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Chris Lilley ✠ 🇵🇸🇺🇦 @frostinthepines.bsky.social · 3h

If your version of “standing up for Jesus” requires dehumanizing and erasing trans* and gender non-conforming people, you’re not following Christ. You're denying the Gospel. #transrights #transrightsarehumanrights

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Billie @billieiswriting.bsky.social · 2d

Read this.
Queerness is a blessing; queerphobia is a curse; respectability is a trap.
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Queerness is a Blessing

Queerphobia is the curse and respectability politics are a trap.

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Chris Lilley ✠ 🇵🇸🇺🇦 @frostinthepines.bsky.social · 5h

I think it's time for another Mass Effect playthrough. #masseffect #bioware

a video game character with the words just like old times

Alt: a video game character, Garrus, with the words just like old times

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Chris Lilley ✠ 🇵🇸🇺🇦 @frostinthepines.bsky.social · 21h

The sometimes overwhelming anger and disgust I feel towards so many of my fellow professing Christians who gleefully support an incompetent, fascist felon in the name of power makes me glad that salvation belongs to God alone.

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Chris Lilley ✠ 🇵🇸🇺🇦 @frostinthepines.bsky.social · 2d

Advocating for trans* and gender-diverse people through church ministry has reshaped how I see the incarnation. Christ embodies and transcends the gender spectrum. @kevin-carnahan.bsky.social #TheDisappearanceofEve explores this with depth and grace. @fortresspress.bsky.social 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ #theologyofgender

A book titled The Disappearance of Eve and the Gender of Christ by Kevin Carnahan rests on a wooden surface beside a blue Caribou Coffee cup. The book cover features a soft gradient from pink to gray, with bold red banners reading “Why Traditional Soteriology Requires a Trans* Savior.” A tan and black bag sits in the background, suggesting a casual study setting in a coffee shop.

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Chris Lilley ✠ 🇵🇸🇺🇦 @frostinthepines.bsky.social · 2d

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Chris Lilley ✠ 🇵🇸🇺🇦 @frostinthepines.bsky.social · 2d

Christianity, if true, is an existential threat to the state. That is its scandal. That is its promise.

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churchtimes.bsky.social @churchtimes.bsky.social · 8d

BREAKING: The next Archbishop of Canterbury is to be the Rt Revd Sarah Mullally, the Bishop of London since 2018, Downing Street has announced. She is to be the first woman to hold the post

#archbishopofcanterbury #nextABC #Archbishop106

www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/202...

First woman appointed to be the next Archbishop of Canterbury

The Bishop of London, the Rt Revd Sarah Mullally, has been announced as the next Primate of All England

www.churchtimes.co.uk

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Chris Lilley ✠ 🇵🇸🇺🇦 @frostinthepines.bsky.social · 8d

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Chris Lilley ✠ 🇵🇸🇺🇦 @frostinthepines.bsky.social · 8d

a man in a suit and tie is sitting in a chair and talking .

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Chris Lilley ✠ 🇵🇸🇺🇦 @frostinthepines.bsky.social · 8d

Jordan Peterson is an insufferable fool.

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Chris Lilley ✠ 🇵🇸🇺🇦 @frostinthepines.bsky.social · 8d

@joashpthomas.bsky.social is as legit as they come!

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Chris Lilley ✠ 🇵🇸🇺🇦 @frostinthepines.bsky.social · 9d

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Chris Lilley ✠ 🇵🇸🇺🇦 @frostinthepines.bsky.social · 9d

Deconstructing white theology means more than rejecting its harms, it means dismantling the colonial theology beneath it. @joashpthomas.bsky.social's *The Justice of Jesus* is a guide to reclaim the Gospel from the sin of colonialism and whiteness, and to cultivate a church rooted in justice.

Cover of the book “The Justice of Jesus” by Joash P. Thomas. The design features bold red title text over a textured off-white background, with a golden wheat stalk illustrated behind it. A quote from Shane Claiborne at the top reads, “The perfect combination of prophetic fire and pastoral care.” The subtitle below the title says, “Reimagining Your Church’s Life Together to Pursue Liberation and Wholeness.” The book rests on a wooden surface.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 10d

Sorry we had to cancel your cancer treatment, but the Secretary of Defense had to fly all the generals in so he could call them fat.

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Chris Lilley ✠ 🇵🇸🇺🇦 @frostinthepines.bsky.social · 11d

My sermon on the Parable of the Rich Man and Lazarus. Preached at St. John in the Wilderness Episcopal Church.

youtu.be/D4JrEtg705g?...

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YouTube video by John Wilderness

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Chris Lilley ✠ 🇵🇸🇺🇦 @frostinthepines.bsky.social · 12d

On this feast of St. Michael and All Angels, we remember: the fight against injustice is not ours alone. Heaven stands with us. 🗡️🪽

Art: "St. Michael Archangel" by Br. Mickey McGrath, OSFS (www.bromickeymcgrath.com/)

#Michaelmas #stmichaelthearchangel
#michaelthearchangel #sacredart #mickeymcgrath

A stylized painting of a dark-skinned angel with curly hair and large purple wings, standing barefoot in a posture of strength and reverence. The angel wears green and red garments with intricate patterns and is adorned with jewelry—necklaces, arm bands, and a beaded belt. Their hands are clasped in prayer. A coiled snake lies near their feet, symbolizing evil subdued. The background glows with warm hues of yellow and red, bordered by a black and white decorative frame. The image evokes divine protection, cosmic struggle, and dignity.

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Chris Lilley ✠ 🇵🇸🇺🇦 @frostinthepines.bsky.social · 13d

a cartoon of bender from futurama says shut up baby i know it

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Chris Lilley ✠ 🇵🇸🇺🇦 @frostinthepines.bsky.social · 13d

Only a tramp was Lazarus' sad fate,
He who lay down at the rich man’s gate.
He begged for the crumbs from the rich man to eat.
He was only a tramp found dead on the street.

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A Tramp On The Street (The Health And Happiness Show)

YouTube video by Hank Williams - Topic

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Chris Lilley ✠ 🇵🇸🇺🇦 @frostinthepines.bsky.social · 13d

God *damn* the guns.

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 13d

A shooting at a Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints building in Grand Blanc, Michigan, on Sunday morning left “multiple” people injured, the police said, adding that the church was on fire as the authorities responded.

Injuries Reported in Shooting at Mormon Church in Michigan

www.nytimes.com

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Chris Lilley ✠ 🇵🇸🇺🇦 @frostinthepines.bsky.social · 13d

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Billie @billieiswriting.bsky.social · 13d

Resist ICE
Abolish ICE
Prosecute ICE

amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 13d

ICE just chased everyone off the public road by the Broadview facility. They yelled for people to move and immediately began firing gas into the crowd, which included legal observers, press, and medics.

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Chris Lilley ✠ 🇵🇸🇺🇦 @frostinthepines.bsky.social · 14d

a man with glasses and the words " it 's true " behind him

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Chris Lilley ✠ 🇵🇸🇺🇦 @frostinthepines.bsky.social · 14d

Occasionally, I'll take a peek at some of the conservative reformed forums I used to be a part of before I deconstructed.

I'm still at a loss by how many angry little men are BIG MAD at the idea of a woman pastor.

Patriarchy isn't just vile, poisonous, and abusive.

It's unbelievably pathetic.

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Chris Lilley ✠ 🇵🇸🇺🇦 @frostinthepines.bsky.social · 14d

On my list!

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