[Warning: The following essay will contains spoilers for Warrior Nun seasons 1 and 2.] Beatrice’s struggle in Warrior Nun is extremely personal. While at first glance Beatrice appears to be just another member of the Order of the Cruciform Sword (OCS), she quickly takes center stage as a core character in the organization. This comes in the form of her friendship with Ava, which is quickly established in Season 1, Episode 3.

It’s 2023 already? Wild. It’s fun to look back on a year and see everything you did. That’s what’s so great about iPhones, the notes and photos apps where you can re-live your year. I took a ride down the last 12 months for my own reflection and figured I would let you guys into it as well. Sometimes I give myself no credit for anything, I’m very much a “whats up next?

The Evangelical Lutheran Church In America will most likely not exist after this summer. If not this summer then within the next year the ELCA will go through schism. It will come with  incredible strife, turmoil, loss of membership, legacy, and the loss of what many assumed was a permanently ensconced place among America’s largest Mainline Christian denominations.  The symptoms of what ails the ELCA were easy enough to see. The now three year old removal of the ELCA’s first consecrated and installed Black woman to the office of Bishop, Viviane Brietfield Thomas, and the now obvious gaslighting and racist series attacks engineered by her own synod council or staff, but whom like a good Christian soldier fell on her sword, probably signed an NDA, and took three months severance apparently.

Judge Joanna Tabit of West Virginia, who presided over the juvenile drug court in Charleston, in a scene from our HBO movie Our Towns. She changed her community and her state, and died this week at age 62. (Steven Ascher / HBO.) Two highly influential women—one known to the world, one who deserved recognition far beyond her home state—have died in the past two days. I want to join in appreciations of the first, and say something more about the second.

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