@danielwalbert.bsky.social
ThM DTS in historical theology and Spiritual formation // USMB Pastor // Husband + Dad to three kids, two living.
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#9 - Finding Hope 101
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Hey BlueSky,
I am honored to have been a guest on the Brick by Brick Podcast with Cole and Beth. We talk deconstruction, Mr. Rogers, narrative framework hermeneutics, and hope. Have a listen!
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I am honored to have been a guest on the Brick by Brick Podcast with Cole and Beth. We talk deconstruction, Mr. Rogers, narrative framework hermeneutics, and hope. Have a listen!
open.spotify.com/episode/2J3R...
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Taking hold of the fact that, for all the indictments of human stupidity and depravity, the story of Scripture is *always* that restoration is coming.
Hope is woven in and through it all. Hope that will not disappoint.
Hope is woven in and through it all. Hope that will not disappoint.
November 18, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Taking hold of the fact that, for all the indictments of human stupidity and depravity, the story of Scripture is *always* that restoration is coming.
Hope is woven in and through it all. Hope that will not disappoint.
Hope is woven in and through it all. Hope that will not disappoint.
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It’s a lot harder to walk back having coddled up to hate-spewing people than it is to avoid making such associations in the first place.
November 16, 2025 at 5:24 PM
It’s a lot harder to walk back having coddled up to hate-spewing people than it is to avoid making such associations in the first place.
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A society addicted to frivolity, entertainment, and unceasing stimulation, regards boredom, reflection, and quiet as abominations.
November 16, 2025 at 9:02 PM
A society addicted to frivolity, entertainment, and unceasing stimulation, regards boredom, reflection, and quiet as abominations.
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epstein in dozens of pieces of written documentation: the presidential candidate my best friend loves coming over to my house for the young girls i rent
reporters: we are getting closer to busting this thing wide open
reporters: we are getting closer to busting this thing wide open
November 13, 2025 at 3:05 AM
epstein in dozens of pieces of written documentation: the presidential candidate my best friend loves coming over to my house for the young girls i rent
reporters: we are getting closer to busting this thing wide open
reporters: we are getting closer to busting this thing wide open
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“You will hear everlastingly, in all discussions about newspapers, companies, aristocracies, or party politics, this argument that the rich man cannot be bribed. The fact is, of course, that the rich man is bribed; he has been bribed already. That is why he is a rich man…”
—G.K. Chesterton
—G.K. Chesterton
November 13, 2025 at 11:06 AM
“You will hear everlastingly, in all discussions about newspapers, companies, aristocracies, or party politics, this argument that the rich man cannot be bribed. The fact is, of course, that the rich man is bribed; he has been bribed already. That is why he is a rich man…”
—G.K. Chesterton
—G.K. Chesterton
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UPDATE: Reached out to the Rev. Hannah Kardon, a United Methodist minister who was there that day and has been active in religious demonstrations at Broadview.
“They are making it clear that they are scared of prayer … it speaks the truth that what they are doing in that building is evil.”
“They are making it clear that they are scared of prayer … it speaks the truth that what they are doing in that building is evil.”
November 8, 2025 at 2:08 PM
UPDATE: Reached out to the Rev. Hannah Kardon, a United Methodist minister who was there that day and has been active in religious demonstrations at Broadview.
“They are making it clear that they are scared of prayer … it speaks the truth that what they are doing in that building is evil.”
“They are making it clear that they are scared of prayer … it speaks the truth that what they are doing in that building is evil.”
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We grew up poor. I don't know how we would've managed without government assistance.
My parents both worked hard but struggled to make ends meet without help.
Please see the shared humanity & imago Dei in people needing assistance.
Don't let your hearts be hardened toward your neighbors.💛
My parents both worked hard but struggled to make ends meet without help.
Please see the shared humanity & imago Dei in people needing assistance.
Don't let your hearts be hardened toward your neighbors.💛
November 3, 2025 at 8:28 PM
We grew up poor. I don't know how we would've managed without government assistance.
My parents both worked hard but struggled to make ends meet without help.
Please see the shared humanity & imago Dei in people needing assistance.
Don't let your hearts be hardened toward your neighbors.💛
My parents both worked hard but struggled to make ends meet without help.
Please see the shared humanity & imago Dei in people needing assistance.
Don't let your hearts be hardened toward your neighbors.💛
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In a way, I find the authoritarian takeover of our media system even more disturbing than the authoritarian takeover of our political system.
Our political system has been failing basically my entire adult life. But, the media system provided accountability and sort of worked. Now it’s collapsing.
Our political system has been failing basically my entire adult life. But, the media system provided accountability and sort of worked. Now it’s collapsing.
November 3, 2025 at 4:18 PM
In a way, I find the authoritarian takeover of our media system even more disturbing than the authoritarian takeover of our political system.
Our political system has been failing basically my entire adult life. But, the media system provided accountability and sort of worked. Now it’s collapsing.
Our political system has been failing basically my entire adult life. But, the media system provided accountability and sort of worked. Now it’s collapsing.
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I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day.
certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
November 3, 2025 at 7:52 PM
I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day.
certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
Is there a section of Bluesky where clergy hang out?
Another week trying to counsel and encourage others through things like suicidal ideation, chronic illness, and poverty.
I remember on Twitter there used to be a lot of community among clergy.
Another week trying to counsel and encourage others through things like suicidal ideation, chronic illness, and poverty.
I remember on Twitter there used to be a lot of community among clergy.
October 30, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Is there a section of Bluesky where clergy hang out?
Another week trying to counsel and encourage others through things like suicidal ideation, chronic illness, and poverty.
I remember on Twitter there used to be a lot of community among clergy.
Another week trying to counsel and encourage others through things like suicidal ideation, chronic illness, and poverty.
I remember on Twitter there used to be a lot of community among clergy.
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Started my classes today by asking students to take out a sheet of paper and anonymously complete the following: "One of the greatest difficulties I have with reading is ____________ because ___________." Grateful for their honest responses. Genuinely saddened by many of them.
October 17, 2025 at 1:08 AM
Started my classes today by asking students to take out a sheet of paper and anonymously complete the following: "One of the greatest difficulties I have with reading is ____________ because ___________." Grateful for their honest responses. Genuinely saddened by many of them.
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Most of us shouldn't be writing for the "average reader."
Make that guy suffer, make him pick up a dictionary.
Make that guy suffer, make him pick up a dictionary.
Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat
October 13, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Most of us shouldn't be writing for the "average reader."
Make that guy suffer, make him pick up a dictionary.
Make that guy suffer, make him pick up a dictionary.
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When you don't punish an attempt to overthrow an election, you lose the ability to hold people accountable for a really long time.
October 10, 2025 at 7:41 PM
When you don't punish an attempt to overthrow an election, you lose the ability to hold people accountable for a really long time.
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George was just trying to get to work.
ICE pepper-sprayed him, dragged him from his car, locked him in a detention center, and placed him on suicide watch. He even missed his young daughter’s birthday in the process.
This man is a veteran and American citizen. Don't look away.
ICE pepper-sprayed him, dragged him from his car, locked him in a detention center, and placed him on suicide watch. He even missed his young daughter’s birthday in the process.
This man is a veteran and American citizen. Don't look away.
"They put me on suicide watch and they put me in the cell, I'm naked, in like a hospital dress and just a concrete bed with like a mattress, like a thin mattress and, they leave the light on 24/7."
@timmiller.bsky.social talked to a veteran who ICE wrongly detained and brutalized
@timmiller.bsky.social talked to a veteran who ICE wrongly detained and brutalized
October 10, 2025 at 7:02 PM
George was just trying to get to work.
ICE pepper-sprayed him, dragged him from his car, locked him in a detention center, and placed him on suicide watch. He even missed his young daughter’s birthday in the process.
This man is a veteran and American citizen. Don't look away.
ICE pepper-sprayed him, dragged him from his car, locked him in a detention center, and placed him on suicide watch. He even missed his young daughter’s birthday in the process.
This man is a veteran and American citizen. Don't look away.
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#MorningPrayer
Keep our focus on you, Lord,
that we may place our trust
in your faithful love,
rather than in things that are
passing and temporal,
however solid and secure
they may seem to us.
Guide us to those things
which help us to encounter,
reveal, and embrace
your kingdom.
Keep our focus on you, Lord,
that we may place our trust
in your faithful love,
rather than in things that are
passing and temporal,
however solid and secure
they may seem to us.
Guide us to those things
which help us to encounter,
reveal, and embrace
your kingdom.
October 8, 2025 at 7:06 AM
#MorningPrayer
Keep our focus on you, Lord,
that we may place our trust
in your faithful love,
rather than in things that are
passing and temporal,
however solid and secure
they may seem to us.
Guide us to those things
which help us to encounter,
reveal, and embrace
your kingdom.
Keep our focus on you, Lord,
that we may place our trust
in your faithful love,
rather than in things that are
passing and temporal,
however solid and secure
they may seem to us.
Guide us to those things
which help us to encounter,
reveal, and embrace
your kingdom.
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Speak up for those
who have no voice,
for the justice of all
who are dispossessed.
Speak up, judge righteously,
and defend the cause of
the oppressed and needy.
—Proverbs 31:8-9
who have no voice,
for the justice of all
who are dispossessed.
Speak up, judge righteously,
and defend the cause of
the oppressed and needy.
—Proverbs 31:8-9
October 7, 2025 at 11:11 AM
Speak up for those
who have no voice,
for the justice of all
who are dispossessed.
Speak up, judge righteously,
and defend the cause of
the oppressed and needy.
—Proverbs 31:8-9
who have no voice,
for the justice of all
who are dispossessed.
Speak up, judge righteously,
and defend the cause of
the oppressed and needy.
—Proverbs 31:8-9
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I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.
October 7, 2025 at 11:29 PM
I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.
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Christian nonviolence is not a strategy to rid the world of violence, but rather the way Christians must live in a world of violence... faithful followers of Christ in a world of war cannot imagine being anything else than nonviolent.
~Stanley Hauerwas
~Stanley Hauerwas
October 7, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Christian nonviolence is not a strategy to rid the world of violence, but rather the way Christians must live in a world of violence... faithful followers of Christ in a world of war cannot imagine being anything else than nonviolent.
~Stanley Hauerwas
~Stanley Hauerwas
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Things to consider:
Document the violence & violations--on camera, w/photos, saving images--any way you can. Speaking as a historian- it will matter
Point out violations--w/images & text--even if you think it won't matter. It will. It needs to be called out & exposed
You are a witness.
Expose it.
Document the violence & violations--on camera, w/photos, saving images--any way you can. Speaking as a historian- it will matter
Point out violations--w/images & text--even if you think it won't matter. It will. It needs to be called out & exposed
You are a witness.
Expose it.
October 5, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Things to consider:
Document the violence & violations--on camera, w/photos, saving images--any way you can. Speaking as a historian- it will matter
Point out violations--w/images & text--even if you think it won't matter. It will. It needs to be called out & exposed
You are a witness.
Expose it.
Document the violence & violations--on camera, w/photos, saving images--any way you can. Speaking as a historian- it will matter
Point out violations--w/images & text--even if you think it won't matter. It will. It needs to be called out & exposed
You are a witness.
Expose it.
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If U.S. states have any degree of sovereignty, if there’s any states’ rights at all, it is the right not to be invaded by the armed forces of another U.S. state.
October 6, 2025 at 12:36 PM
If U.S. states have any degree of sovereignty, if there’s any states’ rights at all, it is the right not to be invaded by the armed forces of another U.S. state.
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Christian nationalism bases many of its theological and ethical ideals on the Torah, not the Gospels. But even there they get it wrong. The Torah points toward a society in which the poor are cared for and immigrants are treated as neighbours.
October 4, 2025 at 2:35 AM
Christian nationalism bases many of its theological and ethical ideals on the Torah, not the Gospels. But even there they get it wrong. The Torah points toward a society in which the poor are cared for and immigrants are treated as neighbours.
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“I’m increasingly convinced that most people should delete their social media and the ones that stay must adopt a more active posture toward it and not allow themselves to become a passive user that is subject to the whims of the algorithm.” @ianharber.bsky.social
mereorthodoxy.com/monk-or-miss...
mereorthodoxy.com/monk-or-miss...
Monk or Missionary: Christian Approaches to Social Media
Given the now obvious dangers inherent to social media use, two primary options remain for Christians: to become a digital missionary... or digital monk.
mereorthodoxy.com
October 1, 2025 at 10:48 AM
“I’m increasingly convinced that most people should delete their social media and the ones that stay must adopt a more active posture toward it and not allow themselves to become a passive user that is subject to the whims of the algorithm.” @ianharber.bsky.social
mereorthodoxy.com/monk-or-miss...
mereorthodoxy.com/monk-or-miss...
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In Jesus there is hope.
In Jesus there is healing.
In Jesus there is comfort.
In Jesus there is freedom.
In Jesus there is peace.
In Jesus there is healing.
In Jesus there is comfort.
In Jesus there is freedom.
In Jesus there is peace.
September 30, 2025 at 12:09 PM
In Jesus there is hope.
In Jesus there is healing.
In Jesus there is comfort.
In Jesus there is freedom.
In Jesus there is peace.
In Jesus there is healing.
In Jesus there is comfort.
In Jesus there is freedom.
In Jesus there is peace.
It’s the duty of all theologically trained clergy to expose error and denounce heresy.
Christian Nationalism is syncretism. It is error. When it is embraced willfully, it becomes heresy.
Clergy, let’s do our job. This is on us.
Christian Nationalism is syncretism. It is error. When it is embraced willfully, it becomes heresy.
Clergy, let’s do our job. This is on us.
September 29, 2025 at 8:42 PM
It’s the duty of all theologically trained clergy to expose error and denounce heresy.
Christian Nationalism is syncretism. It is error. When it is embraced willfully, it becomes heresy.
Clergy, let’s do our job. This is on us.
Christian Nationalism is syncretism. It is error. When it is embraced willfully, it becomes heresy.
Clergy, let’s do our job. This is on us.