“More than seven decades later, the 79-year-old Sanford grandfather – still a man without a country – found himself in legal limbo in the Alligator Alcatraz detention camp in the Everglades, picked up on a decades-old deportation order authorities had previously chosen not to enforce.”

I no longer know enough about evangelicalism to know who the gatekeepers are. I still know enough to know that it’s been years since CT was one.

So you’re exactly right, I think.

Oh for a shy little timid cat, Astrid has a surprisingly strong little personality. 😹🥰☺️

Maybe some spiritual writers could write about that, in addition to how great trees are and how wonderful it is they loved bugs as children.

The eschaton is the heavenly Jerusalem (a city), not a return to the garden.

I am sometimes moved to the point of bursting by the beauty of the city at night, by the people who have labored to make it beautiful, by the reality that we do not have the option to ignore each other, by the knowledge that all we have is one another.

If anyone says, “I love God [in the forest],” but hates their brother or sister [begging for money on the subway], they are a liar; for whoever does not love a sibling whom they have seen cannot love God whom they have not seen.