fr. ryan
@rtlockwood.bsky.social
Associate Rector at Grace, Traverse City, MI | Trying to be like Jesus | Sewanee T’25 | High-Church Episcopalian | Inclusive Orthodoxy | 9w1 | Spouse of @AubLock | he/him
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this is the best collect in the entire book — it goes so hard
God is always more ready to hear than we are to pray!!!
God is always more ready to hear than we are to pray!!!
October 6, 2025 at 2:21 PM
this is the best collect in the entire book — it goes so hard
God is always more ready to hear than we are to pray!!!
God is always more ready to hear than we are to pray!!!
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If your church isn’t focused on the redemptive love of Jesus Christ, you’ve lost the plot. This applies both to whacky conservatives and whacky liberals. Seriously: the Gospel is grace and mercy. All the time. ⚓️
September 24, 2025 at 7:20 PM
If your church isn’t focused on the redemptive love of Jesus Christ, you’ve lost the plot. This applies both to whacky conservatives and whacky liberals. Seriously: the Gospel is grace and mercy. All the time. ⚓️
Biggest surprise so far about parish ministry (as a curate) is just how much of my job boils down to sending emails back and forth trying to get people into the same room as one another.
September 22, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Biggest surprise so far about parish ministry (as a curate) is just how much of my job boils down to sending emails back and forth trying to get people into the same room as one another.
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New challenge for the Narthex. Please join me, and let all of us know if you are doing it!
Here is the challenge: every time you start feeling a sense of doom about the state of the church, and I mean EVERY time, stop and pray for the church and for discernment on how to help build the church up. ⚓️
Here is the challenge: every time you start feeling a sense of doom about the state of the church, and I mean EVERY time, stop and pray for the church and for discernment on how to help build the church up. ⚓️
September 18, 2025 at 2:18 AM
New challenge for the Narthex. Please join me, and let all of us know if you are doing it!
Here is the challenge: every time you start feeling a sense of doom about the state of the church, and I mean EVERY time, stop and pray for the church and for discernment on how to help build the church up. ⚓️
Here is the challenge: every time you start feeling a sense of doom about the state of the church, and I mean EVERY time, stop and pray for the church and for discernment on how to help build the church up. ⚓️
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Nothing makes me go angry goose more than when an ACNA member talks about how welcoming and "big tent" Anglicanism is.
Welcoming for whom?
WELCOMING FOR WHOOOOOOOMMMMMMMM‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽
Welcoming for whom?
WELCOMING FOR WHOOOOOOOMMMMMMMM‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽
a white duck with an orange beak is standing next to a fence with the words * inhales * on it
ALT: a white duck with an orange beak is standing next to a fence with the words * inhales * on it
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August 17, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Nothing makes me go angry goose more than when an ACNA member talks about how welcoming and "big tent" Anglicanism is.
Welcoming for whom?
WELCOMING FOR WHOOOOOOOMMMMMMMM‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽
Welcoming for whom?
WELCOMING FOR WHOOOOOOOMMMMMMMM‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽
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It is utterly wild to me that people — especially my age and older — are asking LLM AIs to write or reply to emails. Beloved babes of God we’ve been doing this for 25 years
July 26, 2025 at 7:39 AM
It is utterly wild to me that people — especially my age and older — are asking LLM AIs to write or reply to emails. Beloved babes of God we’ve been doing this for 25 years
Folks who’ve started the Daily Office at your parish: any tips? What’s worked and what hasn’t?
July 21, 2025 at 1:25 AM
Folks who’ve started the Daily Office at your parish: any tips? What’s worked and what hasn’t?
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Big believer in the power of prayer.
Also big believer in this saying I heard somewhere once: "When you pray for God to move mountains, you have to be prepared to wake up next to a shovel."
These politicians pray to God with their ears plugged shut. 🕯
Also big believer in this saying I heard somewhere once: "When you pray for God to move mountains, you have to be prepared to wake up next to a shovel."
These politicians pray to God with their ears plugged shut. 🕯
You know what works better than thoughts and prayers? A functioning government.
July 7, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Big believer in the power of prayer.
Also big believer in this saying I heard somewhere once: "When you pray for God to move mountains, you have to be prepared to wake up next to a shovel."
These politicians pray to God with their ears plugged shut. 🕯
Also big believer in this saying I heard somewhere once: "When you pray for God to move mountains, you have to be prepared to wake up next to a shovel."
These politicians pray to God with their ears plugged shut. 🕯
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I think a fundamental unresolved, and often unexplored, tension in the large Episcopal Church's drive for a proliferation of many and varied novel liturgies is between the desire to represent growing diversity (good) AND an unexamined cultural preference for constant novelty (bad, prob. unAnglican)
May 29, 2025 at 5:58 PM
I think a fundamental unresolved, and often unexplored, tension in the large Episcopal Church's drive for a proliferation of many and varied novel liturgies is between the desire to represent growing diversity (good) AND an unexamined cultural preference for constant novelty (bad, prob. unAnglican)
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1. Republican legislators were in uproar after a Democratic representative asked the sponsor of an anti-trans sports ban to prove they were not trans.
Their bill would require teenage girls to do just that.
The latest from S. Baum.
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Their bill would require teenage girls to do just that.
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MI Republicans Think It's “Inappropriate” to Ask GOP Lawmaker to Prove Their Gender
Woolford would not publicly disclose his medical history, but under his own proposed laws, children across Michigan might have to.
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May 20, 2025 at 5:32 PM
1. Republican legislators were in uproar after a Democratic representative asked the sponsor of an anti-trans sports ban to prove they were not trans.
Their bill would require teenage girls to do just that.
The latest from S. Baum.
Subscribe to support our journalism.
Their bill would require teenage girls to do just that.
The latest from S. Baum.
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Good stuff from St. Basil tonight 🕯️
May 20, 2025 at 4:03 AM
Good stuff from St. Basil tonight 🕯️
The feast of St. Dunstan seems an appropriate day to share that I’ve been using this little beauty for the Office the past week or so. It contains everything you need (aside from the lectionary) to chant matins and evensong according to the classical prayer book tradition (1/2) ⚓️
May 19, 2025 at 5:57 PM
The feast of St. Dunstan seems an appropriate day to share that I’ve been using this little beauty for the Office the past week or so. It contains everything you need (aside from the lectionary) to chant matins and evensong according to the classical prayer book tradition (1/2) ⚓️
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Hi friends! The last paycheck of my 3 years in Episcopal Service Corp just want thorough. As I'm planning the next steps of my life, looking for a job, preparing for my M.div, and starting HRT. I will need your support. Any amount of mutual aid will help. Thank you🕯
Venmo @strong-girl1598
Venmo @strong-girl1598
May 15, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Hi friends! The last paycheck of my 3 years in Episcopal Service Corp just want thorough. As I'm planning the next steps of my life, looking for a job, preparing for my M.div, and starting HRT. I will need your support. Any amount of mutual aid will help. Thank you🕯
Venmo @strong-girl1598
Venmo @strong-girl1598
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“To see in the corporal placed over the remaining consecrated elements a representation of the actions of Joseph of Arimathea at the Lord's Burial, is a reminder that the Holy Communion is, in the words of Article XXVIII, the ‘Sacrament of our Redemption by Christ's death’.” 📕
'Wrapped around the body of Christ in the Eucharist': covering the remaining consecrated elements in the Prayer Book Holy Communion
When all have communicated, the minister shall return to the Lord's table, and reverently place upon it what remaineth of the consecrated el...
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May 15, 2025 at 2:00 PM
“To see in the corporal placed over the remaining consecrated elements a representation of the actions of Joseph of Arimathea at the Lord's Burial, is a reminder that the Holy Communion is, in the words of Article XXVIII, the ‘Sacrament of our Redemption by Christ's death’.” 📕
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St. Francis said “preach the gospel at all times; use words when necessary” to emphasize the proclamatory, evangelical value of acts of mercy and charity, not to denigrate the value of verbal proclamation. In order to preach the gospel at all times, it is necessary to use words.
May 10, 2025 at 5:56 PM
St. Francis said “preach the gospel at all times; use words when necessary” to emphasize the proclamatory, evangelical value of acts of mercy and charity, not to denigrate the value of verbal proclamation. In order to preach the gospel at all times, it is necessary to use words.
Seems like Leo XIV might not buy that whole “absolutely null and utterly void” thing
May 10, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Seems like Leo XIV might not buy that whole “absolutely null and utterly void” thing
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Recommendation for Narthex ⚓ friends: someone in my BCP study group alerted me to a new podcast, "Walking the Dogma" by Rev. Dominic Moore & Br. David Hedges, BSG, of Dio. Arizona, a conversational exploration of the 39 Articles from an inclusive orthodox perspective. azdiocese.org/2025/04/walk...
Walking the Dogma - Episcopal Diocese of Arizona
Walking the Dogma is a great new podcast by two of Arizona’s own clergy, the Rev. Dominic Moore and Brother David Hedges, BSG.
azdiocese.org
May 6, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Recommendation for Narthex ⚓ friends: someone in my BCP study group alerted me to a new podcast, "Walking the Dogma" by Rev. Dominic Moore & Br. David Hedges, BSG, of Dio. Arizona, a conversational exploration of the 39 Articles from an inclusive orthodox perspective. azdiocese.org/2025/04/walk...
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I’ve still never met a Christian who has been able to explain convincingly why it matters at all that “God loves us.”
May 4, 2025 at 2:02 AM
I’ve still never met a Christian who has been able to explain convincingly why it matters at all that “God loves us.”
With this last assignment, I'm officially done with my M.Div. TBTG. Alleluia, alleluia!
May 2, 2025 at 11:44 PM
With this last assignment, I'm officially done with my M.Div. TBTG. Alleluia, alleluia!
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here’s a core issue with any “Crunchy-adjacent” worldview: it is an attempt to spiritualize what prior generations experienced as suffering — we simply do not struggle to LIVE in the way any of our forebears did, nor do we have to WORK half as hard as they did (eg LAUNDRY!!) —
Don’t get me wrong, I think “care for the land as good stewards” is a positive goal for society at large, and, yeah, I like reading Wendell Berry — but… “modern society is more dangerous for human bodies” is essentially MAHA / RFK Jr brain just said in a semi-lefty way?
May 1, 2025 at 2:58 AM
here’s a core issue with any “Crunchy-adjacent” worldview: it is an attempt to spiritualize what prior generations experienced as suffering — we simply do not struggle to LIVE in the way any of our forebears did, nor do we have to WORK half as hard as they did (eg LAUNDRY!!) —
Y’all this thread is so good. Also I love this idea.
I’m teaching a mass class/priestcraft/liturgical practicum for my diocese’s ordinands this weekend.
Dear and beloved lay folks, what wisdom would you impart to future priests re: their liturgical presence?
Fellow clergy, what do you wish you learned in seminary re: liturgical presidency? 🕯️
Dear and beloved lay folks, what wisdom would you impart to future priests re: their liturgical presence?
Fellow clergy, what do you wish you learned in seminary re: liturgical presidency? 🕯️
April 30, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Y’all this thread is so good. Also I love this idea.
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How it started vs. how it's going. I feel so unbelievably blessed to have spent the last 3 years with these people. I love that we've been semi-immortalized on the seminary wall.
Pictured: me, @keakealani.bsky.social, Kenzi (who, rather admirably, is not On Here), and @rtlockwood.bsky.social. ⚓
Pictured: me, @keakealani.bsky.social, Kenzi (who, rather admirably, is not On Here), and @rtlockwood.bsky.social. ⚓
April 28, 2025 at 7:59 PM
How it started vs. how it's going. I feel so unbelievably blessed to have spent the last 3 years with these people. I love that we've been semi-immortalized on the seminary wall.
Pictured: me, @keakealani.bsky.social, Kenzi (who, rather admirably, is not On Here), and @rtlockwood.bsky.social. ⚓
Pictured: me, @keakealani.bsky.social, Kenzi (who, rather admirably, is not On Here), and @rtlockwood.bsky.social. ⚓