Rev. Robin Wells (they/them)
@roblation.bsky.social
🌈 💕 Nonbinary | hospice chaplain | fungi forager | Padres baseball | UMC | entheogen & consciousness studies | Venmo @roblation
Looks like a scaly hedgehog (Sarcodon imbricatus)
November 24, 2025 at 1:30 AM
Looks like a scaly hedgehog (Sarcodon imbricatus)
Since the rebranding of the Department of Defense is now the Department of War, can reporters please start calling "defense startups" "war startups" instead? It would really help with clarity for the reader. Thanks.
September 23, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Since the rebranding of the Department of Defense is now the Department of War, can reporters please start calling "defense startups" "war startups" instead? It would really help with clarity for the reader. Thanks.
Never too many!
September 21, 2024 at 6:55 AM
Never too many!
8/8 Spiritual warfare is as real today as it was with the ancients.
And that's why I'm not commenting on Twitter/X regarding #UMCGC as I have done for the last 4 #UMCGC s.
Bluesky is my refuge in a time of healing. May the voice of God resound.
That's it. That's the skeet. 🌈 💕
#UMC
And that's why I'm not commenting on Twitter/X regarding #UMCGC as I have done for the last 4 #UMCGC s.
Bluesky is my refuge in a time of healing. May the voice of God resound.
That's it. That's the skeet. 🌈 💕
#UMC
April 27, 2024 at 10:43 PM
7/? Have some of those toxic voices been on a lower volume since the exit of churches to the GlobalMC? Yes. Has #UMCGC been less contentious since their exit? By all reports, yes.
Does this instantly resolve all the spiritual wounding and moral injury inflicted over the past decades?
No.
Does this instantly resolve all the spiritual wounding and moral injury inflicted over the past decades?
No.
April 27, 2024 at 10:36 PM
7/? Have some of those toxic voices been on a lower volume since the exit of churches to the GlobalMC? Yes. Has #UMCGC been less contentious since their exit? By all reports, yes.
Does this instantly resolve all the spiritual wounding and moral injury inflicted over the past decades?
No.
Does this instantly resolve all the spiritual wounding and moral injury inflicted over the past decades?
No.
6/? Do I still have my twitter handle? Yes. It's the same handle I have here. Have I been an X voyeur during this #UMCGC? Absolutely.
But I'll be damned if I'll post any responses there. The same toxic personalities and puppet masters are lurking there: Mark Tooley, The IRD, WCA, GlobalMC, etc.
But I'll be damned if I'll post any responses there. The same toxic personalities and puppet masters are lurking there: Mark Tooley, The IRD, WCA, GlobalMC, etc.
April 27, 2024 at 10:32 PM
6/? Do I still have my twitter handle? Yes. It's the same handle I have here. Have I been an X voyeur during this #UMCGC? Absolutely.
But I'll be damned if I'll post any responses there. The same toxic personalities and puppet masters are lurking there: Mark Tooley, The IRD, WCA, GlobalMC, etc.
But I'll be damned if I'll post any responses there. The same toxic personalities and puppet masters are lurking there: Mark Tooley, The IRD, WCA, GlobalMC, etc.
5/? As more people found Twitter/X, especially anti-LGBTQ+ hate groups, the commentary there just devolved and was particularly toxic in the 2019 Special General Conference.
Now that Bluesky is an option, this is a much better choice for me during #UMCGC than continuing to engage on the tweeter.
Now that Bluesky is an option, this is a much better choice for me during #UMCGC than continuing to engage on the tweeter.
April 27, 2024 at 10:05 PM
5/? As more people found Twitter/X, especially anti-LGBTQ+ hate groups, the commentary there just devolved and was particularly toxic in the 2019 Special General Conference.
Now that Bluesky is an option, this is a much better choice for me during #UMCGC than continuing to engage on the tweeter.
Now that Bluesky is an option, this is a much better choice for me during #UMCGC than continuing to engage on the tweeter.
4/? For example, I used the hashtag, #MoravianBoatRides for a particularly rocky and contentious time at #UMCGC in 2012 or 2016. I can't remember which. (TBH, everything is kind of a blur pre-pandemic.)
Hashtags were more of a descriptor of the weird and wild happenings of #UMCGC. Anyway..
Hashtags were more of a descriptor of the weird and wild happenings of #UMCGC. Anyway..
April 27, 2024 at 9:56 PM
4/? For example, I used the hashtag, #MoravianBoatRides for a particularly rocky and contentious time at #UMCGC in 2012 or 2016. I can't remember which. (TBH, everything is kind of a blur pre-pandemic.)
Hashtags were more of a descriptor of the weird and wild happenings of #UMCGC. Anyway..
Hashtags were more of a descriptor of the weird and wild happenings of #UMCGC. Anyway..
3/? Mind you, this was way back when there was a much smaller character limit per tweet and we had to resort to all sorts of abbreviations to communicate what we wanted to say.
It was as though we were speaking some sort of code. Hashtags were used not so much as indexing as for commentary.
It was as though we were speaking some sort of code. Hashtags were used not so much as indexing as for commentary.
April 27, 2024 at 9:48 PM
3/? Mind you, this was way back when there was a much smaller character limit per tweet and we had to resort to all sorts of abbreviations to communicate what we wanted to say.
It was as though we were speaking some sort of code. Hashtags were used not so much as indexing as for commentary.
It was as though we were speaking some sort of code. Hashtags were used not so much as indexing as for commentary.
2/? It took a while before UMC Communications finally got it together to finally use Twitter/X as a form of social engagement.
I can remember when we on the Tweeter had no social media guidance from the #UMC and several hashtags emerged, causing tweeters to say: Can we settle on a hashtag?
I can remember when we on the Tweeter had no social media guidance from the #UMC and several hashtags emerged, causing tweeters to say: Can we settle on a hashtag?
April 27, 2024 at 9:43 PM
2/? It took a while before UMC Communications finally got it together to finally use Twitter/X as a form of social engagement.
I can remember when we on the Tweeter had no social media guidance from the #UMC and several hashtags emerged, causing tweeters to say: Can we settle on a hashtag?
I can remember when we on the Tweeter had no social media guidance from the #UMC and several hashtags emerged, causing tweeters to say: Can we settle on a hashtag?