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Sarah Lawton @sarahelawton.bsky.social · 19m

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UC Berkeley Labor Center @ucblaborcenter.bsky.social · 55m

The UC Berkeley Labor Center mourns Kent Wong, our longtime colleague and friend. A passionate champion for workers—especially immigrants—and students, Kent dedicated his life to justice. Our hearts are with our colleagues at the UCLA Labor Center.

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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 1h

This is the lesson of 2025

Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 2h

he's going to come after you either way, so you might as well act with integrity

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Sarah Lawton @sarahelawton.bsky.social · 2h

Insurance paperwork certainly deserves its own ring of hell

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Sarah Lawton @sarahelawton.bsky.social · 19h

I was raised in Western Mass (my parents were on their way to my dad’s curacy when they heard the news about Jon on the radio). After college I was in Oregon, Boston, and finally SF / DioCal since 1991. Lay leader, also active in community and labor.

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Sarah Lawton @sarahelawton.bsky.social · 20h

Here is some of the story of that time. Yes, a great cloud of witnesses.

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Sarah Lawton @sarahelawton.bsky.social · 21h

He was in seminary with my dad; my mom persuaded him to go with the seminary contingent to Selma in response to Dr. King’s call to the clergy following Bloody Sunday. She helped get him on our calendar at GC 1991. As it happened, one of her last acts as my parents died in a car crash days later.

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Sarah Lawton @sarahelawton.bsky.social · 22h

Yes, our own Jon Daniels. And not so far away, Oscar Romero and Jesuit priests in El Salvador.

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 1d

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

(RNS) — Last month, the Rev. David Black stood in front of a Chicago-area U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility and spread his arms wide. Adorned in all black and wearing a clerical collar, the pastor looked up at a group of masked, heavily armed ICE agents on the roof and began to pray.

“I invited them to repentance,” Black, a minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA), said in an interview. “I basically offered an altar call. I invited them to come and receive that salvation, and be part of the kingdom that is coming.”

But when Black began to lower his arms a few seconds later, the agents responded to his spiritual plea by firing pepper balls, or chemical agents that cause eye irritation and respiratory distress, video footage shows. One struck Black in the head, exploding into a puff of white pepper smoke and forcing him to his knees. Fellow demonstrators rushed to his aid, and as the pastor rubbed his face in pain, the agents continued to fire.

“We could hear them laughing,” Black said.

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Sarah Lawton @sarahelawton.bsky.social · 1d

“One of the chants that has become ubiquitous at these protests at Broadview is, ‘Love your neighbor, love your God, save your soul and quit your job,’” said Black, who pastors at the First Presbyterian Church of Chicago. “Everybody chants that.” ⚓️

Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 1d

Wanna learn more about the pastor in this photo?

I talked to him yesterday.

He's currently part of a lawsuit against DHS, in part due to this exact moment: religionnews.com/2025/10/07/i...

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Sarah Lawton @sarahelawton.bsky.social · 1d

Also, the sound of those machines as the teacher turned the handle, churning out purple worksheets: ch-chunk, ch-chunk. Unmistakeable.

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Just Some Guy @utopianparallax.bsky.social · 2d

Senior Pastor of First Presbyterian in Chicago, in clerical, praying.

Shot in the head with a pepper ball by laughing federal agents.

Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 2d

1. As Chris notes, in addition to journalist plaintiffs in here, there's a religious plaintiff: Rev. David Black, a Presbyterian minister who was filmed being shot by federal agents with what appeared to be pepper balls while praying outside the Broadview ICE office.

I just spoke with that pastor…

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Marc Hurwitz @marchurboston.bsky.social · 2d

#LowHangingFruit

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 3d

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TransEpiscopal @transepiscopal.bsky.social · 4d

An open letter from the Episcopal Consultation to the Episcopal Church on the accord with former bishop John Howard.

www.theepiscopalconsultation.org/an-open-lett...

Link to text of letter:

https://www.theepiscopalconsultation.org/an-open-letter-to-the-episcopal-church

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Sarah Lawton @sarahelawton.bsky.social · 5d

The Church in Wales and the Scottish Episcopal Church are miles ahead of the Church of England on full inclusion of women and LGBTQ folks. (Wales now has a lesbian archbishop and the bigger concern there is how proficient is her Welsh.)

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Sarah Lawton @sarahelawton.bsky.social · 5d

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 6d

Via @yonat.bsky.social: Who will be the next Archbishop of Canterbury? Brits have placed their final bets —> religionnews.com/2025/10/02/w...

Who will be the next Archbishop of Canterbury? Brits have placed their final bets

(RNS) — Since Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby resigned nearly a year ago, Brits have been using one of their favorite pastimes to guess who will replace him: placing bets.

religionnews.com

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Sarah Lawton @sarahelawton.bsky.social · 5d

Written by my vicar
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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 7d

Peter Thiel *destroyed* by priest:

“Heretical.”

“Cynical.”

Read: “I’m a priest. Here’s why you should reject Peter Thiel’s Antichrist talk,” via @sfstandard.com

sfstandard.com/opinion/2025...

I’m a priest. Here’s why you should reject Peter Thiel’s Antichrist talk

The cynicism of the billionaire venture capitalist stands in deep contrast to the true values of Jesus.

sfstandard.com

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Sarah Lawton @sarahelawton.bsky.social · 5d

I bet we had similar bookshelves growing up

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Sarah Lawton @sarahelawton.bsky.social · 5d

Love this book!

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Sarah Lawton @sarahelawton.bsky.social · 5d

Disheartening that the infield couldn’t back up the rookie, who actually had a good start. I do have to hand it to the Yankees’ rookie pitcher. But now, go Jays 🇨🇦🍁

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Sarah Lawton @sarahelawton.bsky.social · 6d

so true

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 6d

"Jones, 27, is among the residents left at 7500 S. South Shore Drive who are trying to piece together what remains after an early morning, high-powered federal immigration raid led to the arrests of dozens of their neighbors at their South Shore apartment building."

Massive immigration raid on Chicago apartment building leaves residents reeling: 'I feel defeated'

The Department of Homeland Security said federal agents with Border Patrol, the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives arrested 37 people in the raid.

chicago.suntimes.com

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Sarah Lawton @sarahelawton.bsky.social · 6d

So many thoughts about this, entirely anecdotal not academic, mainly from being a kid who was advanced a grade in very under-resourced inner-city school. It worked (stopped crying from boredom) and I wouldn’t trade the friendships from there. I was also allowed to read a lot of extra books in class.

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Sarah Lawton @sarahelawton.bsky.social · 6d

Ah, pre-pandemic hallucinations but not quite Bishop Pike era

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