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“parents in Kenya whose children are believed to have tuberculosis cannot get them tested. There is no clean drinking water in camps in Nigeria or Bangladesh for people who fled civil conflict. A therapeutic food program cannot treat acutely malnourished children in South Sudan.”

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Gift link. The actual story of the shackled people being deported without even being told where they were being taken — maybe to countries where they’d face torture or death — while their terrified children cried.😢 The White House posted that pic with “ASMR” tag. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/w...

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How we did it: Texas Won’t Study How Its Abortion Ban Impacts Women, So We Did

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This happened in my hometown. Where I went to kindergarten. Where I graduated high school. There are no words. www.newsweek.com/texas-school...

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no one leaves home unless home is the mouth of a shark Warsan Shire

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New monthly playlist; Nadia Bolz-Weber on comedy, grief, etc; why @amypete.bsky.social goes to church; John Lewis-inspired anthem by Thomas Keesecker; new spirituals arrangements by Du’Bois A’Keen (basis of new Ailey dance work); video about quilter Marion Coleman. artandtheology.org/2025/02/03/r...

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Here’s some hope. www.episcopalchurch.org/publicaffair...

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Last night, Musk's staff were stopped trying to enter USAID's HQ. They threatened to call U.S. Marshals. @cnn.com: Sources say they wanted access to security systems and personnel files and to access classified information. Today, the USAID Director of Security and his deputy were put on leave.

submitted 36 days ago • 53 comments

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submitted 36 days ago • 1 comment

Grant us grace fearlessly to contend against evil and to make no peace with oppression

submitted 37 days ago • 1 comment

Wonderful mini-sermon on Vance here. I'll just add that the idea that Augustine's brief aside on "ordered love" (Civ.Dei XV:22) has /anything/ to do with nationalism (the literal earthly city!) or family obligations is not only unsupported by the text, but antithetical to the Augustinian project.

submitted 39 days ago • 3 comments

I don't WANT to preach this morning -- JD Vance is not a serious person, he lacks the intellectual chops to do this kind of work, so rewarding his thirst with response is undignified -- but the Spirit demands at least a brief bit of sermonizing

submitted 39 days ago • 26 comments

Just printed some of these flyers, along with wallet-sized cards, for post and distribute: www.aila.org/aila-files/2...

submitted 40 days ago • 1 comment

incredible photo of Palestinians returning to Gaza on foot, by Omar Al-Qattaa of AFP.

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Email to supporters from Heal Africa Hospital says all electricity & water has been cut off in Goma. They are using generators but fuel is scarce & water tanks will only last for so long.

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One reason to install a clearly unqualified person in a position is that that person will always know he owes all that he has to you.

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Deleted my wapo subscription, deleted my fb account. Gonna make bagels from scratch and listen to Les Mis. How are you spending this MLK day?

submitted 50 days ago • 1 comment

Can anyone recommend a Bible study for someone who grew up basically unchurched in the south?

submitted 55 days ago • 2 comments

Lauren Winner on Simone de Beauvoir, on the occasion of her birthday. And also some fully funded writing workshops. open.substack.com/pub/collegev...

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A reminder that Los Angeles had its hottest summer in history last year. Southern California has received just 2% of "normal" rainfall during the current "rainy" season. These fires are a direct result of a warming & drying atmosphere caused by burning fossil fuels. We are in a climate emergency.

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I did not love that David Brooks piece, and I’m grateful to Lauren for taking the time to parse it: arcmag.org/brooks-and-o...

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Jael and Judith were second wave feminists

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It’s one of the best days of the year. open.substack.com/pub/amypete/...

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Petition to replace Mary did you know discourse with Little lamb dost thou know

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modern literature is great but only Emily Brontë, feral, cloistered and being slowly poisoned, could have written the line “I wish I were a girl again, half-savage and hardy, and free.”

submitted 91 days ago • 2 comments

Our annual #AshmoleanAdvent Calendar begins today! Check back each day until Christmas for a new seasonal surprise from our collections. The first festive treat from the collection is this delightful Japanese woodblock print by master printmaker Utagawa Hiroshige.

submitted 100 days ago • 3 comments

fifty six percent

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✨Black Friday tips✨ 1. Amazon… workers are striking in more than 20 countries this Friday. Don’t cross the picket line! 2. Use today to unsubscribe from every annoying email list you’re on. Bye Madewell, quince, ruggable, west elm… 3. Make fresh biscuits and put leftover turkey and gravy on them.

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Still, no gardener would be a gardener if [they] did not live in hope. Vita Sackville-West

submitted 106 days ago • 0 comments

Me and my Negroni Sbagliato with Prosecco in it are holding space for the lyrics of defying gravity

submitted 106 days ago • 1 comment

My favorite thanksgiving movie is probably Frozen 2

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Perhaps my favorite thing about The Diplomat is that her hair rarely looks like it’s been brushed

submitted 108 days ago • 2 comments

Did you know scientists have linked the loss of bat colonies to spikes in infant mortality? www.nytimes.com/2024/11/18/o...

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Would I go to church if I weren’t paid to be there? If so, these are the reasons why. open.substack.com/pub/amypete/...

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Jolt of endorphins for you

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We know through affection, not through acquisition. Jurgen Moltmann

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My husband once gave me (truly) helpful feedback on a draft of a homily: “it might veer a little too close to ‘white women’s Instagram,’” he said. I just wish men also had ppl warning them when their sermons veer too close to “locker room at halftime” or “Tolkien book club”

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