Bryan Jarrell
@spiritualangle.bsky.social
Family man. ACNA Priest. Columnist. Writer.
Find me at:
Mockingbird - https://mbird.com
The Latrobe Bulletin - https://thelatrobebulletin.com
Syndication & Contact Info - thespiritualanglecolumn at gmail.
Find me at:
Mockingbird - https://mbird.com
The Latrobe Bulletin - https://thelatrobebulletin.com
Syndication & Contact Info - thespiritualanglecolumn at gmail.
Pet peeve: when a clear and obvious typo or auto correct is mistaken for ignorance, stupidity, or spelling error.
November 17, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Pet peeve: when a clear and obvious typo or auto correct is mistaken for ignorance, stupidity, or spelling error.
I've been watching Shaun of the Dead most Halloweens with my wife since 2012. That's 13 years. I still notice little details a dozen times in that I didn't notice before. It's such a great movie.
November 1, 2025 at 1:25 AM
I've been watching Shaun of the Dead most Halloweens with my wife since 2012. That's 13 years. I still notice little details a dozen times in that I didn't notice before. It's such a great movie.
I love my pentecostal friends. But also, why do they always try to sell me vitamin supplements on a pyramid scheme? Yinz know that the Holy Spirit can bring healing through the work through a medical professional, right?
October 14, 2025 at 1:13 AM
I love my pentecostal friends. But also, why do they always try to sell me vitamin supplements on a pyramid scheme? Yinz know that the Holy Spirit can bring healing through the work through a medical professional, right?
I respect @patmcafeeshow.bsky.social even more knowing that he has a morbidly obese Corgi. My golden retriever perpetually needs to lose five pounds. Corgi bro should get in some reps with Pete Herbstreit on Saturdays.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ol0t...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ol0t...
Pat McAfee's Corgi, Chuck, Competed At An NFL Game?!
YouTube video by The Pat McAfee Show
www.youtube.com
October 7, 2025 at 2:35 PM
I respect @patmcafeeshow.bsky.social even more knowing that he has a morbidly obese Corgi. My golden retriever perpetually needs to lose five pounds. Corgi bro should get in some reps with Pete Herbstreit on Saturdays.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ol0t...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ol0t...
One of life's little joys: encountering a new word.
October 6, 2025 at 2:46 PM
One of life's little joys: encountering a new word.
For years, I was told that the torn in Paul's flesh was some unknowable mystery. Nobody ever told me that the theme of a "thorn in the flesh" is found in Judges and Numbers. It's been a fun afternoon exploring that rabbit hole.
September 25, 2025 at 6:49 PM
For years, I was told that the torn in Paul's flesh was some unknowable mystery. Nobody ever told me that the theme of a "thorn in the flesh" is found in Judges and Numbers. It's been a fun afternoon exploring that rabbit hole.
"It’s hard for me to take seriously economic predictions that resemble a kind of secular Rapture, in which a god-like entity descends upon the earth and makes whole categories of human activity disappear with a wave of His (Its?) hand."
@dkthomp.bsky.social on the AI apocalypse.
@dkthomp.bsky.social on the AI apocalypse.
September 24, 2025 at 1:59 PM
"It’s hard for me to take seriously economic predictions that resemble a kind of secular Rapture, in which a god-like entity descends upon the earth and makes whole categories of human activity disappear with a wave of His (Its?) hand."
@dkthomp.bsky.social on the AI apocalypse.
@dkthomp.bsky.social on the AI apocalypse.
To be fair, the last big false rapture debacle was that one guy in 2012 with billboards in NYC and all that. I'll say now what I said then: I hope he's right but I doubt it.
September 22, 2025 at 11:59 PM
To be fair, the last big false rapture debacle was that one guy in 2012 with billboards in NYC and all that. I'll say now what I said then: I hope he's right but I doubt it.
Me last week: "Dear Jesus, I don't care if WVU loses all the other games this year, just give us a win over Pitt please."
::Monkey's Paw in the corner of the room overhearing my prayer curls::
::Monkey's Paw in the corner of the room overhearing my prayer curls::
September 21, 2025 at 12:52 AM
Me last week: "Dear Jesus, I don't care if WVU loses all the other games this year, just give us a win over Pitt please."
::Monkey's Paw in the corner of the room overhearing my prayer curls::
::Monkey's Paw in the corner of the room overhearing my prayer curls::
The James Juke: using a handful of verses from the back of the Bible to prove that your preferred social program, moral value, or good work is somehow the exception to the idea that we are saved by grace through faith.
September 16, 2025 at 6:06 PM
The James Juke: using a handful of verses from the back of the Bible to prove that your preferred social program, moral value, or good work is somehow the exception to the idea that we are saved by grace through faith.
Let's Go Mountaineers!!!
#BackyardBrawl #WVU
(Wasn't sure it would happen after last week's debacle but beating Pitt means the season isn't a total loss.)
#BackyardBrawl #WVU
(Wasn't sure it would happen after last week's debacle but beating Pitt means the season isn't a total loss.)
September 13, 2025 at 11:56 PM
Let's Go Mountaineers!!!
#BackyardBrawl #WVU
(Wasn't sure it would happen after last week's debacle but beating Pitt means the season isn't a total loss.)
#BackyardBrawl #WVU
(Wasn't sure it would happen after last week's debacle but beating Pitt means the season isn't a total loss.)
WVU losing today has really set me back. Unexpectedly so. I had high hopes for the RichRod era, but man, we're off to a rocky start. There goes gameday for next week in Morgantown too, which I would have loved to see.
September 7, 2025 at 2:02 AM
WVU losing today has really set me back. Unexpectedly so. I had high hopes for the RichRod era, but man, we're off to a rocky start. There goes gameday for next week in Morgantown too, which I would have loved to see.
Not happy that sports socials are going to be posting gifs of one athlete spitting on another for the next three days. Gross.
September 5, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Not happy that sports socials are going to be posting gifs of one athlete spitting on another for the next three days. Gross.
I'm excited for a day when we can have extended ethical conversations without resorting to Stephen A Smith levels of faux indignation.
I'm also excited for a day when we can talk #NFL and not get into an extended conversation about projectile saliva.
I'm also excited for a day when we can talk #NFL and not get into an extended conversation about projectile saliva.
September 5, 2025 at 3:54 AM
I'm excited for a day when we can have extended ethical conversations without resorting to Stephen A Smith levels of faux indignation.
I'm also excited for a day when we can talk #NFL and not get into an extended conversation about projectile saliva.
I'm also excited for a day when we can talk #NFL and not get into an extended conversation about projectile saliva.
I can't get the Eagles/Cowboys game streaming, so I thought I'd check in on reddit and see how things are going. Penalties, punches, spitting, fighting, and a weather delay. A disappointing way to start the season, but on the bright side, GP is the Cowboy's problem now.
September 5, 2025 at 3:36 AM
I can't get the Eagles/Cowboys game streaming, so I thought I'd check in on reddit and see how things are going. Penalties, punches, spitting, fighting, and a weather delay. A disappointing way to start the season, but on the bright side, GP is the Cowboy's problem now.
Are we done pretending tiny homes are a thing yet? Lmk.
September 4, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Are we done pretending tiny homes are a thing yet? Lmk.
"Despair is guilt with no place to go."
DZ, The Big Relief, Pg. 94
DZ, The Big Relief, Pg. 94
September 3, 2025 at 2:53 AM
"Despair is guilt with no place to go."
DZ, The Big Relief, Pg. 94
DZ, The Big Relief, Pg. 94
Just checked in on a beloved bishop in my tradition, Fitz Allison in South Carolina. He's 98 now, a year and a half away from the honorific "centenarian." His book "Cruelty of Heresy" remains a favorite, as does his immortal quip "Jesus isn't just some catfish in the Mississippi 'rivah.'"
September 1, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Just checked in on a beloved bishop in my tradition, Fitz Allison in South Carolina. He's 98 now, a year and a half away from the honorific "centenarian." His book "Cruelty of Heresy" remains a favorite, as does his immortal quip "Jesus isn't just some catfish in the Mississippi 'rivah.'"
"I was dumbfounded by my own judgmental uselessness. It felt like heaven put me in a dunce cap and sat me in the corner for a while."
Sarah condon is one of Mockingbird's great patients, so free that she can tattle on herself in the most relatable ways.
mbird.com/suffering/re...
Sarah condon is one of Mockingbird's great patients, so free that she can tattle on herself in the most relatable ways.
mbird.com/suffering/re...
Remembering Hurricane Katrina, 20 Years Later - Mockingbird
For better or worse, I always think of the storm as a kind of before/after moment in my life.
mbird.com
August 31, 2025 at 12:57 AM
"I was dumbfounded by my own judgmental uselessness. It felt like heaven put me in a dunce cap and sat me in the corner for a while."
Sarah condon is one of Mockingbird's great patients, so free that she can tattle on herself in the most relatable ways.
mbird.com/suffering/re...
Sarah condon is one of Mockingbird's great patients, so free that she can tattle on herself in the most relatable ways.
mbird.com/suffering/re...
Took the family to see the Savannah Bananas last night. In a word: exhausting. Maybe even manic. We had a great time but it was like living in a real TikTok for 3 hours, with new distractions every fifteen seconds. It's entertainment for an online world, but what if your world isn't online?
August 30, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Took the family to see the Savannah Bananas last night. In a word: exhausting. Maybe even manic. We had a great time but it was like living in a real TikTok for 3 hours, with new distractions every fifteen seconds. It's entertainment for an online world, but what if your world isn't online?
The only people who watch Disney's The Little Mermaid are preschoolers and parents of preschoolers. But man, it is a gorgeous film.
August 28, 2025 at 2:37 PM
The only people who watch Disney's The Little Mermaid are preschoolers and parents of preschoolers. But man, it is a gorgeous film.
::looks left, looks right::
Salvation by works is a Jean Baudrillard simulacrum.
Salvation by works is a Jean Baudrillard simulacrum.
August 27, 2025 at 10:59 PM
::looks left, looks right::
Salvation by works is a Jean Baudrillard simulacrum.
Salvation by works is a Jean Baudrillard simulacrum.
I played outside everyday on a playground between the ages of five and eleven. It's wild to me that I barely remember any of it.
August 25, 2025 at 8:10 PM
I played outside everyday on a playground between the ages of five and eleven. It's wild to me that I barely remember any of it.
Like... the Christian perfectionism of Charles Finney as an expression of the same wave of thinking as the Utopian experiments of the era? Or the social movements of that era? Or the apocalyptic cults of that era? No wonder half of New York got burnt out on the idea of moral achievement!
I hadn't spent much time thinking about The Burned-Over District since my middle school US History course. Wild to revisit that season of American history and seeing that dynamic play itself out in the hearts of so many in 2025.
August 24, 2025 at 2:32 AM
Like... the Christian perfectionism of Charles Finney as an expression of the same wave of thinking as the Utopian experiments of the era? Or the social movements of that era? Or the apocalyptic cults of that era? No wonder half of New York got burnt out on the idea of moral achievement!
I hadn't spent much time thinking about The Burned-Over District since my middle school US History course. Wild to revisit that season of American history and seeing that dynamic play itself out in the hearts of so many in 2025.
August 24, 2025 at 2:12 AM
I hadn't spent much time thinking about The Burned-Over District since my middle school US History course. Wild to revisit that season of American history and seeing that dynamic play itself out in the hearts of so many in 2025.