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Kit Carlson
@irreverentkit.bsky.social
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Writer. Episcopal priest. Open and affirming. Wannabe Yooper. Tudormaniac. Find me at kitcarlson.org
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This is great: a National Guardsman standing up to say every member of the National Guard and military "is legally obliged to disobey an illegal order."
iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · Aug 23
My name is Captain Dylan Blaha, and this message is for members of the National Guard across the USA.
I've served in the Illinois Army National Guard for over 12 years, including a deployment to Afghanistan and three years on active duty in Europe.
What's going on right now is not normal.
August 23, 2025 at 11:52 PM
irreverentkit.bsky.social
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This was fun…. How many folks do you know participate in multiple churches since the pandemic?

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The Multi-Church Movement: Five Years After COVID Changed Everything - Exploring the Pandemic Impact on Congregations
By Colleen Hill I Hartford Institute for Religion Research Jackie Maki’s Sunday routine would puzzle churchgoers from previous generations. The 76-year-old Episcopalian starts her morning at the Episc...
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June 26, 2025 at 7:23 PM
irreverentkit.bsky.social
My short essay, How to Set the Table, just appeared in Bending Genres! ⚓️ #writing #episcopal #glassceiling

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How to Set the Table
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June 10, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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what if we kissed at the Mount Frandor Scenic Overlook?
June 10, 2025 at 1:34 AM
irreverentkit.bsky.social
I still have faith

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Keeping the Faith in Trying Times
It all depends on where you focus
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May 10, 2025 at 6:36 PM
irreverentkit.bsky.social
You Priests are No Big Deal: Why Baptism is the Bomb

New podcast episode! Donna+ and I rant about precious clericalism and why being baptized is so awesome.

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You Priests are No Big Deal: Why Baptism is the Bomb
Nobody Asked Us: Schmoozin' with Kit and Donna returns
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April 27, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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#HandsOff! Homer, Alaska
500 people showed up
photo credit Don Pitcher
April 6, 2025 at 2:44 AM
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Sault Ste Marie Michigan

#HandsOff

The Soo showed UP in the Upper Peninsula. Got there just in time to march to the bridge with them.
April 6, 2025 at 3:00 AM
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#HandsOff Talkeetna, Alaska
photo credit Wendy Battino
April 6, 2025 at 2:36 AM
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Lansing,Michigan #handsoff
April 5, 2025 at 7:08 PM
irreverentkit.bsky.social
More of THIS, please,
@netflix.com!
April 4, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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"People shouldn't be afraid of their governments. Governments should be afraid of their people."
March 27, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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You must watch this. Trump's Dept. of Homeland Security sent a letter to the Episcopal Diocese of the Rio Grande accusing them of human trafficking for aiding migrants legally in the US, supported & funded by the US government. Absolutely disgusting actions by Trump. This is an attack on all of us.
Bishop Michael Hunn Responds to Department of Homeland Security: Defending Our Border Ministry
YouTube video by Michael Hunn
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March 15, 2025 at 11:28 PM
irreverentkit.bsky.social
This is truly a Rack, Shack and Benny moment for our times.
keeganosinski.bsky.social Keegan Osinski @keeganosinski.bsky.social · Feb 27
Will you, or will you not, SING the BUNNY SONG
The bunny statue from the Veggie Tales Rack Shack and Benny episode The AI slop golden Trump statue
February 28, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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February 25, 2025 at 11:28 PM
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I really need faith leaders to understand that we are not in normal times. "Both sides" types of comments about politics are not being read as "let's all be civil" but as "all opinions are equal" in a climate where one "side" of things is currently doing explicitly evil things & calling it good. ⚓
February 22, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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rns.org RNS @rns.org · Feb 23
The enthusiasm around the issue may push the legislation forward, as it languished in committee when it was last introduced in 2023, but the bill’s chances of passing either Republican-majority chamber are unclear.
Lawmakers, faith groups push bill to prevent ICE raids on churches, sensitive locations
(RNS) — 'We cannot become a government that normalizes cruelty,' Rep. Jesús G. Garcia, an Illinois Democrat, said while discussing the bill on the House floor.
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February 23, 2025 at 10:16 PM
irreverentkit.bsky.social
Cheek turning as a courageous act of non violent resistance. It’s not about accepting evil, but exposing it.

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February 23, 2025 at 10:22 PM
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This book is helping me cope!

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February 19, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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I don't know how we're going to be able to share a country with the people who shackle Christian refugees in front of their children and send them to camps in a foreign jungle.
It was Ms. Ghasemzadeh who sent a reporter the text saying “only a miracle can save us.” She said she was an English teacher who, in Iran, had converted to Christianity in an underground church. According to Iran’s Islamic Shariah law, converting from Islam is considered apostasy and is a crime punishable by death. She left Iran in December, she said, hoping to build a new life in the United States. She knew that Mr. Trump was deporting migrants, she added, but thought, “I’m not a criminal, I am educated, I will show them my qualifications, my conversion to Christianity papers.” Ms. Ghasemzadeh took a series of flights to Mexico, she said, and then headed for the southern border, paying a smuggler around $3,000 to help her climb over the border wall. She was soon picked up by border officials. After five days in federal custody, Ms. Ghasemzadeh said, all the deportees except for the children had their hands tied and their feet shackled by U.S. authorities. Her group was placed on a gray military airplane — more than 100 people from Iran, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Uzbekistan, China and other nations, according to the Panamanian government. Once on board, an Uzbek women who was with her two young children fainted, according to Ms. Ghasemzadeh and a couple who were sitting next to them. The children were crying. A member of the U.S. military who was on board came to Ms. Ghasemzadeh and asked for her help in translating, because she was asking questions in English. He asked why the Uzbek woman was so scared. “I said it was because we had no idea where we were being taken — can you please tell us?” Ms. Ghasemzadeh said. “He hugged me gently,” she continued, “whispered into my ear that we were going to Panama, and asked me not to tell anyone about it.” On Sunday morning, after another deportee attempted suicide at the hotel in Panama, Ms. Ghasemzadeh said, all glass and sharp objects were confiscated from the rooms. A spokesman for the International Organization for Migration said the group was “facilitating returns where safe to do so” and was not involved “in the detention or restriction of movement of individuals.” According to a senior U.N. official who requested anonymity to discuss a sensitive matter, the U.N. was providing Panama with humanitarian and technical support, but the Panamanians were tightly managing the deportees and the process they were following was not entirely clear. The deportees at the hotel will soon be sent to a camp at the edge of a jungle called the Darién Gap, according to Panama’s president, José Raúl Mulino. Built just a few years ago to house migrants headed north to the United States, the camp will now handle a reverse migration wave. It is unclear how long the migrants will be held there. In the past, the camp, called San Vicente, consisted of just a few shacks in a muddy expanse, and officials often kept migrants penned inside. Dengue fever is a common danger in the region. At the Decapolis hotel, a man in his 50s with the surname Wang wrote “China” on a window. In a phone call, he said he had come to the United States alone, “for freedom.” He’d left behind his wife and children, he said. Just a few days before, he had crossed into the United States, where he was detained, cuffed and put on a plane to Panama. “I thought: America is a free country with respect for human rights,” he said. “I had no idea it was like a dictatorship.” As far as his home country went, he said, “I would rather jump off a plane than go back to China.” On the military plane ride from California to Panama, Mona, a 32-year-old Iranian Christian convert, said her 8-year-old son cried, terrified to see his parents shackled. To calm him down, she told him that this was like overcoming the challenges in a video game, and that once the plane landed they would be free. Her son asked if she would make his favorite Persian dish after the plane landed. Her husband, Mohammad, 33, said that throughout the flight, when his wife and son cried, he reminded them about a Christian teaching they often recited. “Jesus has said, ‘If you don’t take your eyes off me, I won’t take mine off you.’ So I was constantly signaling that to my wife, saying, keep your eyes on him,” he said.
February 18, 2025 at 3:52 PM
irreverentkit.bsky.social
⚓️ I listen to at least three sermons a week…I’m looking for preachers who are powerfully bringing the Gospel to enlighten our current situation. Who is bringing Hope and courage? And give me the link to their video streams. My bishop was spot on last Sunday… but I’m looking for others.
A Blueprint for Hope Sermon by Bishop
YouTube video by Episcopal MI
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February 18, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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The Baptists are on the case!

Read and be afraid…
Why you should care about the Kennedy Center board
The arts — in whatever form they take — play an important role in all societies. In fact, archeologists often look to the artistic and cultural remnants of a society to understand what it valued and b...
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February 15, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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Schmoozing with @trekkingpilgrim.bsky.social is back. We’ve got Biblical news for billionaires and it’s not good…

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February 13, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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While they were stripping USAID of signage and photos of the many humanitarian projects they do around the world, they TORE DOWN THE MEMORIAL TO STAFF WHO DIED WHILE SERVING ABROAD.

“Thank you for your service”?
February 8, 2025 at 3:42 AM
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Start journaling if you don’t already. On paper. Where you can secure it. Someday historians will need a record of this time and digital files are vulnerable. Get it all down. We are all reporters now.
February 5, 2025 at 6:13 PM