emily elle

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emily elle@emilyelle· 1d

A fun thing (if you’re a very particular kind of nerd) is making a booklist, broken down into required and suggested reading, sending it to the (mostly) retired clergy in your parish, and then getting responses like this. ⚓️

A stack of books with the caption, “here's what l have for you:”

Prayer Book Rubrics Expanded
A Priest's Handbook • Michno
PASTORAL AND OCCASIONAL LITURGIES → Mitchell
LENT, HOLY WEEK, EASTER, & THE GREAT FIFTY DAYS
THE CEREMONIES OF THE EUCHARIST + Galley

emily elle@emilyelle· 3d

The source of the perpetual Sunday morning question of “How time do I *really* need to get ready for church?”

Sleeping cat, nestled in the crook of her human’s arm.

emily elle@emilyelle· 10d

Bonus for showing up at church on the wrong Saturday is discovering that in the process of weeding out extra books from the basement, someone decided to give away a bunch of our first rector’s books. While I don’t technically *need* any of these, I think I might take them home for safekeeping. 📕

Five books, sitting on a table.
OLD TESTAMENT THEOLOGY VOLUME I and VOLUME 2
(Gerhard Von Rad)
THE OXFORD AMERICAN PRAYER BOOK COMMENTARY (Shepherd )
The Prayer Book Office
Novum Testamentum Graece

emily elle@emilyelle· 16d

Post a perfect album from the 90s.

Sarah McLachlan
fumbling towards ecstasy

emily elle@emilyelle· 20d

I’m sitting in the shade on my lunch break but it’s 86 degrees and the shade doesn’t feel shady. Even the breeze off of the marsh is hot. This is not the PNW summer I grew up with!

Blue sky and golden green farm meadows with a marsh and forest in the distance. Red flowers in the foreground.

emily elle@emilyelle· 23d

Here’s Martha, on the day my daughter and son-in-law adopted her. May your brain remember that you are always held in God’s lap.

Fluffy calico cat in her human’s lap, with white paws and eyes closed.

emily elle@emilyelle· 24d

Some parishes have outdoor worship in the summer, or in another less “formal” location. In ours it was a tradition to move summer worship into our fellowship hall, which was admittedly a beautiful setting, overlooking the forest and the sea beyond.

A priest in green vestments celebrating the Eucharist with windows overlooking the forest behind her.

emily elle@emilyelle· Jul 5

Alternately there’s this character backstory: My ex-Roman Catholic parents tried to raise me without any connection to religion, except for the one flaw in their plan: they agreed to be models for an artist who was painting a portrait of the Holy Family as hippies. I was blonde Jesus. Sealed as…

A very worn photograph of a blond toddler with young, long-haired parents.

emily elle@emilyelle· Jul 3

The break room drama at lunch time is really getting out of hand!

emily elle@emilyelle· Jul 1

The first thing I saw when I opened Reddit this morning, lol. Filing this under “things that stay the same” for those times when the world seems like it’s changing too fast. ⚓️

Screenshot from Reddit:

r/Anglicanism 1h

Is there really a movement to replace the Nicene Creed or is that just fringe Boomerism?
In my catechism class a few months ago, a rather eccentric Boomer said that they'd been on the diocesan committee to general convention before, and that they...

emily elle@emilyelle· Jun 30

Obviously yes because adorable and doesn’t take up hardly any space (1928 BCP printed in 1953)

Tiny black book with a gold cross on the cover, fits in palm of hand.

emily elle@emilyelle· Jun 28

New fringe benefit of discerning in a congregation which has 6 retired priests in it just dropped. 📕

Picture of a 2 volume set of black Daily Office books, with a text which reads:
“Since the daily office is part of your spiritual discipline I wonder if you'd like to have this set of Daily Office books which has all the daily offices, collects, and complete Bible (RSV)
readings for each day. Given by my bishop at my diaconal ordination. Downsizing as we…”

emily elle@emilyelle· Jun 21

Thank you. Working on it.

Campfire, with forest in the background.

emily elle@emilyelle· Jun 17

post the best picture you have ever taken of your pet (if you feel like it):

Chunky tabby and white cat lying on her back with feet up, in front of a leopard print cat exercise wheel.

emily elle@emilyelle· Jun 12

For my own edification, here is what the report was supposed to cover in 3-4 pages. I feel like it was a great review of the very detailed list of required tasks that I had just worked my way through, but there certainly wasn’t room for a spiritual autobiography, nor did they ask for one.

Exploring Vocations Reflection Report

As you near the end of your 6-9 months of Exploring Vocations, complete a Reflection Report and schedule a time to debrief with your clergy leader. Please share your report ahead of your meeting so your clergy leader has time to read and reflect.
Your Reflection Report should be approximately 3-4 pages and respond narratively to these questions:

Prayer & Practices
• How has your prayer life changed during this period of discernment?
Reading
• What did you read from the reading list?
• What was most meaningful?
• What did you struggle with or question?
• Were there other readings you found helpful?

Mutual Discernment Groups
• If you participated in a Mutual Discernment Group, how was your sense of call clarified or affirmed?
• What further questions emerged from that work?

Conversations with Church Leaders
• Reflect on your conversations with church leaders and/or committees.
• What stood out about the gifts of each order of ministry (lay, deacon, priest)?
• Highlight several insights that resonated with you (with brief detail).
• What questions emerged?

Site Visitations
• List the parishes, ministries, or community organizations you visited.
• What stood out to you during these visitations?
• What questions or wonderings did each visit raise?

Sense of Call
• How was your sense of call changed, clarified, or strengthened through this process?
• Is there anything else you would like to share?

emily elle@emilyelle· Jun 9

Leading Zoom MP with my cat Brie is like leading MP with an adorable furry toddler who can climb onto the desk. She LOVES being a part of it, hogs the camera, demands snuggles & kisses, and is chaos incarnate, while I deftly juggle the BCP & Bible. Now she’s discovered that she loves my coffee! 📕

Tabby and white cat snuggled up napping in the crook of her pajama-clad person’s arm, atop a desk.

emily elle@emilyelle· Jun 8

Still waiting for the caffeine to fully kick in and had to retake the test because of how many answers I was fuzzy on the first time through. Couldn’t let the original Quaker/Puritan answer stand.

YOUR CLOSEST COUNTERPART
The Jesuit
1540 ONWARD • FROM IBERIA & ROME
OUTWARD • CATHOLIC REFORM
Ignatius, the Spiritual Exercises
You find God in all things and so refuse the cloister-you teach, you argue, you sail to the ends of the earth. You think the world is not to be fled but won, and that disciplined obedience is the highest freedom.
REPRESENTATIVE FIGURES Ignatius of Loyola, Francis Xavier, Matteo Ricci

HOW THE FIELD FALLS
The Jesuit Catholic reform
The Pansophic Reformer universal reform
The Cambridge Platonist rational religion
The Mathematical Mystic cosmos as divine geometry
The Pietist heart religion
The Puritan godly Calvinint
100%
83%
83%
82%
81%
80%

emily elle@emilyelle· Jun 8

I went on a church field trip again today, this time to the big city. Epiphany Seattle was quite impressive! I only intended to attend one service but ended up staying for 3 of their 5 Sunday services! Rite I High Mass, afternoon “Come As You Are” Eucharist and Choral Evensong. What a day! ⚓️

The interior of a church taken from a balcony at the back, looking down at the pews, font, chancel and altar in the distance.

emily elle@emilyelle· Jun 7

Every once in a while you get to be the first vehicle onto the ferry but very rarely do you also get a sky that looks like this.

View from the front of the car deck on a ferry, with islands in the distance and dramatic clouds against a blue sky. In the center is an isolated shower of rain coming down to the sea.

emily elle@emilyelle· Jun 6

Blessed Caturday to all who observe!

Two tabby cats on their human’s lap and outstretched legs.

emily elle@emilyelle· Jun 6

My day was spent weeding an overgrown path through this garden while listening to N.T. Wright’s Simply Christian for 7.5 hours. A retired New Testament professor told me that he was too conservative for his taste. Interesting to reflect on while listening. It wasn’t a bad way to spend the work day 📕

emily elle@emilyelle· Jun 3

I spent 7 hours listening to a David Bentley Hart audiobook while I worked today, so I decided to retake this quiz. Huh. Go figure. ⚓️

01
40.2
David Bentley Hart
02
38.2
John Behr
03
27.9
Rowan Williams
04
26.4
Elizabeth A. Johnson, CSJ
05
24.8
Lauren F. Winner
06
23.8
Sarah Coakley
07
23.4
N.T. (Tom) Wright
08
Linn Marie Tonstad

emily elle@emilyelle· May 26

YOUR TOP RESONANCES
Simone Weil
100
Rosemary Radford Ruether
95
John B. Cobb Jr.
90
Dorothee Sölle
92
Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza
87
Jürgen Moltmann
82
Ada María Isasi-Díaz
77
Ahn Byung-Mu
74
Gustavo Gutiérrez
74
Jon Sobrino
72
Howard Thurman
69

emily elle@emilyelle· May 26

The final book from the Diocesan Discernment required reading list, Unexpected Consequences: the Diaconate Renewed, arrived from the Diocesan Resource Center. It is actually the perfect reading for today, after having visited a Total Common Ministry parish for the first time yesterday. ⚓️

A sleeping grey tabby cat and a book called Unexpected Consequences: The Diaconate Renewed by Susanne Watson Epting, resting on a brightly colored green blanket and pink and gold patchwork quilt.

emily elle@emilyelle· May 25

Here you go.

Warning on the sidewalk in railway station, in yellow paint: MIND THE GAP

emily elle@emilyelle· May 25

It’s not every day that you get to honor and remember a great saint of your community, AND take home a “goody bag” of her composted remains for your garden! Nancy Skinner Nordhoff changed so many lives. What a legacy, what a blessing. obituaries.seattletimes.com/obituary/nan...

A brown paper bag sealed with a sticker bearing a photo of a grey-haired woman, which reads “Living Compost of Nancy: I did my part. Now get to work.”

emily elle@emilyelle· May 14

Every once in awhile we get the front spot on the boat. Glad to be headed home after day 2 at the dealership. One does always wonder how strong that net actually is. Island life.

View through front windshield from the vantage point of the first vehicle at the front of a ferry car deck. Water, sky, and islands in the distance.

emily elle@emilyelle· May 13

Instead of earning desperately needed money, I am spending the day in the purgatory of the waiting room at the dealership service department, while they assess my truck. To go along with the overall vibe, the only book I brought was The Liberation of the Laity. Pray for me. 📕

THE LIBERATION OF THE LAITY
page 25
“…the struggles, the misunderstandings, and the torments that are the concomitants of any true change.
The laity are weak, they are paralyzed, they are blind, they are voice-less. Nonetheless, out of their weakness they must find the strength to liberate the Church from its inhumanity, from the bondage of clericalism, so it can become, once again, the loving community of human beings that Christ loved so much. The laity, however weak, must seize the initiative for change, because the clergyperson "who is himself dehumanized because he dehumanizes others, is unable to lead the struggle."

emily elle@emilyelle· May 10

I made it to my church home away from home! Mom bailed on the outing so it was Florence + the Machine at full volume all the way here. Love St Paul’s Bellingham 💜 ⚓️

A tall church steeple against a light blue sky.

emily elle@emilyelle· May 10

My cat child is lovingly celebrating me. So generous. So kind. I might be late getting out the door to visit my human child!