David Grishaw-Jones
@davidgrishawjones.bsky.social
Weaver of communities, clueless believer, lover of loons...my blog is VALLEY RISE UP at https://valleyriseup.blogspot.com/...
Candidates that take money from big money lobbies like AIPAC or the weapons industry should be voted down and voted out--Democrats and Republicans. Companies still profitting in any way from Israel's apartheid system of racist control and illegal settlements in the West Bank should be boycotted.
DISOBEDIENCE: "Getting Clear and Courageous Now"
Saturday Night / As Trump Decides If you're my age, you probably remember 2002 and 2003, the fog of 9/11, the maddening lies out of the Bush...
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June 22, 2025 at 12:34 AM
Candidates that take money from big money lobbies like AIPAC or the weapons industry should be voted down and voted out--Democrats and Republicans. Companies still profitting in any way from Israel's apartheid system of racist control and illegal settlements in the West Bank should be boycotted.
valleyriseup.blogspot.com/2025/06/sabb... Valley Rise Up: SABBATICAL 25: "Judean Desert, American Temptations"
SABBATICAL 25: "Judean Desert, American Temptations"
Wilderness / Sunday I packed hurriedly, accepted the counsel of trusted friends, and left Bethlehem quickly Sunday morning. "This time feel...
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June 17, 2025 at 4:51 PM
valleyriseup.blogspot.com/2025/06/sabb... Valley Rise Up: SABBATICAL 25: "Judean Desert, American Temptations"
Multiracial pluralistic democracy? That’s a threat to whom exactly? C’mon, Kristi. Let’s be serious.
The real enemy of this administration is cosmopolitanism. Whether in Los Angeles or South Africa, multiracial pluralistic democracy is a threat to them because it means their “us or them” model of the world is wrong. So they stir up trouble on purpose and gleefully lie.
Kristi Noem calls Los Angeles a “city of criminals”
“They are not city of immigrants, they are a city of criminals”
“They are not city of immigrants, they are a city of criminals”
June 10, 2025 at 6:34 AM
Multiracial pluralistic democracy? That’s a threat to whom exactly? C’mon, Kristi. Let’s be serious.
The possibility of power...the promise of liberation...and what kind of spirituality might meet this moment with resilient hope...
21: "Pentecost and Palestine: Powerful Together"
My grace is sufficient for you, for power is made perfect in weakness. 2 Corinthians 12:9 Monday Morning / Area C Most mornings, when I've h...
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June 9, 2025 at 6:58 PM
The possibility of power...the promise of liberation...and what kind of spirituality might meet this moment with resilient hope...
Changed my faith, changed my preaching and teaching, changed my activism, changed my life...
Walter Brueggemann, influential biblical scholar, dies at 92
His books were influential primarily with clergy, but through their sermons Brueggeman’s concepts have become familiar to many churchgoers.
His books were influential primarily with clergy, but through their sermons Brueggeman’s concepts have become familiar to many churchgoers.
Walter Brueggemann, influential biblical scholar, dies at 92 - The Presbyterian Outlook
Walter Brueggemann's books were influential with clergy, but his concepts have become familiar to many churchgoers.
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June 6, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Changed my faith, changed my preaching and teaching, changed my activism, changed my life...
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Walter Brueggemann, influential biblical scholar, dies at 92
His books were influential primarily with clergy, but through their sermons Brueggeman’s concepts have become familiar to many churchgoers.
His books were influential primarily with clergy, but through their sermons Brueggeman’s concepts have become familiar to many churchgoers.
Walter Brueggemann, influential biblical scholar, dies at 92 - The Presbyterian Outlook
Walter Brueggemann's books were influential with clergy, but his concepts have become familiar to many churchgoers.
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June 6, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Walter Brueggemann, influential biblical scholar, dies at 92
His books were influential primarily with clergy, but through their sermons Brueggeman’s concepts have become familiar to many churchgoers.
His books were influential primarily with clergy, but through their sermons Brueggeman’s concepts have become familiar to many churchgoers.
A Poem, or Maybe a Prayer
POEM: "As the Madleen Sails to Gaza"
Sailors, Madleen She sails toward catasrophe, but only such sailors can save us now: bearing in her berth medicines and instruments of heali...
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June 6, 2025 at 6:30 PM
A Poem, or Maybe a Prayer
How do you human communities maintain spirt and resistance in the face of inhumanity and cruelty?
SABBATICAL 18: "Walls, Tables and Beloved Communities"
Tuesday Morning, My View It's a few minutes past ten on a Tuesday, and I'm working at in a shady courtyard at Wi'am , the Palestinian Confl...
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June 3, 2025 at 7:59 AM
How do you human communities maintain spirt and resistance in the face of inhumanity and cruelty?
A poem exploring the land between grief and possibility...
POEM: "Jubilee"
Our Lady Who Brings Down Walls After Luke 4:18-19 Somewhere along apartheid's seam God grieves, Mary weeps, our sister Preaching not with wo...
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May 26, 2025 at 6:59 PM
A poem exploring the land between grief and possibility...
May 21, 2025 at 5:47 PM
May 21, 2025 at 6:13 AM
Notes from a West Bank neighborhood: "Let Us Live."
'Let us live', a message from the West Bank: Grishaw-Jones
As I sit down to write tonight, my Palestinian hosts are steeling themselves for news of a renewed Israeli assault on the civilians of Gaza,
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May 20, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Notes from a West Bank neighborhood: "Let Us Live."
Not sure whether poetry is just another extravagance in a season of genocide...but in case it makes any difference at all...
A POEM: "Monday Morning, Palestine"
Monday Morning, Palestine Two flights below a wave of kids Hauling backbacks bigger than they are Poke one another and laugh As they clim...
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May 20, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Not sure whether poetry is just another extravagance in a season of genocide...but in case it makes any difference at all...
When strong and dynamic communities—committed to justice, mercy and mutual aid—imagine a way of healing and humility…
SABBATICAL 7: "A Base Community in Bethlehem"
Wednesday Afternoon / Wi'am in Bethlehem At its best, the Jesus Movement is a thick and interdependent network of 'base communities' (a nod ...
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May 18, 2025 at 10:48 PM
When strong and dynamic communities—committed to justice, mercy and mutual aid—imagine a way of healing and humility…
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The siege of Gaza has been enforced for 70+ days and the suffering of the people is appalling. Please fast for Gaza as a simple but powerful campaign to tell politicians and leaders that we need action. End the siege and get food and supplies into Gaza to save the people. Use #fastforgaza and share.
May 17, 2025 at 7:30 AM
The siege of Gaza has been enforced for 70+ days and the suffering of the people is appalling. Please fast for Gaza as a simple but powerful campaign to tell politicians and leaders that we need action. End the siege and get food and supplies into Gaza to save the people. Use #fastforgaza and share.
Nonviolence is anti-occupation.
SABBATICAL 4: "Nonviolence is Anti-Occupation"
Tuesday Afternoon, Hebron Issa Amro (founder, Youth Against Settlements) and Jeff Halper (Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions) have ...
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May 7, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Nonviolence is anti-occupation.
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March 22, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Empathy is resistance!
HOMILY: "This Jericho Road"
A Meditation on the Parable of the Samaritan (Luke 10:25-37) Sunday, March 16, 2025 1. Samaritan and Christ Four Sundays from now we’ll be w...
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March 16, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Empathy is resistance!
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Full acceptance speech youtu.be/3gzo7PiFiaM
'No Other Land' Wins Best Documentary Feature Film | 97th Oscars Speech (2025)
YouTube video by Oscars
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March 3, 2025 at 3:52 AM
Full acceptance speech youtu.be/3gzo7PiFiaM
"...Eva Castillo of the NH Alliance for Immigrants and Refugees said participating in the task force program was going to be a “disaster.” She cited the potential for harm due to racial profiling and a decrease of trust between the police and communities of color..."
NH state troopers, local police seek to participate in immigration efforts
The New Hampshire State Police, the Gorham police department and the Belknap County Sheriff's Office are all seeking to join a program that deputizes local police officers to carry out federal immigra...
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March 2, 2025 at 8:46 PM
"...Eva Castillo of the NH Alliance for Immigrants and Refugees said participating in the task force program was going to be a “disaster.” She cited the potential for harm due to racial profiling and a decrease of trust between the police and communities of color..."
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Progress in Congress: Opportunities Amid the Chaos
This Week in the World: Progress in Congress: Opportunities Amid the Chaos | Friends Committee On National Legislation
The second Trump administration has been marked by chaos and rising threats of authoritarianism, oligarchy, and White Christian nationalism.
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March 2, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Progress in Congress: Opportunities Amid the Chaos
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I stand with Ukraine.
I stand with Palestine.
I stand with Western Sahara.
End the occupations!
I stand with Palestine.
I stand with Western Sahara.
End the occupations!
March 1, 2025 at 4:54 AM
I stand with Ukraine.
I stand with Palestine.
I stand with Western Sahara.
End the occupations!
I stand with Palestine.
I stand with Western Sahara.
End the occupations!