"If individual remorse is entangled with planetary grief, then individual amendment participates, however minutely, in planetary repair. Your smallest redemptive gesture enters the bloodstream of the world." open.substack.com/pub/theshado...

not ideal, but we'll take it. Sure, yes, send us home again and watch employee satisfaction skyrocket

Friday quiz time: What springlike punctuation idea most excites you? 💐 A bouquet of freshly cut commas 🌞 Sun rays as long as em dashes (as opposed to winter hyphens) 🐦 The morning song of semicolons ❓ Other (please comment)

My daily battle. Do not start with me about AI replacing my job. I've been fighting its harbinger for decades.

So they want slop and clickbait? What? Looking for recommendations for replacements. I didn't like sharing their stuff as it was.

We have removed Jesus and his anti-Empire ethics from Christianity so much that we’ve reduced the ancient, historical Christian faith to a doomsday fertility cult. 2/2

This legislation will stifle kids’ reading and keep certified librarians from doing the essential job they’re paid to do. It’s unconstitutional and wildly overreaching. Please contact your reps and tell them to vote NO on HR7661.

The state of Tennessee is moving towards creating a full registry of trans people by requiring medical providers to report all of their personal health information to the state department of health.

They are values voters like everyone else, but media failed to explain that their values are racism, sexism, and other bigotry

I make it my mission every day to be annoying about this and if you have seen the archives and heard the conversations I have, you should too

Ok, I'm reasonably confident these are universals for ALL the growing churches in my survey response set, right now in apparent decreasing universality: 1. Support women's ordination 2. Have coffee hour 3. Seminary trained clergy (at least 80% full time residential!) 4. LGBTQ+ support (leadership)

please refer to the sign

Every single thing named after Cesar Chavez should be renamed for Dolores Huerta

THIS. Thisthisthisthis THIS.

A lot of pastors/theologians talk about "how I talk about God makes people uncomfortable" as if they're being edgy or something. Often times, this is tied to political theological talk. There's nothing wrong with this, but where are the mother hens gathering people under their wings?

Facebook overrun with fake posts saying your favourite celeb is homophobic https://www.thepinknews.com/2026/03/17/facebook-overrun-with-fake-posts-saying-your-favourite-celeb-is-homophobic/?utm_content=1773778801&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky

Things do not change, passive voice. They are changed. If something is different than it was in the past, it's because persistence, platform, and persuasion over decades or even centuries led to power.

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.

Remembering my 20s spent in evang. churches that said disability was a lack of faith + illness is God's punishment and then waiting 48 hours to go to the ER for intense kidney infection pain so I'd get healed at a woman's retreat instead vs. 16 yrs later being a ND disabled liturgist reading John 9

Note the plural. We need each other. The other side probably had some support, advisors, people grateful for their actions. When we want to change it, we will never get there without intersectional, diverse coalitions, and a growing group with common values and strategies.

Transphobia is not a rational position. It is in fact pre-rational. All "rationality" of it is entirely post hoc fabrication. The invalidating of trans men and Trans women exists on the same valence of rationality as "broccoli is yucky."

Remembering my 20s spent in evang. churches that said disability was a lack of faith + illness is God's punishment and then waiting 48 hours to go to the ER for intense kidney infection pain so I'd get healed at a woman's retreat instead vs. 16 yrs later being a ND disabled liturgist reading John 9

And since many cis/het folks expressed interest in joining us, we added an "allies welcome" version on the opposite Mondays. Please join us! It's been happening for over 5 years now, and it's wonderful too! You can register for either group here:

Every two weeks, on Monday nights from 6:30-8pm PT, I host an LGBTQ+ contemplative spirituality group on Zoom. It's become one of my very favorite things, a deeply-loved community to many of us. We'd love to have you join us. We even had an in-person retreat a few years back!

Can’t believe nobody wanted to read the articles nobody bothered to write

YES! OF COURSE MY RELATIONSHIP WITH JESUS IS GROWING IN THE EPISCOPAL CHURCH! Because it’s a community of people who don’t think I’m going to hell for something I asked God to change a million times as a kid and he never did! Because I can show up with my partner and they’re so glad we’re there! 5/

Because the liturgy is an opportunity to join in something that is ancient in Christian history and yet still rooted in the Protestant Reformation! Because today we sang Come Thou Fount, a hymn I knew from my Conservative Baptist upbringing! 7/

friend, this is Marcus Junius Brutus CAESAR has declared himself DICTATOR FOR LIFE and MUST BE STOPPED can you rush a donation of ten denarii today to show that you STAND WITH THE REPUBLIC?

One problem with watching people get radicalized into conspiracy theories and social contamination fears is that emotionally heightened people just don't respond well to logic.

Reminder that for most of these families, this is affirming mental health support, social transition, puberty blockers that are and have been safe and approved for decades, ID change, etc. This is not and never has been about "surgeries on minors." It has always been about authoritarian control.

Whew. Great reporting here. You have to know a little about us to get the 🫠 *stares at camera undertones, but this isn't some 20 years buried SBC scandal. This is time for "What the everloving fuck were you thinking." defrocking. She needs to be held accountable for sheer stupidity alone.

Wow, big news from @umnews.bsky.social that a UMC pastor in Missouri is under suspension for working with Jeffrey Epstein in 2018-2019, including as a property manager on his island. Her name appears 1,800+ times in the Epstein files, reports Heather Hahn: www.umnews.org/en/news/prob...

Check out my latest piece on Substack. I wrote about meeting John Paulk in Portland in January. Unfortunately, the "ex-gay" movement is still alive and well, and our stories matter!

Are we being kind and welcoming or are we protecting a power holder's ego? Are we treating people with dignity or are we treating grown-ups as delicate flowers? Are we speaking with empathy rooted in integrity or are we speaking with undue deference and credibility to those who have earned none?

Open hands, open hearts, open doors must mean generosity, compassion, and invitation, and never that we are open to partnership with evil, serve as submissive handmaidens of ego, or let in lies with no correction in the name of tolerance and acceptance. In our desire for peace, we cannot be silent.

For trans people, online resources and community are lifelines. The spread of age verification laws combined with anti-trans ID laws will block access to these lifelines. This is by design. www.theverge.com/policy/89207...

I think that maybe the way that… like, fandom has become all parts of life and not just the entertainment parts is leading to bad things. Like people treating complaints about minor Internet celebrities the same as those for their politicians

Tbh same. It makes sense!

speaking from experience: $80k on the west coast is about the same as $40k in the midwest. possibly less.

If you, as an editor, accept money to do an edit, you should set aside the time to do the freakin' edit. This is gross. (Carolina is livetweeting a session, not endorsing.)

One problem with watching people get radicalized into conspiracy theories and social contamination fears is that emotionally heightened people just don't respond well to logic.

Cis people need to pay attention to the way they communicate this. They freely admit that after all of their research, they came up with zero evidence that HRT was harmful. Then they banned it anyway, claiming their inability to find a reason is a reason in of itself.

They don't need to pause because that is the point. They want to "protect" kids by cutting off any mention of queerness that could reach their kids.

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btw about that pixar thing, the reason why these people think having a conversation about gay people with kids is difficult is because they don't know a way to say to their kid "gay people are normal but you are not allowed to be one" without sounding like a bigot (there is a reason for that)

i am asking yet again how it is legal for a company to send me a letter saying "sorry somebody stole all your personal information from us and now they have all of your personal information. sucks to be you! bye!" and then they receive no consequences and it happens again a week later

This is both a slick linguistic take and an excellent parallel to the complete farce of western individualism.