Paul Prins

Something I wish more people would realize.

I'm tired of living through interesting times. I want to be disinterested in my times. 🙏🙏🙏

I live <10 minutes from Bastille, where the French student protests meet to start their march tomorrow in Paris. Things are tightening up much more than usual tonight (which makes sense). We've been under curfew all week with drone and helicopter enforcement. Prayers for the students appreciated!

Is the online LSJ down for anyone else? I'm just getting the cloudflare 'You have been Blocked' page. My inclination is that it is down because they use PHP and it isn't patched yet (this is one way to block traffic). 🪔 #BiblicalGreek

"A dinner at a friend’s place is tangible. I am able to go, accept their hospitality, thank them, and leave. Yet, how do I experience the grace and love of God when it often feels more abstract? That one is harder for me to answer. In my good moments I know to trust in God’s promises." Read more 🔗

We have taken our monastic platform offline for the time being due to a major security vulnerability disclosed in the underlying programming language we are using. As soon as the software is patched (and verified), it will be brought back online. Thanks for understanding. Our website remains open.

The Right Reverend Mark Edington is doing a good job leading the Episcopal Church in Europe from our cathedral in Paris. I’m glad to help and be a part of this community in Paris, France, and Europe. ⚓️

Are you dancing? I specifically requested it. Me in 2024 trying to get some kids to dance at a wedding.

"To love our neighbors as ourselves, we must see ourselves woven into the same fabric of humanity. There can only be us. There can only be the all-encompassing family of God. Within this love, there is no use for the words others, them, strangers, & foreigners. We are all siblings." From Chapter 12

If evil is about being, then I need not look at the evil I do or participate in. If evil is about what I do, then everyone is responsible for the vile and evil that they bring into the lives of others, and their own. Jesus (and the canon of scripture) is clear that people do evil, they aren't evil.

If you oppose violence, colonialism, and genocide you need to be better than those things. You cannot destroy those who worship and master death with their own tools. Despair doesn’t overcome death and hatred: only hope and love can do that. What our world needs are artisans of peace!

Watching my brother in law get married over Facebook live… is an experience.

We made it to October 19th before cleaning and turning on our wall heaters. I don't think they'll be doing too much right now but we did get down to 4°/39° this morning. It was time. I always hope to make it to november, but I never quite get there.

Lord, Open our hearts to Your generosity, the ways that You love us, and the life we live with You. Amen. A Blessing for our Twenty-Ninth Week of Ordinary Time.

Let us pray. This is the Urban Monastic Collect for our Twenty-Ninth Week of Ordinary Time.

It’s 11pm and the air around our apartment is finally not mixed with tear gas. The French state needs to do better. Using the police to escalate violence to demonize and discredit people with real grievances helps no one.

Our whole street smells of tear gas from République. The police in France need to be reformed, and the weapons they are allowed to wield against citizens curtailed.

Weird day to live down wind from République. Everytime I open a window I get smell and joys of tear gas. #17Octobre #Paris

The Episcopal Lay Preachers Conference has begun for those of us in Europe. Looking forward to the weekend with those of us over here, and back in the Americas. Anyone else attending this weekend? ⚓

17 Octobre has begun. Pray for the students of France. May we all help them have the hope, safety, and support they need to create a better future for themselves and us all.

😆 this car should be illegal on every road in every country. Imagine living a floor or two above ground level and being killed by a car coming through your window. How do people still think this man is a once-in-a-generation genius? Or maybe it's for the lucrative themepark stunt show market...

➡️ L'été 2026, marqué par une succession presque ininterrompue de canicules, a fait près de 8.000 morts en excès en France, selon des données provisoires des autorités sanitaires, diffusées mi-septembre.

CLERGY BECOME A POLL CHAPLAIN HELP SUPPORT PEOPLE TRYING TO VOTE AND KEEP THINGS CALM AT VOTING LOCATIONS BE THE ADULT ON SITE IF PEOPLE SHOW UP TO MAKE TROUBLE YES THERE IS A TRAINING YES I'M SHOUTING COME ON TRAINING OCT 15th www.turnoutsunday.com/poll-chaplain

📸Où voir de la photographie à Paris en octobre ? Selon Connaissance des Arts "Photographies japonaises" est parmi les 6 expositions à ne pas manquer cet automne : www.connaissancedesarts.com/arts-exposit...

TODAY IS THE LAST DAY TO SIGN UP if you are a fellow scholar of religion (ALL THINGS RELATED) who is attending #aarsbl26 in Denver and has a (holy) hot take to share! tally.so/r/QKGNag

No! I can’t believe this. This is in our neighborhood. We go often and take others there. It was the oldest still operating covered market in Paris. I’m gutted.

Let us pray. This is the Urban Monastic Collect for our Twenty-Eighth Week of Ordinary Time.

Lord, Everywhere I go Your grace meets me and follows me so I can grow in Your love. Amen. A Blessing for our Twenty-Eighth Week of Ordinary Time.

I trained in six new Acolytes for our cathedral today. It was really wonderful. Before the service I trained in five students and then they all served with me. They did so good. So wonderful!

It is wild to consider that all it will take to be super human in a couple years is to have not used AI/LLMs (like ChatGPT). I'm unprepared for the declines in attention, cognition, and engagement these tools are/will impose on so many people.

This is what I imagine it’s like for clergy to race home from their diocesan convention that ends on Saturday in time for church Sunday morning. ⚓️

Well, turns out the person cast in spain was cast and not me. The french casting director did recommend and encourage me to get an agent, so I'm praying about that this weekend. It would have been fun.

"The idea of live-streaming a firing squad execution is reprehensible in the extreme and will cause moral injury to everyone involved. We need to ask ourselves who we have become as a nation when senior officials decide to make a spectacle of state-sponsored violence." ⚓️

13 years ago @jordanprins.com told me, "Yea, its almost downtown tumbleweed season." 😆

Pope: “In every age, there is no shortage of false teachers who exploit the religious sentiments of many believers for their own interests, often pushing them to radicalize certain aspects of the teaching they have received at the expense of the whole — the whole, which is Christ and his Gospel.”

As the #AAR #SBL conference approahes, I wanted to remind you all that I manage a feed that agregates all the related hashtags. It's a great way to follow along with #AARSBL26 (the feed updates every ~10-15 mintues & I bounce out unrelated accounts). ❤️, 📌 & share the feed! bsky.app/profile/paul...

Hundreds of students walked past my office today on their way to protest here in Paris. 70 minutes later the police were lining up where they usual stage before moving on to brutalize them. The police appear to be jovial and in good spirits about it. #Blocus #France #StudentProtest

Some of us are out here trying.

I want to invite you to be praying for the students of France and their blocus protests. I believe that every student should have a safe, peaceful and hopeful school environment. May every student in France have this, and may the state find ways to make it so.

The quality of writing and thought here should put both sociologists of religion and Missional Church influencers to shame. A must read for anyone at all interested in religion.