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Preparing for the Violence of Non-Violence

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Lisa Sharon Harper @lisasharper.bsky.social · 2d

It is time to prepare . open.substack.com/pub/lisashar...

When the moment comes, we need you to be ready. We need you to be able to look violence in its dead eyes and sing to it.

Black Women & 'The Truth Is'

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CNN @cnn.com · 15d

As Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu walked to the podium to deliver his address at the UN General Assembly, dozens walked out.

Read more: https://cnn.it/42SeDLY

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Brant Reeves @bireeves95.bsky.social · Aug 25

Make Sure Everyone Knows 😊💙

HOLY S**T look at this: Florida GOP Senator Rick Scott just quietly disclosed stock trades a year late – worth $26 MILLION – on companies HE LEGISLATED. 😳 This is corrupt to its core, and he's hoping no one will notice. You know what to do.

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Marlena Graves MDiv, PhD @marlenagraves.bsky.social · Sep 1

Our newest: Support @lisasharper.bsky.social and other Black Women especially since they are disproportionately affected by this administration's cuts and policies. open.substack.com/pub/christia...

Here!

Black Women & 'The Truth Is'

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Lisa Sharon Harper @lisasharper.bsky.social · Sep 5

Thank you so much, Marlena! 🙏🏽🙌🏽👊🏽

Marlena Graves MDiv, PhD @marlenagraves.bsky.social · Sep 1

Our newest: Support @lisasharper.bsky.social and other Black Women especially since they are disproportionately affected by this administration's cuts and policies. open.substack.com/pub/christia...

Here!

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Lisa Sharon Harper @lisasharper.bsky.social · Aug 4

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Lisa Sharon Harper @lisasharper.bsky.social · Aug 4

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Lisa Sharon Harper @lisasharper.bsky.social · Jul 25

New book alert!
I’m proud to have contributed the Foreword to this breakthrough book full essays by those targeted by White Christian Nationalism.
10% of royalties go to @FreedomRoadRoad.us
This is more than a book—it’s a call to justice. #FreedomRoad #QuoirPublishing #ResistChristianNationalism

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Lisa Sharon Harper @lisasharper.bsky.social · Jul 13

Blessings 👊🏽

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Lisa Sharon Harper @lisasharper.bsky.social · Jul 13

Cool. Start with The Very Good Gospel. Then Fortune. 👊🏽

Speaker Johnson Doesn’t Know How Walls Work

Lisa Sharon Harper @lisasharper.bsky.social · Jul 13

Thank you for your kind words 🙏🏽👊🏽

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Brian Kaylor @briankaylor.bsky.social · Jul 12

Speaker Johnson once again claiming wall separating church & state was only meant to be one way:
x.com/SpeakerJohns...
He clearly doesn't know how walls work!
publicwitness.wordandway.org/p/speaker-jo...

It must be difficult being Speaker of the House Mike Johnson these days.

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Lisa Sharon Harper @lisasharper.bsky.social · Jul 12

Yes. And did Trump also rig it?

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The Sacred Slope @thesacredslope.bsky.social · Jul 9

Ep 8 - out now w/Christi Bolaños!

Resources
• The Very Good Gospel by @lisasharper.bsky.social
• Migrant God by Isaac Villegas www.isaacvillegas.com
• Rev. Mariann Budde — Episcopal bishop Washington D.C.

#Christianity #Deconstruction #TheSacredSlope #Exvangelical #WomenInLeadership #LetHerLead

Lisa Sharon Harper @lisasharper.bsky.social · Jul 9

Just sharing a thought from my Substack chat.

Link in bio or here: open.substack.com/pub/lisashar...

freedomroad.substack.com/p/dethroning...

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Lisa Sharon Harper @lisasharper.bsky.social · Jul 6

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Lisa Sharon Harper @lisasharper.bsky.social · Jul 6

She Won. They Didn't Just Change the Machines. They Rewired the Election.

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Steve Johnson @stevejohnson.bsky.social · Jul 2

“Charles Finney created the altar call during the Second Great Awakening, calling slave holders to wash clean of the sin & guilt of slavery… On Finney’s altars lay sign-up sheets for the abolitionist movement.” @lisasharper.bsky.social (from #TheVeryGoodGospel)

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Lisa Sharon Harper @lisasharper.bsky.social · Jun 15

@propublica.org what do you think of this analysis? substack.com/@thiswillhol...

How Leonard Leo's 2021 sale of an electronics firm enabled tech giants to subvert the 2024 election.

substack.com

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Lisa Sharon Harper @lisasharper.bsky.social · May 22

… The DOJ also announced they are dropping investigations into several other problematic U.S. police departments.

If this was a game of chess, DT just telegraphed his goal. Think: Woodrow Wilson-era race massacres.

Video by Reuters, reposted from NYTimes.

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Lisa Sharon Harper @lisasharper.bsky.social · May 22

The Administration’s DOJ made another announcement while DT lectured the SA president for 1 hr. They announced they are dropping federal oversight agreements w/ police departments in Minneapolis and Louisville — established in response to the police killings of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor.

Lisa Sharon Harper @lisasharper.bsky.social · May 22

It was also the move of one intimately acquainted with white nationalism. He knew the only authoritative voice for a white nationalist is a white man—preferably a rich one. …

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Lisa Sharon Harper @lisasharper.bsky.social · May 22

I appreciate the way South African president Cyril Ramaphosa pushed back. He brought conservative white South African golfers to offer their own testimony to the president that the video he showed is not what it claims to be. White South Africans are not experiencing genocide in SA. #savvy

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Lisa Sharon Harper @lisasharper.bsky.social · May 22

Yesterday, DT screened a similar propaganda clip that claimed to be evidence of a genocide against white Afrikaners (the Dutch-descended group of white South Africans whose families established and benefited from Apartheid).