If fear disappeared

we’d overthrow corrupt systems by noon

build self-sustaining communities by dinner

and spend the rest of our lives laughing about how easy it actually was.

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Prayer is meaningless unless it is subversive, unless it seeks to overthrow & ruin pyramids of callousness, hatred, opportunism, falsehoods. The liturgical movement must become a revolutionary movement, seeking to overthrow forces that destroy the promise, hope, vision. Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel

The current hill I will die on (read: be uncomfortable for a maximum of five minutes on): matcha tastes like what I imagine sink water after rinsing off a clay mask tastes like.

If it’s not classified, then I want in on the chat. Lemme see it!

Participating in the economic blackout is a privilege. Some people have been waiting until payday (today) to buy essential items. Don’t shame them, please. Participate when you can and remember that resistance comes in many forms.

We’ve all agreed that Thursday is November, and 9 and they’re brown.

Wednesday is September and 7, and they’re orange.

Fight me.

Same.

And, and, AND, if you received Budde’s sermon as criticism, I urge you to consider that maybe you were feeling convicted—not by her, but by the Holy Spirit that challenges ALL of us to have mercy.

[Steps up to the pulpit]:

Beloveds. Y’all. Mercy should be the driving force of our faith. Jesus (that’s the one we follow, in case you forgot) says in Matthew 12:7 “I desire mercy, not sacrifice.”

If you are offended by a preacher asking for mercy, then I invite you to revisit the Scripture.

She’s still mad.