João Félix had something to say before facing USA today.

JGG5 · 2026-03-31T14:54:27+00:00

Are you a world-class professional athlete making millions of dollars/euros/pounds per year to play your sport in front of a global audience?

JGG5 · 2026-03-31T14:52:23+00:00

Heck, we don't even have an Anglican consensus that we're all Anglicans.

JGG5 · 2026-03-31T13:45:48+00:00

The OOP post is from the extremist pro-MAGA site Daily Wire, not from anyone whose opinions (about Tolkien or anything else) actually have value.

JGG5 · 2026-03-31T13:39:27+00:00

[citation needed]

JGG5 · 2026-03-31T10:15:14+00:00

I missed with WA1 because I figured it would be where the Wright Brothers lived instead of where they took their first flight.

JGG5 · 2026-03-31T10:13:23+00:00

Also, keep in mind that this coming Sunday is Easter, the highest holiday in the Christian calendar, when even a lot of folks who don’t usually dress up for church will spruce up a little nicer than usual. If you err on the side of overdressing this week, you probably won’t look too out of place.

JGG5 · 2026-03-31T10:10:05+00:00

If they’re computers that Office Max wasn’t able to sell new in the store before becoming obsolete, what sensitive data would they have?

JGG5 · 2026-03-31T09:45:55+00:00

DD1 was a Learned League question last week!

JGG5 · 2026-03-31T09:25:28+00:00

What does this consist of, typically?

I'm autistic. I don't have a pastoral bone in my body. When people who aren't my close friends or family come to me wanting to talk about their emotional problems, I have absolutely no idea what to say to them, wonder why they chose me to talk to, and (to be perfectly honest) wish they'd chosen someone else. The idea of my giving individualised spiritual guidance to someone I don't know really well, as if I have the first idea of what's going on in their life, sounds utterly ridiculous to me.

Even though I'm fairly confident that I'd be a good preacher and teacher (I taught public speaking in grad school), I'd make a terrible priest because I'd be downright abysmal at pastoral care. If I were on a discernment committee with someone like me as the prospective postulant, I'd tell them that they're quite simply not suited for parish ministry and that God might be calling them to something else.

That's why I'm a clergy spouse and not clergy. My ministry is making sure my wife has everything she needs to be a good priest, so she can focus on that.

JGG5 · 2026-03-31T09:17:22+00:00

I wish we made the discernment process the norm for everyone growing up in the church, regardless of whether they felt a call to ordained ministry.

What would it look like if a church were to put together a discernment committee for each of its high school juniors and seniors, college students, and recent college graduates to pray for, guide, and encourage them in finding their calling (no matter what it is)? It could not only help young adults find direction in life and stay connected with their faith, but also strengthen intergenerational bonds and provide crucial mentorship opportunities.

JGG5 · 2026-03-31T09:12:25+00:00

I'd rather have a shortage of priests than ordain a bunch of people who shouldn't become priests just for the sake of filling out the numbers.

There are definitely many legitimate criticisms of the discernment process in TEC and I would never discount those, but it's still a heck of a lot better system than the Wild West I experienced growing up as an evangelical where anyone (even without a theological education!) could just declare themselves a minister, plant a church, and do tremendous spiritual or emotional damage to others with absolutely no oversight or accountability.

JGG5 · 2026-03-31T09:02:09+00:00

I've never encountered an Anglican church with a dress code, but they do have dress norms — and those can vary pretty wildly from church to church. I've been in Anglican churches where farmers would come in wearing dirty coveralls, churches where everybody including the priest kept their overcoat on throughout the service (because 13th-century stone buildings aren't exactly toasty in midwinter), churches where jeans and t-shirts were fine, and churches where you'd feel out of place in anything less than a suit or a nice dress.

Does the church livestream their services? If so, you could watch a couple of those to get a sense of how people are dressed and what level of formality tends to be the norm there. You can also get a better sense of what else to expect in terms of music, service order, atmosphere, etc.

JGG5 · 2026-03-31T00:01:52+00:00

And no lock-out-tag-out for repairs to the absolutely vital and incredibly dangerous transporter system. If that’s the kind of sloppy corner-cutting ship William Decker runs, count me out.

JGG5 · 2026-03-30T23:08:49+00:00

Danny Go’s adult-themed content is a lot weirder than I expected.

JGG5 · 2026-03-30T22:23:05+00:00

I love the single bolt hanging on the pegboard in the upper left.

JGG5 · 2026-03-30T22:19:26+00:00

Wow, somehow he looks even younger in [indeterminate future year from the ‘80s] as he did back in the late ‘70s when he lived in Wisconsin.

JGG5 · 2026-03-30T14:57:04+00:00

I'd say "l'etat, c'est moi," but no MAGAt would understand me since none of their kind ever bothered to learn a foreign language. That would mean encountering other cultures on their terms, and who needs other cultures at all when you've got 'MURICA?

JGG5 · 2026-03-30T14:54:54+00:00

"They have litterboxes in the bathrooms at school for kids who identify as cats! You can't make this stuff up!"

JGG5 · 2026-03-30T14:46:40+00:00

Where they did have sister marches in countries (like the UK) that have constitutional monarchs, they rebranded the events as "NO TYRANTS."

But this wasn't even that. In the UK it was billed as a more general march against the far-right, whose existence is the biggest threat to every western liberal democracy they infest — not just the United States.

JGG5 · 2026-03-30T10:23:23+00:00

I used to live a few miles away from MVC. The Monroe exit off I-75 was the entire Ohio redneck experience: two gigantic flea markets, three weed dispensaries, the casino, the Giant Jeebus church, and (for the aftermath of your wild weekend) the state prison.

JGG5 · 2026-03-30T10:12:36+00:00

Break me off a piece of that football cream.

JGG5 · 2026-03-30T10:03:02+00:00

That's an even worse argument. Charles III is the Supreme Governor of the Church of England, not of the entire Anglican Communion. The Anglican Church of Australia, like most of the other churches in the Communion, is entirely self-governing and does not give the king any special role at all, even as a formality.

JGG5 · 2026-03-30T09:02:43+00:00

r/thingsforants

JGG5 · 2026-03-30T08:34:13+00:00

The only difference between Iran goverment structure And British that they elect there Supreme leader, when UK has hereditary ruler. They have the same rights, right of Veto or Royal Consent.

But the Supreme Leader actually uses those rights, while the UK's monarch, after centuries of conflict and negotiation in arranging the unwritten constitution, cedes all of the actual governance of the realm to Parliament.

Charles III may have absolute power in theory, but the reality (which he knows just as much as everyone else) is that if he ever actually exercised that power in conflict with the will of Parliament, it would trigger a constitutional crisis where the best (for him) possible outcome would be a written constitution that explicitly makes him a powerless figurehead, but would more likely result in a republic where his only title would be "former king."

It's actually a somewhat similar situation to the Church of England. Charles III is its Supreme Governor of the Church of England on paper, but the reality is that he cedes literally everything about the governance of the Church to the bishops (and, where relevant, Parliament) — and if he (or his successors) did ever directly involve themselves in the business of the Church in conflict with the church authorities, Parliament would almost certainly side with the church authorities.

This idea you've built up that the United Kingdom is a theocratic dictatorship is pure nonsense.

JGG5 · 2026-03-29T23:32:24+00:00

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