Summer Kinard
@somemyrrh.bsky.social
Owner & Senior Editor of Park End Books.
Author and Teacher. Disability theologian. Dramatic soprano. Austen & Middle Earth nerd. Autistic rearing autistic children of joy.
Author and Teacher. Disability theologian. Dramatic soprano. Austen & Middle Earth nerd. Autistic rearing autistic children of joy.
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Advent starts today for Orthodox Christians. @somemyrrh.bsky.social has wisdom to share with priests and teachers during this season. She wants them to know that the normal disciplines of Advent don't always work for disabled folks.
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Accommodating Asceticism for People With Disabilities
Today we will begin
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November 16, 2025 at 1:12 AM
Advent starts today for Orthodox Christians. @somemyrrh.bsky.social has wisdom to share with priests and teachers during this season. She wants them to know that the normal disciplines of Advent don't always work for disabled folks.
somemyrrh.substack.com/p/accommodat...
somemyrrh.substack.com/p/accommodat...
Other correlations.
September 25, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Other correlations.
Me to my dog as I make tea:
The ring cannot be destroyed by any craft we here possess. The ring was made in the fires of Mt. Doom; only there can it be unmade.
The ring cannot be destroyed by any craft we here possess. The ring was made in the fires of Mt. Doom; only there can it be unmade.
September 10, 2025 at 12:47 AM
Me to my dog as I make tea:
The ring cannot be destroyed by any craft we here possess. The ring was made in the fires of Mt. Doom; only there can it be unmade.
The ring cannot be destroyed by any craft we here possess. The ring was made in the fires of Mt. Doom; only there can it be unmade.
Trump Administration Live Updates: Judge Says President’s L.A. Troop Deployment Was Illegal www.nytimes.com/live/2025/09...
Trump Administration Live Updates: Judge Says President’s L.A. Troop Deployment Was Illegal
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September 2, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Trump Administration Live Updates: Judge Says President’s L.A. Troop Deployment Was Illegal www.nytimes.com/live/2025/09...
Happy Liturgical New Year!
Glad we don’t have to make New Year’s resolutions because my main goal this month is to make a Hobbit September and to spend time at coffee hour after church.
Glad we don’t have to make New Year’s resolutions because my main goal this month is to make a Hobbit September and to spend time at coffee hour after church.
September 1, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Happy Liturgical New Year!
Glad we don’t have to make New Year’s resolutions because my main goal this month is to make a Hobbit September and to spend time at coffee hour after church.
Glad we don’t have to make New Year’s resolutions because my main goal this month is to make a Hobbit September and to spend time at coffee hour after church.
I forgot I had bluesky for several months. I have been on substack & Meta* and just outside on my porch or working in my bookshop. It’s good to see familiar names of thoughtful people here! I’ll try to check in more often.
*but not Threads because it hogs space on my old phone
*but not Threads because it hogs space on my old phone
September 1, 2025 at 12:40 AM
I forgot I had bluesky for several months. I have been on substack & Meta* and just outside on my porch or working in my bookshop. It’s good to see familiar names of thoughtful people here! I’ll try to check in more often.
*but not Threads because it hogs space on my old phone
*but not Threads because it hogs space on my old phone
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Outstanding points by @somemyrrh.bsky.social:
“We live in a time when American Christianity is overrun with male authoritarianism and the complementarian view of women as lesser beings that has allowed Arianism to once again fester among us—as soon as you embrace the idea…
“We live in a time when American Christianity is overrun with male authoritarianism and the complementarian view of women as lesser beings that has allowed Arianism to once again fester among us—as soon as you embrace the idea…
"Where Are All the Women?" by Summer Kinard @somemyrrh.bsky.social is a powerful call to remember—and restore—the vital role of women in the Church.
From the great women martyrs and deaconesses of Nicaea to the hidden saints who shaped Orthodoxy, history testifies:
From the great women martyrs and deaconesses of Nicaea to the hidden saints who shaped Orthodoxy, history testifies:
July 18, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Outstanding points by @somemyrrh.bsky.social:
“We live in a time when American Christianity is overrun with male authoritarianism and the complementarian view of women as lesser beings that has allowed Arianism to once again fester among us—as soon as you embrace the idea…
“We live in a time when American Christianity is overrun with male authoritarianism and the complementarian view of women as lesser beings that has allowed Arianism to once again fester among us—as soon as you embrace the idea…
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"Where Are All the Women?" by Summer Kinard @somemyrrh.bsky.social is a powerful call to remember—and restore—the vital role of women in the Church.
From the great women martyrs and deaconesses of Nicaea to the hidden saints who shaped Orthodoxy, history testifies:
From the great women martyrs and deaconesses of Nicaea to the hidden saints who shaped Orthodoxy, history testifies:
July 18, 2025 at 5:35 PM
"Where Are All the Women?" by Summer Kinard @somemyrrh.bsky.social is a powerful call to remember—and restore—the vital role of women in the Church.
From the great women martyrs and deaconesses of Nicaea to the hidden saints who shaped Orthodoxy, history testifies:
From the great women martyrs and deaconesses of Nicaea to the hidden saints who shaped Orthodoxy, history testifies:
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I see this happen a lot: the privileging of opinions of people in paid positions over the contributions of subject matter experts or people with lived experience. It’s killing ministries by driving away experts who could offer effective help.
March 24, 2025 at 5:22 PM
I see this happen a lot: the privileging of opinions of people in paid positions over the contributions of subject matter experts or people with lived experience. It’s killing ministries by driving away experts who could offer effective help.
Happy to offer the weather detection services of my arthritic knee to my fellow Americans. Everyone with a weather detecting joint, our patriotic moment has come.
March 22, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Happy to offer the weather detection services of my arthritic knee to my fellow Americans. Everyone with a weather detecting joint, our patriotic moment has come.
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In which I criticize golden age myths, biblical womanhood, complementarianism, online fasting culture, anti-deaconess movements, and hell.
In which I criticize golden age myths, biblical womanhood, complementarianism, online fasting culture, anti-deaconess movements, and hell.
Exit Costs & Lent
Seeking Christian Faith without Cultiness
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March 11, 2025 at 8:37 AM
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In which I criticize golden age myths, biblical womanhood, complementarianism, online fasting culture, anti-deaconess movements, and hell.
In which I criticize golden age myths, biblical womanhood, complementarianism, online fasting culture, anti-deaconess movements, and hell.
Reposted by Summer Kinard
Reposted by Summer Kinard
can't believe it's 2025 and i'm stressed about tariffs and measles, like am i a character in an american girl book
March 3, 2025 at 9:09 PM
can't believe it's 2025 and i'm stressed about tariffs and measles, like am i a character in an american girl book
People want to call out gluttony as an original sin because it’s harder to get a group to fight being deceived by bullshitters offering power than it is to set up parameters for group fasting. It wasn’t the food that was the problem; it was the attempt at life without relationships.
March 2, 2025 at 10:16 PM
People want to call out gluttony as an original sin because it’s harder to get a group to fight being deceived by bullshitters offering power than it is to set up parameters for group fasting. It wasn’t the food that was the problem; it was the attempt at life without relationships.
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Fiona Griffiths' book on the priests who served female monastic communities is now open access online:
doi.org/10.58117/M4H...
doi.org/10.58117/M4H...
March 2, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Fiona Griffiths' book on the priests who served female monastic communities is now open access online:
doi.org/10.58117/M4H...
doi.org/10.58117/M4H...
Oh. Wow! I have the expensive printed copy, but I have wanted to share this with others. Thank you for sharing this.
Fiona Griffiths' book on the priests who served female monastic communities is now open access online:
doi.org/10.58117/M4H...
doi.org/10.58117/M4H...
March 2, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Oh. Wow! I have the expensive printed copy, but I have wanted to share this with others. Thank you for sharing this.
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That about sums it up
February 28, 2025 at 10:42 PM
That about sums it up
My latest post has a food conversation starting preview but gets to the point in the paid subscriber section. open.substack.com/pub/somemyrr...
Boustrophedon
Sheep, goats, & not reading the nasty comments
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February 28, 2025 at 6:23 PM
My latest post has a food conversation starting preview but gets to the point in the paid subscriber section. open.substack.com/pub/somemyrr...
Now that I have left behind the cesspool that once was Twitter, I have more time for my hobby of singing this entire violin solo. #reset
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Itzhak Perlman – Beethoven: Violin Concerto (with Daniel Barenboim, Berliner Philharmoniker)
YouTube video by Warner Classics
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February 24, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Now that I have left behind the cesspool that once was Twitter, I have more time for my hobby of singing this entire violin solo. #reset
youtu.be/cokCgWPRZPg?...
youtu.be/cokCgWPRZPg?...
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If I want to do a “Guess How Many ___ in the Jar” giveaway, what should I put in the jar?
February 21, 2025 at 10:57 PM
If I want to do a “Guess How Many ___ in the Jar” giveaway, what should I put in the jar?
My latest substack is free for now. I talk about the abuse of the gift of coregulation and the ways that eugenic fundamentalist cultiness shows up in American Orthodox Christianity.
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Good Witches & Bad Witches
The Culting of American Orthodox Christianity
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February 20, 2025 at 1:12 AM
My latest substack is free for now. I talk about the abuse of the gift of coregulation and the ways that eugenic fundamentalist cultiness shows up in American Orthodox Christianity.
open.substack.com/pub/somemyrr...
open.substack.com/pub/somemyrr...
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The pope rebukes Trump over migrant deportations and refutes VP Vance's theology www.npr.org/2025/02/11/g...
The pope rebukes Trump over migrant deportations and refutes VP Vance's theology
In a strongly worded letter to Catholic bishops in the United States, Pope Francis is taking to task the Trump administration's stance on migrants, calling it a "major crisis."
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February 11, 2025 at 8:27 PM
The pope rebukes Trump over migrant deportations and refutes VP Vance's theology www.npr.org/2025/02/11/g...