Kara N. Slade
@karanslade.bsky.social
priest, theologian, teacher, police chaplain, Protestant monastic type, dog person, New Jersey convert, ham radio operator KE2APB
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Genuinely, I don't understand the liberal Protestant obsession with trying to make Christian doctrines palatable to the modern subject.
Joseph also had a bit of an issue believing in the virgin birth. The Apostles knew quite well that dead people don't rise from the tomb.
THAT'S THE POINT
Joseph also had a bit of an issue believing in the virgin birth. The Apostles knew quite well that dead people don't rise from the tomb.
THAT'S THE POINT
December 10, 2025 at 12:11 AM
Genuinely, I don't understand the liberal Protestant obsession with trying to make Christian doctrines palatable to the modern subject.
Joseph also had a bit of an issue believing in the virgin birth. The Apostles knew quite well that dead people don't rise from the tomb.
THAT'S THE POINT
Joseph also had a bit of an issue believing in the virgin birth. The Apostles knew quite well that dead people don't rise from the tomb.
THAT'S THE POINT
On repeat this morning, a great Eucharistic hymn:
I want a house with a crowded table
And a place by the fire for everyone
youtu.be/ZPfI8zBWub4?...
I want a house with a crowded table
And a place by the fire for everyone
youtu.be/ZPfI8zBWub4?...
The Highwomen: Crowded Table [OFFICIAL VIDEO]
YouTube video by The Highwomen
youtu.be
December 9, 2025 at 1:24 PM
On repeat this morning, a great Eucharistic hymn:
I want a house with a crowded table
And a place by the fire for everyone
youtu.be/ZPfI8zBWub4?...
I want a house with a crowded table
And a place by the fire for everyone
youtu.be/ZPfI8zBWub4?...
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You will be visited by three spirits.
December 9, 2025 at 4:14 AM
You will be visited by three spirits.
After watching a silly documentary on the TV, my opinion on Charles I has shifted from "Cromwell had a point, actually" to "he may not have been a martyr but he absolutely didn't deserve it."
December 9, 2025 at 1:43 AM
After watching a silly documentary on the TV, my opinion on Charles I has shifted from "Cromwell had a point, actually" to "he may not have been a martyr but he absolutely didn't deserve it."
I'm going to a meeting at a church in Chicago across the street from a Whole Foods, and my mom thinks I'm going to a war zone. "Do you have someone to walk with you all the time?"
December 9, 2025 at 1:33 AM
I'm going to a meeting at a church in Chicago across the street from a Whole Foods, and my mom thinks I'm going to a war zone. "Do you have someone to walk with you all the time?"
Quote with your model of masculinity
December 9, 2025 at 12:39 AM
Quote with your model of masculinity
Reformed theology stays winning
December 9, 2025 at 12:27 AM
Reformed theology stays winning
Friends, I lost my amice last week, and have been forced to wear a cassock-alb until I get a new one delivered. I swear it has disrupted my entire vibe. (This is a very niche post)
December 8, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Friends, I lost my amice last week, and have been forced to wear a cassock-alb until I get a new one delivered. I swear it has disrupted my entire vibe. (This is a very niche post)
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"The question is," said Alice, "'whether you can make [baptism] mean so many different things."
"The question is,” said Humpty Dumpty, “which is to be master — that's all."
"The question is,” said Humpty Dumpty, “which is to be master — that's all."
I have so many issues with how the baptismal covenant has become the central feature of our understanding of baptism. It’s gotten to the point where I feel it’s mildly pelagian where the effectual working of the sacrament isn’t God’s work in grace, but our “actioning” of the covenant
December 8, 2025 at 8:29 PM
"The question is," said Alice, "'whether you can make [baptism] mean so many different things."
"The question is,” said Humpty Dumpty, “which is to be master — that's all."
"The question is,” said Humpty Dumpty, “which is to be master — that's all."
I have a fun job
December 7, 2025 at 10:04 PM
I have a fun job
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This is so powerfully Philadelphia it made me reflexively say "go birds"
One of my neighbors has been putting up these fish facts posters. All kinds of different fish, marine, freshwater, deep, shallow, all kinds. This is a good one. “Stg this real fish” took me out. Good work, neighbor.
December 7, 2025 at 7:12 PM
This is so powerfully Philadelphia it made me reflexively say "go birds"
The supervisor of the decorations has logged on
December 6, 2025 at 10:28 PM
The supervisor of the decorations has logged on
Christian: O Come All Ye Faithful
Secular: Let It Snow
Secular: Let It Snow
What is your favorite "Christian" Christmas song and what is your favorite "Secular" Christmas song?
I will probably always adore "O Come All Ye Faithful" and "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen" for Christian.
And "Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)" for secular.
I will probably always adore "O Come All Ye Faithful" and "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen" for Christian.
And "Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)" for secular.
December 6, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Christian: O Come All Ye Faithful
Secular: Let It Snow
Secular: Let It Snow
multiple people should go to prison for this
December 6, 2025 at 4:26 PM
multiple people should go to prison for this
ESVue when?
and that is what makes it a weaker translation (in serious academic terms) than the TNIV or NRSVue — but if someone were to make a “gender inclusive ESV” I’d use it, NGL!
December 6, 2025 at 2:29 PM
ESVue when?
But thou art the same Lord
(keep it going…)
(keep it going…)
as to gather up the crumbs under thy table
We are not worthy so much
December 6, 2025 at 2:12 PM
But thou art the same Lord
(keep it going…)
(keep it going…)
Sleet! It’s slippery out there.
December 6, 2025 at 10:38 AM
Sleet! It’s slippery out there.
Greta is obviously the most beautiful girl in the whole calendar.
December 6, 2025 at 1:39 AM
Greta is obviously the most beautiful girl in the whole calendar.
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Everywhere by Michelle Branch is about divine ubiquity
December 6, 2025 at 1:04 AM
Everywhere by Michelle Branch is about divine ubiquity
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For every Kara there's 10 integralist anime priests
December 6, 2025 at 1:19 AM
For every Kara there's 10 integralist anime priests
I just
I
I need to wipe this from my mind immediately
I
I need to wipe this from my mind immediately
All of this reminds me of the times priests told me that the Canon should be whispered because it’s “pillow talk between a priest and his Eucharistic spouse” or that communion in the hand is bad because watching it for them is “like you watching another man touch your wife”
December 5, 2025 at 1:28 AM
I just
I
I need to wipe this from my mind immediately
I
I need to wipe this from my mind immediately
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absolutely intolerable levels of gender going on here
December 5, 2025 at 12:15 AM
absolutely intolerable levels of gender going on here
@bridgetemob.bsky.social @maddavenport.bsky.social @jrmoockjr.bsky.social looks like we might really need to reinvent Gender from first principles because whatever is happening right now has given us "women can't be lectors because Jesus talked about the Word as seed scarttered upon the ground"
December 5, 2025 at 12:08 AM
@bridgetemob.bsky.social @maddavenport.bsky.social @jrmoockjr.bsky.social looks like we might really need to reinvent Gender from first principles because whatever is happening right now has given us "women can't be lectors because Jesus talked about the Word as seed scarttered upon the ground"
so this isn't my circus, and I'm not going to tell Rome what they should do or especially how RC women should feel about it, but the logic described in this thread is just wow
It strikes me as strange that for certain people, marriage — probably the least clearly "sacramental" of the sacraments, the only sacrament not explicitly instituted by Christ — has become the lens by which every other sacrament is to be interpreted
www.vaticannews.va/en/vatican-c...
www.vaticannews.va/en/vatican-c...
Petrocchi Commission says no to female diaconate, though judgment not definitive - Vatican News
A report presenting the results of the Commission’s work has been released. It rules out admitting women to the diaconate understood as a degree of ...
www.vaticannews.va
December 4, 2025 at 11:58 PM
so this isn't my circus, and I'm not going to tell Rome what they should do or especially how RC women should feel about it, but the logic described in this thread is just wow
