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Let's all get free. Mass Council of Churches Exec & Pastor. Writer, Mender + Textile Artist. Unabashed urbanist. @BostonWomensSports.com Schemer & Dreamer in Boston.

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Rev Laura Everett @reveverett.com · May 10

Sabbath Sign Out: Besitos for dessert. This pup is Luna who I met on May Day in #ChelseaMA. Then today, I found besitos at Market Basket in Waltham! We all deserve más besitos y menos deportaciones. Feast and rest for the work is long.
# HereToStay

Más
• besitos
mENOS
deportaciones
# Here To Stay

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Rev Laura Everett @reveverett.com · 5h

Sermon writing time.

If you see me playing on here- kick me off.

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Rev Laura Everett @reveverett.com · 5h

Runs to check my bank account.

Y’all have no idea how fun my clothing is going to be when I no longer have to dress in the clergy drag of a proper New England church frau. Venmo/Paypal/CashApp @RevEverett

Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 6h

It's a rainy day and I'm sick in bed, so let's see what's in Iris Apfel's estate sale (3-day auction in New Jersey, Oct 15, 16, 17)

www.liveauctioneers.com/item/2160846...

Couture Feather & Silk Coat Auction

Couture feather & silk coat, Stephen Yearick dip dye orange feather and silk taffeta coat, size 12, paired with James Purcell hi-waisted raw silk orange{ellipsis}

www.liveauctioneers.com

Rev Laura Everett @reveverett.com · 6h

Repeat after me:
🚯that’s bad theology

Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 12h

Excuse me? www.medpagetoday.com/publichealth...

MEDPAGETODAY®
Public Health & Policy > Health Policy
Many With Obesity 'Don't Respect the Temple of Their
Soul,' Dr. Oz Says
— "The only thing they think they control in their life is the fork at the end of their arm"
by Joyce Frieden, Washington Editor, MedPage Today
October 7, 2025 • 5 min read

Rev Laura Everett @reveverett.com · 6h

Praying today with Matthew 9: Let us 🙏🏽 forgive me Lord, for being more concerned about a better seat 💺 than expanding the table. It’s really hard to wrap my head around a god who desires “mercy not sacrifice” when I’ve been pummeled by the bootstrap 🥾 theology of this nation. Help me be merciful,too

Back = Morning Prayer
The Second Lesson
Matt. 9:9-17
A Reading from the Gospel According to Matthew.
Is Jesus was walking along, he saw a man called Matthew sitting at the tax booth; and he said to him, "Follow me." And he got up and followed him. 1 And as he sat at dinner in the house, many tax collectors and sinners came and were sitting with him and his disciples.
"When the Pharisees saw this, they said to his disciples, "Why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?" 12 But when he heard this, he said, "Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick. 1 Go and learn what this means, 'I desire mercy, not sacrifice. For I have come to call not the righteous but sinners."

Rev Laura Everett @reveverett.com · 1d

Pawpaws!!

Rev Laura Everett @reveverett.com · 1d

My rage, in graphs: #wnba #nba

“The W.N.B.A. makes more money than the N.B.A. did at the same point in its history”

The W.N.B.A. makes more money than the N.B.A. did at the same point in its history
ANNUAL REVENUE
$500 million
Projected revenue the 2026 season
W.N.B.A/
400
N.B.A.
1982-83-season
300
1968-69
season
200/
100
< 2019 season
23
25
27
29
31
SEASON
33
35
37
Sources: Rodney Fort's Sports Business Data • Note:
N.B.A. revenue is in 2025 dollars.

much.
÷96
Players get a tiny cut of the W.N.B.A.'s revenue, even as the league has grown significantly
ANNUAL REVENUE
How much money -
$300 million
the W.N.B.A. makes
Money the players would 250 mshare, if they were paid
like N.B.A. players
200 Möney that W.N.B.A. players actually make
150 mil.
100 mil.
50 mil.
2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025|
Sources: Bloomberg, Forbes, Sportico, Rodney Fort's
Sports Business Data
Some of this is educated
guesswork. The W.N.B.A. doesn't release official revenue data —

What It Would Look Like to Pay W.N.B.A. Players What They Deserve
By David Berri
Graphics by Sara Chodosh
Mr. Berri is a professor at Southern Utah University who studies sports economics.
Oct. 3, 2025
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The 2025 W.N.B.A. season has set records for attendance, both in total and per game, even before the playoffs. More than three million fans have flocked to see stars like A'ja Wilson of the Las Vegas Aces and Alyssa Thomas of the Phoenix Mercury, whose
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year.
•+95
What the top 10 W.N.B.A. players should have earned this year
Players were ranked by how much their box score statistics, like points and rebounds, affected wins.
1 mil. 2 mil. 3 mil. $4 mil
A'ja Wilson
Alyssa Thomas
eronica Burton
Chelsea Gray
Jackie Young
pheesa Collier
Aliyah Boston
Allisha Gray
irtney Williams
Skylar Diggins
Each player's current salary
Source: Original box score stats used in calculations from Basketball Reference
What about Caitlin Clark? She missed most of the season with a groin injury. But during her magical rookie season in 2024,

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Rev Laura Everett @reveverett.com · 1d

I’ll never be your beast of burden! Blessed are the beast of the field, the couch, 🛋️ the 🐕 dog bed, the scratching post. So many gals best pals and best boys and everything in between! Dean Amy McCreath blessing horses 🐎 for #StFrancis day! #Boston

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

i recently got a great deal on a barely used folding ebike and i have to say it has revolutionized my train travel. i can get from my front door to the amtrak station in a little less than 5 minutes!!!

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Rev Laura Everett @reveverett.com · 1d

#October7 Feast Day of St Birgitta of Sweden!🇸🇪 Patron saint of #Widows, #Sweden & gender inclusive housing. Married at 13, mother to 8, St Birgitta founded a monasteries. Jesus revealed to her, “My child, I have chosen you for Me, love Me with all thy heart... more than anything in the world.”

< Back = Morning Prayer
October 7, 2025
Tuesday after the Seventeenth Sunday after Pentecost
• (BIRGITTA OF SWEDEN, Mystic, 1373/
BIRaTTA Birgersdotter came from a noble Swedish family and was born in 1303. Early in her life she discerned a religious vocation, but was married against her will at the age of 13 to a member of the Swedish nobility. The couple had eight children. Birgitta sought to live a holy, religious life. When her husband was absent, she openly practiced a strict asceticism, and when he was home, she did so secretly. Both she and her husband became members of the Franciscan Third Order, which admitted laypeople.
From childhood, Birgitta had experienced visions.
Christ, Mary, and the saints spoke with her often in Swedish and shared with her warnings intended for others, which Birgitta would write down or dictate to her confessor. Eventually these messages became increasingly political, which caused her great discomfort. Although Birgitta enjoyed a good relationship with the royal family, she sharply criticized the king, becoming a symbolic leader for the aristocratic Swedish opposition.

Birgitta advised popes and rulers throughout Europe, and criticized the extravagant lifestyles of the clergy, monastic orders, and laity, challenging four popes to return to Rome from Avignon. She also tried to persuade the rulers of England and France to negotiate peace and end the war that would later be called the Hundred Years' War.
Because of her struggles, she was recognized throughout Europe as an uncomfortable counselor and a visionary.
After the death of her husband in 1344, Birgitta devoted herself entirely to the religious life. The Order she founded, the Brigittines, was based on the revelations she had received earlier in her life. Her monastery would always have a women's and men's cloister next to one another, joined by a shared church, in which the monks, nuns, and laity would pray together. The abbess would be in charge of both the men's and women's cloister. To get papal approval for her order's founding, Birgitta traveled to Rome. In 1370, Urban V recognized the new order and allowed its foundation at Vadstena, Sweden.
Birgitta was, in fact, not the first abbess there, but rather her daughter Catherine.

Except for several pilgrimages, Birgitta remained in Rome for the rest of her life. She ministered to both rich and poor, sheltered the homeless, and worked untiringly for the return of the pope from Avignon to Rome. In 1372, she was spurred by a vision to visit the Holy Land. On the return trip from Jerusalem Birgitta fell ill and entered eternal life on July 23rd, 1373. In Sweden she is celebrated on October 7th, which is the anniversary of her canonization.

1480 woodcut St Bridget giving her rule to her order; woodcut from one block divided into three sheets mounted together; in the centre the saint sits on a bench, holding an open book in each hand with a crown at her feet and an angel at her right shoulder, God the Father on a cloud is above left, and the Virgin with Child on a cloud above right; underneath are the coats of arms of Sweden, Bavaria and Palatinate; on the the left sheet eight Brigittine nuns kneel with folded hands towards the right at the front kneels Bridget's daughter, St Catherine of Sweden; on the right sheet kneel eight praying monks.
Woodcut with hand-colouring

Rev Laura Everett @reveverett.com · 1d

Woe to you who harm a child. It would be better if there were a millstone tied around your neck.

~Gospel according to St Matthew 18:6

Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 1d

There is no acceptable excuse for zip-tying children! None.

This shouldn’t even have to be said.

Rev Laura Everett @reveverett.com · 1d

Lord, have mercy and forgive this nation.

Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 3d

Trey Reed, a student at Delta State University in Mississippi, was found hanging from a noose. Mississippi police ruled the death a suicide. Now an autopsy reportedly concludes that he suffered extensive blunt force trauma across his body before he died, meaning he was beaten before he was lynched.

Kaepernick-Funded Autopsy Reportedly Finds Trey Reed Didn’t Die by Suicide — Family Attorney Ben Crump Hasn’t Confirmed

According to a source who isn't authorized to comment publicly, the autopsy of Trey Reed reveals that his death was not caused by a suicide.

www.blackenterprise.com

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Nick @thesunglasskid.bsky.social · 1d

New pitch; you hate bike lanes, you hate kids.

Peter Cheung @bostonaruban.bsky.social · 2d

Protected Bike Lanes benefits people of all ages.

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Rev Laura Everett @reveverett.com · 1d

I know this is not the point, but… Fur preaching tabs?

derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 1d

i had no idea this is how canada's supreme court dresses

Nine members of the Canadian Supreme Court sitting for a photo. They are dressed in red robes trimmed in white.

Rev Laura Everett @reveverett.com · 1d

Less than 12 hour later, another fatal driver crash kills a pedestrian in #Boston. When is the @bostonglobe.com going fix their headlines? This wasn’t a self-driving vehicle. When is @boston.gov going to make roads safe for all humans? #bospoli #VisionZero www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/06/m...

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Rev Laura Everett @reveverett.com · 2d

Lord have mercy. I pray for safety. Last night, an elder of our #JamaicaPlain community was killed. She was simply walking. 77 years old woman walking home. And a 39yo clings to life. #Boston roads should not be deadly. The driver fled. #bospoli #VisionZero

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/06/m...

One woman dead, another in critical condition after being struck by hit-and-run driver in Jamaica Plain - The Boston Globe

A 77-year-old woman was taken to a local hospital where she was pronounced dead, police said.

www.bostonglobe.com

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Rev Laura Everett @reveverett.com · 2d

Bless you. You are doing an amazing job! It is incredibly hard to quit these things. The weather gods and I am so proud of you! 👏🙌🏼🙏🏽⛈️⚡️🌩️

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Rev Laura Everett @reveverett.com · 2d

Praying with 2Kings21: Let us pray 🙏🏽: O Lord, you saw what King Manasseh did and it was evil. When You speak God, our ears tingle. You will wipe away that evil king like one wipes a dish. Let our actions as a nation not provoke You to anger. Forgive our idolatry, O Lord. Focus my heat on You.

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Rev Laura Everett @reveverett.com · 2d

We just did a church group viewing of K-pop demon hunters. I’m going to need an essay on the theology of #Korean han & Trinitarian theology.

Rev Laura Everett @reveverett.com · 2d

This Vegas team may be unstoppable. #wnbafinals

Rev Laura Everett @reveverett.com · 3d

I legit took my younger sister to bougie Rowan yesterday in the ‘burbs to get her ears pierced by a nurse with sterile tools rather than a teenager with an ice pick at Claire’s. So yes. Failure to adapt or radical leftists in Dedham, Mass. 🤷‍♀️

Rev Laura Everett @reveverett.com · 3d

We believe in a God of abundance and grace enough for all. There were many best boys at Church today. Shout out to the clergy of Old South #Church for bless ours on the feast of #StFrancis #dogsky

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Rev Laura Everett @reveverett.com · 3d

“Confronting the Demon
A Gospel Response to Adult Bullying” by
Gerald A. Arbuckle- ya know. Just because.

Confronting the Demon
A Gospel Response to Adult Bullying
Arbuckle
Gerald A. Arbuckle

Rev Laura Everett @reveverett.com · 3d

Beloved, many churches are celebrating the Feast of St Francis today, a beloved saint who loved all creation and especially animals. Lots of Blessing of the Animals today across the Church. We’re bringing Zucchini with us, but he’ll put on something more formal. Consider going to a spot near you.

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Jack O'Lantern Graham @timescarcass.bsky.social · 3d

It's not a coincidence that AI appears now, as western capitalism transitions to a fascistic political norm. Fascism generates kitsch. Fascism is philistine. Fascism relies upon plagiarism. Fascism is bankrolled by monopoly. AI is monopoly committing theft to produce kitsch consumed by philistines.

meliss-AAAH! @mel.bzky.team · 3d

AI is the new aesthetic of fascism

white house tweet quoting JD Vance saying we do not ask permission from far left democrats before we deport illegal immigrants " over a Ghibli style pic of him and trump

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Joyce Linehan @ashmont.bsky.social · 3d

Free public screening on Monday (10/6) at MassART about the legal issues involved in all that light projection art we are seeing so much of these days. Panel discussion with filmmaker and @silencedogoodbos.bsky.social to follow. Reservations required. www.eventbrite.com/e/projecting...

Projecting Protest: Screening and Panel Discussion

Light projection as a form of protest has become a tool for activists across the political spectrum, pushing the boundaries of free speech.

www.eventbrite.com

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