Rev. Robin Tanner 🏳️🌈
@rockinrevrobin.bsky.social
Unitarian Universalist. Minister. Lesbian. Organizer. Mom. Poet.
#FightPoverty #EndRacism #LGBTQRights #UU
#FightPoverty #EndRacism #LGBTQRights #UU
I spent the morning at an ICE raid in Newark- here is what we saw- workers released in the freezing cold without their belongings or way to get home, FBI being utilized as cover when these neighbors were zero threat, and ICE trying (and failing) to get local agencies to do their dirty work. Shame
November 20, 2025 at 1:11 AM
I spent the morning at an ICE raid in Newark- here is what we saw- workers released in the freezing cold without their belongings or way to get home, FBI being utilized as cover when these neighbors were zero threat, and ICE trying (and failing) to get local agencies to do their dirty work. Shame
Get yourself a choir that can come thru on a Sunday after a long hard week!
November 16, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Get yourself a choir that can come thru on a Sunday after a long hard week!
In case you just don’t have the spoons today…we have extra in NJ
November 13, 2025 at 4:03 PM
In case you just don’t have the spoons today…we have extra in NJ
Lactose free mozzarella cheese?! The world has magic in it, I tell you!
November 8, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Lactose free mozzarella cheese?! The world has magic in it, I tell you!
New poem
I talked to the ancestor tree this morning
She said to tell you she loves you
And so do I.
The sun draws another day,
And I am unsure of its hand.
But the rock sings of harder days
And the ancestor tree echoes love.
So here in the mist before dawn
I will pray for us
All.
I talked to the ancestor tree this morning
She said to tell you she loves you
And so do I.
The sun draws another day,
And I am unsure of its hand.
But the rock sings of harder days
And the ancestor tree echoes love.
So here in the mist before dawn
I will pray for us
All.
November 8, 2025 at 1:03 PM
New poem
I talked to the ancestor tree this morning
She said to tell you she loves you
And so do I.
The sun draws another day,
And I am unsure of its hand.
But the rock sings of harder days
And the ancestor tree echoes love.
So here in the mist before dawn
I will pray for us
All.
I talked to the ancestor tree this morning
She said to tell you she loves you
And so do I.
The sun draws another day,
And I am unsure of its hand.
But the rock sings of harder days
And the ancestor tree echoes love.
So here in the mist before dawn
I will pray for us
All.
“When we choose to love, we choose to move against fear, against separation. The choice to love is a choice to connect, to find ourselves in the other.” -bell hooks
November 2, 2025 at 10:03 PM
“When we choose to love, we choose to move against fear, against separation. The choice to love is a choice to connect, to find ourselves in the other.” -bell hooks
Once a month, our congregation feeds 100 families. With #shutdown and Republicans attacking our families, refusing #SNAP to starve children, pantries like ours are scrambling to feed families. It’s not that there isn’t enough. It’s that they are starving our children for a ballroom.
October 31, 2025 at 12:41 PM
New poem….
Maybe it’s the memorial-
She was told six months to a year.
Here we are, scattering her amongst bluebirds and cattails
Forty-six days later.
Maybe it’s the fall-
And the beauty tumbling toward me,
The beauty,
Which cannot stay.
Maybe it’s the memorial-
She was told six months to a year.
Here we are, scattering her amongst bluebirds and cattails
Forty-six days later.
Maybe it’s the fall-
And the beauty tumbling toward me,
The beauty,
Which cannot stay.
October 31, 2025 at 2:44 AM
New poem….
Maybe it’s the memorial-
She was told six months to a year.
Here we are, scattering her amongst bluebirds and cattails
Forty-six days later.
Maybe it’s the fall-
And the beauty tumbling toward me,
The beauty,
Which cannot stay.
Maybe it’s the memorial-
She was told six months to a year.
Here we are, scattering her amongst bluebirds and cattails
Forty-six days later.
Maybe it’s the fall-
And the beauty tumbling toward me,
The beauty,
Which cannot stay.
Love mercy enough to speak truth
Love mercy enough to give rest to your worthy being
Love mercy enough to see in one another possibility
Love mercy enough to know in your bones
That even the seeming extinguishing of the light is
A call for genesis
Growth
And rebirth
In the gift of darkness.
Love mercy enough to give rest to your worthy being
Love mercy enough to see in one another possibility
Love mercy enough to know in your bones
That even the seeming extinguishing of the light is
A call for genesis
Growth
And rebirth
In the gift of darkness.
October 22, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Love mercy enough to speak truth
Love mercy enough to give rest to your worthy being
Love mercy enough to see in one another possibility
Love mercy enough to know in your bones
That even the seeming extinguishing of the light is
A call for genesis
Growth
And rebirth
In the gift of darkness.
Love mercy enough to give rest to your worthy being
Love mercy enough to see in one another possibility
Love mercy enough to know in your bones
That even the seeming extinguishing of the light is
A call for genesis
Growth
And rebirth
In the gift of darkness.
Look, I think it’s atrocious to rip down a bldg for a ballroom in a shutdown AND imagine the photo of the burial plots if 17 million Americans lose health insurance by 2034, which is the impact of these cuts. #healthcareIsAHumanRight
October 21, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Look, I think it’s atrocious to rip down a bldg for a ballroom in a shutdown AND imagine the photo of the burial plots if 17 million Americans lose health insurance by 2034, which is the impact of these cuts. #healthcareIsAHumanRight
Prayer this morning: From the mobilization of 7 million, make a movement that endures.
October 19, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Prayer this morning: From the mobilization of 7 million, make a movement that endures.
I bow to the heron in the stream; the sunflower soon to be seed. And to you across miles. I pray the catch is quick for the heron, the seed plentiful for the birds, and the journey Beloved healing. I bow to this light infusing a world of pain. Let me be a better vessel. Ready me for the rains.
October 10, 2025 at 11:54 PM
I bow to the heron in the stream; the sunflower soon to be seed. And to you across miles. I pray the catch is quick for the heron, the seed plentiful for the birds, and the journey Beloved healing. I bow to this light infusing a world of pain. Let me be a better vessel. Ready me for the rains.
We are once again in the US violating human rights. Detainees at Delaney Hall often get 1 meal often frozen & 1 bottle of water. Families trying to visit are subjected to last minute cancellations and harsh weather. Names of those detained are kept from lawyers. Clergy are barred from visits.
October 2, 2025 at 9:53 PM
We are once again in the US violating human rights. Detainees at Delaney Hall often get 1 meal often frozen & 1 bottle of water. Families trying to visit are subjected to last minute cancellations and harsh weather. Names of those detained are kept from lawyers. Clergy are barred from visits.
Happy Birthday Ann Marie :) a day of hiking and it ended with German chocolate cake
September 29, 2025 at 12:18 AM
Happy Birthday Ann Marie :) a day of hiking and it ended with German chocolate cake
My country is marching to fascism and my garden gave me this…living between the worlds
September 28, 2025 at 1:41 PM
My country is marching to fascism and my garden gave me this…living between the worlds
Today at lunch, I noticed in a restaurant I frequent that there was a mural of white Jesus tucked toward the ceiling. As fascism, Christian nationalism, and racism wreak calculated harm, plz don’t say “this isn’t who we are.” Like white Jesus it was there all along.
September 25, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Today at lunch, I noticed in a restaurant I frequent that there was a mural of white Jesus tucked toward the ceiling. As fascism, Christian nationalism, and racism wreak calculated harm, plz don’t say “this isn’t who we are.” Like white Jesus it was there all along.
Join us tonight in Bethesda as the Defend the Holy journey continues.
September 22, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Join us tonight in Bethesda as the Defend the Holy journey continues.
Tomorrow come hear Dr. Wendsler Nosie, Sr at Beacon with a prophetic and spirit-led call for us all to come together
September 21, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Tomorrow come hear Dr. Wendsler Nosie, Sr at Beacon with a prophetic and spirit-led call for us all to come together
People who know me, know I am very serious about justice. And I am equally joyful. My joy is resistance. Today, I did a headstand on my lawn, and rolled right over! Then, I got back to work with organizing and loving the hell out of the world. Find joy. Tell the truth. Do right by our values.
September 17, 2025 at 1:55 PM
People who know me, know I am very serious about justice. And I am equally joyful. My joy is resistance. Today, I did a headstand on my lawn, and rolled right over! Then, I got back to work with organizing and loving the hell out of the world. Find joy. Tell the truth. Do right by our values.
The world can be harsh and cruel and then the sunset and moon rise offer the soul this…
September 6, 2025 at 1:56 AM
The world can be harsh and cruel and then the sunset and moon rise offer the soul this…
Truth comes sometimes as the morning light, harsh and unwelcome
But then trees filter it
Beloveds speak in its glow
And the light yet makes its way-
We were born to be free.
Remembering truth this labor day no matter flags they drape…
But then trees filter it
Beloveds speak in its glow
And the light yet makes its way-
We were born to be free.
Remembering truth this labor day no matter flags they drape…
September 1, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Truth comes sometimes as the morning light, harsh and unwelcome
But then trees filter it
Beloveds speak in its glow
And the light yet makes its way-
We were born to be free.
Remembering truth this labor day no matter flags they drape…
But then trees filter it
Beloveds speak in its glow
And the light yet makes its way-
We were born to be free.
Remembering truth this labor day no matter flags they drape…
Every no we scrawl today against this fascist regime matters…every no to the police state …every no to stop the takeover, to take in the immigrant, to shut down the detention camps, to go into the streets, to resist occupation, to fight for sacred land. Every no matters. What’s your no today?
August 21, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Every no we scrawl today against this fascist regime matters…every no to the police state …every no to stop the takeover, to take in the immigrant, to shut down the detention camps, to go into the streets, to resist occupation, to fight for sacred land. Every no matters. What’s your no today?
