Blake Bradford
@revb2.bsky.social
#UnitedMethodist pastor and coauthor of the “Mission Possible” series. Serving the local church and consulting after almost a decade as an Arkansas UMC district superintendent and staff member
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“With your patient and rigorous work, you can act as a barrier against those who, through the ancient art of lying, seek to create divisions in order to rule by dividing,” he said. “You can be a bulwark of civility against the quicksand of approximation and post-truth...”
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Pope urges news agencies to stand as bulwark against lies, manipulation and post-truths
Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the “ancient art of lying” and manipulation.
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October 12, 2025 at 5:16 PM
“With your patient and rigorous work, you can act as a barrier against those who, through the ancient art of lying, seek to create divisions in order to rule by dividing,” he said. “You can be a bulwark of civility against the quicksand of approximation and post-truth...”
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Parents of the bride!
May 24, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Parents of the bride!
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Three U.S. citizens, ages 2, 4 and 7, swiftly deported from Louisiana www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
Three U.S. citizens, ages 2, 4 and 7, swiftly deported from Louisiana
The cases have renewed concerns that the Trump administration’s expedited deportations are violating the rights of both citizens and noncitizens.
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April 27, 2025 at 12:21 AM
Three U.S. citizens, ages 2, 4 and 7, swiftly deported from Louisiana www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
Caturday on the Catio.
April 26, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Caturday on the Catio.
This Good Friday reflection, “For You Were Once…” tells a piece of my family’s story as Chinese Americans during the Exclusion Era. It is a story about silence, memory, and what it means to carry fear across generations.
“For you were once…” — Blake Bradford
This reflection, “For You Were Once…” tells a piece of my own family’s story as Chinese Americans during the Exclusion Era. It is a story about silence, memory, and what it means to carry fear across ...
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April 18, 2025 at 1:42 PM
This Good Friday reflection, “For You Were Once…” tells a piece of my family’s story as Chinese Americans during the Exclusion Era. It is a story about silence, memory, and what it means to carry fear across generations.
My wife uncovered a trove of my childhood photos. I will post more later, but let this nightmare fuel Easter bunny sink in. Really sink in.
I’m still scared of clowns, mall Santas, and team mascots. No wonder.
I’m still scared of clowns, mall Santas, and team mascots. No wonder.
April 10, 2025 at 6:05 PM
My wife uncovered a trove of my childhood photos. I will post more later, but let this nightmare fuel Easter bunny sink in. Really sink in.
I’m still scared of clowns, mall Santas, and team mascots. No wonder.
I’m still scared of clowns, mall Santas, and team mascots. No wonder.
Lt Chekov and Nurse Chapel on an away mission in the catio
March 1, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Lt Chekov and Nurse Chapel on an away mission in the catio
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OPINION: Trump’s administration has, in shocking fashion, marshaled government resources and used their bully pulpit to attack individual faith leaders and major religious institutions.
Trump isn’t defending religious communities — he’s waging war on them
(RNS) — The Trump administration is already the most harmful to religious freedom in modern American history.
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February 17, 2025 at 12:00 PM
OPINION: Trump’s administration has, in shocking fashion, marshaled government resources and used their bully pulpit to attack individual faith leaders and major religious institutions.
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MAJOR BREAKING: Pope Francis has written a letter to US Bishops saying he’s following “major crisis” of “mass deportations;” takes on Vance saying “The true ordo amoris that must be promoted is that which we discover by meditating constantly on the parable of the “Good Samaritan”
February 11, 2025 at 11:53 AM
MAJOR BREAKING: Pope Francis has written a letter to US Bishops saying he’s following “major crisis” of “mass deportations;” takes on Vance saying “The true ordo amoris that must be promoted is that which we discover by meditating constantly on the parable of the “Good Samaritan”
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The right of those born on US soil to citizenship were affirmed by the 1898 Supreme Court battle of Wong Kim Ark—a Chinese American born here during this nation’s decades of anti-Chinese exclusion—to be recognized as a citizen.
Trump seeks to destroy Wong’s legacy.
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/18/m...
Trump seeks to destroy Wong’s legacy.
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/18/m...
January 20, 2025 at 4:32 PM
The right of those born on US soil to citizenship were affirmed by the 1898 Supreme Court battle of Wong Kim Ark—a Chinese American born here during this nation’s decades of anti-Chinese exclusion—to be recognized as a citizen.
Trump seeks to destroy Wong’s legacy.
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/18/m...
Trump seeks to destroy Wong’s legacy.
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/18/m...
It’s not checkers vs chess.
It’s certainly not 3-d chess.
It’s going to be Hungry Hungry Hippos.
It’s certainly not 3-d chess.
It’s going to be Hungry Hungry Hippos.
January 20, 2025 at 4:19 PM
It’s not checkers vs chess.
It’s certainly not 3-d chess.
It’s going to be Hungry Hungry Hippos.
It’s certainly not 3-d chess.
It’s going to be Hungry Hungry Hippos.
Chekov is busy watching Arkansawyers fail miserably at driving in the snow.
January 9, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Chekov is busy watching Arkansawyers fail miserably at driving in the snow.
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Wong Kim Ark was born in San Francisco to Chinese Parents. In his 20s, he was denied re-entry to the U.S. on the basis of the Chinese Exclusion Act. His legal case set the precedent for birthright citizenship, something Donald Trump has pledged to attack when in office. #Velshi
How an American-born Chinese man ensured birthright citizenship in the U.S.
Wong Kim Ark was born around 1870 in San Francisco’s Chinatown. After moving back to China, he hoped to return, but was barred by the Chinese Exclusion Act; the U.S. did not consider him a citizen. The legal case that followed ensured that the 14th Amendment – birthright citizenship – was guaranteed for anyone born on U.S. soil.
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January 5, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Wong Kim Ark was born in San Francisco to Chinese Parents. In his 20s, he was denied re-entry to the U.S. on the basis of the Chinese Exclusion Act. His legal case set the precedent for birthright citizenship, something Donald Trump has pledged to attack when in office. #Velshi
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Jimmy Carter was right about climate change. He was right about the Mideast conflict and apartheid in Israel and South Africa and the ongoing plagues of poverty and racism. It was he not Reagan who freed our hostages in Iran. A true man of God, he died beloved, which not many presidents do or will.
December 29, 2024 at 10:57 PM
Jimmy Carter was right about climate change. He was right about the Mideast conflict and apartheid in Israel and South Africa and the ongoing plagues of poverty and racism. It was he not Reagan who freed our hostages in Iran. A true man of God, he died beloved, which not many presidents do or will.
Advent/Christmas graphic design by @ultravioletkiwi.bsky.social
December 27, 2024 at 3:48 PM
Advent/Christmas graphic design by @ultravioletkiwi.bsky.social
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Polio cases in US states, before and after introduction of the polio vaccine
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December 14, 2024 at 4:00 AM
Polio cases in US states, before and after introduction of the polio vaccine
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Being a Gen X progressive Christian means I live in a paradox of abhorring violence and the whole heretic hunter nonsense but I also can’t resist a solid meme. Anywho, happy Feast of Saint Nicholas.
December 6, 2024 at 1:45 PM
Being a Gen X progressive Christian means I live in a paradox of abhorring violence and the whole heretic hunter nonsense but I also can’t resist a solid meme. Anywho, happy Feast of Saint Nicholas.
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Every Thanksgiving I’m reminded how thankful I am to be from a family of eaters and nappers and not holiday morning 10k runners
November 28, 2024 at 1:17 PM
Every Thanksgiving I’m reminded how thankful I am to be from a family of eaters and nappers and not holiday morning 10k runners
Cold day, warm cat.
November 25, 2024 at 9:26 PM
Cold day, warm cat.
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7 AM, Monday 11/25:
Woke up
Read WaPo front page article on Elon and his "DOGE" plans
Remembered purges of intellectuals & gov workers in Communist Russia & China
Threw paper across room
Screamed something unbecoming a theologian
Woke up
Read WaPo front page article on Elon and his "DOGE" plans
Remembered purges of intellectuals & gov workers in Communist Russia & China
Threw paper across room
Screamed something unbecoming a theologian
November 25, 2024 at 12:33 PM
7 AM, Monday 11/25:
Woke up
Read WaPo front page article on Elon and his "DOGE" plans
Remembered purges of intellectuals & gov workers in Communist Russia & China
Threw paper across room
Screamed something unbecoming a theologian
Woke up
Read WaPo front page article on Elon and his "DOGE" plans
Remembered purges of intellectuals & gov workers in Communist Russia & China
Threw paper across room
Screamed something unbecoming a theologian
Project 2025 is apparently going to start by taking us back to the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act.
November 19, 2024 at 3:34 AM
Project 2025 is apparently going to start by taking us back to the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act.