24 PM
An excellent use of Flannery’s “Displaced Person” to speak about the current evils of the treatment of our neighbor: catholicoutlook.org/the-ordo-amo...
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Go yell at TEC about how bad AI is and how it should definitely NOT be used for pastoral care, confession and sermon writing ⚓️
February 14, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Go yell at TEC about how bad AI is and how it should definitely NOT be used for pastoral care, confession and sermon writing ⚓️
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“Do not fret yourself because of evildoers; *
do not be jealous of those who do wrong.
For they shall soon wither like the grass, *
and like the green grass fade away.”
#eveningprayer 🔥 🔥 🔥
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do not be jealous of those who do wrong.
For they shall soon wither like the grass, *
and like the green grass fade away.”
#eveningprayer 🔥 🔥 🔥
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February 7, 2025 at 11:28 AM
“Do not fret yourself because of evildoers; *
do not be jealous of those who do wrong.
For they shall soon wither like the grass, *
and like the green grass fade away.”
#eveningprayer 🔥 🔥 🔥
⚓️
do not be jealous of those who do wrong.
For they shall soon wither like the grass, *
and like the green grass fade away.”
#eveningprayer 🔥 🔥 🔥
⚓️
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make me ready, Lord, for whatever
December 22, 2024 at 12:40 PM
make me ready, Lord, for whatever
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What did Gregory of Nyssa do?!??
January 23, 2025 at 6:18 PM
What did Gregory of Nyssa do?!??
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The Company of the Ring gathers on Rivendell’s threshold at dusk, with their baggage loaded on Bill the pony. Sam remembers that he hasn’t packed rope. Boromir sounds his horn. And Elrond gives his blessing: ‘May the stars shine upon your faces!’
They walk south into the Wild.
They walk south into the Wild.
December 25, 2024 at 4:20 PM
The Company of the Ring gathers on Rivendell’s threshold at dusk, with their baggage loaded on Bill the pony. Sam remembers that he hasn’t packed rope. Boromir sounds his horn. And Elrond gives his blessing: ‘May the stars shine upon your faces!’
They walk south into the Wild.
They walk south into the Wild.
"A charming way to countdown to Christmas...." Um.
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December 20, 2024 at 8:29 PM
"A charming way to countdown to Christmas...." Um.
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AAR 2024 is a wrap and my highlight is most definitely when someone asked me if I was the author of this book that they really enjoyed 🥹
November 25, 2024 at 9:10 PM
AAR 2024 is a wrap and my highlight is most definitely when someone asked me if I was the author of this book that they really enjoyed 🥹
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As a Christian, a Canadian, a woman, a Jordan - I loathe Jordan Peterson.
This takedown of his new book by no less than Rowan Williams brings me great delight, all the more so for its politeness and real attempt to read with charity.
www.theguardian.com/books/2024/n...
This takedown of his new book by no less than Rowan Williams brings me great delight, all the more so for its politeness and real attempt to read with charity.
www.theguardian.com/books/2024/n...
We Who Wrestle With God by Jordan Peterson review – a culture warrior out of his depth
The popular psychologist’s blinkered reading of the Bible does his cause no favours
www.theguardian.com
November 20, 2024 at 1:09 PM
As a Christian, a Canadian, a woman, a Jordan - I loathe Jordan Peterson.
This takedown of his new book by no less than Rowan Williams brings me great delight, all the more so for its politeness and real attempt to read with charity.
www.theguardian.com/books/2024/n...
This takedown of his new book by no less than Rowan Williams brings me great delight, all the more so for its politeness and real attempt to read with charity.
www.theguardian.com/books/2024/n...
"Our job, in a really big church, or the smallest of small churches, is exactly the same: to keep finding and being found by God." Bishop Loya, Minnesota
Bishop Loya's Convention Address - 2024
episcopalmn.org
November 13, 2024 at 5:01 PM
"Our job, in a really big church, or the smallest of small churches, is exactly the same: to keep finding and being found by God." Bishop Loya, Minnesota