Also, can’t make this up. bsky.app/profile/benm...

Also, happy birthday. You’re one of the best people I know that’s still willing to be friends with me. 😂😂

That’s rich coming from the guy who literally attempted to juke the imitatio Christi in his OP.

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Oh, man, I totally feel you. When I started figuring out my rule of life for the first time, I had every hour of the day imbued with purpose and it was a burden from the start. I’ve learned for MYSELF, *I* need to schedule to do things and have reminders. But that I can’t pre-plan what will result.

Retired Episcopal bishop of South Carolina. Wrote “Cruelty of Heresy” and “The Rise of Moralism: The Proclamation of the Gospel from Hooker to Baxter.” Might be an academic piece but it called out a lot of trends in Anglicanism from the time it was published in 1966.

Start with 5 minutes, wherever it goes.

C. FitzSimmons Allison be like “Yup. Called it.”

“If anyone would come after Me, let him deny himself and take up his cross, and follow Me.”

I read this as Kenny Rogers singing in my head. I just need to acknowledge that. Thank you for your kind attention.

My friend Bishop Chris EW Green called his book on communion “Foretasting the Kingdom” for this and other reasons. Really solid book. Lands in a place adjacent to Lutheran-land with Pentecostal vocabulary. So, not unrecognizable for Anglicans.