Jacob Torbeck

midwestern professor of mystical theology, spirituality, and ethics. fan of masters of the universe, dragon quest, and magic the gathering.

[Jacob Torbeck @jacobtorbeck]

@Petchigoo I used to get up super early to catch this on tv when I was a kid. Blew my young mind that my video game had a cool looking show!

[Sachin Jose @Sachinettiyil]

Pope Leo XIV has proclaimed a Special Year of St. Francis, to commemorate the 800th anniversary of the death of St Francis of Assisi

[Angela ⟢ @luxangelae]

Saint Hildecat 🎶

[Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze]

Some of you have forgotten that only three years ago you were perfectly capable of writing a text, writing an email, telling a bedtime story to a child, and it should worry you that powerful companies have convinced us we can’t do things we’ve been doing since the dawn of time.

[Jacob Torbeck @jacobtorbeck]

@rightscholar This is a poor reading of Augustine, it looks like -- he talks about these groups in this order, from personal to cosmic.

[MisterRogersQuotes @MisterRogersSay]

“People have said, “Don’t cry” to other people for years and years, and all it has ever meant is “I’m too uncomfortable when you show your feelings: Don’t cry.” I’d rather have them say, “Go ahead and cry. I’m here to be with you.”

[David Schütz @scecclesia]

On this 25th Anniversary of the #JDDJ, let’s not forget that it was Ratzinger who saved the agreement through an emergency meeting with Lutheran reps in his brother’s house in Regensburg. (Thanks @catholickungfu)

[Jacob Torbeck @jacobtorbeck]

Man, I picked a great time to teach a class on pilgrimage!

[Dr. Kaitlyn Ugoretz @kaitlynugoretz.bsky.social @KaitlynUgoretz]

I’m am here for ALL the fan art. The volume of it in such a short amount of time is impressive. Vatican 3 hits different?

[Michael Harriot @michaelharriot]

My uncle’s friend Hawk was a feared gangsta. He was ruthless but he was also a chess wizard. According to the streets, Hawk only lost 1 once, years ago, when he was in prison.

So imagine my surprise when my uncle told Hawk: “l bet $100 my nephew will kick your ass

A thread

[Sr. Josephine Garrett @SJOSEPHINE_CSFN]

We are living in a time where a bishop had to write a whole former president a letter that includes the words “Puerto Rico is not a floating island of garbage.” - I hope we are praying about this election and the years following it at least as much as we talk and post about it.

[𝙈𝘼𝙉𝙉𝙔:v @Mannys_Art]

THE LUCE
#Luce

[Dr. Kaitlyn Ugoretz @kaitlynugoretz.bsky.social @KaitlynUgoretz]

🥹

[Dr. Kaitlyn Ugoretz @kaitlynugoretz.bsky.social @KaitlynUgoretz]

Neither Luce nor Megan Thee StallionxStarfire have dimmed my obsession for #torii 😍

[Thomas Traherne @ThomasTraherne]

A pulpit in my mind,  
A temple and a teacher I did find,  
With a large text to comment on. No ear
But eyes themselves were all the hearers there,
And every stone, and every star a tongue,  
And every gale of wind a curious song.

[Joseph Nolla, SJ @josephnollasj]

Pope Francis’ Dilexit Nos is the encyclical you wanted, and very much the one you needed.

[Jacob Torbeck @jacobtorbeck]

About 10% of my students did the reading today (Luther’s “on whether soldiers, too, can be saved?”). We managed to read through several passages together and have a good conversation, but oof. Is it already that time of the term?

[MisterRogersQuotes @MisterRogersSay]

“It’s a wonderful feeling when you know that people love you.”

“You’re certainly somebody that people can love.”