Every dollar raised keeps our 24/7 crisis hotline, mobile advocacy, and PAWS for Empowerment therapy dog programs completely free. Send me a DM to donate or secure your tickets, or visit crisiscenternorth.org to learn more! 🐾✨ #DomesticViolenceAwareness #Pittsburgh #CrisisCenterNorth
Help us support domestic violence survivors! 💙 Crisis Center North’s 19th Annual Cocktails & Cuisine is coming up on Friday, May 15, 2026, at The Woodlands. We are actively seeking auction item donations, event sponsors, and attendees.
As my sign from our last rally says (John 12:14-15), he’s a profoundly different sort of King. I'll see you all at the reenactment today! ✊
While the empire paraded their military might on warhorses, Jesus intentionally rode a humble donkey—making a direct statement against the pompous, violent kings of the world and showing that true power is rooted in peace and justice.
Me in a clerical collar shirt at the last No Kings rally. My sign is a picture of Jesus riding a donkey and holding a "No Kings" sign.
The front of my No Kings sign - Jesus on a Donkey and holding a sign that says "No Kings"
The back of my sign - a list of Scripture and the acronym "WWJD" Scripture references: Exodus 23:9, Job 5:16, Proverbs 31:9, Isaiah 58:6 and following, Matthew 25:31-46, and Mark 10:21
People forget that the first 'Palm Sunday' was actually a risky, subversive protest! 🌿 It was a brilliant parody of an oppressive government run by the wealthy who were exploiting the vulnerable. #NoKings
Cocktails & Cuisine, is coming up on May 15! Looking for community partners to sponsor, donate an auction item, or grab a ticket to help Crisis Center North provide free, life-saving domestic violence services. Send me a quick DM and I will share all the details on how you can get involved!
Gary Peluso-Verdend, “Theological Perspective on Matthew 13:31–33, 44–52,” in Feasting on the Word: Preaching the Revised Common Lectionary: Year A, ed. David L. Bartlett and Barbara Brown Taylor, vol. 3 (Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox Press, 2011), 286–28 8.
1 Warren Carter, Matthew and the Margins: A Sociopolitical and Religious Reading (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 2000), 291.
“The church’s work in every age, more so in some ages and places than in others, is to form disciples who value the contemporary equivalents of weeds, yeast, thieves, and merchants.””
“Helping persons to adjust or be balanced to fit into a sick society is not the work of the gospel. As Warren Carter writes in commenting on the parable of the woman who leavens the flour, “if a person is well adjusted in a sick society, corrupting is the only path to wholeness.”1”
“What if a society resembles the empire of Rome much more closely than it does the empire of heaven, expressing in its policies and budget the values of social inequality and redemptive violence?”⬇️
To my fellow middle-aged women. . . scriptural affirmation of the day: in Genesis 20, Sarah is old enough to have recently laughed at the idea of getting pregnant, but she’s not too old to be so beautiful that Abraham's afraid Abimelech will take her by force if he thinks she's his wife.
God,
For friends who show up and unexpectedly and, without a word, clean your kitchen on a day you’re on your last little thread,
We give you thanks.
Amen
Walked into a restaurant tonight and immediately another woman exclaimed, “Your pants are FABULOUS!”
She’s right. I love these pants. I look very cute tonight.
More importantly— let’s all be like that for each other all the time. When someone is/looks/does something fabulous, shout out about it!
I'm especially looking at you, men. It's largely women leading the fight against DV/IPV, but the powers out there clearly don't care to stop and listen to female voices. We need you to be out there publicly and have our back.
If you would like information on how to support a local organization that is working to prevent domestic violence and provide anti-violence education in our communities, please let me know. As non-profits and community services agencies are losing funding, every minute and every dollar matter.
The more we as a culture believe the lies about IPV and how people deserve to be treated in their own homes, the more people are at risk of violence in what should be the safest place in the world for them.
"You shouldn't have done anything to provoke him." (Or as the pastor I sought council from in 2001 said, "You really should just work harder to be a better wife.")
This is dangerous. This is appalling. This is the patriarchy at its most condescending and violent.
If you've ever been the victim of intimate partner violence, you've heard this BS before. It's been used to shame you, gaslight you, and make you lose hope.
"What happens at home should stay at home."
"It's a personal issue, don't make it public."
"It's not really as bad as you think it is."
Let me be clear -- he said that crime will never be 100% erradicated because women are reporting things that happen at home that shouldn't be counted as crime.
An average of 3 women die every day in the US at the hand of a partner. This usually happens in their home. About 75% of these incidents occur when the woman is trying to leave, after many other incidents Trump has just chalked up as "a little fight with the wife" and claimed is not a real crime.
This is another shameful attempt to diminish the voices of victims -- especially women. And this is very, very dangerous.
Then, admitting that the crime isn't 0, this man actually said, "Things that take place in the home, they call crime. You know, they'll do anything they can to find something. If a man has a little fight with the wife, they say this was a crime scene. So now I can't claim 100%,"
Yesterday, President Trump was bragging about how dramatically he's reduced crime. He gave no real statistics or citations at all -- just claimed to a cheering crowd that things were bad and now they aren't because he's so good at what he does.
Letter board that says, “When a foreigner resides among you…love them as yourself. Leviticus 19:33-34”
July’s letter board. #letterboard #july #loveeachother #scripture #bibleverse
Checking in from Pittsburgh
#NoKings Pittsburgh
favorite sign here in Pittsburgh... doing it Pittsburgh style!
