Andrew Stehlik
@andrewgoldfinch.bsky.social
Presbyterian pastor, student of theology, anthropology and Ancient Near East religions.
Our Christmas gingerbread cookies inscribed with a message in the Ugaritic cuneiform script - barş šlm.
Come to Rutgers Church on this Christmas Eve to receive one.
Come to Rutgers Church on this Christmas Eve to receive one.
December 15, 2025 at 3:36 AM
Our Christmas gingerbread cookies inscribed with a message in the Ugaritic cuneiform script - barş šlm.
Come to Rutgers Church on this Christmas Eve to receive one.
Come to Rutgers Church on this Christmas Eve to receive one.
A statement of my church, rejecting dangerous hate speech.
December 14, 2025 at 12:27 PM
A statement of my church, rejecting dangerous hate speech.
Isaiah 35 - A maze is not a labyrinth! In this short reflection, discover why the difference matters for the spiritual life — and why a single winding path can calm the mind, heal the soul, and echo Isaiah’s promise of “a way on which no one shall get lost.”
youtube.com/shorts/boIS0...
youtube.com/shorts/boIS0...
Izaiah 35 and the biblical labyrinth?
YouTube video by Rutgers Church
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December 11, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Isaiah 35 - A maze is not a labyrinth! In this short reflection, discover why the difference matters for the spiritual life — and why a single winding path can calm the mind, heal the soul, and echo Isaiah’s promise of “a way on which no one shall get lost.”
youtube.com/shorts/boIS0...
youtube.com/shorts/boIS0...
Something close to my spiritual "animistic" heart.
"Mythic Ecology" - No Salvation without Creation" #EcoSpirituality #isaiah11
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"Mythic Ecology" - No Salvation without Creation" #EcoSpirituality #isaiah11
youtube.com/shorts/itJ-s...
"Mythic Ecology" - No Salvation without Creation" #EcoSpirituality #isaiah11
YouTube video by Rutgers Church
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December 4, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Something close to my spiritual "animistic" heart.
"Mythic Ecology" - No Salvation without Creation" #EcoSpirituality #isaiah11
youtube.com/shorts/itJ-s...
"Mythic Ecology" - No Salvation without Creation" #EcoSpirituality #isaiah11
youtube.com/shorts/itJ-s...
The 2025-09-06 Sunrise in NYC. The Sun this high above the horizon should not be photographable! It was because of the smoke from wildfires in British Colombia - a continent away!
I was even able to capture four sunspots without any special filters and with just my daily universal lens.
I was even able to capture four sunspots without any special filters and with just my daily universal lens.
September 7, 2025 at 1:24 AM
The 2025-09-06 Sunrise in NYC. The Sun this high above the horizon should not be photographable! It was because of the smoke from wildfires in British Colombia - a continent away!
I was even able to capture four sunspots without any special filters and with just my daily universal lens.
I was even able to capture four sunspots without any special filters and with just my daily universal lens.
Ever thought that Jesus could sound like a military strategist? 🪖 His words about kings at war may echo real battles in his own time.
A parable about war, peace, and power has more political bite than you might think. Was Jesus teaching strategy, or subverting it?
youtube.com/shorts/Vy6SS...
A parable about war, peace, and power has more political bite than you might think. Was Jesus teaching strategy, or subverting it?
youtube.com/shorts/Vy6SS...
Jesus on War -- Strategy of Peace
YouTube video by Rutgers Church
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September 4, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Ever thought that Jesus could sound like a military strategist? 🪖 His words about kings at war may echo real battles in his own time.
A parable about war, peace, and power has more political bite than you might think. Was Jesus teaching strategy, or subverting it?
youtube.com/shorts/Vy6SS...
A parable about war, peace, and power has more political bite than you might think. Was Jesus teaching strategy, or subverting it?
youtube.com/shorts/Vy6SS...
Another recent short homily - this time a little about my ordination and radical liberation teaching and practice of Jesus. A link to the YouTube recording is again in my first comment.
August 27, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Another recent short homily - this time a little about my ordination and radical liberation teaching and practice of Jesus. A link to the YouTube recording is again in my first comment.
Lovely alignment of planets on the 26th of August morning.
August 27, 2025 at 10:46 AM
Lovely alignment of planets on the 26th of August morning.
This was an environmental and activist homily on the text which is not that often preached on - Luke 12:54-59 - interpreting an ancient urgent eschatological message for our times. (Link to a YouTube in comments.)
August 27, 2025 at 10:43 AM
This was an environmental and activist homily on the text which is not that often preached on - Luke 12:54-59 - interpreting an ancient urgent eschatological message for our times. (Link to a YouTube in comments.)
On the first evening of summer I saw my first fireflies! In my homeland we call them Saint John’s Flies - so it was full four days before their holiday!
June 21, 2025 at 12:43 AM
On the first evening of summer I saw my first fireflies! In my homeland we call them Saint John’s Flies - so it was full four days before their holiday!
These are real strawberries from our CSA (community supported agriculture).
Can you discern differences with those from supermarkets? And that makes them so much more real and delicious!
Can you discern differences with those from supermarkets? And that makes them so much more real and delicious!
June 5, 2025 at 9:38 AM
These are real strawberries from our CSA (community supported agriculture).
Can you discern differences with those from supermarkets? And that makes them so much more real and delicious!
Can you discern differences with those from supermarkets? And that makes them so much more real and delicious!
To celebrate the international day of bees - the 20th of May - I post this short video with happy bees of my sister in Czech-Moravian Highlands.
May 20, 2025 at 8:00 AM
To celebrate the international day of bees - the 20th of May - I post this short video with happy bees of my sister in Czech-Moravian Highlands.
A stork above our ancestral village.
May 12, 2025 at 11:41 AM
A stork above our ancestral village.
Traveling by trolleybus in Brno - first time in more than thirty years!
May 9, 2025 at 4:28 AM
Traveling by trolleybus in Brno - first time in more than thirty years!
Wine cellars of Pavlov.
In ice age people could survive here and hunt mammoths, in interglacial period they can grow here vitis vinifera.
In ice age people could survive here and hunt mammoths, in interglacial period they can grow here vitis vinifera.
May 7, 2025 at 4:57 AM
Wine cellars of Pavlov.
In ice age people could survive here and hunt mammoths, in interglacial period they can grow here vitis vinifera.
In ice age people could survive here and hunt mammoths, in interglacial period they can grow here vitis vinifera.
Venus of Dolní Věstonice - one of the very first examples of stone-age pottery circa 26,000 BP predating functional pottery from China by eight thousand years and predating Middle East pottery by almost 20,000 years!
May 6, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Venus of Dolní Věstonice - one of the very first examples of stone-age pottery circa 26,000 BP predating functional pottery from China by eight thousand years and predating Middle East pottery by almost 20,000 years!
Easter Jesus of Velke Pavlovice - celebrating resurrection as is appropriate for someone who begin his ministry by changing water into at least 150 gallons of choicest wine.
May 6, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Easter Jesus of Velke Pavlovice - celebrating resurrection as is appropriate for someone who begin his ministry by changing water into at least 150 gallons of choicest wine.
Velke Pavlovice - the resurrected with a chalice of wine.
May 6, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Velke Pavlovice - the resurrected with a chalice of wine.
Artdeco Church in Jablonec nad Nisou. Great example of the German version of this style combining flair and austerity. It was built for the Old Catholic Church denomination.
May 6, 2025 at 5:03 AM
Artdeco Church in Jablonec nad Nisou. Great example of the German version of this style combining flair and austerity. It was built for the Old Catholic Church denomination.
Someone should tell the Enterprise/Alamo rental car company that both Ivrit (modern Hebrew) and Arabic are written from right to left. What they have written actually reads LIZID or something like that!
May 5, 2025 at 5:46 AM
Someone should tell the Enterprise/Alamo rental car company that both Ivrit (modern Hebrew) and Arabic are written from right to left. What they have written actually reads LIZID or something like that!
Liberec Botanical Garden - outside collection - Purple Pasqueflower from mountain meadows.
May 5, 2025 at 4:02 AM
Liberec Botanical Garden - outside collection - Purple Pasqueflower from mountain meadows.
Liberec Botanical Garden, outside collection - local plain anemone blooming and waving in cold spring wind.
May 5, 2025 at 3:57 AM
Liberec Botanical Garden, outside collection - local plain anemone blooming and waving in cold spring wind.
The Colours of Europe (European Union) in the Liberec Botanical Garden - Alpine Bluebell and Kingcup
May 5, 2025 at 3:53 AM
The Colours of Europe (European Union) in the Liberec Botanical Garden - Alpine Bluebell and Kingcup
Family (Martina’s side) at the mountain chalet(log structure) for a lunch in my native mountains. They love it, because it was vacation place for them - I am more or less indifferent as I grew up there and don’t think much of it.
May 3, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Family (Martina’s side) at the mountain chalet(log structure) for a lunch in my native mountains. They love it, because it was vacation place for them - I am more or less indifferent as I grew up there and don’t think much of it.
City hall in my native town.
May 3, 2025 at 4:47 PM
City hall in my native town.