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The Becoming Beloved Community Team – the racial justice advocacy group in our region of the DoC – is once again providing video devotionals for Lent. Our series title for this year is Breaking Through Walls, Opening Doors. The Ash Wednesday video is available below. youtu.be/GEoTXTJzYIk?...

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Tell me again how he is going to make this a golden age... finance.yahoo.com/news/live/st...

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I want to thank the owner of the silver Toyota Camry with a Wile E. Coyote silhouette in the middle of a huge dent in the rear door. It provided a little relief from the chaos of the day..😀

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"Jesus didn’t just preach and teach a justice message. He lived a life that demonstrated it. In like manner, our message of love and justice must move beyond our activist activities and spill over into our active lives on a daily basis.

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Love’s loss is the source of most suffering, and then love transforms the suffering into depth, compassion, and the great painful gift of humility. I never love this. One day at a time, and sometimes one hour at a time, love will be enough to see us through, get us back on our feet and dust us off.

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When I saw this yesterday, the first thing that came to mind was the movie, The Jerk. Steve Martin's character is leaving and says: I don't need any of this. I don't need this stuff, and I don't need you. I don't need anything. Except this. [picks up an ashtray]. www.cnn.com/2025/02/28/p...

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To all of my Muslim friends: May this Ramadan bring love, light, and harmony into your life. Wishing you and your loved ones a blessed month!

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They have roused my jealousy by worshiping things that are not God; they have provoked my anger with their useless idols. Now I will rouse their jealousy through people who are not even a people; --Deuteronomy 32:21

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This cause is close to my heart - please sign: sign.moveon.org/petitions/to...

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Repost & like, if you stand with President Zelensky!

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"Can unjust leaders claim that God is on their side— leaders whose decrees permit injustice? They gang up against the righteous and condemn the innocent to death. But...God will turn the sins of evil people back on them." --Ps 94:20-23a

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We should be writing Project 2029—defining the society we want, clearly and publicly. Let’s start today.

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This whole country wants bad things for others more than they want good things for themselves.

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"Your heavy fatigue is the internal alarm of an empathy that will not allow you to proceed unaffected while so many grieve here, while war rages half a world away, while the planet burns, while there is so much brokenness in the place you call home...

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"Well I feel just like you And I cry just like you But I heal just like you And under my skin I'm just like you" youtu.be/xBAx1apqhnM?...

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In the preamble to the Constitution, one of the goals of "the more perfect Union" is justice. While justice in our culture is usually thought of in punitive terms - break the law and get punished - justice in the Bible is different.

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"Not just some. All. Not just faces like ours. Skin like ours. Not just lives like ours In zipcodes like ours. We are on this earth to love. To love. All of it. To love it all the way God loves us. The way God loves it, To love the God we meet within it." shop.themanyarehere.com/blogs/news/w...

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"You…you my friend, and the daily drop you put into the bucket are deeply important, because you are the water that shifts the world, you are the river, creek or stream that fills the lake." carrienewcomer.substack.com/p/hang-in-th...

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One day at a time... youtu.be/JhUvFqOY00I?...

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This cause is close to my heart - please sign: sign.moveon.org/petitions/re...

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"I always hesitate to bring my political beliefs into this space. I don’t think my listeners would expect that from me and some of you will find it disappointing: not what you were looking for... " [1 of 2]

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And still 37%of Republicans approve of him... news.gallup.com/poll/656891/...

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Isn't it ironic that the same lawmakers who want to pass such legislation are the ones who would criticize a woman who doesn't want to take her husband's name in marriage? Hypocrisy abounds in the GOP. www.newsweek.com/married-wome...

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Find the cost... youtu.be/GMfvYxK9Zoo?...

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This sounds better with each passing minute... youtu.be/BofvfVPFbiM?...

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You have heard it said that DOGE is improving government efficiency by making spending cuts. But I say to you, DOGE is like a surgeon who removes the patient's arm when they only had a hangnail. Whether it was incompetence or malice, the patient is left unnecessarily disabled by their action.

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President Kennedy spoke these words in the wake of attempts to prevent two black students from attending classes at the University of Alabama.

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In a book we read in my Christian Ethics class in seminary, the key features of the fascist philosophy were described in detail. These features include the belief in national supremacy, one political party with ultimate control, generations.

The Becoming Beloved Community Team – the racial justice advocacy group in our region of the DoC – is once again providing video devotionals for Lent. Our series title for this year is Breaking Through Walls, Opening Doors. The Ash Wednesday video is available below. youtu.be/GEoTXTJzYIk?...

Tell me again how he is going to make this a golden age... finance.yahoo.com/news/live/st...

I want to thank the owner of the silver Toyota Camry with a Wile E. Coyote silhouette in the middle of a huge dent in the rear door. It provided a little relief from the chaos of the day..😀

"Jesus didn’t just preach and teach a justice message. He lived a life that demonstrated it. In like manner, our message of love and justice must move beyond our activist activities and spill over into our active lives on a daily basis.

When I saw this yesterday, the first thing that came to mind was the movie, The Jerk. Steve Martin's character is leaving and says: I don't need any of this. I don't need this stuff, and I don't need you. I don't need anything. Except this. [picks up an ashtray]. www.cnn.com/2025/02/28/p...

To all of my Muslim friends: May this Ramadan bring love, light, and harmony into your life. Wishing you and your loved ones a blessed month!

They have roused my jealousy by worshiping things that are not God; they have provoked my anger with their useless idols. Now I will rouse their jealousy through people who are not even a people; --Deuteronomy 32:21

This cause is close to my heart - please sign: sign.moveon.org/petitions/to...

Repost & like, if you stand with President Zelensky!

"Can unjust leaders claim that God is on their side— leaders whose decrees permit injustice? They gang up against the righteous and condemn the innocent to death. But...God will turn the sins of evil people back on them." --Ps 94:20-23a

We should be writing Project 2029—defining the society we want, clearly and publicly. Let’s start today.

This whole country wants bad things for others more than they want good things for themselves.

Wordle was a challenge today... Wordle 1,350 6/6 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬛⬛🟨⬛⬛ ⬛🟩⬛⬛🟩 🟩🟩⬛⬛🟩 🟩🟩⬛⬛🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

"Your heavy fatigue is the internal alarm of an empathy that will not allow you to proceed unaffected while so many grieve here, while war rages half a world away, while the planet burns, while there is so much brokenness in the place you call home...

"Well I feel just like you And I cry just like you But I heal just like you And under my skin I'm just like you" youtu.be/xBAx1apqhnM?...

In the preamble to the Constitution, one of the goals of "the more perfect Union" is justice. While justice in our culture is usually thought of in punitive terms - break the law and get punished - justice in the Bible is different.

"Not just some. All. Not just faces like ours. Skin like ours. Not just lives like ours In zipcodes like ours. We are on this earth to love. To love. All of it. To love it all the way God loves us. The way God loves it, To love the God we meet within it." shop.themanyarehere.com/blogs/news/w...

"You…you my friend, and the daily drop you put into the bucket are deeply important, because you are the water that shifts the world, you are the river, creek or stream that fills the lake." carrienewcomer.substack.com/p/hang-in-th...

One day at a time... youtu.be/JhUvFqOY00I?...

This cause is close to my heart - please sign: sign.moveon.org/petitions/re...

"I always hesitate to bring my political beliefs into this space. I don’t think my listeners would expect that from me and some of you will find it disappointing: not what you were looking for... " [1 of 2]

And still 37%of Republicans approve of him... news.gallup.com/poll/656891/...

Isn't it ironic that the same lawmakers who want to pass such legislation are the ones who would criticize a woman who doesn't want to take her husband's name in marriage? Hypocrisy abounds in the GOP. www.newsweek.com/married-wome...

Find the cost... youtu.be/GMfvYxK9Zoo?...

This sounds better with each passing minute... youtu.be/BofvfVPFbiM?...

You have heard it said that DOGE is improving government efficiency by making spending cuts. But I say to you, DOGE is like a surgeon who removes the patient's arm when they only had a hangnail. Whether it was incompetence or malice, the patient is left unnecessarily disabled by their action.

President Kennedy spoke these words in the wake of attempts to prevent two black students from attending classes at the University of Alabama.

In a book we read in my Christian Ethics class in seminary, the key features of the fascist philosophy were described in detail. These features include the belief in national supremacy, one political party with ultimate control, generations.

The World Is About To turn: Mending a Nation's Broken Faith

www.axios.com/2025/02/19/t...