Fr Jon ⚓️

Anglican Priest. DWGC Canon for Church Planting. Bookish. Fuller Seminary Grad. Racket sport enthusiast. Rector at @allsaintsconroe

[Fr Jon ⚓️ @jonbeadle]

I’m a 39-point Anglican.

[Fr Jon ⚓️ @jonbeadle]

Question: “Smelly cat, smelly cat, what are they feeding you?”

Reply: “Truth.”

[The Vigilant Fox 🦊 @VigilantFox]

Friends star Lisa Kudrow gets philosophical with Bill Maher and says she no longer believes consciousness lives in your head at all.

Kudrow, who studied biology, says consciousness “exists in a field.”

Maher was visibly confused about what the heck she was talking about until she referred to his smoking habit.

KUDROW: “I’ve been listening to physicists are thinking about the difficult question of consciousness and deciding that what makes the most sense is its consciousness is not in here [the brain]. It exists in a field, the field that is everywhere. But it’s not in here.”

MAHER: “I don’t understand that. What do you mean everywhere?”

KUDROW: “You like writing while smoking, right? Or being altered in some way?”

MAHER: “Yes, exactly.”

KUDROW: “Neuroscientists are saying the brain is a great filter, especially this front part… Once you make the filter a little more permeable, you’re getting access to some things. And creativity is one of those things that maybe doesn’t start here [the head], but it comes in when you’re in a flow.”

MAHER: “And that’s what the machines can’t do.”

What’s your take on this? Is consciousness just a product of the brain, or is Kudrow onto something here?

[Miles Smith IV @IVMiles]

"Without holiness, the prince shall not see the Lord."

J.C. Ryle

[Fr Jon ⚓️ @jonbeadle]

Catcher in the Rye

[Jacob Allee @jacob_allee]

Name a book you absolutely hate.

[Fr Jon ⚓️ @jonbeadle]

@IVMiles Honestly, very Based.

[Fr Jon ⚓️ @jonbeadle]

During the school year, I take my oldest son to Waffle House before school every Friday. It’s glorious.

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

It was two in the morning, the hour when even the bravest samurai retires to his bedroll, yet here, a fortress of light beckoned me from the darkness.

Every castle I have ever known has fallen. Fire, siege, taxes. Eight hundred years of my family learning one lesson: nothing stays open forever.

This house has never closed.

Not for storms. Not for holidays. Not for the hour when even the moon looks tired. I asked the waitress when they lock the doors.

"We don't have locks, hon."

No locks. I own walls, moats, and a sword older than this country, and I have never once said anything that powerful.

Inside, a cook was scraping the grill at 2 a.m. with the calm of a man guarding something. I asked if he was the night watch.

"I'm Darnell."

A trucker two stools down raised his coffee. "Place stayed open during the hurricane," he said. "FEMA's got a whole index about it."

An index. The government of this nation measures disasters by whether THIS HOUSE is still standing. In Japan, we measured a clan's strength by its castle. Same thing. Theirs serves waffles.

I ordered. I ate. I confess what happened next.

I did not want to leave. The night outside was large. The booth was warm. I am a grown warrior, and I sat in a yellow fortress at 3 a.m. feeling protected by hash browns.

A castle does not promise to stand forever. It simply leaves the lights on.

I drive past at night now. Just to check. The lights are always on.

Sentries of the griddle — I see you. Hold the line.

[Fr Jon ⚓️ @jonbeadle]

Because I’m basic…Virgil.

[Michael McGill 🏛 @mcgillmd921]

If you could sit and have a cup of coffee with any single person from Roman history ...

Who would it be?

[Fr Jon ⚓️ @jonbeadle]

I want the US to win, but I also want @FreddyLA7 to be happy. 😆

[Fr Jon ⚓️ @jonbeadle]

Brideshead Revisited

[Ramin Nasibov @RaminNasibov]

Name a book that you think is 10/10.
But only one.

[Fr Jon ⚓️ @jonbeadle]

The Rafa doc is truly special. I’ve never been a huge Nadal but the moment that he decides he will play through foot pain, which will never go away, nearly brought tears to my eyes.

[Fr Jon ⚓️ @jonbeadle]

Graham Greene.

[The Ways of A Gentleman @Gentleman_Ways]

You’ve been given a chance to have a drink with one of the finest spy novelists in modern history.

Which of the authors below do you choose?

A) Graham Greene
B) John le Carré
C) Ian Fleming
D) Alan Furst

[Fr Jon ⚓️ @jonbeadle]

Douthat is an American hero.

[Ross Douthat @DouthatNYT]

Sorry, no. The medieval cathedrals were incredible multi-generational employment projects that paid and trained massive numbers of people from every medieval class, yielding magnificant buildings imbued with cosmic significance,that were used by that same public every day of the year under conditions of unusual-for-the-epoch equality. They weren't private palaces or gaudy elite tombs; they were (if you will) Keynesian projects that delivered public goods even if you don't believe (though you should) in the metaphysical benefits of mass-going. Of course there were all kinds of corrupt ways that church authorities wasted tithes, but Chartres and Notre-Dame de Paris were obviously worth it.

[Fr Jon ⚓️ @jonbeadle]

No notes. Perfect combo. 10/10.

[Pascal @KnowsPascal]

I deeply appreciate many books, but when reading some of them I can’t help but notice you have to be careful who you recommend them to.

Here are 4 books I recommend without hesitation to anyone:

St. Augustine’s Confessions
G.K. Chesterton’s The Everlasting Man
J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings
Larry McMurtry’s Lonesome Dove

If you’re looking for a book, maybe you read?

[Fr Jon ⚓️ @jonbeadle]

We are preparing three families for Holy Baptism. God is so good.

[Fr Jon ⚓️ @jonbeadle]

@HassanKhadair B&W was the intended viewing experience.

[Fr Jon ⚓️ @jonbeadle]

Immediately chose the black and white version. It’s an extraordinary viewing experience.

[BuBBliK @k1rallik]

NICOLAS CAGE JUST BROKE TELEVISION

Spider-Noir dropped all 8 episodes at once, and you can watch the entire show two ways - authentic black and white or full color.

No series has ever shipped both versions before. Critics and fans are losing it.

- It holds 91% critics and 94% audience on Rotten Tomatoes
- That 94% is Cage's highest Spider-Man score ever, above Spider-Verse
- It hit number one on Prime Video in over a dozen countries day one
- Every scene was lit and shot twice so both versions look intentional

A movie star finally did TV - then did it in two formats at once.

[Fr Jon ⚓️ @jonbeadle]

Every casting decision was perfect and the film never loses its momentum, unlike the novel. However, the gimmick in the film (noticeably filmed in a theater) made it impossible to be absorbed by the story. Most people fail to appreciate it b/c of this. What could have been..

[cinesthetic. @TheCinesthetic]

the cigarette lighting scene from Anna Karenina (2012)

[Fr Jon ⚓️ @jonbeadle]

@BethMooreLPM And maybe go to mass 😑🤪

[Fr Jon ⚓️ @jonbeadle]

@definitesalad Bill, believe me when I say this: none of this is easy. Prayers are appreciated.

[Fr Jon ⚓️ @jonbeadle]

In case anyone wants to know what I think on the matter, I will never engage with harassment or bullying of any kind on this website. Please touch grass.

[Fr Jon ⚓️ @jonbeadle]

@DOMA_Misconduct Hi, I do not, as a rule, engage with anonymous accounts. Especially ones who slander my friends and family. Please take time to repent of your extreme lack of charity and maybe see a therapist.

[Fr Jon ⚓️ @jonbeadle]

@monkofjustice @CatherineProj It’s a masterpiece but the story takes time to get going. My second time throufh revealed a lot.