CAMarette
@camarette.bsky.social
Wife, momma, Grammy, sister, follower of Jesus, lover of Tolkien, poetry, rocks, and music. Oh, and I bake a lot of bread…
Reposted by CAMarette
What do we do with art made by immoral artists?
Karen Swallow Prior answers in this week's Dispatch Faith: thedispatch.com/newsletter/d...
Karen Swallow Prior answers in this week's Dispatch Faith: thedispatch.com/newsletter/d...
What Do We Do With Art Made by Immoral Artists?
It’s complicated. But the answer requires good questions.
thedispatch.com
July 13, 2025 at 10:00 PM
What do we do with art made by immoral artists?
Karen Swallow Prior answers in this week's Dispatch Faith: thedispatch.com/newsletter/d...
Karen Swallow Prior answers in this week's Dispatch Faith: thedispatch.com/newsletter/d...
Reposted by CAMarette
You can’t fight horrible people by being horrible.
That just makes you horrible, too.
That just makes you horrible, too.
May 19, 2025 at 1:36 PM
You can’t fight horrible people by being horrible.
That just makes you horrible, too.
That just makes you horrible, too.
Reposted by CAMarette
A Christianity that is offended by someone advocating for the poor, the immigrant, the hungry, the sick, the marginalized, and the oppressed, is a Christianity that is offended by Jesus.
Therefore, it is no longer Christianity.
Therefore, it is no longer Christianity.
May 9, 2025 at 8:59 PM
A Christianity that is offended by someone advocating for the poor, the immigrant, the hungry, the sick, the marginalized, and the oppressed, is a Christianity that is offended by Jesus.
Therefore, it is no longer Christianity.
Therefore, it is no longer Christianity.
Reposted by CAMarette
“Arresting Rev. Barber and others at the Capitol after announcing a task force to eradicate anti-Christian bias in government is an absolute travesty,” Anthea Butler, a professor of religion at the University of Pennsylvania, said in a text message….
Rev. William Barber arrested in Capitol Rotunda after praying against Republican-led budget
(RNS) — While arrests of protesters at the Capitol is not unusual, the response to Barber’s prayer was unusually dramatic: After issuing verbal warnings, dozens of officers expelled everyone in the Ro...
religionnews.com
April 28, 2025 at 10:29 PM
“Arresting Rev. Barber and others at the Capitol after announcing a task force to eradicate anti-Christian bias in government is an absolute travesty,” Anthea Butler, a professor of religion at the University of Pennsylvania, said in a text message….
Reposted by CAMarette
You set the house on fire, watched it burn, and then lost your nerve and put it out. You now have a partially burned house. Great job.
April 9, 2025 at 5:42 PM
You set the house on fire, watched it burn, and then lost your nerve and put it out. You now have a partially burned house. Great job.
Reposted by CAMarette
Starting a global trade war in hopes of erasing all U.S. trade deficits is like starting a healthy person on massive doses of chemo to cure a cancer they don’t have, Nick Catoggio writes:
Take Your ‘Medicine’
What have we done?
thedispatch.com
April 8, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Starting a global trade war in hopes of erasing all U.S. trade deficits is like starting a healthy person on massive doses of chemo to cure a cancer they don’t have, Nick Catoggio writes:
Reposted by CAMarette
The Trump administration is urging Americans to give in to their basest desires. It scorns the moral arguments that built the Constitution. If its assault on the American system is allowed to continue, that system will be destroyed — and once destroyed, it will not be easy to rebuild.
Opinion | Don’t Roll Your Eyes at Due Process
It doesn’t just protect a person’s liberty and dignity. It’s a humble acknowledgment of our own limitations.
www.nytimes.com
April 6, 2025 at 3:04 PM
The Trump administration is urging Americans to give in to their basest desires. It scorns the moral arguments that built the Constitution. If its assault on the American system is allowed to continue, that system will be destroyed — and once destroyed, it will not be easy to rebuild.
Reposted by CAMarette
A symbol of arrogance is assuming that anyone who disagrees with you is ignorant.
Humility is more than knowing the limits of your knowledge. It’s also about respecting others' knowledge.
Dissenters aren't necessarily uninformed. Differing views often stem from diverging values.
Humility is more than knowing the limits of your knowledge. It’s also about respecting others' knowledge.
Dissenters aren't necessarily uninformed. Differing views often stem from diverging values.
April 6, 2025 at 5:34 PM
A symbol of arrogance is assuming that anyone who disagrees with you is ignorant.
Humility is more than knowing the limits of your knowledge. It’s also about respecting others' knowledge.
Dissenters aren't necessarily uninformed. Differing views often stem from diverging values.
Humility is more than knowing the limits of your knowledge. It’s also about respecting others' knowledge.
Dissenters aren't necessarily uninformed. Differing views often stem from diverging values.
Reposted by CAMarette
“It is time—well past time—to stop making excuses for Americans: for Americans’ cruelty, for Americans’ selfishness, for Americans’ childish insistence on being led by their resentment and by their lowest instincts.”
Americans Did Vote for This
Donald Trump was elected to hurt people, not to help them, and that’s what he’s doing.
thedispatch.com
April 2, 2025 at 8:00 PM
“It is time—well past time—to stop making excuses for Americans: for Americans’ cruelty, for Americans’ selfishness, for Americans’ childish insistence on being led by their resentment and by their lowest instincts.”
Reposted by CAMarette
Grief is not a purely negative emotion. Over time, sadness is joined by love and gratitude.
The purpose of grief is not to cause pain. It's to keep memories of loved ones alive and remind us to make the most of our time.
Moving forward is not about erasing sorrow. It's about gaining perspective.
The purpose of grief is not to cause pain. It's to keep memories of loved ones alive and remind us to make the most of our time.
Moving forward is not about erasing sorrow. It's about gaining perspective.
March 29, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Grief is not a purely negative emotion. Over time, sadness is joined by love and gratitude.
The purpose of grief is not to cause pain. It's to keep memories of loved ones alive and remind us to make the most of our time.
Moving forward is not about erasing sorrow. It's about gaining perspective.
The purpose of grief is not to cause pain. It's to keep memories of loved ones alive and remind us to make the most of our time.
Moving forward is not about erasing sorrow. It's about gaining perspective.
Reposted by CAMarette
No one can guarantee that Trump won’t defy the courts, but so far he hasn’t intimidated the courts, and so long as they stand firm, and so long as the courts remained unbowed, the Constitution has a chance to survive. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/27/o...
Opinion | Trump Is Taking the Law Into His Own Hands
About that rule of law …
www.nytimes.com
March 27, 2025 at 1:50 PM
No one can guarantee that Trump won’t defy the courts, but so far he hasn’t intimidated the courts, and so long as they stand firm, and so long as the courts remained unbowed, the Constitution has a chance to survive. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/27/o...
Reposted by CAMarette
This is the top comment on my piece, and it also encapsulates how I feel:
March 25, 2025 at 2:45 AM
This is the top comment on my piece, and it also encapsulates how I feel:
Reposted by CAMarette
Dear authoritarian adviser: "Process" is how we find out if someone is actually here illegally:
March 25, 2025 at 2:46 AM
Dear authoritarian adviser: "Process" is how we find out if someone is actually here illegally:
Reposted by CAMarette
If we do not expect of those who lead that they be temperate, prudent, honest, patient, generous, altruistic, faithful, reputable, and wise, we expect too little of them—and of ourselves.
March 22, 2025 at 2:41 AM
If we do not expect of those who lead that they be temperate, prudent, honest, patient, generous, altruistic, faithful, reputable, and wise, we expect too little of them—and of ourselves.
Reposted by CAMarette
My weekly newsletter tomorrow is called, “The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born.”
In it, I invite us to consider the Biblical call to love and care for immigrants among us and provide some ways to get involved.
Join here: benjamin-cremer.kit.com/profile
In it, I invite us to consider the Biblical call to love and care for immigrants among us and provide some ways to get involved.
Join here: benjamin-cremer.kit.com/profile
Rev. Benjamin Cremer
I have spent the majority of my life in Evangelical Christian spaces. I have experienced a lot of church hurt. I now write to explore topics that often are at the intersection of politics and Christia...
benjamin-cremer.kit.com
March 22, 2025 at 4:50 PM
My weekly newsletter tomorrow is called, “The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born.”
In it, I invite us to consider the Biblical call to love and care for immigrants among us and provide some ways to get involved.
Join here: benjamin-cremer.kit.com/profile
In it, I invite us to consider the Biblical call to love and care for immigrants among us and provide some ways to get involved.
Join here: benjamin-cremer.kit.com/profile
Reposted by CAMarette
Many Republicans seem to think that the Trump war on "DEI" is really only aimed at illegal race-based preference. Nope. Nope. Nope. Trump's also aiming at entirely legal and virtuous attempts to honor American civil rights heroes and to educate Americans about the Black experience in the U.S.
The Department of Defense deemed a story about baseball hero and civil rights leader Jackie Robinson's time in the Army as "DEI" and deleted it.
March 19, 2025 at 6:13 AM
Many Republicans seem to think that the Trump war on "DEI" is really only aimed at illegal race-based preference. Nope. Nope. Nope. Trump's also aiming at entirely legal and virtuous attempts to honor American civil rights heroes and to educate Americans about the Black experience in the U.S.
Reposted by CAMarette
Cultural Christianity (Christendom) can be enforced by armies and politics.
But a lived Christian faith of actually following Jesus is achieved only through the cross and the Spirit.
But a lived Christian faith of actually following Jesus is achieved only through the cross and the Spirit.
March 17, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Cultural Christianity (Christendom) can be enforced by armies and politics.
But a lived Christian faith of actually following Jesus is achieved only through the cross and the Spirit.
But a lived Christian faith of actually following Jesus is achieved only through the cross and the Spirit.
Reposted by CAMarette
The Monday Essay: “Countering the excesses of the left with the same excesses on the right dooms those on the political right to repeat, rather than correct, the follies of their opponents.”
thedispatch.com/article/illi...
thedispatch.com/article/illi...
Dashed Hopes of Common Sense
Republicans are copying a left they profess to hate.
thedispatch.com
March 17, 2025 at 2:43 PM
The Monday Essay: “Countering the excesses of the left with the same excesses on the right dooms those on the political right to repeat, rather than correct, the follies of their opponents.”
thedispatch.com/article/illi...
thedispatch.com/article/illi...
Reposted by CAMarette
Reposted by CAMarette
NEWS: The MeidasTouch Podcast has expanded its lead as the top podcast in the U.S. per the newly released Podscribe industry rankings, with 121.1M downloads and views in the past month—a 141% increase.
March 17, 2025 at 6:08 PM
NEWS: The MeidasTouch Podcast has expanded its lead as the top podcast in the U.S. per the newly released Podscribe industry rankings, with 121.1M downloads and views in the past month—a 141% increase.
Reposted by CAMarette
As a pastor, I'm not concerned about those who question God or even doubt God. That’s just part of faith.
My concern are those who claim to know the mind of God better than anyone and therefore act as though they have the right to impose their beliefs on everyone else.
My concern are those who claim to know the mind of God better than anyone and therefore act as though they have the right to impose their beliefs on everyone else.
March 17, 2025 at 9:13 PM
As a pastor, I'm not concerned about those who question God or even doubt God. That’s just part of faith.
My concern are those who claim to know the mind of God better than anyone and therefore act as though they have the right to impose their beliefs on everyone else.
My concern are those who claim to know the mind of God better than anyone and therefore act as though they have the right to impose their beliefs on everyone else.
Reposted by CAMarette
Please read this, by my colleague @nickkristof.bsky.social. Children are dying because of aid cuts.
It's just cruel. And it's not even for the sake of fiscal responsibility. The GOP is proposing a tax/spending plan that will add trillions to our debt. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
It's just cruel. And it's not even for the sake of fiscal responsibility. The GOP is proposing a tax/spending plan that will add trillions to our debt. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Opinion | Musk Said No One Has Died Since Aid Was Cut. That Isn’t True.
A journey through the front lines of global poverty shows that when the world’s richest men slash aid for the world’s poorest children, the result is sickness, starvation and death.
www.nytimes.com
March 15, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Please read this, by my colleague @nickkristof.bsky.social. Children are dying because of aid cuts.
It's just cruel. And it's not even for the sake of fiscal responsibility. The GOP is proposing a tax/spending plan that will add trillions to our debt. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
It's just cruel. And it's not even for the sake of fiscal responsibility. The GOP is proposing a tax/spending plan that will add trillions to our debt. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...