B. Edward Simmons
@edwardsimmons.bsky.social
high school humanities teacher | Taiwan 🇹🇼 | TEC ordination candidate | amateur runner
📚✍️ norman pittenger
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Right now everything is just shoved in a backpack 😅
November 12, 2025 at 10:14 AM
Right now everything is just shoved in a backpack 😅
@dljohnston.bsky.social may I be added?
November 12, 2025 at 8:06 AM
@dljohnston.bsky.social may I be added?
Do you know when the Audible will be released in the U.S.? Really looking forward to listening!
October 21, 2025 at 1:49 AM
Do you know when the Audible will be released in the U.S.? Really looking forward to listening!
We just got Promissio in English a couple days ago. I’m not seeing much interest in Bayer in English apart from the Lutheran Quarterly circles, which is sad. He cuts me deep.
July 26, 2025 at 12:31 PM
We just got Promissio in English a couple days ago. I’m not seeing much interest in Bayer in English apart from the Lutheran Quarterly circles, which is sad. He cuts me deep.
Do you think they will ever translate this one into English?
July 26, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Do you think they will ever translate this one into English?
You should read her commentary on the Tao te Ching if you get a chance. Super interesting.
July 25, 2025 at 9:00 AM
You should read her commentary on the Tao te Ching if you get a chance. Super interesting.
I typically read all the scripture offices in morning prayer, so for me evening prayer is more about…letting go? The examen might be helpful if that is your goal as well.
July 21, 2025 at 7:21 PM
I typically read all the scripture offices in morning prayer, so for me evening prayer is more about…letting go? The examen might be helpful if that is your goal as well.
What if you start small by just doing the phos hilaron, the collect of the week, some silence, and the thanksgiving? That’s short, and might help rekindle the habit.
July 21, 2025 at 5:53 PM
What if you start small by just doing the phos hilaron, the collect of the week, some silence, and the thanksgiving? That’s short, and might help rekindle the habit.
My kids love this game.
July 16, 2025 at 10:02 AM
My kids love this game.
Classic Thomist distinctions
July 15, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Classic Thomist distinctions
I think too his cultural liturgies series was mostly written pre-Trump, and I wonder how he might frame things differently now. Liturgies of resistance seem to have taken on a new importance…
July 9, 2025 at 5:21 PM
I think too his cultural liturgies series was mostly written pre-Trump, and I wonder how he might frame things differently now. Liturgies of resistance seem to have taken on a new importance…
I think you could call it postmodern Reformed more than Neo-Calvinist. The way I read him his inspirations are more fundamentally phenomenology and Augustine, but expressed (at times) in Reformed language.
July 9, 2025 at 11:47 AM
I think you could call it postmodern Reformed more than Neo-Calvinist. The way I read him his inspirations are more fundamentally phenomenology and Augustine, but expressed (at times) in Reformed language.
Honestly the scripture texts did it for me. John 6 then 1 Corinthians discussion.
July 1, 2025 at 5:44 AM
Honestly the scripture texts did it for me. John 6 then 1 Corinthians discussion.
And the prayers really can bear the weight of rereading and meditation! I feel like they really opened up BCP spirituality for me.
June 29, 2025 at 11:38 AM
And the prayers really can bear the weight of rereading and meditation! I feel like they really opened up BCP spirituality for me.