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decolonialist pastor, theologian, humanitarian, writer, adjunct professor and podcaster living in Santa Barbara on occupied Chumash territory
UCSB alum, facilitator of Santa Barbara’s Beloved Community Church plus Jesus Collective, an online community
UCSB alum, facilitator of Santa Barbara’s Beloved Community Church plus Jesus Collective, an online community
But almost immediately, the congregation began to shrink.
“People said they felt attacked,” she said. “But they weren’t attacked. They were invited into something that scared them.”
Conservative media fanned their fears.
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“People said they felt attacked,” she said. “But they weren’t attacked. They were invited into something that scared them.”
Conservative media fanned their fears.
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Called Into the Fray (Part One): The Making of a White Activist
The Heroic Heart of a Former Evangelical Woman Shaped by Life's Challenges and Sacred Moments
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December 4, 2025 at 6:55 PM
But almost immediately, the congregation began to shrink.
“People said they felt attacked,” she said. “But they weren’t attacked. They were invited into something that scared them.”
Conservative media fanned their fears.
davidnmoorejr.substack.com/p/called-int...
“People said they felt attacked,” she said. “But they weren’t attacked. They were invited into something that scared them.”
Conservative media fanned their fears.
davidnmoorejr.substack.com/p/called-int...
Me:
My first thought was to ask if you now see precursors of MAGA in your early white evangelical experience
Alice:
Yes, most definitely. Rush Limbaugh was highly regarded by the pastors—we followed him.
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My first thought was to ask if you now see precursors of MAGA in your early white evangelical experience
Alice:
Yes, most definitely. Rush Limbaugh was highly regarded by the pastors—we followed him.
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What Does It Take to Break Free from White Evangelicalism?
Today’s edition is dedicated to anyone curious about the possibility of breaking free from the constraints of White Evangelicalism or any cultural and controlling religious community.
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December 1, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Me:
My first thought was to ask if you now see precursors of MAGA in your early white evangelical experience
Alice:
Yes, most definitely. Rush Limbaugh was highly regarded by the pastors—we followed him.
substack.com/home/post/p-...
My first thought was to ask if you now see precursors of MAGA in your early white evangelical experience
Alice:
Yes, most definitely. Rush Limbaugh was highly regarded by the pastors—we followed him.
substack.com/home/post/p-...
During the 1990s, Dave Harbeson was one of many Westmont College students who attended our church. After spending a summer in South Africa, he introduced some of his new Afrikaner friends to Santa Barbara.
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The Great Falling Apart, Part Four
This is our moment to truly celebrate everything that makes life so beautiful and worth cherishing.
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November 23, 2025 at 3:27 AM
During the 1990s, Dave Harbeson was one of many Westmont College students who attended our church. After spending a summer in South Africa, he introduced some of his new Afrikaner friends to Santa Barbara.
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My very precious niece Leslie wrote a remembrance of her brother Laurence, who was 30 years old. I recall his last Facebook post, a scenic Las Vegas view captioned, “My last day was a good day.” He served five tours in combat.
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God, Guns, and the Global Spin: Why Our Wars Never End
A Family Reckoning with Empire, Memory, and Faith
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November 22, 2025 at 3:00 AM
My very precious niece Leslie wrote a remembrance of her brother Laurence, who was 30 years old. I recall his last Facebook post, a scenic Las Vegas view captioned, “My last day was a good day.” He served five tours in combat.
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Had to break things up
November 11, 2025 at 3:11 AM
Had to break things up
"Tonight was a very bad night"
November 10, 2025 at 5:21 AM
"Tonight was a very bad night"
Dick Cheney just died, and headlines universally described him as a public servant, a statesman—rarely as the architect of war and suffering, No blazing “War Criminal Dies.” News of Israel’s ongoing atrocities—is muted with terms like “operation,” “clash...”
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The Great Falling Apart, Continued
More about Why This Is Our moment to truly celebrate everything that makes life so beautiful and worth cherishing.
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November 8, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Dick Cheney just died, and headlines universally described him as a public servant, a statesman—rarely as the architect of war and suffering, No blazing “War Criminal Dies.” News of Israel’s ongoing atrocities—is muted with terms like “operation,” “clash...”
open.substack.com/pub/davidnmo...
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I am disappointed with people who dispute reality, and secondly, I am disappointed with those who seem not to notice reality. Some claim it’s not as we see. Others behave as if they truly don’t see.
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The Great Falling Apart
This is our moment to truly celebrate everything that makes life so beautiful and worth cherishing.
davidnmoorejr.substack.com
November 4, 2025 at 7:50 PM
I am disappointed with people who dispute reality, and secondly, I am disappointed with those who seem not to notice reality. Some claim it’s not as we see. Others behave as if they truly don’t see.
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Lennon grew up in England, heir to one of the world’s most expansive and brutal empires, and within earshot of a U.S. military base. Ono came from the Empire of the East, haunted by its own hierarchies and prejudices. They both stood outside both empires davidnmoorejr.substack.com/p/what-i-lea...
What I Learned When I Stopped Hoping Christians Would Come Around, Part Fourteen
Exploring the search for God beyond dogma—through music, justice, and daily wonders. Drawing inspiration from Lennon, Ono, and the sacred found in every embrace of human and cultural connection.
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October 31, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Lennon grew up in England, heir to one of the world’s most expansive and brutal empires, and within earshot of a U.S. military base. Ono came from the Empire of the East, haunted by its own hierarchies and prejudices. They both stood outside both empires davidnmoorejr.substack.com/p/what-i-lea...
I was already aware of this and still listened three times.
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What’s behind AIPAC’s partnership with Black US politicians? | The Take
YouTube video by Al Jazeera English
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October 30, 2025 at 8:26 PM
I was already aware of this and still listened three times.
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Reminding Angels' fans that your team traded Shohei Otani to the Dodgers because they didn't want to pay him.
October 29, 2025 at 12:38 AM
Reminding Angels' fans that your team traded Shohei Otani to the Dodgers because they didn't want to pay him.
I held Western domination deity in one hand, while holding to the God of my mother and father, the Divinity of my ancestors, in the other, eventually relinquishing the former. I “fell away,” to use church language, from Western Christianity.
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What I Learned When I Stopped Hoping Christians Would Come Around, Part Thirteen
A Pastor’s Testimony of Faith Beyond the Christian Brand
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October 27, 2025 at 4:05 PM
I held Western domination deity in one hand, while holding to the God of my mother and father, the Divinity of my ancestors, in the other, eventually relinquishing the former. I “fell away,” to use church language, from Western Christianity.
davidnmoorejr.substack.com/p/what-i-lea...
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Just a few of the kids I grew up with continued with church life beyond high school. It wasn’t only that we were required to attend when we were little; many of us actually loved it for a while. There were the friendships, the youth outings... davidnmoorejr.substack.com/p/when-we-st...
When We Stopped Going to Church
Part of the series: “What I Learned When I Stopped Hoping Christians Would Come Around”
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October 26, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Just a few of the kids I grew up with continued with church life beyond high school. It wasn’t only that we were required to attend when we were little; many of us actually loved it for a while. There were the friendships, the youth outings... davidnmoorejr.substack.com/p/when-we-st...
They caught the NBA personnel!
Why can't they find Tom Homan?
Why can't they find Tom Homan?
October 26, 2025 at 3:37 PM
They caught the NBA personnel!
Why can't they find Tom Homan?
Why can't they find Tom Homan?
Venezuelan opposition leader and 2025 Nobel Peace Prize winner Maria Corina Machado spoke with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, expressing support for Israel and its actions against "totalitarian forces".
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Venezuelan Nobel Winner Machado Holds Call with Netanyahu
Nobel Peace Prize laureate Maria Corina Machado, in a call on Friday with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, hailed the fight against "totalitarian forces," in what Israel presented as an endo...
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October 25, 2025 at 5:29 AM
Venezuelan opposition leader and 2025 Nobel Peace Prize winner Maria Corina Machado spoke with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, expressing support for Israel and its actions against "totalitarian forces".
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Last Thursday, ICE detained Leo Martinez, a U.S. citizen, while he was exercising his right to observe ICE activity in Ventura County, CA. Leo has community love.
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Radical Love in a Cynical World (Part Two): Love That Lasts
A Meditation: Breathe Consciously While Reading
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October 24, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Last Thursday, ICE detained Leo Martinez, a U.S. citizen, while he was exercising his right to observe ICE activity in Ventura County, CA. Leo has community love.
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#blacksky Yes, we long for greater consciousness—
More awareness, deeper understanding, even enlightenment.
But perhaps what stifles our consciousness
Is our own willingness
To ignore or silence the voice of conscience within us.
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More awareness, deeper understanding, even enlightenment.
But perhaps what stifles our consciousness
Is our own willingness
To ignore or silence the voice of conscience within us.
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Blood Has a Memory: Abel’s Cry and the Conscience of Earth, Part Two
Ten of Today’s Whitewashed Tombs
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October 24, 2025 at 3:48 AM
#blacksky Yes, we long for greater consciousness—
More awareness, deeper understanding, even enlightenment.
But perhaps what stifles our consciousness
Is our own willingness
To ignore or silence the voice of conscience within us.
davidnmoorejr.substack.com/p/blood-has-...
More awareness, deeper understanding, even enlightenment.
But perhaps what stifles our consciousness
Is our own willingness
To ignore or silence the voice of conscience within us.
davidnmoorejr.substack.com/p/blood-has-...
My early religious exposure came as a child in small Black Pentecostal congregations.
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October 19, 2025 at 7:28 PM
My early religious exposure came as a child in small Black Pentecostal congregations.
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When Christianity was new, it was a vulnerable movement that empowered & validated those whom the empire suppressed. The Gospel initially gave hope to Jews and later to all others who understood that their chances for a future within their world were bleak.
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What I Learned When I Stopped Hoping Christians Would Come Around, Part Ten
A Pastor’s Testimony of Faith Beyond the Christian Brand
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October 13, 2025 at 6:56 PM
When Christianity was new, it was a vulnerable movement that empowered & validated those whom the empire suppressed. The Gospel initially gave hope to Jews and later to all others who understood that their chances for a future within their world were bleak.
davidnmoorejr.substack.com/p/what-i-lea...
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Please explain to me, like I'm a 5-year-old, what being an elite, non-Indigenous, Zionist, neoliberal, pro-Western, pro-Trump resistor has to do with peace, especially after watching civil disobedients, protestors, statespersons, doctors, journalists, professors, and flotillas fill our stream.
October 13, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Please explain to me, like I'm a 5-year-old, what being an elite, non-Indigenous, Zionist, neoliberal, pro-Western, pro-Trump resistor has to do with peace, especially after watching civil disobedients, protestors, statespersons, doctors, journalists, professors, and flotillas fill our stream.