Lura Groen
@luragroen.bsky.social
I love people, and I play with words.
The Divine is Love, and Love is for you.
The Divine is Love, and Love is for you.
American “Christianity” is so terrified of pleasure.
November 16, 2025 at 2:48 PM
American “Christianity” is so terrified of pleasure.
Somewhere across the world happy, peaceful re-wilded elephants are taking their newborn to meet the humans that rescued them.
And closer to home, a beautiful human is noticing the perfection of fall leaves and showing them to us.
And closer to home, a beautiful human is noticing the perfection of fall leaves and showing them to us.
November 15, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Somewhere across the world happy, peaceful re-wilded elephants are taking their newborn to meet the humans that rescued them.
And closer to home, a beautiful human is noticing the perfection of fall leaves and showing them to us.
And closer to home, a beautiful human is noticing the perfection of fall leaves and showing them to us.
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I don’t want to formulate words yet, but my friend Alice Wong, @sfdirewolf.bsky.social of the Disability Visibility Project, has passed.
Here are the words she left behind:
www.instagram.com/p/DREMDNBjnq...
Here are the words she left behind:
www.instagram.com/p/DREMDNBjnq...
Alice Wong on Instagram: "ID: Yellow background with black text "This is Alice's friend Sandy Ho, posting. Per Alice's wishes, this message is being shared at the time of her passing. Hi everyone, it ...
423 likes, 73 comments - alicatsamurai on November 14, 2025: "ID: Yellow background with black text "This is Alice's friend Sandy Ho, posting. Per Alice's wishes, this message is being shared at the t...
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November 15, 2025 at 5:57 AM
I don’t want to formulate words yet, but my friend Alice Wong, @sfdirewolf.bsky.social of the Disability Visibility Project, has passed.
Here are the words she left behind:
www.instagram.com/p/DREMDNBjnq...
Here are the words she left behind:
www.instagram.com/p/DREMDNBjnq...
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Good statement from the US conference of Catholic Bishops
November 14, 2025 at 2:17 AM
Good statement from the US conference of Catholic Bishops
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Short version:
Trump: I'm dismantling the Constitution, building a paramilitary fascist army loyal only to me, blowing up the US economy for my billionaire cronies, and destroying the planet.
Schumer: Okay, but you have to extend subsidies for corporate health care
Trump: No
Schumer: Okay
Trump: I'm dismantling the Constitution, building a paramilitary fascist army loyal only to me, blowing up the US economy for my billionaire cronies, and destroying the planet.
Schumer: Okay, but you have to extend subsidies for corporate health care
Trump: No
Schumer: Okay
How Chuck Schumer Planned the Shutdown Capitulation to Trump
In brief. And then in excruciating detail
hillheat.news
November 11, 2025 at 11:53 PM
Short version:
Trump: I'm dismantling the Constitution, building a paramilitary fascist army loyal only to me, blowing up the US economy for my billionaire cronies, and destroying the planet.
Schumer: Okay, but you have to extend subsidies for corporate health care
Trump: No
Schumer: Okay
Trump: I'm dismantling the Constitution, building a paramilitary fascist army loyal only to me, blowing up the US economy for my billionaire cronies, and destroying the planet.
Schumer: Okay, but you have to extend subsidies for corporate health care
Trump: No
Schumer: Okay
Give me a God who respects our bodies, or give me no God at all.
Give me a God who shares my anger at our violations, or give me no God at all.
Give me a God who knows the secret shame we carry, or give me no God at all.
Give me a God who shares my anger at our violations, or give me no God at all.
Give me a God who knows the secret shame we carry, or give me no God at all.
November 11, 2025 at 2:27 AM
Give me a God who respects our bodies, or give me no God at all.
Give me a God who shares my anger at our violations, or give me no God at all.
Give me a God who knows the secret shame we carry, or give me no God at all.
Give me a God who shares my anger at our violations, or give me no God at all.
Give me a God who knows the secret shame we carry, or give me no God at all.
Someone is sending emails impersonating me again. I’m not looking for gift cards or money or anything like that. Please double check to make sure any email that looks like me actually is.
November 7, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Someone is sending emails impersonating me again. I’m not looking for gift cards or money or anything like that. Please double check to make sure any email that looks like me actually is.
A great thing about having a young kiddo in my life is that I get to introduce important vocabulary like “booger butt.”
November 7, 2025 at 12:47 AM
A great thing about having a young kiddo in my life is that I get to introduce important vocabulary like “booger butt.”
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The Memes have begun
November 6, 2025 at 6:47 PM
The Memes have begun
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truly the worst dick any of us have ever gotten
November 4, 2025 at 6:37 PM
truly the worst dick any of us have ever gotten
Oh Dick. You’re surprised by Love right now, aren’t you? I imagine that is a bit of a shock.
November 4, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Oh Dick. You’re surprised by Love right now, aren’t you? I imagine that is a bit of a shock.
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Walmart, McDonalds and Amazon are the largest employers of people who require SNAP assistance.
The CEOs earned between 18-40 million last year, 1000x their median employee income.
They took billions in profits, while their workers relied on SNAP to survive.
Wanna fix fraud and abuse?
Fix that.
The CEOs earned between 18-40 million last year, 1000x their median employee income.
They took billions in profits, while their workers relied on SNAP to survive.
Wanna fix fraud and abuse?
Fix that.
November 3, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Walmart, McDonalds and Amazon are the largest employers of people who require SNAP assistance.
The CEOs earned between 18-40 million last year, 1000x their median employee income.
They took billions in profits, while their workers relied on SNAP to survive.
Wanna fix fraud and abuse?
Fix that.
The CEOs earned between 18-40 million last year, 1000x their median employee income.
They took billions in profits, while their workers relied on SNAP to survive.
Wanna fix fraud and abuse?
Fix that.
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"Then I despair. . . . I remember that all through history, the way of truth and love has always won. There have been murderers and tyrants, and for a time they can seem invincible. But in the end they always fall. Think of it always."
Andre Malraux, born on this day in 1901
Andre Malraux, born on this day in 1901
November 3, 2025 at 11:21 AM
"Then I despair. . . . I remember that all through history, the way of truth and love has always won. There have been murderers and tyrants, and for a time they can seem invincible. But in the end they always fall. Think of it always."
Andre Malraux, born on this day in 1901
Andre Malraux, born on this day in 1901
People are hungry in the US because of human policies.
Not because we don’t have enough food, or because we don’t know how to distribute it. But because our greed and hatred made us vote to limit food for some people.
Speaking Biblically, this is the kind of thing God damns countries for.
Not because we don’t have enough food, or because we don’t know how to distribute it. But because our greed and hatred made us vote to limit food for some people.
Speaking Biblically, this is the kind of thing God damns countries for.
November 2, 2025 at 1:11 PM
People are hungry in the US because of human policies.
Not because we don’t have enough food, or because we don’t know how to distribute it. But because our greed and hatred made us vote to limit food for some people.
Speaking Biblically, this is the kind of thing God damns countries for.
Not because we don’t have enough food, or because we don’t know how to distribute it. But because our greed and hatred made us vote to limit food for some people.
Speaking Biblically, this is the kind of thing God damns countries for.
Can we talk about how many members of the military, TSA agents, other federal workers, and so many others are just one paycheck away from hunger?
October 30, 2025 at 1:17 AM
Can we talk about how many members of the military, TSA agents, other federal workers, and so many others are just one paycheck away from hunger?
I love it when people insult me using language that I wholeheartedly claim.
The latest one is trying to slam me for saying God loves everyone. “Pastor Lura Groen, an admitted universalist…”
Ok, you got me. 🤷♀️
The latest one is trying to slam me for saying God loves everyone. “Pastor Lura Groen, an admitted universalist…”
Ok, you got me. 🤷♀️
October 29, 2025 at 8:02 PM
I love it when people insult me using language that I wholeheartedly claim.
The latest one is trying to slam me for saying God loves everyone. “Pastor Lura Groen, an admitted universalist…”
Ok, you got me. 🤷♀️
The latest one is trying to slam me for saying God loves everyone. “Pastor Lura Groen, an admitted universalist…”
Ok, you got me. 🤷♀️
“Though hordes of devils fill the land
all threatening to devour us,
We tremble not unmoved we stand;
they cannot overpower us.”
Reformation Sunday hit differently this year.
all threatening to devour us,
We tremble not unmoved we stand;
they cannot overpower us.”
Reformation Sunday hit differently this year.
October 26, 2025 at 6:50 PM
“Though hordes of devils fill the land
all threatening to devour us,
We tremble not unmoved we stand;
they cannot overpower us.”
Reformation Sunday hit differently this year.
all threatening to devour us,
We tremble not unmoved we stand;
they cannot overpower us.”
Reformation Sunday hit differently this year.
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White men...the story you were taught about yourselves was never true.
It promised power, but stole your humanity. It gave you control, but robbed you of connection.
It’s time to unlearn the lies.
It promised power, but stole your humanity. It gave you control, but robbed you of connection.
It’s time to unlearn the lies.
October 25, 2025 at 6:12 PM
White men...the story you were taught about yourselves was never true.
It promised power, but stole your humanity. It gave you control, but robbed you of connection.
It’s time to unlearn the lies.
It promised power, but stole your humanity. It gave you control, but robbed you of connection.
It’s time to unlearn the lies.
Give money to food banks.
Or even better- directly to people in need.
It’s always the most efficient way to help.
Or even better- directly to people in need.
It’s always the most efficient way to help.
October 25, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Give money to food banks.
Or even better- directly to people in need.
It’s always the most efficient way to help.
Or even better- directly to people in need.
It’s always the most efficient way to help.
Game: name a skill/talent/special interest you have that no one has ever asked you to use in church.
The rest of us will try to brainstorm a way it could be useful in church. As silly or serious as you’d like.
I’ll start: I can care for and milk goats.
The rest of us will try to brainstorm a way it could be useful in church. As silly or serious as you’d like.
I’ll start: I can care for and milk goats.
October 25, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Game: name a skill/talent/special interest you have that no one has ever asked you to use in church.
The rest of us will try to brainstorm a way it could be useful in church. As silly or serious as you’d like.
I’ll start: I can care for and milk goats.
The rest of us will try to brainstorm a way it could be useful in church. As silly or serious as you’d like.
I’ll start: I can care for and milk goats.
You know how there are humans so splendid that knowing them makes you want to sing psalms to God for creating such a person as this?
You’re one of them.
The angels sign praises to God because of you.
You’re one of them.
The angels sign praises to God because of you.
October 22, 2025 at 4:49 PM
You know how there are humans so splendid that knowing them makes you want to sing psalms to God for creating such a person as this?
You’re one of them.
The angels sign praises to God because of you.
You’re one of them.
The angels sign praises to God because of you.
Only for the dog-obsessed, or at least those not repulsed by the messy realities of living with dogs:
Clara tries to slip her tongue in my mouth, and almost never succeeds. But tonight she did and I accidentally bit it AND THAT WAS A SURPRISE NEITHER ONE OF US LIKED
Clara tries to slip her tongue in my mouth, and almost never succeeds. But tonight she did and I accidentally bit it AND THAT WAS A SURPRISE NEITHER ONE OF US LIKED
October 19, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Only for the dog-obsessed, or at least those not repulsed by the messy realities of living with dogs:
Clara tries to slip her tongue in my mouth, and almost never succeeds. But tonight she did and I accidentally bit it AND THAT WAS A SURPRISE NEITHER ONE OF US LIKED
Clara tries to slip her tongue in my mouth, and almost never succeeds. But tonight she did and I accidentally bit it AND THAT WAS A SURPRISE NEITHER ONE OF US LIKED
Federal worker friends, how are you holding up? Thinking of yall.
October 13, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Federal worker friends, how are you holding up? Thinking of yall.
Really insightful political analysis of gender performance among maga women
jessicadefino.substack.com/p/erika-kirk...
jessicadefino.substack.com/p/erika-kirk...
Erika Kirk’s Memorial Glam (Or, A Definitive Guide To MAGA Aesthetics)
Interview unlocked.
jessicadefino.substack.com
October 13, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Really insightful political analysis of gender performance among maga women
jessicadefino.substack.com/p/erika-kirk...
jessicadefino.substack.com/p/erika-kirk...
I don't know how I feel about #NationalComingOutDay.
But I know my Queerness is in the Image of God.
I know that the more I dwell in God, the more Queer I feel. And fiercer, and more vulnerable, and more loving, angrier, and less suited to this world yet more in it.
But I know my Queerness is in the Image of God.
I know that the more I dwell in God, the more Queer I feel. And fiercer, and more vulnerable, and more loving, angrier, and less suited to this world yet more in it.
October 11, 2025 at 11:04 PM
I don't know how I feel about #NationalComingOutDay.
But I know my Queerness is in the Image of God.
I know that the more I dwell in God, the more Queer I feel. And fiercer, and more vulnerable, and more loving, angrier, and less suited to this world yet more in it.
But I know my Queerness is in the Image of God.
I know that the more I dwell in God, the more Queer I feel. And fiercer, and more vulnerable, and more loving, angrier, and less suited to this world yet more in it.