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He/Him Author, Theologian, Gamer, Husband, Father. Deconstructing the faith of my youth and growing into a kinder, more affirming, more loving human.
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There is no easy alliance between the kingdom of the world and the kingdom of God, and all attempts to create an easy alliance between these two kingdoms are misguided and doomed to failure. The kingdom of the world is founded on greed and war—Mammon and Mars.

submitted 8 days ago • 2 comments

Macklemore's new song goes hard. Anthems like this, of people raising their voices and using their power to join with the oppressed, will see us through and be a part of raising every valley and tearing down mountains.

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

"The Psalms that call for God's intervention are written as a reminder if the enormity of human suffering within systemic and sustained forms of violence that cannot always be rectified by good work, good intentions, or reasonable dialogue." -Melissa Florer Baxter in How to Have an Enemy

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment

My Jesus does not need a task-force. He needs us to: make sure children are fed and not gunned down in schools ensure immigrants are welcomed and aid is given to the poor have empathy for our neighbors and courage to speak truth to power. #unitedstatesofamerica

submitted 15 days ago • 14 comments

When we, the white mob, celebrate the actions of police that leave a person of color dead without the benefit of due process, we participate with the mob in Jerusalem on Good Friday as we cry, "Crucify Him!" 🧵

submitted 22 days ago • 1 comment

The President indicated that DEI hires at the FAA may have played a factor in the crash? I'm not sure where to begin to enumerate how awful that take is. It's ignorance at best and at worst: badly veiled racism. 🧵

submitted 24 days ago • 1 comment

Those who have power never have power enough. And those with power are loathe to lose it. There's a reason Jesus talked about service as the model for life. Power corrupts us, service heals.

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

The Word of the Lord cannot remain only a fine abstract idea or stir up only a passing emotion. Scripture invites us to change our gaze and allow our hearts to be transformed into the image of the heart of Christ. #WordOfGod

submitted 25 days ago • 5 comments

"Just as Middle-earth could not be saved, only enslaved, by the Ring of Power, so Christianity cannot save the world by political power; it can only be corrupted by it." --Brian Zahnd in The Wood Between the Worlds. This chapter is potent in it's critiques and powerful in it's hope.

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

Maybe I'm just a pessimist, but the US isn't going to change if Dems take back Congress in 2 years. I'm not sure they have much desire to check anything that MAGA does because doing so will deprive them of issues to run on. A short thread: 🧵

submitted 26 days ago • 1 comment

Someone needs to Venmo the Refs on behalf of the Commanders at halftime. These penalties are ticky-tacky af, all going against the Commanders.

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

OK, I get being a responsible adult… but, every day? Every single day? That seems a bit excessive.

submitted 29 days ago • 72 comments

This is why we hold that Jesus was Fully God and Fully Human. The Incarnation empowers divine empathy in a way that we will never fully understand.

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

In a system that seems designed to exterminate all that is good, Love, Hope, and Joy are little acts of rebellion. Where have you found them this week?

submitted 30 days ago • 1 comment

For those of you who teach Scripture, I wrote up a resource that I hope is helpful for you. I welcome your thoughts: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

Violence is a tool of the State meant to silence that which cannot be killed. Nonviolence is a tool of the people meant to amplify that which must not be silenced. ^a thought I had as I'm thinking about faithful living in the coming years. Idk if I agree or don't. I would love your thoughts.

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

In fairness, “you can make millions of individual molecules but there are 13 that you need but can’t make so let’s outsource their production to plants. Also, it’s actually 12…you can make one of the vitamins…as long as the sun’s rays touch your skin like you yourself are a plant” does sound fake.

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submitted 32 days ago • 3 comments

A Litany for Divided Times - Inspired by Bishop Budde's homily on 1/21/25🧵 In a world that seems to get angrier by the day, we pray to the Lord. Lord have mercy. That we might recognize our common humanity amidst our disparate opinions, we pray to the Lord. Lord have mercy.

submitted 32 days ago • 1 comment

The whole sermon is a manifesto on Christian Ethics. Please watch it, and remember.

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

Now, more than ever, pastors and priests and ordinary people must stand up to the powers that call us to bow down or pledge allegiance to anything other than the Cross of Christ.

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

"All we are saying to America is, 'Be true to what you said on paper.'" -MLK Jr. In "I've Been to the Mountaintop" Now, more than ever, we need to make the US accountable to what we said on paper.

submitted 34 days ago • 0 comments

I've been rewatching #Chernobyl on Max. What is striking me is just how much so many people lost to maintain the myth of Soviet Supremacy. And it makes me wonder how much US Citizens sacrifice to maintain their own version of that myth.

submitted 35 days ago • 0 comments

The Lions are beating themselves tonight, and it makes me sad to see.

submitted 36 days ago • 0 comments