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Michael Morrell

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Opti-mystic writer & futurist, dad of two. Author with Richard Rohr of 'The Divine Dance.' Co-founder, Wild Goose Festival . Curator, TheSpeakeasy.info Read my stuff @ MikeMorrell.org/BonusChapter

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Michael Morrell @genuinemichael.bsky.social · Jan 7

Welcoming all the digital refugees and new connections here! Whether we're meeting for the first time or getting reacquainted...hi.

I'm Michael, a practical mystic and writer from the God-haunted American South, collaborating author of the bestseller 'The Divine Dance' with Richard Rohr.

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Michael Morrell @genuinemichael.bsky.social · 1d

Let’s get biblical, biblical…

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Michael Morrell @genuinemichael.bsky.social · 1d

"This record will not be silenced! Time to turn up the volume! Time to sing Forbidden Hymns.”

Stream or get yours here! mikemorrell.org/2025/09/forb...

Forbidden Hymns | John Francis O’Mara

The following is description of the album Forbidden Hymns by John Francis O’Mara. It’s a featured Speakeasy selection, and you can preorder it here. In his first full-length album in a decade, Iris…

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Michael Morrell @genuinemichael.bsky.social · 1d

“Many among us are not afraid! I’m here to tell you, not on my watch,” the songwriter continues. “This is the precise moment many of us have been preparing for, and I will not be silenced. We who believe that a world full of empathy, justice, dignity and love is possible, will not be silenced!"

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Michael Morrell @genuinemichael.bsky.social · 1d

"Elites and the billionaire class rule from their ill-gotten thrones. Truth, beauty, and conscience are being legislated into silence, banned, and literally ‘forbidden’. The soul of America, and the very soul of humanity, is at stake. Many among us are being made to fear raising our voices.”

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Michael Morrell @genuinemichael.bsky.social · 1d

"Why ‘Forbidden’? Look around! The social and political landscape has taken a very ugly turn,” says O’Mara. “Stateside, the innocent and most vulnerable are being kidnapped and denied basic civil and human rights, while literal genocide and starving children’s screams are live-streamed in real time.

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Michael Morrell @genuinemichael.bsky.social · 1d

𝘼𝙣𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙢𝙨 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙏𝙧𝙤𝙪𝙗𝙡𝙚𝙙 𝙏𝙞𝙢𝙚𝙨: 𝙁𝙤𝙧𝙗𝙞𝙙𝙙𝙚𝙣 𝙃𝙮𝙢𝙣𝙨

In his first full-length album in a decade, Irish-American singer-songwriter John Francis O'Mara offers 'Forbidden Hymns,' a collection of 13 songs encompassing Alt-Country, Americana, Folk and Rock, exploring justice, theology, hope, and heartbreak!

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 2d

"Hundreds of Catholic priests, nuns and lay people led a march from a Catholic church in Maywood to the ICE detention center in Broadview..."

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Faith leaders blocked from sharing Communion with detainees at Broadview ICE center

A large group of Chicago area Catholics marched to the ICE detention center in Broadview Saturday, hoping to share Communion with detainees.

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Michael Morrell @genuinemichael.bsky.social · 5d

Let's practice wise leadership and unleashing the priesthood of every believer. While remaining humble, we don't have to be timid.

Now is the time to root deep, and let our lives speak.

Art: Celebrating Chiapas / National: 20th National Encounter of Base Ecclesial Communities, 50th anniversary

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Michael Morrell @genuinemichael.bsky.social · 5d

We have Scripture and sacrament, lyrics & lectionaries, liturgy and lament, meal-sharing and mirth, prayer & protest. A legacy of poets and prophets, sages and even mages.

Can we weave these skillfully into a rich tapestry in each locality, blanketing our communities in resilience & stubborn love?

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Michael Morrell @genuinemichael.bsky.social · 5d

Their glamour will continue drawing the unheeding, especially our young.

We have the resources: from patristics and dissidents to Peace Churches and Black Churches; from theologies of liberation to cosmologies of contemplative transformation.

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Michael Morrell @genuinemichael.bsky.social · 5d

If we can't both articulate and deliver a coherent gospel of soul-growth rooted in the paradoxical power of metanoia, kenosis, and resurrection, neo-fundamentalist churches are going to continue making converts to their 'good news' and discipleship programmes of glory and cultural capture.

Michael Morrell @genuinemichael.bsky.social · 5d

Can we offer a credible path to discipleship that offers personal formation and community functioning, a faithfulness that brings God's kin'dom "on earth as it is in heaven," whether or not it looks like the sweeping social transformation we long to see in our lifetimes?

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Michael Morrell @genuinemichael.bsky.social · 5d

J. Aaron Simmons asks us all the question (with a nod to Kierkegaard): "What is worthy of your finitude?"

Do progressive Christians feel a proper confidence in the goodness of God and the Way of Jesus?

Michael Morrell @genuinemichael.bsky.social · 5d

Progressive churches wanting to show up powerfully in our current social-cultural-political milieu:

Epistemic humility is great, refreshing compared to know-it-all dogmatism.

But can we also root ourselves in existential courage?

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The Onion @theonion.com · 7d

Area Family Putting A Little Money Away To One Day Blow On Single Health Scare https://theonion.com/area-family-putting-a-little-money-away-to-one-day-blow-1819575678/

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Michael Morrell @genuinemichael.bsky.social · 9d

Sounds like he misspoke the truth.

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 11d

The US is deporting a journalist today

Mario Guevara was live streaming ICE atrocities

They grabbed him

Detained him for 100 Days and are sending him to El Salvador without letting him say goodbye to his family

The ACLU confirmed he was working in the US legally

They’re attacking the free press

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Michael Morrell @genuinemichael.bsky.social · 13d

Intrigued? Find out more, and register here. You can use my code OPTIMYSTIC to receive a course discount! songsthatspeak.teachable.com/p/the-unquie...

The Unquiet Grave: A Song & Story Journey from Appalachia to Scotland Exploring Ancestral Beliefs on the Afterlife, Grief, & Setting the Dead Free

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Michael Morrell @genuinemichael.bsky.social · 13d

In engaging sessions with these practitioners, we’ll explore topics including…

֎ What Happens to the Dead?
֎ Setting the Dead Free
֎ Funerary Folk Magic
֎ English and Scots-Gaelic Chants to Mourn & Release the Dead
֎ Singing Our Own Songs for the Dead

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Michael Morrell @genuinemichael.bsky.social · 13d

This learning and singing experience brings together song leader Saro Lynch-Thomason alongside excellent tradition bearers of Scottish heritage: storyteller Eileen Budd, folklorist Scott Richardson-Read, and singer Sìne McKenna.

Michael Morrell @genuinemichael.bsky.social · 13d

Engaging with these diasporic songs alongside the long-held traditions of Scotland links us to animist and ancestral folkways that expand our understandings of death, the dead, and healthy ways to mourn.

Michael Morrell @genuinemichael.bsky.social · 13d

𝐖𝐞𝐚𝐯𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐖𝐢𝐬𝐝𝐨𝐦 𝐅𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐒𝐜𝐨𝐭𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐀𝐩𝐩𝐚𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐚

In this learning and singing experience, we’ll learn Appalachian ballads and folk songs while also exploring Scottish stories, folklore and (yes) more songs! Many Appalachian ballads were brought to the mountain south by Scottish & Scots-Irish immigrants..

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Michael Morrell @genuinemichael.bsky.social · 13d

When we lose someone, we yearn for traditional knowledge that helps us to have a healthy grieving process & usher the dead into the next world. In The Unquiet Grave, we explore these important forms of wisdom through the connected inheritance of Appalachian songs & Scottish folk tales, music & lore.

Michael Morrell @genuinemichael.bsky.social · 13d

𝐀𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐥 𝐒𝐨𝐧𝐠𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐒𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐇𝐞𝐥𝐩 𝐔𝐬 𝐇𝐞𝐚𝐥

Beliefs about the afterlife, how to care for the spirits of the dead, and customs for mourning have always been a central part of ancestral wisdom. However, our modern culture often sanitizes death and hides it away:

Michael Morrell @genuinemichael.bsky.social · 13d

As we enter the autumn season, a traditional time to honor the ancestors, let’s immerse in the folklore, songs and stories that help us remember how to grieve the dead, let go, and honor the soul’s greater journey.