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Welcome to the Word in Black and Red, where we read the Bible from a leftist and liberationist perspective to elucidate the way people of faith and their comrades can understand the Bible as a source of healing, love, and liberation for all people.
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One of the greatest deceptions of our time is that we should be more concerned about immigrants possibly being criminals than we are about those in the highest positions of power, who wear crosses, quote scripture, while actually just using Christianity as a tool to perpetrate injustice.
February 12, 2026 at 12:46 AM
One of the greatest deceptions of our time is that we should be more concerned about immigrants possibly being criminals than we are about those in the highest positions of power, who wear crosses, quote scripture, while actually just using Christianity as a tool to perpetrate injustice.
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Join Micah, Waffles, Aaron J Smith @aaronjsmith.net , and Avery Arden @avery-arden.bsky.social
as we explore the sacrifices outlined in Leviticus 1-3.
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as we explore the sacrifices outlined in Leviticus 1-3.
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The Word in Black and Red
The Leftist Bible Study Podcast
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February 9, 2026 at 11:23 AM
Join Micah, Waffles, Aaron J Smith @aaronjsmith.net , and Avery Arden @avery-arden.bsky.social
as we explore the sacrifices outlined in Leviticus 1-3.
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as we explore the sacrifices outlined in Leviticus 1-3.
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Season 3: Leviticus! We are back with more thoughtful, insightful, and occasionally hilarious insight into this ancient book of laws that so often gets overlooked.
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February 2, 2026 at 2:05 PM
Season 3: Leviticus! We are back with more thoughtful, insightful, and occasionally hilarious insight into this ancient book of laws that so often gets overlooked.
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I like translating "kavod," as weightiness; it's the feeling of the presence of someone before they arrive, the warmth of their body combined with the feeling of someone looking over your shoulder. It's God's fat, the extraness of God, not as a negative, but as the physical embodiment of God's love.
Okay okay but since the word translated as God’s “glory” is actually more literally the word “heaviness” (כבוד), wouldn’t it make more sense to translate it as:
God’s dumptruck
God’s dumptruck
January 28, 2026 at 2:40 AM
I like translating "kavod," as weightiness; it's the feeling of the presence of someone before they arrive, the warmth of their body combined with the feeling of someone looking over your shoulder. It's God's fat, the extraness of God, not as a negative, but as the physical embodiment of God's love.
If saving another person's life is a mistake, may we all be mistaken.
If saving another person's life makes you a terrorist, may we all become terrorists.
Imagine what the Wall Street Journal would have said about Jesus Christ.
If saving another person's life makes you a terrorist, may we all become terrorists.
Imagine what the Wall Street Journal would have said about Jesus Christ.
WSJ Editorial Board: Time for ICE to Pause in Minnesota www.wsj.com/opinion/time...
January 26, 2026 at 1:32 AM
If saving another person's life is a mistake, may we all be mistaken.
If saving another person's life makes you a terrorist, may we all become terrorists.
Imagine what the Wall Street Journal would have said about Jesus Christ.
If saving another person's life makes you a terrorist, may we all become terrorists.
Imagine what the Wall Street Journal would have said about Jesus Christ.
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A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.
January 25, 2026 at 12:28 PM
A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.
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Voting NO on the DHS funding bill is the bare minimum.
Backing Kristi Noem’s impeachment is the bare minimum.
Holding law-breaking ICE agents legally accountable is the bare minimum.
ICE is beyond reform. Abolish it.
Backing Kristi Noem’s impeachment is the bare minimum.
Holding law-breaking ICE agents legally accountable is the bare minimum.
ICE is beyond reform. Abolish it.
January 25, 2026 at 9:59 PM
Voting NO on the DHS funding bill is the bare minimum.
Backing Kristi Noem’s impeachment is the bare minimum.
Holding law-breaking ICE agents legally accountable is the bare minimum.
ICE is beyond reform. Abolish it.
Backing Kristi Noem’s impeachment is the bare minimum.
Holding law-breaking ICE agents legally accountable is the bare minimum.
ICE is beyond reform. Abolish it.
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Another friend put it to me like this: "ICE has made the classic Nazi mistake. They've invaded a winter people in the winter."
January 22, 2026 at 3:58 AM
Another friend put it to me like this: "ICE has made the classic Nazi mistake. They've invaded a winter people in the winter."
It's hard to write a sermon on the current moment when everything you want to say was already said by @socialistdogmom.bsky.social but better.
January 26, 2026 at 12:38 AM
It's hard to write a sermon on the current moment when everything you want to say was already said by @socialistdogmom.bsky.social but better.
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I came to Minneapolis to report on what's going on, and one of the main questions I showed up with is "just what is the scale of the resistance?" After all, we're all used to the news calling Portland a "war zone" or whatever when it's just some protests in one part of town.
January 25, 2026 at 6:00 PM
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I've talked to people on the ground about the strike here tomorrow, and the single thing everyone brings up is just how shockingly wide the support for the strike is. Businesses that no one would have expected to support it are doing so.
National media should really be covering the fact thay every major school, museum, and arts institution in the Twin Cities, and hundreds of local businesses are closed tomorrow to protest federal occupation.
Nothing like this at this scale has happened anywhere in America anytime in living memory.
Nothing like this at this scale has happened anywhere in America anytime in living memory.
January 23, 2026 at 12:15 AM
I've talked to people on the ground about the strike here tomorrow, and the single thing everyone brings up is just how shockingly wide the support for the strike is. Businesses that no one would have expected to support it are doing so.
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I don't have a conclusion here. I just hate it. And love that so many religious people of every religion are making it crystal clear that they do too.
January 24, 2026 at 3:22 PM
I don't have a conclusion here. I just hate it. And love that so many religious people of every religion are making it crystal clear that they do too.
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And all those arrested clergy know that.
And JD Vance pretending to be a catholic convert while spreading doctrine that goes against both catholic theology and the catholic church should be laughable. All these people should be laughable. Instead they have access to institutional power.
And JD Vance pretending to be a catholic convert while spreading doctrine that goes against both catholic theology and the catholic church should be laughable. All these people should be laughable. Instead they have access to institutional power.
January 24, 2026 at 3:22 PM
And all those arrested clergy know that.
And JD Vance pretending to be a catholic convert while spreading doctrine that goes against both catholic theology and the catholic church should be laughable. All these people should be laughable. Instead they have access to institutional power.
And JD Vance pretending to be a catholic convert while spreading doctrine that goes against both catholic theology and the catholic church should be laughable. All these people should be laughable. Instead they have access to institutional power.
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The state uses religion as a tool to enforce fascism, and they do so badly, all over the world.
Most religions boil down to "be good to each other" and most of the religious people I've met in my life know that.
Most religions boil down to "be good to each other" and most of the religious people I've met in my life know that.
January 24, 2026 at 3:22 PM
The state uses religion as a tool to enforce fascism, and they do so badly, all over the world.
Most religions boil down to "be good to each other" and most of the religious people I've met in my life know that.
Most religions boil down to "be good to each other" and most of the religious people I've met in my life know that.
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I ended the night as the guest of queer, observant Jews who have been organizing nonstop against ICE.
Observant Muslims fed us and everyone else at protests.
An indigenous organizer spoke to us of the creator.
Every church we saw had messages of inclusion and antifascism on their marquees.
Observant Muslims fed us and everyone else at protests.
An indigenous organizer spoke to us of the creator.
Every church we saw had messages of inclusion and antifascism on their marquees.
January 24, 2026 at 3:22 PM
I ended the night as the guest of queer, observant Jews who have been organizing nonstop against ICE.
Observant Muslims fed us and everyone else at protests.
An indigenous organizer spoke to us of the creator.
Every church we saw had messages of inclusion and antifascism on their marquees.
Observant Muslims fed us and everyone else at protests.
An indigenous organizer spoke to us of the creator.
Every church we saw had messages of inclusion and antifascism on their marquees.
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But 100 clergy members were arrested protesting ICE yesterday. The vast majority of the people arrested during the general strike were there in the name of their god or gods.
January 24, 2026 at 3:22 PM
But 100 clergy members were arrested protesting ICE yesterday. The vast majority of the people arrested during the general strike were there in the name of their god or gods.
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Nuremberg trials for ICE is the moderate position
January 24, 2026 at 4:01 PM
Nuremberg trials for ICE is the moderate position
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The newest video shows very clearly that they attacked him for coming to an aid of a woman that the agents pushed, and then executed him while he was immobilized. Everything the government has said, like with Good, has been a complete lie.
January 24, 2026 at 7:09 PM
The newest video shows very clearly that they attacked him for coming to an aid of a woman that the agents pushed, and then executed him while he was immobilized. Everything the government has said, like with Good, has been a complete lie.
Cancel your subscriptions to the New York Times and support the journalists actually reporting the news.
By who? Who shot the person dead? You saw the video. We all know a federal agent shot a man dead who was prone on the ground. Also, it's not "according to officials." It's according to verified video seen with your eyes. Not saying what anyone can obviously see with their eyes is a form of lying.
January 24, 2026 at 10:25 PM
Cancel your subscriptions to the New York Times and support the journalists actually reporting the news.
May every person of faith have the courage to stand up against this tyranny.
www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/ne...
www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/ne...
Clergy members arrested at MSP while protesting ICE in Minneapolis
Dozens of faith leaders were arrested while protesting at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport Friday, organizers say, as part of an effort to call for an end to Immigration and Customs Enforcem...
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January 24, 2026 at 10:23 PM
May every person of faith have the courage to stand up against this tyranny.
www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/ne...
www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/ne...
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Memory is a fragile thing in this moment, so it is important to keep in mind that Hakeem Jeffries refused to whip his caucus against ICE funding earlier this week.
January 24, 2026 at 8:00 PM
Memory is a fragile thing in this moment, so it is important to keep in mind that Hakeem Jeffries refused to whip his caucus against ICE funding earlier this week.
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ICE just gunned down ANOTHER person, beating a man half to death before shooting him at point blank range. What the fuck are we doing?
ARREST ICE NOW. PROSECUTE ICE NOW.
I will not rest until every single one of these murderers is held accountable to the communities they terrorize.
ARREST ICE NOW. PROSECUTE ICE NOW.
I will not rest until every single one of these murderers is held accountable to the communities they terrorize.
January 24, 2026 at 4:28 PM
ICE just gunned down ANOTHER person, beating a man half to death before shooting him at point blank range. What the fuck are we doing?
ARREST ICE NOW. PROSECUTE ICE NOW.
I will not rest until every single one of these murderers is held accountable to the communities they terrorize.
ARREST ICE NOW. PROSECUTE ICE NOW.
I will not rest until every single one of these murderers is held accountable to the communities they terrorize.