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Leah D. Schade

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Progressive Christian Clergy, #Preaching, #Climate, Enviro-Justice, Author, Seminary Prof, Patheos blogger, co-founder https://bsky.app/profile/clergyemergleague.bsky.social Stan #MichaelSheen, #GoodOmens. Views my own. No vague or purposeless DMs please.

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Leah D. Schade @leahschade.bsky.social · 9d

Handling sermon pushback on a social justice issue takes courage and prudence. Here are tips for navigating backlash on a sermon that will help you engage with openness and wisdom. #preaching
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How To Handle Sermon Pushback On Social Justice Issues

Here are tips and suggestions for responding to sermon pushback when addressing social issues in your preaching.

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Leah D. Schade @leahschade.bsky.social · 14h

A perfect metaphor for living in an age of distraction!

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Next generation - I see what you did there!

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 5d

It seems clear—I think to everyone, now—that a false and illegal invocation of the Insurrection Act is coming before the end of the year. Media outlets should be telling us how they will prepare for this potential Treason. State governments should be telling us. Activists should be developing plans.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 6d

Stoke fear. Exploit desperation. Suspend the rule of law. Fan brutality.

Every time the stronger brutalize the weak, it’s fundamentally the same playbook.

Our duty is to stand up to brutality.

Our moral obligation is to protect the vulnerable and hold the powerful accountable.

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Malcolm Nance, Leading Resister @malcolmnance.bsky.social · 7d

TERRORISM EXPERT HERE:

This statement is a clear example of what is known as “State Terrorism”: When the dictatorship will order all instruments of its state security & intelligence apparatus against its own citizens to terrorize the population.

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enrich12 @enrich12.bsky.social · 7d

#ICE...

#NeverForget? #WeForgot

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 8d

Federal agents reporting to Secretary Noem have spent weeks snatching up families, scaring law-abiding residents, violating due process rights, and even detaining U.S. citizens.

They fail to focus on violent criminals and instead create panic in our communities.

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ACLU @aclu.org · 9d

BREAKING: Our client Mario Guevara, an Emmy-winning journalist detained by ICE in retaliation for livestreaming law enforcement activity, will be deported tomorrow to El Salvador.

Mario and his family are being punished for his reporting. This cruelty is meant to stifle our free press.

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 9d

Don’t stop rubbing their noses in the teachings of Christ.

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 9d

Talarico: if you read the new testament, Jesus doesn't spend most of his time preaching or teaching or even praying. He spends most of his time healing the sick.

Right now, we have politicians in congress with Christ follower in their Twitter bio, but they are kicking the sick off their health care

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Leah D. Schade @leahschade.bsky.social · 9d

How To Handle Sermon Pushback On Social Justice Issues

Here are tips and suggestions for responding to sermon pushback when addressing social issues in your preaching.

www.patheos.com

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Pam Keith @pamkeithdc.bsky.social · 11d

NOT. ONE. DEM. VOTE. FOR. THIS. EVIL. AGENDA.

Period.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12d

Mike Johnson: "The WIC program, the nutrition program -- women, infants, and children -- that program won't be funded. FEMA won't be funded."

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JoJoFromJerz @jojofromjerz.bsky.social · 14d

Donald Trump is going to wage war on American cities over a fake crisis that isn’t happening involving a fake “terrorist organization” which doesn’t exist, so he can stop us from talking about the real child sex trafficking files he’s very much in.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 26d

We're witnessing the most aggressive, fanatical crackdown on free speech in my lifetime. The speed and breadth of government censorship and private sector and nonprofit capitulation has been astonishing. As has the lack of urgency/silence from people who've long claimed to care about this stuff.

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Leah D. Schade @leahschade.bsky.social · 23d

The 2025 survey on Ministry, Preaching, and Social Issues conducted by my team reveals U.S. clergy under pressure from division and threats, yet finding resilience through support networks, health and wellness practices, and creativity.
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Clergy Stress & Resilience In A Divided America: 2025 Survey

New survey reveals rising clergy stress amid political polarization. Discover how pastors find resilience, support & new energy for ministry.

www.patheos.com

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Racheline Maltese @racheline.bsky.social · 24d

Cis het people - If you need an issue to throw yourself deeply behind, I am never kidding when I say this is one where the life you save may be your own.

Because if you think mass institutionalization will stop with trans people, I have a wealth of reading for you to do about NS Germany.

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Racheline Maltese @racheline.bsky.social · 24d

Trans rights are not the rights of a tiny minority, trans rights are everyone’s rights to self-determination, control of our bodies, and a society where opportunity and aesthetics are not restricted by sex assigned at birth

You should support and defend trans people because trans people are people

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 27d

This exchange says it all.

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Gpwriter @gpwriter.bsky.social · 28d

An American dictator
tweeting
wildly into the night,
seeking
obedience.

Calling
the concerned
criticisms
from political
opponents
treasonous.

All the while,
Russia looks on
and laughs.

They never thought
invasion
would be so easy.

#poetry #booksky #books #TheTrumpYears

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Some Animals @aremoreequal.bsky.social · 29d

So a MAGA guy killed another MAGA guy for not being MAGA enough and MAGA decided to declare war on Democrats and Liberals and Trans people over it.

Because, of course the violent ones want more violence.

As they accuse the peaceful ones of being violent as an excuse for their violence.

Disgusting

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5GW HotTakes @5gw.bsky.social · Sep 10

"Conservative" influencer is wholly inaccurate.

We are not facing down "conservatism."
We are facing fascism.

He was a fascist.
Training young Americans to also be fascists.

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Fierce Audacity @mine4me.bsky.social · Sep 11

I just saw a comment that said "I don't support what happened to Charlie, but Charlie supported what happened to Charlie."

THAT ... that's what I've been trying to put into words.

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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · Sep 11

The murder of Charlie Kirk was criminal, wrong, and should be condemned.

And Charlie Kirk was a horrible, hateful man who spent his life radicalizing young people to embrace their worst demons by targeting women, people of color, immigrants, and the marginalized.

I refuse to sanitize him.

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April Hawthorne @feathersonthewind.bsky.social · Sep 8

Please remember how protagonists triumph by disbelieving in the monster.
The monster always wants us
to cower and tremble
instead of knowing how powerful we are and the truth really is.

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Leah D. Schade @leahschade.bsky.social · Sep 1

Nice turn-out in Lexington, KY, for the Labor Day rally supporting laborers over billionaires! #SupportUnions

Clergy person holding sign at Labor Day rally: things are so bad, I'd need at least 224 signs to protest everything

Clergy person holding sign at Labor Day rally: without labor there'd be no billionaires, without billionaires we could all have nice things

Labor Day rally for workers over billionaires in Lexington, Kentucky 2025

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Dave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social · Aug 31

The thing about Covid is that, for a whole year, people & leaders were forced, by a real visible crisis, to listen to experts and try to do the right thing.

And they absolutely hated it & never want to do it again.

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