Bart Gingerich ⚓

Rector at St. Jude's Anglican Church (Richmond, VA), Proud Son of Alleghany County, VA. @the_maggieg is my helpmeet. I write things at @WNGdotorg Opinions.

[Bart Gingerich ⚓ @bjgingerich]

@alancornett @suzania 100%

[Bart Gingerich ⚓ @bjgingerich]

@BMcGrewvy Also, if society gave half as much effort to helping young people get married as it does to get them into college, I think we'd be in a much better place.

[Bart Gingerich ⚓ @bjgingerich]

@BMcGrewvy Something I didn't have space to address is really digging in to the values we teach our kids. There are plenty of older folks with kids, but those kids don't take care of their parents or grandparents. There's a profound impiety there.

[Bart Gingerich ⚓ @bjgingerich]

The increased isolation the “Me generation” folks face in their waning years is the result of their own life choices. They decided to break from the life patterns of generations before them. This is the result. https://t.co/481VVysvMt

[Samuel James @Digitalliturgy]

"Banned books" is such a tired, 70s-era schtick. Even ignoring the hilarious implication re: Margaret Atwood, the whole genre simply does not exist in any meaningful way anymore. The only censor who matters is Amazon...and you can ask @RyanTAnd about that. https://t.co/gOq7KIF6pR

[ABoyNamedSue🇻🇦 @Takeyerswing]

“Sin makes you stupid, Jerry. You do realize that, right?”

[cinesthetic. @TheCinesthetic]

Master and Commander (2003) ends by promising more adventures, and it’s still hard to believe they never came. Crowe & Bettany were perfect, and Patrick O’Brian left behind more than 20 novels that could’ve sustained one of cinema’s great franchises.

[Bart Gingerich ⚓ @bjgingerich]

@WASPmexicano @yunghic1 Fascinating book.

[David Szomor @Davidszomorr]

"You don't have to have a young-adults thing, a college thing, a boomer thing. You can just have the prayer book."
Fr. Brandon Letourneau (@barukalas) on why the prayer book already holds a place for every age — rites from birth to death. It doesn't just make room for everyone; it requires everyone.

https://t.co/h7M52VBFww

[Hans Fiene 🦬 @HansFiene]

The only multiverse that matters

[Paul Putz @p_emory]

“The things we give our attention to end up forming our moral imagination. To gaze constantly on trivial things is to become trivial; a steady diet of outrage shapes a person differently than sustained attention to what is true or beautiful.”

—@lukeburgis

[Bart Gingerich ⚓ @bjgingerich]

We die in Christ via baptism. How shocking! Baptism is a cut-off point. We leave sin behind to partake of a life in Christ. It is an exit and an entry-way. https://t.co/TdKGK0HCuJ

[Bart Gingerich ⚓ @bjgingerich]

@NPWhite717 2. The stronger point, IMO, is this shows an important decline in knowledge of the Law. Jephthah obviously made a rash vow. Leviticus 5:4-6 provides the parameters for guilt offering, etc. to deal with the problem. Jeph. doesn't do it. Why? Probably because no one knows the Law.

[Bart Gingerich ⚓ @bjgingerich]

@NPWhite717 Two important considerations:

1. I have heard some argue that the language is such that Jephthah's daughter is actually given up as a sort of committed virgin sacred to the Lord. The language would be one of consecration/sacrifice, but it was not a human sacrifice.

[Bart Gingerich ⚓ @bjgingerich]

Widespread divorce, DINK lifestyle, failure to marry at all (when in fact one is a good fit for the vocation)--it is all going to cost us so much as a society in the long term.

[Lyman Stone 石來民 🦬🦬🦬 @lymanstoneky]

this times millions is the future

[Lyman Stone 石來民 🦬🦬🦬 @lymanstoneky]

this times millions is the future

[Bart Gingerich ⚓ @bjgingerich]

he institution is not designed to honor right arguments. It is designed to perpetuate itself. This is not a counsel of despair. It is a counsel of realism about what institutions are and how change happens inside them—or outside them when inside is no longer viable."

[Bart Gingerich ⚓ @bjgingerich]

An important read from First Things: https://t.co/ARr3uoQlLR

"That is the word that matters. Jurisdiction....The question was never whether “We Gather Together” is a Christian hymn. The question was whose institution Yale was, and who had standing to define its character."

[Bart Gingerich ⚓ @bjgingerich]

We were playing the wrong game on the wrong field, and we kept losing, and we kept showing up to argue again, because we believed that if the argument was right the institution would eventually honor it. T