Sam Peilow

The Trinity was not ruptured at the cross. Father, Son, and Spirit were united in the act of atonement. Keeping this in view guards against many theological errors!

@Gda1238 How does changing the furnishing remove sacramental presence? Or is the alternative worship non-sacramental?

It is carnage out there now. Churches rebranding themselves after removing all the pews, tiles, installing 'flexible' seating and offering 'alternative' worship. Destroying for the sake of commodity these lovely church buildings and removing any sacramental presence is useless.

More affordable heating oil would disproportionately benefit those with larger homes, and offer basically no benefit to rough sleepers. Is that fair?

@pinknosedd @missforehead See also, fireworks.

@missforehead most houses (in the uk) have a letter box on the front door for letters/small parcels

wait so how do non americans get their mail??

@jdahlxn @DZRishmawy Ah yes, the old "descendants are stored in the [loins]" camp. (Didn't know about Edwards, but at first glance this seems mildly funny alongside his occasionalism.

@DZRishmawy Well, except the traducianists. See large swaths of Lutheranism, Edwards, Shedd, Geisler, etc.

I can see how this might be a problem for Buddhism on some accounts, but Christians just have always believed that souls are immediately created by God as folks are conceived? This is not a metaphysical challenge.

But the Oompa Loompas explicitly told me I'd get no commercials if I simply tried reading a book 🙁

@darrengrimes "I'd rather walk from London to Canterbury" ought to enter common parlance...

The Archbishop of Canterbury is going on a hastily announced pilgrimage at the same time that the House of Lords (of which she is a member) debates full-term abortions. No matter what your view on Christianity or indeed on the abortion of perfectly viable living beings, what is the point of the Church of England if they aren’t even willing to argue against this?

@isabellRoseXoXo First Gerry's tweet the other day, and now Graham Norton is calling himself British. Wild altogether.

Anna Kendrick's iconic British impression 🗣️

@ihtesham2005 "Most students cite papers they've skimmed. He cites papers he's been forced to genuinely understand." He cites papers he's forced an AI to skim!

A PhD student at Oxford got caught submitting "AI-generated" work. Except he hadn't used AI to write anything. He used it to think. Here's the workflow his advisor called "the most sophisticated research process I've seen in 20 years." He starts every essay with a brutal diagnostic prompt. Dumps his rough argument into Claude and asks: "What are the 3 weakest logical jumps in this reasoning? Where would a hostile examiner attack first?" The AI doesn't write his essay. It destroys his draft. Then he rebuilds. But the next step is what separates him from every other student using ChatGPT or Claude to generate paragraphs. He uploads the top 5 papers in his field and asks: "What claims in my argument contradict or oversimplify what these authors actually found?" Most students cite papers they've skimmed. He cites papers he's been forced to genuinely understand. The final move is almost unfair. Before submitting, he pastes his conclusion and asks: "What would a philosopher of science say is missing from this argument? What assumptions am I making that I haven't defended?" His essays come back with comments like "unusually rigorous" and "demonstrates rare critical depth." He's not using AI to write. He's using it to think harder than he could alone. The tool hasn't changed. The workflow has.

@w0rdgenerator Not every job is a sedentary spreadsheet job...

How unemployed do you have to be to hit 20k steps a day

Reading 'Just as He Said' from @10ofthose, and our 4 year-old said, "What? I thought there were 3 girls who went to the tomb!" (Picture in the book only shows 2). Unreal what kids will notice and remember!

Man talks about himself for international women's day.

@webdevMason Not too surprising. In the run up to the abortion referendum in Ireland, Amnesty had campaigners on the streets, actively sharing misinformation to stir up support for legalisation.

On this episode of And You Thought You Couldn't Respect Your Institutions Any Less, Amnesty International advocates for literally just murdering babies

@ZazCarla @M_P_Hazell That, to be fair, is what someone who is missing the point would say...

@M_P_Hazell You have no point to make. You really don't.

Some rather questionable (non-optional) filleting of Romans 5 this Sunday in the 2nd reading at the Novus Ordo. 🤨

Second coach, from a different school, just arrived. More chaos. Superb.

Descending on the local McDonalds with a coach load of secondary students at 1pm on a weekday is like something the grasshoppers in "A Bug's Life" would do. This is a one-McDonalds town. Chaos.

If you're speaking to 9 year olds about gender-fluidity and being "trapped" in a "girlish body", you might just be part of the problem... (Our local library is spotlighting this for St. Patrick's day...)

@MTL_AL7 @yfcherries And people tend to think of rent in monthly terms.

@yfcherries Outside of North America people are almost exclusively being paid monthly

i’ve never had a conversation with someone about pay using a metric other than hourly pay or annual salary and i’m not sure how it makes more sense to use any other metric

@deirdrenugent4 @eoinyk Possibly the bishop in some places.

@eoinyk It seems to depend on the priest.

They are allowed?