It is difficult to know what to be on social for these days. The past two years, my attention has been in the book I am writing: #ArchitectofCreation, which is a book interpreting the gospel of St. John through its design. Contemplating posting nuggets I’ve learned along the way.

She is saying, in effect: "We are going to liberate the city from its democratically elected leadership using the military"

Noem’s Goons crossed the reddest of red lines by attacking and handcuffing a U.S. Senator. In times past Senators of both parties would have rallied behind their fellow Senator and called Noem and her henchmen into the Senate to demand their resignations. MAGA Senators will do nothing.

#ProudBlue

The gaslighting here is off the charts.

With a quiet, moderated voice, measured cadence, and downcast eyes, Johnson will gladly facilitate the disintegration of our government.

If this is how this administration responds to a Senator with a question, you can only imagine what they're doing to farmworkers, to cooks, and to day laborers throughout California and across the country.

We will hold this administration accountable.

An excerpt on Pentecost from my book in progress:

“In the early first century, the feast was a glorious annual convocation in Jerusalem for the Torah-commanded presentation of ‘firstfruits’ from the early summer wheat harvest,…”

Makes me think of the Rabbinic observation that the word Emet holds the extremities of the Creation Week Poem. The deceiver wants to create a world for his victim, an island of self-validated truth, but God already created humanity with an “Us” of solidarity (Gen. 1:27). Emet will outlast the island

BREAKING: Police just surrounded Rev. William Barber, prominent activist and pastor, as he and others prayed in the U.S. Capitol Rontunda.

Police then expelled everyone (including press!) from the Rotunda to (presumably) arrest them.

I've covered protests here a lot. Never seen anything like it.

Q: "How do you respond to Governor Newsom?"

Sen. Van Hollen: "I think Americans are tired of elected officials or politicians who are all finger to the wind...Anybody who can't stand up for the Constitution and the right of due process doesn't deserve to lead."

The President of the United States is openly threatening to send American citizens to foreign gulags.

As he defies the Supreme Court, undermines due process rights, and orders the DOJ to investigate political opponents, we are witnessing the sprint to autocracy right before our eyes.

Here is the situation if I’m understanding it correctly:

1. They are deporting lawful immigrants erroneously to prisons overseas

2. They are claiming no recourse to return these individuals

3. They say they are open to deporting citizens in the same way

Okay now Sens. Cory Booker and Chris Coons (a Yale Divinity School grad) are literally just having a lengthy discussion of scripture and the Bible on the Senate floor right now.

Religious left: still a thing.

Hineni! 🤚🏽

How Christianity with no eye able to fill with light reads.

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Take a moment today to read about a few of the young children whom Trump and Musk killed by shutting down USAID. The blame for these deaths falls on them.

There will be hundreds of thousands more dead kids before their lethal crusade against foreign aid ends. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

re the previous repost: if they can disappear permanent residents they can disappear citizens

My teachers, Safrai and Notley, masterfully press back on Questor claims this reading never took place.

This is important to prepare ahead for. Know what to watch. open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...

So the term “wabi-sabi” came about an interesting way. “…they appear to fill a gap in the Western vocabulary for talking about art and life – a leaning away from perfection, completion and excess, and a yearning toward leaving something undone, broken or unsaid.”

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