One more time:

“Welcoming new immigrants is a moral obligation and a joy as we build relationships across differences of ethnicity… Christians should desire a society freed from divisions of national origin, practicing love for new neighbors as an expression of faith.”— @hannahnpbowman.com at @sojo.net

Today's Migration With Dignity Lectionary post for the Second Sunday in Lent: on the call of Abram to migrate and, through migration, be a blessing ⚓ episcopal-migration-caucus.ghost.io/mwd-lectiona...

I really believe this is a framework for faith-based movements to organize around, looking forward past the current crisis toward how we make justice for the future:

Sharing once more. With thanks to @theradr.bsky.social and @lollardfish.bsky.social and @dreanyc123.bsky.social whose work is all cited in here:

I really believe this is a framework for faith-based movements to organize around, looking forward past the current crisis toward how we make justice for the future:

I'm back briefly today, with a new piece @sojo.net: Three demands faith leaders and organizers must make in this moment: Abolish ICE, Welcome Migrants, and Truth and Reconciliation: sojo.net/articles/opi... ⚓

Stopping by briefly to share the Migration With Dignity Lectionary post for Lent 1: episcopal-migration-caucus.ghost.io/mwd-lectiona... ⚓ As a reminder, you can sign up for Another Way, the Episcopal Migration Caucus' newsletter/blog, here: episcopal-migration-caucus.ghost.io

Giving up doomscrolling for Lent, so I won’t be on here much. Peace, friends.

People, just use the three laws of robotics; at least they are explicit

Here’s some preparation for Lent: the Episcopal Migration Caucus is starting a Migration With Dignity Lectionary; new post on the RCL text every week, on our newsletter on Ghost. Read the Ash Wednesday post and sign up here: episcopal-migration-caucus.ghost.io/launching-ou... ⚓️

Preach on the Martyrs of Minneapolis:

Here’s some preparation for Lent: the Episcopal Migration Caucus is starting a Migration With Dignity Lectionary; new post on the RCL text every week, on our newsletter on Ghost. Read the Ash Wednesday post and sign up here: episcopal-migration-caucus.ghost.io/launching-ou... ⚓️

Among the many insights in this fascinating book is that people basically use gambling to dissociate from profound loneliness and unhappiness. It’s not to win or even for fun, it’s just to compulsively cover up sad numbness. Really sad and thought-provoking book (also fascinating phenomenology!)

Dems need to adopt loving your neighbor as praxis. No, we will not tolerate you kidnapping our neighbors and putting them in torture prisons. No, we will not tolerate you taking our neighbors' dignity, safety, and civil rights away.

How and why police actually support the federal invasions—I have been working on this article for ~6 months, trying to make sense of Trump’s nationwide surge of DHS officers, how it has evolved, what brought us here, and what will remain after it ends.

We are rewatching Babylon 5 now that it’s on YouTube and man, that is the platonic ideal of what a space station looks like. That’s just what they all look like in my head. The variety of interiors are perfection.

Made a deconstructed Coquilles-St.-Jacques for Valentine’s Day with @thalesdisciple.bsky.social. Seared scallops over a cauliflower-mushroom gratin with Julia Child’s sauce parisienne

I think this is exactly right about the romantasy boom (and it explains some of what’s working, and not working, in romantasy and fantasy):

“care is not private property”

Attn @wiswell.bsky.social

OK but this is too exciting to wait on sharing: my book! It has a cover! (Coming in November from Fortress Press, pre-orders will be available sooooooon)

Our degrowth and liberation theology book in the spring, Hannah's abolition book on the fall, they're cooking over there at @fortresspress.bsky.social.

OK but this is too exciting to wait on sharing: my book! It has a cover! (Coming in November from Fortress Press, pre-orders will be available sooooooon)

I think a significant fraction of the theological rationale for abolition is precisely: Christians cannot accept there are discardable people.

Just remember that DHS is building concentration camps, and, if you built it, they will get filled.

I think on top of the visible trauma and rebuilding, this is a large risk if we are in fact entering into a new phase. Much of ICE’s activity has been jail related for its whole existence and it is built on the idea that there are discardable people nobody has to see.

Today in @thenation.com, originally entitled No Quick Fixes for Fascism www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Extremely important article. Please share. "These numbers matter because they dismantle a myth that has shaped public safety for generations: that without armed authority, chaos will follow."

Good news and also, using conditions as retaliation is horrible, and also, both parties have been fine with the existence of this hellhole for years…

This:

Hey, Episco-friends: does anyone know if there is a list of communications officers in each diocese, for sharing resources with the church nationwide? Is there an efficient way to get the word out about, e.g. a new educational resource, without separately searching for info on each diocesan site? ⚓

I finished my LOTR reread this morning, and I am thinking about how just as the Shadow gradually extends over Middle-Earth, the work of bringing back justice and the transformation from the Third Age to the Fourth does too. The Scouring of the Shire isn’t a distraction at all!

I’m feeling really stressed and sad about this reality today:

Hey folks on here, did I see someone recently (thread? Essay?) posting about how AI is fundamentally anti-consent, in its copyright infringement and its uses for non-consensual imagery, and also its pedagogical uses? I’m looking for a source.

My most deeply held conspiracy-theory belief is that the decline in the SFF midlist is because of the loss of mass market paperbacks. Bring back midlist genre novels in mmpb.

Abolish ICE

As I sometimes put it: what kinds of social spaces will this build? (Good thread on an awful reality)

I pulled together a small list of body camera-related resources, just in case anybody is curious about how abolitionists think about them. - Mariame Kaba wrote a blog post in 2014 about police reforms to oppose: www.usprisonculture.com/2014/12/01/p...

There is no "fixing" detention centers. We are knowingly killing people as a policy choice.

This makes me happy:

Hey do you want my definitive top 6 Muppet skits?

Ok but we saw the new Muppet Show now and it is perfect???

Boy I wonder why progressive LA voters aren’t excited about Bass and her encampment-clearing

They should have all the Doctors on The Muppet Show. Possibly at once. With Julius Strangepork appearing as the 67th Doctor or something.

Important. Especially after the horrific detention ruling from the Fifth Circuit last night, which I’m still working to understand. Concentration camps for children and people claiming asylum and more.

Jesus Christ (is in these camps). Terrible. Terrifying.

⚓️ episcopalnewsservice.org/2026/02/06/e...

Ah yes, the crime-fraud exception to loving your neighbor

The part where Sam carries the Ring is still my favorite