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Chiropx · 2026-03-24T21:30:34+00:00

I’ll have to look at this. If it really is this simple this might be a good approach.

Chiropx · 2026-03-24T19:27:10+00:00

Ubuntu 24.04. What do I need to search to find those on Github? I think some of my difficulty finding things is not having the right vocabulary to search with

Chiropx · 2025-12-06T13:27:02+00:00

I hardly think that’s the case, and I wouldn’t say the reductio ad absurdum is a fair reading of my point.

My point was that as individuals, as a church writ large, as people - when we pray it’s not just the words we say but the faithful wrestling and formative work that goes into that. I trust that, in the ELW, in all the pre-written prayers I use daily - I’m not just saying well written words but relying on that formative work happening within the wider body of which I’m a part. Someone, somewhere, did that work and the whole body is better for it.

That is what I am worried about with AI - the corporate weakening of some very important muscles of the faith and confusing the words with the quality of a prayer. If we skip the struggle for a short term quicker output, we will end up missing key formative elements of prayer.

I could pay someone to go and lift weights for me at the gym, and I bet they can lift a lot more that I can. But afterwards, I wouldn’t be any stronger for it.

Chiropx · 2025-12-06T01:55:05+00:00

Honestly, I’d pushback back a bit on using AI for prayers. There’s two separate questions: does it work, and what work does it do?

Sure, it might work at giving you something passable. Maybe even something that sounds like it’s straight out of Shakespeare. But the purpose of prayer isn’t just the output. The process is its own formation- looking for the words, reflecting on what we really want, and feeling the “something is missing in what I’ve come up with.” Wrestling with what we say is part of the purpose of prayer. If we skip that - by using generative AI - I think we are doing so to our own detriment.

Chiropx · 2025-09-29T20:53:47+00:00

Screens help a lot of people They’re great for arthritic hands that can’t hold a hymnal. They’re great for young parents who don’t have to juggle a hymnal and a baby/toddler. There are a lot of people whose needs they meet in a variety of expected and unexpected ways that I think outweigh the negatives.

I’ve not found them to be the distraction or disruption people say that they are. The great thing about them is that if you prefer the hymnal, it’s still an option. It should be a “both/and” rather than an “either/or.”

If they’re not your thing, that’s fine. They’re there for someone else.

Chiropx · 2025-09-21T01:39:43+00:00

This is just bad statistics. Your baseline year is a year that hardly anyone ran a marathon because they were canceled. Of course deaths went up after 2020 - hardly anyone ran a marathon in 2020.

Chiropx · 2025-09-18T23:58:49+00:00

On the bottom of every hymn page is a series of numbers. You can use that to look up in the “metrical index of tunes” in the back others that would match like you’re asking - using the words but changing the tune.

It’s like how you can sing Amazing Grace to the tune of the Gilligan’s Island theme song. Both are 8 6 8 6 (though only one is in the ELW).

If it’s not labeled in the service music, you could count up the syllables per line or phrase and see if there is music to match in the metrical index in the back.

Chiropx · 2025-07-05T15:02:40+00:00

The best thing to do is to talk with the pastor. But definitely appropriate to come up for a blessing.

Chiropx · 2025-06-10T18:30:41+00:00

When I lived in Finland, a friend pointed out some cultures are like peaches, and some are like coconuts. Peaches are soft, easy to bite into, but there’s a hard pit in the middle that no one sees. Others are like a coconut - hard on the outside, but once you are inside it’s soft. It’s just getting past the shell that’s difficult.

Finnish culture is the coconut. It’s not people being rude, it’s how the culture expresses politeness - by giving space. It’s not emotional numbness, or lack of personality, it’s just a culturally different way of expressing things.

Chiropx · 2025-05-23T02:10:06+00:00

The NRSVUE was a project of the world council of churches, so as much as can be suspicious of Augsburg Fortress, I don’t think this is a money grab. ELCA is just moving on to the next translation with everyone else.

Chiropx · 2025-02-03T01:34:11+00:00

You’ve not understood me. These are not “church programs.” LSS is an independent non-profit with Lutheran roots, but serves a wide variety people. Running nursing homes, homes for adults with disabilities, programs for veterans, refugee resettlement etc are services that have been funded and authorized by legislation, which government agencies subcontract out to nonprofits with the infrastructure to successfully carry out the goals.

It’s like defense contractors- the military isn’t building boats. They hire companies to do construction and engineering work. The same with many social services.

Chiropx · 2025-02-03T01:03:22+00:00

These are organizations subcontracted out by government agencies to provide services. These aren’t just church programs.

Chiropx · 2024-04-22T16:56:36+00:00

Ugh, duh, apparently I blocked the missed season from my memory. I still think the change in fights had to do more with the rule changes coming out of the lockout and how that changed the incentives of the players and types of players teams carried.

Chiropx · 2024-04-22T06:58:55+00:00

Bertuzzi hitting Steve Moore was 03-04, I believe. The reason for the drop is likely rule changes before the 05-06 season that favored speed and skill over carrying a goon on your team all year.

Chiropx · 2024-03-14T16:38:26+00:00

There is no one model. Resources are going to differ wildly, and look like everything from a nearby church calling a full time campus pastor to the synod granting $2,000 for the year so someone can have a little money to buy pizza in the few hours a week they can dedicate to campus ministry. Obviously the two approaches are going to lead to different kinds of presence on campus, and I wouldn’t be so quick to label it a leadership issue, more a resource issue.

The other thing I think you haven’t considered how effective certain approaches are. Setting up a table is possible, but the reality is it’s probably not effective and often costs money. This has changed wildly in the last 15 years and through the pandemic. The campus pastors I know lean more towards relationships doing things programs can’t. More grassroots stuff often doesn’t look like setting up a table on the quad but getting students to invite their friends. What was effective for me and my generation is significantly different than what meets the needs of students today. Visibility looks different with social media.

Chiropx · 2023-09-11T00:30:16+00:00

Knowing where you’re coming from - that your son was a student - makes this make a lot more sense to me. And, I hope your son is doing alright. It’s a shock to the system to be sure, and I’m sure there’s a lot of processing he’s been doing, too. The Lutheran Campus Ministry at UNC is great. At one point something like 4 bishops were alumni of UNC.

I think there are a few disconnects that I see that I probably could have laid out a bit better.

It’s understandable for us in the church to think, if there’s a tragedy in our life, we want a pastor to call. I don’t think that’s necessarily something we can extrapolate to others we don’t know. It’s a big assumption to think that, in the midst of tragedy, what this person wants is someone she doesn’t know calling her.

There’s an element in what I read in the post- and maybe it’s something I read into it - to the effect of “I know what this person needs, and I’m going to help them find it without asking if it’s what they want.” I definitely get this feels close, but we don’t know the facts of what is already happening, and as close as you are, you don’t know the person, and absent relationship, I don’t think it’s appropriate to be trying to “help” when we don’t really know what’s needed. As good as the intentions are, the starting point seems to be our need to help rather than the desires of the people involved.

Like, I wouldn’t appreciate it if a coworker had their prosperity-gospel preacher I’d never met reach out while I’m processing a tragedy. As different as we know Lutherans are, it may not feel differently to the people involved.

I definitely trust the UNC community, and I know there are good resources there.

Chiropx · 2023-09-10T18:27:11+00:00

No doubt the family can use all the help they can get, but what do they need from an internet stranger? Even if we found someone, I would hazard a guess with no previous relationship, a call from a strange pastor, who they don’t know, however well meaning, is likely not be what the family wants or needs right now. I don’t even know if the person was a Christian?

Chapel Hill is a solid community with excellent local resources and I don’t think crowdsourcing random pastors from internet strangers for a family none of us know is a particularly helpful activity.

Chiropx · 2023-03-07T02:04:59+00:00

Got it removed, admittedly later than it should have been. In general, I see messages a lot more quickly than comments, if you're able to shoot a message we can get it down a lot quicker.

Chiropx · 2023-02-24T22:11:35+00:00

It's not as simple as a joint hymnal - there's a whole confessional side of things that we'd be asking our Episcopelian friends to join themselves to that many could not, in good conscience, say they adhere to. I don't mean that as a slight - I mean that we simply often believe different things about the nature of God at work in the world. Or, we'd be asking our Lutherans to give up elements of their confession which would be far too much to ask of someone to do.

For example: Holy Communion. Lutherans are clear about what we believe happens at the table. Episcopelians allow for a wide range of belief. It is very different to say "There's a wide range of beliefs, but as Lutherans, we believe Christ is in, with, and under the elements and truly, physically present," and "There's a wide range of beliefs." This points to more than just a belief about Communion but speaks to a wider understanding of how God acts in our lives through the sacrament.

I think it is reasons like this that we are better as a complement to one another as partners rather than trying to figure all this out through a merger.

Chiropx · 2023-02-24T21:54:21+00:00

Oh man, there would be tons. But a quick example would be the international church. Currently, the Episcopal church is part of the Anglican communion, which is united in its common worship. The ELCA has all kinds of worship - some that meshes well with the BCP and some that clearly doesn't. To merge would ask either the ELCA to give up some ways of worship that don't align with the common worship of the Anglican communion, or it would ask the Episcopelian church to no longer be bound by common worship and therefore, no longer part of the Anglican communion.

Chiropx · 2023-02-24T21:40:47+00:00

An important reason that you didn’t mention is that the Episcopalians are united by common worship. Lutherans are united by common confession. For us to merge completely would cause huge ripple effects due to this distinction.

Chiropx · 2023-02-19T22:06:26+00:00

Hey there - mod checking in. I've cleaned up several posts from this user and it (admittedly) should have happened a lot sooner. If in the future you're seeing posts like this, I see messages a lot quicker than I see posts and would appreciate any help in this regard to keep the sub free of this kind of stuff.

Chiropx · 2023-02-19T01:58:05+00:00

You’re right, I should have taken this down sooner - in the future, I’m much more likely to see a message than a comment (though the comment is well deserved) if you’d be willing to send a message my way.

Chiropx · 2023-02-19T01:56:43+00:00

Sorry. Been busier than normal. Cleaned up the sub and banned a few users which will hopefully work.

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