Bonhoeffer's Child
@bonhoefferchild.bsky.social
A minister exploring the mass intersection of belief, politics, responsibility, and humanity. Gadfly.
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The Dems caving on the shutdown to people who are literally stripping HC and starving people … demonstrates why they’ll lose in the midterms. And why they should. MAGA has no moral spine. And now the Dems show they don’t either.
Sigh.
Sigh.
November 10, 2025 at 4:05 AM
The Dems caving on the shutdown to people who are literally stripping HC and starving people … demonstrates why they’ll lose in the midterms. And why they should. MAGA has no moral spine. And now the Dems show they don’t either.
Sigh.
Sigh.
Correct.
"Democrats could have held the line on the shutdown, and spent weeks watching Trump’s approval ratings fall," writes @jonathanbchait.bsky.social
Instead, he argues, they're making a mistake by giving in:
www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
Instead, he argues, they're making a mistake by giving in:
www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
Senate Democrats Just Made a Huge Mistake
The shutdown was hurting Trump. Ending it helps him.
www.theatlantic.com
November 10, 2025 at 4:02 AM
Correct.
I hate to be the one to tell MAGA Christen this … but Charlie Kirk held the same views as Tucker Carlson still does.
Standing up for Kirk at the same time you whine about Carlson isn’t just tone deaf … it shows a total lack of self-awareness and critical thinking.
Standing up for Kirk at the same time you whine about Carlson isn’t just tone deaf … it shows a total lack of self-awareness and critical thinking.
November 7, 2025 at 10:50 PM
I hate to be the one to tell MAGA Christen this … but Charlie Kirk held the same views as Tucker Carlson still does.
Standing up for Kirk at the same time you whine about Carlson isn’t just tone deaf … it shows a total lack of self-awareness and critical thinking.
Standing up for Kirk at the same time you whine about Carlson isn’t just tone deaf … it shows a total lack of self-awareness and critical thinking.
1/ The Pendulum Swings: As people celebrate MAGA getting its fingers stepped on in last night's elections, we should take a moment for sober reflection. Last night set the stage for a potential MAGA win in 2026 midterms.
November 5, 2025 at 4:34 PM
1/ The Pendulum Swings: As people celebrate MAGA getting its fingers stepped on in last night's elections, we should take a moment for sober reflection. Last night set the stage for a potential MAGA win in 2026 midterms.
If you want to understand the gestalt of American Christian Nationalism, consider this:
CN adherents demand the govt to police sex and birth, be an engine to enforce Christian mores ... but not feed the hungry or offer succor to those who lack.
CN is narcissism wrapped in Christ's burial clothes.
CN adherents demand the govt to police sex and birth, be an engine to enforce Christian mores ... but not feed the hungry or offer succor to those who lack.
CN is narcissism wrapped in Christ's burial clothes.
November 3, 2025 at 7:55 PM
If you want to understand the gestalt of American Christian Nationalism, consider this:
CN adherents demand the govt to police sex and birth, be an engine to enforce Christian mores ... but not feed the hungry or offer succor to those who lack.
CN is narcissism wrapped in Christ's burial clothes.
CN adherents demand the govt to police sex and birth, be an engine to enforce Christian mores ... but not feed the hungry or offer succor to those who lack.
CN is narcissism wrapped in Christ's burial clothes.
Refusing to love your neighbor is a fruit of Christian Nationalism. Christian Nationalism, above all else, is an ideology of self. Every Christian Nationalist worships not God but an idol that wears the face they see in the mirror.
November 3, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Refusing to love your neighbor is a fruit of Christian Nationalism. Christian Nationalism, above all else, is an ideology of self. Every Christian Nationalist worships not God but an idol that wears the face they see in the mirror.
Something, something, autopen.
O'DONNELL: Why did you pardon Changpeng Zhao?
TRUMP: Are you ready? I don't know who he is
O'DONNELL: His crypto exchange Binance helped facilitate a $2b purchase of World Liberty Financial's stablecoin. And they you pardoned him.
TRUMP: Here's the thing -- I know nothing about it
TRUMP: Are you ready? I don't know who he is
O'DONNELL: His crypto exchange Binance helped facilitate a $2b purchase of World Liberty Financial's stablecoin. And they you pardoned him.
TRUMP: Here's the thing -- I know nothing about it
November 3, 2025 at 1:01 AM
Something, something, autopen.
There is nothing that demonstrates more strongly that America is firmly in a post-Christian era … than the fact that believers (even clergy) are arguing over whether hungry and marginalized people are worth feeding.
November 2, 2025 at 10:09 PM
There is nothing that demonstrates more strongly that America is firmly in a post-Christian era … than the fact that believers (even clergy) are arguing over whether hungry and marginalized people are worth feeding.
1/ Today, the lectionary base for my Sunday homily includes Habakkuk 1:1-4 and 2:1-4. In the first, the prophet decries the injustice of the day. In the second, he reminds us of God’s consistency and that He will inevitably answer all evil with holy justice.
November 2, 2025 at 5:02 PM
1/ Today, the lectionary base for my Sunday homily includes Habakkuk 1:1-4 and 2:1-4. In the first, the prophet decries the injustice of the day. In the second, he reminds us of God’s consistency and that He will inevitably answer all evil with holy justice.
Perfect.
Jesus: Which of you, if your son asks for bread, will give him a stone?
Christian Nationalists: *raise their hands in unison*
Christian Nationalists: *raise their hands in unison*
November 1, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Perfect.
However bad you think the Epstein files are for Trump ... they must far worse than we imagine if he's going to bomb South America to deflect.
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Trump Set to Strike Venezuela 'at Any Moment': Report
President Donald Trump has made the decision to strike multiple Venezuela military installations, according to a new report from Miami Herald.
www.mediaite.com
October 31, 2025 at 4:44 PM
However bad you think the Epstein files are for Trump ... they must far worse than we imagine if he's going to bomb South America to deflect.
www.mediaite.com/media/news/t...
www.mediaite.com/media/news/t...
Every single man should hope to one day have a wife that holds him the way Erika Kirk holds JD Vance.
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PS That pic of them is fascinating.
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PS That pic of them is fascinating.
October 31, 2025 at 3:21 AM
Every single man should hope to one day have a wife that holds him the way Erika Kirk holds JD Vance.
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PS That pic of them is fascinating.
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PS That pic of them is fascinating.
1/ New Episode!
In this one, @wearenotenemies.bsky.social and Bon talk about the war on the poor, Allie Stuckey's Islamophobia and use of the other as culture war/Christian Nationalist fodder, the patient practice of Christian witness, and Ben tells one of the best Presbyterian jokes, ever.
In this one, @wearenotenemies.bsky.social and Bon talk about the war on the poor, Allie Stuckey's Islamophobia and use of the other as culture war/Christian Nationalist fodder, the patient practice of Christian witness, and Ben tells one of the best Presbyterian jokes, ever.
October 30, 2025 at 2:21 PM
1/ New Episode!
In this one, @wearenotenemies.bsky.social and Bon talk about the war on the poor, Allie Stuckey's Islamophobia and use of the other as culture war/Christian Nationalist fodder, the patient practice of Christian witness, and Ben tells one of the best Presbyterian jokes, ever.
In this one, @wearenotenemies.bsky.social and Bon talk about the war on the poor, Allie Stuckey's Islamophobia and use of the other as culture war/Christian Nationalist fodder, the patient practice of Christian witness, and Ben tells one of the best Presbyterian jokes, ever.
May we always remember that the war against poverty and lack is less a war against economic injustice and abusive political systems … and more a war against our own fallen human nature.
October 30, 2025 at 3:54 AM
May we always remember that the war against poverty and lack is less a war against economic injustice and abusive political systems … and more a war against our own fallen human nature.
Here's what Vance isn't saying: The Quota Act of 21 and the Immigration Act 24 both exempted people migrating from the West. IA24 outright banned Asians.
What Vance means when he says "common community" is "white people."
MAGA is, functionally, an iteration of the NSDAP.
x.com/Acyn/status/...
What Vance means when he says "common community" is "white people."
MAGA is, functionally, an iteration of the NSDAP.
x.com/Acyn/status/...
October 30, 2025 at 1:55 AM
Here's what Vance isn't saying: The Quota Act of 21 and the Immigration Act 24 both exempted people migrating from the West. IA24 outright banned Asians.
What Vance means when he says "common community" is "white people."
MAGA is, functionally, an iteration of the NSDAP.
x.com/Acyn/status/...
What Vance means when he says "common community" is "white people."
MAGA is, functionally, an iteration of the NSDAP.
x.com/Acyn/status/...
1/ There are a few rather specific reasons so many of the compromised MAGA Christen do not want to take any responsibility for the care of their fellow citizens.
October 30, 2025 at 12:40 AM
1/ There are a few rather specific reasons so many of the compromised MAGA Christen do not want to take any responsibility for the care of their fellow citizens.
1/ Vance consistently remembers to wear his white hood in every interview.
Our old neighbors, to our left, were white Americans who had 7 kids, and had a grandparent and two uncles living them. Yard was always trashed. Garbage cans always full and smelly. House falling apart.
Our old neighbors, to our left, were white Americans who had 7 kids, and had a grandparent and two uncles living them. Yard was always trashed. Garbage cans always full and smelly. House falling apart.
Vance says it is "totally reasonable and acceptable" for people to not want to live next door to people who speak a different language than they do
October 29, 2025 at 5:18 PM
1/ Vance consistently remembers to wear his white hood in every interview.
Our old neighbors, to our left, were white Americans who had 7 kids, and had a grandparent and two uncles living them. Yard was always trashed. Garbage cans always full and smelly. House falling apart.
Our old neighbors, to our left, were white Americans who had 7 kids, and had a grandparent and two uncles living them. Yard was always trashed. Garbage cans always full and smelly. House falling apart.
If you want to measure the depth of a person's praxis and how closely it aligns with Christ's lived example, commands, and words, just examine whether they offer reasons why they shouldn't have to help the needy or take care of the sick, as individuals OR as citizens.
October 29, 2025 at 4:35 PM
If you want to measure the depth of a person's praxis and how closely it aligns with Christ's lived example, commands, and words, just examine whether they offer reasons why they shouldn't have to help the needy or take care of the sick, as individuals OR as citizens.
I seriously need to consider dropping Twitter. Every time I get on there, my inner trunk monkey takes over.
Sigh.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=sTXu...
Sigh.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=sTXu...
Trunk Monkey Road Rage | Suburban Auto Group
YouTube video by Suburban Auto Group
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October 28, 2025 at 7:22 PM
I seriously need to consider dropping Twitter. Every time I get on there, my inner trunk monkey takes over.
Sigh.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=sTXu...
Sigh.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=sTXu...
When you see someone slam Tim Keller, because he chose to not sully himself with partisanship or unite the Cross with Caesar for gain ... remember this: Those maligning him, do so because they either seek Caesar's power or are shamed by Keller's inviting and consistent witness.
October 28, 2025 at 5:34 PM
When you see someone slam Tim Keller, because he chose to not sully himself with partisanship or unite the Cross with Caesar for gain ... remember this: Those maligning him, do so because they either seek Caesar's power or are shamed by Keller's inviting and consistent witness.
The MAGA opposition to SNAP isn't about budget constraints ... it's about deciding who is worthy of mercy.
To the Christian, EVERY person is worthy of mercy. Every person has inherent limitless value. Every person is someone to love, in words and deed.
To the Christian, EVERY person is worthy of mercy. Every person has inherent limitless value. Every person is someone to love, in words and deed.
October 27, 2025 at 6:17 PM
The MAGA opposition to SNAP isn't about budget constraints ... it's about deciding who is worthy of mercy.
To the Christian, EVERY person is worthy of mercy. Every person has inherent limitless value. Every person is someone to love, in words and deed.
To the Christian, EVERY person is worthy of mercy. Every person has inherent limitless value. Every person is someone to love, in words and deed.
Do you know why abortion has become the single largest issue in the modern evangelical world? Because for most evangelicals, it’s far easier and self-inflating to follow an idol than it is to live a patient sacrificial example of Christ.
Evangelical virtue signaling.
Evangelical virtue signaling.
October 27, 2025 at 10:19 AM
Do you know why abortion has become the single largest issue in the modern evangelical world? Because for most evangelicals, it’s far easier and self-inflating to follow an idol than it is to live a patient sacrificial example of Christ.
Evangelical virtue signaling.
Evangelical virtue signaling.
Pretty soon the easiest way to tell who is MAGA … will be to see who has a migraine or polio.
October 26, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Pretty soon the easiest way to tell who is MAGA … will be to see who has a migraine or polio.
Any time anyone says "What about the homeless vets?" ... point them to the cost of Trump's Epstein Ballroom.
The estimated price tag for the president’s planned renovations now stands at about $300 million — much higher than the initial $200 million that the White House put forward. https://to.pbs.org/47kwkFt
WATCH: White House defends ballroom project price tag rising to $300 million
The estimated price tag for the president’s planned renovations now stands at about $300 million — much higher than the initial $200 million that the White House put forward. That’s because like “with...
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October 24, 2025 at 1:04 AM
Any time anyone says "What about the homeless vets?" ... point them to the cost of Trump's Epstein Ballroom.