@recoveringrev.bsky.social
Recovering Pastor learning to find Jesus in the margins . . . Of my life and in the world.
Pinned
I have been trying to redefine what evangelical means to me because I believe so strongly in what it once meant. But maybe it’s time to let it go.
Too many words for Bluesky, so hopefully images work.
How can we celebrate freedom while hardworking, good people who want to contribute to our country are being kidnapped, lynched and incarcerated without cause.
Christian morality without Christian ethics is coercion and cruelty.
How can we celebrate freedom while hardworking, good people who want to contribute to our country are being kidnapped, lynched and incarcerated without cause.
Christian morality without Christian ethics is coercion and cruelty.
July 4, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Too many words for Bluesky, so hopefully images work.
How can we celebrate freedom while hardworking, good people who want to contribute to our country are being kidnapped, lynched and incarcerated without cause.
Christian morality without Christian ethics is coercion and cruelty.
How can we celebrate freedom while hardworking, good people who want to contribute to our country are being kidnapped, lynched and incarcerated without cause.
Christian morality without Christian ethics is coercion and cruelty.
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As a Christian in America you have two options.
1. Advocate and vote for an immigration policy that makes legal immigration free, easy, and fast.
Or
2. Just admit that you do not want a Christian Nation.
1. Advocate and vote for an immigration policy that makes legal immigration free, easy, and fast.
Or
2. Just admit that you do not want a Christian Nation.
April 16, 2025 at 3:37 AM
As a Christian in America you have two options.
1. Advocate and vote for an immigration policy that makes legal immigration free, easy, and fast.
Or
2. Just admit that you do not want a Christian Nation.
1. Advocate and vote for an immigration policy that makes legal immigration free, easy, and fast.
Or
2. Just admit that you do not want a Christian Nation.
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I’m going to say something that shouldn’t be controversial but will be. If you are a Christian, you can support border control and immigration being legal vs illegal. You CANNOT celebrate deportations and get off on the cruelty, and be a real Christ follower. Period
April 16, 2025 at 2:53 AM
I’m going to say something that shouldn’t be controversial but will be. If you are a Christian, you can support border control and immigration being legal vs illegal. You CANNOT celebrate deportations and get off on the cruelty, and be a real Christ follower. Period
Watching AOC rally yesterday. They really need to find a different word for “oligarchy.” They need to find a different way to talk about “income inequality.” They are on the right message, but those words don’t resonate.
They still sound like they are lecturing.
They still sound like they are lecturing.
April 14, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Watching AOC rally yesterday. They really need to find a different word for “oligarchy.” They need to find a different way to talk about “income inequality.” They are on the right message, but those words don’t resonate.
They still sound like they are lecturing.
They still sound like they are lecturing.
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In 1990, thousands of Americans with disabilities decided to stop waiting for elected officials to act. Their efforts changed the minds — and the votes — of elected officials and resulted in the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act.
We can’t wait for our leaders to act. We have to lead.
We can’t wait for our leaders to act. We have to lead.
April 9, 2025 at 11:41 AM
In 1990, thousands of Americans with disabilities decided to stop waiting for elected officials to act. Their efforts changed the minds — and the votes — of elected officials and resulted in the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act.
We can’t wait for our leaders to act. We have to lead.
We can’t wait for our leaders to act. We have to lead.
Interesting. I have spent the last few weeks sharing Bible verses about the poor and immigrant on FB. I thought I would lose a lot of “friends”
I have lost a few. But gained many more younger generations and non religious friends who are intrigued by an alternative to political evangelicalism.
I have lost a few. But gained many more younger generations and non religious friends who are intrigued by an alternative to political evangelicalism.
April 7, 2025 at 1:55 AM
Interesting. I have spent the last few weeks sharing Bible verses about the poor and immigrant on FB. I thought I would lose a lot of “friends”
I have lost a few. But gained many more younger generations and non religious friends who are intrigued by an alternative to political evangelicalism.
I have lost a few. But gained many more younger generations and non religious friends who are intrigued by an alternative to political evangelicalism.
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There is no such thing as “the sin of empathy.”
God is love.
And the world will know that we are Christians by our love.
God is love.
And the world will know that we are Christians by our love.
April 2, 2025 at 5:16 PM
There is no such thing as “the sin of empathy.”
God is love.
And the world will know that we are Christians by our love.
God is love.
And the world will know that we are Christians by our love.
I have an experiment going on Facebook. Each day I am posting one Bible passage addressing the treatment of immigrants, the poor and the vulnerable. Sometimes it will be a Bible passage on the dangers of trusting in wealth or power. I am not commenting, posting the words straight from the Bible.
March 28, 2025 at 2:13 PM
I have an experiment going on Facebook. Each day I am posting one Bible passage addressing the treatment of immigrants, the poor and the vulnerable. Sometimes it will be a Bible passage on the dangers of trusting in wealth or power. I am not commenting, posting the words straight from the Bible.
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The aim of our charge is LOVE, which comes from a pure heart and a good conscience and sincere #faith
1 Timothy 1:5
God's #LOVE is widely understood in many ways when our #heart is pure!✝️
#Pray #JesusChrist ##HolySpirit #Kindness #Generosity #Character #Humanity #Truth
1 Timothy 1:5
God's #LOVE is widely understood in many ways when our #heart is pure!✝️
#Pray #JesusChrist ##HolySpirit #Kindness #Generosity #Character #Humanity #Truth
March 27, 2025 at 3:51 AM
The aim of our charge is LOVE, which comes from a pure heart and a good conscience and sincere #faith
1 Timothy 1:5
God's #LOVE is widely understood in many ways when our #heart is pure!✝️
#Pray #JesusChrist ##HolySpirit #Kindness #Generosity #Character #Humanity #Truth
1 Timothy 1:5
God's #LOVE is widely understood in many ways when our #heart is pure!✝️
#Pray #JesusChrist ##HolySpirit #Kindness #Generosity #Character #Humanity #Truth
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Tomorrow night - join me and Stanley Hauerwas. 7pmET on all Red Letter Christians platforms. All the info is here: redletterchristians.org/events/
March 25, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Tomorrow night - join me and Stanley Hauerwas. 7pmET on all Red Letter Christians platforms. All the info is here: redletterchristians.org/events/
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There are many versions of Christianity that simply use the faith as a way of escaping this world, rather than something that compels us to transform it.
I believe in life after death. But I also believe God cares about life before death.
I believe in life after death. But I also believe God cares about life before death.
March 20, 2025 at 5:13 PM
There are many versions of Christianity that simply use the faith as a way of escaping this world, rather than something that compels us to transform it.
I believe in life after death. But I also believe God cares about life before death.
I believe in life after death. But I also believe God cares about life before death.
Exclusive: US CDC plans study into vaccines and autism, sources say - www.reuters.com/business/hea...
Nothing says “combat waste” like studying something that has been repeatedly and exhaustively studied already.
Nothing says “combat waste” like studying something that has been repeatedly and exhaustively studied already.
Exclusive: U.S. CDC plans study into vaccines and autism, sources say
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is planning a large study into potential connections between vaccines and autism, two sources familiar with the matter told Reuters, despite extensive scientific research that has disproven or failed to find evidence of such links.
www.reuters.com
March 7, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Exclusive: US CDC plans study into vaccines and autism, sources say - www.reuters.com/business/hea...
Nothing says “combat waste” like studying something that has been repeatedly and exhaustively studied already.
Nothing says “combat waste” like studying something that has been repeatedly and exhaustively studied already.
Find a local homeless mission or shelter and volunteer or donate. They are going to need all the help they can get as housing programs shutter, unemployment rises, assistance for mental illness and addiction is slashed, and immigrants are forced into hiding.
March 5, 2025 at 4:28 AM
Find a local homeless mission or shelter and volunteer or donate. They are going to need all the help they can get as housing programs shutter, unemployment rises, assistance for mental illness and addiction is slashed, and immigrants are forced into hiding.
Dem response is paddles and costumes.
March 5, 2025 at 4:24 AM
Dem response is paddles and costumes.
All we really needed to fix immigration is to make America a place where no one wants to come.
March 5, 2025 at 3:14 AM
All we really needed to fix immigration is to make America a place where no one wants to come.
In summary “we are doing less good around the world than any administration in American history!”
March 5, 2025 at 3:01 AM
In summary “we are doing less good around the world than any administration in American history!”
Al Green is a hero and it’s a shame to democrats that more did not follow his example.
March 5, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Al Green is a hero and it’s a shame to democrats that more did not follow his example.
I remember a time when America was governed according to our common ideals, not our corporate interests.
March 4, 2025 at 4:43 AM
I remember a time when America was governed according to our common ideals, not our corporate interests.
I just realized I was holding on to the last vestiges of American exceptionalism for the last five weeks. Still believing that the goodness of our republic would overcome.
The Ukraine turn has killed what was left, and now I am left to grieve the loss
The Ukraine turn has killed what was left, and now I am left to grieve the loss
March 3, 2025 at 11:25 PM
I just realized I was holding on to the last vestiges of American exceptionalism for the last five weeks. Still believing that the goodness of our republic would overcome.
The Ukraine turn has killed what was left, and now I am left to grieve the loss
The Ukraine turn has killed what was left, and now I am left to grieve the loss
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I had adjusted to losing my insurance, half my income and my house, and having my disabled daughter uninsured.
To my homeless residents being scared and hopeless due to lack of services.
But the Ukraine thing is oddly the one that has gutted me.
To my homeless residents being scared and hopeless due to lack of services.
But the Ukraine thing is oddly the one that has gutted me.
March 3, 2025 at 5:36 AM
I had adjusted to losing my insurance, half my income and my house, and having my disabled daughter uninsured.
To my homeless residents being scared and hopeless due to lack of services.
But the Ukraine thing is oddly the one that has gutted me.
To my homeless residents being scared and hopeless due to lack of services.
But the Ukraine thing is oddly the one that has gutted me.
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Mexico is gonna pay that wall after all.
To keep fleeing Americans out.
To keep fleeing Americans out.
March 3, 2025 at 3:01 AM
Mexico is gonna pay that wall after all.
To keep fleeing Americans out.
To keep fleeing Americans out.
“Those who are too smart to engage in politics are governed by those who are too dumb”
- Plato
- Plato
February 26, 2025 at 3:45 AM
“Those who are too smart to engage in politics are governed by those who are too dumb”
- Plato
- Plato