Scott Shaffer

methodist pastor, shannon's husband, lily and theo's daddy, bearded lumberjack, lover of fruit pies

[Scott Shaffer @sshaffer63]

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@DylPar252 “Come, o thou traveler unknown” captures my inner life pretty well.

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@Radiolab Re: “Our Stupid Little Bodies” episode. I once served as a hospital chaplain, with a young patient suffering from infective endocarditis - an infection of the heart valves, often caused by IV drug use. It was poignant for me to think of the opioid crisis attacking our only 3.

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@DylPar252 The Halevy Thesis

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@DylPar252 Launch team morphs into a single board.

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A Video Message From Kathleen Stanley at Roots of Faith - https://t.co/VMdJB1fC7R

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@DylPar252 I think Jumonville has free/cheap rooms for clergy in the off season. Maybe Olmsted too.

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@DylPar252 One of my theories is that people tend not to attend two weeks in a row. So if you have a high attendance week you can alternate up and down for several weeks after.

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@DylPar252 @MtrKDJoyce I feel like Trinitarian Christianity is uniquely capable of handling an I/We paradox in our divine first person pronouns.

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@DylPar252 They are preemptively taking sides on UMC vs GMC. #neocolonialism

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@DylPar252 Snark Mutual

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@DylPar252 #toxicmasculinity

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@DylPar252 episcopal job security?

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@MarEphremsVoice Photons travel through space to my eye. Does a camera and screen in the middle make a difference? Sound waves reverberate across air to my ear. So what if a microphone and speaker are involved? I receive bread and juice. Does it matter if I’m 10 inches or 10 miles away?

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@DawnLynnCheck There was a vote on homosexuality in our conference in 2011 that was 80% against. My reading of our elections this year is that they were 65% conservative. So perhaps we are making progress, just not 50% yet.

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Uphold our Wesleyan tradition of valuing theological diversity.

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The Broader Table Coalition Core Team is excited to share our recommended 2020 General and Jurisdictional Conference Slate for your prayerful consideration. This slate was developed based on survey responses from a wide variety of Clergy and Laity from across Western PA.

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@KeithMcilwain Or maybe a post about traditionalists’ transparently colonial and utilitarian relationship with Africans. That may be worth writing if it wasn’t so shamefully obvious.

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@KeithMcilwain Anti-Queer is more like it. Deut 23:1 offered "traditional teaching" on Eunuch inclusion. But Jesus' Queer Kingdom opened the doors to all!