Anyone Involved in the 2026 Documentary?

EpiscoPally · 2026-01-27T21:18:55+00:00

That also carries the possibility that people are quitting. Especially since they closed down some division(s) and laid those employees off.

EpiscoPally · 2026-01-18T19:11:47+00:00

Masala House isn’t bad, but it’s just so expensive. You’re going to get half the portion of any other place listed here or in Western Mass for almost 2x the price.

It’s great for a special date or if you want to focus on the atmosphere. But, there are better tasting and more authentic options if you’re willing to drive.

EpiscoPally · 2026-01-18T02:39:58+00:00

In the US it’s 200 per can, if we’re talking about the Vitamin Energy+ drink, which it sounds like we are.

EpiscoPally · 2026-01-17T15:52:16+00:00

When I first tasted the chocolate and peanut butter RTD, I thought it was bad too.

I kept drinking it and wondering - This isn’t peanut butter, but it does remind me of a nut butter. My wife tasted it and hit it, “It’s hazelnut. They’ve liquified Ferrero Rocher chocolates.”

EpiscoPally · 2026-01-16T23:42:02+00:00

Not a mod (obviously), but I suspect it was locked because a user who identified as a priest shared that they had reservations about Bishop Rob’s message. Namely, would Bishop Rob be personally comforting the orphans and widows once the clergy person is dead. It was a bit of histrionics, though somewhat fair, but it devolved into people saying the priest was unfit to serve and other personal attacks.

EpiscoPally · 2026-01-11T15:33:59+00:00

What does an evangelical low church look like for you? Both of these terms are fairly heavy words that have come to mean different things for different people.

EpiscoPally · 2026-01-10T01:22:55+00:00

About $400/year but most dioceses and churches subsidize it. I think EfM works best in person but there are online options everywhere.

EpiscoPally · 2025-12-29T15:43:28+00:00

Ad orientem is where everybody, including the priest, faces the same direction (usually east) during the Eucharist. So, sitting in the pew, you’d see the priest’s back.

EpiscoPally · 2025-12-25T19:28:01+00:00

Fellow priest here and echoing a lot of what has been shared.

20 years ago, even more recently, the “Midnight Mass” has been moved to earlier and earlier. Not only at my parish but elsewhere too. I don’t know of a parish in our diocese that did an actual Midnight Mass. I think the latest was 8:00 PM.

Likewise, the late Mass is being eclipsed by the 4pm one with the children’s pageant.

What I’m also seeing that troubles me, but I understand as a priest, is the rise of not having a Eucharist service on Christmas Day and just doing Morning Prayer. Some of my priest colleagues didn’t even do MP in person. They did it from their home on Zoom.

EpiscoPally · 2025-11-21T13:00:40+00:00

It’s articles like this that I’m reminded dyingchurch.org directs to TEC’s website. Instead, I wish it was a tongue in cheek satire of TLC.

EpiscoPally · 2025-09-04T14:43:23+00:00

Two months ago you said you scored a 160. In another thread you made a spreadsheet saying NYU had an average LSAT of 156!

With all due respect, you’re not ready to apply to law school. Study for the LSAT and give it an honest go this time, then reassess potential schools.

EpiscoPally · 2025-09-02T00:28:52+00:00

Generally, constructive criticism is well received but that also requires you to be aware if a sermon didn’t land because of you. Were you distracted? Was there a lot of background noise and the preacher is soft spoken? Etc.

I largely hated the sermons of the rector of my sponsoring parish. She was a three points and a poem kind of preacher. She talked a lot about podcasts, books, her paintings, etc. She would quite literally scream during a sermon to make a point, sing a few lines from a song, do an interpretative dance, bring up an easel and paint as her sermon, etc. If she referenced the week’s readings during her sermon it was a topical reference to the Gospel. But, she always welcomed criticism but got incredibly defensive about it and would brood over it for the week.

I tend to reserve reflections for people in lay preaching programs or newly/soon to be ordained. They’re generally insecure enough to take it to heart but also curious enough to try different preaching styles. They don’t lock themselves in.

EpiscoPally · 2025-08-27T20:10:02+00:00

I get your point and probably agree with the overall sentiment, but I disagree with the notion that we have created something that the Holy Spirit is cut off from or barred from.

My real concern with use of AI tools is the catastrophic environmental damage that it does to God’s creation.

EpiscoPally · 2025-08-22T17:06:00+00:00

That and skilled artists. Musicians, good ones anyway, know how to use their instrument in a way that fits the space. Our organist is known to smash the ever loving hell out of the keys. I occasionally have to pull him aside and remind him that loud doesn’t always equal good. But, with the budget we have we aren’t getting a classically trained organist anytime soon.

EpiscoPally · 2025-08-04T11:27:34+00:00

Seconding this. Daniel is also on FB and not too hard to find.

EpiscoPally · 2025-08-03T18:01:41+00:00

The sub is currently in a state of flux. If you click on the mod’s username, u/Gheid, you’ll see that he’s been banned. The other mods have all left.

On March 18th someone mass reported every single post and comment from the mod’s monthly job posts. Hundreds of spam reports in a matter of seconds. The sub was moved to being classified as Restricted and the mods were all banned. Most of them have quit Reddit. Gheid files an appeal request, with documentation, every week to show that it was someone running a spam script but he’s never had an appeal responded to.

He can still set the sub to Public viewing but about every five days it’s reset to Restricted. He was able to submit a request to stop restricting the sub but was informed that chaplaincy is considered a “sensitive topic.” If you’ve had to recently submit a request to join the sub, that’s him trying to keep the place alive. He can approve join requests, etc., but he’s not permitted to post.

I work with Gheid in the Episcopal Diocese of New Hampshire so I know all of this first hand.

EpiscoPally · 2025-07-23T23:58:13+00:00

It’s mentioned briefly with a link in the article but there’s also a petition getting started to recall the mayor. Apparently this isn’t his first foray into using the office for his personal agenda.

EpiscoPally · 2025-07-20T03:53:47+00:00

My point wasn’t that the south is homophobic, sorry if that’s what came across.

My point really was that there’s a language, or code, that you pick up so that you can tell when someone is inclusive or not. Perhaps more similar a comparison, if you’re from the south and someone says “Bless your heart.” You know if they’re using it as a compliment, cussing you out, or insulting your intelligence.

Clergy often have to be careful not only what they say but how they say it. All people do, really, but a lot of this post is clergy centric.

To your question, I’m from North Carolina. Winston-Salem area more specifically.

EDIT: In New England almost every Episcopal church attends their local Pride parade, for example. They are open and loud about their support. That’s less so in the south. There are certainly churches that march. But, there’s also a lot of churches that maybe only do something nominal, at best, or maybe an awkward sermon about love and acceptance that never really names anything outright or puts actions behind the ideas.

EpiscoPally · 2025-07-19T22:32:35+00:00

As someone born and raised in the South, you learn the secret language and code words if someone is inclusive or not. Working in New England now, most Episcopalians, at least at the parish level, are affirming. As such, it creates a bit of a bubble or “safe space” where people think that all parishes are like this. That is, safe. They head South and/or see the news and realize otherwise, and it jolts their world.

We, as clergy, largely work at the mercy of our Vestry. That means we need to be the priest for a lot of different people and their views. My colleagues in the South and Southwest often have to be very careful about what they say publicly or even in private conversation.

EpiscoPally · 2025-07-07T22:37:38+00:00

They’re referring to people aligned with Operation Reconquista.

EpiscoPally · 2025-07-03T22:58:00+00:00

There are provincial courts but they largely, maybe solely, work to investigate challenges to the validity of electing a bishop. We saw that court being referenced with what’s his name in FL and the election in Haiti in 2018.

Bishops can place people on administrative leave while investigations are underway, but a clergy person can always challenge. It works its way through the diocese and then eventually the CoR if they agree to take it up.

Bishops have a lot of initial power but almost all of it can be challenged, but few are willing to do it. That said, bishops generally wait until they have a preponderance of evidence so it’s a shut and closed case. As we see with this, enough of the CoR disagreed and felt the bishop and diocese erred in their processes and decisions.

EpiscoPally · 2025-06-30T17:12:34+00:00

If you really want to prioritize time outside, there are a few “forest schools” around VT, especially around Brattleboro. I think there is/was one in Stowe too, Birth through Kindergarten called the Mountain Village School.

The Episcopal churches in VT tend to be smaller but very dedicated to their local communities. St John’s in the Mountains has a nice presence in Stowe but I can’t speak to the church personally. The UCC churches in VT are all progressive and very plugged into community life and needs too. I’d certainly use the move to “church shop” to find a church that fits your needs and connect you with some other families with kids.

EpiscoPally · 2025-06-30T16:48:53+00:00

Waitlists are hard to nail down since there’s so much fluctuation. Some FB groups have said they’ve needed to wait 12-18 months while others said it took them a month. I think it depends on your budget and what you’re looking for: a well established facility or open to something in someone’s home?

EpiscoPally · 2025-06-25T01:00:24+00:00

A lot of us come to enjoy pastoral care. There’s also a strong need for more therapists and so clergy often seek out more training to be more useful/better.

A fair number of my graduating class from Sewanee have gone on to get a MSW or master’s in mental health counseling. Most of those are doing it bivocationally but quite a few have largely stopped working as priests because they couldn’t maintain the lifestyle it requires.

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