"why don't commuters ride the train to and from work if Southern California traffic is so bad"

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This week's a-spectrum Christian interview is with one of my very favorites. @nocturnalxlight.bsky.social is a multi talented writer, poet, and creator across various forms of media. They have so many wise insights into spirituality, queerness, and specifically a-spectrum life. wp.me/pbP4vd-pP

It’s MEEEEE!!! 🥰 I’m so honored to be interviewed and provided as a safe resource for this intersection! 🎂🍰

This week's a-spectrum Christian interview is with one of my very favorites. @nocturnalxlight.bsky.social is a multi talented writer, poet, and creator across various forms of media. They have so many wise insights into spirituality, queerness, and specifically a-spectrum life. wp.me/pbP4vd-pP

This is a thread specifically about Toronto and protests, but it's also just generally good advice for summer parade participants.

This is actually in many ways a story about music. Reformed evangelicals started listening to and singing Pentecostal and Charismatic music. This had observable effects on their theology and ecumenical attitude. @drleahpayne.bsky.social is the real authority here.

Thanks, Austin! Yes, God Gave Rock and Roll to You argues that American evangelicalism has been "Pentecostalized" through song. In the aughts, this was a source of frustration for Reformed folks like John Piper. www.amazon.com/God-Gave-Roc...

1957 pca.st/episode/d74d...

Happy Father's Day to all the good fathers and father-figures that provide nurturing and care; and honoring the complications of the day for too many folks I know. May all of us take a moment today to laugh at a dad-joke & lift up the folks who exemplify healthy masculinity & dad-ness in our lives.

this freak keeps talking about women who were victims of sexual abuse in the most insane ways. truly demented stuff . also believes in a bunch of fake science

Mother’s Day was originally created as an activist anti-war day appealing to mothers regardless of nationality to think of their children and call for stopping war and bloodshed. Yet the way my parents act every single time Mother’s and Father’s Days come around is still a needless war for me.

Gotta love the futility of the one or two protestors coming to a Pride festival with 800,000+ people to yell about Jesus My man there are more lesbian United Church of Christ pastors here than y'all. That's not even counting the other denominations and the many pastors who aren't lesbians

see? this is why we need a strait pride month

Once again Watch Duty remains your best bet for accurate fire-related emergency information. They just put out this really informative update and you can set it up to get incident alerts: app.watchduty.org/i/103375 Seriously when does the city just hand over this entire process to them

Important subtle emphasis in the @calpacumc.bsky.social ordination and commissioning service: Before you lead, you must learn to be led. Before you serve, you must accept being served in humility and mutuality. The new clergy start their ordained ministry by having their feet washed by the bishop.

A very prominent evangelical leader who was also my boss's boss once said that to me at our workplace and I explained neighbor love to him in the most genuine and casual way possible

I am so weary of this conversation: person 1: voting is good person 2: it is irresponsible of you to say that voting is enough it is the "why do you hate waffles" that plagues me especially hard during auction time & I'm gonna just block everyone doing it this year. lol

I just hear yakety sax in my head whenever there’s Hormuz news now

If something like this appeared as I was trying to read an article, I’d immediately abandon the site. If you read the replies, this is indeed a scam to install malware. Stay vigilant, everyone.

I would simply like it on the @calpacumc.bsky.social record that right now at 9:30 pm in La Quinta, it is hotter than today's *high* in Redlands 🙃

we should actually teach minors that trans people exist and that you might be one and that even if you aren't, you still don't have to be 100% the gender you were assigned at birth. there is no "right time" to broach the subject with young people, unless that time is "as soon as possible"

One interesting thing about @calpacumc.bsky.social closures of churches is that they tend to fall into 1. decline by relational, leadership, and financial mismanagement by self-interested individuals 2. decline by refusal to adapt to shifting ethnic/racial demographics in the surrounding community.

@calpacumc.bsky.social has voted in a landslide for Kairos Document II supporting Palestinian Christians in their call for ecumenical opposition to Israel's genocide. It's not "displacement"; it's ethnic cleansing. It's not a "military conflict"; it's genocidal oppression.

Vote to affirm trans and nonbinary members easily passed with 90% 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @calpacumc.bsky.social

"If I’m going to truly say that everyone is made imago Dei, that is, in the image of God, that includes all the diversity and variation we see." My interview with @krtall.bsky.social is now on Substack!

regular reminder that if you oppose the HPV vaccine for "moral reasons," your "moral reasons" are "I think girls deserve to die of cancer for having sex I disagree with"

Trans people have always been around and really into plants and we love that for them.

Everyone talking about the pool guy who turned the water green is neglecting to mention his company is called GREENwater Services

Community. I only got through a few episodes of The Office and 30 Rock, but I gave Community multiple seasons to get better and just couldn't do it anymore

Your denomination thought the UN was a satanic conspiracy. My denomination's women helped found it and advocated for it throughout WW2. We are not the same.

From the data at Cal-Pac AC, the top predictors of churches closing are: - Female members leaving - Fewer baptisms - Decline in ministry engagement

"God loves all people, not just those of us who are LGBTQ" 😏😂😘 older gay minister speaking at Cal-Pac AC 🏳️‍🌈

Hey #AstonishAC2026 attendees, pronouns are not a joke.

Who all here is at #CalPacUMC2026? @calpacumc.bsky.social If you see me, say hi!

Queer Christians are essential to the flourishing of the church and the full revelation of the Kingdom on earth. We are not a "nonessential issue." We are not secondary to straight cis people. We are not an extra pricey add-on. We are not an optional feature. We are foundational.

In the end, we aren't throwing away the Bible, but the exclusionary interpretations we've been given, so keep your arms, legs, and love for the Bible inside the vehicle and strap in for the ride of your spiritual life. (And possibly for the spiritual lives of all you influence)"

“If I’m going to truly say that everyone is made imago Dei…that includes all the diversity and variation we see. And that includes the *not*: the not sexually attracted, the not romantically attracted, the not gender affiliated…Inclusion means including those for whom something may not apply.” ❤️

When utilized in literature review, LLMs consistently 1. fail to mention female authors in female-led literatures, 2. insist that men are more influential or more heavily cited when this is contradicted by objective citation counts, and 3. attribute women’s work to hallucinated male scholars.

Excited to share the new Q&A with @krtall.bsky.social in my series! "If I’m going to truly say that everyone is made imago Dei, that is, in the image of God, that includes all the diversity and variation we see." invisiblecakesociety.com/2026/06/16/g...

They go on dates. There's a hit TV show about it actually

"So, if I use ChatGPT you think less of me?" Yep. Hope this helps.

This "journalist" is making a claim without evidence. It's not "look, a list of hinky people," but "look, a membership list." It's possible that it's a list of prospects, of people who have been given comp memberships, who knows.

Well yes, but actual journalism would ask some questions, like do you know what you have in common with these people, have you worked with Thiel and how did that go, are you a member of Dialogue? etc.

Scooter Braun on the list of potential members of Peter Thiel's secret society? Likely place for him to be.

all the laid off coders mixing with perpetually laid off journalists might, one day, lead to the launch of a publication whose CMS doesn't suck shit to use

I keep losing track of whether we like this guy or not. I was not a fan of the show, but I have heard him as a mildly interesting podcast guest 🤷🏻‍♀️

Me to my disorderly brain cells: Does anyone remember where we put our meds?