Eileen Altman
eileenaltman.bsky.social
Eileen Altman
@eileenaltman.bsky.social
First Congregational Church of Palo Alto UCC Associate Pastor
The Big Beautiful Bill could also be called the Pro NBS Life Bill, aka Pro Nasty, Brutish, and Short Lives.
June 5, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Good Friday Now
The cross of imperial violence
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April 19, 2025 at 7:59 PM
My dear friend, Rabbi Amy Eilberg, in conversation with her daughter. There is SO much wisdom and love in this conversation, and I believe it points us toward a pathway to peace in Palestine/Israel. ayinpress.org/the-distance...
The Distance We Have to Travel: Snapshot of an Intergenerational Jewish Conversation after October 7th
Letters between an American rabbi and her daughter in the wake of October 7th and the war in Gaza.
ayinpress.org
April 16, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Israeli impunity, the inability and unwillingness to enforce rules and laws, and lack of access and coverage by international journalists
The Massacre of the Ambulances — Friends of Sabeel North America www.fosna.org/the-fosna-bl...
The Massacre of the Ambulances — Friends of Sabeel North America
by Jonathan Kuttab On March 23, 2025, Israel committed yet another massacre that seemed to mark a new low in its assault on Gaza. 15 paramedics and first responders, in clearly marked vehicles, were...
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April 6, 2025 at 4:52 AM
Wisdom, read beautifully.

Twenty Lessons, read by John Lithgow open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...
Twenty Lessons, read by John Lithgow
Key selections from On Tyranny, for viewing and sharing
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March 31, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Reposted by Eileen Altman
Yes, overwhelm is the point, but it’s not the only point. The cruelty is the point. The lies. The destruction of our Constitutional order. These things are also the point.

open.substack.com/pub/kristind...
Let's be honest
Taking stock of where we are
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March 27, 2025 at 3:29 PM
I encountered the word “gumption” today, a word I heard often in my childhood in the South, but rarely in my almost 30 years in California. I created a little poem with it.
Courage
It takes little, daily acts of gumption.
Finding the things we can do.
Listening to what exactly it is that scares.
March 27, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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No matter your station in life, there is astoundingly little separating you from those men in that cage behind Kristi Noem. No charges, no attorneys, no hearings, no trial. Just conjecture and brute force could be enough to justify completely dehumanizing you, too.
March 27, 2025 at 12:52 PM
And I am grateful to be a participant in this retreat
I've been having a great couple of days at a retreat where I'm talking about how vulnerability, compassion, and empathy -- all prized virtues in most spiritual traditions -- have been politicized and redefined....

Really good stuff, great questions -- smart, informed folks here.
March 26, 2025 at 4:43 AM
So I guess we’re outsourcing our torture to El Salvador now.
March 17, 2025 at 1:28 AM
What is Happening in the West Bank? www.fosna.org/the-fosna-bl...
March 15, 2025 at 10:15 PM
This golden age is made of fools gold
March 11, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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American Christians would do well to remember that when it came down to a struggle between Jesus and Caesar, Caesar was the bad guy.
March 9, 2025 at 1:37 AM
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I'm not sure that the mainstream media understands that the test run for much of what is happening right now was the Fundamentalist takeover of the Southern Baptist Convention in the 1980s.

It has been the playbook for nearly 40 years.
February 9, 2025 at 11:13 PM