Praying with Matthew 15- Let us pray 🙏🏽: O Jesus the people come to you to be healed and fed. You love our whole selves. Forgive us for divide and conquer. Forgive us for leaving broken people. Forgive me for clinging to bread 🥖 & fish 🎣 like it is mine. Let us have compassion on the crowd like You.

Y’all Christians remember how many times we are supposed to forgive? 70x 7. Take that log 🪵 out of own own eyes 👀

We can only have a healthy society if we change this

The heavens are telling the glory of God. ~Psalm 19:1

Heh. I like the lights putting on a show even if I didn’t get to see it. No ai bot, no gov shutdown can stop the glory of Creation.

#Aurora #Boston Update from across the river- not a ton of variation from #JamaicaPlain because of light pollution but mostly a very cold chihuahua.

Not kosher.

Paging @weatherishappening.com. A sign of our the anger of weather overlords.

Today I think about my grandfather Williard Worth and his landing at D-day, the horrors he saw at Buchenwald, and how he never talked about it. And how that truly messed up multiple generations in my family. War is terrible. Make for peace so we make no more veterans or #VeteransDay

This is what I try to always tell people: food banks can do way more with your money than you can, due to bulk buying deals. And they can do way, way more with your money than with the canned goods you didn’t want to eat

Happy Veterans Day. One-fourth of federal workers are veterans. Trump has literally decimated the federal workforce over the last nine months. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

Look. Flying is a privilege. Food and health care are necessities to live. I would MUCH prefer that our elected leaders hold their ground about hunger and health than the luxury of air travel. Cowards. Woe to you, you Pharisees.

Beloved, I’m sure the Lord can see his goodness but Larry Summers has consistently been a cranky, crabby, and stubborn man. Why are you surprised?

Robots are cool, but have we tried just paying caregivers more?

Baby, it’s ALL God’s backyard. #YIGBY

lol now the whole block is outside because some large truck got itself jammed up on our tiny street. We’ve got yelling in English, Spanish and Haitian Creole happening. And dogs yapping. I love you Boston.

Loving my neighbor in the abstract is easy. Loving my neighbor who I can hear FROM INSIDE MY APARTMENT while she praises her dogs’s 💩 while outside on the street because girlfriend is so damn loud at 7am is so much harder. Help me, Jesus. Seriously.

Beloved! November 11, #VeteransDay is when we Christians commemorate St Martin of Tours! Brother Martin cut off a portion of his own cloak to give it to a poor man. After his baptism, he said “I am a soldier of Christ. I cannot fight." His shrine is a site of sanctuary and refuge. Bless us, Martin!

I was away and am just now finding out that Fugakyu had closed?! This is terrible news Boston. www.boston.com/food/food-ne...

“We could hear them laughing as they were shooting us from the roof,” (Rev. David) Black recalled. He is not the only member of the clergy ICE has assaulted.”

I am not a crazy ideologue. I just think that the richest society in human history has a moral responsibility to welcome the stranger, feed the hungry, treat the sick, and house the homeless. If doing that requires forcing comfortably-housed people to accept neighborhood change, I'm ok with that.

Media coverage of traffic deaths matters: calling pedestrians "jaywalkers" and treating crashes as random tragedies—not design failures—makes funding safer streets harder. Pedestrian deaths up 75% since 2010. We know the fixes; language shapes policy.

In my youth pastor voice… “You know who is the maximum Alpha and Omega?!?!”

It is meat and right. 🥩

In a single day, two different federal officers point guns at two different @chicagotribune.com photojournalists in and around Chicago. This is dangerous stuff.

So what do we say to our people who need food AND healthcare, you cowards? Art of compromise, yes. But you just got bought.

I am the target audience for this menu item: “Grandma’s choice. “ Give it up for PHO SURE, Worcester. Today Grandma felt like making Brisket Bon Mi with a pho 🍲 broth dip. 🙌🏼

As for me and MY GOD, we want people to use their God-given intelligence to live, and choose peer-reviewed, medically-supported vaccines. 💉 This is some Grade-A snake 🐍 oil he’s peddling. SMH 🤦‍♀️

Today, I had church with the unhoused congregation MANNA. Incenses didn’t fully cover up the smell of urine or body odor of people who can’t shower. But, “the body of Christ” hits different here. “Behold what you are.” “May we become what we receive.” Give to MANNA, #Boston: www.mannaboston.org

I was offline when this happened, and I will switch teams when Boston gets our #NWSL club, but I LOVE NJ/NY spoilers! Way to go, GothamFC. #GoBats

Nothing like getting the text from MY WIFE’S MOTHER to tell me the Supreme Court is not going to rule on the legality of our equal marriage. Let the people say AMEN.

Our leaders are fighting AGAINST feeding hungry people.

As our community members fight their wrongful convictions, these are the appalling conditions they suffer. The irony is that the Department of Correction preaches accountability to its residents but demonstrates little for itself and its staff. www.wgbh.org/news/local/2...

My Dad was a proud laborer and then a labor leader his whole career. Never once did I go to his labor union hall and see anyone who looked like this.

The solidarity and pride of the laborers I grew up around was real and important. The whitewashing is the lie.

The rage I feel that a statement of my faith is being used as a weapon in anti Muslim attacks? We Christians need to have a family reunion and some hard talk.

So what do I say to my family member who needs both SNAP benefits and health care? I expect a functional government that cares for all of God’s people. All.

The metamorphic mineral staurolite with its distinctive penetration twinning forming a cross. It’s positively delightful!! #MineralMonday #GeoscienceBluesky ⚒️🧪

Hi saints! Thanks for your prayers while I was gone. Got another chapter written. Saw some big sky, good friends, lower league footy, and excellent art. Just what I need to set the soul right, and stay en la lucha.

Praying with Nehemiah 9- Let us pray 🙏🏽: Oh God, even when we insisted on returning to Egypt, you sustain us. We are a stiff necked people. Nehemiah says our ancestors were not mindful of the wonders you performed. I fear I miss awe. Slow me down. Let me see your miracles today. Thank You Lord.

Signing out for the next week. Time to weave some frayed ends together of the next book project on mending & a God who repairs. I’m hidden away out of state with a good friend, a warm room, trying to claw back a writing retreat that didn’t happen earlier this year. Be gentle to one another. ❤️‍🩹🧵🪡🙏🏽

Praying with Matthew 13- let us pray 🙏🏽: Ugh, Lord. I can feel the ground of my heart being worked, tilled, dug up, and turned over. Keep at it. This is the right work, but damn it’s hard. I want Your word to fall on fertile soil. Let Your love take root in me and grow stronger. Sow more strength.

Co-Sign. Feeding our hungry neighbors is our collective responsibility, NOT the work of charity. Religious groups are not equipped nor capable of doing this at the scale of SNAP. And we should not be asking us to, too. Call the Gov.

Charity is good. Justice is required. The immediate response to hungry people is to feed them now. The long term response is to stop the situation of hunger. Give to food access farms & food banks now. But most importantly, force the Trump administration to reopen the government & restore SNAP

I am profoundly grateful for @bostoncitycouncil.bsky.social passing legislation to ban facial recognition surveillance. #bospoli #mapoli

My brother in Christ is missing the Pentecost vision of “each in their own language” hearing the good works of God. What a small, scared faith.

This seems wildly illegal and unconstitutional, not to mention incredibly error prone

*people without homes. C’mon, editors. A person’s housing situation does not define their identity. “Renter” or “homeowner” is not a core identity or a moral imperative. Stop shaming people whom we as a society have failed to house. This is on us as a culture. Do better @bostonglobe.com

I haven’t yet read Elizabeth Eddy’s op-ed on the inclusion of trans athletes in the #NWSL. And as a fellow believer, I disagree with where her faith leads her. The God I know longs for our full humanity and life abundant. The God I know seeks healing. I grieve the harm her words have caused.