More out of touch rhetoric coming out of the White House. My health insurance premium just went up over $1000 per month. A one time refund of $1K-$2K is not “gignatic”.

Praise God, you highest heavens and you waters above the heavens! ~Psalm 148:4 #dailyverses #Christmastide #protectimmigrants #protectindigenouspeople #GodIsLove🩷

Praise the MOST HIGH GOD, sun and moon; praise her, all you shining stars! ~Psalm 148:3 #dailyverses #Christmastide #protectindigenouspeople #protectimmigrants #GodIsLove✨

As a mother comforts her child, so will I comfort you all… ~Isaiah 66:13 #dailyverses #Christmastide #protectindigenouspeople #protectimmigrants #GodIsLove❤️ Translation: the Rev. Dr. Wilda Gafney, “A Women’s Lectionary for the Whole Church, Year A”

"By making life for trans youth too difficult to bear, the GOP is hellbent on a genocide by suicide." slate.com/life/2025/12...

And immediately there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly array, praising God and saying, “Glory to God in the highest heaven, and on earth peace among peoples whom God favors!” ~Luke 2:13-14 #dailyverses #Christmasday #protectimmigrants #protectindigenouspeople #GodIsLove🌹

The best part of Christmas Eve morning is the Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols from Kings College, Cambridge. It's really moving thinking about people throughout the world—separated by language and politics and culture and creed—all sitting down to listen to something together. #9LC

Am I the only one who can feel the weight of the world falling away from my shoulders the moment that boy soprano starts singing? #9lc

"When Herod the king had heard these things, he was troubled..." Tyrants are always afraid of love, terrified of grace and mercy because it undermines their coercive grip on power. By God's grace, the Herods of this world don't have the last word. #9lc 🕯️

That chord is the sound of the Incarnation. #9lc 🕯️

This Xmas, 2 police officers would like someone to finally hang the legally-mandated Jan 6th police honorary plaque at Capitol GOP Congressional leadership has defied March 2023 deadline to do so So officers Dan Hodges & Harry Dunn filed this yesterday storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Sing to God; sing praises to her Name; exalt her who rides upon the clouds— HOLY is her Name, rejoice before her! ~Psalm 68:4 #dailyverses #ChristmasEve #protectindigenouspeople #protectimmigrants #GodIsLove❤️ Translation: Rev. Dr. Wilda Gafney, “A Women’s Lectionary for the Whole Church,” Year A

It’s ADVENT WREATH CHAOS over here in Barcelona. 🕯️ 🕯️ 🕯️

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Faithfulness will spring up from the ground, and righteousness will look down from the sky. ~Psalm 85:11 #Advent #protectindigenouspeople #protectimmigrants #GodIsLove❤️

Republicans decided to go home for the holidays, leaving millions of Americans staring down massive health care premium hikes. They didn’t just clock out. They walked away from people’s lives. NOTE: These are all red or purple districts.

Amen.

Steadfast love and faithfulness will meet; righteousness and peace will kiss each other. ~Psalm 85:10 #dailyverses #Advent #protectimmigrants #protectindigenouspeople #GodIsLove💜

The wilderness and the dry land shall be glad; the desert shall rejoice and blossom; like the crocus it shall blossom abundantly and rejoice with joy and shouting. ~Isaiah 35:1-2a #dailyverses #Advent #protectindigenouspeople #protectimmigrants #GodIsLove🌼

Why, yes, I coordinate my towels with the weeks of Advent, why do you ask? #Advent #Advent3 #AdventJoy #thecompanystore

These things I remember, as I pour out my soul: how I went with the throng and led them in procession to the house of God, with glad shouts and songs of thanksgiving, a multitude keeping festival. ~Psalm 42:4 #dailyverses #Advent #protectimmigrants #protectindigenouspeople #GodIsLove🩷

“So then let us not sleep, as others do, but let us keep awake and be sober.” Some say it’s bad to be “woke”. But the Bible tells us to keep awake. I listen to love over tyrants, every time. ⚓️

Yes.

Justice Department • Friday Deadline I don’t care what your political affiliation is, your social status, power or wealth. Anyone that has participated in sex trafficking, abusing & raping children/women must be held accountable! Release The Epstein Files! #EpsteinClientList Thread 1/3🧵

Yes. Yes. Yes. It’s time to accept that the US supreme court is illegitimate and must be replaced www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

My tears have been my food day and night, while people say to me continually “Where is your God?” ~Psalm 42:3 #dailyverses #Advent #protectindigenouspeople #protectimmigrants #GodIsLove🩷

My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When shall I come and behold the face of God? ~Psalm 42:2 #dailyverses #Advent #protectimmigrants #protectindigenouspeople #GodIsLove🩷

As a deer longs for flowing streams, so my soul longs for you, O God. My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. ~Psalm 42:1-2 #dailyverses #Advent #protectindigenouspeople #protectimmigrants #GodIsLove🩷

Yesterday a hundred people came to our little church to hear Christmas Jazz Vespers with Bill Carter and the Presbybop Quintet. It was JOY. My face hurt from smiling.

The LORD watches over the strangers; he upholds the orphan and the widow, but the way of the wicked he brings to ruin. The LORD will reign forever, your God, O Zion, for all generations. Praise the LORD! ~Psalm 146:9-10 #dailyverses #Advent #protectimmigrants #protectindigenouspeople #GodIsLove🩷

The Lord sets the prisoners free; the Lord opens the eyes of the blind. The Lord lifts up those who are bowed down; the Lord loves the righteous. ~Psalm 146:7b-8 #dailyverses #Advent #protectimmigrants #protectindigenouspeople #GodIsLove🩷

Happy are those whose help is the God of Jacob, whose hope is in the Lord their God, who made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them; who keeps faith forever; who executes justice for the oppressed; who gives food to the hungry. ~Psalm 146:5-7 #dailyverses #Advent #GodisLove💜

I will put in the wilderness the cedar, the acacia,the myrtle, and the olive; I will set in the desert the cypress, the plane and the pine together,so that all may see and know,all may consider and understand, that the hand of the Lord has done this ~Isaiah 41:19-20 #dailyverses #Advent #GodIsLove💜

What's ominous is all of the trusted women of color who know a lot about AI are saying that a crash is on the way and the white guys are pretending they are taking it to the moon. This means that a crash is definitely on its way.

AI data centers are sucking up communities’ power & water. AI is being used by corporations to shaft consumers and is threatening young workers’ job prospects. So Trump wants to ram through a ban on state AI regulation — all to help out his Big Tech billionaire friends. See how this works?

I will open rivers on the bare heights and fountains in the midst of the valleys; I will make the wilderness a pool of water and the dry land springs of water. ~Isaiah 41:18 #dailyverses #Advent #protectimmigrants #protectindigenouspeople #GodIsLove💜

When the poor and needy seek water, and there is none, and their tongue is parched with thirst, I the Lord will answer them, I the God of Israel will not forsake them. ~Isaiah 41:17 #dailyverses #Advent #protectimmigrants #protectindigenouspeople #GodIsLove💜

Then they will put their confidence in God, and not forget the works of God, but will keep her commandments… ⬇️ ~Psalm 78:7-8 #dailyverses #Advent #protectimmigrants #protectindigenouspeople #GodIsLove💜 Translation: the Rev. Dr. Wilda Gafney, A Women’s Lectionary for the Whole Church, Year A

She gave her decrees for Rebekah’s descendants and placed teaching among Sarah’s offspring, which she commanded their mothers and fathers to make known to their daughters and sons. ~Psalm 78:5-6 #dailyverses #Advent #protectindigenouspeople #protectimmigrants #GodIsLove💜 (Continued in comments…)

I will open my mouth in a proverb; I will utter riddles from of old, which we have heard and known, and which our mothers and fathers have told us. ~Psalm 78:2-3 #dailyverses #Advent #protectindigenouspeople #protectimmigrants #GodIsLove💜

Give ear, my people, to my teaching; incline your ear to the utterances of my mouth. ~Psalm 78:1 #dailyverses #Advent #protectimmigrants #protectindigenouspeople #GodIsLove💙 Translation: the Rev. Dr. Wilda Gafney, A Women’s Lectionary for the Whole Church

WOMB OF LIFE, our Sovereign, how exalted is your Name in all the earth! ~Psalm 8:9 #dailyverses #Advent #protectimmigrants #protectindigenouspeople #GodIsLove💙 Translation: the Rev. Dr. Wilda Gafney, A Women’s Lectionary for the Whole Church

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I taught composition and technical writing at OU for three years. This decision is a disgrace. If instructors are expected to treat personal beliefs as formal “evidence,” then why even bother offering courses?

(3,3) My question for everyone who is looking into the National Guard shooting is simple. How did the killer get his guns and what is your plan to stop future killers (American citizens or not) from acquiring weapons in a country that currently makes that easy?

I was 8 months old. The Adoptee Citizenship act should have passed. Yes, the birth certificate issue is fraught for adoptees… but for those of us brought in from other countries? Our citizenship shouldn’t ever be in question. Ever. 🥚

On this day in 1955 Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat. For 381 days people boycotted the buses. They walked, carpooled and organized every single day until segregation cracked. Nothing will change today without that same resolve. Freedom isn’t granted, it's taken one step at a time. #Resist