Jessica Wachter

Poet. Dreamer. Episcopalian. Seminarian.

[Austin @HattAoz]

I find a lot of Mainline messaging to be so boring. The Gospel isn't just that "God loves us." When are we going to talk about the cosmic new Adam and our eternal destiny to become God

[Jessica Wachter @jbfoster1002]

@theodramatist Some will probably disagree on it being good and proper but I love NT Wright’s Surprised by Hope which gives some historical evidence (while acknowledging it’s still a leap of faith) for the resurrection of Christ

[Jessica Wachter @jbfoster1002]

@rk_wiggs @theodramatist Millennial here. I would also feel weird about it. I’d question why that money isn’t being spent to do real mission and probably not come back. I’m also clergy so my vote on church visiting may not actually count for much

[Jessica Wachter @jbfoster1002]

@_the_last_echo_ Definitely a kernel of truth to this. We (Christians) need to talk more about the resurrection and how we & all creation are being renewed & healed here and now

[Jessica Wachter @jbfoster1002]

@freverett @graceful_hazel @mySSW Yes Emory is another one with a robust Episcopal studies program and great academics

[Jessica Wachter @jbfoster1002]

@scottagunn 💕🐣🧦🐰🪺 it’s all about Easter! And socks too apparently 🤷‍♀️

[Josiah Hawthorne @JosiahHawthorne]

In a thread where people were angrily mocking Beth Moore for not enjoying Jonathan Edwards, someone sarcastically said

“Sinners in the Hands of Mister Rogers.”

Um, yes? Unironically, more of that please? Gentleness? Neighbor-love? The kindness of God leads to repentance.

[Dan White Jr. @danwhitejr]

Instead of publishing the Fastest Growing Churches every year...

What if we published the most Faithful Neighborhood (the poor, the widowed, the lonely, the refugee, the abused)-loving Churches?

[MisterRogersQuotes @MisterRogersSay]

“Often when you think you're at the end of something, you're at the beginning of something else.”

[Dan White Jr. @danwhitejr]

The Church has tried to do so much of it's mission from the stage.

We need a break from the stage in order to reorient to the streets.

[Jessica Wachter @jbfoster1002]

@Make_it_Raines Common English Bible is sooo much better

[Drew McIntyre @DrewBMcIntyre]

“Most American Christians don’t know how to read the Bible well…and they don’t know how to read the Bible well because they are Americans before they are Christians.”
-Stanley Hauerwas

[Grant Hartley @TheGrantHartley]

this is your periodic reminder that the "sin of Sodom" that called down the wrath of God was inhospitality and a refusal to care for the poor and stranger, not gay sex

[Dan White Jr. @danwhitejr]

The renewal of the church will not start with microphones on stages, it will start with meals around tables.

[Michael Frost @michaelfrost6]

Biblical manhood as modelled by Jesus: be a ‘mama’s boy,’ stay single, wash people’s feet, cry at funerals, hang out with unimportant people, ride a donkey instead of a steed, be a lover not a fighter, carry a cross not a sword.

[Jessica Wachter @jbfoster1002]

@rywig Looking back in my church history class notes from seminary, apparently in medieval times if a mouse ate Eucharist you had to cremate the mouse and the priest had to fast. Can’t find source though 🤷‍♀️

[Leviticus the CripKeeper @cripsycrisis]

@HODEGETRIA_ @dorothea2534 The bread in your cupboard belongs to the poor- St Basil