Susan Russell
@revsusanrussell.bsky.social
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Episcopal priest/activist/feminist/wife/mom/stepmom/grandma/ DogPerson/DodgerFan/VoteBlue - she/her
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Lighting our candle for Minneapolis. “Keep watch, dear Lord, with those who work, or watch, or weep, or march this night, and give your angels charge over those who protest injustice and oppression.”
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Christmas Substack:
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My tribute to one of the best bishops in the history of church
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This isn’t about party or politics. It’s about pedophiles and patriarchy.
#ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles
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My two cents on today’s SCOTUS action re: marriage.
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Game 7 Substack from diehard Dodger fan
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4 months ago
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A “when they go low, you go high” response to asshats giving you sh** about the No Kings protests on your social media posts. You’re welcome.
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We've lost a Giant and Heaven has gained a Hero [Reflections on the passing of Bishop Tom Ely]
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We've lost a Giant and Heaven has gained a Hero
"Sometimes when a candle of hope is all we can be, it is everything we are called to be."
https://open.substack.com/pub/revsusanrussell/p/weve-lost-a-giant-and-heaven-has?r=b0mjh&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
6 months ago
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No agreement. No questions. Left early. Sounds like a ketchup on the wall night, kids.
6 months ago
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Dan Rather For the Win
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It is a moment that is literally a Requiem for the Republic we’ve been pledging allegiance to since we first put our hands over our hearts in kindergarten. And it is a call to action for anyone of any current or former party. This is not a drill.
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How Is Martial Law in Our Nation's Capital Not A Bridge Too Far?
Spoiler: Your Grand Old Party does not exist anymore.
https://open.substack.com/pub/revsusanrussell/p/how-is-martial-law-in-our-nations?r=b0mjh
6 months ago
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It's Groundhog Day in the Anglican Communion: "What it takes to create schism is for someone to leave – and I am sick unto death with the unity of this church being placed on the shoulders of those of us who have committed to stay."
#Anglican
#Episcopal
#LGBTQ
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It's Groundhog Day in the Anglican Communion
2005 called and wants its talking points back.
https://open.substack.com/pub/revsusanrussell/p/its-groundhog-day-in-the-anglican?r=b0mjh&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
7 months ago
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Everyone said it was going to be "Epic." For a change, "Everyone" was right.
#JesusChristSuperstar
#CynthiaErivo
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God Dwells In You
Reflections on Jesus Christ Superstar
https://revsusanrussell.substack.com/p/god-dwells-in-you?r=b0mjh
7 months ago
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At Work in the Fields of the Lord
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"The vision of the full inclusion of all the baptized in all the sacraments once HQ’d in a cubicle in a temporary trailer in Pasadena is now centered in the work and witness coming out of the Church Center at 815 Second Avenue."
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At Work in the Fields of the Lord
Reflections on Anniversaries and Activism
https://open.substack.com/pub/revsusanrussell/p/at-work-in-the-fields-of-the-lord?r=b0mjh&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
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Did not have the first Anglican LGBTQ Archbishop on my bingo card for this week, but Hooray!
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A New Archbishop for Wales
AKA a "Makes the Heart Glad" Moment
https://open.substack.com/pub/revsusanrussell/p/a-new-archbishop-for-wales?r=b0mjh&utm_medium=ios
7 months ago
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Sobering summary of where we be.
add a skeleton here at some point
7 months ago
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Susan Russell
Steven Beschloss
7 months ago
Mike Johnson can send the House home early to avoid a vote about releasing the Epstein files, but that won’t stop the outcry about Trump’s coverup.
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I'm attending (and speaking at) the John Lewis Action event, “GOOD TROUBLE LIVES ON: - NELA Indivisible -- Memorial Park Pasadena” - sign up now to join me! Thursday, July 17 at 5pm
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GOOD TROUBLE LIVES ON: - NELA Indivisible -- Memorial Park Pasadena · John Lewis Actions
Good Trouble Lives On is a national day of nonviolent action to respond to the attacks posed on our civil and human rights by the Trump administration and to remind them that in America, the power lie...
https://www.mobilize.us/john-lewis-actions/event/808445/?referring_vol=6480643&rname=Susan&share_context=event_details&share_medium=bluesky×lot=5392557
7 months ago
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It is intentionally manufactured chaos designed to terrorize and immobilize those who stand for a nation conceived in liberty and dedicated to the yet unrealized but aspirational proposition that all people are created equal.
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What it's like to live here now
Report from the Front of Trump's War on America: Pasadena, June 2025
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8 months ago
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We as a church support gender affirming care “in all forms and at all ages.”
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We as a church support gender affirming care “in all forms and at all ages.”
The Episcopal Church responds to attack on gender affirming care.
https://open.substack.com/pub/revsusanrussell/p/we-as-a-church-support-gender-affirming?r=b0mjh&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
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The "history belongs to the intercessors who believe the future into being" kind of prayer Walter Wink wrote about.
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Standing in the Need of Prayer
"History belongs to the intercessors who believe the future into being." Walter Wink
https://revsusanrussell.substack.com/p/standing-in-the-need-of-prayer
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Thoughts on Memorial Day 2025: "Resistance is the most tangible way we honor the sacrifice of those who have fallen defending the noble-if-still-aspirational ideal of liberty and justice for all."
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9 months ago
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reposted by
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Peter Baker
9 months ago
"Nothing has so succinctly summed up the way the rest of the world feels it must now approach America as these 10 words: 'I’m sorry I don’t have a plane to give you,'" writes
@shawnmccreesh.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/22/u...
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A Revealing Joke in the Oval Office About Getting in Trump’s Good Graces
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/22/us/politics/trump-plane-south-africa-gifts.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c&pvid=17E2999F-537D-488B-80FF-DCFEED079E2A
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We are in a moment of history which is a draconian iteration of the game Whack-a-Mole where the mole is winning as it systematically undermines the foundations of our fragile democracy. And rising to that moment this week was the Episcopal Church.
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Episcopalians Rise to the Moment
We live and move and have our being in a moment of history that feels like we are caught in a draconian iteration of the game Whack-a-Mole where the mole is winning as it systematically undermines the...
https://revsusanrussell.substack.com/p/episcopalians-rise-to-the-moment
9 months ago
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May remembering its history inspire us to re-commit ourselves to Julia Ward Howe’s prescient Mother’s Day call to love, justice & compassion in the name of the God who is Mother and Father to us all.
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Remembering Julia Ward Howe and the Roots of Mother's Day
A Mother's Day Moment from All Saints Church
https://open.substack.com/pub/revsusanrussell/p/remembering-julia-ward-howe-and-the?r=b0mjh
9 months ago
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The Role of the Fisherman's Wife Will Be Played Today by Donald Trump ..."wherein a has-been reality television personality with multiple bankruptcies and a narcissistic personality disorder exploits an electorate to feed his insatiable greed for wealth and power"
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The Role of the Fisherman's Wife Will Be Played Today by Donald Trump
Or "When Life Imitates the Brothers Grimm"
https://open.substack.com/pub/revsusanrussell/p/the-role-of-the-fishermans-wife-will?r=b0mjh&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
10 months ago
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