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Erik 🕯️ @eriknyssen.bsky.social · 1d

JB is my woke dad

Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 1d

On National Coming Out Day, know that I will always be an ally to you — no matter where you are on your journey.

I know that times may be scary, but you are seen, safe, supported, and loved here in Illinois.

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Erik 🕯️ @eriknyssen.bsky.social · 3d

the handshake meme where “my parents in 2005” agrees with “me in 2025” saying that “Christians and all people of integrity must avoid Harry Potter.”

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Lucius Fox In The Box @carnegro.bsky.social · 3d

Pope Leo is spitting.

www.npr.org/2025/10/09/n...

Leo questioned a world where the wealth of the elite grows
"exponentially" while many "millions of people die of hunger or survive in conditions unfit for human beings." He also criticized "ideologies that defend the absolute autonomy of the marketplace and financial speculation,"
with false promises "that a free-market economy will automatically solve the problem of poverty."

Leo described a "new tyranny," which shuns any kind of oversight and where the economy is structured "in such a way that sacrifices are demanded of the masses in order to serve the needs of the powerful." The poor, he wrote, are only allowed "drops that trickle down."

The pope openly challenged "prosperity theology" and called Christians to the practice of giving charity. "It will not solve the problem of world poverty, yet it must still be carried out, with intelligence, diligence and social responsibility," he wrote.

Popular movements that challenge "the empire of money," invite people to take on the cause to combat poverty alongside the poor, instead of on their behalf, and "make history," the pope said. It our duty, Leo said, to "make their voices heard, albeit in different ways, in order to point out and denounce such structural issues, even at the cost of appearing foolish or naïve."

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Erik 🕯️ @eriknyssen.bsky.social · 3d

accidentally signed up to an email list as Erin instead of Erik and tried to unsubscribe because I got annoyed BUT THE UNSUBSCRIBE DIDNT WORK and now I’m stuck receiving daily emails for Erin Nelson ugh

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Erik 🕯️ @eriknyssen.bsky.social · 6d

it’s particularly painful to me that this is happening to Illinois, the land of Lincoln and Grant, the state whose motto is “State Sovereignty, National Union.”

the Flag of Illinois, which depicts an eagle carrying a banner that says, “State Sovereignty, National Union.”

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Erik 🕯️ @eriknyssen.bsky.social · 6d

a Confederate flag made it into the Capitol on January 6 … Texas troops are seeking to occupy Chicago …

the Confederacy lost the battle in 1865 but refuses to give up the war

Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 6d

Texas proudly invading Illinois.

It’s hard to describe the level of potential constitutional crisis here.

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Erik 🕯️ @eriknyssen.bsky.social · 7d

😲 that’s delightful, love that

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Erik 🕯️ @eriknyssen.bsky.social · 7d

found a tomato cross (???) in the church’s stained glass. anyone have any idea what it means? 🕯️🍅🕊️

A stained-glass image of a green cross with a red circle that looks like a tomato. At the bottom, water flows out of the cross.

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Erik 🕯️ @eriknyssen.bsky.social · 7d

happy Sunday!! go to church!!

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Erik 🕯️ @eriknyssen.bsky.social · 8d

Getting settled in for the Installation of the Fifth Presiding Bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, Yehiel Curry. Come Holy Spirit! 🔥🕊️🕯️

The sanctuary of Central Lutheran Church in Minneapolis, Minnesota. A large, open space with light brick walls, white pillars, and blue stained glass windows.

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Erik 🕯️ @eriknyssen.bsky.social · 9d

love the album but it kinda feels like he took away all her Aristotle

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Erik 🕯️ @eriknyssen.bsky.social · 9d

yay :)

churchtimes.bsky.social @churchtimes.bsky.social · 9d

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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Erik 🕯️ @eriknyssen.bsky.social · 11d

I will cry if Sweden’s Archbishop isn’t at the ELCA’s Presiding Bishop installation on Saturday :/

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Erik 🕯️ @eriknyssen.bsky.social · 12d

Thank you for coming! It was soooo good to see you!

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Erik 🕯️ @eriknyssen.bsky.social · 14d

The existence of this image alone makes Minnesota’s whole new flag process worth it … it’s an elite flag that just keeps growing on me

The outline of Minnesota with the new flag design inside it

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Erik 🕯️ @eriknyssen.bsky.social · 19d

one delightful thing I realized today is that I’m going to be spending the next four Mondays in greater Minnesota, by different lakes, taking in the wonderful fall colors as the trees start to change

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Erik 🕯️ @eriknyssen.bsky.social · 19d

say more? my understanding is that Luther would agree generally with the OP but I might be missing something

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Erik 🕯️ @eriknyssen.bsky.social · 19d

happy rapture day, hello from heaven, sorry you pagans all got left behind xx

a picture of Erik photoshopped in front of clouds and heavenly stairs

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Erik 🕯️ @eriknyssen.bsky.social · 20d

Yes yes yes!! Thank you!! Excited to see you!

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Erik 🕯️ @eriknyssen.bsky.social · 20d

this thread! 🎯

as always, Conrad is right on the mark

Conrad 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸✝️📿 @conradelliot.bsky.social · 20d

Prov 9:10
The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, and the knowledge of the Holy One is insight.

Matt 10:28
Do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul; rather fear him who can destroy both soul and body in hell.

What does it mean to fear God in this time of terror? ⚓️

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Erik 🕯️ @eriknyssen.bsky.social · 20d

a man who has no fear of God

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 21d

So unifying

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Erik 🕯️ @eriknyssen.bsky.social · 24d

things are going better, thankfully. she will be moving into a care facility about 15 minutes from her home for the foreseeable future. pray for both my grandparents as they will both be transitioning out of their home soon.

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Erik 🕯️ @eriknyssen.bsky.social · 26d

please pray for my grandmother Helen. she’s been hospitalized after a month of increasing pain from shingles. she’s refusing food now and is in decline. 🕯️🕊️

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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · Sep 11

The evil that men do lives after them

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opera trinitatis ad extra indivisa sunt @mtrkdjoyce.bsky.social · Sep 11

it sure does seem to me like the problem with the response so far is too many people pretending Kirk was not immensely, unspeakably evil, and not too many people defending murder

evil people can get murdered and murder remains bad and evil remains bad what are we doing

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