@revericatcheson.bsky.social
Irreverent reverend. Arminian Armenian. Hospital chaplain. D-list author. Personal account, views are mine only. He/him/his.
Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson was a both a civil rights hero and an adamant genocide denier. Rightly celebrating the former in response to her passing doesn't mean keeping silent about the latter. I wish we better understood that balance when our leaders pass away.
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January 4, 2024 at 11:59 PM
Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson was a both a civil rights hero and an adamant genocide denier. Rightly celebrating the former in response to her passing doesn't mean keeping silent about the latter. I wish we better understood that balance when our leaders pass away.
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Said it before, will keep saying it: the greatest existential threat to the Azerbaijani people's human and civil rights was not the Karabkhi Armenians, nor is it Armenia itself. It is Azerbaijan's own government.
Gift link, so there should be no paywall.
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Gift link, so there should be no paywall.
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December 2, 2023 at 11:41 PM
Said it before, will keep saying it: the greatest existential threat to the Azerbaijani people's human and civil rights was not the Karabkhi Armenians, nor is it Armenia itself. It is Azerbaijan's own government.
Gift link, so there should be no paywall.
wapo.st/483F5CN
Gift link, so there should be no paywall.
wapo.st/483F5CN
I would love to know if the US's tacit approval of the ethnic cleansing of the Karabakhi Armenians has contributed in any way to the brewing mutiny in the State Department. Secretary Blinken's leadership has been long on fecklessness and short on moral clarity even before Hamas attacked Israel.
October 20, 2023 at 12:58 PM
I would love to know if the US's tacit approval of the ethnic cleansing of the Karabakhi Armenians has contributed in any way to the brewing mutiny in the State Department. Secretary Blinken's leadership has been long on fecklessness and short on moral clarity even before Hamas attacked Israel.
At some point Netflix put Ugly Betty under its "Retro TV" category, so that's me ready for the urn now
September 29, 2023 at 3:46 AM
At some point Netflix put Ugly Betty under its "Retro TV" category, so that's me ready for the urn now
I just saw a fulltime chaplain job posting w/ the following must have's:
MDiv (a 3+ year masters)
4 units clinical education
Endorsement *and* ordination
Board certification (not even eligible--already certified)
Three years experience
Salary range started at 44K.
44K for *all* that training.
No.
MDiv (a 3+ year masters)
4 units clinical education
Endorsement *and* ordination
Board certification (not even eligible--already certified)
Three years experience
Salary range started at 44K.
44K for *all* that training.
No.
September 28, 2023 at 8:58 PM
I just saw a fulltime chaplain job posting w/ the following must have's:
MDiv (a 3+ year masters)
4 units clinical education
Endorsement *and* ordination
Board certification (not even eligible--already certified)
Three years experience
Salary range started at 44K.
44K for *all* that training.
No.
MDiv (a 3+ year masters)
4 units clinical education
Endorsement *and* ordination
Board certification (not even eligible--already certified)
Three years experience
Salary range started at 44K.
44K for *all* that training.
No.
I'm here, I just don't have the words to really describe the heartbreak at witnessing in real time the ethnic cleansing of your people from the land they've lived on for millennia. It's a sensation I would not wish on anyone, even the responsible and the complicit.
September 27, 2023 at 12:53 PM
I'm here, I just don't have the words to really describe the heartbreak at witnessing in real time the ethnic cleansing of your people from the land they've lived on for millennia. It's a sensation I would not wish on anyone, even the responsible and the complicit.
This is why memorial as an act of collective history is so important! It isn't purely coincidental that, say, Karabakhi and Hayastanci Armenians are facing a new genocide as the last genocide survivors die, or that there's such a spike in antisemitism as more and more Holocaust survivors pass away.
I was an 80's kid, so I certainly remember the (first) Cold War and its ending, and I have heard absolutely imbecilic things about that era from people not much younger than me. It's always very jarring.
September 24, 2023 at 10:49 PM
This is why memorial as an act of collective history is so important! It isn't purely coincidental that, say, Karabakhi and Hayastanci Armenians are facing a new genocide as the last genocide survivors die, or that there's such a spike in antisemitism as more and more Holocaust survivors pass away.
Introduce yourself with some jobs you have done apart from what you do now:
-Summer camp counselor and kitchen staff
-Law office temp
-Pizzeria cook and delivery driver
-Speech and debate coach
-Church pastor (both solo and associate jobs)
-Church history instructor
-Liquor and mocktail salesperson
-Summer camp counselor and kitchen staff
-Law office temp
-Pizzeria cook and delivery driver
-Speech and debate coach
-Church pastor (both solo and associate jobs)
-Church history instructor
-Liquor and mocktail salesperson
Introduce yourself with some jobs you have done apart from what you do now:
-restaurant hostess
-waitress
-barista at shmancy cafe
-barista inside Barnes & noodle
-bartender at campus pub
-sales coordinator for HarperCollins
-campus rabbi
-TA for early Christianity class
-restaurant hostess
-waitress
-barista at shmancy cafe
-barista inside Barnes & noodle
-bartender at campus pub
-sales coordinator for HarperCollins
-campus rabbi
-TA for early Christianity class
Introduce yourself with some jobs you have done apart from what you do now:
-Carhop at Italian Drive-In
-Costumed 1830’s guide
-Wedding Photographer
-Blackjack Dealer
-Poker Player
-Nanny
-Camp Counselor
-Exhibition Designer
-Community Organizer
-Ghost Tweeter for Politicians
-Carhop at Italian Drive-In
-Costumed 1830’s guide
-Wedding Photographer
-Blackjack Dealer
-Poker Player
-Nanny
-Camp Counselor
-Exhibition Designer
-Community Organizer
-Ghost Tweeter for Politicians
September 24, 2023 at 8:29 PM
Introduce yourself with some jobs you have done apart from what you do now:
-Summer camp counselor and kitchen staff
-Law office temp
-Pizzeria cook and delivery driver
-Speech and debate coach
-Church pastor (both solo and associate jobs)
-Church history instructor
-Liquor and mocktail salesperson
-Summer camp counselor and kitchen staff
-Law office temp
-Pizzeria cook and delivery driver
-Speech and debate coach
-Church pastor (both solo and associate jobs)
-Church history instructor
-Liquor and mocktail salesperson
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Bluey's grandfather is implied to have served in the Vietnam war, which implies the existence of a dog Henry Kissinger. In this essay I will
September 23, 2023 at 1:11 PM
Bluey's grandfather is implied to have served in the Vietnam war, which implies the existence of a dog Henry Kissinger. In this essay I will
Re: Birmingham--when we bought in 2021 there were at least 2 homes (that I know of for sure because our realtor told us) we lost because a cash buyer matched our otherwise identical offer.
There needs to be some reckoning around the consequences of the "cash is king" ethos that realtors instilled.
There needs to be some reckoning around the consequences of the "cash is king" ethos that realtors instilled.
Share of home sales bought with all cash by investors in select US cities
September 22, 2023 at 11:05 PM
Re: Birmingham--when we bought in 2021 there were at least 2 homes (that I know of for sure because our realtor told us) we lost because a cash buyer matched our otherwise identical offer.
There needs to be some reckoning around the consequences of the "cash is king" ethos that realtors instilled.
There needs to be some reckoning around the consequences of the "cash is king" ethos that realtors instilled.
Not for nothing, but I've already seen more calls from the left for Bob Menendez to resign today than I've seen calls from the right for Clarence Thomas to resign all year. Even though both of them are brazenly, unrepentantly corrupt.
September 22, 2023 at 5:35 PM
Not for nothing, but I've already seen more calls from the left for Bob Menendez to resign today than I've seen calls from the right for Clarence Thomas to resign all year. Even though both of them are brazenly, unrepentantly corrupt.
This meal just cost me $78 at Newark Airport. This is why Americans think the economy is terrible.
September 22, 2023 at 1:43 AM
This meal just cost me $78 at Newark Airport. This is why Americans think the economy is terrible.
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This meal just cost us 78 denarii at Gethsemane Airport. This is why Judeans think the economy is terrible.
September 21, 2023 at 7:27 PM
This meal just cost us 78 denarii at Gethsemane Airport. This is why Judeans think the economy is terrible.
Armenian civilians in Nagorno Karabakh were attacked and killed by the Azeri military earlier today, in violation of a 2020 armistice and general human rights principles.
I long for a day when Armenian suffering prompts more than glorified shrugs from the rest of the world. May that day come soon.
I long for a day when Armenian suffering prompts more than glorified shrugs from the rest of the world. May that day come soon.
September 20, 2023 at 12:54 AM
Armenian civilians in Nagorno Karabakh were attacked and killed by the Azeri military earlier today, in violation of a 2020 armistice and general human rights principles.
I long for a day when Armenian suffering prompts more than glorified shrugs from the rest of the world. May that day come soon.
I long for a day when Armenian suffering prompts more than glorified shrugs from the rest of the world. May that day come soon.
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Fellas is it gay to *checks notes* produce offspring
September 19, 2023 at 3:44 PM
Fellas is it gay to *checks notes* produce offspring
Twas ever thus, at least here in the Deep South. Bull Connor's reign was all white supremacy as folksy right-wing populism. And he was installed and maintained by Birmingham's titans of industry because he could keep white workers turned against Black workers and so help keep wages artificially low.
It’s fun how much of the “populist” right wing working class cosplay stops the second workers start demanding fair compensation from their bosses
September 18, 2023 at 12:48 AM
Twas ever thus, at least here in the Deep South. Bull Connor's reign was all white supremacy as folksy right-wing populism. And he was installed and maintained by Birmingham's titans of industry because he could keep white workers turned against Black workers and so help keep wages artificially low.
Two points I'd make:
1) "Framing Romney as a moneygrubbing plutocrat was a major inflection point that led to Trump" is just a variation on "look what you made us do."
2) However Romney was portrayed, Obama was portrayed as a Kenyan Muslim Communist and Romney signed off on that by courting Trump.
1) "Framing Romney as a moneygrubbing plutocrat was a major inflection point that led to Trump" is just a variation on "look what you made us do."
2) However Romney was portrayed, Obama was portrayed as a Kenyan Muslim Communist and Romney signed off on that by courting Trump.
A bunch of Republicans decided a while ago that this is a plausible-sounding way to let the party off the hook for Trump 2016, but it’s still baby-brain nonsense. 2012 wasn’t an especially nasty campaign and Romney wasn’t entitled to the presidency for being a doting grandpa
September 18, 2023 at 12:37 AM
Two points I'd make:
1) "Framing Romney as a moneygrubbing plutocrat was a major inflection point that led to Trump" is just a variation on "look what you made us do."
2) However Romney was portrayed, Obama was portrayed as a Kenyan Muslim Communist and Romney signed off on that by courting Trump.
1) "Framing Romney as a moneygrubbing plutocrat was a major inflection point that led to Trump" is just a variation on "look what you made us do."
2) However Romney was portrayed, Obama was portrayed as a Kenyan Muslim Communist and Romney signed off on that by courting Trump.
Since the churchy folks have spent the past week or two talking about clergy burnout again because of, y’know, **that** article, I think it’s worth pointing out a few things from my own experience of retiring from church ministry due to burnout:
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September 15, 2023 at 3:47 PM
Since the churchy folks have spent the past week or two talking about clergy burnout again because of, y’know, **that** article, I think it’s worth pointing out a few things from my own experience of retiring from church ministry due to burnout:
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It's true that there are lots of jobs that cannot feasibly be done remotely--mine is one of them.
It's also true that there are lots of bosses whose sole purpose is to monitor their employees rather than to contribute to productivity themselves, and that's big context for discussions of "laziness."
It's also true that there are lots of bosses whose sole purpose is to monitor their employees rather than to contribute to productivity themselves, and that's big context for discussions of "laziness."
September 14, 2023 at 6:27 PM
It's true that there are lots of jobs that cannot feasibly be done remotely--mine is one of them.
It's also true that there are lots of bosses whose sole purpose is to monitor their employees rather than to contribute to productivity themselves, and that's big context for discussions of "laziness."
It's also true that there are lots of bosses whose sole purpose is to monitor their employees rather than to contribute to productivity themselves, and that's big context for discussions of "laziness."
Twitter was a medium--one of several--in which I could share my writing, yes, but more than anything, I lament the (almost certainly irreparable) damage done to an online community that I spent a full decade of my life carefully cultivating. All because a red-pilled narcissist decided that he could.
Much has been made of the "end of clout" for the biggest Tweeters, but for independent journalists, Twitter was a vital utility. Its swift decline has been a real loss for small and medium-sized media outlets, indie writers and academics, and the public overall.
When Twitter Died, So Did Independent Journalism | Dame Magazine
It’s heartbreaking what ten years and a Nazi-enabling takeover can do to one of the most important tech utilities of the modern era. I speak, of course, of Twitter. Ten years ago this summer, I buil...
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September 13, 2023 at 12:58 PM
Twitter was a medium--one of several--in which I could share my writing, yes, but more than anything, I lament the (almost certainly irreparable) damage done to an online community that I spent a full decade of my life carefully cultivating. All because a red-pilled narcissist decided that he could.
On any given day, I have ~90 beds on my spiritual care service. That's way too many to round on, so I live and die by the referrals I get from the nurses on my units. One of the ripple effects of nursing turnover is that it makes the jobs of the rest of us on a patient's care team that much harder.
"High-income countries do not have a shortage of nurses; they have a shortage of healthcare institutions providing necessary & sustainable working conditions, leading to a loss of nurses."
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September 8, 2023 at 7:06 PM
On any given day, I have ~90 beds on my spiritual care service. That's way too many to round on, so I live and die by the referrals I get from the nurses on my units. One of the ripple effects of nursing turnover is that it makes the jobs of the rest of us on a patient's care team that much harder.
One thing that does make me sad about hospital chaplaincy is how many patients feel the need to tell me about how upset (insert Fox News bogeyman du jour) has made them. How is marinating in your own resentments enabling you to be as fulfilled as possible with the time you (or any of us) have left?
September 7, 2023 at 12:38 AM
One thing that does make me sad about hospital chaplaincy is how many patients feel the need to tell me about how upset (insert Fox News bogeyman du jour) has made them. How is marinating in your own resentments enabling you to be as fulfilled as possible with the time you (or any of us) have left?
TV show pitch (post-strike obv): In the healthcare system, God is represented by two separate, yet equally important, groups: the chaplains who minister in God's name and the literally infinite additional ways God finds to be seen and heard. These are their stories. DUN DUN
August 29, 2023 at 2:30 AM
TV show pitch (post-strike obv): In the healthcare system, God is represented by two separate, yet equally important, groups: the chaplains who minister in God's name and the literally infinite additional ways God finds to be seen and heard. These are their stories. DUN DUN
It is a testament to my professionalism that I have gone all year so far in hospital chaplaincy without trying the attendings I work with to say "what's up doc?" to me by simply saying "updoc" to each of them.
I am an extremely serious adult who can be trusted to be extremely serious I promise.
I am an extremely serious adult who can be trusted to be extremely serious I promise.
August 26, 2023 at 1:21 PM
It is a testament to my professionalism that I have gone all year so far in hospital chaplaincy without trying the attendings I work with to say "what's up doc?" to me by simply saying "updoc" to each of them.
I am an extremely serious adult who can be trusted to be extremely serious I promise.
I am an extremely serious adult who can be trusted to be extremely serious I promise.