Allen Junek
@amjunek.bsky.social
📍HTX • Episcopal priest, preacher & email responder • very 🏳️🌈
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I hate it here.
January 30, 2026 at 3:36 AM
I hate it here.
With what’s unfolding in MN, no music, and fewer people bc of the winter storm this AM was a rather somber occasion! Until a voice started to sing during Holy Communion…and others joined in.
I didn’t know I needed to sing with other people this morning, but it helped. Maybe it helps you, too.
I didn’t know I needed to sing with other people this morning, but it helped. Maybe it helps you, too.
January 25, 2026 at 11:35 PM
With what’s unfolding in MN, no music, and fewer people bc of the winter storm this AM was a rather somber occasion! Until a voice started to sing during Holy Communion…and others joined in.
I didn’t know I needed to sing with other people this morning, but it helped. Maybe it helps you, too.
I didn’t know I needed to sing with other people this morning, but it helped. Maybe it helps you, too.
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It's 6º but more than 200 Oshkoshians still showed up to stand up for freedom.
January 25, 2026 at 7:16 PM
It's 6º but more than 200 Oshkoshians still showed up to stand up for freedom.
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Important words from the Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Minnesota, where I served as a priest before moving to Texas. ⚓️
![Fellow Americans,
Things are impossibly hard in [MN] right now. We are a state that feels under siege, and the people of this place are doing everything possible to resist. The campaign of reckless brutality being waged by the federal goverment has been well documented, including today's killing of a citizen who was restrained and immobilized. The clear evidence of what's happening exposes cartoonish lies from federal agencies that echo the most cynical propaganda machines in human history. The images are clear, and we are told, don't believe what you see.
But there is also something much more powerful, and not as widely reported, happening. We are mobilizing for revolutionary love. Vast networks of care, compassion, and solidarity, organized by churches to deliver food and supplies to those who cannot leave their homes. People are documenting the violence being used against us in a way that puts their own lives at risk. People are standing guard outside schools and daycares, and at bus stops to protect our children from real risks of harm. Others are taking turns watching each others' kids stuck in online learning because some schools aren't safe. Health care workers are bravely caring for people in hospitals that also are no longer safe, and risking being targets of arrest and detention for protecting the patients. A rich web of underground care and hidden love is taking deep root, and it's amazing to think what fruit that might bear when this occupation ends.
Minnesotans cannot do more than we are doing. Here are a few ways you can help.
1) Please flood your US senators with appeals to not to further fund ICE, by rejecting a bill the US House has already passed. Please flood all your members of congress with calls for deescalation in [MN]; for ICE, [CBP], and other federal agents to leave [MN] now; and to write and pass legislation that requires proper and extensive training for all those working for the federal government in our states and local communities.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:jygcwdjhliwj2tnlr34utncd/bafkreihgvgiqexyity7awki36is7vrluy5jrovhwnyenfhlmicyvwmorqy@jpeg)
January 25, 2026 at 1:45 AM
Important words from the Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Minnesota, where I served as a priest before moving to Texas. ⚓️
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As you watch this, remember that it has been below zero degrees Fahrenheit in Minneapolis for the entire day.
An overhead view of protesters gathering at the scene of the shooting.
Live coverage: www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...
📽️ Aaron Lavinsky/The Minnesota Star Tribune
Live coverage: www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...
📽️ Aaron Lavinsky/The Minnesota Star Tribune
January 24, 2026 at 10:10 PM
As you watch this, remember that it has been below zero degrees Fahrenheit in Minneapolis for the entire day.
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The first Minnesota murder, they refused to let a medical professional help the woman they shot. The second Minnesota murder, they simply shot the medical professional.
January 24, 2026 at 10:03 PM
The first Minnesota murder, they refused to let a medical professional help the woman they shot. The second Minnesota murder, they simply shot the medical professional.
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℣: Blessed Jonathan Myrick Daniels
℟: Pray for us
℟: Pray for us
January 24, 2026 at 10:39 PM
℣: Blessed Jonathan Myrick Daniels
℟: Pray for us
℟: Pray for us
The guys who kidnap preschoolers, shoot nurses in the street, and cart priests away in handcuffs are never the good guys.
January 24, 2026 at 11:39 PM
The guys who kidnap preschoolers, shoot nurses in the street, and cart priests away in handcuffs are never the good guys.
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Eternal rest and light perpetual.
The federal government murdered a woman in the streets of Minneapolis today and our president is openly and maliciously lying about it.
The federal government murdered a woman in the streets of Minneapolis today and our president is openly and maliciously lying about it.
‘She was an amazing human being:’ Mother identifies woman shot, killed by ICE agent
Renee Nicole Good, 37, lived in the Twin Cities with her partner.
www.startribune.com
January 7, 2026 at 10:34 PM
Eternal rest and light perpetual.
The federal government murdered a woman in the streets of Minneapolis today and our president is openly and maliciously lying about it.
The federal government murdered a woman in the streets of Minneapolis today and our president is openly and maliciously lying about it.
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I reject those who worship death.
Kinda sucks how one day you’ll post stuff like “does the Grinch use the toilet?” and then the next it has to be “I reject those who worship death”
January 7, 2026 at 11:48 PM
I reject those who worship death.
Today I started a new job from a new house in a new city…
But I found the same Church, the same home. Deo gratias 🌿
But I found the same Church, the same home. Deo gratias 🌿
August 25, 2025 at 1:22 AM
Today I started a new job from a new house in a new city…
But I found the same Church, the same home. Deo gratias 🌿
But I found the same Church, the same home. Deo gratias 🌿
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I’m a geriatric millennial, which means I have home ibuprofen and car ibuprofen.
August 24, 2025 at 7:13 PM
I’m a geriatric millennial, which means I have home ibuprofen and car ibuprofen.
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Plenty of guests at @amjunek.bsky.social’s wedding had to get back in time to preach the mysterious grace of the Three-in-One and One-in-Three. Most of them weren’t traveling from Texas to Seattle
June 17, 2025 at 12:47 AM
Plenty of guests at @amjunek.bsky.social’s wedding had to get back in time to preach the mysterious grace of the Three-in-One and One-in-Three. Most of them weren’t traveling from Texas to Seattle
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For a little context here: Christ Church put forward a zoning request to open a shelter for unhoused people - I think it was like 12 beds. The local government of Toms River is responding by trying to eminent domain the church and turn it into a pickleball court
May 14, 2025 at 7:26 PM
For a little context here: Christ Church put forward a zoning request to open a shelter for unhoused people - I think it was like 12 beds. The local government of Toms River is responding by trying to eminent domain the church and turn it into a pickleball court
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But chiefly are we bound to praise you for the glorious resurrection of your Son Jesus Christ⚓
April 27, 2025 at 5:26 PM
But chiefly are we bound to praise you for the glorious resurrection of your Son Jesus Christ⚓
Glory marred with whips, thorns and nails.
April 18, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Glory marred with whips, thorns and nails.
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“So they ate and were well filled, *
for he gave them what they craved.
But they did not stop their craving, *
though the food was still in their mouths.”
A psalm of our times ⚓️
for he gave them what they craved.
But they did not stop their craving, *
though the food was still in their mouths.”
A psalm of our times ⚓️
April 16, 2025 at 12:57 AM
“So they ate and were well filled, *
for he gave them what they craved.
But they did not stop their craving, *
though the food was still in their mouths.”
A psalm of our times ⚓️
for he gave them what they craved.
But they did not stop their craving, *
though the food was still in their mouths.”
A psalm of our times ⚓️
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We praise thee, O God; we acknowledge thee to be the Lord.
April 11, 2025 at 7:40 PM
We praise thee, O God; we acknowledge thee to be the Lord.