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#Pastor | #Musician | #ChristianHumanist | #Politics, because #policy matters | Practicing #memory, #attention, and #hope

Ordained in the #RCA, currently serving a #CRCNA congregation

ReadingTradition and Apocalypse (David Bentley Hart), Bewilderment (Richard Powers)
RereadingReturn of the King (J.R.R. Tolkien), Eat This Book (Eugene Peterson)
InterestsSpecialty Coffee, Fujifilm photography, video production, composition and music production, gin, wine, beer, sustainability, sacramental imagination
Is Mastodon where the #RCASynod and #CRCSynod conversation is going to happen this year?

How it Should Have Ended, Conviction Edition:

Trump commits to celibacy, buys a tenor sax, rebrands himself Felonious Monk

Without Lent, your Valentine is just Vaine

This quote from James Brownson has shaped me deeply:

"The church is not, as we too easily assume, a voluntary association of like-minded individuals. It is much more the community of those who have been called by God and joined to Jesus Christ."

#theology #ReformedTheology #RCA

There is a real world out there, and then there is our perception of it; God wants to bring these two into faithful and grateful harmony.

#theology

Proposal: move NYC, Washington, and Boston up one time zone to UTC-4.

Then keep Standard Time year round.

Problem(s) solved. #daylightsavingtime

Some streams of #Christianity actually inoculate followers against self-knowledge

This is a tragedy (in the most literal sense)

If you are a Weird #Coffee Person (in the USA), check this out: James Hoffman is launching a pretty cool project with Cometeer Coffee: a blind tasting project with 5000 other people, all tasting the exact. same. coffee.

If you're interested, I wouldn't sleep on it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fN_z4-EcOU

Join The Great American Coffee Taste Test!

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…and Jesus said to him, “You are right when you say you have no gold bars. In truth, you have had five gold bars, and the bars you now have are not your bars. What you have just said is quite true.”

I have a few Bluesky invites at this point; let me know if you're interested.

I think it's improving a bit; it's hard to say how it will end up vs Mastodon