
matthew staneck
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matthew staneck
@MattStaneck
I love the Phish from Vermont and I pastor a Lutheran parish in Queens.


What is “Anglicanism?” Cosplay Orthodox icons Symbolic foot-washing in a society w/ shoes & socks Cosplay Roman “altar” Theatric mood lighting complete with “stripping the altar” activity that somehow reenacts Jesus’ death? The Word & Sacraments are the only media you need


Leavitt: In this Holy Week, President Trump and the first lady are joining in prayer with Christians celebrating the resurrection of our lord and savior Jesus Christ.

I still don’t understand how the Mets felt comfortable giving a roster spot to Dick Lovelady

Baseball season is a reminder of all the laptop, gentrifier class Mets fans who operate in my "sphere" and pollute my air. *However* I will offer an olive branch: David Stearns had a very good offseason. It's a strong roster. Enjoy it.

PROMISES MADE, PROMISES KEPT. Immigration fell in EVERY metro city area in 2025. 🇺🇸



By definition, a Church should be a community, a place where believers come together to worship and serve each other in service and prayer. But for so many churches, the idea of community exists for the two hours between when people leave their car in the parking lot, and when they skip out after communion to beat traffic on the way out of the parking lot. How we build churches has a lot to do with this, since we build churches far away from neighborhoods, looking for huge lots where we can surround them with seas of parking lots. But what would happen if we started looking at church properties as a place to build a REAL community rather than just a place for ample parking? What if instead of making church a part-time activity on Sunday, we started making parishes into a place to live out the faith every single day of the week? This is the idea behind the vision for the New Parish Village Plan. This proposal shows how a suburban parish can be transformed into a living and breathing community where parishioners could live within walking distance of each other and start to create a real parish community. Drawing from examples of small villages in Europe and the Eastern United States, the plan centers the church standing at its heart. Surrounded by a variety of housing types, from large houses to small apartments, every member of the parish could find a home nearby, and with public space to gather and a small retail center for a café, coffee shop, or office space, the parish could be alive every day of the week, not just Sunday.

"Figure 03" AI-powered robot accompanies first lady Melania Trump to a White House summit on empowering children with educational technology.

Raul Rivera yelling again outside Mamdani’s presser. Mamdani: “I want that man to be able to afford to keep living in New York City, because the day that I don't hear him yelling at me, it means he got priced out of this place.”











