Wilson Gunn
wilsongunn.bsky.social
Wilson Gunn
@wilsongunn.bsky.social
Retired Presbytery Executive/Pastor
BA, MDiv, ThM, PhD
Voracious reader
Musician, Artist, Husband, Father, GRANDFATHER!
Here is credible scientific research regarding the ACTIONS of Republican led state legislatures that reveal their plutocratic intent to enrich the rich and endow the privileged with more power.

economicsfromthetopdown.com/2025/01/31/p...
Partisan Politics and the Road to Plutocracy – Economics from the Top Down
In this essay, I take a deep dive into the history of American plutocracy and its conspicuously Republican roots.
economicsfromthetopdown.com
March 17, 2025 at 10:28 PM
America voted for this evil flowing from this administration? If so may God have mercy on our souls.
February 16, 2025 at 12:01 PM
OF THE EMPIRE

part 3
And they will say that this structure was held together politically, which it was, and they will say also that our politics was no more than an apparatus to accommodate the feelings of the heart, and that the heart, in those days, was small, and hard, and full of meanness.
February 16, 2025 at 11:56 AM
OF THE EMPIRE
-Mary Oliver
(Part two)
We will be known as a culture that taught and rewarded the amassing of things, that spoke little if at all about the quality of life for people (other people), for dogs, for rivers.

All the world, in our eyes, they will say, was a commodity.

from Red Bird
February 16, 2025 at 11:54 AM
OF THE EMPIRE
-Mary Oliver
(Part one)
We will be known as a culture that feared death and adored power, that tried to vanquish insecurity for the few and cared little for the penury of the many.

from Red Bird (2008)
February 16, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Churches and Synagogues are suing ICE for its unConstitutional violation of sanctuary. The Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) among them.

www.npr.org/2025/02/11/g...
27 religious groups sue Trump administration over immigration enforcement policy
27 religious groups are suing the federal government in response to the Trump administration's policy giving immigration agents more leeway to make arrests at "sensitive locations" like churches.
www.npr.org
February 12, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Eleanor Duffield asked me to share this January 26 sermon by Mindy Douglas. Sermon at 25:41. Eric, the cantor, is excellent also just ahead of the sermon.
www.youtube.com/live/msVEihe...
FPC Worship - January 26, 2025
YouTube video by First Presbyterian Church - Durham, NC
www.youtube.com
January 28, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Absent a fair trial due to delays, and a stacked Supreme Court, we can only conclude he is guilty as charged.
January 15, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Notice anything in this picture?

J. Gordon Kingsley, said, a leader's role is “to learn the song of the tribe in order to sing the song of the tribe so that others can find their place in the song and together write the next verse.” He refuses to sing it. I will remember the true song of the tribe.
January 12, 2025 at 1:30 PM
This article in the Atlantic highlights the idolatry of the evangelical right and their threat to democracy.

Important read.

www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
The Army of God Comes Out of the Shadows
Tens of millions of American Christians are embracing a charismatic movement known as the New Apostolic Reformation, which seeks to destroy the secular state.
www.theatlantic.com
January 11, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Another mobile I created from rescued plexiglass.
January 9, 2025 at 12:29 PM
My most recent mobile.
January 9, 2025 at 12:20 PM