Rev Kelly Turney
@frogrev.bsky.social
Slightly irreverent preacher, faith practioner, synthesizer, horned frog, New England transplant, pilgrim
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Would this have happened to a white resident? Asking for the First Nations.
November 28, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Would this have happened to a white resident? Asking for the First Nations.
The dehumanization and lack of due process is astounding and frightening
November 17, 2025 at 7:23 PM
The dehumanization and lack of due process is astounding and frightening
Oh what we've become as a country, refusing asylum, refugees, separating families, deporting fathers without seeing their new baby. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/11/w...
‘It Feels Like I’m in a Nightmare’: Inside the First Deportation Flight to Iran
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November 11, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Oh what we've become as a country, refusing asylum, refugees, separating families, deporting fathers without seeing their new baby. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/11/w...
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Members of Congress can say they didn’t believe the data that said people would lose their healthcare, but real people are starting to experience the pain.
Ted Budd locked his door and refused to answer our calls today, but Moral Mondays will be back.
Ted Budd locked his door and refused to answer our calls today, but Moral Mondays will be back.
October 21, 2025 at 12:55 AM
Members of Congress can say they didn’t believe the data that said people would lose their healthcare, but real people are starting to experience the pain.
Ted Budd locked his door and refused to answer our calls today, but Moral Mondays will be back.
Ted Budd locked his door and refused to answer our calls today, but Moral Mondays will be back.
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I have always wanted to have a neighbor just like you.
Would you be mine?
Could you be mine?
Won't you be my neighbor? 💙🇺🇲
Would you be mine?
Could you be mine?
Won't you be my neighbor? 💙🇺🇲
October 21, 2025 at 4:30 AM
I have always wanted to have a neighbor just like you.
Would you be mine?
Could you be mine?
Won't you be my neighbor? 💙🇺🇲
Would you be mine?
Could you be mine?
Won't you be my neighbor? 💙🇺🇲
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Rosemerry Trommer is truly one of our best poets for these days.
October 18, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Rosemerry Trommer is truly one of our best poets for these days.
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"Whether we believe in God or not, we all live by faith. We hardly know some days what might happen next and more often than not, we can’t predict the outcome of the choices and actions of others, let alone our own."
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Wait for it
Habakkuk 1: 1-4, 2: 1-4 New Ark United Church of Christ, Newark, DE October 5, 2025 A masked ICE agent sprayed David Black, pastor of Firs...
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October 8, 2025 at 9:29 PM
"Whether we believe in God or not, we all live by faith. We hardly know some days what might happen next and more often than not, we can’t predict the outcome of the choices and actions of others, let alone our own."
irrevrent.blogspot.com/2025/10/wait...
irrevrent.blogspot.com/2025/10/wait...
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This was never about deporting criminals. It’s about Stephen Miller’s campaign of ethnic cleansing.
October 8, 2025 at 9:54 PM
This was never about deporting criminals. It’s about Stephen Miller’s campaign of ethnic cleansing.
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I hate when I go to bed early on a Saturday night and wake up Sunday morning only to discover we’ve gone to war in the Middle East without the consent of Congress. 😡
June 22, 2025 at 9:56 PM
I hate when I go to bed early on a Saturday night and wake up Sunday morning only to discover we’ve gone to war in the Middle East without the consent of Congress. 😡
My first Pentecost in New England (and I've had 25 of them) where not even one parishioner was wearing Red Sox clothing! Bizarre. #Pentecostspirit
June 9, 2025 at 3:47 AM
My first Pentecost in New England (and I've had 25 of them) where not even one parishioner was wearing Red Sox clothing! Bizarre. #Pentecostspirit
My first Pentecost in New England (and I've had 25 of them) where not parishioner was wearing Red Sox clothing! Bizarre. #Pentecostspirit
June 9, 2025 at 2:13 AM
My first Pentecost in New England (and I've had 25 of them) where not parishioner was wearing Red Sox clothing! Bizarre. #Pentecostspirit
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If you're mad, take a minute to submit a comment on the vaccine to the FDA!
There's less than one day left to submit. I wrote draft comments anyone could use, take what you need, and instructions on how to post it. Modify as you will for you, but please submit one!
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
There's less than one day left to submit. I wrote draft comments anyone could use, take what you need, and instructions on how to post it. Modify as you will for you, but please submit one!
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Draft COVID-19 Vaccine Comment
How to Submit Your Comment (Reminder): Go to: https://www.regulations.gov/document/FDA-2025-N-1146-0001 Click on the "Comment" button. Copy and paste your finalized comment into the text field (or up...
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May 23, 2025 at 8:25 AM
If you're mad, take a minute to submit a comment on the vaccine to the FDA!
There's less than one day left to submit. I wrote draft comments anyone could use, take what you need, and instructions on how to post it. Modify as you will for you, but please submit one!
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
There's less than one day left to submit. I wrote draft comments anyone could use, take what you need, and instructions on how to post it. Modify as you will for you, but please submit one!
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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As a reminder, she didn’t even run a red light, something DHS harped on as her disobeying US laws. The cops eventually admitted they pulled over the wrong car.
NEW: 19 year old Ximena Arias-Cristobal who came to America at age 4 has finally been reunited with her family in Dalton, Georgia after ICE detained her for three weeks over a now-dismissed red light traffic ticket and was in the process of trying to deport her (Video: News Channel Nine)
May 23, 2025 at 2:39 PM
As a reminder, she didn’t even run a red light, something DHS harped on as her disobeying US laws. The cops eventually admitted they pulled over the wrong car.
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“We have been deformed by educational and religious institutions that treat us as members of an audience instead of actors in a drama, so we become adults who treat democracy as a spectator sport.”
—Parker Palmer
—Parker Palmer
May 20, 2025 at 11:18 AM
“We have been deformed by educational and religious institutions that treat us as members of an audience instead of actors in a drama, so we become adults who treat democracy as a spectator sport.”
—Parker Palmer
—Parker Palmer
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The Jesus story is not an exam to learn content. It is about following. It is not about maintaining an institution but changing our world. Rev. Dr. Brian Blount at the Festival of Homiletics. #FOH2025
May 14, 2025 at 8:12 PM
The Jesus story is not an exam to learn content. It is about following. It is not about maintaining an institution but changing our world. Rev. Dr. Brian Blount at the Festival of Homiletics. #FOH2025
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FYI: @rns.org broke this story, and we're probably gonna break many more this year too.
In this instance, that was largely because we've been covering faith-based refugee resettlement more than anyone for years.
That's true of many things we cover.
Follow RNS — and hire more religion reporters.
In this instance, that was largely because we've been covering faith-based refugee resettlement more than anyone for years.
That's true of many things we cover.
Follow RNS — and hire more religion reporters.
BREAKING: The Episcopal Church has announced it will end its decades-old partnership with the government to resettle refugees, citing moral opposition to resettling white Afrikaners from South Africa who have been classified as refugees by the Trump admin. religionnews.com/2025/05/12/e...
Episcopal Church refuses to resettle white Afrikaners, ends partnership with US government
(RNS) — In light of our church’s steadfast commitment to racial justice and reconciliation and our historic ties with the Anglican Church of Southern Africa, we are not able to take this step,' the pr...
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May 16, 2025 at 12:48 PM
FYI: @rns.org broke this story, and we're probably gonna break many more this year too.
In this instance, that was largely because we've been covering faith-based refugee resettlement more than anyone for years.
That's true of many things we cover.
Follow RNS — and hire more religion reporters.
In this instance, that was largely because we've been covering faith-based refugee resettlement more than anyone for years.
That's true of many things we cover.
Follow RNS — and hire more religion reporters.
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Due to the state of affairs here Rev. Allan Boesak made the difficult decision not to come to #FOH2025. But his sermon was 🔥. Two lines: The easy burden of Jesus is to tell the truth when it is more profitable to lie; We come to Jesus not to run away & hide but to turn around & face the world again.
May 13, 2025 at 12:38 AM
Due to the state of affairs here Rev. Allan Boesak made the difficult decision not to come to #FOH2025. But his sermon was 🔥. Two lines: The easy burden of Jesus is to tell the truth when it is more profitable to lie; We come to Jesus not to run away & hide but to turn around & face the world again.
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From Dr. Melva Sampson:
“We’re healed not by running from the truth, but confronting it.” / “Prophetic witness is not a spiritual elective; it is the Church‘s birthright.” / “We have to refuse to trade the thunder of the prophets for the hush of respectability.” #FOH2025
“We’re healed not by running from the truth, but confronting it.” / “Prophetic witness is not a spiritual elective; it is the Church‘s birthright.” / “We have to refuse to trade the thunder of the prophets for the hush of respectability.” #FOH2025
May 13, 2025 at 3:28 PM
From Dr. Melva Sampson:
“We’re healed not by running from the truth, but confronting it.” / “Prophetic witness is not a spiritual elective; it is the Church‘s birthright.” / “We have to refuse to trade the thunder of the prophets for the hush of respectability.” #FOH2025
“We’re healed not by running from the truth, but confronting it.” / “Prophetic witness is not a spiritual elective; it is the Church‘s birthright.” / “We have to refuse to trade the thunder of the prophets for the hush of respectability.” #FOH2025
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No crowns. No thrones. No kings.
Those are principles America was founded upon.
On June 14, let’s stand together again to remind Trump and all of our fellow Americans that we don’t do kings in this country: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i...
Those are principles America was founded upon.
On June 14, let’s stand together again to remind Trump and all of our fellow Americans that we don’t do kings in this country: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i...
May 6, 2025 at 5:16 PM
No crowns. No thrones. No kings.
Those are principles America was founded upon.
On June 14, let’s stand together again to remind Trump and all of our fellow Americans that we don’t do kings in this country: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i...
Those are principles America was founded upon.
On June 14, let’s stand together again to remind Trump and all of our fellow Americans that we don’t do kings in this country: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i...
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Now is the time to stand tall. open.substack.com/pub/ourmoral...
Keep Standing
We cannot be at ease in America. History is pushing us; the present is demanding us; the future is calling us.
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April 13, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Now is the time to stand tall. open.substack.com/pub/ourmoral...