This makes me think of Natalie Carnes, who takes this up vis-a-vis Augustine: nataliecarnes.com/motherhood-1...

Can we stop parroting Hegseth’s “lethality” obsession, please? Our military ought to be tactically excellent and morally good, not just “deadly.”

Yes; it’s about our capacities, too: to hear and receive from and to wrestle and cooperate with the divine and each other.

Except I’m pretty sure this is what lil X already said to him the other day, and I don’t think that’ll work out for us.

I feel like people are willfully refusing to understand that this is a global crisis in the making. You gave people who believe in eugenics and genocide the keys to the biggest and most lethal arsenal in human history. One that doesn't need boots on the ground. Just people willing to push the button

It’s an oligarchic, kakistocratic thanatocracy.

I’m dubbing it “the Budde bump.”

I encourage my sons to consider how this prayer connects us: to the nurses working at our local hospital, late-night tollbooth operators, building cleaners, garbage collectors, migrant families who are afraid, the hurting, the dying—and the genuinely joyful. May God grant us solidarity and sleep.

The reference to Cyrus made me pause, but overall, a very encouraging liturgy this morning! I’m not sure if you recommended the Venite app on here, or if that was someone else, but I’m grateful!

So glad you’re here!

Yes. Freakin’ tell him to submit his overdue ethics forms and remind him of his oath to uphold the Constitution. Don’t pretend he didn’t skip your own inauguration and snub your wife—let’s have a little institutional memory, here.

Yep.

Beefing with Mirabai Starr in your sleep? ;) I had a similar dream last night—that I was at a conference with the fundies of my youth railing against their abuses of the creation narratives.