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well said!

Plestia Alaqad: “Why is it that Palestinians are so dehumanized that the world believes it’s our God-given role to die? If what is happening in Gaza was happening in any other country, would the world remain as silent and calm?”

well said

yes

Morning all, have a great weekend. Here’s our home galaxy over General Wades Military Road, in Laggan.

My grandma made homemade tortillas for us. We asked her to write down the recipe. - Add flour. Look at the bowl. - Add water. Mix. Look again. - Pinch of salt - Add Crisco or Manteca. Listen to the bowl. Look again. Flatten the tortillas and put them in the iron skillet. Eat.

All right, I'm gonna do it. I'm going to ask on Bluesky what I asked on Twitter 6 years ago: What is the worst sermon you've ever heard? ⚓

"We kill at every step, not only in wars, riots and executions. We kill when we close our eyes to poverty, suffering and shame. In the same way all disrespect for life, all hard-heartedness, all indifference, all contempt is nothing else than killing." ~ Hermann Hesse

Re-reading Francis’s encyclicals, and there are some true bangers. Fratelli tutti, man. “…true love for an oppressor means seeking ways to make him cease his oppression; it means stripping him of a power that he does not know how to use, and that diminishes his own humanity and that of others.”

So much of pastoral care is just listening well. People need to be heard in their grief, their loneliness, their anxiety, their despair. Witnessed.

Shared by an immigration/agricultural worker attorney in Ohio.

This was revealed to me in a vision

If Jesus is your savior then the people getting deported are your neighbors

i prefer “performance art” rather than “crying in the grocery store”

“There’s no way Paul could have written both of those”

The hyper-spiritualization of Christianity has been terrible for civilization. Catholic Christianity at least is supposedly sacramental, emphasizing the presence of God in creation. Something we practice in our rituals but which hardly trickles over at all into daily praxis. Thread:

“We can disagree and still love each other unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist” James Baldwin

Mariann Edgar Budde > Franklin Graham

May we learn, indeed. Lord, hear our prayers.

What I'm listening to today: youtu.be/ORYKo-xxGy4?...

The best part about this TikTok ban is that now all the Americans will have more time to finally read through the Church Dogmatics.