Doug Clement (he/him)
@dclement06.bsky.social
United Methodist pastor. Loves: history, travel, and time spent with friends.
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We refuse anything less as the destination. The future is one where every church is practicing and preaching the truth, the life, the freedom, and the blessing that is only reflected with full queer welcome, inclusion, affirmation, belonging, and leadership at every level.
November 27, 2025 at 7:57 AM
We refuse anything less as the destination. The future is one where every church is practicing and preaching the truth, the life, the freedom, and the blessing that is only reflected with full queer welcome, inclusion, affirmation, belonging, and leadership at every level.
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Have the courage to say so. Have the willingness to exclude the intolerant beliefs and opinions while honoring the need to listen, learn, grow, influence, and teach. It's not about excluding individuals; it's about setting our doctrinal truth, our policies, our reason for being.
November 27, 2025 at 7:57 AM
Have the courage to say so. Have the willingness to exclude the intolerant beliefs and opinions while honoring the need to listen, learn, grow, influence, and teach. It's not about excluding individuals; it's about setting our doctrinal truth, our policies, our reason for being.
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No one is illegal in the eyes of God.
November 20, 2025 at 11:46 PM
No one is illegal in the eyes of God.
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If Jesus said his disciples would be known by their love for others, then when we claim to follow him but we are known for our bullying, our mockery, our callousness, and our contempt for others, we are actively taking his name in vain.
Love must be our reputation.
Love must be our reputation.
November 19, 2025 at 5:58 PM
If Jesus said his disciples would be known by their love for others, then when we claim to follow him but we are known for our bullying, our mockery, our callousness, and our contempt for others, we are actively taking his name in vain.
Love must be our reputation.
Love must be our reputation.
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In Ps.136:5 today: '[God] who by understanding made the heavens, for his steadfast love endures forever.' Understanding creates. Understanding creates more than can be seen. If we were more than the algorithms tell us to be, who might we become? Understanding is my work today.
November 11, 2025 at 12:20 PM
In Ps.136:5 today: '[God] who by understanding made the heavens, for his steadfast love endures forever.' Understanding creates. Understanding creates more than can be seen. If we were more than the algorithms tell us to be, who might we become? Understanding is my work today.
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“Suddenly they (the demons) shouted, ‘What have you to do with us, Son of God? Have you come here to torment us before the time?’”
Feds Tell Faith Leaders 'No More Prayer' Outside Broadview Facility
In a possible violation of the First Amendment, federal officials instructed demonstrators to stop holding religious gatherings outside the immigration processing facility in suburban Broadview after ...
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November 10, 2025 at 1:15 AM
“Suddenly they (the demons) shouted, ‘What have you to do with us, Son of God? Have you come here to torment us before the time?’”
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In Ps.137:4: 'How could we sing the Lord's song in a foreign land?' Exile, said Bruggemann, is the experience of living in moral incongruence. Denying SNAP benefits. Tear-gassing neighborhoods. Yet I am here to sing the Lord's song of compassion & justice. Sing is my work today.
November 10, 2025 at 12:22 PM
In Ps.137:4: 'How could we sing the Lord's song in a foreign land?' Exile, said Bruggemann, is the experience of living in moral incongruence. Denying SNAP benefits. Tear-gassing neighborhoods. Yet I am here to sing the Lord's song of compassion & justice. Sing is my work today.
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In Ps.143:8 today: 'Show me the way I should go, because I offer my life up to you.' Ours is a pilgrimage of offering. We offer compassion & mercy. Generosity & service. How is your life an offering? Our presence is needed to heal the public square. Offer is my work today.
November 4, 2025 at 12:10 PM
In Ps.143:8 today: 'Show me the way I should go, because I offer my life up to you.' Ours is a pilgrimage of offering. We offer compassion & mercy. Generosity & service. How is your life an offering? Our presence is needed to heal the public square. Offer is my work today.
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This substack has me reflecting this morning that the government shutdown is the polar opposite of Kairos (God-time). It is the opposite of living in holy space-time. Rather, our lawmakers hold, neither restful nor productive for the common good, abiding in demonic presence.
People like @sarahkendzior.bsky.social who writes an amazing substack:
sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/the-shutdown
sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/the-shutdown
The Shutdown
It was always the plan.
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November 4, 2025 at 1:32 PM
This substack has me reflecting this morning that the government shutdown is the polar opposite of Kairos (God-time). It is the opposite of living in holy space-time. Rather, our lawmakers hold, neither restful nor productive for the common good, abiding in demonic presence.
"Hope of the world, thou Christ of great compassion,
speak to our fearful hearts by conflict rent.
Save us, thy people, from consuming passion,
who by our own false hopes and aims are spent."
-- ("Hope of the World", UMH 178)
speak to our fearful hearts by conflict rent.
Save us, thy people, from consuming passion,
who by our own false hopes and aims are spent."
-- ("Hope of the World", UMH 178)
November 3, 2025 at 2:23 PM
"Hope of the world, thou Christ of great compassion,
speak to our fearful hearts by conflict rent.
Save us, thy people, from consuming passion,
who by our own false hopes and aims are spent."
-- ("Hope of the World", UMH 178)
speak to our fearful hearts by conflict rent.
Save us, thy people, from consuming passion,
who by our own false hopes and aims are spent."
-- ("Hope of the World", UMH 178)
Not sure who decided verses 42-43 were the list of things we were suppose to be trying to accomplish as a society, but they seem to be batting a thousand so far...
Bible Gateway passage: Matthew 25:31-46 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
The Judgment of the Nations - “When the Son of Man comes in his glory and all the angels with him, then he will sit on the throne of his glory. All the nations will be gathered before him, and he will...
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October 30, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Not sure who decided verses 42-43 were the list of things we were suppose to be trying to accomplish as a society, but they seem to be batting a thousand so far...
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Had the rare joy of preaching this Sunday, looking at Prayer. Here's a little bit of what I said...
October 28, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Had the rare joy of preaching this Sunday, looking at Prayer. Here's a little bit of what I said...
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Food bank director: “for every meal that a food bank provides, the SNAP program provides nine. There’s no way we can meet that gap.”
October 27, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Food bank director: “for every meal that a food bank provides, the SNAP program provides nine. There’s no way we can meet that gap.”
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As a Church leader for the past 20 years, this talk is cruel, wrong, and antidemocratic. Religious nonprofits are not a substitute for what we agree to do collectively in a democracy via taxes. We don’t have the capacity or infrastructure. We actually don’t want religions acting as FEMA. We can’t.
“Just go to a food bank, a church or a charity”
For every meal the food bank provides, the SNAP program provides 9.
Even if donations are rapidly scaled up, they won’t be able to meet the needs of 42 million Americans who are about to go hungry.
It’s not sustainable.
For every meal the food bank provides, the SNAP program provides 9.
Even if donations are rapidly scaled up, they won’t be able to meet the needs of 42 million Americans who are about to go hungry.
It’s not sustainable.
October 28, 2025 at 11:33 AM
As a Church leader for the past 20 years, this talk is cruel, wrong, and antidemocratic. Religious nonprofits are not a substitute for what we agree to do collectively in a democracy via taxes. We don’t have the capacity or infrastructure. We actually don’t want religions acting as FEMA. We can’t.
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In Ps. 150:6 today: 'Let everything that has breath praise (FNV).' Our breath arrives as a gift & is a reminder that God is the life-giver. All who breathe can bear witness to our frailty & dignity. Engage social capital. Make small talk. Serve goodness. Praise is my work today.
October 28, 2025 at 12:11 PM
In Ps. 150:6 today: 'Let everything that has breath praise (FNV).' Our breath arrives as a gift & is a reminder that God is the life-giver. All who breathe can bear witness to our frailty & dignity. Engage social capital. Make small talk. Serve goodness. Praise is my work today.
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If there is among you a poor man, one of your brethren, in any of your towns within your land which the Lord your God gives you, you shall not harden your heart or shut your hand against your poor brother, but you shall open your hand to him, and lend him sufficient for his need, whatever it may be.
October 27, 2025 at 3:37 AM
If there is among you a poor man, one of your brethren, in any of your towns within your land which the Lord your God gives you, you shall not harden your heart or shut your hand against your poor brother, but you shall open your hand to him, and lend him sufficient for his need, whatever it may be.
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He who mocks the poor insults his Maker; he who is glad at calamity will not go unpunished.
—Proverbs 17:5
—Proverbs 17:5
October 27, 2025 at 3:28 AM
He who mocks the poor insults his Maker; he who is glad at calamity will not go unpunished.
—Proverbs 17:5
—Proverbs 17:5
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The people of the land have practiced extortion and committed robbery; they have oppressed the poor and needy, and have extorted from the sojourner without redress.
—Ezekiel 22:29
—Ezekiel 22:29
October 27, 2025 at 3:23 AM
The people of the land have practiced extortion and committed robbery; they have oppressed the poor and needy, and have extorted from the sojourner without redress.
—Ezekiel 22:29
—Ezekiel 22:29
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2/2 It’s easy to point to others & dismiss them as following false stories. The real work is asking: What false stories do I stubbornly hold as true? What teachers do I follow because they keep me comfortable rather than challenging me? How do I embody & share the good teaching of the Good News?
October 26, 2025 at 1:57 PM
2/2 It’s easy to point to others & dismiss them as following false stories. The real work is asking: What false stories do I stubbornly hold as true? What teachers do I follow because they keep me comfortable rather than challenging me? How do I embody & share the good teaching of the Good News?
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We are responsible for one another. Our lives are intertwined and to live in denial of that means that we deny the call of Christ to be his hands and feet in the world; loving, helping, and healing.
October 24, 2025 at 8:01 PM
We are responsible for one another. Our lives are intertwined and to live in denial of that means that we deny the call of Christ to be his hands and feet in the world; loving, helping, and healing.
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…and the ability to live safely in society regardless of their gender identity, race, economic status, sexual orientation, dis/ability, national origin, language(s), or religion.
October 24, 2025 at 8:00 PM
…and the ability to live safely in society regardless of their gender identity, race, economic status, sexual orientation, dis/ability, national origin, language(s), or religion.
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Love of neighbor means caring for a person’s wellbeing; which means making sure they have access to healthy food, clean water, safe and stable housing, comprehensive medical care, a living wage,…
October 24, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Love of neighbor means caring for a person’s wellbeing; which means making sure they have access to healthy food, clean water, safe and stable housing, comprehensive medical care, a living wage,…
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Given the way that various justice issues get affiliated with partisan politics in the US I understand why people get upset about politics in church, but here’s the thing, issues of human rights, social justice, and peacemaking are political and they of the upmost concern to Jesus.
October 24, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Given the way that various justice issues get affiliated with partisan politics in the US I understand why people get upset about politics in church, but here’s the thing, issues of human rights, social justice, and peacemaking are political and they of the upmost concern to Jesus.
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Let me rephrase - I get people like a redemption story. I just find attempting to do something interesting with BIPOC trying to build something new after fascism way more worthwhile and interesting, especially because our culture makes that hard to envision. We must always be victims or fighters.
October 24, 2025 at 3:36 AM
Let me rephrase - I get people like a redemption story. I just find attempting to do something interesting with BIPOC trying to build something new after fascism way more worthwhile and interesting, especially because our culture makes that hard to envision. We must always be victims or fighters.
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In Ps. 10:17 today: 'You have heard the desperate cry of the humble. You will make their hearts strong & bend your ear to their prayers (FNV).' God makes hearts strong for nonviolent resistance to injustice & hearts strong to face our truth. Strong-heartedness is my work today.
October 18, 2025 at 12:40 PM
In Ps. 10:17 today: 'You have heard the desperate cry of the humble. You will make their hearts strong & bend your ear to their prayers (FNV).' God makes hearts strong for nonviolent resistance to injustice & hearts strong to face our truth. Strong-heartedness is my work today.