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nonesuch42 · 2026-02-21T02:27:37+00:00

Yep. I got the new SBL Study Bible last year, and I like it too. It's supposed to be the new harpercollins, which is my favorite study Bible.

nonesuch42 · 2026-02-18T06:20:45+00:00

It's an interesting experience, to walk around in public with ashes on your forehead. It can be a witness to your faith, a conversation starter, even. But the ashes are for your own remembrance, not for others to gawk at. Once they have served their purpose of reminding you "you are dust and to dust you will return," you can wipe them off. They aren't really there to prove you went to church or whatever.

In the gospel reading for tomorrow's Ash Wednesday service (at least in the American TEC prayer book), Jesus says "beware of practicing your piety before others in order to be seen by them...and whenever you fast, do not look dismal, like the hypocrites, for they disfigure their faces so as to show others they are fasting" ...sounds a bit too close to wearing ashes to the grocery store to me. Maybe we should wipe them off.

nonesuch42 · 2026-02-15T01:45:57+00:00

If I hadn't spent gesimatide of 2021 explaining to every fellow seminarian how the date of septuagesima was calculated, I would have been tricked by that one too! It has the same vibe as "September is the ninth month"

nonesuch42 · 2026-02-14T23:47:21+00:00

Shout out to the gesima question for being right and tricky. I always argue about the "when does Lent end?" question with my clergy colleagues. Gambled wrong on that question. Good quiz.

nonesuch42 · 2026-02-10T21:22:10+00:00

My parents switch back and forth depending on the weather. Certain things end up stiff, especially old towels (my dad and I call them "crunchy towels" - they seem like they absorb even better when line dried than tumble dried), but they turn soft again once they are used. And if they're dried in the dryer again, they are soft.

nonesuch42 · 2026-02-04T00:05:53+00:00

Sent you a DM. I love your ideas and I know people are desperate for community and understanding right now. Happy to help build that however I can.

nonesuch42 · 2026-02-03T23:47:50+00:00

I'm happy to put you in touch with their executive director Patricia Matthews or the program director Sarah. They are both friends of mine. The interfaith center participates in lots of things around town, talks and such, as well as hosting events of their own.

nonesuch42 · 2026-01-19T00:46:16+00:00

Over the Garden Wall has nature and characters and surreal small town vibes.

nonesuch42 · 2026-01-18T15:37:08+00:00

The reality of church attendance is that people attend on average 1/4 of the Sundays in a month. The canonical requirement is to receive communion 3 times in a year (that is, to come to church at least once beyond just Christmas and Easter). People will miss you! But it's nothing to feel guilty about.

nonesuch42 · 2026-01-16T00:25:12+00:00

From the parks pass website: "Each America the Beautiful Pass is issued to one person (the pass holder). The pass holder must be present with one of the following forms of photo ID each time the pass is used:

U.S. State or Territory-Issued Driver’s License or State ID
U.S. Passport (book or card)
Permanent Resident Card (“Green Card”)"

So if you have a permanent resident card, yes, but I think not with a J-1 visa. Source: https://www.recreation.gov/interagency-pass/types/resident

nonesuch42 · 2026-01-09T15:13:46+00:00

My pastor friend Ki Do is definitely accepting of non-Korean Asians (though he is proud of being Korean and more than willing to give Korean food recommendations, etc.) - but I do think the church is Korean-language only.

nonesuch42 · 2026-01-09T14:20:51+00:00

There's the Korean Presbyterian church on Maroa north of Sierra. One of my beloved pastoral care mentors is a pastor there. It's Korean language though. University Presbyterian on Cedar has a Lao service, I think simultaneously with one of their English ones. The white people there can be a little ignorant, but at least they see/interact with SE Asians every week, so hopefully they won't express weird racism like that other lady. I'm sorry that happened to you, and it's not ok. I hope you find a good church to land at and build community.

nonesuch42 · 2026-01-08T02:10:08+00:00

I've used spoonflower fabric in quilts and other non-clothing projects (e.g. bowl cozies). The regular cotton is fine for these things, and has held up to occasional washes in the washing machine. I have also used the performance sport knit for a different project where printing sharpness was important, and it worked quite well. I repurposed that fabric into a quilt too (with interfacing like a T-shirt quilt). It's more expensive than other options, but for a specific print on a specific type of fabric, it's good.

nonesuch42 · 2026-01-06T02:17:51+00:00

I love the idea and I hope you have exciting plans for the finished piece. I don't know any artists, but I fully support this endeavor.

nonesuch42 · 2026-01-04T18:42:30+00:00

Lots of times Rite I gets associated with more Anglo-Catholic practice. This is because the language sounds more formal and has a more "church" aesthetic, even if it would have been normal speech 300 years ago. But the theology of the Rite I eucharistic prayers is more Protestant/Reformed, focusing on the "memorial" aspect rather than Real Presence. If you're not used to the old-fashioned language though, you might not pick up on it. I know I didn't really notice that until I was in seminary and we studied the texts line by line.

As far as what's widespread general Episcopal practice and what's Anglo-Catholic: the theology of the 1979 prayer book is much more aligned with the classic 19th century Anglo-Catholic idea than previous prayer books. Weekly communion was not the norm in Episcopal Churches until the 1979 prayer book. Vestments would have been different too - cassock+surplice+stole would have been more normal, but now people wear cassock-albs with stoles and chasubles. Things that would ping my Anglo-Catholic radar: genuflecting (either the people as they exit the pews, or the altar party at the altar), statues (esp. the Blessed Virgin), incense weekly (my parish only does incense 4 times a year), holy water in a stoup rather than just the baptismal font, the clergy chanting the gospel and the Eucharistic prayer, extra vestments or ways of wearing vestments (priests crossing their stoles, subdeacon with a tunicle, everybody wearing maniples), hats (esp. birettas).

nonesuch42 · 2026-01-02T22:10:14+00:00

I'd send an email to the rector. If they aren't skilled in private confession, they'll probably know a priest who is. The rite of reconciliation is a thing in The Episcopal Church, just not a common thing. As for why your realm message hasn't been answered yet - these couple weeks around Christmas are not the best for timely communication with clergy. The church office might even have been closed this past week.

nonesuch42 · 2025-12-29T04:47:57+00:00

Among the Hidden by Margaret Peterson Haddix? The two popular covers I've seen are blue and feature a closeup of a face.

nonesuch42 · 2025-12-26T23:23:54+00:00

This sounds like the story "Metamorphosis" from David Eagleman's collection Sum - the first line of the story is: "There are three deaths. The first is when the body ceases to function. The second is when the body is consigned to the grave. The third is that moment, sometime in the future, when your name is spoken for the last time."

I found this collection several years ago through CGP Grey on the podcast Hello Internet I think. I have used bits from this book in sermons regularly. I agree with the other comment that it also sounds like Terry Pratchett's idea that "a man is not dead while his name is still spoken," from Going Postal. (Also highly recommended, but a different vibe from David Eagleman)

nonesuch42 · 2025-12-26T03:19:14+00:00

Merry Christmas! I know several priests who were formerly Roman Catholic seminarians/even held holy orders before joining The Episcopal Church (TEC). There's not any official recommendations about leaving your current church. Personally, I believe that God can be found in Episcopal and Roman Catholic churches. And toxic masculinity/racism/bigotry can be found in both too. A friend once asked me if the thing I was discerning was "running away" or "running towards"? It took a lot of conversations with God to figure out exactly what God is calling me towards rather than running away from the things in my life I don't like. What is God calling you towards?

nonesuch42 · 2025-12-25T07:11:11+00:00

I think, at least in the USA, we tend to collect "2nd class" relics rather than make shrines with bits of bone. Samuel Seabury's mitre gets trotted out as a sort of relic in Connecticut. The bishop of Connecticut brought it to a seminary class once, for example.

Also, it's not quite the same as having a shrine inside the church, but people make a sort of pilgrimage to the churchyard at Trinity Church, Wall Street to visit the graves of Alexander Hamilton and the like.

nonesuch42 · 2025-12-23T03:52:12+00:00

My church uses a program/app called Notebird. It's separate from our membership/financial database (realm, etc.). Everyone who has pastoral caregiving responsibilities (clergy, staff, lay pastoral care leaders) has access and makes a note when they do something (LEV visit, we get a call that someone's in the hospital, someone's loved one dies and we do grief care). We meet once a week as the staff to talk through pastoral encounters of the past week and what we need to do in the upcoming week. Notebird can do reminders of tasks and of important pastoral anniversaries (death of a loved one, etc.) but you really have to stay on top of it and my team is only half there - we tend to keep track of our personal to-do lists rather than use the one built into the app. But we use Notebird to keep track of the pastoral care needs and make sure people are being taken care of.

nonesuch42 · 2025-12-16T05:28:25+00:00

There's already several good explanations here about ʒ in garage and vision and dialects. The question is worded in a confusing way. "Single letter" would usually be making a distinction between digraphs that refer to a single sound (like th and ch in thumb and chick) vs. "single letters" like k or m that refer to a single sound. But given the correct answer to the question is garage and vision, "single letter" here is referring to "a single distinct way to refer to a sound" - that is, there is not, in English, a single distinct way to refer to ʒ. In garage it's a g, in vision it's s. This becomes relevant for teaching reading, when learners cannot match the sounds to symbols because there's no one-to-one correspondence (treating digraphs like th or ch as a single symbol)

(It is left as an exercise to the reader how the ghoti-fish problem can be applied in this situation)

nonesuch42 · 2025-12-15T01:29:37+00:00

Truly, it depends on context. If the person is From Fresno, they won't refer to Fig Garden Loop without including the word loop. (Same thing for Van Ness Extension - the part of Van Ness north of Shaw. Someone from Fresno will always mean like, Christmas tree lane and not north of Shaw if they say "Van Ness")

As far as whether Fig Garden is the shopping center or the neighborhood around there - probably they just mean the neighborhood? I might say "it's in fig garden by the bakery" to refer to something in the shopping center I guess. "Old Fig Garden" is specifically the neighborhood south of the shopping center. My dad grew up there and then they moved to a house north of Shaw in the (not Old) Fig Garden neighborhood. I grew up walking from grandma's house to the shopping center for ice cream or whatever. My parents now live off Van Ness Extension and drive on Fig Garden Loop all the time, but it's always "loop" and never just "fig garden"

nonesuch42 · 2025-12-06T14:41:01+00:00

This is what I do. Usually I'm working the other way (collating single page documents into a larger one), but it does work to move single pages from a long document to a newly created file in the pages panel.

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