Ronnie McBrayer
@ronniemcbrayer.bsky.social
Free Range Pastor. Indie Author. Musician. Hopeful Hillbilly. Enneagram. UGA. Theological exile. Love is my religion.
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“Do not accept brutality and cruelty as normal even if it is sanctioned. Protect the vulnerable and encourage the afraid. If you are brave, stand up for others. If you cannot be brave – and it is often hard to be brave – be kind.” Sarah Kendzior
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I’ll be back after a quick nap
November 22, 2025 at 8:07 PM
I’ll be back after a quick nap
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We will never win the war against crime until we first wage a war against poverty.
November 20, 2025 at 8:06 PM
We will never win the war against crime until we first wage a war against poverty.
“Against stupidity we are defenseless. Neither protests nor the use of force accomplish anything; reason falls on deaf ears. Never again will we try to persuade the stupid person; it is senseless and dangerous.”
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer, murdered by the Nazis
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer, murdered by the Nazis
I would take more delight in how stupid they are if we didn’t have millennia of human history testifying to the fact that stupidity and ruthlessness is a dangerous combination.
November 20, 2025 at 2:43 AM
“Against stupidity we are defenseless. Neither protests nor the use of force accomplish anything; reason falls on deaf ears. Never again will we try to persuade the stupid person; it is senseless and dangerous.”
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer, murdered by the Nazis
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer, murdered by the Nazis
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Let go of what you cannot change or it will own you.
November 19, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Let go of what you cannot change or it will own you.
Episode 6: "...Accepting hardship as the pathway to peace." Thanks for listening.
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The Serenity Prayer, Part 6 | Ronnie McBrayer
Part 6: "...Accepting hardship as the pathway to peace..."
If I could take you back to the moment you first drew air into your lungs; if I could take you back to the swaddled little baby that you wer...
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November 18, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Episode 6: "...Accepting hardship as the pathway to peace." Thanks for listening.
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Milly with the wellness check. She is very well.
November 17, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Milly with the wellness check. She is very well.
A little surgery this past week. Hoping to break free of the cast and get back to it.
November 17, 2025 at 3:58 AM
A little surgery this past week. Hoping to break free of the cast and get back to it.
Welcome back Sarah
The Republicans will kill you, and the Democrats will let you die.
An explainer on enablers from last year -- and before: sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/ten-articl...
An explainer on enablers from last year -- and before: sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/ten-articl...
Ten Articles Explaining the 2024 Election
Some background reading
sarahkendzior.substack.com
November 14, 2025 at 4:33 AM
Welcome back Sarah
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Vonnegut didn’t forget. He was a POW in Dresden when allied bombers turned that city to fire. When the bombs ceased falling, he probably felt what they felt on Armistice Day when “millions upon millions of human beings stopped butchering one another.”
That God was speaking through the silence.
That God was speaking through the silence.
November 11, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Vonnegut didn’t forget. He was a POW in Dresden when allied bombers turned that city to fire. When the bombs ceased falling, he probably felt what they felt on Armistice Day when “millions upon millions of human beings stopped butchering one another.”
That God was speaking through the silence.
That God was speaking through the silence.
Episode 5 in my current series on the Serenity Prayer: One day, one moment at a time.
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www.podbean.com/eas/pb-c9i62...
The Serenity Prayer, Part 5
The Serenity Prayer, Part 5: "'God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change; the courage to change the things I can; and the wisdom to know the difference.' But the prayer continues...
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November 10, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Episode 5 in my current series on the Serenity Prayer: One day, one moment at a time.
www.podbean.com/eas/pb-c9i62...
www.podbean.com/eas/pb-c9i62...
Optimism is a false hope. Pessimism is as suicide pact. Idealism is a fool’s errand (I know this as a recovering idealist). This world can only be navigated by realists; realists who feel the strain, experience the tension of keeping balance, and seek wisdom.
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The Serenity Prayer, Part 4
Part 4 of Ronnie's series on The Serenity Prayer: "God grant me wisdom." Ronnie says, "Optimism is a false hope. Pessimism is as suicide pact. Idealism is a fool’s errand - as a recovering idealist, i...
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October 30, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Optimism is a false hope. Pessimism is as suicide pact. Idealism is a fool’s errand (I know this as a recovering idealist). This world can only be navigated by realists; realists who feel the strain, experience the tension of keeping balance, and seek wisdom.
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“When you decide to be nothing, to do nothing, to change nothing, you become nothing. You take everything and you are nothing.
Congress takes bribes, they take vacations, they take offense - they take everything but the heat. They save that for us.” - Sarah Kendzior
Congress takes bribes, they take vacations, they take offense - they take everything but the heat. They save that for us.” - Sarah Kendzior
October 28, 2025 at 2:51 PM
“When you decide to be nothing, to do nothing, to change nothing, you become nothing. You take everything and you are nothing.
Congress takes bribes, they take vacations, they take offense - they take everything but the heat. They save that for us.” - Sarah Kendzior
Congress takes bribes, they take vacations, they take offense - they take everything but the heat. They save that for us.” - Sarah Kendzior
"The world is full of great criminals with enormous power, and they are in a death struggle with each other. It is a huge gang battle, using lawyers and policemen and clergymen as their front, controlling papers, means of communication, and enrolling everybody in their armies." Thomas Merton, 1962
October 25, 2025 at 3:39 PM
"The world is full of great criminals with enormous power, and they are in a death struggle with each other. It is a huge gang battle, using lawyers and policemen and clergymen as their front, controlling papers, means of communication, and enrolling everybody in their armies." Thomas Merton, 1962
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Let’s not pretend the reign of Christians and the reign of Christ are one and the same.
October 25, 2025 at 2:59 AM
Let’s not pretend the reign of Christians and the reign of Christ are one and the same.
“We are the richest country in dollars and the poorest in humanity.”
That these two things are true is no accident.
That these two things are true is no accident.
MAHA’s out here all smug with their lies about vaccines and sat fats while the same administration cuts nutrition benefits for children.
Talk to me about removing food dyes when every kid in the U.S. has enough to eat.
We are the richest country in dollars and the poorest in humanity.
Talk to me about removing food dyes when every kid in the U.S. has enough to eat.
We are the richest country in dollars and the poorest in humanity.
October 25, 2025 at 12:13 PM
“We are the richest country in dollars and the poorest in humanity.”
That these two things are true is no accident.
That these two things are true is no accident.
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This is Duncan. He's used to being the biggest dog at the vet. But apparently not today. 14/10 for both (TT: animalimaging)
October 23, 2025 at 10:44 PM
This is Duncan. He's used to being the biggest dog at the vet. But apparently not today. 14/10 for both (TT: animalimaging)
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If you’re driving around in unmarked cars, wearing masks, and kidnapping people, you’re not one of the good guys.
October 22, 2025 at 11:47 PM
If you’re driving around in unmarked cars, wearing masks, and kidnapping people, you’re not one of the good guys.
Episode three of my current series on The Serenity Prayer. All it takes is a little courage: www.podbean.com/eas/pb-hw6da...
The Serenity Prayer, Part 3
In this third installment of Ronnie's current series, he picks up the theme of courage: "Having the courage to change the things we can." Ronnie says, "We all have internal insecurities, negative voic...
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October 22, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Episode three of my current series on The Serenity Prayer. All it takes is a little courage: www.podbean.com/eas/pb-hw6da...
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Beware those who claim to know the mind of God & are prepared to use force, if necessary, to make others conform.
Beware those who cannot tell God’s will from their own.
~Barbara Brown Taylor
Beware those who cannot tell God’s will from their own.
~Barbara Brown Taylor
October 22, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Beware those who claim to know the mind of God & are prepared to use force, if necessary, to make others conform.
Beware those who cannot tell God’s will from their own.
~Barbara Brown Taylor
Beware those who cannot tell God’s will from their own.
~Barbara Brown Taylor
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Societies in the third decade of the 21st century are controlled *entirely* by major social media algorithms. They determine what is real and what is not. If you don't have control of the algos, you have nothing.
October 21, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Societies in the third decade of the 21st century are controlled *entirely* by major social media algorithms. They determine what is real and what is not. If you don't have control of the algos, you have nothing.
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“Mankind, he has told each of you what is good and what it is the Lord requires of you: to act justly, to love faithfulness, and to walk humbly with your God” (Micah 6:8 CSB).
October 18, 2025 at 3:46 PM
“Mankind, he has told each of you what is good and what it is the Lord requires of you: to act justly, to love faithfulness, and to walk humbly with your God” (Micah 6:8 CSB).
It's Double Nickels for me today. Help an old man out, would ya? Help Cindy and I raise $55 for 55! Our goal is to reach $55,000 for ReNew of Northwest Florida by the end of the year.
ReNew of NWFL
16400 Highway 331 South
Suite B, Box 275
Freeport, Florida 32439
www.ronniemcbrayer.org/renew/
ReNew of NWFL
16400 Highway 331 South
Suite B, Box 275
Freeport, Florida 32439
www.ronniemcbrayer.org/renew/
October 18, 2025 at 1:38 PM
It's Double Nickels for me today. Help an old man out, would ya? Help Cindy and I raise $55 for 55! Our goal is to reach $55,000 for ReNew of Northwest Florida by the end of the year.
ReNew of NWFL
16400 Highway 331 South
Suite B, Box 275
Freeport, Florida 32439
www.ronniemcbrayer.org/renew/
ReNew of NWFL
16400 Highway 331 South
Suite B, Box 275
Freeport, Florida 32439
www.ronniemcbrayer.org/renew/
“I could hire out to the other side, the big money side, and get several dollars every week just to quit singing my own kind of songs. But I decided a long time ago that I'd starve to death before doing that.” Woody Guthrie
October 18, 2025 at 11:34 AM
“I could hire out to the other side, the big money side, and get several dollars every week just to quit singing my own kind of songs. But I decided a long time ago that I'd starve to death before doing that.” Woody Guthrie