How do you get out of a shame spiral? That's the question behind the question, What Would Mom Think?: True Confessions of a pastor/podcaster/sex educator
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It's the guns.
It's also the millions of dollars spent in this country to get you think it's not the guns.
We do not have to live this way.
Threatening war against your own people is not normal. It's not ok. It's not presidential, not in a democracy.
And it's not fucking funny, either.
Friends, I hope you are rooting down into your communities. None of this is normal and we need eachother right now.
Ever been busy trying to not be sad? Read about it in my latest Substack: revlkrm.substack.com/p/these-frag...
You may be sitting with the grief of this week for a while. When you are ready to re-engage joy again, read this. Maybe read it before you are ready. We must do the things that bring us deep joy in these days. revlkrm.substack.com/p/fairy-ligh...
Check in, friends.
How are you?
Where did you see hope today? This week? Did you look? We have to keep looking and tell about it.
We are all
just walking
each other
home.
- Ram Dass
Seriously. Best cross stitch ever.
Real question: how do you recalibrate hope these days?
In other words, tell me practical things that you do to reset your expectations when things are going badly? How do you stay afloat when life continually tugs you under?
Love Harder.
Read it here. And hit SUBSCRIBE if you haven't already.
revlkrm.substack.com/p/love-harder
We choose the kind of people we shall be. We choose:
Community over isolation
Mutuality over self reliance
Service over self serving
Sharing over hoarding
Generosity over greed
Empathy over callousness
Love over complacency
Hope over skepticism
Peace over violence
Joy over despair
Life over death
It's Friday. The week's over. Check in.... how are you? How are you really?
Where did you see hope this week? Did you look? We have to keep looking and tell each other about it.
Dear Trans and Nonbinary Beloveds...
Today is the Pulse anniversary and a hard, hard day.
You are loved.
You are valued.
Queer joy is your birthright.
Queer flourishing is too.
I'm committed to making a world where that's the reality and I hope all my straight friends are too.
Be loved, beloveds, and be gentle with yourself today.
When the President, who claims to be a Christian, deploys the National Guard to crush immigration protests by diverse people speaking many languages on the FEAST of PENTECOST, that's a special kind of sin.
God loves you. Some people, maybe even people who should be those closest to you, have said otherwise. Dear one, they are wrong. I'm so sorry that happened to you. That was their ignorance, fear, or self-loathing talking, not God. God thinks you are fabulous. And so do I. Happy Pride, y'all.
That's so generous. Thank you.
Today's Substack
The Grater Good: Shredding Cheese as a Metric for Success
Link in comments. Share with the folks you know in ministry.
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It's Friday. End of the week. Check in. How are you? How are you really?
Where did you see hope this week? Did you look? We have to keep looking and telling each other about it.
Hey... Insomnia Club Members... it's 4:04 in the morning. Take a breath, name 5 things you're grateful for, unclench, then hand the worries over. Set your phone down, rest in the trust that Everlasting Love will not let you go. Ok? OK.
It's the weekend. Where did you see hope this week? Did you look?
Where did you see hope this week?
I bit it on Easter morning. That tumble turned into a pretty powerful metaphor. Read it on Substack. revlkrm.substack.com/p/tumbling-t...
If Mother's Day is good for you, it's really good. For everyone else, is complicated. If it's a hard day for you, I hope this blessing helps. Read A Mother's Day Blessing by Leah Robberts-Mosser on Substack:
substack.com/profile/1149...
A corrupt, authoritarian government seizes an innocent man, tortures and jails him on trumped-up charges that change during a manipulated "legal" process. The prisoner is left at the mercy of dehumanizing politicians & jailers to do with what they please.
Holy Week then. America now.
It's Friday. Check in. How are you? How are you really?
Where did you see hope this week? Did you look? We have to keep looking and telling eachother about it.
How would you differentiate the practice of your faith from the death cult of Christian Nationalism?
That's the question I ask this week on Substack while offering a crowdsourced list of Progressive Christian writers.
revlkrm.substack.com/p/your-new-r...
On the latest episode of Sex Positive God Pod: Progressive Pastors Answer Your Sex and Relationship Questions, Pastor Jen and I tackled questions on infidelity. Listen here or wherever you listen to podcasts: open.spotify.com/episode/7tgq...
