Full Metal Hildegard

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priest, theologian, teacher, ex-NASA, Protestant monastic type, dog person, New Jersey convert, ham radio operator KE2APB

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My ear rocks are out of place so I’ve been in bed all day.* *true fact: everyone has crystals in their inner ear and when they get dislodged it causes awful vertigo

The doctrine of the Immaculate Conception and the doctrine of the Virgin Birth are two different things. The former is about the conception of Mary and is a relatively recent Catholic teaching. The latter is about the conception of Jesus and is basically universally held.

okay it's time for a prompt post: respond to this post with a correction to a common misconception about something you know a lot about. if you feel like it, boost your response. (please use a kindly tone about it, otherwise i, your prompt curator, will get anxious.)

Me, writing my dissertation ca. 2017: "People should know about the ties between Silicon Valley, Neoreaction, and eugenics!"

The ultimate Poster’s fortress

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A new study confirms a cave on the moon that could be used to shelter future explorers.

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It was so popular that they actually renamed the original The End of History: A New Hope and put out several sequels that continue the story of history

Why’s that, Francis? Did something happen?

Truly the best way to eat vegetables is to fill or cover them with cheese.

I'm not the kind of preacher who completely rewrites their sermon at 3 AM because terrible things happened, but I definitely just took the jokes out.

Channeled my inner Southern Grandma by leaving a peach on the windowsill for a week, where it finally achieved the beatific vision. Reader, I ate it over the sink and it was glorious.

a lot of ministry is like this

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gender is a scam invented by big body wash

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How your email finds me.

BTW if you are a civil servant, teacher, clergy member, or nonprofit employee, Project 2025 calls for *eliminating* Public Service Loan Forgiveness.

Vade retro

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Something is about to go down at IKEA.

Oh thank goodness, the K-Pop Army is here.

Just found a parish church in Wales where the head of the Flower Guild is listed on the Wikipedia page, and if that isn't power I don't know what is.

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I wish I could be more like my dog who barks at things he doesn’t like and if he feels like eating garbage he just does it with no shame or apologies.

relationship goals

Julien Bernard fined after stopping to kiss wife at Tour de Francewww.cyclingweekly.com Frenchman sanctioned 200CHF, but says he would do it again

"No animal parts in the bed." - a thing I just said to the dog

Started on my syllabus for the fall (ie, typed the dates in a Word document). I swear, this year I won't be panicking on August 25th. This will be the year.

reskeet with a tweet you still think about

As an ostensibly serious teacher of Anglicanism, I was not prepared to like My Lady Jane (alternative Tudor history! but with shapeshifters!) Honestly it’s delightful.

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More trains please.

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It’s the 4th of July and all I see are people talking about the divisions in America when we should be celebrating our greatest achievement: Launching a world wide offensive against aliens after uploading a computer virus made on a MacBook

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whenever I see stuff like “gen z thinks this is cringey so I stopped” I’m like “that’s crazy you care what a 21 year old thinks of you”

"We will not go quietly into the night! We will not vanish without a fight! We're going to live on! We're going to survive! Today, we celebrate our Independence Day!” - President Thomas J. Whitmore

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“The beginning of human pride is to forsake the Lord; the heart has withdrawn from its Maker. For the beginning of pride is sin, and the one who clings to it pours out abominations.” Morning prayer for Independence Day is 🔥 🔥 🔥. ⚓️

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If a **thousand-year-old stone church** can electrify its heating system with a heat pump, who else can? www.isoenergy.co.uk/projects/st-...

St Stephen's Churchwww.isoenergy.co.uk St Stephens is a traditional Grade I listed stone church dating from the Norman and Early English periods. After recognising the increasing importance of switching to renewable heating, the clients be...

oh look, we have two new staff members at the parish

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Name someone or something you trust more than the US Supreme Court.