Jason C. Todd

What method of communication did Gandalf prefer? A shadowfax.

“Red-haired Menelaus”

@davidpdeavel @JMWSPT He shut down all the garbage mashers on the detention level FOR US.

The Church of the Star Wars Trash Compactor Scene.

@AmericanGwyn “My dad is coming back.” That line really sounds gross and out of place.

I’m starting to worry Nolan might’ve missed something vital to The Odyssey: Odysseus’s virtues aren’t the customary ones of most Greek heroes. In addition to being brave and durable, he’s devious: “cunning Odysseus,” “wily Odysseus,” “of shrewdness famed and genius versatile.”

@becomelutheran @DrJordanBCooper Probably Forde et al

@DrJordanBCooper "much of what has been deemed Confessional Lutheranism" What do you mean by that

The more seventeenth-century texts become available, the more apparent it will become that much of what has been deemed "Confessional Lutheranism," is simply absent from the tradition before the mid-to-late nineteenth century.

@pauljpastor You dew?

I try every day to shuffle barefoot in the morning dew, and so should you.

Whales make me less interested in Wales.

@DudespostingWs Wasn’t this the sound when Han came out of the carbonite?

This Italian guy created this unusual instrument with an incredible sound. Huge fan of this device and apparently this will have your dog freak out

@LeftHandedWords He also is on a Mission From God.

Happy S. George's Day!

@TeawithTolkien Through a wardrobe.

How were you introduced to the world of The Lord of the Rings?

If jazz ever dies out, musicians will just have to improvise.

@FrMCDallman Awesome! I’m just now getting into Fr Martin. Thanks!

My 2015 Master's Thesis: “Catholic and Anglican: The Motif, Model, and Operations of Martin Thornton’s Theology”—accessed here 👇 anglicanhistory.org/academic/dallm… ABSTRACT The purpose of this Thesis is to explicate the principles at play in Martin Thornton’s theology. Martin Thornton wrote thirteen books and numerous chapters and articles that explored the theological nature of corporate prayer, its relationship to doctrine, tradition and scripture, and the overall scope of discipleship and obedience to Christ that begins in this life and continues into the next. The first section of the Thesis describes the underlying theological motif and the resulting theological model. That is, the motif of “Every truth flowing from the Incarnation must impinge upon our corporate prayer life” discloses the dynamic model of total, corporate spirituality Thornton calls “Ascetic.” The next section outlines the Thornton’s varied articulations of Ascetic seen as operations with respect to scripture, doctrine, and tradition; and such operations are properly called Thornton’s “Ascetical Theology,” all of which demonstrate Thornton’s mode of ressourcement within a 20th-century Anglican context. Overall this Thesis hopes to demonstrate that Thornton’s motif and model affirm a Catholic conviction, and his operations an Anglican context—the “English School of Catholic spirituality” being the underground yet regnant dynamic within Anglican tradition including present day—and that his theology as a whole remains relevant, useful, and pastorally attuned for use today, in parish life particularly as well as in wider ecumenical discussions.

This is an off-the-cuff reaction video to a clip from Fr. Josiah Trenham in which he speaks about Protestant views of church history. youtube.com/watch?v=QDERYY…

“The small things in life are the big things.” - Tanner Olson

@WmWeedon @fathereddy Le really big sigh

@fathereddy Le sigh. The Lutherans did NOT remove ecclesiastical paraments, vestments, nor even singing in Latin for the Mass. To treat all of the Reformation as Calvinist or Zwinglian is ignorant. By the way, our altar was stripped last night as the last act of the Maundy Thursday mass.

The stripping of the altars on Maundy Thursday gives a liturgical window into the horrors that were perpetrated at the reformation

@pauljpastor I just hope it says “Donne” at the end instead of “The End”

Thinking of writing a Donnie Darko prequel called Donne Darko set in 1600s England where the metaphysical poet has to deal with a mysterious visitor (a time traveling John Dee in a ruff-collar bunny suit) and ends up sacrificing himself for a timeline where George Herbert lives.

@nguyenhdi @zenahitz But probably mermaids, though.

This is a boring way of looking at the world. We have octopuses & cuttlefish, we have whales & manatees, we have jellyfish, we have orange oatleaf butterflies & Atlas moths, we have Saiga antelopes, we have okapis... The Earth is full of wonder.

@StuffForSisters @LutheranAnswers No one is Tolkien about this!

AI can't produce more LOTR stories because we have run out of Tolkiens.

@SketchesbyBoze @KSPrior Using the score from “Hook” for this feels so gross.

They’re trying to eliminate human teachers at a time when less than a third of students can read on a basic level. Students don’t need fancy tech, which has already made learning nearly impossible. We’re spending billions to produce a nation of illiterates.