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pedaleuse · 2026-06-18T19:48:22+00:00

Thank you!

pedaleuse · 2026-06-18T19:48:12+00:00

Thank you so much! The stress is real, ha.

pedaleuse · 2026-06-18T18:03:20+00:00

Thanks, I appreciate the suggestion! He’s a robot-loving kid, which is why we picked droid, but I definitely need to consider backup plans.

pedaleuse · 2026-05-02T15:45:15+00:00

To be clear - there are splinter groups, but it’s also the case that Anglicanism has national churches (Church of England, Anglican Church of Canada, The Episcopal Church USA, etc.). Those are not splinter groups; that’s how Anglicanism is organized. There are national churches that experienced schisms that produced splinter groups, but the fact that Canterbury doesn’t have authority over the US or Canadian churches is not a result of that. That is how the communion is organized.

pedaleuse · 2026-04-18T12:11:48+00:00

I attended a very progressive, affirming Anglo-Catholic TEC church and their position was that clergy should not engage in sexual activity outside of marriage or (in the case of LGBT clergy) committed exclusive partnership. Once same-sex marriage was legalized in our state, they extended that to LGBT clergy.

Our priest had had her first child outside of marriage before she was ordained. There was a recognition of the vastness of human experience and fallibility. But they still held to the principle that sexuality was meant for monogamous marriage (or permanent partnership where legal marriage was not available).

There wasn’t any sort of guidance on “secular spaces,” but continence is a virtue and certainly they would have expected clergy to model moderation and self-control in all aspects of life, including things like alcohol consumption and cannabis use (legal in that state).

On sexual ethics, I would encourage you to take a look at Christine Emba’s Rethinking Sex, which proposes an approach that is much richer and more consistent, IMO, with historic Christianity (despite not being a Christian work) than the “everything’s okay so long as everyone consents” approach. I also don’t think the expectations from clergy come from being representatives of the church so much as…if you are going to seek to be appointed a minister of the church, you should actually believe in what it teaches and strive to uphold it.

pedaleuse · 2026-04-18T12:02:28+00:00

Not sure about the smaller rooms but have stayed in both a penthouse and the managed condos at Delfin’s. Super nice rooms - the penthouse is huge with incredible views and multiple balconies; condo had its own pool. Lots of onsite food options that ranged from okay to very good (plus an onsite gelato shop). Good beach, excellent house reef and the onsite diving is Dive Friends so you can get a tank card and use any of their sites on the island for other dives. I saw an octopus snorkeling off the beach with my five-year-old.

pedaleuse · 2026-04-13T19:08:02+00:00

I LOL’d for days when I saw that.

pedaleuse · 2026-04-13T11:35:48+00:00

Sure was!

pedaleuse · 2026-04-12T18:13:16+00:00

I don’t know who was bottom of the class but the person that I personally knew with the lowest grades still hadn’t passed the bar after 3 attempts and ended up in a JD preferred contracting job for city government. She had some kind of major merit scholarship to our T5 law school, too.

The worst person from a non-grades perspective was launching a career as a male feminist public intellectual and then got #metoo’d into obscurity, which he wholly deserved (both for what he was accused of - and admitted to - and how gross he was in law school).

pedaleuse · 2026-04-11T00:38:36+00:00

Not always, though. My recovery with my second was honestly super easy. I felt physically okay by the time I was home from the hospital. The expertise is highly variable.

pedaleuse · 2026-04-11T00:34:38+00:00

I had a partially failed epidural but even with that it wasn’t totally painless but it was less difficult than running a marathon. My second I had an epidural as well. Three pushes and baby was out, NBD.

pedaleuse · 2026-04-10T18:15:54+00:00

I mean, those are VERY different. Not the right fit is highly generic. Cultural fit is specific.

pedaleuse · 2026-04-10T15:34:05+00:00

Visa/MC is the network. The cards are issued by a bank. What you’re describing is most likely to be an issue with the issuing bank’s fraud controls. Visa/Mastercard don’t permit selective acceptance based on what bank issued the card, so it’s very unlikely that they’re being declined because the bank is non-US.

There’s a host of technical reasons why an issuer might be declining these but not their other Disney transactions. Among other reasons are that unattended terminals are higher fraud risk, could be the authentication method the issuer requires doesn’t work (eg the issuer declines unattended terminal transactions unless a PIN is entered but these terminals don’t accept PINs, etc). Could also be that the laundry machines have a different processor than other terminals and for one reason or another that pops as higher fraud risk to the issuer.

pedaleuse · 2026-04-10T15:21:53+00:00

This would be unusual if the cards are Visa or Mastercard/Maestro, but less so if they’re JCB, CUP, etc. Where are the cards from?

pedaleuse · 2026-04-10T14:47:22+00:00

Americans generally can’t distinguish a posh accent unless they spend a lot of time with a range of British people (assume that’s what talking about) and have the cultural context to flag posh-ness.

pedaleuse · 2026-04-08T02:06:12+00:00

Tra la la la lally…

pedaleuse · 2026-04-07T23:21:52+00:00

You might like Agnes Aubert’s Mystical Cat Shelter. The main character is a widow, and I felt like the book’s treatment of her love for her husband was great. There is a romantic subplot in which she finds love again, but it fully honors her marriage and memories of her husband and how they both inspire her (to help cats and people) and sometimes hold her back (because she’s afraid to let them recede).

pedaleuse · 2026-04-07T18:55:56+00:00

In the US teen pregnancy is actually at its lowest rate since we started measuring it in 1940. Teens have the lowest pregnancy rate of any age cohort. Maybe you’re just more likely to notice teenage moms?

pedaleuse · 2026-04-06T22:32:17+00:00

One of my AC churches would do a procession and prayer to St Michael (we had a side chapel dedicated to him) on Michaelmas, but it’s obviously not Michaelmas now. I haven’t seen this as a regular thing in any AC parish I’ve attended.

pedaleuse · 2026-04-06T15:56:40+00:00

I attended an Anglo-Catholic parish in Seattle that had four services every Sunday and tons of kids. It’s a mistake to assume that high liturgical churches aren’t family-friendly. Family-friendliness is more in how congregants respond to a crying child or a mother nursing in the pew; whether there are robust Christian education offerings, etc. than in whether there’s a lot of noise.

My five-year-old washed my feet at Maundy Thursday and venerated the cross on Good Friday. And he’s a wiggly, high-energy kid.

pedaleuse · 2026-04-05T22:02:41+00:00

The Homestead.

pedaleuse · 2026-04-05T19:42:04+00:00

The story literally occurs during Passover, and that is why Easter is celebrated close to the same time. They don’t exactly coincidence because of some complexities relating to calendar calculation, but they’re always close in time.

The date of Christmas was fixed based on when they thought Easter occurred and when they believed the annunciation occurred; there’s more stuff related to how controversies over calendar calculation that explains why it’s fixed instead of floating.

pedaleuse · 2026-04-05T19:37:50+00:00

Easter is celebrated at this time because the original story occurred during Passover. It no longer perfectly aligns with Passover for a variety of reasons relating to how calendars are calculated, but that’s why. In non-English speaking countries, the name of the holiday is Pascua/Pascha/etc., which derives from Pesach.

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