Liza Anderson

Liza Anderson @ecclesiangst.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 03:28 UTC

If I'm paying for it, 72 is the lowest I will go. When I'm in a hotel or something I will gleefully turn it WAY down into the 60s! I do also keep things pretty cold in the winter, so my winter heating bills are actually pretty moderate.

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Liza Anderson @ecclesiangst.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 28, 2024 at 21:02 UTC

(While that is admittedly slow, I fear we may need that long to figure out exactly what we are doing about potentially adding these to a physical book without totally messing up the pagination....)

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Liza Anderson @ecclesiangst.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 28, 2024 at 21:01 UTC

I'm actually not sure. The TITLE says first reading, but the title isn't binding, and the text says "That the 81st General Convention authorize for trial use under Article X.b ", so....I'm not certain, but it seems to me that first reading would be 2027 and second reading 2030....

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Liza Anderson @ecclesiangst.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 28, 2024 at 18:26 UTC

So under the provisions of the new Article X, the authorization of any liturgy requires a vote by orders (which is new). I’m not entirely convinced that receiving a prayer is the same as authorizing a liturgy, but I guess a case could be made. But other committee 10 stuff is not a vote by orders.

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Liza Anderson @ecclesiangst.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 28, 2024 at 11:03 UTC

(Given how hard it is to write eloquent prose as a committee, I almost think we'd be better off spending $30,000 to just commission someone to do it, and to then give it to a wider and more diverse group like the SCLM to critique and improve rather than writing it by 9-person committee...) #gc81

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Liza Anderson @ecclesiangst.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 28, 2024 at 11:01 UTC

...so it's actually a bit frustrating to hear "cool....cool. We're thinking 9 people and $30,000 for the first triennium, maybe more next triennium!" as if money and interim bodies grow on trees...

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Liza Anderson @ecclesiangst.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 28, 2024 at 11:00 UTC

Re: A127, the only procedurally sensible thing to do on the last day of convention is concur with bishops. But we had a careful conversation on the SCLM and determined that we could do this work with 3 people and no budget (meeting only electronically)... #gc81

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Liza Anderson @ecclesiangst.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 28, 2024 at 00:35 UTC

You know you don’t have to use all of the readings just because they are offered, right? #gc81

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Liza Anderson @ecclesiangst.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 27, 2024 at 22:19 UTC

That doesn’t seem right, because we approve a lot of liturgy resolutions without a vote by orders?

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Liza Anderson @ecclesiangst.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 27, 2024 at 22:10 UTC

Why was c032 a vote by orders? #gc81

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Liza Anderson @ecclesiangst.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 22, 2024 at 11:40 UTC

Episcopalians! There is a Yemeni coffee place (Haraz) just a short walk from the convention center, and this is arguably the best thing that has happened to me in a year. If you have never had Yemeni coffee or pastries, I strongly endorse both (more strongly than any resolution!) #gc81

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Liza Anderson @ecclesiangst.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 21, 2024 at 00:47 UTC

(Is it that they have so much extra guilt they can raffle off the extra? Or is it more like indulgences 2.0? Or simply rebranding the sacrament of reconciliation, where the highest bidder on my guilt is always Jesus?)

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Liza Anderson @ecclesiangst.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 21, 2024 at 00:46 UTC

Totally misread this sign as saying that the local Catholics were having a "Guilt Auction," and I was genuinely disappointed to discover my error, because I was actually intrigued!

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Liza Anderson @ecclesiangst.bsky.social [ View ] Mar 23, 2024 at 21:47 UTC

Syriac text I'm translating: "Now we see that after the age of 40, the soul is strengthened and reason is perfected and wisdom flourishes..." Me, age 41: "That's RIGHT they do!" Syriac: "....while the body begins to fail and weaken and slide into decrepitude..." Me: "What, what...."

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Liza Anderson @ecclesiangst.bsky.social [ View ] Mar 20, 2024 at 21:20 UTC

"She also has a better memory than males and is very vigilant. She is very lazy and makes very little movement, but she is very resourceful and needs little food." Me: SLANDER AND LIES! ....At least the part about the food. I need plenty of food.... 2/2

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Liza Anderson @ecclesiangst.bsky.social [ View ] Mar 20, 2024 at 21:18 UTC

Bar Ebroyo (13th century): "Woman is more compassionate than Man; she cries more; is more envious; complains about her fate; likes to gossip; is argumentative; is very mean, is often sad, is prone to despair... 1/2

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Liza Anderson @ecclesiangst.bsky.social [ View ] Mar 20, 2024 at 21:12 UTC

Me, rejoicing in the modified prayer schedule for the Transitus of Saint Benedict: "Yesssssss! With all due reverence for our holy father Benedict, I would kill him off every day to sleep 90 more minutes!" Friends: "Probably exactly what his monks said before trying to assassinate him, tbh..."

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Liza Anderson @ecclesiangst.bsky.social [ View ] Mar 16, 2024 at 20:51 UTC

The Episcopal Dioceses of East and West Michigan have just voted to become the Diocese of the Great Lakes. While I wish them all the best, the name DOES sound rather ominously like a threat to annex those of us in Minnesota, Wisconsin, Ohio, etc....

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Liza Anderson @ecclesiangst.bsky.social [ View ] Mar 11, 2024 at 00:52 UTC

The Hampton Court Conference (1604) promised to put "a learned and painful minister" in every parish, and even though I realize that the word "painful" has evolved in its meaning, my reaction is still to think that we've actually done pretty well on that one...

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Liza Anderson @ecclesiangst.bsky.social [ View ] Mar 07, 2024 at 16:40 UTC

I've read many accounts of Plato's death in different sources, but that is a new one for me! I think the lesson is that we are all supposed to stay in the library and not go outside...

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Liza Anderson @ecclesiangst.bsky.social [ View ] Mar 07, 2024 at 16:39 UTC

The Syriac text I'm translating just made me laugh unexpectedly when it was going on and on at very boring length about cosmology, and abruptly concluded the section by saying that Plato sat for days by the water trying to understand the tides, but all in vain because he caught a chill and died.

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Liza Anderson @ecclesiangst.bsky.social [ View ] Feb 16, 2024 at 17:32 UTC

(Never let me do this. I've never taken basic chemistry, even in high school, so it definitely seems like something that would end poorly. "Nun obliterates entire rural community in explosion after decidedly un-monastic attempt to make gold" is NOT the headline we need...)

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Liza Anderson @ecclesiangst.bsky.social [ View ] Feb 16, 2024 at 17:29 UTC

The Syriac text I'm translating took an unexpected turn towards alchemy and is explaining how one can create silver and gold...and at this point, having exhausted most of the more conventional employment options, I'm almost tempted to try...

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Liza Anderson @ecclesiangst.bsky.social [ View ] Dec 18, 2023 at 17:17 UTC

(Among other things. That's honestly only one paragraph of it. But "EVERYONE GETS CHORES!" is probably my least popular idea among all constituencies...) (And don't feel left out, students. There will be plenty of chores left for you too!)

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Liza Anderson @ecclesiangst.bsky.social [ View ] Dec 18, 2023 at 17:15 UTC

If I thought I was unemployable NOW, I'd really better hope no one reads this MBA thesis on academic shared governance and Benedictine tradition, in which I propose that seminary faculty, administrators, and trustees should all have to do manual labor together!

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Liza Anderson @ecclesiangst.bsky.social [ View ] Dec 16, 2023 at 17:37 UTC

Some days I feel really culturally at home in Minnesota. Other days I discover that apparently people here put popcorn in their soup (???), and I'm going to need some time to process this information...

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Liza Anderson @ecclesiangst.bsky.social [ View ] Dec 12, 2023 at 20:24 UTC

(It is actually a good and useful article, so I'm not truly trying to pick on it. But what a blessed time of innocence 2009 must have been!)

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Liza Anderson @ecclesiangst.bsky.social [ View ] Dec 12, 2023 at 20:23 UTC

Utterly adorable article on shared governance from 2009 thinks that relationships between faculty and trustees are bound to get better now that "most trustees have an email account, and many (but probably not yet all) are comfortable receiving information in an electronic format"!

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Liza Anderson @ecclesiangst.bsky.social [ View ] Dec 11, 2023 at 16:54 UTC

I see Abba John the Dwarf's "water the dead stick" feat of monastic obedience, and I raise him meekly changing sentences of my MBA thesis to make them grammatically incorrect because my advisor insists... 🙃

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Liza Anderson @ecclesiangst.bsky.social [ View ] Dec 07, 2023 at 18:25 UTC

Happy feast of St. Ambrose to all my of introverted clergy friends! "You have received a duty to minister at the table of Christ, and no other duty to be socially agreeable has been placed upon you." Ambrose Milan, On the Duties of the Clergy 1.20.88

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Liza Anderson @ecclesiangst.bsky.social [ View ] Dec 06, 2023 at 16:25 UTC

(While God has not seen fit to provide me with any musical talent whatsoever, "Can literally anyone here successfully chant this draft collect/eucharistic prayer/liturgy?" is a particularly fun SCLM game! The answer for first drafts is often "nope! try again...")

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Liza Anderson @ecclesiangst.bsky.social [ View ] Dec 06, 2023 at 16:21 UTC

through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen. (3/3)

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Liza Anderson @ecclesiangst.bsky.social [ View ] Dec 06, 2023 at 16:20 UTC

Grant, we pray, that your Church may never cease to work for the happiness of children, the safety of sailors, the relief of the poor, and the help of those tossed by tempests of doubt or grief; (2/3)

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Liza Anderson @ecclesiangst.bsky.social [ View ] Dec 06, 2023 at 16:20 UTC

The original: Almighty God, in your love you gave your servant Nicholas of Myra a perpetual name for deeds of kindness both on land and sea: (1/3)

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Liza Anderson @ecclesiangst.bsky.social [ View ] Dec 06, 2023 at 16:17 UTC

The original version which contains the good turns of phrase goes back decades....but we did pare it down in 2015-2018 after everyone struggled to say it in one breath without gasping for air, and no one on the committee could chant it! :)

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Liza Anderson @ecclesiangst.bsky.social [ View ] Dec 03, 2023 at 17:57 UTC

I definitely needed that clarification, because my thought was "Oh wow! The nice Presbyterians all want to go to confession for Advent!"

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Liza Anderson @ecclesiangst.bsky.social [ View ] Nov 14, 2023 at 19:46 UTC

Okay, but I do love the fact that the Old Testament lesson appointed is "Israel demands a king, and insists that the king will NEVER mistreat or oppress them, ignoring God's warnings"!

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Liza Anderson @ecclesiangst.bsky.social [ View ] Nov 12, 2023 at 02:01 UTC

(This was from multiple different people in Sewanee, and I'm not sure if this is a Southern thing, or if there are so many Episcopalians in Sewanee that they are developing their own niche dialect!!)

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Liza Anderson @ecclesiangst.bsky.social [ View ] Nov 12, 2023 at 02:00 UTC

This week I encountered a new-to-me usage of using "nunc dimittis" as a synonym for "deceased"! e.g. "she caught the fox staring at her chickens, and the fox is now nunc dimittis" or "Fr. Smith, who is now nunc dimittis..." Has anyone ever heard this before?

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Liza Anderson @ecclesiangst.bsky.social [ View ] Nov 10, 2023 at 02:17 UTC

Compline begins with 15 minutes of silent meditation. Today Sophia, who has lived here for 14 years and knows perfectly well that she is not allowed in chapel, waltzed in, curled up in front of the altar, and proceeded to SNORE loudly for the next 15 minutes while we all struggled not to giggle....

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Liza Anderson @ecclesiangst.bsky.social [ View ] Nov 08, 2023 at 22:09 UTC

Monastic work project: helping to recycle candles by beating old candles with a hammer, removing the wicks, and then continuing to smash them into small, meltable pieces. Very therapeutic, deeply satisfying, goes great with imprecatory psalms, 10/10 would recommend.

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Liza Anderson @ecclesiangst.bsky.social [ View ] Nov 07, 2023 at 19:39 UTC

I would need people to come by my window with books and food, and to pay my rent, though....

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Liza Anderson @ecclesiangst.bsky.social [ View ] Nov 07, 2023 at 19:28 UTC

Visiting a new monastery for the first time, and my cell comes with a CAT! This is a major selling point...

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Liza Anderson @ecclesiangst.bsky.social [ View ] Oct 27, 2023 at 12:51 UTC

It has been a real joy to spend this week with my brothers on the Anglican-Oriental Orthodox International Commission, supporting one another in a time of great difficulty for our siblings in several of the member churches, and learning from one another's church traditions.

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Liza Anderson @ecclesiangst.bsky.social [ View ] Oct 14, 2023 at 01:10 UTC

Two versions of my bio in the AI image generator...both older versions of myself who are clearly living the dream...

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Liza Anderson @ecclesiangst.bsky.social [ View ] Oct 11, 2023 at 19:20 UTC

If you don't succeed in cutting someone from the sanctoral calendar, you can always just quietly give them a lectionary passage like "Tobias goes blind after birds poop in his eyes"... #tec

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Liza Anderson @ecclesiangst.bsky.social [ View ] Oct 11, 2023 at 13:21 UTC

🤣 Yes, that's on the list of known typos! Should have been Joshua 2....

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Liza Anderson @ecclesiangst.bsky.social [ View ] Oct 11, 2023 at 12:22 UTC

I mean, someone can also always propose him for a second reading if they want to!

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Liza Anderson @ecclesiangst.bsky.social [ View ] Oct 11, 2023 at 12:09 UTC

We do have Martyrs of the Reformation on there, when we all feel appropriately guilty about the whole "killing people" part of the Reformation...

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Liza Anderson @ecclesiangst.bsky.social [ View ] Oct 11, 2023 at 12:05 UTC

That's actually precisely what we're going to propose! No idea what General Convention will say, but the Feast of All Deaconesses is currently a trial use commemoration, and our suggestion is to replace it with several specific feasts for named, individual deaconesses.

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