Finished reading: Gemeinsames Leben by Dietrich Bonhoeffer 📚

The Book of Common Prayer 📚

Finished reading: Man Up!: The Quest for Masculinity by Jeffrey Hemmer 📚

Violet intermission screen. September, 2014. Micro Challenge 📷

Indigo? San Jose, February, 2015. Micro Challenge 📷

Blue skies of Nederland. May, 2007. Micro Challenge 📷

Living and exhorting others to enter a life of loving God and neighbor, stepping through cultural boundaries, and freely serving the least is not a political issue. It is an Acts issue. It is a gospel issue. It is a Torah issue.

Green clover in my backyard, 2020. Micro Challenge 📷

Finished reading: Pocket Atlas of Remote Islands by Judith Schalansky 📚

Absolutely no idea. Yellow, 2013. Micro Challenge 📷

When did my little baby grow up? 2017 Orange. Micro Challenge 📷

Taking some liberties. Red wine, Honeymoon 2015. Micro Challenge 📷

​℣ Angelus Domini nuntiavit Mariæ, et concepit de Spiritu Sancto.

​​℟ Ave Maria, gratia plena, Dominus tecum. Benedicta tu in mulieribus, et benedictus fructus ventris tui, Iesus. Sancta Maria, Mater Dei, ora pro nobis peccatoribus, nunc et in hora mortis nostræ. Amen. 💬

Achievement unlocked. Three car seats in one van.

Yes, Chico, I remember when I was cool and had a Mini before this Van. Why you gotta rub it in?

“Nobis Canon unus in Scripta relatus a Deo, Duo Testamenta, Tria Symbola, Quatuor Priora Concilia, Quinque saecula, Patrumque per ea series, trecentos ante Constantinum annos, ducentos a Constantino, regulam nobis Religionis figunt.” +Andrewes, Opuscula Quaedam Posthuma, 91 💬

“The love of God does not find, but creates, that which is pleasing to it. The love of man comes into being through that which is pleasing to it.” - Heidelberg Disputation 💬

„Das war ein Vorspiel nur, dort wo Man Bücher verbrennt, verbrennt Man am Ende auch Menschen.“ - Heinrich Heine 💬

I’m unfollowing a lot of blogs today and prayerfully seeking God’s guidance on what I can do in my ministry to end racism in America.

Our black sisters & brothers are dying in the streets taking a jog and we’re blogging about revisions to a prayer book we’ll never use. I’m done. The Reformed Catholic faith of my English ancestors calls me to more. Ain’t got time for petty drama.

“Ik ben iedere dag weer dankbaar dat ik heb wat ik heb en ben wie ik ben.” - Onbekend 💬

“The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeing new landscapes, but in having new eyes, in seeing the universe with the eyes of another, of hundreds of others, in seeing the hundreds of others, in seeing the hundreds of universes that each of them sees.” - Marcel Proust 💬

„Die Grenzen meiner Sprache sind die Grenzen meiner Welt.“ - Ludwig Wittgenstein 💬

I’m going live this evening at 16:00 CDST to lead some German-language worship. Join if you are interested! youtu.be/m9U7t6wkd…

Sanctus Deus, Sanctus Fortis, Sanctus Immortális, miserére nobis. 💬