My contribution to the #piediscourse is that birthday pie is in every way superior to birthday cake

My parents went, wearing frog hats

Every year, @dragoncon.org happens the same weekend as Black Gay Pride and a big college football game. It’s great!

I need help id’ing types of apocalyptic stories. I’ve got “Oops, climate change is real and bad” (day after tomorrow) “Science is hard, we made monsters” (28 days later) “Wow lots is out of our control?” (war of the worlds) “Yikes total/nuclear war sucks” (fallout, mad max) What else?

Hi, this is the sermon I preached on Sunday: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b...

There’s a closed captioning service for the business meetings at #ga2025beyond Someone just referenced ICE, but on the screen it said ISIS. Yes that feels correct

Of all the things that are hard in my life, My marriage is the *least* hard. 10 years in, still a joy, still easy, still my favorite. You know what was hard? My first marriage. That sucked because it was a bad marriage that needed to end.

Hell yeah my GMP rules

I got the first COVID vaccine when I was 10 weeks pregnant. I got the second shot 4 weeks later. Once babu was born, I didn't take him *ANYWHERE* until after he had the three shot series of the COVID vaccine. He was 9 months old before he saw the inside of a store, a school, a library, etc.

Hot take, I guess, but using AI to write your sermons is cheating the congregation that hired you. I also think it does spiritual harm to both the writer and listener.

I read books again, in *this* economy. Please clap. Maroons by @adriennemareebrown.bsky.social - book 2; survivors of a plague of sadness that mostly kills back folks in detroit seem to develop magical abilities. How does trauma change us?

Rev Dr Barber is the Inaugural Prophetic Preacher-in-Residence of the newly created Office of Prophetic Witness in the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ). He was just arrested as he prayed in the US Capitol Rotunda.

Every hell must be harrowed. Christ is Risen!

This is one of the reasons that our stupid president wants to annex Greenland

This post is great. You can laugh while you learn

Goddamnit he’s right

Friendly reminder for #clergy preaching John 12: Lazarus of Bethany did NOT die of leprosy. That's the Lazarus from Jesus' parable in Luke 16. I had to delete a whole paragraph of my sermon when I realized I'd conflated the two.

it's important that today we put our differences aside to come together and say eat shit Strom Thurmond you desiccated corpse

My BIL has organized a conference (physics) in California and 1/2 the European attendees have dropped out for this reason

My favorite film genres: 5. Keanu Reeves interacts w/supernatural beings 4. Foreign cartoons about loss & found family 3. Goth claymation 2. Superheroes explore non-substitutionary atonement, as a treat 1. People try to survive absurd natural disasters like Wylie coyote

That, dear ones, is what we call an omen

The sandwich generation, except you're wondering how to get your kids AND your parents out of the country so they can access the medication they need to save their lives.

Hello. As you can imagine, I'm mad/sad/disgusted by just about every news item. We (the world?) deserve better. It was hard to do anything but doom-scroll. I did manage to read again this month.

Listening to some Sarah Paine lectures recently, I learned that Japan invaded mainland china b/c of the worldwide economic catastrophe set off by America imposing tariffs (Smoot–Hawley). That changed the calculus of the Chinese civil war which gave rise to Mao, etc., etc.

Being a clergy lady online means I have had trads of all kinds yelling at me forever, so I’m very very good already at not complying in advance.

You know, I wonder how many historic figures of resistance would be diagnosed today with pathological demand avoidance (pda)

Relatedly: I'm looking into getting lasik b/c my vision is awful and that will make me a liability in a fraught future

Remember that dem congressperson who tried to “own” the current ice raids by saying “Biden deported way more” & in no way realized that was a mask-off moment revealing est Dems to be fascist-lite hypocrites? Anyway, they’re gonna “the courts will save us” till they’re rounded up.

Just watched the Section 31 movie. That was clearly shot as a tv show and then forcibly edited into a movie. It was fine! I wanted less “suicide quad: this time it’s Star Trek” and more “tragic backstory of Emperor Georgiou”, but it was fine!

Just read the EO about denying trans kids (and adults) medical care and I say this with my full ordination authority: God Damn this administration.

Hello, this is me and both of my churches. One in Claremore, one in Nowata. Yes, in Oklahoma

So, the gospel lection for Sunday includes Jesus proclaiming "release to the prisoners" and in America the president just pardoned/released 1500 people who tried to overthrow the government and I'm not real sure how to thread that needle.

As a woman who preaches weekly in Oklahoma, the Xian Nationalist uproar about the Bishop's sermon makes me so tired.

Imagine being such a thin-skinned whiner that you’d characterize a bishop begging the most powerful man in the world to show mercy as “lecturing”.

Weird that we have to say this, but the government doesn’t get to decide what gender a person is.

Im on retreat with my covenant group of clergy buddies and this morning I made strawberry ricotta scones for us all and later we are seeing Conclave. It’s important to stake out your claim to joy and community when the world falters.

I don’t need all of my electronics to be enabled for WiFi! My fridge doesn’t need to connect to the internet! I won’t download an app to use my oven!

My two cents on the wretched Neil Gaiman news, having lived through something similar when my ex went to jail for sex crimes, and can speak to the reality of being a secondary victim:

Happy snow day!

I think a lot about how w/in the 1st century of the Xian movement, much of Rome was destroyed by a fire (64), Jerusalem was sacked (70), Vesuvius exploded (79), & plague in Libya/Egypt/Syria broke out & killed so many. Still the message was "love your neighbors", not "i got mine." That's our work

There are so many times when I open the dishwasher to gaze upon a haphazard mess. But you know what stops me from offering a critique? The thought of “doing the dishes” being my job, solely.

That which our presidents must do and defend is so profoundly morally bereft that it seems Jimmy Carter spent the rest of his life trying to atone for it. A life very reminiscent of the parable of the two sons.

When I was pregnant with G, I went to the Lakewood Disciples Women's Xmas party. There was a Christmas ornament gift exchange (white elephant style), and when it was my turn I ended up getting a delightfully tacky glass frog with a big ole belly.

Regular ass guy: damn this country has a lotta problems it would be great if we could solve one of them Our elites: we're going to bring back polio

There’s lots I don’t know about the situation in Syria. But I remember when Assad used chemical weapons on his own people, multiple times. I remember the horrifying accounts of torture and murder in his prisons.

When Paul spoke about the powers and principalities that opposed the Kingdom of Heaven… If he wrote that today, it would include private healthcare companies.

My favorite Andre the Giant fact is that Samuel Beckett would occasionally give him rides to school

Any #AAVE scholars know the linguistic origin of the phrase "call me out of my name"?