Serene ⚓
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Serene ⚓
@serene1662.bsky.social
Church lady and old soul. Confessional Anglican (PECUSA). Laudian. For inclusive orthodoxy, and Anglican resourcement and retrieval. She/Her. I love Jesus, bats, writing cute stories, and the 1662 BCP.

https://thelantern.neocities.org/
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Lost the post but my name is Serene (she/her).

I am about:

* Anglican resourcement and retrieval
* Reformational and Bible-focussed theology
* Inclusive orthodoxy, and the project of including LGBT ppl in the church

I also love photography, cooking, and writing, among other things ⚓️
A lot of present-day Roman Catholic practice is so counterintuitively “Low Church” to my mind.

Not having altar rails and normatively receiving standing being chief among them.
November 15, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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Alright yall so because my landlord is selling this house we rent and I have been scraping by I need help to afford moving.

I'm raising $1500 to rent a uhaul, pay deposit, and other moving costs. We need to be out by end of December.

Venmo: comradeconrad116
paypal.me/cerl116
Pay conrad larson using PayPal.Me
Go to paypal.me/cerl116 and type in the amount. Since it’s PayPal, it's easy and secure. Don’t have a PayPal account? No worries.
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November 9, 2025 at 9:43 PM
I feel that ultimately people will always see me as the dumb fundamentalist in TEC.
November 15, 2025 at 2:44 AM
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Charles Simeon on the Book of Common Prayer: "Only let any person be in a devout frame, and he will be far more likely to have his soul elevated to heaven by the Liturgy of the Established Church, than he will by the generality of prayers which he would hear in other places". ⚓
November 13, 2025 at 4:52 PM
The reason I hate liberal theology is that ultimately it asks me to believe in a weak God who can't and won't save me.
November 13, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Who wants to know when the idea of Prima Scriptura was invented? This ancient idea?

1997. ⚓
November 13, 2025 at 6:16 PM
IMO, another thing to be “Catholic” means is accepting things like the classical attributes of God.

That means that even the “best” versions of things like Process theology are OUT. ⚓️

youtu.be/LXOQHGnH52Y?...
Divine Impassibility Explained | Kevin DeYoung
YouTube video by Clearly Reformed
youtu.be
November 13, 2025 at 4:26 AM
I think it's proper time to articulate inclusive orthodoxy as necessarily having more meat on it than mere acceptance of the creeds. That's an incredibly low-bar. Or perhaps another word is called for, for what is necessary? Renewal. ⚓
November 13, 2025 at 2:34 AM
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Not new but excellent Bible Project discussion here (at 33:50) of the numinous, puzzling and sublime story of Jacob’s Ladder.

Origin story of Bethel with shades of Babel, window into ancient Israelite theological development, temples, anointing & other goodies. ⚓️

open.spotify.com/episode/4EXo...
How Did Abraham Know About the City of God? – The City Q+R
open.spotify.com
November 11, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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Lancelot Andrewes instructed priests to pour wine into the chalice so that it looked like gushing blood. So metal. What a goth.

Probably one of my favorite essays of all time: McCullough's reconstruction of Andrewes's liturgical practices. ⚓
November 11, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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The three-legged stool is from Hooker just like “Celtic liturgy” is from ancient Celts.
November 10, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Hooker actually lays it out Scripture -> reason -> tradition. Though Urban T. Holmes, who spread the idea very much, put at least reason at the same level with Scripture, saying that it's a mistake to put Scripture over reason. Something Hooker did not believe. (cont) ⚓
November 10, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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Definitely one of those crazy busy weeks where the best sermon prep is just saying, "God, I'm not sure I can do this. Would you write it for me?" ⚓
And they told you Episcopalians don't believe in the resurrection
Or, How the Angels See
drawnfromthechalice.substack.com
November 10, 2025 at 1:40 AM
The idea of the “three-legged-stool” has had a very corrosive effect on Anglicanism ⚓️
November 10, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Making a point thinking a lot about the Edmund Fitzgerald and her crew today

And all lost at sea

youtu.be/9vST6hVRj2A?...
"The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" - Gordon Lightfoot (HD w/ Lyrics)
YouTube video by Zeezy
youtu.be
November 10, 2025 at 2:12 PM
youtu.be/Hzxab1z6bVQ?...

Narnia is so theologically rich and beautiful ⚓️
The Best Scene In Narnia
YouTube video by Gavin Ortlund
youtu.be
November 6, 2025 at 8:14 PM
The Anglican sorter has sorted me. I think this quiz is much less good though than the one @theodramatist.com made

Though I get the same result essentially either way (Laudian/Old High type)
November 5, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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What the Gospel sounds like now, in three minutes. ⚓
“Because our conscious demands it!” Reverend David Black #chicago #fdt #davidblack #realchristian #immigration
November 5, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Pastime with Good Company is an incredible bop. Problematic fave musician: Henry VIII.
October 28, 2025 at 10:00 PM
It is weird how I have so much self hatred but also, I look at myself in the mirror and am astonished at how womanly and curvy I am

It’s loony

Estrogen is powerful
October 26, 2025 at 1:59 AM
Anglicanism is often odd because there are so many Anglicans who wish to deny their theological heritage (not only in TEC) and yet it’s the most beautiful and enriching and wonderful thing

A treasure

It’s like sitting on a treasure that leads to Jesus and not wanting it ⚓️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿
October 26, 2025 at 1:57 AM
my buttons and blinkies on my tech website.
October 8, 2025 at 1:02 PM