NEW: Palestinian Christians Observe Palm Sunday at Holy Family Church with Prayers for an End to the War About 450 of the 600 Palestinian Christians still in the war-torn Gaza Strip are sheltering in Holy Family Church, which has been attacked several times by Israel since 2023. [Video]

I admit I'm struggling with Passover this year, with celebrating a holiday of liberation at a time when the Jewish state is committing atrocities against civilians in the West Bank and Gaza and occupying Lebanon, and Jews around the world are being blamed for that state and attacked more than ever.

Passover hits differently in a year when Israeli Jewish settlers are committing almost daily pogroms in the West Bank, with the tacit support of the government of the Jewish state, and meanwhile the US government is claiming the right to make lists of Jews. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

In Masechet Megilla 10b, the rabbis tells us that the angels want to sing for the liberation of the Israelites from bondage, and Hashem answers, "The work of My hands, the Egyptians, are drowning at sea, and you wish to say songs?" I'm thinking of that story a lot at Pesach this year.

Yeah reticence of states to use the term apartheid, especially Western states, is more or less totally untethered from the legal particulars and instead is based on their aversion to finally acknowledging the one state reality that they helped aid and abet.

IDK, I think war is bad, but it's especially bad when we're the side double tapping aid workers, hitting schools, and threatening to destroy absolutely essential for civilians infrastructure.

Crimes against humanity upon crimes against humanity

People can dislike this all they like but the one thing I have learned from my otherwise very, very politically different father and do not plan to abandon is "I cannot endorse statements I agree with if the argumentation is wrong."

The vast majority of Americans are birthright citizens. Unless you naturalized or were born abroad to an American parent, you are a citizen because of the 14th Amendment. There is nothing constitutionally distinct about Americans born here to non-Americans. We are all literally equal citizens.

It’s lovely that many first-generation Americans feel pride in securing citizenship under the 14th Amendment, but I think it’s important to understand that they became citizens the exact same way as an American born here to descendants of the Mayflower. There is zero constitutional distinction.

go and open your grief to a discreet and understanding priest

May all of us in the frailty of our flesh know God’s healing and resurrecting power

Until every child of the Global South sees a rocket in innocence and not fear. Not abject terror and trauma and memory of genocide. We are nothing. We failed.

If we have to make contemporary connections to drive the meaning home, fine. But the traffic runs both ways. Holy Week is more than an allegory for our particular political moment, and Jesus is not a solipsistic stand-in for whichever "side" we already think is righteous.

How are you, as a called and ordained minister of the church, going to call Holy Week the week we remember Jesus’ arrest and trial and leave out that he also was crucified, died, and was buried at the end of that week?

I am really struggling with this Maundy Thursday (I KNOW OKAY) sermon. But I also got to talk to my crush tonight. So you really win some and you lose some!!

Texted my rabbi buddy happy Passover earlier. She texted back “when’s your fire Mass this year?” so new name for the Vigil just dropped. ⚓️

It’s arguably less a war than it is just a string of war crimes

Pope Leo says God rejects prayers of leaders who wage wars reut.rs/4rZIThC

I much prefer doing my research amidst the flickering lanterns of an old-fashioned library in Prague during a raging thunderstorm with the help of a library ghost, so no, I'm afraid I have no interest in "asking ChatGPT.”

No one, no matter how strong or wise or great, can rightly own and use another.

may sit face to face for a spiritual conference

all we do affects, for good or ill, all other lives

Wow. So...having been denied entry to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, it appears that the Latin Patriarch held services outdoors. At Gethsemane. 10/10 use of symbolism, no notes. www.lpj.org/en/news/medi...

if you don't like the social issues conversations in star trek then you just don't like star trek

Therein, ye gods, you tyrants do defeat:

I don’t engage with people who don’t think my orders are valid and may I recommend this lifestyle choice to you? ⚓️

It is befitting that as we are to celebrate and honor and mourn and rejoice this Holy Week, God’s Spirit remains an unavoidable presence in the public resistance to tyranny and death and in the public display of solidarity and the affirmation of human dignity

I just got an email from “Christians for a Free Palestine” that mentions neither Palestine nor God nor Christ nor Christianity nor Christians. What are we doing?

Philippine languages such as Cebuano, Ilocano, Hiligaynon, Bicolano, etc are not dialects. Same with Chinese languages such as Cantonese, Hokkien, etc. Scots is a distinct language (not to be confused with Gaelic), not a dialect of English, though there is a Scottish accent and dialect of English.

Random member of the public, suddenly putting two and two together: “Oh, THAT’S why the station is full of priests.”

having ADHD as a woman who experiences internal hyperactivity is so much fun, y’all

if voting is choosing the conditions under which you organize, then there couldn’t be better conditions for pressure than NYC’s rn. but folks can’t let the pressure off & that requires more than just trans folks. take a few minutes to tell them to enforce state law & make hospitals resume care. 💜🏳️‍⚧️

second: there's stuff NYC mayor mamdani could be doing now to backstop care for all the trans teens cut off by the sudden stoppage. in fact, he campaigned on it. afaik, he hasn't even properly addressed it. you can't call NYC a fucking “refuge" if it's institutions don't provide essential care!🧵

so what's the ask? there’s a few things you can do. if you're in NY state, reach out & tell AG letitia james to enforce the state constitution NOW. she can sue the hospitals-california AG bonta did this last year & got care restored. one angry letter to one provider without action isn't enough! 🧵

hi, cis folks! it’s been a little over a month since the 2 biggest private hospitals in NYC ended trans youth care. some folks thought this was resolved with a judge’s ruling or a letter from the NYAG. care has *not* resumed! there’s a simple ask ⬇️ for you, if you’re willing to fight with us. 🧵

You kinda do have to know things about the bad things to do things that will meaningfully stop them

This is. And thou art. There is no safety. There is no end. The word must be heard in silence. There must be darkness to see the stars. The dance is always danced above the hollow place, above the terrible abyss.

the generous and flexible—and frequently overlooked—provisions of the Book of Common Prayer

a reader appointed by the celebrant may read the Gospel in the language of the people

Never forget that the good people of Minnesota won against this vile man by means of group chats, 3D-printed whistles, mutual aid networks, pissed off priests/rabbis/imams, and an extraordinary amount of neighborly love. We won't rest until every tyrant—big or small—is also defeated.

✒️ A Calligraphic Wall Panel, 1898 "The surrounding ocean cannot extinguish the fire of love; O heart, our story will yet need much more water."

I'm sorry, I'm just so mad. "The Iran fiasco." They bombed five hundred fucking schools and three hundred medical centers.

Truly horrible times and I remember it all. We're here today because of what came before.

Imagine what it was like to be publicly opposed to the Patriot Act & to the establishment of DHS as a Black Muslim after 9/11, 😂 I remember clearly that it took less than 2 months for Congress to pass the Patriot Act with almost no debate. When you called to register opposition, there was disbelief.

Anyway, it's pretty shocking for those of us who were active and organizing in the early 2000s to see that the strong majority of this country is firmly against the war on Iran.

It sounds like superstition, but it really is true that the forces of wickedness assault people around the time of Holy Week. Satan really hates the Cross and Resurrection. (Online atheists, don’t even try me with this)

I literally just audibly reminded myself to “let it go, let it go”—because the thing annoying me is not worth it.

NEW from me: In a ruling from the bench this morning, a federal judge granted Minneapolis clergy access to immigrants detained by DHS in a federal facility as the case proceeds, allowing the faith leaders to provide pastoral care after denying them for months religionnews.com/2026/03/20/f...