No lettuce formed against me shall prosper.

My latest books cartoon for @theguardian.com Many more here: www.theguardian.com/profile/tom-gauld

🧶 Exactly 👍🏼 #knit

#FridayFunDay #funnymemes

five living writers that you've read five books by each Laurie R. King James K. A. Smith N. T. Wright G. M. Malliet Scot McKnight

NEW from @fiona-murphy.bsky.social at @rns.org: A powerful mini-doc on the Luhmanns, a conservative Christian family that has been pushing back against ICE/DHS in the Chicago area for months. www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXsn...

I was back in Immigration Court this week, this time for the hearing of a sweet little three-year-old girl, I’ll call her Estrella. She’s been in federal custody, separated from her family for more than 10 months – even though her mom lives here in NYC. The cruelty is truly mind-boggling. 🧵

“In the thought reform milieu, as in all situations of ideological totalism, the experiential world is sharply divided into the pure & the impure, into the absolutely good & the absolutely evil.” Losing Reality: Cults, Cultism, & the Mindset of Political & Religious Zealotry, Robert Lifton, pg. 73

Dodgy sales call: We make custom software, but we can’t tell you the type of software because it’s customized to your business. Also we can’t give you a company name/return number. I was tempted to ask if their software spins straw into gold, but just asked to be taken off their call list.

Christianity does not look like praying, singing, and giving money while ignoring the screams, unspeakable suffering, filth, and death of others. Christianity is not calling others "them"—somehow unlike us, not human, and deserving of their suffering.

The NPS will launch 850,000 fireworks in the middle of the night. (Last year, they launched 7,000) That will dump perchlorates and heavy metals into the Potomac River and cause the amount of soot and smoke particles to skyrocket (pardon), at great danger to any creature that breathes.

Today’s page-a-day book lover’s calendar 📚📚📚

"The wealth of America has been purchased by the suffering of my people. It is impossible to talk about the founding of this nation without acknowledging this." www.plough.com/articles/thi...

Deception becomes systemic when we use our collective power to protect what we desire to be true rather than face the destruction and the pain that accompanies the actual truth. Deception functions as a narcotic in protecting us from seeing or feeling that which is painful to us.

“I told him, in confidence, that I was suffering a crisis of conscience. I asked him how he felt about placing human beings in hot tents in Southwest Texas. About locking them inside plexan and steel ‘pods,’ like cages in any garden-variety zoo. He shrugged. ‘Money is money.’” —J. M. C. Kane

When we love our systems more than the Christ we say we serve, we must ask, who is our God? Many worship lesser gods. Some worship what we call “evangelicalism"—or a certain theological system. Many worship a particular leader.

True repentance means owning responsibility for the breakdown of trust and knowing that much time will pass before it can be renewed, if that is even possible.

Here’s the prayer for Juneteenth that I’ve included in my prayer book. Today’s the day we celebrate in honor of that day in 1865 when federal troops arrived in Galveston, Texas, to ensure all enslaved people were freed, more than two years after the Emancipation Proclamation.

Another $250 given! WE ONLY NEED $240 TO MEET THIS NEED! Please share! Please give your $5! We are so, so, so close to keeping this family housed!

LESS THAN SIX HOURS TO KEEP A WOMAN AND HER CHILDREN FROM EVICTION. Could you give $2, $5 or $10? These small donations are adding up but we need more people to meet the need! We need $1,035 more to keep this beautiful woman and her two young boys housed! Let's take care of each other 🩵

Okay, it's time for a Moist Owlette™ timeline cleanse. Today's moist owlette is "Owlfredo" at the Stone Zoo in Stoneham, Massachusetts. She's an Eastern screech owl (Megascops asio) & Animal Ambassador with a big personality. (📷: @zoonewengland.bsky.social via IG)

World Relief has an advocacy tool to ask your Senators to preserve Temporary Protected Status for Haitians in the U.S. worldrelief.org/advocate/protect-haitians/

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i really do not want to be sharing my own article again. i do not want it to continue to be so relevant. but here rfk jr. is, again, saying once again that people like me and my son are life unworthy of life. so here is my counterpoint: sojo.net/articles/opi...

First gardenias of the season. The fragrance is heavenly. #bloomscrolling

“We don't need a kinder, more inclusive settler colonialism—a bigger tower built on the same rotten unstable base. A decolonized faith says no to empire consistently, outside and within. Our safety & security cannot come at the expense of anyone else. May we see that ever more clearly.” Patty Krawec

Singing in the Rain Man

Here’s a link to the full article: “MELTING ICE… with Salt and Light.” redletterchristians.org/2026/06/02/m...

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Memorial Day is a good time to remember this disgusting act.

“The ethnic literary project has always been a humanist project in which nonwhite writers must prove they are human beings who feel pain.” Minor Feelings, Cathy Park Hong, pg. 49.

“Peter said to Jesus, ‘Lord, it is good for us to be here. Let us build three ballrooms—one for you, one for Moses and one for Elijah.’ For he did not know what he was saying.”

Oh my GOSH, thank you to the anonymous donor who just gave over $4,000 to this project! We are now $211 from meeting our $15k match. Can we bring it home the rest of the way?

In 2017, Criselda Vasquez painted this portrait of her parents and titled it "The New American Gothic." Last month, her father, the man in this portrait, was abducted by ICE after being in the US for 30+ years. The family is now struggling with bills. A GoFundMe has been started: gofund.me/456d8a193

Books Used books Library books Audiobooks Books that upend the status quo Comfort books worth reading

Drop something destructive

QRP with the doctor you'd trust leading the hantavirus response instead of RFK Jr.

I told you this place is always crowded, we should’ve called for a reservation 😩

Ginkgo green

Slightly diminish a book: Assault and Battery on the Orient Express Gaudy Dusk The Doggo of the Baskervilles Dante’s Fire Pit

Starting sunflowers from seeds indoors. They sprouted in 5 days.

It is a grievous failure of those who claim to be the people of God when they not only fail to be a sanctuary for the traumatized but also create the need for one.

“Is there a God who collects the tears, who honors hope and rewards the ordeals of the guiltless?” Man Is Not Alone, Abraham Joshua Heschel, pg. 55

My new book DEFYING TYRANTS: Following Jesus in a World of Christian Antichrists is available for pre-order. Out October 6th. A thread on what it is and why I wrote it — and why theology is central to resisting the authoritarian right. 🧵

sometimes the only thing that helps is hot drinks with a dear friend

I just can’t imagine wanting an entire secure ballroom for one man and not wanting gun reform for every child in America.

oh my god, are we done?? guys, it’s done! 🥰 i am in love. thank you for commissioning me, @coconutbutt.bsky.social. this was so much fun. #commissionsopen #multimediaartist #traditionalart #portraitdrawing