Garrett Andrew
@garrettjandrew.bsky.social
Central coast California living, ukulele amateur, even more amateur writer, professional laugher and mourner.
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Epiphany for the Exhausted - I wrote this for anyone who is exhausted by resolutions and needs an Epiphany for their exhaustion. #epiphany #exhausted #spirituality #philosophy #lifelessons #calculus open.substack.com/pub/garrettj...
Epiphany for the Exhausted
On ruptured tendons, the calculus of grace, and why I’m not auditioning for 2026.
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January 6, 2026 at 7:14 PM
Epiphany for the Exhausted - I wrote this for anyone who is exhausted by resolutions and needs an Epiphany for their exhaustion. #epiphany #exhausted #spirituality #philosophy #lifelessons #calculus open.substack.com/pub/garrettj...
Some days you are on hold for 30 minutes hearing the count down until it's your turn, only to get there and leave a voice mail! #winning
November 25, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Some days you are on hold for 30 minutes hearing the count down until it's your turn, only to get there and leave a voice mail! #winning
The empires of the world all run on exhaustion. It’s why they all end.
Sabbath is dissent, woven into the week, against the tyranny of empire.
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#faith #theology #sabbath
Sabbath is dissent, woven into the week, against the tyranny of empire.
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#faith #theology #sabbath
These Days, I'm Not Keeping Sabbath. Sabbath Is Keeping Me.
Thoughts on rest, from a couch I'm not allowed to leave.
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November 25, 2025 at 6:22 PM
The empires of the world all run on exhaustion. It’s why they all end.
Sabbath is dissent, woven into the week, against the tyranny of empire.
open.substack.com/pub/garrettj...
#faith #theology #sabbath
Sabbath is dissent, woven into the week, against the tyranny of empire.
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#faith #theology #sabbath
November 23, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Been on this couch a lot. A knee surgery has me benched from work for months, which is humbling.
My writing is the one thing I can still do, so I turned my reflections on the spiritual platitudes that fail us into a new 36-page e-book: "The Lies We Tell Ourselves (About God)"
My writing is the one thing I can still do, so I turned my reflections on the spiritual platitudes that fail us into a new 36-page e-book: "The Lies We Tell Ourselves (About God)"
November 22, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Been on this couch a lot. A knee surgery has me benched from work for months, which is humbling.
My writing is the one thing I can still do, so I turned my reflections on the spiritual platitudes that fail us into a new 36-page e-book: "The Lies We Tell Ourselves (About God)"
My writing is the one thing I can still do, so I turned my reflections on the spiritual platitudes that fail us into a new 36-page e-book: "The Lies We Tell Ourselves (About God)"
Been on this couch a lot. A knee surgery has me benched from work for months, which is humbling.
My writing is the one thing I can still do, so I turned my reflections on the spiritual platitudes that fail us into a new 36-page e-book: "The Lies We Tell Ourselves (About God)"
My writing is the one thing I can still do, so I turned my reflections on the spiritual platitudes that fail us into a new 36-page e-book: "The Lies We Tell Ourselves (About God)"
November 22, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Been on this couch a lot. A knee surgery has me benched from work for months, which is humbling.
My writing is the one thing I can still do, so I turned my reflections on the spiritual platitudes that fail us into a new 36-page e-book: "The Lies We Tell Ourselves (About God)"
My writing is the one thing I can still do, so I turned my reflections on the spiritual platitudes that fail us into a new 36-page e-book: "The Lies We Tell Ourselves (About God)"
Passing By the Sea - here are my notes on Mark 1:16-20. A story most Christians think they know. A story they don't know nearly as well as they think. #WritersOnBluesky #Spiritual #Faith #Religion #Christianity #ProgressiveChristianity #MarkGospel #Bible
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Passing By the Sea
Mark 1:16–20 as the Gospel in Miniature
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August 30, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Passing By the Sea - here are my notes on Mark 1:16-20. A story most Christians think they know. A story they don't know nearly as well as they think. #WritersOnBluesky #Spiritual #Faith #Religion #Christianity #ProgressiveChristianity #MarkGospel #Bible
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New reflection just went up:
The Title We No Longer Deserve
On what it means to be called a Christian, and what it used to mean.
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#Substack #Christian #SpiritualPride #Hypocrisy #SocialJustice #Theology
The Title We No Longer Deserve
On what it means to be called a Christian, and what it used to mean.
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#Substack #Christian #SpiritualPride #Hypocrisy #SocialJustice #Theology
July 16, 2025 at 5:35 PM
New reflection just went up:
The Title We No Longer Deserve
On what it means to be called a Christian, and what it used to mean.
open.substack.com/pub/garrettj...
#Substack #Christian #SpiritualPride #Hypocrisy #SocialJustice #Theology
The Title We No Longer Deserve
On what it means to be called a Christian, and what it used to mean.
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#Substack #Christian #SpiritualPride #Hypocrisy #SocialJustice #Theology
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Many things we say, or heard say that sound wise and helpful about the Divine, are the opposite. How can we learn to live in the mystery?
#faith #spiritualgrowth #christianity #suffering #grace
Many things we say, or heard say that sound wise and helpful about the Divine, are the opposite. How can we learn to live in the mystery?
#faith #spiritualgrowth #christianity #suffering #grace
The Lies We Tell Ourselves (About God)
Why so much of what we think God said actually causes deep harm – and what the Bible really reveals about grace, presence, and love.
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July 10, 2025 at 11:28 PM
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Many things we say, or heard say that sound wise and helpful about the Divine, are the opposite. How can we learn to live in the mystery?
#faith #spiritualgrowth #christianity #suffering #grace
Many things we say, or heard say that sound wise and helpful about the Divine, are the opposite. How can we learn to live in the mystery?
#faith #spiritualgrowth #christianity #suffering #grace
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I’m a preacher, this isn’t a sermon because I’m not preaching right now… but I believe the Scriptures of my tradition can speak life into the death of this moment.
I’m a preacher, this isn’t a sermon because I’m not preaching right now… but I believe the Scriptures of my tradition can speak life into the death of this moment.
I Expected Seventy (a reflection on Luke 10:1–20)
But peace has never come the way we expected it.
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July 6, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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I’m a preacher, this isn’t a sermon because I’m not preaching right now… but I believe the Scriptures of my tradition can speak life into the death of this moment.
I’m a preacher, this isn’t a sermon because I’m not preaching right now… but I believe the Scriptures of my tradition can speak life into the death of this moment.
I'm not feeling the 4th today... so I wrote, and I'd love to know what you think: open.substack.com/pub/garrettj...
#USPolitics #FourthOfJuly #TaxCuts #HealthcarePolicy #SocialJustice #OneBigBeautifulBillAct #AmericanIdentity
#USPolitics #FourthOfJuly #TaxCuts #HealthcarePolicy #SocialJustice #OneBigBeautifulBillAct #AmericanIdentity
The Words Still Burn: A July 4th Reflection from a Mourning Patriot
This isn't about fireworks. It's about fire. And truth. And the ache of liberty not yet realized.
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July 4, 2025 at 6:28 PM
I'm not feeling the 4th today... so I wrote, and I'd love to know what you think: open.substack.com/pub/garrettj...
#USPolitics #FourthOfJuly #TaxCuts #HealthcarePolicy #SocialJustice #OneBigBeautifulBillAct #AmericanIdentity
#USPolitics #FourthOfJuly #TaxCuts #HealthcarePolicy #SocialJustice #OneBigBeautifulBillAct #AmericanIdentity
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I’m going to make it sport of responding the Christian nationalists who use the Bible for nationalist ideologies.
I’d love to know what you think.
#ChristianNationalism #SocialJustice #Immigration
I’m going to make it sport of responding the Christian nationalists who use the Bible for nationalist ideologies.
I’d love to know what you think.
#ChristianNationalism #SocialJustice #Immigration
Keep the Christ in Christian
Not every post wrapped in Scripture is biblical. Christian nationalism isn’t Christianity. Silence isn’t an option for those who know Jesus.
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June 22, 2025 at 6:04 AM
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I’m going to make it sport of responding the Christian nationalists who use the Bible for nationalist ideologies.
I’d love to know what you think.
#ChristianNationalism #SocialJustice #Immigration
I’m going to make it sport of responding the Christian nationalists who use the Bible for nationalist ideologies.
I’d love to know what you think.
#ChristianNationalism #SocialJustice #Immigration
The news is crazy, people of all kinds are being threatened because of who they are, and people of "faith" are cheering it. As a person of faith, I grieve.
#LGBTQ+Rights #ProgressiveChristianity
Blessed Are Those Who Mourn: A Dispatch from the Firehose open.substack.com/pub/garrettj...
#LGBTQ+Rights #ProgressiveChristianity
Blessed Are Those Who Mourn: A Dispatch from the Firehose open.substack.com/pub/garrettj...
Blessed Are Those Who Mourn: A Dispatch from the Firehose
On Juneteenth, justice, and staying awake in a world unraveling
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June 19, 2025 at 5:22 PM
The news is crazy, people of all kinds are being threatened because of who they are, and people of "faith" are cheering it. As a person of faith, I grieve.
#LGBTQ+Rights #ProgressiveChristianity
Blessed Are Those Who Mourn: A Dispatch from the Firehose open.substack.com/pub/garrettj...
#LGBTQ+Rights #ProgressiveChristianity
Blessed Are Those Who Mourn: A Dispatch from the Firehose open.substack.com/pub/garrettj...
As we approach Pride Month, this is a mediation, a sermon for any who has ever been told they don't belong to the church. #PrideMonth #InclusiveChristianity #QueerTheology #LGBTQ+
What Is to Prevent Me? open.substack.com/pub/garrettj...
What Is to Prevent Me? open.substack.com/pub/garrettj...
What Is to Prevent Me?
The gospel of a eunuch, the gospel for the ones left out.
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May 27, 2025 at 3:22 PM
As we approach Pride Month, this is a mediation, a sermon for any who has ever been told they don't belong to the church. #PrideMonth #InclusiveChristianity #QueerTheology #LGBTQ+
What Is to Prevent Me? open.substack.com/pub/garrettj...
What Is to Prevent Me? open.substack.com/pub/garrettj...
"i missed you again today."
My new prayer, 'A Playful Presence,' is an invitation to find the giggle-God in life's ordinary moments. When did wonder sneak up on you this week?
#SpiritualitySky #SpiritualJourney #Mindfulness #Poem #EverydayGrace
A Playful Presence open.substack.com/pub/garrettj...
My new prayer, 'A Playful Presence,' is an invitation to find the giggle-God in life's ordinary moments. When did wonder sneak up on you this week?
#SpiritualitySky #SpiritualJourney #Mindfulness #Poem #EverydayGrace
A Playful Presence open.substack.com/pub/garrettj...
A Playful Presence
Learning to laugh with God again.
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May 24, 2025 at 6:02 PM
"i missed you again today."
My new prayer, 'A Playful Presence,' is an invitation to find the giggle-God in life's ordinary moments. When did wonder sneak up on you this week?
#SpiritualitySky #SpiritualJourney #Mindfulness #Poem #EverydayGrace
A Playful Presence open.substack.com/pub/garrettj...
My new prayer, 'A Playful Presence,' is an invitation to find the giggle-God in life's ordinary moments. When did wonder sneak up on you this week?
#SpiritualitySky #SpiritualJourney #Mindfulness #Poem #EverydayGrace
A Playful Presence open.substack.com/pub/garrettj...
Reposted by Garrett Andrew
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On Palm Sunday, the crowd celebrates, but Jesus weeps. This reflection explores the quiet courage of a peace that rides in anyway—through confusion, through suffering, through love that doesn’t flinch. #Jesus #HolyWeek #PalmSunday #Theology #GriefandGrace
On Palm Sunday, the crowd celebrates, but Jesus weeps. This reflection explores the quiet courage of a peace that rides in anyway—through confusion, through suffering, through love that doesn’t flinch. #Jesus #HolyWeek #PalmSunday #Theology #GriefandGrace
The Saddest Parade
What if peace doesn’t ride in with applause—but with tears?
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April 9, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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On Palm Sunday, the crowd celebrates, but Jesus weeps. This reflection explores the quiet courage of a peace that rides in anyway—through confusion, through suffering, through love that doesn’t flinch. #Jesus #HolyWeek #PalmSunday #Theology #GriefandGrace
On Palm Sunday, the crowd celebrates, but Jesus weeps. This reflection explores the quiet courage of a peace that rides in anyway—through confusion, through suffering, through love that doesn’t flinch. #Jesus #HolyWeek #PalmSunday #Theology #GriefandGrace
open.substack.com/pub/garrettj... "If the church continues using Genesis 19 to exclude, then it is not standing with Jesus—it is standing with the mob outside Lot’s door." #LGBTQTheology #Inclusion #BibleStudy #JesusAndJustice
Breaking the Clobber Verses: What Genesis 19 Really Says About LGBTQ+ People
How the Church Turned a Story of Injustice into a Weapon of Exclusion
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March 18, 2025 at 11:33 PM
open.substack.com/pub/garrettj... "If the church continues using Genesis 19 to exclude, then it is not standing with Jesus—it is standing with the mob outside Lot’s door." #LGBTQTheology #Inclusion #BibleStudy #JesusAndJustice
When fundamentalists read Leviticus and say, “See? The Bible says homosexuality is an abomination,” they are ignoring the why of the passage. And in ignoring the why, they turn it into something it was never meant to be. #LGBTQTheology#QueerFaith#FaithAndInclusion
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Breaking the Clobber Verses: What Leviticus Really Says About LGBTQ+ People
How ancient trauma shaped purity laws—and why Jesus moves us beyond them.
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March 14, 2025 at 2:51 AM
When fundamentalists read Leviticus and say, “See? The Bible says homosexuality is an abomination,” they are ignoring the why of the passage. And in ignoring the why, they turn it into something it was never meant to be. #LGBTQTheology#QueerFaith#FaithAndInclusion
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If you are someone who is about to celebrate Lent with Ash Wednesday tomorrow, I invite you to read this and let me know what you think: open.substack.com/pub/garrettj... #faith#ashwednesday#love#Christianity#spirituality
March 4, 2025 at 9:20 PM
If you are someone who is about to celebrate Lent with Ash Wednesday tomorrow, I invite you to read this and let me know what you think: open.substack.com/pub/garrettj... #faith#ashwednesday#love#Christianity#spirituality
You were never meant to live hidden, you and I are the light of the world! open.substack.com/pub/garrettj... #Christianity #humanity #spirituality #love
February 25, 2025 at 7:52 PM
You were never meant to live hidden, you and I are the light of the world! open.substack.com/pub/garrettj... #Christianity #humanity #spirituality #love
Reposted by Garrett Andrew
Reposted by Garrett Andrew
