Marshall M.Div

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Mental Health Advocate // B.A., M. Div // Randolph-Macon College, ‘19 // Union Presbyterian Seminary ‘22 // Inclusively Orthodox Episcopalian // He/Him Liber delectatio animae

Outro lyrics from Lamb of God’s “Blacken The Cursed Sun” Can we still be saved? (Hell, no) Does your god hold a place for us? (Hell, no) Is there time to repent? (Hell, no) Will we rise from the dead? (Hell, no) Can these sins even be forgiven? (Hell, no) Is there still hope for us? (Hell, no) Were we ever even alive? (Hell, no) Is any of this even real? (Hell, no) (Hell, no)
Stack of books including: Call Me Ishamelle North Sun, or The Voyage of the Whaleship Esther Son of Nobody they
Picture book emblazoned with a Caledott Medal and entitled “John Henry”; written by Julius Lester, with pictures by Jerry Pinkney
Hey all, So I'm in a bit of a pickle and I'm looking for advice. I'm about to start an internship on top of MLIS classes and a variable-hours part time job. My current class is 10-12 hours/week of work, which I'll be adding to soon with a 5 week summer intensive of probably a similar amount of work, on top of my 15-20 hour/week part time job which I'Il be adding the internship on top of. The internship is paid but it's less than 1k/month and my other job is cutting hours more and more so bills are getting tight. My question is: how the hell do I manage all this?? I'm juggling like 3 different schedules right now alongside having to feel like I'm drowning in classwork, which is only getting more and more intense and time-consuming; not to mention the every day issues of being a chronically ill adult...l'm a semester away from graduating so I don't want to take a gap or anything but it feels like I'm barely keeping my head above water and something's going to have to give.
Picture of the cover of Ottessa Moshfegh’s “Lapvona” showing a renaissance era painting of a sheep
• Softer wheat works well for cakes, cookies, and biscuits, but when it comes to bread, we tend to reach for imported flower with a higher proportion of gluten. Kernels of wheat have three parts: the endosperm, the bran, and the germ When milled, wheat kernels are cracked and finely ground then sifted in stages, becoming more and more refined each time. Eventually the brain and germ are entirely filtered out, resulting in white flour • This white wheat flour is almost entirely composed of the endosperm, which is rich in protein. • Flours containing all three parts are termed "whole wheat flour", which contains most of the fiber and rich minerals from the wheat in the bran and germ. ~ Lets Talk Gluten! • One of the ways we categorize flour is in relation to its strength. • This can be uncovered by looking at it's protein content • When we add water, proteins emerge from hibernation in their dehydrated state to create gluten.
"I think I could stand anything, any suffering, only to be able to say and to repeat to myself every moment, 'I exist! In thousands of agonies — I exist. I'm tormented on the rack — but I exist! Though I sit alone in a pillar — I exist! I see the sun, and if I don't see the sun, I know it's there. And there's a whole life in that, in knowing that the sun is there." - Fydor Dostoyevsky // The Brothers Karmazov
“It is therefore, ordered, adjudged, and decreed that the bonds of matrimony existing between the Plaintiff and the Defendant are dissolved, and the Plaintiff is granted an absolute divorce.” Τετελεσται (It is finished). Grief and heartache have defined the last couple of years for me. The loss of my marriage and the loss of my father combined for a terribly ugly storm. But it Christ who rebukes the storm and says “Be still!” It’s been a long couple of years, but I hope to move forward in grace and wonder and what comes next.
List of Books: - On Priesthood: Servants, Shepherds, Messengers, Sentinels, and Stewards by Stephen Cottrell - The Wounded Healer by Henri Nouwen - The Christian Priest Today by Michael Ramsey - The Reformed Pastor by Richard Baxter - Discernment by Henri Nouwen - Sabbath by Abraham Joshua Heschel - Revelations of Divine Love by Julian of Norwich - Jesus and the Disinherited by Howard Thurman - Let Your Life Speak by Parker Palmer - Return of the Prodigal Son by Henri Nouwen - Life Together by Bonhoeffer
These things, beloved, we write unto you, not merely to admonish you of your duty, but also to remind ourselves. For we are struggling on the same arena, and the same conflict is assigned to both of us. Wherefore let us give up vain and fruitless cares, and approach to the glorious and venerable rule of our holy calling.
Book cover: “Morningside: The 1979 Greensboro Massacre and the Struggle for an American City’s Soul”
God is especially present in the hearts of his people by his holy Spirit: and indeed the hearts of holy men are Temples in the truth of things, and in type and shadow they are of Heaven it self. For God reigns in the hearts of his servants. There is his They serve him night and day and give him thanks and praise; that is, his giory: Kingdom. The power of grace hath subdued all his enemies. There is, his power. This is the religion and worship of God in the Temple. The temple it self is the heart of man; Christ is the High Priest, who from thence sends up the incense of prayers and joyns them to his own intercession, and presents all together to his Father; and the Holy Ghost by his dwelling there, hath also consecrated it into a Temple; and God dwels in our hearts by faith, and Christ by his Spirit, and the Spirit by his purities; so that we are also Cabinets of the Mysterious Trinity; and what is this short of Heaven it self, but as infancy is short of manhood, and letters of words? The same state of life it is, but not the same age. It is Heaven in a Looking-glasse, (dark, but yet true) representing the beauties of the soul, and the graces of God, and the images of his eternal glory by the reality of a special presence.
In 1851, Pusey published a work entitled A Letter to the Right Hon. and the Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of London in Explanation of some Statements Contained in a Letter by the Rev. W. Dodsworth. 253 In this letter Pusey stated that in the Eucharist there is: "a pleading of our Lord's passion in act, a memorial of it, not to ourselves, but to God. ... We present before Him not mere bread and wine, but that which, without physical change of substance, consecrated by the words of our Lord and the power and the grace of God, is verily and indeed, not carnally, but mystically, sacramentally, spiritually, and in an ineffable and supernatural way, the body and blood of our Lord."
Stack of books including: “The Warmth of Other Suns” by Isabel Wilkerson The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo Searching for Sunday by Rachel Held Evan’s Ethics by Aristotle Activist Theology by Henderson-Espinoza
The front cover of the cookbook “Falastin” by Sami Tamimi and Tara Wigley which shows a green salad with a white sauce and red splotches of dressing.
Text bubble saying: Oh yeah. Happy Thursday! There's a new pope and he's American.
“Forgiveness is like this act of love where you’re like ‘you’re an imperfect being and I still love you’ that’s the energy of forgiveness and ‘I’m an imperfect being and we’re not giving up on each other.’”
A stack of books including: Barth’s Church Dogmatics: A Selection Michael Gorman’s “Apostle of the Crucified Lord: A Theological Introduction to Paul and his Letters” Jeremy Taylor’s Selected Works Volume 3 of Paul Tillich’s Systematic Theology An edited volume entitled “Love’s Redeeming Work: The Anglican Quest for Holiness”
Blue book entitled “What Does The Bible Say About Suicide” by James T. Clemons
Library screenshot of “Every Valley: The Desperate Lives and Troubled Times That Made Handel's Messiah” by Charles King Showing 8 copies on order and 18 people on the waitlist.
LibBib Collection denoting “Marshall’s Library” has 297 items.
Lamb of God’s Ashes of the Wake album cover and title
Outline titled “Potential Studies” with the following listed: When In Romans by Beverley Gaventa (4 weeks) On The Cross: A Study of the Crucifixion (Lent, 2025) Utilizing Rutledge’s “The Crucifixion” NT Wright’s Revelation for Everyone (7 weeks) Supplemental Material: Craig Koester’s ABC on Revelation Rowan Williams’ Series On Being Human (2 weeks) On Being Christian (2 weeks) On Being Disciples (2 weeks)