Was at St John the Divine in NYC today with the beautiful Nadia Bolz-Weber. We've been friends and colleagues for years - with lots of ups and downs. We realized we hadn't taken a pic in a long time. We're older, grayer, and wiser than we were. Life is good. Grateful.

Sunset from Central Park.

A wee reminder of what the story of Jesus is all about:

David Barton, the widely ridiculed and perpetually corrected "amateur historian" who has mainstreamed the idea that church-state separation is a myth, will be advising the Texas State Board of Education on social studies curriculum.

Watching Hillary Clinton on Morning Joe. Her poise and brilliance never cease to amaze me. I’m weeping over what we might have been. Still.

Recording the audio version of my upcoming book. Spent six hours reading out loud to myself in a padded closet.

The world will be destroyed by two things, it seems to me: greed and violence... That’s why great spiritual teachers will always teach you to live a simple life, to not take more than your share, so that communion and community, brotherhood and sisterhood, are possible. - Richard Rohr

When I was in seminary, we were taught that always telling the truth in a funeral eulogy (of course in an appropriate way) was the primary role of the church. I'm thinking that rule is being broken right now.

Today's post is about one of Jesus' parable - a story of corruption, a lying manager who steals from the poor, and then steals from his boss. And then his boss praises him. WTF? The perfect Bible story for these Trumpy days. Sunday Musings open.substack.com/pub/dianabut...

Today's post is about one of Jesus' parable - a story of corruption, a lying manager who steals from the poor, and then steals from his boss. And then his boss praises him. WTF? The perfect Bible story for these Trumpy days. Sunday Musings open.substack.com/pub/dianabut...

I heard Colum's father, Tommy, sing this (written in the midst of the Troubles) in Northern Ireland. It was in a roomful of Americans - and we laughed. Ruefully. Because. Well, you know. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Pns...

Donald Trump is way less popular than he wants you to believe. And you are significantly more powerful than he wants you to think.

So glad the team at COLLINS is getting some well deserved recognition for designing the amazing Sun Day logo. Thanks to Brian Collins, Eron Lutterman, Beth Johnson and all the crew www.fastcompany.com/91406139/sun...

Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door! Oh, never mind.

The RFK's anti-vax committee at CDC calls for 'shared clinical decision-making' between doctors and patients regarding vaccines. I wonder if Sean Duffy's FAA will soon call for 'shared piloting decision-making' on airlines?

If you don't know the kind of person I am and I don't know the kind of person you are a pattern that others made may prevail in the world and following the wrong god home we may miss our star. - William Stafford, from "A Ritual to Read to Each Other"

A pilot announcement on my Wed flight, 2 hrs over the Atlantic: "We'll be making a U-turn back to Dublin. I don't want you to be alarmed. We're losing power in one of our engines & it is safer to return than continuing this flight." Yes, it is pretty grim here. But I'm actually glad to be home.

Dutch late night TV has its take

I'm thinking the cardinal might be getting a phone call later today from Pope Leo.

I'm thinking the cardinal might be getting a phone call later today from Pope Leo.

Not sure if this review of an Amex Centurion Lounge is a joke or how rich people really view the world.

A government filled with posters

With the new golden Trump statue standing outside the U.S. Capitol building, why is modern politics getting so bizarre? It's a three article week for me this week. Here's the latest! baptistnews.com/article/this...

I flew home from two weeks in Ireland to Dulles (DC) on Thursday. I fly into Dulles A LOT. For a few years, travelers were greeted by a massive display on the Freedom of Speech/1st Amendment on the way to the baggage claim. (left) Yesterday, it was gone. Not metaphorically. Actually. (right)

Well, I was supposed to be home from Ireland today. But we were over the Atlantic when the plane developed a problem and we had to return to Dublin. A bit scary, of course. When we landed, an airport manager came on board, apologized, and explained to us the EU/UK passenger bill of rights.

Sitting in a hotel lobby in Ireland. On one side of me, some folks from Texas are talking about how restricting will “fix everything” and the other side are folks from NY worried about Trump messing with the Fed.

Heart and home. A few thoughts from Ireland. open.substack.com/pub/dianabut...

The world changes when one decides to consciously replace “but” with “and.”

Morning train to Dublin.

The great @dianabutlerbass.bsky.social has run an excerpt of "Separation of Church and Hate" on her excellent Substack & newsletter: dianabutlerbass.substack.com/p/from-welco...

Time for the world to install a gigawatt of solar power capacity 2004: A year 2010: ~ a month 2015: ~ a week Now: A day ourworldindata.org/data-insight... 🧪

History says, don't hope On this side of the grave. But then, once in a lifetime The longed-for tidal wave Of justice can rise up, And hope and history rhyme. So hope for a great sea-change On the far side of revenge. Believe that further shore Is reachable from here... - Seamus Heaney

Help me breathe deeply of this moment, of this miracle of now. Beneath the noise and fury… of harsh news and urgent crises, make me attentive to good news, to small occasions, and to the grace of what I might be, do, give, and receive. - Ted Loder

I have no words for this.

In conversation today with someone from Northern Ireland, he said: “We’ve still got journeys to go, but at least we’re aren’t killin’ each other anymore.” Strangely hopeful.

“Prove me wrong” will never create the America of our hopes and dreams. “I will listen” might.

be still & know that you are beloved. —& not some future, better you. this very you. beloved!

The heart of God breaks with every act of deadly violence; every life ended by another by greed, anger, envy, revenge, or retribution. Blessed are those who mourn, and blessed are the peacemakers.

The problem with allowing guns everywhere is that no one is safe anywhere.

Cure thy children’s warring madness.

The Trump administration is going great... for Trump.

I love this view from the cottage where I’m staying in Ireland. The past and the future in one pic taken in the present.

Join us (for free) online Wednesday. Tocqueville has a LOT to say about America -- past and present.

As a bookish kid, I admired the Supreme Court for having the character to unanimously come out against segregation in the 1950s, when no other branch of our government would have had that courage. So it saddens me to see it lose its way and endorse judging people for the color of their skin today.

I don't entirely know why I can't get this verse out of my weepy soul today: O beautiful for heroes proved In liberating strife, Who more than self their country loved And mercy more than life! America! America! May God thy gold refine, Till all success be nobleness, And every gain divine!

Full moon over Ireland

Sanctuary is as vital as breathing… I find it in places sacred to my soul: in the natural world, in the company of a trustworthy friend, in solitary or shared silence, in the ambience of a good poem or music. - Parker J. Palmer

The Court has fallen.