Doug Clement (he/him)
@dclement06.bsky.social
United Methodist pastor. Loves: history, travel, and time spent with friends.
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Our brothers, sisters, siblings who are transgender are made in the image of God. They deserve love, acceptance, and affirmation. They deserve the chance to be able to share their skills, talents, and passions. And they deserve access to medical care according to their gender identity.
December 18, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Our brothers, sisters, siblings who are transgender are made in the image of God. They deserve love, acceptance, and affirmation. They deserve the chance to be able to share their skills, talents, and passions. And they deserve access to medical care according to their gender identity.
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In Ps. 100:3 today: 'we are his people, the sheep he watches over with tender care' (FNV). We live within the care of the good shepherd. Within concern for the whole. Attention to the vulnerable. You can't love God & oppress the immigrant. Tender Care is our work today.
December 17, 2025 at 12:22 PM
In Ps. 100:3 today: 'we are his people, the sheep he watches over with tender care' (FNV). We live within the care of the good shepherd. Within concern for the whole. Attention to the vulnerable. You can't love God & oppress the immigrant. Tender Care is our work today.
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In Ps. 101:2 today: 'I want to study the way of integrity.' Not that we ever arrive, but we can be a student of integrity. Wholeness. Neighborliness. Suspect the algorithms & rage bait. Do not concede the rights of your neighbor. Live compassionately. Integrity is my work today.
December 16, 2025 at 12:27 PM
In Ps. 101:2 today: 'I want to study the way of integrity.' Not that we ever arrive, but we can be a student of integrity. Wholeness. Neighborliness. Suspect the algorithms & rage bait. Do not concede the rights of your neighbor. Live compassionately. Integrity is my work today.
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Now more than ever, it is essential for us to be clear about what virtuous living entails, and about our own desire to pattern our lives accordingly - even if we don't share every detail of our successes and failings as we pursue that
December 16, 2025 at 3:57 AM
Now more than ever, it is essential for us to be clear about what virtuous living entails, and about our own desire to pattern our lives accordingly - even if we don't share every detail of our successes and failings as we pursue that
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In Ps.102:17 today: 'God will turn to the prayer of the impoverished; he won't despise their prayers.' Advent is about turning toward hope. There is no hope in violence. No hope in oligarchy. No hope in racism. Hope is at hand revealing Love's design. Prayer is my work today.
December 15, 2025 at 12:37 PM
In Ps.102:17 today: 'God will turn to the prayer of the impoverished; he won't despise their prayers.' Advent is about turning toward hope. There is no hope in violence. No hope in oligarchy. No hope in racism. Hope is at hand revealing Love's design. Prayer is my work today.
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In Ps. 112:5 today: 'It is well with those who deal generously.' Generosity & well-being are sisters, offspring of justice & mercy. In a moment of rage bait algorithms, & fear of immigrants, deal generously. Consider grace. Generously is my meditation today.
December 5, 2025 at 1:02 PM
In Ps. 112:5 today: 'It is well with those who deal generously.' Generosity & well-being are sisters, offspring of justice & mercy. In a moment of rage bait algorithms, & fear of immigrants, deal generously. Consider grace. Generously is my meditation today.
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I saw this print in my friend Armand’s office in the early ‘90’s. When I commented how much I liked it, he took it off the wall and handed it to me. Ever since then it’s the first thing I read when I get up each morning and I say a prayer:
May it be so.
May it be so.
December 2, 2025 at 1:38 PM
I saw this print in my friend Armand’s office in the early ‘90’s. When I commented how much I liked it, he took it off the wall and handed it to me. Ever since then it’s the first thing I read when I get up each morning and I say a prayer:
May it be so.
May it be so.
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In Ps.115:9 today: 'God is their help and shield.' Ezer/help refers to God's powerful, active, daily assistance. All we need to be faithful is here. And we join God in God's work of shielding those robbed of due process. Robbed of healthcare. Work. Shield is my work today.
December 2, 2025 at 12:33 PM
In Ps.115:9 today: 'God is their help and shield.' Ezer/help refers to God's powerful, active, daily assistance. All we need to be faithful is here. And we join God in God's work of shielding those robbed of due process. Robbed of healthcare. Work. Shield is my work today.
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In Ps.118:9 today: 'It is better to take refuge in the Lord than to put confidence in princes.' We cannot trust or follow lying, lawless, and racist behavior. Grant refuge, O God, to those who suffer racial profiling. Make flourishing our refuge. Refuge is my prayer today.
November 29, 2025 at 1:27 PM
In Ps.118:9 today: 'It is better to take refuge in the Lord than to put confidence in princes.' We cannot trust or follow lying, lawless, and racist behavior. Grant refuge, O God, to those who suffer racial profiling. Make flourishing our refuge. Refuge is my prayer today.
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We refuse anything less as the destination. The future is one where every church is practicing and preaching the truth, the life, the freedom, and the blessing that is only reflected with full queer welcome, inclusion, affirmation, belonging, and leadership at every level.
November 27, 2025 at 7:57 AM
We refuse anything less as the destination. The future is one where every church is practicing and preaching the truth, the life, the freedom, and the blessing that is only reflected with full queer welcome, inclusion, affirmation, belonging, and leadership at every level.
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Have the courage to say so. Have the willingness to exclude the intolerant beliefs and opinions while honoring the need to listen, learn, grow, influence, and teach. It's not about excluding individuals; it's about setting our doctrinal truth, our policies, our reason for being.
November 27, 2025 at 7:57 AM
Have the courage to say so. Have the willingness to exclude the intolerant beliefs and opinions while honoring the need to listen, learn, grow, influence, and teach. It's not about excluding individuals; it's about setting our doctrinal truth, our policies, our reason for being.
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No one is illegal in the eyes of God.
November 20, 2025 at 11:46 PM
No one is illegal in the eyes of God.
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If Jesus said his disciples would be known by their love for others, then when we claim to follow him but we are known for our bullying, our mockery, our callousness, and our contempt for others, we are actively taking his name in vain.
Love must be our reputation.
Love must be our reputation.
November 19, 2025 at 5:58 PM
If Jesus said his disciples would be known by their love for others, then when we claim to follow him but we are known for our bullying, our mockery, our callousness, and our contempt for others, we are actively taking his name in vain.
Love must be our reputation.
Love must be our reputation.
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In Ps.136:5 today: '[God] who by understanding made the heavens, for his steadfast love endures forever.' Understanding creates. Understanding creates more than can be seen. If we were more than the algorithms tell us to be, who might we become? Understanding is my work today.
November 11, 2025 at 12:20 PM
In Ps.136:5 today: '[God] who by understanding made the heavens, for his steadfast love endures forever.' Understanding creates. Understanding creates more than can be seen. If we were more than the algorithms tell us to be, who might we become? Understanding is my work today.
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“Suddenly they (the demons) shouted, ‘What have you to do with us, Son of God? Have you come here to torment us before the time?’”
Feds Tell Faith Leaders 'No More Prayer' Outside Broadview Facility
In a possible violation of the First Amendment, federal officials instructed demonstrators to stop holding religious gatherings outside the immigration processing facility in suburban Broadview after ...
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November 10, 2025 at 1:15 AM
“Suddenly they (the demons) shouted, ‘What have you to do with us, Son of God? Have you come here to torment us before the time?’”
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In Ps.137:4: 'How could we sing the Lord's song in a foreign land?' Exile, said Bruggemann, is the experience of living in moral incongruence. Denying SNAP benefits. Tear-gassing neighborhoods. Yet I am here to sing the Lord's song of compassion & justice. Sing is my work today.
November 10, 2025 at 12:22 PM
In Ps.137:4: 'How could we sing the Lord's song in a foreign land?' Exile, said Bruggemann, is the experience of living in moral incongruence. Denying SNAP benefits. Tear-gassing neighborhoods. Yet I am here to sing the Lord's song of compassion & justice. Sing is my work today.
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In Ps.143:8 today: 'Show me the way I should go, because I offer my life up to you.' Ours is a pilgrimage of offering. We offer compassion & mercy. Generosity & service. How is your life an offering? Our presence is needed to heal the public square. Offer is my work today.
November 4, 2025 at 12:10 PM
In Ps.143:8 today: 'Show me the way I should go, because I offer my life up to you.' Ours is a pilgrimage of offering. We offer compassion & mercy. Generosity & service. How is your life an offering? Our presence is needed to heal the public square. Offer is my work today.
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This substack has me reflecting this morning that the government shutdown is the polar opposite of Kairos (God-time). It is the opposite of living in holy space-time. Rather, our lawmakers hold, neither restful nor productive for the common good, abiding in demonic presence.
People like @sarahkendzior.bsky.social who writes an amazing substack:
sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/the-shutdown
sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/the-shutdown
The Shutdown
It was always the plan.
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November 4, 2025 at 1:32 PM
This substack has me reflecting this morning that the government shutdown is the polar opposite of Kairos (God-time). It is the opposite of living in holy space-time. Rather, our lawmakers hold, neither restful nor productive for the common good, abiding in demonic presence.
"Hope of the world, thou Christ of great compassion,
speak to our fearful hearts by conflict rent.
Save us, thy people, from consuming passion,
who by our own false hopes and aims are spent."
-- ("Hope of the World", UMH 178)
speak to our fearful hearts by conflict rent.
Save us, thy people, from consuming passion,
who by our own false hopes and aims are spent."
-- ("Hope of the World", UMH 178)
November 3, 2025 at 2:23 PM
"Hope of the world, thou Christ of great compassion,
speak to our fearful hearts by conflict rent.
Save us, thy people, from consuming passion,
who by our own false hopes and aims are spent."
-- ("Hope of the World", UMH 178)
speak to our fearful hearts by conflict rent.
Save us, thy people, from consuming passion,
who by our own false hopes and aims are spent."
-- ("Hope of the World", UMH 178)
Not sure who decided verses 42-43 were the list of things we were suppose to be trying to accomplish as a society, but they seem to be batting a thousand so far...
Bible Gateway passage: Matthew 25:31-46 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
The Judgment of the Nations - “When the Son of Man comes in his glory and all the angels with him, then he will sit on the throne of his glory. All the nations will be gathered before him, and he will...
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October 30, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Not sure who decided verses 42-43 were the list of things we were suppose to be trying to accomplish as a society, but they seem to be batting a thousand so far...
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Had the rare joy of preaching this Sunday, looking at Prayer. Here's a little bit of what I said...
October 28, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Had the rare joy of preaching this Sunday, looking at Prayer. Here's a little bit of what I said...
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Food bank director: “for every meal that a food bank provides, the SNAP program provides nine. There’s no way we can meet that gap.”
October 27, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Food bank director: “for every meal that a food bank provides, the SNAP program provides nine. There’s no way we can meet that gap.”
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As a Church leader for the past 20 years, this talk is cruel, wrong, and antidemocratic. Religious nonprofits are not a substitute for what we agree to do collectively in a democracy via taxes. We don’t have the capacity or infrastructure. We actually don’t want religions acting as FEMA. We can’t.
“Just go to a food bank, a church or a charity”
For every meal the food bank provides, the SNAP program provides 9.
Even if donations are rapidly scaled up, they won’t be able to meet the needs of 42 million Americans who are about to go hungry.
It’s not sustainable.
For every meal the food bank provides, the SNAP program provides 9.
Even if donations are rapidly scaled up, they won’t be able to meet the needs of 42 million Americans who are about to go hungry.
It’s not sustainable.
October 28, 2025 at 11:33 AM
As a Church leader for the past 20 years, this talk is cruel, wrong, and antidemocratic. Religious nonprofits are not a substitute for what we agree to do collectively in a democracy via taxes. We don’t have the capacity or infrastructure. We actually don’t want religions acting as FEMA. We can’t.
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In Ps. 150:6 today: 'Let everything that has breath praise (FNV).' Our breath arrives as a gift & is a reminder that God is the life-giver. All who breathe can bear witness to our frailty & dignity. Engage social capital. Make small talk. Serve goodness. Praise is my work today.
October 28, 2025 at 12:11 PM
In Ps. 150:6 today: 'Let everything that has breath praise (FNV).' Our breath arrives as a gift & is a reminder that God is the life-giver. All who breathe can bear witness to our frailty & dignity. Engage social capital. Make small talk. Serve goodness. Praise is my work today.
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If there is among you a poor man, one of your brethren, in any of your towns within your land which the Lord your God gives you, you shall not harden your heart or shut your hand against your poor brother, but you shall open your hand to him, and lend him sufficient for his need, whatever it may be.
October 27, 2025 at 3:37 AM
If there is among you a poor man, one of your brethren, in any of your towns within your land which the Lord your God gives you, you shall not harden your heart or shut your hand against your poor brother, but you shall open your hand to him, and lend him sufficient for his need, whatever it may be.