Bob Minor
@bobminor.bsky.social
Professor emeritus, historian of world religions, advocate, speaker, author, grampa
#HeatedRivalry had to be an imported series written by a woman and the demographic, not surprisingly, is women. That's why it stands out in the midst of US-style masculinity
Why 'Heated Rivalry' Feels Like Such a Fever Dream of a World We Don't Quite Live In
How our money-driven sports culture, with its focus on winners and losers, trades actual play for a basket of phobias and encourages LGBTQ+ players to opt out.
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February 1, 2026 at 8:06 PM
#HeatedRivalry had to be an imported series written by a woman and the demographic, not surprisingly, is women. That's why it stands out in the midst of US-style masculinity
Kansas City turns out in the below freezing temperatures for more than one anti-ICE thugs rally yesterday.
See scenes from Kansas City’s protests against ICE as part of nationwide wave
Kansas Citians showed up at several protests, joining nationwide rallies against recent ICE tactics.
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January 31, 2026 at 2:59 PM
Kansas City turns out in the below freezing temperatures for more than one anti-ICE thugs rally yesterday.
Just over one year ago, a Bishop modeled something that's in all of us.
In These Trying Times, Let's Not Soon Forget This Bishop's Courageous Example
As Bishop Budde's choice to speak truth to power illustrates, courage rests in those decisive moments whether we choose to go or stay, or to change or persevere.
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January 26, 2026 at 2:31 PM
Just over one year ago, a Bishop modeled something that's in all of us.
Giving away your #Nobel prize should be understood as the awardee turning it down. The Nobel Committee should now award a replacement prize for 2025
January 17, 2026 at 12:46 AM
Giving away your #Nobel prize should be understood as the awardee turning it down. The Nobel Committee should now award a replacement prize for 2025
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If it’s bad to be old, then what does that do to the self-esteem of us all as every single one of us without exception inevitably moves to that wretched place?
Here's One Cultural Assimilation That LGBTQ+ People Can Do Without
If it’s bad to be old, then what does that do to the self-esteem of us all as every single one of us without exception inevitably moves to that wretched place?
whosoever.org
January 4, 2026 at 7:17 PM
If it’s bad to be old, then what does that do to the self-esteem of us all as every single one of us without exception inevitably moves to that wretched place?
"Liberal religion hasn’t often acted as if it really believed what it does. It’s too often been hesitant to stand firmly, publicly and boldly on the alternative vision it offers. It’s been too hesitant to speak up and proudly claim that right-wing theology is plain wrong...."
Why We Need Liberal Religion To Leave Its Self-Imposed Closet Now
The signs are all there. Liberal church bodies are fighting back. Every so often in the past they did so, but now the open, unholy marriage of extreme right-wing bigotry, its political proponents, and...
whosoever.org
January 1, 2026 at 8:14 PM
"Liberal religion hasn’t often acted as if it really believed what it does. It’s too often been hesitant to stand firmly, publicly and boldly on the alternative vision it offers. It’s been too hesitant to speak up and proudly claim that right-wing theology is plain wrong...."
Hasn't this already happened with the #SupremeCourt?
December 24, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Hasn't this already happened with the #SupremeCourt?
December 21, 2025 at 9:25 PM
It's the same old “scared straight” that we are now seeing proudly performed and rewarded by the U.S. President, the Secretary of Defense and the rest of his regime, the president’s brown shirts in ICE, their sycophants, and those captivated enough to vote for these paragons of straightness?
Will We Ever Break Free of the 'Straight' Ideal?
The straight role is meant to turn America’s little boys into warriors. It defines teamwork as a group of men getting together to beat, defeat or kill other men
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December 16, 2025 at 8:50 PM
It's the same old “scared straight” that we are now seeing proudly performed and rewarded by the U.S. President, the Secretary of Defense and the rest of his regime, the president’s brown shirts in ICE, their sycophants, and those captivated enough to vote for these paragons of straightness?
The unwillingness to even imagine the struggles, fears, humanity, threats to and needs of #transgender/nonbinary folks is about so much more than transgenderism.
What Is It That Keeps Everyday People Stuck in the Culture War Against Transgender People?
The unwillingness to even imagine the struggles, fears, humanity, threats to and needs of transgender/nonbinary folks is about so much more than transgenderism.
whosoever.org
December 4, 2025 at 2:35 PM
The unwillingness to even imagine the struggles, fears, humanity, threats to and needs of #transgender/nonbinary folks is about so much more than transgenderism.
What got into the #NYTimes? Actually standing up for freedom of the press?
New York Times Sues Pentagon Over First Amendment Rights
www.nytimes.com
December 4, 2025 at 2:28 PM
What got into the #NYTimes? Actually standing up for freedom of the press?
Donny’s "wrecking-ball approach to America has a precedent: the MAGA evangelical perversion of Jesus’s message of radical love to one of hate and aggression," writes The Guardian's Bill McKibben.
They’re doing to America what they did to Christianity | Bill McKibben
Trump’s wrecking-ball approach to America has a precedent: the evangelical perversion of Jesus’s message of radical love to one of hate and aggression
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 2:16 AM
Donny’s "wrecking-ball approach to America has a precedent: the MAGA evangelical perversion of Jesus’s message of radical love to one of hate and aggression," writes The Guardian's Bill McKibben.
MAGA is totally an anti-American con. According to its own information before Twitter (X) just shut down its own location feature - 2/3 of MAGA and other far-right accounts on Twitter (X) are based in Russia, Nigeria, and Bangladesh. Even Homeland Security's X account is based in Tel Aviv, Israel.
November 25, 2025 at 12:18 AM
MAGA is totally an anti-American con. According to its own information before Twitter (X) just shut down its own location feature - 2/3 of MAGA and other far-right accounts on Twitter (X) are based in Russia, Nigeria, and Bangladesh. Even Homeland Security's X account is based in Tel Aviv, Israel.
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Let this increase your rage against the 8 Vichy Democratic "Centrists"
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Provision in government funding bill allows senators to sue over secretly obtained phone records
Government funding bill includes provision that would create pathway for senators to sue the government if their phone records are investigated without their notice.
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November 12, 2025 at 12:48 AM
Let this increase your rage against the 8 Vichy Democratic "Centrists"
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November 7, 2025 at 5:33 PM
10 Things #Republicans get but not many #Democrats: (9/10)
(9) Turn every election for someone into a referendum on some issue and emphasize that issue in every discussion. Affordability, starvation, freedom, whatever worries people. A candidate is a symbol of that issue.
(9) Turn every election for someone into a referendum on some issue and emphasize that issue in every discussion. Affordability, starvation, freedom, whatever worries people. A candidate is a symbol of that issue.
November 7, 2025 at 5:31 PM
10 Things #Republicans get but not many #Democrats: (9/10)
(9) Turn every election for someone into a referendum on some issue and emphasize that issue in every discussion. Affordability, starvation, freedom, whatever worries people. A candidate is a symbol of that issue.
(9) Turn every election for someone into a referendum on some issue and emphasize that issue in every discussion. Affordability, starvation, freedom, whatever worries people. A candidate is a symbol of that issue.
10 Things #Republicans get but not many #Democrats: (8/10)
(8) When you move toward their position to compromise, it shows others that their position has value, yours has less than you’ve been claiming, and you didn’t really believe in your view originally. What is the compromise with bigotry?
(8) When you move toward their position to compromise, it shows others that their position has value, yours has less than you’ve been claiming, and you didn’t really believe in your view originally. What is the compromise with bigotry?
November 7, 2025 at 5:28 PM
10 Things #Republicans get but not many #Democrats: (8/10)
(8) When you move toward their position to compromise, it shows others that their position has value, yours has less than you’ve been claiming, and you didn’t really believe in your view originally. What is the compromise with bigotry?
(8) When you move toward their position to compromise, it shows others that their position has value, yours has less than you’ve been claiming, and you didn’t really believe in your view originally. What is the compromise with bigotry?