Jody Howard
@thegospelplow.com
Husband to @AEHowardwrites.bsky.social,
daddy to 2 boys, Episcopal priest, Asheville native, Historian, nerd. Religious but not spiritual.
daddy to 2 boys, Episcopal priest, Asheville native, Historian, nerd. Religious but not spiritual.
I’m not a political scientist, but as long as people can actually vote, I feel comfortable saying this is always going to be the case when parties think a slim margin is a mandate, especially when they go extreme and, in this case, act like thugs:
November 5, 2025 at 2:15 PM
I’m not a political scientist, but as long as people can actually vote, I feel comfortable saying this is always going to be the case when parties think a slim margin is a mandate, especially when they go extreme and, in this case, act like thugs:
My latest: www.thegospelplow.com/p/from-nosta...
September 7, 2025 at 9:39 PM
My latest: www.thegospelplow.com/p/from-nosta...
Occasionally I get side-tracked while writing something.. like a 500 word examination of ministry context for a DMin class that sends me on a bunny trail to try to find a way to superimpose current diocesan boundaries through a GEOJSON file on an image of a historic map of the Diocese of Tennessee.
September 7, 2025 at 4:19 AM
Occasionally I get side-tracked while writing something.. like a 500 word examination of ministry context for a DMin class that sends me on a bunny trail to try to find a way to superimpose current diocesan boundaries through a GEOJSON file on an image of a historic map of the Diocese of Tennessee.
I visited the other place as I do once in a blue moon and I went to this guy’s profile because of an absurdly anti-semitic attack he let rip against someone and something about this ad abt becoming verified cracked me up.
September 7, 2025 at 1:14 AM
I visited the other place as I do once in a blue moon and I went to this guy’s profile because of an absurdly anti-semitic attack he let rip against someone and something about this ad abt becoming verified cracked me up.
It’s also interesting that Trump breaks this paradigm somewhat, like so many others. He seems to have done best with households in the 30,000 - 99,000 range:
March 17, 2025 at 12:42 AM
It’s also interesting that Trump breaks this paradigm somewhat, like so many others. He seems to have done best with households in the 30,000 - 99,000 range:
Re-reading Jenson’s “How the World Lost its Story” for our New Testament and Christian Leadership class (DMin program), and I was struck by this:
January 7, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Re-reading Jenson’s “How the World Lost its Story” for our New Testament and Christian Leadership class (DMin program), and I was struck by this:
Wassail to go with decorating for Christmas!
December 14, 2024 at 7:57 PM
Wassail to go with decorating for Christmas!
I discovered a former prof wrote a book on the history of death ~9 years ago, & described it with the well constructed phrase a “welcome and much-deserved emancipation.” He always wrote interesting things—I’ve been looking his work up because of his writing on migration, given current events
December 3, 2024 at 3:09 AM
I discovered a former prof wrote a book on the history of death ~9 years ago, & described it with the well constructed phrase a “welcome and much-deserved emancipation.” He always wrote interesting things—I’ve been looking his work up because of his writing on migration, given current events
Worth sharing this article from 2016 given the first offensive in over four years by the Syrian opposition:
November 29, 2024 at 4:51 PM
Worth sharing this article from 2016 given the first offensive in over four years by the Syrian opposition:
Yes, this is my recipe, except I replaced the cheese with peas because my wife has alpha-gal and can’t have things like cheese anymore.
November 29, 2024 at 1:53 AM
Yes, this is my recipe, except I replaced the cheese with peas because my wife has alpha-gal and can’t have things like cheese anymore.
The day before Thanksgiving and while they’re looking a little ragged after a bit of cold the last two days, our azalea still has blooms (and a few new buds). Seems pretty strange.
November 27, 2024 at 5:34 PM
The day before Thanksgiving and while they’re looking a little ragged after a bit of cold the last two days, our azalea still has blooms (and a few new buds). Seems pretty strange.
Stopped to get some brandy for some pumpkin pies @aehowardwrites.bsky.social is planning to make and I noticed that my favorite scotch is now more than $30 more expensive than it was when I first discovered it.
November 27, 2024 at 12:59 AM
Stopped to get some brandy for some pumpkin pies @aehowardwrites.bsky.social is planning to make and I noticed that my favorite scotch is now more than $30 more expensive than it was when I first discovered it.
It is will lose the house and/or senate in two years:
November 26, 2024 at 8:14 PM
It is will lose the house and/or senate in two years:
November 26, 2024 at 2:40 AM
I missed a like! Here's another.
November 20, 2024 at 5:43 AM
I missed a like! Here's another.
From December’s Harper’s, an excerpt from Homeland by Richard Beck:
November 20, 2024 at 3:43 AM
From December’s Harper’s, an excerpt from Homeland by Richard Beck:
Filling in at one of our parishes this morning and enjoyed doing Rite I at 8. I get to do a baptism at 10:30. Also, they added some art to the church and this one is right up my alley (taken from an angle to cut down on glare).
November 17, 2024 at 3:50 PM
Filling in at one of our parishes this morning and enjoyed doing Rite I at 8. I get to do a baptism at 10:30. Also, they added some art to the church and this one is right up my alley (taken from an angle to cut down on glare).
Just re-upping this skeet in response to the below:
November 14, 2024 at 12:01 AM
Just re-upping this skeet in response to the below:
"I propose that the preacher's first and most important responsibility is to educate the imaginations of her hearers so that they have the linguistic skills to enter the world that Scripture discloses..." -Ellen Davis
November 13, 2024 at 4:03 AM
"I propose that the preacher's first and most important responsibility is to educate the imaginations of her hearers so that they have the linguistic skills to enter the world that Scripture discloses..." -Ellen Davis
This is a great article. And while it's true that Democrats could benefit from this, going hyper-local and hyper-personal will be good on many fronts. Rebuilding intermediary organizations is one of the things that can keep the boot of a wanna-be authoritarian state from crushing people.
November 13, 2024 at 3:44 AM
This is a great article. And while it's true that Democrats could benefit from this, going hyper-local and hyper-personal will be good on many fronts. Rebuilding intermediary organizations is one of the things that can keep the boot of a wanna-be authoritarian state from crushing people.