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November 11, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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in any case, if you want some real, non-tiktok stunt information about how churches are dealing with the SNAP gap, we at @sojo.net did some actual reporting on it last week.
November 9, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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i wrote about shame, its role in our civic life, and why we need to make america ashamed again.
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A politics without shame can win elections. But it can’t build a country worth living in, writes @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social.
The Moral Lesson Buried in Last Week’s ‘Blue Wave’
America should feel shame again.
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November 11, 2025 at 12:35 AM
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Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. -Fyodor Dostoevsky
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The Latest Issue of Verse & Voice
Today's verse, voice, and prayer to inspire your day.
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November 11, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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"Attorney general races don’t typically end up on the national stage, but [Jay Jones'] did for morbid reasons, and there are some hard lessons for all of us here."
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The Moral Lesson Buried in Last Week’s ‘Blue Wave’
America should feel shame again.
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November 11, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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"The justices steered clear of [Obergefell v. Hodges] some 3.5 years after its conservative majority reversed abortion rights."
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Supreme Court Rejects Religious Bid to Overturn Same-Sex Marriage
In her appeal, lawyers for Kim Davis said that the same-sex marriage right is grounded in what they called the “legal fiction” of a principle called “substantive due process.” Davis has said same-sex…
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November 11, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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"In a culture of war and empire, it’s time to reclaim Nov. 11 as a day of peace." (2013)
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Honor Veterans Day by Working for Peace
In a culture of war and empire, it’s time to reclaim Nov. 11 as a day of peace.
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November 11, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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"This is the danger of the Military-Entertainment Complex: We’re invited to grab our popcorn and turn off our brains."
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'Top Gun: Maverick' Makes Pentagon Propaganda Fun
Tom Cruise stars in the the latest propaganda films designed to cement violence as the United States’ holy response to conflict.
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November 11, 2025 at 2:00 AM
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"That is the great paradox of the gospel: The revolution is not just external—it’s internal, relational, spiritual."
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Hope Is Not Optimism; Hope Is Defiance
If you’re feeling overwhelmed by the enormity of the world’s pain, remember that hope isn’t a feeling but a practice—it’s what you do and what you invite others to join.
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November 11, 2025 at 1:00 AM
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In light of Trump's latest round of pardons for people accused of attempting to overturn the 2020 presidential election, a piece from 1974 decrying the Watergate pardons as "outright favoritism."
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Who Pays for Pardons?
For the moment the proposals have subsided that President Ford might pardon not just Richard Nixon, but all those linked to the Watergate crimes.
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November 11, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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A politics without shame can win elections. But it can’t build a country worth living in, writes @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social.
The Moral Lesson Buried in Last Week’s ‘Blue Wave’
America should feel shame again.
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November 10, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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"Understanding the science behind our daily miracles doesn’t make them any less miraculous. It should do the opposite." (2018)
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How Faith and Science Work Together
Understanding the science behind our daily miracles doesn’t make them any less miraculous. It should do the opposite
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November 10, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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"landing uneasily in chaos /
wandering and wondering in the quantum universe /
God playing symphonies on strings
(Trevor Scott Barton, 2012)"
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Einstein's Compass
Editor's Note: Trevor Scott Barton wrote this poem after reading Subtle Is The Lord: The Science and the Life of Albert Einstein by Abraham Pais.
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November 10, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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The Supreme Court rejected on Monday a bid by a former Kentucky county official to overturn its landmark 2015 ruling legalizing same-sex marriage nationwide, Reuters reports.
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Supreme Court Rejects Religious Bid to Overturn Same-Sex Marriage
In her appeal, lawyers for Kim Davis said that the same-sex marriage right is grounded in what they called the “legal fiction” of a principle called “substantive due process.” Davis has said same-sex…
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November 10, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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November 10, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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Lord take my soul, but the struggle continues. -Ken Saro-Wiwa
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The Latest Issue of Verse & Voice
Today's verse, voice, and prayer to inspire your day.
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November 10, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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In 'Nervous Systems,' author Sara Billups grapples with “the dissonance between the head reading ‘do not worry’ and the heart worrying," writes @lizcoolj.bsky.social.
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Is It Possible Not To Worry?
In ‘Nervous Systems,’ Sara Billups shows how God meets us wherever anxiety dwells.
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November 10, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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"The giggles of children come to us. I soon realize it is a group of settler kids who storm down from the settlement. They curl their fingers into the shape of guns and take aim at us."
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The Noose Has Tightened in Palestine
With a ceasefire in place, it’s tempting to ignore the broader issues that Palestinians still face: Namely, increased settler violence and the state of Israel annexing more land.
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November 10, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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"For Jesus, that is what being a neighbor means: sacrifice, generosity, and abundant compassion flowing in a direction that defies all our norms and biases."
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Who Deserves SNAP? Jesus Has a Parable for That
When we start asking who is worthy of care, we've already lost the plot.
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November 10, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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"the bugs writhe in the snare /
the spider climbs to wrap each of them /
in the gloom of grace and light
(Benjamin Schmitt, 2021)"
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Spider
A poem.
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November 10, 2025 at 2:00 AM
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"As vividly and viscerally as we call on God to curse those responsible for white children’s deaths, may we also utter the same curses for those responsible for Black and brown children’s deaths. "
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Praying the Imprecatory Psalms Is an Act of Nonviolence
God, break the teeth of white supremacy. Tear out the fangs of misogyny, O Lord!
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November 9, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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"In the 15th century, Margery Kempe received the divine gift of weeping. When considering the multitude of spiritual powers God has bestowed, weeping is a peculiar one."
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Reclaiming Weeping as a Sacred Practice
Amanda Held Opelt's new book explores the lost rituals of grief.
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November 9, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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"One of the most momentous events of the past century was, in fact, an accident, a semicomical and bureaucratic mistake." (2017)
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The Mistake That Toppled the Berlin Wall
“One of the most momentous events of the past century was, in fact, an accident, a semicomical and bureaucratic mistake.”
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November 9, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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Every November, communities around the world hold remembrances on the anniversary of the Nazis’ brutal assault on the Jews during "Kristallnacht." (2019)
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The Forgotten Mass Destruction of Jewish Homes During ‘Kristallnacht’
Also known as “the Night of Broken Glass,” it’s one of the most closely scrutinized events in the history of Nazi Germany.
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November 9, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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"Bonnie Raitt seems to be handling it. And that gives great hope to others of us also finding our voice." (1991)
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The Rhythm of Bonnie's Blues
Bonnie Raitt's new offering tips her hand
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November 9, 2025 at 2:00 AM