Thank you Pope Leo

Portland continues to amaze me 👏

ICE GOONS, laughing and pepper spraying Pastor after shooting him in the face with pepper balls, proceeded to gas the crowd who were trying to protect him.

118 Years Ago Today: The Chicago #Cubs win their first World Series title! (October 12, 1907) #MLB #Baseball #History #Postseason

#31daysofgraves Day 12: Notable Women. Elizabeth Freeman (c.1744-1829), an enslaved woman who successfully sued for her freedom in 1781. It was one of several cases that led Massachusetts to become the first state state to abolish slavery. Stockbridge Cemetery, Stockbridge, Massachusetts.

A group of hundreds of faith in coalition who started at a Maywood church just arrived at the detention center for a eucharistic procession. They want to offer communion to detainees inside, but won't be able to get past the barricades and fence on Beach Street.

PERIOD.

📢 Congratulations to Julia Hillner for her contribution to an article in SPIEGEL Geschichte on slavery & prostitution in the Roman Empire! (Article in German, subscriber access only) 🔗To the Article: buff.ly/DGw3EZDin: Spiegel GESCHICHTE 5/25 'Roms Kampf um German @unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de

🧵 1/4 When did your family arrive in the United States? Where did they disembark? Were they adults or children when they arrived? What official documents did they present? Did they possess birth certificates? #Immigration #Immigrants #Citizenship #BirthrightCitizenship

An early Father’s Day gift. #FlyTheW

Who's your Padre??? (Real ones know this is CGI)

RIP Jane Goodall 🦍🦧💔

Cardinal Robert McElroy at the Mass for the World Day of Migrants and Refugees: “We are witnessing an unprecedented assault on our nation…this assault is intended to make life miserable for undocumented migrants…our government is engaged in a comprehensive campaign of fear at its core.”

George Hardy, last of the Tuskegee Airmen's World War II combat pilots, dies at 100

1/2 🧵 Back to making home made holiday gifts now that it is officially Autumn. #FabricSky #FabricArts 🪡 #ChristmasStars 🌠 #ChristmasOrnaments 🎄

4/4 🧵 After sampling some of the current biographies, you may want to read Augustine's 'Confessions' in translation. Hardback and paperback editions are available. This copy is an old one from my undergraduate day.

3/4 🧵 For those who want a more in-depth biography, this work by Peter Brown is excellent. Professor Brown recently retired from Princeton. Of note is that he was raised in Northern Ireland as a Protestant. #HistoryBooks ⏳📚 #LateAntiquityBooks 🏛📚 #BookSky 💙📚 #Biographies #BlackSky

2/4 🧵 For a longer biography, James J. O'Donnell's book is quite approachable for a reader not familiar with Saint Augustine' life, writings, and times. Dr. O'Donnell was the Provost of Georgetown University. #SaintAugustine #LateAntiquityBooks 🏛📚 #BookSky 💙📚 #HistoryBooks ⏳📚 #BlackSky

1/4 🧵 Who is Saint Augustine of Hippo? Pope Leo XIV is an Augustinian monk who publicly speaks about the writings and life of this North African convert, who lived in times with many similarities to ours-354-430 AD. #SaintAugustine #LateAntiquityBooks 🏛📚 #BookSky 💙📚 #BlackSky

4/4 🧵 After sampling some of the current biographies, you may want to read Augustine's 'Confessions' in translation. Hardback and paperback editions are available. This copy is an old one from my undergraduate day.

3/4 🧵 For those who want a more in-depth biography, this work by Peter Brown is excellent. Professor Brown recently retired from Princeton. Of note is that he was raised in Northern Ireland as a Protestant. #HistoryBooks ⏳📚 #LateAntiquityBooks 🏛📚 #BookSky 💙📚 #Biographies #BlackSky

2/4 🧵 For a longer biography, James J. O'Donnell's book is quite approachable for a reader not familiar with Saint Augustine' life, writings, and times. Dr. O'Donnell was the Provost of Georgetown University. #SaintAugustine #LateAntiquityBooks 🏛📚 #BookSky 💙📚 #HistoryBooks ⏳📚 #BlackSky

1/4 🧵 Who is Saint Augustine of Hippo? Pope Leo XIV is an Augustinian monk who publicly speaks about the writings and life of this North African convert, who lived in times with many similarities to ours-354-430 AD. #SaintAugustine #LateAntiquityBooks 🏛📚 #BookSky 💙📚 #BlackSky

Harbinger of Fall: The yellow and black legged spiders are back in our yard. Spinning of webs began three days prior to the Autumn Equinox. Their engineering skills are outstanding. #BlueSkyGarden 🌱🌿 #GardenRewilding 🦌 #Spiders 🕸️🕷️

1/ Reminder: Caesar's tools cannot build the Kingdom of God. The bloody hammer of Empire cannot mimic the loving embrace of Christ. The Gospel will never build any part of Caesar's empire. The Cross is a doorway and signpost to something better that Empire can never understand or emulate.

If Bsky had polls, would run one: Who represents America and its spirit better? —Tom Hanks. —Trump or Vance (take your pick). Predicting 95/5 result. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

In 2017, BlueSky member Annalee Newitz published her novel 'Autonomous'. A key plot invention were Ferris Wheels with solar panels containing Chlorophyll to create clean power. 'Nature Chemistry' just reported a study to do that. #SpeculativeFiction 🚀📚 #STEM 🧪👩‍🔬 #ScienceMatters 🔬 #Chlorophyll 🪴🍃🌱

In 2017, BlueSky member Annalee Newitz published her novel 'Autonomous'. A key plot invention were Ferris Wheels with solar panels containing Chlorophyll to create clean power. 'Nature Chemistry' just reported a study to do that. #SpeculativeFiction 🚀📚 #STEM 🧪👩‍🔬 #ScienceMatters 🔬 #Chlorophyll 🪴🍃🌱

www.the-scientist.com/frozen-grant...

Ten years have passed 2 September 2015 Alan Kurdi was just 2 years old Kyrie eleison ✝️

Prayers for Minneapolis ... and also for Gaza, Ukraine, Sudan .. and wherever else innocent children are suffering and dying. We need their prayers for a cruel, violent world that cut short their young lives. Lord have mercy! ✝️

Statement from #ELCA #Minneapolis Area Synod Bishop Jen Nagel: “As people of faith, we are called to peacemaking towards a vast reduction of gun-related violence. The pervasiveness of #gunViolence in the U.S. is not a reality we should accept.” #Lutheran mpls-synod.org/news/in-tend...

Psalm 94:3 "How long, Lord, will the wicked be jubilant?"

'Security guarantees' for Ukraine? We've been here before, over 30 years ago ... and it turned out to mean absolutely nothing! www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRvJ...

And now attention, late antique people! Today in Trier I was shown the Trier Ivory up close, from the front and - unseen before, at least by me- from the back! Note the strange markings, apparently by the craftsmen, and the hole for the elephant’s nerve reaching into the tusk

“…we are called to be present in the tensions of the world, not absent from them. Our worship doesn’t lift us out of the messiness of human existence; it prepares us to enter it more fully.” (The #ELCA is in full communion with the #Moravian church.) rootsmc.org/restore-us-o...