Jason Terry
@jttnncdcmd.bsky.social
the most famous queer person from Chattanooga since Leslie Jordan. quaker baker garden poet trying to be a novelist when i grow up. another bearded he/they in the d(m)v.
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Jason Terry
@jttnncdcmd.bsky.social
· Oct 2
Advices and Que[e]ries
Chosen family and chosen ancestors.
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#Queer #Quaker Friends (and friends)! My co-convenor Religious Education Martin and I have a new piece out in @friendsjournal.org! Check out "Advices and Que[e]ries: Chosen Family and Chosen Ancestors." www.friendsjournal.org/advices-and-...
Friend speaks my mind.
November 10, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Friend speaks my mind.
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O Lord, make haste to help us.
November 9, 2025 at 4:15 AM
O Lord, make haste to help us.
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Gyro
Sean Dunn, aka DC Sandwich Guy, speaks outside court after his not guilty verdict:
“I am so happy that justice prevails in spite of everything….
“That night I believe I was protecting the rights of immigrants…
Every life matters, no matter where you came from, no matter how you got here…”
“I am so happy that justice prevails in spite of everything….
“That night I believe I was protecting the rights of immigrants…
Every life matters, no matter where you came from, no matter how you got here…”
November 6, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Gyro
“They simply sit in silence in 200-year-old wooden pews — and wait for a message from God to move through them until they speak.”
This story features Arch Street Meeting in Philadelphia. In DC, our benches are just 95 years old, but similarly hand carved, and similarly seeing a resurgence in use.
This story features Arch Street Meeting in Philadelphia. In DC, our benches are just 95 years old, but similarly hand carved, and similarly seeing a resurgence in use.
Young adults turn to Quakers' silent worship to offset — and cope with — a noisy world
There’s been an unprecedented surge in the numbers of attendees at Sunday worship at the Quaker Arch Street Meeting House in Old City Philadelphia.
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November 6, 2025 at 2:47 PM
“They simply sit in silence in 200-year-old wooden pews — and wait for a message from God to move through them until they speak.”
This story features Arch Street Meeting in Philadelphia. In DC, our benches are just 95 years old, but similarly hand carved, and similarly seeing a resurgence in use.
This story features Arch Street Meeting in Philadelphia. In DC, our benches are just 95 years old, but similarly hand carved, and similarly seeing a resurgence in use.
DOES THE HOT NEW MAYOR OF NEW YORK NEED A MISTRESS AND CAN I BE HER??
I promise a very elegant and subdued scandal.
I promise a very elegant and subdued scandal.
November 5, 2025 at 3:16 AM
DOES THE HOT NEW MAYOR OF NEW YORK NEED A MISTRESS AND CAN I BE HER??
I promise a very elegant and subdued scandal.
I promise a very elegant and subdued scandal.
I come back to this one again and again: vegetarian chicken and dumplings! You can add some Quorn chicken cubes if you like, and make sure those dumplings get plenty of herbs!
November 4, 2025 at 3:26 PM
I come back to this one again and again: vegetarian chicken and dumplings! You can add some Quorn chicken cubes if you like, and make sure those dumplings get plenty of herbs!
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Join me on BBC Radio Three at 9:45pm this Tuesday, as I take you on a journey to the cave of St Robert of Knaresborough, to explore if a place of faith such as this can ever, truly, be abandoned.
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
November 3, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Join me on BBC Radio Three at 9:45pm this Tuesday, as I take you on a journey to the cave of St Robert of Knaresborough, to explore if a place of faith such as this can ever, truly, be abandoned.
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
does anybody know what time it is?
November 3, 2025 at 2:35 AM
does anybody know what time it is?
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The immediate adaptation towards a "logic" that at it's core is: it's a person when I decide it's a person (i.e. 'therapy') and not when I decide it's not (i.e. a 'tool') is chilling.
As a black person AND a therapist, it's not that we're cooked...
It's the collective decision to cook ourselves.
As a black person AND a therapist, it's not that we're cooked...
It's the collective decision to cook ourselves.
I had a 45 year old rideshare driver tell me recently that he uses AI for therapy.
I asked him which one. He said “Grok— I like the voice it uses, the tone doesn’t talk down to me like ChatGPT’s does.”
He bragged that he had a 4 hour “therapy session” talking to Grok.
Chat, are we cooked?
I asked him which one. He said “Grok— I like the voice it uses, the tone doesn’t talk down to me like ChatGPT’s does.”
He bragged that he had a 4 hour “therapy session” talking to Grok.
Chat, are we cooked?
November 2, 2025 at 9:19 PM
The immediate adaptation towards a "logic" that at it's core is: it's a person when I decide it's a person (i.e. 'therapy') and not when I decide it's not (i.e. a 'tool') is chilling.
As a black person AND a therapist, it's not that we're cooked...
It's the collective decision to cook ourselves.
As a black person AND a therapist, it's not that we're cooked...
It's the collective decision to cook ourselves.
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On the other site, an 18-year-old Zohran canvasser described the legendary Wallace Shawn as "the actor who plays Dr. Sturgis on Young Sheldon" which is honestly adorable
November 2, 2025 at 8:02 PM
On the other site, an 18-year-old Zohran canvasser described the legendary Wallace Shawn as "the actor who plays Dr. Sturgis on Young Sheldon" which is honestly adorable
Kinda wish this book was a bit more informed by Quaker practice and a bit less by Trappist practice, but I took this pic outside an Episcopal cathedral so what do I know?
November 2, 2025 at 11:43 PM
Kinda wish this book was a bit more informed by Quaker practice and a bit less by Trappist practice, but I took this pic outside an Episcopal cathedral so what do I know?
I think too much about liturgical Latin, which is one of the things that makes me a bad Quaker.
On the liturgical calendar, today is All Souls Day, where the dead of the previous year are remembered. It’s also my second favorite observance (again, bad Quaker). 1/
On the liturgical calendar, today is All Souls Day, where the dead of the previous year are remembered. It’s also my second favorite observance (again, bad Quaker). 1/
November 2, 2025 at 5:45 PM
I think too much about liturgical Latin, which is one of the things that makes me a bad Quaker.
On the liturgical calendar, today is All Souls Day, where the dead of the previous year are remembered. It’s also my second favorite observance (again, bad Quaker). 1/
On the liturgical calendar, today is All Souls Day, where the dead of the previous year are remembered. It’s also my second favorite observance (again, bad Quaker). 1/
This season I joined the Thomas Circle Singers! Here we are rehearsing Andrew Miller's setting of Blake's poem "The Lamb." Join us at our Christmas concert on December 6. Tix here: tickets.chorusconnection.com/tcsingers/ev...
TCS Rehearsal: Andrew Miller's "The Lamb"
YouTube video by Thomas Circle Singers
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November 1, 2025 at 4:42 PM
This season I joined the Thomas Circle Singers! Here we are rehearsing Andrew Miller's setting of Blake's poem "The Lamb." Join us at our Christmas concert on December 6. Tix here: tickets.chorusconnection.com/tcsingers/ev...
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Trust that the Inner Light can lead us beyond our individual perceptions and desires into action grounded in God’s truth. — #7th-and-practice/advices-and-queries" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">New England Yearly Meeting #7
October 31, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Trust that the Inner Light can lead us beyond our individual perceptions and desires into action grounded in God’s truth. — #7th-and-practice/advices-and-queries" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">New England Yearly Meeting #7
Loaded down the neighborhood kids with candy and served two different kinds of chili to some dear friends. Happy Halloween indeed!
November 1, 2025 at 4:04 AM
Loaded down the neighborhood kids with candy and served two different kinds of chili to some dear friends. Happy Halloween indeed!
What started as an explanation on the decline of air travel ended up as a summary of the elder millennial experience.
I feel like boomers think about how good they had it and take credit for it. And they made a point of hoarding that good. But as a millennial, it’s been pretty horrific to have a glimpse of how much better a lot things used to be as well as an acute awareness of the decline.
October 31, 2025 at 1:50 PM
What started as an explanation on the decline of air travel ended up as a summary of the elder millennial experience.
Everything before the comma shouldn't even exist as a phrase, and yet here we are.
Ahead of the 1st shutdown of US food aid to hungry Americans in 60 years, some of the 200,000 Little Free Library locations are converting into food pantries. Thanks @littlefreelibrary.bsky.social
October 31, 2025 at 1:05 AM
Everything before the comma shouldn't even exist as a phrase, and yet here we are.
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O God, make speed to save us.
October 29, 2025 at 7:53 PM
O God, make speed to save us.
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O Lord, open thou our lips.
October 30, 2025 at 1:58 PM
O Lord, open thou our lips.
Was honored to hear a wonderful talk by Brian this weekend! I feel like I have a lot of theological unpacking to do. :)
A new book by Brian Blakemore discusses, as its subtitle says, "the Quakers' groundbreaking push for gay liberation" in the United States in the mid-twentieth century, presenting Friends' advocacy for gay people in the era's larger social and cultural context.
REVIEWED: In Brief: To Hear and to Respond: The Quakers’ Groundbreaking Push for Gay Liberation, 1946–1973
By Brian T. Blackmore. Brill, 2025. 108 pages. $84/paperback or eBook. Blackmore, an independent scholar and Friend living in Philadelphia,…
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October 28, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Was honored to hear a wonderful talk by Brian this weekend! I feel like I have a lot of theological unpacking to do. :)
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Had the rare joy of preaching this Sunday, looking at Prayer. Here's a little bit of what I said...
October 28, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Had the rare joy of preaching this Sunday, looking at Prayer. Here's a little bit of what I said...
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"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"
October 28, 2025 at 10:46 AM
"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"
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California is just too far away. If I was meant to be in California, they wouldn’t have put it ALL the way over there.
October 27, 2025 at 8:28 PM
California is just too far away. If I was meant to be in California, they wouldn’t have put it ALL the way over there.
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"[...] This is the force of faith. Nobody gets
what they want. Never again are you the same. The longing
is to be pure. What you get is to be changed. [...]”
- Jorie Graham
what they want. Never again are you the same. The longing
is to be pure. What you get is to be changed. [...]”
- Jorie Graham
December 20, 2024 at 10:08 AM
"[...] This is the force of faith. Nobody gets
what they want. Never again are you the same. The longing
is to be pure. What you get is to be changed. [...]”
- Jorie Graham
what they want. Never again are you the same. The longing
is to be pure. What you get is to be changed. [...]”
- Jorie Graham