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Dustin Wilsor
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Theologian of musical theatre 🎭
Queer, pastoral, poetic, prophetic.
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October 18, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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Is it just me, or is Chengdu written in Disney font?
Picture of Lorenzo Musetti playing tennis at the Chengdu Open.
September 22, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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A square digital quote card with a parchment-beige background. Centered in bold black serif font, the text reads: “What if JustJared is the jewelry galleria guy’s side hustle?”
August 25, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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Toss a sandwich to your least favorite felon-in-chief after voting your voice!
A poster with an image of sandwiches raining down on the White House. The caption reads, “Be a Hero! Throw a Hero! November 3rd; 8:30PM after polls close Washington D.C. White House north lawn”
August 24, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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A quote card with a point list that says, “Hitler didn’t start with camps. He started with: • Make Germany Great Again • Banning Books • Targeting the Press • Blaming Immigrants • Creating Enemies from Neighbors • Defunding the Arts • Stoking Fear of Outsiders • Demonizing Educators Sound familiar? Or should I type louder?”
August 7, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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A picture of Dietrich Bonhoeffer above a quote of his: “Your ‘yes’ to God requires your ‘no’ to all injustice, to all evil, to all lies, to all oppression and violation of the weak and poor…” Deitrich Bonhoeffer German pastor, theologian, author and anti-Nazi dissident (1906-1945)
August 4, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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A quote card that says, “Art class should never stop being a thing. Like if right after our lunch breaks we all got to go down to the basement for an hour, throw on a smock, and make collages out of old magazines while somebody’s eccentric, slightly witchy aunt tells us how great we’re doing, I feel like we’d all be in a better place.”
August 2, 2025 at 12:29 AM
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July 12, 1804.
Alexander Hamilton dies.

The world was wide enough.
It always is—if we choose it.

May we be the people who refuse to pull the trigger.
Who walk away.
Who choose life.

#Hamilton #TheWorldWasWideEnough #MusicalMidrash #SacredMemory
July 12, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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This piece felt risky to write.
It’s about faith—and what happens when belief is betrayed but somehow still survives.
Golden Calves and Golden Toilets is up: open.substack.com/pub/dustinwi...
#Belief #QueerTheology #StoriesThatSaveUs
July 12, 2025 at 12:45 AM
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From this week’s Musical Midrash: on idolatry, spectacle, and the theatre of belief. open.substack.com/pub/dustinwi...
#Spectacle #FaithAndDoubt #TheatreAndTheology
July 11, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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“That’s what makes a good con. It doesn’t ask you to doubt. It dares you to hope…”
Some thoughts on spectacle, belief, and betrayal.
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#Spectacle #FaithAndDoubt #TheatreAndTheology
July 11, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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New Musical Midrash drops tomorrow.
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#MusicalTheatre #Theology #SacredStorytelling
July 10, 2025 at 12:58 AM
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What are we willing to believe?
A scam. A spectacle. A second act.
Something new is coming tomorrow.
🎭 ✝ Stay tuned.

#MusicalTheatre #Theology #SacredStorytelling
July 9, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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July 4, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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In today’s Musical Midrash, J. Kyle & I talk about the new message The Sound of Music is singing to us these days: a story of prophets, exile, and the moral courage to do the hard thing:

What does The Sound of Music mean to you?
#MusicalMidrash #SoundOfMusic #ClimbEveryMountain #ExileAndResistance
July 3, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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Pride Month may be over. But the fight for our lives, our joy, and our futures is not.

We stood. We stand. We will keep standing.

#QueerFaith #SacredResistance #PrideIsPolitical #MusicalMidrash
July 1, 2025 at 12:58 AM
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Thank you for every glittered prayer, every protest step, every song sung in survival.

Pride isn’t over. The month ends, but the call continues.

May you be blessed with softness, with strength, and with people who call you holy.

#PrideAndProphecy #QueerTheology #MusicalMidrash
A textured digital background in warm tones of burnt orange and deep red, framed by subtle golden curtain lines. Muted rainbow arcs curve behind the centered text in cream serif font: “The month ends, but the call continues.” The overall design evokes sacred theatricality and Pride.
June 30, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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June 29, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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A graphic of the LGBTQ+ pride flag with text centered in bold black letters. It reads: “If you’ve never had a Supreme Court case decide if you have the same rights as others, you have privilege.”
June 29, 2025 at 12:52 AM
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A photo of Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez sitting in a chair, looking to the side with a serious and contemplative expression. She is wearing a burgundy blazer over a black top. Superimposed in white text at the bottom of the image is a quote attributed to her: “He can stay, he can go. He can be impeached or voted out. But removing Trump will not remove the infrastructure of an entire party that embraced him; the dark money that funded him, the online radicalization that drummed his army; nor the racism he amplified and reanimated.” ~Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
June 27, 2025 at 4:24 AM
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“This isn’t just art. It’s lament. It’s testimony.
It’s the sacred insistence that truth matters more than comfort — even when it costs everything.”

New Musical Midrash: Raise Your Voice open.substack.com/pub/dustinwi...
June 27, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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June 26, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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New Musical Midrash coming: Cabaret, Parade, A Strange Loop.
Until then:

“Theatre is sacred. Protest is sacred…”
— Prepare Ye, the Way of the Lord

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A beige quote card with dark serif text reads: “Theatre is sacred. Protest is sacred. And when the lights dim and the overture begins — listen. Because the revolution might already be singing.” Beneath the quote is the attribution: “— Prepare Ye, the Way of the Lord: A Theology of Musical Theatre for the Church, the Stage, and the Sanctuary.”
June 25, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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The world is breaking. And still — love is calling.
Not to trap or shame, but to touch. To feed. To follow.

🌀 Stop Val. Save Bob.

#StopValSaveBob #PropheticPreaching #QueerTheology
June 24, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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Uncomfortably conspicuous coastguard presence on my ferry ride this afternoon…
#policestate #authoritarianism
Three coastguard members actively patrolling in board the ferry Constant monitoring by police boats from dock to dock Constant monitoring by police boats from dock to dock Constant monitoring by police boats from dock to dock
June 21, 2025 at 9:56 PM