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🤝 What does it mean to seek unity amid deep divisions?

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I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy.

I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.

Today’s issue of A Public Witness features a guest essay from @drewstrait.bsky.social centered on four creative proposals to disrupt Christian Nationalism within a distinctively Christian vernacular.

🌍 Explore the link between spirituality and our material bodies!

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This isn’t over yet. Spread the word.

Republicans' Big, Beautiful Bill would:

— Kick 16 million off their health care
— Close 1 out of 4 nursing homes
— Hike your energy bills
— Add at least $4 trillion to the national debt

It’s a gift to the rich and a disaster for families.

i think it should be a bigger story that the president held a meeting with a foreign head of state where he ranted about the most gutter white supremacist propaganda you can find on the internet

This is really good, and maybe it will reach you at the right moment.

Make your calls. Go to your town halls. Ask your state and local officials what they are doing under state and local law. Rest. Hydrate. Make soup for the hungry. Don’t let people tell you that you’re doing it wrong. Not a sprint. Not a marathon. A relay. Find your team. Thank you.

It is time to be the church and this will look like many things, including lawsuits. Mennonite Church USA et al vs. Department of Homeland Security et al.

This has been a very racist week

The most common question I receive is how everyday citizens can help in the fight for democracy. My advice, take the first step, start with something small and see what works for you. Here are ten things all of us can do. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/10-t...

Take your lunch with AMBS! This lunchtime colloquium, Peace Theology in Movement, will explore the Mennonite Action movement as a living expression of Mennonite Peace theology.
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"'Dawn of the Nugget' is more than just a movie with goofy, anthropomorphized chickens. It is a movie about collective liberation, perfectly suited for our fraught and hurting world," Greta Lapp Klassen writes.

“Sometimes I drive like my father: smooth yet efficient, elegant yet slightly aggressive, ready to take advantage of better pathways…Sometimes I drive like my mother, with a frenetic energy, on high alert for danger, scattered.”

More at the link below.

Ah, here is the parody account I used to follow in the other place. It offers fake headlines inspired by maddening real headlines. I find it oddly soothing. bsky.app/profile/nytp...

I really need to find a piano partner to make it through the next four years. www.instagram.com/reel/DCkl2St...