#clergy — Public Fediverse posts

#Lutheran #clergy in the centuries after the #reformation was a dense family network. Not only did the priests aspire that at least one son followed in their profession, they also networked to ensure their daughters married clergymen. In today's blog entry I've written up some of the resulting #matrilines in my #familyhistory.

https://proseandpassion.blogspot.com/2026/05/the-women-of-reformation.html

#history #churchHistory #protestantism

meet #Conon the contrarian https://proseandpassion.blogspot.com/2026/04/meet-conon-contrarian.html

#familyhistory #churchHistory #reformation #Lutheran #clergy #genealogy #Sponheim #Trarbach #Birkenfeld

meet #Conon the contrarian https://proseandpassion.blogspot.com/2026/04/meet-conon-contrarian.html

#familyhistory #churchHistory #reformation #Lutheran #clergy #genealogy #Sponheim #Trarbach #Birkenfeld

meet #Conon the contrarian https://proseandpassion.blogspot.com/2026/04/meet-conon-contrarian.html

#familyhistory #churchHistory #reformation #Lutheran #clergy #genealogy #Sponheim #Trarbach #Birkenfeld

meet #Conon the contrarian https://proseandpassion.blogspot.com/2026/04/meet-conon-contrarian.html

#familyhistory #churchHistory #reformation #Lutheran #clergy #genealogy #Sponheim #Trarbach #Birkenfeld

meet #Conon the contrarian https://proseandpassion.blogspot.com/2026/04/meet-conon-contrarian.html

#familyhistory #churchHistory #reformation #Lutheran #clergy #genealogy #Sponheim #Trarbach #Birkenfeld

Meet the Caesars: https://proseandpassion.blogspot.com/2026/04/lives-of-caesars.html

#familyHistory #churchHistory #Reformation #lutheran #clergymen #clergy #Germany #Sponheim #Caesar

Meet the Caesars: https://proseandpassion.blogspot.com/2026/04/lives-of-caesars.html

#familyHistory #churchHistory #Reformation #lutheran #clergymen #clergy #Germany #Sponheim #Caesar

Meet the Caesars: https://proseandpassion.blogspot.com/2026/04/lives-of-caesars.html

#familyHistory #churchHistory #Reformation #lutheran #clergymen #clergy #Germany #Sponheim #Caesar

Meet the Caesars: https://proseandpassion.blogspot.com/2026/04/lives-of-caesars.html

#familyHistory #churchHistory #Reformation #lutheran #clergymen #clergy #Germany #Sponheim #Caesar

Meet the Caesars: https://proseandpassion.blogspot.com/2026/04/lives-of-caesars.html

#familyHistory #churchHistory #Reformation #lutheran #clergymen #clergy #Germany #Sponheim #Caesar

In 1607, two #Lutheran clergymen sharing the surname Andreae came to work in the small town of #Kastellaun (#Hunsrück). One, 20-something, as the schoolmaster, the other, 75, as the vicar. Were they related? https://proseandpassion.blogspot.com/2026/03/understanding-andreae-connection.html
#familyhistory #genealogy #reformation #clergy #Germany

A quotation from Emerson

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) American essayist, lecturer, poet
Essay (1841), “Self-Reliance,” Essays: First Series, No. 2

More about this quote: wist.info/emerson-ralph-waldo/…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #ralphwaldoemerson #littleminds #clergy #consistency #details #focus #inconsistency #littlepeople #littlethings #nitpicking #obsession #organization #particular #pedantry #philosopher #politician #trivialities

A quotation from Emerson

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) American essayist, lecturer, poet
Essay (1841), “Self-Reliance,” Essays: First Series, No. 2

More about this quote: wist.info/emerson-ralph-waldo/…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #ralphwaldoemerson #littleminds #clergy #consistency #details #focus #inconsistency #littlepeople #littlethings #nitpicking #obsession #organization #particular #pedantry #philosopher #politician #trivialities

A quotation from Emerson

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) American essayist, lecturer, poet
Essay (1841), “Self-Reliance,” Essays: First Series, No. 2

More about this quote: wist.info/emerson-ralph-waldo/…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #ralphwaldoemerson #littleminds #clergy #consistency #details #focus #inconsistency #littlepeople #littlethings #nitpicking #obsession #organization #particular #pedantry #philosopher #politician #trivialities

A quotation from Emerson

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) American essayist, lecturer, poet
Essay (1841), “Self-Reliance,” Essays: First Series, No. 2

More about this quote: wist.info/emerson-ralph-waldo/…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #ralphwaldoemerson #littleminds #clergy #consistency #details #focus #inconsistency #littlepeople #littlethings #nitpicking #obsession #organization #particular #pedantry #philosopher #politician #trivialities

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"Around 200 faith leaders fanned out across the city on Thursday (Jan. 22) to observe and document the actions of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, with some clergy confronting Department of Homeland Security agents, adding a visible religious presence to widespread efforts to counter the president’s mass deportation campaign in the region."

~ Jack Jenkins

#Minnesota #ICE #DHS #clergy #rabbis #churches #immigrants
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https://religionnews.com/2026/01/22/hundreds-of-clergy-descend-on-minneapolis-and-go-on-lookout-for-ice/

#NewHampshire #bishop warns #clergy to prepare for 'new era of #martyrdom'

Bishop Rob Hirschfeld of the #EpiscopalChurch of New Hampshire made his comments earlier this month at a vigil honoring #ReneeGood, who was fatally shot on Jan 7 by an #ICE officer.

#Trump #StateSponsoredTerrorism #religion #law #ethics #murder #ExtraJudicialKillings #Constitution #RightToProtest #CivilRights #UseOfForce #PoliceBrutality #MafiaState #CBP #Gestapo #Sturmabteilung #protest #resist
https://apnews.com/article/bishop-ice-martyrdom-new-hampshire-b58050770e7d40e3247d0aa3b91fe0d2

A quotation from John Adams

   The Priesthood, have in all ancient Nations, nearly monopolized Learning. Read over again all the Accounts We have of Hindoos Chaldeans, Persians Greeks, Romans, Celts, Teutons, We Shall find that Priests had all the Knowledge, and really governed all Mankind. Examine Mahometanism Trace Christianity from its first Promulgation, Knowledge has been almost exclusively confined to the Clergy.
   And even since the Reformation, when or where has existed a Protestant or dissenting Sect, who would tolerate, A FREE INQUIRY? The blackest Billingate, the most ungentlemanly insolenc, the most yahooish brutality, is patiently endured countenanced propagated and applauded: But touch a solemn Truth in collission with a dogma of a Sect, though capable of the clearest proof; and you will Soon find you have disturbed a Nest, and the hornets will swarm about your legs and hands and fly into your face and Eyes.

John Adams (1735-1826) American lawyer, Founding Father, statesman, US President (1797-1801)
Letter (1815-01-24) to John Taylor

More about this quote: wist.info/adams-john/6098/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #johnadams #blasphemy #clergy #dogma #education #heresy #intolerance #knowledge #learning #organizedreligion #priesthood #religiouspersecution #truth #religion

A quotation from John Adams

   The Priesthood, have in all ancient Nations, nearly monopolized Learning. Read over again all the Accounts We have of Hindoos Chaldeans, Persians Greeks, Romans, Celts, Teutons, We Shall find that Priests had all the Knowledge, and really governed all Mankind. Examine Mahometanism Trace Christianity from its first Promulgation, Knowledge has been almost exclusively confined to the Clergy.
   And even since the Reformation, when or where has existed a Protestant or dissenting Sect, who would tolerate, A FREE INQUIRY? The blackest Billingate, the most ungentlemanly insolenc, the most yahooish brutality, is patiently endured countenanced propagated and applauded: But touch a solemn Truth in collission with a dogma of a Sect, though capable of the clearest proof; and you will Soon find you have disturbed a Nest, and the hornets will swarm about your legs and hands and fly into your face and Eyes.

John Adams (1735-1826) American lawyer, Founding Father, statesman, US President (1797-1801)
Letter (1815-01-24) to John Taylor

More about this quote: wist.info/adams-john/6098/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #johnadams #blasphemy #clergy #dogma #education #heresy #intolerance #knowledge #learning #organizedreligion #priesthood #religiouspersecution #truth #religion

A quotation from John Adams

   The Priesthood, have in all ancient Nations, nearly monopolized Learning. Read over again all the Accounts We have of Hindoos Chaldeans, Persians Greeks, Romans, Celts, Teutons, We Shall find that Priests had all the Knowledge, and really governed all Mankind. Examine Mahometanism Trace Christianity from its first Promulgation, Knowledge has been almost exclusively confined to the Clergy.
   And even since the Reformation, when or where has existed a Protestant or dissenting Sect, who would tolerate, A FREE INQUIRY? The blackest Billingate, the most ungentlemanly insolenc, the most yahooish brutality, is patiently endured countenanced propagated and applauded: But touch a solemn Truth in collission with a dogma of a Sect, though capable of the clearest proof; and you will Soon find you have disturbed a Nest, and the hornets will swarm about your legs and hands and fly into your face and Eyes.

John Adams (1735-1826) American lawyer, Founding Father, statesman, US President (1797-1801)
Letter (1815-01-24) to John Taylor

More about this quote: wist.info/adams-john/6098/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #johnadams #blasphemy #clergy #dogma #education #heresy #intolerance #knowledge #learning #organizedreligion #priesthood #religiouspersecution #truth #religion

A quotation from John Adams

   The Priesthood, have in all ancient Nations, nearly monopolized Learning. Read over again all the Accounts We have of Hindoos Chaldeans, Persians Greeks, Romans, Celts, Teutons, We Shall find that Priests had all the Knowledge, and really governed all Mankind. Examine Mahometanism Trace Christianity from its first Promulgation, Knowledge has been almost exclusively confined to the Clergy.
   And even since the Reformation, when or where has existed a Protestant or dissenting Sect, who would tolerate, A FREE INQUIRY? The blackest Billingate, the most ungentlemanly insolenc, the most yahooish brutality, is patiently endured countenanced propagated and applauded: But touch a solemn Truth in collission with a dogma of a Sect, though capable of the clearest proof; and you will Soon find you have disturbed a Nest, and the hornets will swarm about your legs and hands and fly into your face and Eyes.

John Adams (1735-1826) American lawyer, Founding Father, statesman, US President (1797-1801)
Letter (1815-01-24) to John Taylor

More about this quote: wist.info/adams-john/6098/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #johnadams #blasphemy #clergy #dogma #education #heresy #intolerance #knowledge #learning #organizedreligion #priesthood #religiouspersecution #truth #religion

A quotation from John Adams

   The Priesthood, have in all ancient Nations, nearly monopolized Learning. Read over again all the Accounts We have of Hindoos Chaldeans, Persians Greeks, Romans, Celts, Teutons, We Shall find that Priests had all the Knowledge, and really governed all Mankind. Examine Mahometanism Trace Christianity from its first Promulgation, Knowledge has been almost exclusively confined to the Clergy.
   And even since the Reformation, when or where has existed a Protestant or dissenting Sect, who would tolerate, A FREE INQUIRY? The blackest Billingate, the most ungentlemanly insolenc, the most yahooish brutality, is patiently endured countenanced propagated and applauded: But touch a solemn Truth in collission with a dogma of a Sect, though capable of the clearest proof; and you will Soon find you have disturbed a Nest, and the hornets will swarm about your legs and hands and fly into your face and Eyes.

John Adams (1735-1826) American lawyer, Founding Father, statesman, US President (1797-1801)
Letter (1815-01-24) to John Taylor

More about this quote: wist.info/adams-john/6098/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #johnadams #blasphemy #clergy #dogma #education #heresy #intolerance #knowledge #learning #organizedreligion #priesthood #religiouspersecution #truth #religion

@BLKNewsNow @blogdiva

I believe this is a #misunderstanding of the #purpose of #prayer.

Prayer is not about aligning #God or #gods with your wants—it is about orienting yourself with what is going on and how you, as a #believer, will choose to act.

Instead of sending #prayers for someone who is facing a challenging situation, #pray for #guidance on how you can #support them.

Disclaimer: I am not any kind of ordained #clergy. I simply believe that we all have the option to improve the world we live in.

@BLKNewsNow @blogdiva

I believe this is a #misunderstanding of the #purpose of #prayer.

Prayer is not about aligning #God or #gods with your wants—it is about orienting yourself with what is going on and how you, as a #believer, will choose to act.

Instead of sending #prayers for someone who is facing a challenging situation, #pray for #guidance on how you can #support them.

Disclaimer: I am not any kind of ordained #clergy. I simply believe that we all have the option to improve the world we live in.

@BLKNewsNow @blogdiva

I believe this is a #misunderstanding of the #purpose of #prayer.

Prayer is not about aligning #God or #gods with your wants—it is about orienting yourself with what is going on and how you, as a #believer, will choose to act.

Instead of sending #prayers for someone who is facing a challenging situation, #pray for #guidance on how you can #support them.

Disclaimer: I am not any kind of ordained #clergy. I simply believe that we all have the option to improve the world we live in.

@BLKNewsNow @blogdiva

I believe this is a #misunderstanding of the #purpose of #prayer.

Prayer is not about aligning #God or #gods with your wants—it is about orienting yourself with what is going on and how you, as a #believer, will choose to act.

Instead of sending #prayers for someone who is facing a challenging situation, #pray for #guidance on how you can #support them.

Disclaimer: I am not any kind of ordained #clergy. I simply believe that we all have the option to improve the world we live in.

@BLKNewsNow @blogdiva

I believe this is a #misunderstanding of the #purpose of #prayer.

Prayer is not about aligning #God or #gods with your wants—it is about orienting yourself with what is going on and how you, as a #believer, will choose to act.

Instead of sending #prayers for someone who is facing a challenging situation, #pray for #guidance on how you can #support them.

Disclaimer: I am not any kind of ordained #clergy. I simply believe that we all have the option to improve the world we live in.

A Kaduna priest has reportedly died while held after an October abduction. Family still waits for word below #ValidUpdates #Kaduna #kidnapping #bandits #clergy #ransom #Nigeria #security

https://validupdates.com/2025/11/kaduna-anglican-priest-dies-in-captivity-wife-still-held-by-bandits/

NOT SATIRE. The Catholic Church is tipping the scales to Megyn Kelly, by way of an excuse to tar homosexuals as pedophiles. It's a head scratcher which makes sense to the faithful.
How dare we accuse her of defending abuse? How dare we ask the church to stop such abuse? This is logic to them.
#BillDonohue #Catholic #pedophile #ring #protect #deny #relocate #accuse #homophobia #homosexuality #priest #sexual #abuse #not the #Onion #church #clergy #sex #minor #children https://www.catholicleague.org/megyn-kelly-is-right-about-epstein/

The #Trump admin asked for the pause on Nov 10, saying the judge’s order impermissibly micromanaged federal law enforcement in #Chicago.

US Dist Judge Sara Ellis in Chicago issued the order on Nov 6 after siding with a group of #protesters, #journalists & #clergy members who claimed they were being specifically targeted for violence in violation of their rights to #FreeSpeech, #FreedomOfAssembly & #ReligiousFreedom under the #US #Constitution.

#law #RightToProtest #CivilRights #PoliceBrutality

The #Trump admin asked for the pause on Nov 10, saying the judge’s order impermissibly micromanaged federal law enforcement in #Chicago.

US Dist Judge Sara Ellis in Chicago issued the order on Nov 6 after siding with a group of #protesters, #journalists & #clergy members who claimed they were being specifically targeted for violence in violation of their rights to #FreeSpeech, #FreedomOfAssembly & #ReligiousFreedom under the #US #Constitution.

#law #RightToProtest #CivilRights #PoliceBrutality

The #Trump admin asked for the pause on Nov 10, saying the judge’s order impermissibly micromanaged federal law enforcement in #Chicago.

US Dist Judge Sara Ellis in Chicago issued the order on Nov 6 after siding with a group of #protesters, #journalists & #clergy members who claimed they were being specifically targeted for violence in violation of their rights to #FreeSpeech, #FreedomOfAssembly & #ReligiousFreedom under the #US #Constitution.

#law #RightToProtest #CivilRights #PoliceBrutality

#Chicago Christian #Clergy Open Letter

As the photos of arrested pastors circulate, it’s important to know why this large group of #interfaith leaders have taken their stand. Here are their words (full text at link).

“What Kristi Noem and her #ICE agents are doing is immoral. They aren’t arresting criminals; they are arresting our neighbors. They are tearing families apart. They wait at bus stops to detain children and use them as bait to lure parents from their homes. People of all ages are in hiding, businesses shuttered, and our friends and congregants—the people we have been ordained to serve—are being taken to #Broadview in unmarked vans.”

#faith #LoveThyNeighbor #InterfaithAction

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1I5QOjMoeS-oxx-1U5vTuu8CPJqV7pLULPCR7pNaIdYA/mobilebasic

“It’s about their practices targeting #journalists, targeting #clergy & people exercising their constitutional rights,” said Craig Futterman, atty for the #media orgs. “We have #children, #parents & #grandparents who will forever be afraid to exercise their very rights that make this country great, assaulted by the very people assigned to protect those freedoms.”

#Trump #Chicago #law #immigration #ExcessiveForce #PoliceBrutality #Constitution #FreeSpeech #RightToProtest #CivilRights #ICE #CBP

#Trump Administration's Arrival on #Bluesky Highlights Growing Pains for #Open #Networks. "Last week, the #DHS last seen brutalizing# journalists, children, and #clergy in the streets of #Chicago joined the Bluesky social #internet platform and began, with the #WhiteHouse and other #federal agency accounts, #trolling and #threatening #Trump administration #political opponents. https://www.techpolicy.press/trump-administrations-arrival-on-bluesky-highlights-growing-pains-for-open-networks/ #socialmedia #news #censorship #freespeech #internet

A temporary restraining order [#TRO] issued by a federal judge last week requires agents to issue 2 warnings before using riot control weapons such as tear gas, chemical sprays, plastic bullets & flash bangs. The order also bars firing at #protesters, #reporters & #clergy members & limits using #force such as tackling — unless the person represents an immediate threat.

#Trump #law #immigration #RightToProtest #MilitaryState #ICE #CBP #Gestapo #PoliceBrutality #fascism #tyranny #WhiteSupremacy

The Talking Head of Albertus Magnus (1885), from Cyclopædic Science Simplified .

Source: The Getty / Internet Archive

Available to buy as a print.

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/537e9ada-a070-4085-bfd8-47b3c65d2824

#clergy #speech #androids #sound #voice #automata #art #publicdomain

#CoverUp at #KuperIsland : B.C. task force came too late for abused runaways.

When #clergy members at a #BritishColumbia #ResidentialSchool were accused of sexually abusing children in 1939, they were shuffled out of the province. Sixty years later, investigators smelled a cover-up.

The six young #Indigenous boys were reported missing from the notorious institution at 11:30 p.m. on January 8, 1939. They’d taken canoes to escape across the water to their family homes near the town of #Chemainus on #VancouverIsland.

The now-defunct British Columbia Provincial Police opened an investigation into the students’ claims, but after two Catholic clergy were transferred out of province and one staff member was dismissed, no charges were laid.

For a very long time, it looked like the story was finished. But at the end of the century, the #RCMP #Native Indian Residential School Task Force reopened the 1939 case file.

https://theijf.org/cover-up-kuper-island

#TruthBeforeReconcilliation #ChurchAbuses #ChildAbuse #Injustice #ChildrensRights #Canada #JusticeForChildren #Colonialism #NativeKids #IndigenousKids #FailureToProtect #StolenChildhoods

#CoverUp at #KuperIsland : B.C. task force came too late for abused runaways.

When #clergy members at a #BritishColumbia #ResidentialSchool were accused of sexually abusing children in 1939, they were shuffled out of the province. Sixty years later, investigators smelled a cover-up.

The six young #Indigenous boys were reported missing from the notorious institution at 11:30 p.m. on January 8, 1939. They’d taken canoes to escape across the water to their family homes near the town of #Chemainus on #VancouverIsland.

The now-defunct British Columbia Provincial Police opened an investigation into the students’ claims, but after two Catholic clergy were transferred out of province and one staff member was dismissed, no charges were laid.

For a very long time, it looked like the story was finished. But at the end of the century, the #RCMP #Native Indian Residential School Task Force reopened the 1939 case file.

https://theijf.org/cover-up-kuper-island

#TruthBeforeReconcilliation #ChurchAbuses #ChildAbuse #Injustice #ChildrensRights #Canada #JusticeForChildren #Colonialism #NativeKids #IndigenousKids #FailureToProtect #StolenChildhoods

#CoverUp at #KuperIsland : B.C. task force came too late for abused runaways.

When #clergy members at a #BritishColumbia #ResidentialSchool were accused of sexually abusing children in 1939, they were shuffled out of the province. Sixty years later, investigators smelled a cover-up.

The six young #Indigenous boys were reported missing from the notorious institution at 11:30 p.m. on January 8, 1939. They’d taken canoes to escape across the water to their family homes near the town of #Chemainus on #VancouverIsland.

The now-defunct British Columbia Provincial Police opened an investigation into the students’ claims, but after two Catholic clergy were transferred out of province and one staff member was dismissed, no charges were laid.

For a very long time, it looked like the story was finished. But at the end of the century, the #RCMP #Native Indian Residential School Task Force reopened the 1939 case file.

https://theijf.org/cover-up-kuper-island

#TruthBeforeReconcilliation #ChurchAbuses #ChildAbuse #Injustice #ChildrensRights #Canada #JusticeForChildren #Colonialism #NativeKids #IndigenousKids #FailureToProtect #StolenChildhoods

#CoverUp at #KuperIsland : B.C. task force came too late for abused runaways.

When #clergy members at a #BritishColumbia #ResidentialSchool were accused of sexually abusing children in 1939, they were shuffled out of the province. Sixty years later, investigators smelled a cover-up.

The six young #Indigenous boys were reported missing from the notorious institution at 11:30 p.m. on January 8, 1939. They’d taken canoes to escape across the water to their family homes near the town of #Chemainus on #VancouverIsland.

The now-defunct British Columbia Provincial Police opened an investigation into the students’ claims, but after two Catholic clergy were transferred out of province and one staff member was dismissed, no charges were laid.

For a very long time, it looked like the story was finished. But at the end of the century, the #RCMP #Native Indian Residential School Task Force reopened the 1939 case file.

https://theijf.org/cover-up-kuper-island

#TruthBeforeReconcilliation #ChurchAbuses #ChildAbuse #Injustice #ChildrensRights #Canada #JusticeForChildren #Colonialism #NativeKids #IndigenousKids #FailureToProtect #StolenChildhoods