Virginia Strickland

Episcopal Priest. Very good at reading, sleeping, and walking long distances slowly.

[drewtoothpaste.bsky.social @drewtoothpaste]

the two options for furniture in america are a $85 table made of spit and paper and a $4,485 table made of wood out of a tree that some one kissed every day

[@TheCoreyRichardson on Threads. Follow Me There. @vexedinthecity]

I wish there was a meal plan for adults like there is for college students. I’d happily pay $500 a month for three swipes a day at some grown up version of a dining hall. Someone hook me up with a VC so we can make this happen.

[Ruth Graham @publicroad]

My New Year's resolution this year is simple: to achieve total satisfaction in my personal, professional, intellectual, and spiritual lives

[Myrna Tellingheusen @PearlsFromMyrna]

Now is the time of year to ponder the resolutions you wish other people would undertake in 2023.

[Church Curmudgeon @ChrchCurmudgeon]

If you fail to turn in your Christmas shoeboxes on time, we’ll just send the kid an empty one with your picture from the church directory.

[Noah Garfinkel @NoahGarfinkel]

I grew up in Cabot Cove, and a lot of us feel she exploited our massive murder problem for profit. Maybe keep that in mind.

[jonny klemchuk @jonnyklemchuk]

Make sure you’re checking your kids candy this year. Just found a Glock in a Twix bar

[Daniel M. Lavery @daniel_m_lavery]

rats have the decency to scurry before me (a representative of the imago dei) but squirrels move tidally, like a little sinusoidal rodent wave, and must therefore be subject to supra-Christian physics

[Raymond Chang @tweetraychang]

My friend who is a Chief Diversity officer shared that there have been a growing number of complaints by white faculty and staff that the jobs were being reserved for people of color and that their voices were being silenced.

They decided to look at the numbers.

[Evelyn Underhill @underhill_eve]

‘Poetry is a great revealer of reality, a great incentive to worship; for it nourishes the sense of wonder, perpetually breaks through the hard crust of practical life, and lets in the other-worldly light’.

(Collected Papers - Education and the Spirit of Worship)

[Kaitlyn Schiess @KaitlynSchiess]

Let me tell y'all why I'm so passionate about kids in church:

making churches safe and loving communities for messy, loud, wiggly children is a direct confrontation to our obsession with power, status, productivity, efficiency, and control.

[Myrna Tellingheusen @PearlsFromMyrna]

Yes, I’ve planned a coup. Florence mismanaged the church coffee social hour, and I needed to take action.

[Daniel M. Lavery @daniel_m_lavery]

there are a million different varieties of the domestic crystal bowl, but once the bowl reaches either sufficient heaviness, or the cut along the rim sufficiently intricate, they can ONLY be used for displaying M&Ms, seasonal varieties ONLY. grandma lore

[Texas Bishop 9 @TexasBishop]

All too often we proof text Jeremiah’s passage about being known before the womb as support for a buffered self and eternal bodiless soul. It is more a revelation of God who is outside of time and for whom all things created exist as one (suggested by the author of Peter).

[Michael Harriot @michaelharriot]

Thoughts and prayers to all the children who have to eat a Vacation Bible School lunch today

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

sorry I haven’t texted you back in a month. the old world is dying and the new one struggles to be born. now is the time of monsters.

[Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones]

With SCOTUS likely to strike down affirmative action in college admissions, it’s time for colleges to seriously consider an admissions program designed for descendants of American slavery. Like legacies, it’s lineage based, not race based, & it helps most those AA was meant for.