“take as your Advent work toward Christmas that enterprise: decrease/increase. Decrease what is old and habitual and destructive in your life so that the new life-giving power of Jesus may grow large with you…” Celebrating Abundance, Walter Brueggemann, pg. 12, 13.

“All of the empirical (and imperial!) evidence was against him! But Isaiah's prophetic imagination is not constrained by such evidence because Isaiah's God is not limited by any empire…” Brian J. Walsh The Advent of Justice, pg. 14.

“God does not respect whatever petty justifications we give for the narrowness of our hearts.” The blasphemy of national Christianity, Mac Loftin, The Christian Century, December 2025.

It was six years ago today that a man in Wuhan, China began feeling ill. He would become the first known COVID case. Covid is still with us. It’s still killing and disabling. Clean the air. Wear a mask. Get your boosters. Public health is a social justice issue.

A prayer for the first Sunday in Advent: “Living God, visit us in this season with your Holy Spirit that we may get carried away to do obedient things we have not yet done, kingdom things we did not think we had in us...” Celebrating Abundance: Devotions for Advent, Walter Brueggemann, pg. 5.

Stained glass leaves

I'll be part of an immigration roundtable conversation with a few great scholars on December 3rd. You can stream it and watch, too. www.gordonconwell.edu/event/christ...

Introduce yourself with 5 animals you’ve seen in the wild: Pica Big horn sheep Black bear Bald eagle Moose

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NEW: Earlier this month, I spent the day with the Luhmanns — a family rooted in theologically conservative Christianity. In the morning, the homeschooled teenage sons tracked ICE. In the afternoon, the mother aided an immigrant mother whose partner was deported. religionnews.com/2025/11/25/h...

Page One in Cincinnati: “.. I need to be able to look my grandkids in the eye and say I did not remain silent.” #ICE

I designed a very tall mural for www.bdcolomiers.com/

If you see this, post your getaway vehicle.

New project: Among the Shadows Cowl with Madeline Tosh Unwind DK in Accra Evening colorway. The yarn is dyed in a tape so you frog and then knit. I don’t think I would use this yarn for anything more complicated than basic stitches because of the crimping. 🧶 www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib...

If you'd like to give a book this holiday season to a kid in my class, I am hoping to give all 66 a copy of one of my favorites, Charlotte's Web. Thank you. www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/...

Hal hadn’t survived three Thanksgivings by being stupid.

“Do not let yourself be deceived by those who under the banner of truth tear down reality” For Such a Time As This: An Emergency Devotional, Hanna Reichel, pg. 24.

Good morning, beloved. Help someone find a reason to love. Today is a great day to overcome evil with good.

"Sometimes, when brothers and sisters stand together for the sake of justice, Big Brother chickens out." reformedjournal.com/2025/11/17/m...

The nativity trio featuring Baby Jesus, Mary, & Joseph is available in 4 skin tones, which you can mix & match. I have a few ready to go in each style. They make wonderful, unique gifts. $35 + $8 shipped.

To Hell with anyone and everyone who works to protect Jeffrey Epstein and his perverted friends. These women had their childhoods stolen from them by those sick freaks.

I wanted to share probably the most important sermon I’ve given and it’s while I’m being arrested. It’s torture pure and simple what happens at #Broadview. I’m ok, though I was thrown to the ground and choked with my pectoral cross. A review of the video shows I was peaceful - did I deserve this?

I thought about Mike Johnson and the other professing Christians who have worked extremely hard to protect the accomplices of Jeffrey Epstein, the pedophile - whoever they are. I wondered “why do these supposedly Christian people do this?” Then I realized. This is what some of them do at church.

What a photograph. “Nearly two dozen arrested as faith leaders protested outside a federal immigration facility near Chicago…” Arrested large amounts of peaceful clergy face first on pavement is a pretty good sign you’re not the good guys in the story. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

3 of the 4 happened here in chicago. each one is an outrage.

Remember, you're under no obligation to justify yourself to anyone if you choose to spend the entire weekend reading books, drinking multiple kettles of tea, and indulging in a scandalous amount of croissants.

I don’t know who needs to hear this, but your desire to inhale the pages of every book you pick up is something you never need to apologize for. Anyone who tells you otherwise doesn’t belong in your circle of friends.

The Epstein list isn’t like team sports We don’t care if it takes down Democrats We don’t care if it takes down progressives We don’t care if it takes down our fave celebrity If you raped children, you must be held accountable If you trafficked children, same I don’t care what side you’re on

“The journey out of colonial abuse begins with the word "no." No, I will no longer be a peon in your game. No, my identity is not given to me by you. No, you will not think for me and tell me how I should feel.” Adrian Jacobs

I received a work email about a trade show - “You don’t want to miss out on attending IBS!” 👀 Maybe they need to rename it. 😬

No wonder I couldn’t leave a message on my senator’s line. Shame indeed.

NEW: EXCLUSIVE: I spoke to sources at FBI and DOJ that reviewed the Epstein files. It’s worse than the photos. I’ll let you know what they said today at 3:30 PM PT / 6:30 PM ET on @meidastouch.com. Link to show: www.youtube.com/live/hEi77Ib...

Vibrant fall colors.

My book, Lamb of the Free: Recovering the Varied Sacrificial Understandings of Jesus’s Death, is 50% off throughout Nov with code CONFSHIP from the publisher’s site. Tell your friends! wipfandstock.com/978166670304...

If sandwich shops don’t start offering a sandwich named “the acquittal” then what are we even doing

One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc

One of the cartoons from my new book 'Physics for Cats'. In good bookshops now and online in English, French, German and Spanish editions. I am in Spain this week launching the book - come along! www.tomgauld.com

“but I believed that it I wanted to belong — not just to this community but to an eternal one— I had to think and believe rightly. And right belief wasn't found in curiosity or questions; it was found in compliance… 1/2

Very proud of my kid.

“Empire is fundamentally about the extension of control, whether through direct domination or subtle influence. And in that expansion, something essential is always sacrificed.” Liturgies for Resisting Empire, Kat Armas, pgs. 16, 18

Bright ginkgo in full sun.

“To serve God and wealth at the same time is impossible… It is like praising Jesus while preying on the poor.” Sabbath as Resistance, Walter Brueggemann, pg. 68.

“Moses spoke more about the most vulnerable of the neighbors who receive attentive consideration and protection by the Lord of the covenant...” Sabbath as Resistance, Walter Brueggemann, pg. 26.

How firm a foundation, ye saints of the Lord, is laid for your faith in God's excellent Word! What more can be said than to you God hath said, to you who for refuge to Jesus have fled?

“If there is to be a life beyond totalitarianism, we must cultivate a life outside its grasp, even as we live within it.” For Such A Time As This: An Emergency Devotional, Hanna Reichel, pg. 13

“Resolving all tensions is a hallmark of ideology. Easy answers and clear-cut solutions are what authoritarianism offers. Part of the task upon us today is to resist these lures.” For Such A Time As This, Hanna Reichel, pg. xiii.

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