Being rooted and grounded in Christ's love paves the way for peace, enabling us to be servants and agents of peace in the world.

Greta Thunberg provides the perspective that most western media will not: It’s not about a few hundred foreign nationals being mistreated by Israel for a few days. It’s about the #GazaGenocide, deliberate denial of aid, and Israel’s flagrant breaches of international law.

Fascism occurs twice: first as the tragedy of a Second World War started by men who fought the First and knowingly chose slaughter, then as the farce of an ignorant draft dodger trying to provoke a war against his own people.

This.

Talarico: if you read the new testament, Jesus doesn't spend most of his time preaching or teaching or even praying. He spends most of his time healing the sick. Right now, we have politicians in congress with Christ follower in their Twitter bio, but they are kicking the sick off their health care

"'Someone who says I’m against abortion but is in favor of the death penalty is not really pro-life ... Someone who says I’m against abortion but I’m in agreement with the inhuman treatment of immigrants in the United States, I don’t know if that’s pro-life.'" www.ncregister.com/cna/pope-leo...

As predicted last week. And to repeat: Pushing forward with this will fragment the armed forces and risk not just the security but the existence of the Republic. For no reason at all.

Pope makes rare comments on U.S. politics, military gathering

i'm guessing this is for his buddies who have been accused of war crimes or blatant racism

Best description I’ve seen yet

Thank you, @jaredstacy.bsky.social

Judging by their speeches, neither Trump nor Hegseth has paid the slightest attention to how actual wars are being fought in the actual world. The “war fighting” and “lethality” they plan is inside their own country and comes from conflicts inside their own minds.

It is bad that Trump wants to use American soldiers against their fellow Americans. And it is also bad that Trump wants foreign powers to exploit his unnecessarily, artificial, and pre-scripted civil war.

Today is a good day to start reading theologianveteran Stan Goff’s Borderline: Reflections on War, Sex, and Church: “There is an idol inside the idol of the state, inside the idol of the king and the imperium, inside the idol of war; and that is the idol of the conquering male.”

Seen this morning in Bucktown, Chicago, at the Casimir Pulaski International School: We all live here.

The most the perverse use of rhe Lord’s Prayer I have ever seen, posted on Sec. Hegseth’s X page, approved by the Department of War. It’s blasphemous, deeply offensive, dangerous; it’s all that is wrong with christian Nationalism. www.facebook.com/share/r/1CFw...

Blasphemous, deeply offensive, and dangerous. This is taken from Sec. Hegseth’s X page, with the approval of the Department of War. It’s all that is wrong with christian National. www.facebook.com/share/r/1CFw...

The hardest work is contending against the disorienting and malformed Christianities which bring themselves to bear against the vulnerable, often in the name of freedom and faith. This is the necessary work, the one the demands the church be exactly what it is. ~Jared Stacy

Tylenol use is safe in pregnancy, lowest effective dose. Don’t listen to the utter nonsense emanating from the highest office in the land today. Speak to your medical provider.

Blasphemous. Repulsive. Lord have mercy. www.facebook.com/share/r/1H5w...

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Christ must be greater than our Christianity. ~Ernst Käsemann (1906-1998), Lutheran theologian and professor of New Testament

Something holy happens when we sing, whether it’s a song of lament or a rousing hymn tune. Something happens—the Spirit shows up—when we make music to the Lord together. St. Augustine said, “He who sings prays twice.” catonsvillepres.org/sermons/how-...

“Christ must be greater than our Christianity. ~Ernst Käsemann (1906-1998), Lutheran theologian and professor of New Testament

“Christ must be greater than our Christianity. ~Ernst Käsemann (1906-1998), Lutheran theologian and professor of New Testament

“Christ must be greater than our Christianity.” ~Ernst Käsemann

When I was learning how to be a Pastor, one of my mentors gave me an important piece of advice. “At a funeral,” he said. “Make sure you always speak last as the Pastor.” He added: “The Gospel has to have the final word.”

Amateurs. Quack doctors, ignoring science, playing with the health of children and adults. Chilling. wapo.st/3I5qLSY

If You Are Elevating Charlie Kirk, Consider Who You Are Crushing Underfoot open.substack.com/pub/nijaykgu...

Ready to cancel Hulu. ABC & Disney, you've lost all credibility.

Stephen Colbert: “Tonight we’re all Jimmy Kimmel…. With an autocrat, you can’t give an inch. If ABC thinks that this is going to satisfy the regime, they are woefully naive, and clearly they've never read The Children's Book If You Give a Mouse A Kimmel.”

This is the playbook, folks. If you're not paying attention now and doing something about it, then you're going to have to sit down the rest of your life because democracy is being taken away. Do not be quiet in this moment.

Our democracy is not self-executing. It depends on us all as citizens, regardless of our political affiliations, to stand up and fight for the core values that have made this country the envy of the world.

I would love to be part of the conversation on MSNBC related to the Kimmel story and it's chilling effects on first amendment, but unfortunately I was terminated by MSNBC for stating that "hateful thoughts lead to hateful words which lead to hateful actions".

“The simple step of a courageous individual is not to take part in the lie.” ~Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

After worship on Sunday, an Elder said to me the sermon was an "antidote" for what many are feeling these days. Perhaps it's a word that you need to hear or remember. I know it was for me. catonsvillepres.org/sermons/the-...

If you can erase “The Scourged Back,” ...or any one of the millions of enslaved people who suffered similar torments or worse, then you can erase anything, and nothing will trouble the American conscience ever again. ~Philip Kennicott wapo.st/4nDMgcA

There is almost a sensual longing for communion with others who have a large vision. The immense fulfillment of the friendship between those engaged in furthering the evolution of consciousness has a quality impossible to describe.~Pierre Teilhard de Chardin