Dr César Cruz
drcesarcruz.bsky.social
Dr César Cruz
@drcesarcruz.bsky.social
Founder of Homies Empowerment and The FREEdom School
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December 2, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Lost weight, felt amazing at 228 lbs.
Doctor immediately: “you know you’re obese right?”
Me: 🙃 Only 28 lbs from high school weight!
Him: 😐
Me: mental karate chop
Not going to HIM for self-esteem. Still proud of my progress!
I rebuke you sir!​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​
October 24, 2025 at 5:47 PM
What does “Christian religious education” look like in ONE word?
Our professor wanted aspirational answers, but we kept it real 👇
“If we sugar coat the truth, it loses its nutritional value.”
Here are our honest, sometimes contradictory one-word takes on it. What’s your 1 word?
October 17, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Take 2 minutes and enjoy!
#facts let’s recycle all white Jesus memorabilia worldwide.
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October 17, 2025 at 5:26 PM
I will be speaking at B.A.S.I.C. Ministries this Sunday about how we can best support our youth on their academic journeys. Invoking Ethnic Studies, the original Ai, ancestral intelligence and more! All welcomed! Thank you Pastor Mustafa Muhyee for bringing us together!
September 20, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Mexican (In)Dependence, much to celebrate, much to rebuke to get free!
September 17, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Is your place of worship preaching love or perpetuating hate?
If your religious community chooses exclusion over inclusion, you face a choice: conform to corrupted teachings or seek authentic spiritual community elsewhere.
#GoldenRuleNotRulers​​​​​​​​​
September 10, 2025 at 9:57 AM
In the 1930s we were rounded up, in the 50s we were rounded up, today we are criminalized yet again, Latino, Spanish speaking and hard working means my mom is a criminal, so am I, so are so many of us. How can we stand idly by? Soon it will be you.

www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...
September 10, 2025 at 7:18 AM
Date night with my boo at @joshtatofimusic concert! Beautiful turn out of Samoans, Tongans, Hawaiians, Pinays, Fijians and us 2 Mexicans!!!!
September 5, 2025 at 6:05 AM
Today it begins, I’m working on my second doctorate in Divinity! Nervous and excited! Ready. Headed to my first day of Seminary. 1st class, comparative religions! Here we go! May it all go well!

If you are able to, please help me fund this education.

www.gofundme.com/f/support-dr...
September 2, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Available to speak at schools/community orgs in SoCal Sept 11-12! Between jobs and looking to fund my son’s education while I’m in the area. Would be honored to share my story with your students. #Education #Speaking #SouthernCalifornia
August 25, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Deeply grateful to continue learning after 31 years in education. Starting doctoral orientation at Pacific School of Religion this week!
Your support makes this possible - especially love the $2 donations that come from the heart. Every bit helps.
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Thanks🙏
Donate to Support Dr. Cruz's Divinity Doctorate- Uniting Faith&Justice, organized by Cesar A Cruz Teolol
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August 25, 2025 at 1:32 PM
And so it begins… today we start our formal week-long orientation at Pacific School of Religion for all programs invluding the Doctorate in Ministry. I am nervous and excited! Today we start with a workshop on theological reading and writing from Dr. Corwin Malcolm Davis. May it go well!
August 25, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Jeremiah warns of those who “dress the wound of my people as though it were not serious. ‘Peace, peace,’ they say when there’s no peace.” The hollow ritual persists: empty prayers after mass shootings, no action. Band-aids on wounds. Faith demands action not performance
—Dr. Cruz
August 24, 2025 at 9:02 PM
After 31 years in education, taking a leap of faith—pursuing a Doctorate in Divinity at Pacific School of Religion! 🎓
Exploring how faith traditions cultivate “active hope” in our challenging world.
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Your support truly helps!
Donate to Support Dr. Cruz's Divinity Doctorate- Uniting Faith&Justice, organized by Cesar A Cruz Teolol
Help Me Bridge Faith, Justice, and Hope: Supporting My Doctor… Cesar A Cruz Teolol needs your support for Support Dr. Cruz's Divinity Doctorate- Uniting Faith&Justice
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August 13, 2025 at 1:10 PM
After 31 years as an educator, I'm taking a leap of faith—literally. I've been accepted for a Doctorate in Ministry at the Pacific School of Religion, where I plan to explore how different faith traditions can cultivate "active hope.” Will you help me get there?

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Donate to Support Dr. Cruz's Divinity Doctorate- Uniting Faith&Justice, organized by Cesar A Cruz Teolol
Help Me Bridge Faith, Justice, and Hope: Supporting My Doctor… Cesar A Cruz Teolol needs your support for Support Dr. Cruz's Divinity Doctorate- Uniting Faith&Justice
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August 11, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Bless you @DoloresHuerta for courageous leadership. Last night you went on TV and talked about the need for all of us to rise up and stand up. Thank you for that. Thank you Diego Luna and @JimmyKimmelLive for utilizing your platform for social good.
youtu.be/Apioa00Ukzg
Legendary Civil Rights Activist Dolores Huerta on Hope in Dark Times & What to Do If Detained by ICE
YouTube video by Jimmy Kimmel Live
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June 27, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Thank you Diego Luna. When someone gives you an opportunity to speak, this is what you do with it. Bravo.

youtu.be/7726WoO7mTM
Guest Host Diego Luna on Trump’s Immigration Policies & the Importance of Immigrants in the U.S.
YouTube video by Jimmy Kimmel Live
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June 25, 2025 at 7:01 AM
Reflecting! It starts with poop in the fingernails!

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The Privilege of Fatherhood: A Reflection
. It starts with poop under your fingernails.
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June 15, 2025 at 8:04 PM
I am those “illegals” you despise!
June 10, 2025 at 2:58 AM
Please help us wish Dr. G.T. Reyes a very happy birthday. G is one of the architects of the Freedom School. He is an advisory member as well.

Happy birthday, G—
may your pen stay fierce,
your roots grow stronger,
and your words continue
changing everything they touch!
May 26, 2025 at 6:56 PM
car wash for a good cause! Join students as they fundraise to get to go on a cultural learning journey to Hawai’i. Teacher Tracy Cook-Williams @tracewilliams15 is coordinating. If you can’t come please make a donation to her CashApp $tracewilliams or Venmo @trace15
@ikunagroup
May 25, 2025 at 5:34 PM