None of this can be sustained. We can't live like this for the next thirty months. We can't even live like this for the next two weeks.
He's created massive social trauma on a global scale. The people of the United States owe it to the planet to remove him from office.
ISSUES WITH THE NEW CEASEFIRE
1. Israel is not a party and cannot be trusted.
2. It is not locked in until the Strait is open.
3. The BBC reports a soft mutiny inside the Pentagon that could complicate Trump efforts to break or violate the ceasefire.
4. Lebanon is not covered.
“Washing one’s hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral ” – Paulo Freire
I just feel like we could do more with the whole
Pi Day > Ides of March > St. Patrick's Day
sequence, is all I'm saying.
Donald Trump’s only policy is destruction - at home and abroad, everywhere, all the time.
"The price of privilege is the moral duty to act when one sees another person treated unfairly."
- Isabel Wilkerson (Caste)
The high temperature today was 68. The low tonight is going to be 28. Because Missouri.
You guys! The wedding was real!
❤️
Alex Pretti, Renee Good, Keith Porter, Parady La, Heber Sanchaz Domínguez, Victor Manuel Diaz, Luis Beltran Yanez-Cruz, Luis Gustavo Nunez Caceres, and Geraldo Lunas Campos.
Just in January, 2026.
Lord, in your mercy, hear our prayer.
Just listen...
Take care of one another. We'll get there.
#BeUMC #Resist #Advocaate #GetOffScript
6/6
We are in a season of resistance. Evil is in panic mode, thrashing wildly with no regard for who is harmed in the process. And as we unite to resist it, let us also be aware of opportunities to advocate, to create spaces of peace, justice, and freedom.
5/6
Resisting the injustice and oppression currently being instigated by ICE aligns with our baptimal promise. The MAGA response, "Just don't resist, then you won't get shot," is an appalling antithesis to what United Methodists promise in our baptism.
4/6
The key to discernment lies in the objects of the verbs, and staying clear about what you are resisting, and for what you are advocating.
3/6
The baptismal covenant of my denomination includes a promise to resist. The flipside of resistance is advocacy. To paraphrase Qoheleth, there is a time for resistance, and a time for advocacy.
2/6
"Resist evil, injustice, and oppression in whatever forms they present themselves."
AKA:
"Advocate for peace, justice, and freedom and create spaces in which they can emerge."
1/6
I'm excited to be heading to El Paso for a few days for a meeting of the South Central Jurisdictional Episcopacy Committee.
Also meeting is the "Futuring Task Force," a group convened to envision the future of the the UMC in our Jurisdiction.
Please keep us and our work in your prayers!
#BeUMC #scj
Anyone else find yourself wondering if there is a maximum amount of cognitive dissonance the human brain can handle before it explodes? Is that just me?
Because of course there are.
Tomorrow at Maplewood United Methodist Church is about remembering. Remembering baptism. Remembering our relationship with Kwasha School. Remembering who God is and who God calls us to be.
Remembering that in the midst of the struggle, God is with us.
See you in church.
#MakeItMaplewood
So yes, take the risk. Say the thing. Announce the Good News and let it do what it will do.
Offer what you can, dear colleagues. It will be enough. God is with you. God is with us all.
3/3
So wrestle with it. Work on it. Pray over it. Get out of the way and let the Spirit move. God wastes nothing.
You may something that makes someone mad. And that very same thing may cause someone else to weep with joy to have heard it said, finally.
2/3
Dear Preachers,
If you, like me, are feeling anxious about tomorrow's sermon, please know that you are not alone. The chaos is very loud right now, it does not need amplification. And yet even now, the Gospel demands to be proclaimed.
1/3
... The church must say clearly: power that is unexamined, unchecked, or unaccountable stands in tension with the way of Jesus Christ." - Bishop Lanette Pollock Plambeck
"Across our nation, we are witnessing a troubling willingness to normalize violence as a tool of order and to resist accountability as though it were a threat rather than a safeguard. ...
Stranger Things was way, way over the top from the very start all the way to the end. Every season was too much. You know, just like the 80s. Totally awesome.
4/4
#StrangerThings #HellfireLives
So many loose ends, possible explanations, various theories for this and that. The last episode left me simultaneously deeply satisfied and frustratingly unsettled. Perfect.
3/4
