Church Dismantles Department of Sunday School Education, Citing High Cost of Flannelgraph Boards www.ungerreview.com/church-disma...

OMGoodness! Wordle 1,336 2/6 🟩🟩⬛🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

"You know that you have well and truly stepped in it when you have pissed off the Mennonites." slate.com/news-and-pol...

@paulastoltzfus.bsky.social Here are Mennos to follow. bsky.app/profile/did:...

@paulastoltzfus.bsky.social I'm you first follow!!! I'm honored.

Humour has been temporarily disabled.

And to think, it took Rome 500 years . . . Rookies!

Happy Black History Month! Celebrating early with a jump start on our patron drive and fundraiser for White Homework! Our goal is to educate folks on anti-racism, shared humanity, and collective liberation, which feels more important than ever. Would you chip in + boost? www.whitehomework.com

The Pulitzer-winning cartoonist Ann Telnaes quit WaPo a few weeks ago after one of Bezos’s stooges censored her cartoon I’m beyond thrilled to be collaborating with her now.

Sermon by Sara Wenger Shenk www.youtube.com/live/Q6Fd3fD...

Sara Wenger Shenk had a timely and profound post on FB. "I was invited to preach at Park View Mennonite Church last Sunday [Jan 26] on Renewal through Trust and Yieldedness (an Anabaptism at 500 theme); not an easy task after the Tramp blitzkrieg. Here's a bit of what I said: 1/7

"We are a creative, disruptive people who have never accepted silence." In this op-ed, @raquelwillis.com offers advice to trans kids on resisting discriminatory times and calls on the strength and resolve of trans trailblazers throughout history. ⤵️

Hegseth was booked, released, and driven home by Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh.

"Love your neighbour as yourself." "Do to others as you would have them do to you." These push us toward empathy. We're to imagine what it's like to be the other person, to have their needs. When a Christian calls empathy sin, they're telling on themselves. They simply don't want to follow Jesus.

People in my life are experiencing heightened antagonism for being trans, queer, &/or a person of colour. There's a further emboldening happening as a result of what we are seeing from our governments and in the wider culture. This is going to get worse. This is not a drill. RESIST.

Episcopal Bishop of Washington Mariann Budde is openly criticizing Trump's policies in her inaugural prayer service sermon right now. Says: “There are gay, lesbian and transgender children …who fear for their lives" and “Our God teaches us that we are to be merciful to the stranger.”

If Wordle is a predictor of a day, It has promise. Wordle 1,308 2/6 ⬛🟨⬛🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Party size Mennonite Relief Wassail, our NYE tradition. @drunkenmenno.bsky.social

🎼How many time we start again on Faith's unwinding way; we want, dear God, to settle in, to build a home and stay, but then a drama, a voice, a light disturbs our peace and rest and sets before our straining sight new stages on our quest. #transinchurch

Christmas Giving shoppers at Mennonite Central Committee give " the gift of theological confusion" after MCC staff accidentally put goats on the right, and sheep on the left.

Thanks Billie. I'd like to add an additional facet - peacemaking as a lifestyle. We are good at projecting peace "out there." 1/

I'm disappointed in Alberta, a place I once called home.

Another dis on us Mennonites.(12/2/24) @colbertlateshow.bsky.social

@samsteiner.bsky.social Reading your bio as a draft dodger, were you the subject of Theatre of the Beat's play?

This is sooooo good.

My Fitbit gives me a"good job" . . . I'm doing dishes.

@mennonitemom.bsky.social good to reconnect here under the blue skies.

There’s nothing Christ-like about nationalism. It is the opposite direction of the way of Jesus. Call your nationalism “Christian” all you want—it has nothing to do with Jesus’s teaching and lived out example.

Sexual and gender diversity are part of Creation’s blessing. Pass it on.

When I criticize a system, they think I criticize them and that is of course because they fully accept the system and identify themselves with it. ~Thomas Merton

Today is Trans Day of Remembrance (TDoR). It is a day when we gather and we say the names of trans people who have been taken from us by transphobia. I don't know how to adequately explain to a cis world quite how important TDoR is. But I am going to try. 1/

“It’s been all hands on deck. Here, it is coming from all over the country. However, we are definitely seeing more calls coming from red states, though it’s not a huge amount more than blue states. The fear is from all over the country. It is all ages.”

Because I believe in a God big enough to save us all (including “white” people) from ALL sin (including the delusion of white supremacy), I am often accused of being a “race hustler” by people with a tiny god who is only capable of saving them from his own pissy fit. But I STILL believe.

I'm here. Parent of a trans youth!

@matthewfroese.bsky.social I find it interesting the parallel between today and the 17th century Dutch view the confession. I appreciate the new terms confessionists and anti confessionists to name some things that are occuring around me.

Imagine holding on for dear life to not go over the waterfall. What happens if you just let go? As of Friday, I let go. It's peaceful down here

This would have been a really effective and powerful episode

Both of these threads are on point. Once I eluded to having a LGBTQIA+ family member. At that moment my faith became suspect and everything I did was questionable.

The best use of talent ever!!!

Some days things fall into place. Wordle 1,245 2/6 🟨⬛🟨⬛🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

My daughter the up and coming journalist. record.goshen.edu/opinion/poli...

Reposting this cause rn we all need it. I know I do rn. We won't be going anywhere, just try to stay strong. Be there for each other, check in on each other. Pick each other up when they're down. They can't make us dissappear. Hate will hurt but it will never win! #transrights #trans

New essay just dropped. Why do anti-trans bigots think it is OK to target children? Why do we treat their targeting of children as understandable, reasonable, or even vaguely legitimate? Trying to shift the paradigm. open.substack.com/pub/billieis...

A lot of people have shared this poem over the past week. It’s a sentiment I think about a lot, especially now. I hope everyone is doing what they need to take care of themselves. One step at a time. One day at a time.

Still in the wake of post election. It's been heavy thinking about the implications for our family with a trans kid. This article provides some insight on the implications for the whole LGBTQ+ family. www.unclosetedmedia.com/p/spencer-ma...

This article makes me smile. Proud heretic here. catholicherald.co.uk/heretic-of-t...