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Reuben L. Lillie
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📚 Student at UChicago Divinity School
🎭 Operatic Tenor
🍞🍷 Pastor at loopnaz.org
🏰 White Castle Cravers Hall of Fame
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Happy first snow 🌨 at #UChicago.
November 10, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Ways you know #UChicago is a special kind of different place:

The chalkboard in your classroom at The Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures contains Classical Hebrew attestations of לשאת alongside playful hyroglyphs tucked around equations for diagonal matrices. Y'know, Tuesday.
November 4, 2025 at 2:04 PM
You swing by a friend's office as a favor, and you get some free Kraft Mac & Cheese on the walk home. Just another day in the neighborhood. #InTheLoop #Chicago
November 1, 2025 at 7:52 PM
#Autumn leaves in Millennium Park, #Chicago.
November 1, 2025 at 3:25 PM
When selecting costumes, the biggest little fans of the @chicagocta.bsky.social asked to dress as 'L' directional signs for two of their favorite lines.

And, yes, they're both Loop-bound trains according to the back.
October 31, 2025 at 8:27 PM
As requested by @zachleat.com, my freshly minted waffle caridigan 🧇🧶:
October 21, 2025 at 10:44 PM
And so it begins: Intermediate Classical Hebrew with the legendary Dennis Pardee.

#UChicago
September 29, 2025 at 3:11 PM
I want to live in a 2025 in which streaming services feature the 1994 live-action animated classic The Pagemaster. I'm not saying it's the most important thing we need right now. I am saying it'd be an inestimable catharsis and an indication of how much better we're doing than we would be otherwise.
May 23, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Happy Easter sunrise from Chicago.
April 20, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Gaslighting or confirmation bias? If you can't tell, why should we?

#Duolingo #opera #VivaVerdi
April 9, 2025 at 3:07 AM
What better way to celebrate the inauguration of the Rev. Dr. @maishaprez.bsky.social as President of @mccormickseminary.bsky.social than processing astride my friend and colleague, the Rev. Dr. Joy J. Moore, President of Northern Seminary? Golly, today has been special.
March 28, 2025 at 9:37 PM
All he wanted to do was ride the @chicagocta.bsky.social around the neighborhood.
March 27, 2025 at 12:31 AM
I've got my seat for #MarchMadness. It's the comfiest.
March 20, 2025 at 4:44 PM
On Friday, I had the honor to share my research on "Dirty Words in the Book of Job: Excavating a Poetic Vocabulary of Divine Participation" with the Wesleyan Theological Society at Baylor University's Truett Theological Seminary.
March 16, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Then, after our flight home, I stopped by Mt. Moriah Missionary Baptist Church—the site of the First General Assembly, hosted by First Church of the Nazarene in Chicago in 1907, where the first in a series of foundational mergers that culminated at Pilot Point began.
March 16, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Yesterday, after presenting to the Wesleyan Theological Society at Truett Seminary on "Interdependence as Participation: An Eccelesiology of District Administration," Charles Perabeau and I made a pilgrimage to Pilot Point, TX—site of the 2nd General Assembly of the Church of the Nazarene in 1908.
March 16, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Sgt. Tibbs was honorably discharged today. August 2012–March 10, 2025

#Cats
#CatSky
#BlackCat 🐈‍⬛️
March 11, 2025 at 4:00 AM
I'm pleased to share that I have been admitted to the University of Chicago Divinity School.
February 27, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Thanks for the plug, #Duolingo. Gracias por la mención.

#opera
February 23, 2025 at 2:43 AM
There's no thrill quite like taking two boys, ages six and two, on an 'L' ride. We do this nigh infrequently, but you'd think it's the first time. Every. Time. Never do we look more like tourists in our own city as when we're approaching a train platform.

#transit #childhood @chicagocta.bsky.social
February 22, 2025 at 2:51 PM
It's apparently past my bedtime.

#Cats
#CatSky
#Caturday
#BlackCat 🐈‍⬛️
January 26, 2025 at 3:37 AM
May I stress the need for courageous, intelligent, and dedicated. ... Leaders of sound integrity. Leaders not in love with publicity, but in love with justice. Leaders not in love with money, but in love with humanity. Leaders who can subject their particular egos to the greatness of the cause.
—MLK
January 20, 2025 at 2:16 PM
20 ❇️ Happy ❇️ Epiphany ❇️ Folks ❇️ 25
January 6, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Said blanket no longer belongs to my wife.

#Cats
#CatSky
#BlackCat 🐈‍⬛️
January 1, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Doting on my wife:

Among her grand achievements of 2024 (besides enduring me another 366 days), she crocheted 🧶 a temperature blanket: 378 squares, 18x21 with tweed spacers twixt each month, in 10 colors (inspired by the opening shot of Mary Poppins) for the daily high in Chicago.

Cat 🐈‍⬛️ for scale.
January 1, 2025 at 4:36 PM