2. The GOP house proposing a budget that raises the debt ceiling significantly (I’m old enough to remember when they almost shut down the government to avoid that) and cutting programs that support our most vulnerable people, all so they can cut taxes for billionaires.

MAGA in two pictures:

1. Elon Musk, who donated millions to Trump’s campaign, is being allowed to dismantle agencies designed to protect people, agencies that just so happened to be investigating wrongdoing in his companies. Do you think that’s a coincidence?

Feel like posting this again today for no reason at all.

When I was a kid I liked to study magic tricks. I learned that one of the keys to pulling off a sleight of hand is distraction. All this talk of taking over Greenland and Canada and changing the name of the Gulf of Mexico makes me think about that. And maybe this is the move it’s hiding?

So here’s the thing…even IF there wasn’t a parable *explicitly* undermining this narrow idea of neighbor, Jesus also said “love your enemies.” There’s simply no escaping the fact that Jesus calls us to radically expand our concepts of love and hospitality.

These charts are occupying my headspace. So many people voting against their own values due to misinformation.

I asked AI to create an image of "theology in a vacuum" and this is one of the images this was one of the results 😅

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I’m not sure there’s a single sentence in biblical studies with more dense, yet subtle shade than this one. @mattthiessen.bsky.social

“One of the most flawed theologies is to ask God to do what God has called us to do.”
- Rev. Dr. William Barber