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Joel Simpson
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Artist, Writer, Preacher, Doctoral Student @dukeuniversity

joelsimpson.substack.com
July 4, 2025 at 2:33 PM
We were arrested as we prayed for those who will be killed by this immoral budget Congress is trying to pass. We brought 51 coffins for the 51,000 people health policy experts say will die next year if this budget is passed. We demand a moral budget, not a death dealing scheme.
July 3, 2025 at 2:28 PM
June 26, 2025 at 5:34 PM
June 10, 2025 at 4:21 PM
St. Patrick’s Day is rooted in the life of a real person, St. Patrick - whose story might just baffle your mind and challenge you to rethink everything about your life and relationships, especially in a time like ours
March 17, 2025 at 9:53 PM
as such but the presence of the Spirit in the particular pain, whether physical, emotional, or mental. Thus, it is the full acceptance of the content of the present moment. [In] giving the experience over to the Spirit, the false-self system is gradually undermined and the true self liberated.”
March 7, 2025 at 12:19 AM
On this day in 1965, Malcom X was assassinated. But he’s still right.
February 22, 2025 at 3:55 AM
January 28, 2025 at 2:58 PM
I’m not sure if this is a punishment or a mantra of resistance in the world of cruelty and chaos. #banksey
January 23, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Of course Bishop Budde said show mercy. That’s what Christians are supposed to do.
January 22, 2025 at 11:11 PM
A recreation of a piece of banksey artwork.
January 21, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Anxious? Why yes
January 21, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Is the cliche “you can’t have your cake and eat it too” true?
January 21, 2025 at 2:02 AM
January 20, 2025 at 11:06 PM
As people continue doomsday talk in various forms with the transition of U.S. presidents, I thought it might be worth revisiting a post I made several years ago about the end of the world and the lie of the rapture. (link to full article in the comments)
January 17, 2025 at 5:02 PM
A good reminder of how Christians are called to live, from an early Christian.
December 2, 2024 at 4:44 PM
So we aren’t able to regulate our instincts right now?
November 25, 2024 at 5:31 PM
November 14, 2024 at 2:55 PM