"politics is not always theology, but theology is always politics" - @daviddark.bsky.social (heard on the Rock That Doesn't Roll podcast)

Can't afford that book? DM me.

Great translation! Get a copy for yourself and a friend 😁

This is by far my most popular piece on substack, with close to half a million views. You should read it katemanne.substack.com/p/the-actual...

Critical thinking is my cardio, some of yall need to think about your heart health

On Joy and Sorrow, Kahlil Gibran poets.org/poem/joy-and...

C.S. Lewis, An Experiment in Criticism "We sit down before the picture in order to have something done to us, not that we may do things with it. The first demand any work of any art makes upon us is surrender. Look. Listen. Receive. Get yourself out of the way.

Slightly diminish a band: Four Iron Frenzy

Good episode! I really appreciate what @hoopersnook.bsky.social brings to the discussion.

Today's mood.

On Twitter, JeremyWingert79 asked how we stay sane through the next few years. Here's my answer -- a 🧵: --Focus on the local, things within your sphere of influence, and your ability to impact. --Cultivate unplugged times. Awareness is important, but this is a marathon, not a sprint. 1/4

As we witness these heartbreaking scenes from the fires in LA, an important reminder that incarcerated people make up over 30% of California’s forest firefighters.

This is useful context to the posts making the rounds about LA fire dept budgets, but the issue is somewhat of a distraction to current events. No city fire department, no matter how large and well-funded, could be sufficient to fight the type and scale of the fires happening now.

Hey mate! www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFDu...

Relevant: Acupressure in Psychotherapy as an Unsinkable Rubber Duck: A reply to Feinstein (2023) osf.io/preprints/ps...

Adventures in low brass (and related instruments)

If you were a villain, who would you be?

"If you want storehouses, you have them in the stomachs of the poor. Lay up for yourselves treasure in heaven." Saint Basil the Great

"When he appears upon the banks of the Jordan, the cover-ups come to their appointed end." (maybe you can guess the book - it's by @frutledge.bsky.social) #page42 Grab the nearest book. Turn to page 42. Share the 2nd sentence. Source is optional.

Seize life! Eat bread with gusto, Drink wine with a robust heart. Oh yes—God takes pleasure in your pleasure! Dress festively every morning. Don’t skimp on colors and scarves. Relish life with the spouse you love Each and every day of your precarious life. Each day is God’s gift.

The pain, anger, or fear that arises due to a memory or that comes from encountering the person who hurt us once again are NOT unforgiveness. When you see the person who hurt you and feel the negative feelings (anger, fear, sadness) pop up again, you can remind yourself:

“Advent faces into death and looks beyond it to the coming judgment of God upon all that deceives, twists, undermines, pollutes, contaminates, and kills his beloved creation. There can be no community of the resurrection without the conquest of death and the consummation of the kingdom of God.“

Alright y’all give me some good pods that are targeted at young adult Christian’s that are educational, inspire curiosity, and aren’t just 20 year olds riffing off of conservative talking points? Do any exist?

I know with certainty that there is hope for the darkest of stories because the Light of the World has come. His name is Jesus, and He brings life to dead places, forgives sins, and heals the broken and wounded.

Just in: Full CNN interview between Laura Coates and Bluesky CEO Jay Graber @jay.bsky.team

The Los Angeles City Council unanimously approves so-called “sanctuary city” ordinance that bars city resources from being used to assist in mass deportations: ktla.com/news/local-n...

Should people just leave off the few token women of color they put on these lists of women in theology, biblical studies, etc., and call them what they are: White women in theology, biblical studies, etc.?

(copying over a few things from the old site that I'd like to keep around)

I can’t stand your religious meetings. I’m fed up with your conferences and conventions. I want nothing to do with your religion projects, your pretentious slogans and goals. I’m sick of your fund-raising schemes, your public relations and image making.

Let nobody deceive you with empty words, for because of these things God’s wrath comes on the sons of disobedience. Therefore do not be sharers with them, for you were at one time darkness, but now you are light in the Lord.

"Our responses to the vulnerable expose who we are." Redeeming Power by Diane Langberg.

One bluesky feature that I really like is moderation lists - community managed lists of accounts that you may want to block or mute. To use it, click the link for the list, then click "Subscribe" and then Mute or Block to mute or block the entire list. Here's one I block: bsky.app/profile/fran...

Also, struck again by how effective/powerful/comprehensive block and mute are here. Boundaries 🫡.

@wilgafney.bsky.social Year B readings for this coming Sunday are 🔥🔥🔥

Your reminder the organization behind those Christian "He Gets Us" ads you'll see during the Super Bowl also gives tens of millions of dollars to the Alliance Defending Freedom, the far-right lawyers who overturned Roe and write most of the anti-trans laws in the country

If you were visited by 3 ghosts for Christmas who would you want them to be?

Is it righteous anger, or did I just skip breakfast?

A copper alloy oil lamp for Hanukkah depicting Judith holding a sword in one hand and the severed head of Holofernes in the other (Italy, c. 19th century). At The Jewish Museum, NYC, item no. F 3777. (In Renaissance Florence, Judith took on a secular symbolism...see caption.)

@drleahpayne.bsky.social have you seen this? This thread has a thing or two that might interest/entertain/horrify you 🙂

The more I look at this, the more questions I have (and not even wrt spelling)

@drleahpayne.bsky.social new weird religion episode! ❤️ Y'all should definitely watch/review midnight mass. (And you had a whole episode about Twin Peaks some years back - I recently finished listening through the back catalog 🙂 - Lynch's work freaks me out, in a way a lot of other horror doesn't)

This version makes more sense to me, but what do I know...