"If you purchased gumbo, don't forget to pick it up at the green pickup truck in the parking lot following our closing prayers" ⚓ My first Diocese of Mississippi Annual Council is in the books!

BTW when I say abolish ICE, I mean abolish it entirely and replace it with exactly nothing. Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free. That's it.

How to help Minnesota (and yourself): a clear, straightforward guide of steps you can take naomikritzer.com/2026/01/21/h...

And this is why the Buffalo Bills are the best team in the NFL youtu.be/7sEHv-iKrYU?...

Terrible, heartbreaking news There's a fundraiser for the rebuilding effort here, join me in donating if you can: www.bethisraelms.org

rare to see an american politician speak in these terms and it rocks

So yes: abolish ICE. I am glad that call is becoming more common! But then build on what is being revealed by this open violence to be open to abolishing ALL systems of dominating violence. Prisons and policing are doing the same thing, just more cleanly and so it seems “legal.” Still domination.

We don't have to live like this.

I still think it's nuts that we have to even hedge around "you don't have to like kids" as though there were any other class of human being that you could publicly say, and in generally leftish spaces!, "you don't have to like (x) class of people, but you should maybe tolerate them"

I wish you, and me, and all of us, strength & solidarity & joy in the new year as we find our way together: which we have done this year already, and will arise tomorrow to do again. /thread

BREAKING: Zohran Mamdani wins the New York City mayoral race, NBC News projects. nbcnews.to/4nIzNUC

Happy walking the dog with a headlamp season to all who celebrate

I just saw a used furniture listing that mentioned a "smoke free, kid free home." Pets and smoking I get for allergy reasons, but kids?!

can't stop thinking of how little kids died in chapel, praying on the first day of fall term, but somehow Charlie Kirk--a man who accepted school shootings as the guarantor of unconstrained gun access--is the martyr. may God have mercy on the innocent; Charlie Kirk was not of them.

“The most common question we get, by a lot, is: Is this actually God I am talking to?” This was a disturbing read: AI can't replace encounters with God through sacraments and in community ⚓ www.nytimes.com/2025/09/14/u...

The EfM video about the Sisters of St. Mary is so so good ⚓

I can’t believe it’s even necessary to say that NO city in ANY country deserves or should be INVADED by its federal government. I thought we cared about people. Isn’t that the real point? Everyone needs liberation, most of all the people who don’t know.

When I see people online, even in jest, suggest that people living in Republican-controlled states should be abandoned because of their politicians, I feel a deep heartache. New York CREATED Donald Trump and none of y’all are ever talk about it the way you disparage Alabama or Mississippi.

Every act of liberation is an act of resurrection!

This is a good article in many ways, but as a feminist dissertator, I would like to take up the author's free gift and assert that feminizing a digital assistant is not quite the empowerment its creators seem to think it. www.christiancentury.org/features/pri...

Even when I'm not in Sewanee, I still have the urge to wave at each passing vehicle. This does not scale well.

Liam wrote a thing! Check it out:

Buc-ees, never change

heck yeah new york!

My more optimistic take on the whole “did the protests do anything” debate is that here is value to showing you are not alone and that a massive number of people are willing to come out and be public even in very far right areas. Organization takes time and a diversity of tactics is a positive.

Today and every day

"He may be a millionaire, a billionaire — whatever kind of ‘aire he is,” she said. “But what we need here is clean air.” www.politico.com/news/2025/05...

It's a vampire movie that's somehow actually about the blues? Fantastic movie. Stylish. That one shot, wow. (You know the one.)

This is me with both literal papers and web browser tabs 😔

I continue to be surprised by how many professional chefs on Guy's Grocery Games have never cooked with tofu. It's so versatile, and not just for vegetarians!

Tradition states that last night Jesus emptied out all the jails. Spent Saturday night telling people “I don’t care what you did, people weren’t made for prisons.” The next day to prove His point He broke out of solitary. It is finished. Easter is incompatible with the carceral state. Happy Easter.

A few years back, a priest friend gave a sermon about the wedding of Cana with a refrain of "Jesus keeps the party going." That's how the last 24 hours have felt. Happy Easter y'all! ⚓

This is why we must fight for everyone. Whether they’ve been incarcerated or have had contact with the criminal legal system or are merely undocumented. When you accept that some people are deserving of detention and deportation the scope of who is eligible is always under threat of expanding.

UPDATE—Mahmoud's attorney says they do NOT know where he is. They were first told he was sent to an ICE facility in Elizabeth, NJ. But when his 8-month-pregnant wife tried to visit him, she was told he's not there. They've received reports he may be sent as far away as Louisiana.

Have you ever wanted to eat red beans and rice, pancakes, and king cake all in one meal? If so, church Mardi Gras celebrations may be for you ⚓

Nothing better than running on a sunny 55 degree day and blasting Against Me! for most of it

Revoking healthcare from millions of people is an interesting strategy to Make America Healthy Again.

House Rs just passed the budget resolution, the first step in their process to enact a bill that'd kick millions off Medicaid & cut SNAP down to just $1.60 per person per meal on avg while cutting taxes for the top 0.1% by $278k - all while increasing the debt 🧵on what's to come and WHERE TO FIGHT

House Republicans just voted to gut Medicaid, which covers 1 in 5 Americans overall, including 41% of births and 63% of nursing home care. They also just voted to gut SNAP, on which 41 million food insecure Americans rely. This won’t just harm people. This will kill people. They own this.

Left my reps some voicemails about this one. Christ said "I was a stranger and you welcomed me"... not to Tennessee, I guess. Lord have mercy.

Abruptly firing people who work in air traffic control is like murdering your own soldiers in the middle of a war. Even if you think things now aren’t working as efficiently as they should there’s no clear path to recovering from this; it’s just a really extremely foolish and dangerous thing to do.

"I got that dog in me" - The Little Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly, after things had frankly gotten way out of hand

"Hierarchies of obligations" are exactly what He came to annihilate, or re-annihilate, because they were always nothing. Do I love my own family more than I love the poor? Yes. Of course I do. I am human. So I pray for a greater heart, to increase my love for all human beings. That is my journey.

I can’t believe it’s only Week 2 of this.

One year ago today, Super came home with us. It's been a pretty great year.

Unclench your firsts Hold out your hands. Take mine. Let us hold each other. Thus is His Glory Manifest. -"Epiphany" Madeline l'Engle 🕯️