Thomas McKenzie

Soy un peregrino. I love my family, my friends, and my church. I’m a pastor and I wrote The Anglican Way. Y'all get vaccinated!

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Getting vaccinated is pro-life.

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First day of sabbatical. Driving with my kid to New Mexico. Charlie’s senior year at St John’s College, Santa Fe campus. Today’s goal? Shamrock, Texas.

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It's a lot easier to judge people when you don't know them.

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@topshelfphotos I am. I’ll be leaving from England for Saint Jean on Sept 11. 🥳

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Today is my last day of work before my sabbatical begins. I’m excited about my upcoming travels, but I know I’ll miss my community. I feel sadness and some anxiety as I prepare for this morning’s Eucharists.

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@davidvassar It is. ☹️

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Pastors and “religious exemptions,” a thread.

Several years ago I was approached by a family in our church. This is a family that no longer attends, but I still love very much and am in close contact with. They told me that their eldest child was about to start in a new school.

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@revgregbrewer Thanks, Bishop!

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@timrwebb63 Yes. I tell the school that I disagreed with them, but it was a sincerely held belief. Let the school decide what to do with that information.

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@calebphx

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@preston_shipp @DavidDark @RNS What reorientation is God calling for from us pro-vax, pro-mask people? How do WE need to change in order to bring about reconciliation and a healthier nation? That's the question we should be asking, removing the logs in our own eyes.

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Maybe the biggest problem Americans have is our self-righteousness.

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@TweettheSouth @DavidDark @LivedTheology I hear you. I feel that moral weight as well.

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@davidvassar I think it's a good way to love your neighbor, and I have often said so; but making new laws based on old laws is the way of the Pharisee.

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We have to challenge them, not agree with them, but respect and love them all the same. Our oneness is in Christ, not social or political controversy.

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I think that’s where we are now. For a Christian pastor to say that our faith excepts people from masks or vaccines is a violation of the Third Commandment. It’s a misuse of the Name of God. And, we might have people in our congregation who disagree.

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@DavidDark @GovBillLee Agreed.

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@KrieseAdam Agree. I’m referring to the slogan.

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"Faith over fear" is snake handling.