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Everyone should say it: The thing about Stephen Miller is not that he is the brains behind Trumpism. Yes, he is one of the people who conceptualizes the impulses of the Trumpist movement and translates them into policy. But that's not what's interesting about Miller. It's not brains. It's bile.

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"When I deconstructed my evangelical faith, I felt isolated, disillusioned, and hopeless. Now, as I experience a resurgence of those same emotions, I realize: I’m not just a deconstructing Christian, I’m a deconstructing American." @laurencibene.bsky.social www.christiancentury.org/features/dec...

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Fitting for today’s cat fight.

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In 1885, white rioters murdered dozens of Chinese residents of Rock Springs, Wyoming. The story of the atrocity is still being unearthed 140 years later.

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Love seein all the Pride posts. (Not so much the corporate ones. The personal ones from queer people.) So many people have failed to love their neighbors well because they’ve been taught to love themselves poorly. But accepting yourself is essential to loving others well.

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A faith that offers sanctified self-help instead of deliverance from the hells that have been constructed around beloved souls is not a faith worth holding. God’s salvation is motivated by divine compassion. Repentance is the RESPONSE to grace, not the prerequisite.

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"If we seek our own advantage, love is extinguished and cold in us. We see the need and poverty of his children; we could help, but we do not do it, perhaps even saying, 'Should I give bread to people I do not know?'… 1/2

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“A voice is heard in Ramah, weeping and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children and refusing to be comforted, because they are no more.” Matthew 2:18 (NIV)

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More than 50 of the men deported to the CECOT mega-prison in El Salvador have now been identified as legal residents who entered the United States through official channels, and have no criminal record other than the LIES told by CONVICTED FELON 47.

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"I know and it is part of my faith that all people are holy.”... please listen to this amazing speech.

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Asking “is ______ a sin?” is misses the point. You’d be hard-pressed to find the word “sin” used with an indefinite article in the Bible, cuz sin ain’t really about a list of rules. Sin is the destruction of shalom. The point ain’t to avoid “sinning.” It’s to not live in sin.

submitted 13 days ago • 4 comments

There's nothing holy about writing discrimination into the law.

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The best description of this presidency that I have ever heard is that it’s like you are tied to a chair watching a toddler play with a loaded gun.

submitted 17 days ago • 1 comment

let them eat shitcoins

submitted 18 days ago • 470 comments

My pal Ben Cohen the ice-cream-man & I just released this article about why we were arrested this month, and why we’d do it again. This piece will circulate tomorrow -- spread the word and help us get it out there! religionnews.com/2025/05/22/w...

submitted 18 days ago • 3 comments

Christianity has made following Jesus harder.

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Good morning, beloved. Sometimes “hell no” is the only appropriate response. Today is a great day to overcome evil with good.

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“God is on your side” makes for a clever, feel-good cliché, but it’s not true. God is on the side of love, peace, justice, and redemption. If you are on that side, God is right there with you. If you are not, God beckons you to switch sides.

submitted 17 days ago • 62 comments

The GOP’s “Big Beautiful Bill” is Robin Hood in reverse: it takes from the poor to give to the rich.SNAP (used to be Food Stamps…which Tabby and I used back in 1972) is gone. Medicare is going.

submitted 18 days ago • 718 comments

Am I crazy or did we just have a convo about how we can't fund cancer research?

submitted 18 days ago • 1084 comments

The reason you're having trouble concentrating if you are here in the US is because we're basically being chased around by serial killers and being asked to disregard the fact.

submitted 18 days ago • 207 comments

In a place & age in which Christianity has shaped so much of our language and cultural fabric, being a Christian is easy. Following Jesus is harder.

submitted 18 days ago • 7 comments

Do justly. Love mercy. Walk humbly. Deny yourself. Take up your cross. Follow Jesus.

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I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget what the 34x convicted felon & adjudicated rapist Trump did.

submitted 20 days ago • 76 comments

"I'd crusade if the new Pope asked me to" wow, cool. What if he asked you to love and protect immigrants

submitted 21 days ago • 190 comments

My friend sent this screen grab with the note: “Look at the officer on the left. Her face speaks for us all.” We were arrested for praying in the Capitol… while politicians are cutting resources to our most vulnerable neighbors. Lord, help us. And thx Rachel Maddow & MSNBC for covering the story!

submitted 32 days ago • 3 comments

We would like to formally apologize for only just now realizing we should have posted the text of Bartleby the Scrivener for May Day this year.

submitted 39 days ago • 3 comments

Is it me, or does this actually sound like what Communist countries would say and do but just with their own version of "ideology"?

submitted 39 days ago • 295 comments

Alright...call me Pro-Life. Also call me Pro-Women. #AbortionRights #HumanRights

submitted 39 days ago • 13 comments

From Theologizin' Bigger: Homilies on Living Freely and Loving Wholly by @pastortrey05.com Also, currently #5 in Christian Liberation Theology.

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😭😭😭

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TWO dolls? We had one doll we split between three families and it weren't e'en a doll it was a railroad spike and we drew face on it with charcoal And we only got to play with it between trains and had to put it back before the next train

submitted 39 days ago • 6 comments

Ok I am completely broken by this. The Hague and UN need to see this. #Texas

submitted 40 days ago • 603 comments

Faith with no room for mystery is just arrogant Bible trivia.

submitted 41 days ago • 7 comments

While you highlight it, please note is the product of local journalism, which has been carrying a lot of the burden in an environment where national outlets simply can't cover everything everywhere all at once. Support your local journalists!

submitted 41 days ago • 394 comments

Monsters walk among us We will need a truth and reconciliation commission when this is done

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It’s interesting to listen in on the paleo-neocon debates on the right. Here’s a paleo (he’s a Christian nationalist) who makes a fairly nuanced argument re: conservation. The question, however, is always “conserve what?” Do the math and you’ll see. It may be FDR new deal >>

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It’s always mad funny to me when someone wearing $200 jeans and a designer shirt while standing in front of a drum cage in an auditorium with subwoofers and concert lighting preaches about avoiding the temptation to follow “culture.”

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There’s a cruel irony in rounding up immigrants to send them to a concentration camp in a country whose name literally translates to “The Savior.” Almost as cruel as the irony of professing a savior who was executed while we continue to wield the same sort of death dealing power.

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