Courtney Jones, as one untimely born
@revecj.bsky.social
Texan in NW Washington (DioOly). Episcopal Priest. ⚓️Mentor@Backstory Preaching. Baylor. DioNWTX. VST. Likes: hiking, books, dogs. She/her.
My parents sent baby pictures with their card. I would still be equally gleeful to pretend to drive a tractor.
November 17, 2025 at 7:32 PM
My parents sent baby pictures with their card. I would still be equally gleeful to pretend to drive a tractor.
Y’all. Birthday gift from my v cool spouse. I’m smitten (with the icon and the spouse.)
November 17, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Y’all. Birthday gift from my v cool spouse. I’m smitten (with the icon and the spouse.)
Another AI-related question for the Narthex: Pretend you're the interim rector/vicar of a congregation and you miss a vestry/BC meeting. At that meeting, another associated clergy person proposes a new logo for the congregation. It's AI-generated. The vestry/BC ADOPTS it. What's your plan? ⚓
November 3, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Another AI-related question for the Narthex: Pretend you're the interim rector/vicar of a congregation and you miss a vestry/BC meeting. At that meeting, another associated clergy person proposes a new logo for the congregation. It's AI-generated. The vestry/BC ADOPTS it. What's your plan? ⚓
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Guillermo del Toro on wealth: "a wealthy man is a man who has enough, not a man that needs more. If you have enough to invite someone for a beer? You're rich. If you have a yacht, planes, islands, and you still need more? You're not rich."
October 27, 2025 at 1:37 AM
Guillermo del Toro on wealth: "a wealthy man is a man who has enough, not a man that needs more. If you have enough to invite someone for a beer? You're rich. If you have a yacht, planes, islands, and you still need more? You're not rich."
Can I get a clergy* opinion? You write a stewardship letter and send the letter to a committee for input. The committee is like, “This is great, but so it would fit better on the page we shortened it using ChatGPT. New draft attached!” How might you respond to that?
*churchy lay folks weigh in too!
*churchy lay folks weigh in too!
September 25, 2025 at 12:24 AM
Can I get a clergy* opinion? You write a stewardship letter and send the letter to a committee for input. The committee is like, “This is great, but so it would fit better on the page we shortened it using ChatGPT. New draft attached!” How might you respond to that?
*churchy lay folks weigh in too!
*churchy lay folks weigh in too!
In your charity pray for V, who was picked up at an immigration hearing and is being held for deportation. ⚓️
September 23, 2025 at 12:21 PM
In your charity pray for V, who was picked up at an immigration hearing and is being held for deportation. ⚓️
I’m certainly glad that I lived through the era of my life where I thought I knew everything about everything.
September 12, 2025 at 12:34 AM
I’m certainly glad that I lived through the era of my life where I thought I knew everything about everything.
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IMO many Americans don't even buy guns for personal protection or to defend themselves against a tyrannical government. They simply have a shopping addiction
August 27, 2025 at 10:35 PM
IMO many Americans don't even buy guns for personal protection or to defend themselves against a tyrannical government. They simply have a shopping addiction
I have a dog that is quite vocal when she wants something.The problem is that I dont speak “Billie.” Sometimes I have to send videos to my spouse at work to say “Why is Billie crying?” This morning it was because her blanket wasn’t in the right spot, and she needed it adjusted to take her nap. 🤦🏻
August 25, 2025 at 1:22 PM
I have a dog that is quite vocal when she wants something.The problem is that I dont speak “Billie.” Sometimes I have to send videos to my spouse at work to say “Why is Billie crying?” This morning it was because her blanket wasn’t in the right spot, and she needed it adjusted to take her nap. 🤦🏻
I know it’s not in the hymnal 📕, but wonder if I could talk the music director into doing “Shake it Out” by Florence + the Machine as a pairing with the Gospel text? 🧐
August 21, 2025 at 4:12 PM
I know it’s not in the hymnal 📕, but wonder if I could talk the music director into doing “Shake it Out” by Florence + the Machine as a pairing with the Gospel text? 🧐
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if you are overwhelmed, I highly recommend:
-making a list of things you don't care about being out of the loop
-cutting down on alcohol
-cleaning, organizing and decluttering your home instead of doomscrolling
-making plans with friends
-weekly therapy
-charging your phone away from your bed
-making a list of things you don't care about being out of the loop
-cutting down on alcohol
-cleaning, organizing and decluttering your home instead of doomscrolling
-making plans with friends
-weekly therapy
-charging your phone away from your bed
August 11, 2025 at 2:56 AM
if you are overwhelmed, I highly recommend:
-making a list of things you don't care about being out of the loop
-cutting down on alcohol
-cleaning, organizing and decluttering your home instead of doomscrolling
-making plans with friends
-weekly therapy
-charging your phone away from your bed
-making a list of things you don't care about being out of the loop
-cutting down on alcohol
-cleaning, organizing and decluttering your home instead of doomscrolling
-making plans with friends
-weekly therapy
-charging your phone away from your bed
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And, lest I fail to do my deacony thing and advocate for the material needs of folks: RELYING SOLELY ON VOLUNTEER LABOR, ESPECIALLY WHEN ESTABLISHING SYSTEMS, IS UNJUST AND INEFFICIENT. Pay people to do the heavy lifting. It's worth the money, I promise.
July 27, 2025 at 3:44 PM
And, lest I fail to do my deacony thing and advocate for the material needs of folks: RELYING SOLELY ON VOLUNTEER LABOR, ESPECIALLY WHEN ESTABLISHING SYSTEMS, IS UNJUST AND INEFFICIENT. Pay people to do the heavy lifting. It's worth the money, I promise.
Y’all. My spouse is terrible at border-crossing. The first time we crossed into Canada she made a joke about guns in the car being mandatory in Texas. You betcha we got detained. 🤦🏻Yesterday she was trying so hard not to say something that would get us detained that when asked why …
July 2, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Y’all. My spouse is terrible at border-crossing. The first time we crossed into Canada she made a joke about guns in the car being mandatory in Texas. You betcha we got detained. 🤦🏻Yesterday she was trying so hard not to say something that would get us detained that when asked why …
Sort of out of the blue this weekend I was gifted two new stoles: a parishioner thought I needed something colorful to wear for my speech at the local pride festival, and the other was made by a friend who is getting into making vestments (because his husband is a priest). I’m so impressed by both!
June 24, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Sort of out of the blue this weekend I was gifted two new stoles: a parishioner thought I needed something colorful to wear for my speech at the local pride festival, and the other was made by a friend who is getting into making vestments (because his husband is a priest). I’m so impressed by both!
I’m having the kind of hectic week where today when I was working out I looked down at my legs and said “wait, when did I shave my …leg?” Not only did I forget that I’d shaved, halfway through said shaving I apparently just … quit. Good times.
June 18, 2025 at 2:27 PM
I’m having the kind of hectic week where today when I was working out I looked down at my legs and said “wait, when did I shave my …leg?” Not only did I forget that I’d shaved, halfway through said shaving I apparently just … quit. Good times.
OK, Narthex, help a musically-challenged priest out: hymns and songs that would be good for a Service of Renaming that’s happening August 6, Feast of the Transfiguration? ⚓️
June 2, 2025 at 6:14 PM
OK, Narthex, help a musically-challenged priest out: hymns and songs that would be good for a Service of Renaming that’s happening August 6, Feast of the Transfiguration? ⚓️
Praying folks of various types: please pray for my friend V, a legal resident of this country who has an immigration check in tomorrow (Tuesday) and is terrified that she will be deported. ⚓️
May 20, 2025 at 5:01 AM
Praying folks of various types: please pray for my friend V, a legal resident of this country who has an immigration check in tomorrow (Tuesday) and is terrified that she will be deported. ⚓️
Every time I either read or don’t read a land acknowledgment…
there is the possibility of congregational reaction ranging from confusion to anger
April 22, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Every time I either read or don’t read a land acknowledgment…
Happy Easter, all!
A few pictures from over the weekend - me reacting to the deacon sassing me, adult baptism at the Vigil (alleluia!), me reacting to the deacon sassing me (again), and spouse and me during altar party/altar guild “Party with Jesus!”
A few pictures from over the weekend - me reacting to the deacon sassing me, adult baptism at the Vigil (alleluia!), me reacting to the deacon sassing me (again), and spouse and me during altar party/altar guild “Party with Jesus!”
April 21, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Happy Easter, all!
A few pictures from over the weekend - me reacting to the deacon sassing me, adult baptism at the Vigil (alleluia!), me reacting to the deacon sassing me (again), and spouse and me during altar party/altar guild “Party with Jesus!”
A few pictures from over the weekend - me reacting to the deacon sassing me, adult baptism at the Vigil (alleluia!), me reacting to the deacon sassing me (again), and spouse and me during altar party/altar guild “Party with Jesus!”
Wait… is this all because manufacturing begins with “man”?
April 9, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Wait… is this all because manufacturing begins with “man”?
I wish I were joking that the featured product today at Costco is a gold bar.
April 5, 2025 at 1:49 AM
I wish I were joking that the featured product today at Costco is a gold bar.
Hi Episcopalians of Narthex, a religious studies professor friend is in search of commentary on the development of/changes to our liturgies for same-sex marriage. Does anybody have a contact or a reading suggestion I could pass along? 📕
March 3, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Hi Episcopalians of Narthex, a religious studies professor friend is in search of commentary on the development of/changes to our liturgies for same-sex marriage. Does anybody have a contact or a reading suggestion I could pass along? 📕
Got to meet some sheep today after church. My job is often unpredictably fun.
March 3, 2025 at 12:58 AM
Got to meet some sheep today after church. My job is often unpredictably fun.
I’m not gonna go so far as “never” here, but I’d love it if I heard less “lettuce” endings.
Preaching and teaching the gospel should never be hortatory, but revelatory. A sermon should not end with "let us..." but with promise--a scriptural promise from the Father in Jesus Christ with the power of the Spirit.
(and by the way, politicians should never say "I promise you...")
(and by the way, politicians should never say "I promise you...")
March 1, 2025 at 6:24 PM
I’m not gonna go so far as “never” here, but I’d love it if I heard less “lettuce” endings.
When my wife said “this year Jesus is found in the White House” I thought she was having a stroke. Turns out she was just reading a sign.
February 21, 2025 at 4:20 AM
When my wife said “this year Jesus is found in the White House” I thought she was having a stroke. Turns out she was just reading a sign.