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Diana Butler Bass @dianabutlerbass.bsky.social · 23h

Join us online for a thoughtful, hopeful conversation about spiritual searching - and the need to tell new stories.

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Diana Butler Bass and John Philip Newell: An Evening Dialogue (Livestream) — Earth & Soul

Join John Philip Newell and Diana Butler Bass for a lively and hopeful conversation about the themes of John Philip Newell's book  The Great Search . Known for their spiritual...

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 23h

Portland has elevated protesting to an art form.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

#WarRavagedPortland

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Diana Butler Bass @dianabutlerbass.bsky.social · 1d

Your health insurance premiums are doubling so an ever-richer Elon Musk can indulge in a fantasy of living on Mars.

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Diana Butler Bass @dianabutlerbass.bsky.social · 1d

A chicken crossed a Portland street....and Kristi Noem was on the other side?

Yep. It really happened.

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A Chicken Crosses a Portland Street

To show who the real chicken is...

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 1d

Rev. David Black stood in front of a Chicago-area ICE facility and began to pray.

The masked ICE agents on the roof responded by firing pepper balls, with one striking him in the head

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Diana Butler Bass @dianabutlerbass.bsky.social · 1d

A chicken crossed a Portland street....and Kristi Noem was on the other side?

Yep. It really happened.

open.substack.com/pub/dianabut...

A Chicken Crosses a Portland Street

To show who the real chicken is...

open.substack.com

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Diana Butler Bass @dianabutlerbass.bsky.social · 1d

two women are sitting next to each other on a couch laughing and pointing .

ALT: two women are sitting next to each other on a couch laughing and pointing .

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Diana Butler Bass @dianabutlerbass.bsky.social · 1d

Also, this is why your health insurance is doubling or being cancelled.

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Diana Butler Bass @dianabutlerbass.bsky.social · 1d

I'm certain that millions of Americans are deeply grateful that the US government is spending tax money to protect the nation from guys in chicken suits.

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1d

Kristi Noem confronts enemy combatants in the Portland war zone today.

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Diana Butler Bass @dianabutlerbass.bsky.social · 2d

Southern Baptist, Methodist, Episcopalian

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Diana Butler Bass @dianabutlerbass.bsky.social · 2d

And I’d love to see how that breaks out by religion…

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Diana Butler Bass @dianabutlerbass.bsky.social · 2d

Southern Baptist, Methodist, Episcopalian

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Diana Butler Bass @dianabutlerbass.bsky.social · 2d

It really truly seems that Miller and Vought are running the show.

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John Fugelsang @johnfugelsang.bsky.social · 3d

"2000 years ago, a family became refugees..."

The great @dianabutlerbass.bsky.social ran this excerpt from the immigration chapter in "Separation of Church and Hate."

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From "Welcome the Stranger" to "No Room At the Inn"

The Cottage August Bookapalooza: “Separation of Church and Hate” by John Fugelsang

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Diana Butler Bass @dianabutlerbass.bsky.social · 4d

Today's psalm:

Do not fret because of evildoers;
do not be jealous of those who do wrong.

For they shall soon wither like the grass,
and like the green grass fade away.

Refrain from anger, leave rage alone;
do not fret yourself; it leads only to evil.

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Sunday Musings

On rage, faith, grass, and trees

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Diana Butler Bass @dianabutlerbass.bsky.social · 3d

I've been thinking this is happening for some months now....

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 3d

It's bad enough if President Trump is demanding authoritarian powers in violation of the Constitution ...

But if his unelected aides are manipulating him to get their own authoritarian policies in place, that's sort of a bigger deal.

Hunter @hunterub.bsky.social · 3d

This feels like evidence Trump's aides are deliberately gaslighting him, which is unfortunately very easy to do with dementia sufferers (Trump did it to his father) and which aides are using to seize control of the US military for their own purposes.

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 3d

The protests are on one block. Nothing is burning down. His justification for sending in troops is all based on lies.

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Diana Butler Bass @dianabutlerbass.bsky.social · 4d

Today's psalm:

Do not fret because of evildoers;
do not be jealous of those who do wrong.

For they shall soon wither like the grass,
and like the green grass fade away.

Refrain from anger, leave rage alone;
do not fret yourself; it leads only to evil.

dianabutlerbass.substack.com/p/sunday-mus...

Sunday Musings

On rage, faith, grass, and trees

dianabutlerbass.substack.com

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Diana Butler Bass @dianabutlerbass.bsky.social · 4d

On the problem of living in a world of rage.

Sunday Musings
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Sunday Musings

On rage, faith, grass, and trees

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 4d

The Trump administration’s deployment of ICE and others in the mass deportation effort has led to more violence and turmoil, and less safety and security for all, including US citizens. But that’s a feature not a bug. The chaos justifies further authoritarian crackdowns. The chaos is the point.

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Diana Butler Bass @dianabutlerbass.bsky.social · 4d

Trump’s America.

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 4d

An 84-year-old said she sustained a concussion and was hit with a projectile after she and her husband, a Vietnam vet, were knocked down by federal officers.

Federal agents knock down elderly couple during Portland protest

An 84-year-old said she sustained a concussion and was hit with a projectile after she and her husband, a Vietnam vet, were knocked down by federal officers.

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RNS @rns.org · 5d

The Rt. Rev. Sarah Mullally has been named the 106th archbishop of Canterbury, a decision by the Church of England that places a woman as leader of the church.
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In historic appointment, Sarah Mullally will be the first female archbishop of Canterbury

LONDON (RNS) — Mullally's gender and her views on same-sex marriage are likely to widen some divisions in some Church of England circles and in the Anglican Communion more broadly.

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Diana Butler Bass @dianabutlerbass.bsky.social · 5d

All of my friends and colleagues are writing much needed books on Christian nationalism, authoritarianism, fascism.

But what did I write? A book called "A Beautiful Year."

Because beauty matters. Because seeing Jesus differently matters.

Coming November 4. us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

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Diana Butler Bass @dianabutlerbass.bsky.social · 5d

All of my friends and colleagues are writing much needed books on Christian nationalism, authoritarianism, fascism.

But what did I write? A book called "A Beautiful Year."

Because beauty matters. Because seeing Jesus differently matters.

Coming November 4. us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

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Diana Butler Bass @dianabutlerbass.bsky.social · 6d

Glad for some good news today.

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