Fr Josh Kulak
@joshkulak.bsky.social
Husband & dad | Episcopal priest in ATX | Theology PhD from Liverpool Hope | Liverpool FC #YNWA | he/him
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NEW from me:
As frustrated liberals pressure Democrats to counter the Trump administration more directly, lawmakers appear to be taking their cues from the group that has challenged Trump over and over since day 1: progressive religious activists. religionnews.com/2025/05/07/t...
As frustrated liberals pressure Democrats to counter the Trump administration more directly, lawmakers appear to be taking their cues from the group that has challenged Trump over and over since day 1: progressive religious activists. religionnews.com/2025/05/07/t...
To put pressure on Trump, Democrats turn to religion — and religious activists
(RNS) — ‘Faith leaders have been at the forefront of every progressive movement in our nation’s history … so I’m glad to see faith leaders speaking out and getting into good trouble in opposition to t...
religionnews.com
May 7, 2025 at 7:44 PM
NEW from me:
As frustrated liberals pressure Democrats to counter the Trump administration more directly, lawmakers appear to be taking their cues from the group that has challenged Trump over and over since day 1: progressive religious activists. religionnews.com/2025/05/07/t...
As frustrated liberals pressure Democrats to counter the Trump administration more directly, lawmakers appear to be taking their cues from the group that has challenged Trump over and over since day 1: progressive religious activists. religionnews.com/2025/05/07/t...
Doubling down on the genocide and ethnic cleansing - “Gaza will be entirely destroyed, Israeli minister says”
Gaza will be entirely destroyed, Israeli minister says
Bezalel Smotrich says Palestinians will ‘leave in great numbers to third countries’, raising fears of ethnic cleansing
www.theguardian.com
May 6, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Doubling down on the genocide and ethnic cleansing - “Gaza will be entirely destroyed, Israeli minister says”
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BREAKING: The Trump administration will begin screening immigrants’ social media for “antisemitism.”
This will NOT fight antisemitism.
This is simply using Jews as an excuse to move a cruel, anti-immigrant, authoritarian agenda.
We refuse to be used this way.
www.uscis.gov/newsroom/new...
This will NOT fight antisemitism.
This is simply using Jews as an excuse to move a cruel, anti-immigrant, authoritarian agenda.
We refuse to be used this way.
www.uscis.gov/newsroom/new...
DHS to Begin Screening Aliens’ Social Media Activity for Antisemitism | USCIS
Today U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) will begin considering aliens’ antisemitic activity on social media and the physical harassment of Jewish individuals as grounds for denying imm...
www.uscis.gov
April 9, 2025 at 3:15 PM
BREAKING: The Trump administration will begin screening immigrants’ social media for “antisemitism.”
This will NOT fight antisemitism.
This is simply using Jews as an excuse to move a cruel, anti-immigrant, authoritarian agenda.
We refuse to be used this way.
www.uscis.gov/newsroom/new...
This will NOT fight antisemitism.
This is simply using Jews as an excuse to move a cruel, anti-immigrant, authoritarian agenda.
We refuse to be used this way.
www.uscis.gov/newsroom/new...
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Treating antisemitism as an imported problem does not fight antisemitism.
Using politically malleable language like "terrorist sympathizer" to go after immigrants does not fight antisemitism.
Doing this while elevating antisemitism, as this administration is doing, does not fight antisemitism.
Using politically malleable language like "terrorist sympathizer" to go after immigrants does not fight antisemitism.
Doing this while elevating antisemitism, as this administration is doing, does not fight antisemitism.
April 9, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Treating antisemitism as an imported problem does not fight antisemitism.
Using politically malleable language like "terrorist sympathizer" to go after immigrants does not fight antisemitism.
Doing this while elevating antisemitism, as this administration is doing, does not fight antisemitism.
Using politically malleable language like "terrorist sympathizer" to go after immigrants does not fight antisemitism.
Doing this while elevating antisemitism, as this administration is doing, does not fight antisemitism.
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New: Judge Whitehead has DENIED Trump admin's request to reconsider a denial of a stay of motion in Pacito v. Trump, which means govt has to begin processing refugees who were conditionally approved before Jan 20, which lawyers for plaintiffs (faith groups) argue is "tens of thousands" of people.
April 9, 2025 at 11:19 PM
New: Judge Whitehead has DENIED Trump admin's request to reconsider a denial of a stay of motion in Pacito v. Trump, which means govt has to begin processing refugees who were conditionally approved before Jan 20, which lawyers for plaintiffs (faith groups) argue is "tens of thousands" of people.
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Via me and @yonat.bsky.social: Trump admin abruptly cancels grants to refugee aid agencies, despite legal battles —> religionnews.com/2025/02/28/t...
Trump admin cancels grants to refugee aid agencies, despite legal battles
(RNS) — 'Our status as a resettlement agency based on this termination notice is over,' Danilo Zak, director of policy for Church World Service, told Religion News Service.
religionnews.com
February 28, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Via me and @yonat.bsky.social: Trump admin abruptly cancels grants to refugee aid agencies, despite legal battles —> religionnews.com/2025/02/28/t...
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OPINION: Deporting immigrants will not make our country great. But it is destroying hard-working families and stoking fear and division in our communities.
Mass deportation is not the answer — loving your neighbors is
(RNS) — Deporting immigrants will not make our country great. But it is destroying hard-working families and stoking fear and division in our communities.
religionnews.com
February 27, 2025 at 2:30 PM
OPINION: Deporting immigrants will not make our country great. But it is destroying hard-working families and stoking fear and division in our communities.
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"They're putting persecuted Christian refugees in camps in the jungle" sounds like something Glenn Beck would accuse the Obama administration of doing and yet now it's a pillar of the Republican agenda.
February 20, 2025 at 12:57 AM
"They're putting persecuted Christian refugees in camps in the jungle" sounds like something Glenn Beck would accuse the Obama administration of doing and yet now it's a pillar of the Republican agenda.
If we are going to do a king again, can’t we just do the English one instead?
February 19, 2025 at 8:18 PM
If we are going to do a king again, can’t we just do the English one instead?
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3. Put more simply: A practical historically-minded question for second-term Trumpism is how Trump et all plan to Make America Great Again (in the 20th century sense) by trimming/defunding/attacking/gutting many of the things that were once heralded as evidence of American greatness.
February 19, 2025 at 2:08 AM
3. Put more simply: A practical historically-minded question for second-term Trumpism is how Trump et all plan to Make America Great Again (in the 20th century sense) by trimming/defunding/attacking/gutting many of the things that were once heralded as evidence of American greatness.
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Hindus for Human Rights is disturbed and disappointed by this recent piece published by the Wall Street Journal. Let's breakdown why this piece is so blatantly disrespectful, both to survivors of the 1947 Partition and the Nakba. 🧵
https://buff.ly/3CGzOHg
https://buff.ly/3CGzOHg
Opinion | If Indians and Pakistanis Can Relocate, Why Can’t Gazans?
Population transfers aren’t a Trump innovation. There are plenty of examples from the 20th century.
www.wsj.com
February 14, 2025 at 2:24 AM
Hindus for Human Rights is disturbed and disappointed by this recent piece published by the Wall Street Journal. Let's breakdown why this piece is so blatantly disrespectful, both to survivors of the 1947 Partition and the Nakba. 🧵
https://buff.ly/3CGzOHg
https://buff.ly/3CGzOHg
All of Year C. ⚓️
February 12, 2025 at 12:53 AM
All of Year C. ⚓️
This is good news but it doesn’t undo the damage already done to refugee newcomers who’ve been cut off from services, all those who were preparing to arrive but are now stranded, or the resettlement workers who have already been fired/furloughed.
NEW: Three faith groups that work w/the govt to resettle refugees — Church World Service, HIAS, and Lutheran Community Services Northwest — are part of a lawsuit challenging Trump's EO suspending the U.S. refugee program and withholding funding for the groups. refugeerights.org/news-resourc...
New Lawsuit Challenges Trump Suspension of Refugee Resettlement Program and Freeze of Refugee Funding | International Refugee Assistance Project
refugeerights.org
February 11, 2025 at 12:10 AM
This is good news but it doesn’t undo the damage already done to refugee newcomers who’ve been cut off from services, all those who were preparing to arrive but are now stranded, or the resettlement workers who have already been fired/furloughed.
But what if it’s like, Trump + Elon = The Antichrist™? You’ve also got to factor in the head wound and whatever is about to go down in Gaza…
February 5, 2025 at 3:00 AM
But what if it’s like, Trump + Elon = The Antichrist™? You’ve also got to factor in the head wound and whatever is about to go down in Gaza…
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A president already sending people to Gitmo and calling for explicit ethnic cleansing.
Lord have mercy.
Lord have mercy.
February 5, 2025 at 2:09 AM
A president already sending people to Gitmo and calling for explicit ethnic cleansing.
Lord have mercy.
Lord have mercy.
In one breath he says, “Go home, get out, we don’t want you here. This is our home” and with the next he says, “we’ll be taking your home, get out.” The duplicity is staggering.
February 5, 2025 at 1:43 AM
In one breath he says, “Go home, get out, we don’t want you here. This is our home” and with the next he says, “we’ll be taking your home, get out.” The duplicity is staggering.
I visited my first Jamatkhana last week as part of an interfaith program in Austin and just learned about the Aga Khan, the Ismailis, and the hereditary line tracing back to Muhammad.
The Aga Khan, known for his triumphs in horse racing, dazzling wealth and development work around the world, has died in Lisbon at the age of 88, according to the Aga Khan Development Network on X reut.rs/3CFdXzQ
The Aga Khan, spiritual leader whose riches enabled horse racing glory, dies at 88
The Aga Khan, known for his triumphs in horse racing, dazzling wealth and development work around the world, has died in Lisbon at the age of 88, according to the Aga Khan Development Network on X.
reut.rs
February 5, 2025 at 1:40 AM
I visited my first Jamatkhana last week as part of an interfaith program in Austin and just learned about the Aga Khan, the Ismailis, and the hereditary line tracing back to Muhammad.
And in our time grant us your peace.
February 4, 2025 at 3:15 PM
And in our time grant us your peace.
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One of the co-sponsors of the House bill condemning Budde's sermon, listed below, is Rep. Beth Van Duyne, an Episcopalian.
I reached out to the Rt. Rev. C Andrew Doyle of the Episcopal Diocese of Texas, which appears to be her diocese.
He told me he was concerned about govt "policing our sermons."
I reached out to the Rt. Rev. C Andrew Doyle of the Episcopal Diocese of Texas, which appears to be her diocese.
He told me he was concerned about govt "policing our sermons."
January 24, 2025 at 7:35 PM
One of the co-sponsors of the House bill condemning Budde's sermon, listed below, is Rep. Beth Van Duyne, an Episcopalian.
I reached out to the Rt. Rev. C Andrew Doyle of the Episcopal Diocese of Texas, which appears to be her diocese.
He told me he was concerned about govt "policing our sermons."
I reached out to the Rt. Rev. C Andrew Doyle of the Episcopal Diocese of Texas, which appears to be her diocese.
He told me he was concerned about govt "policing our sermons."
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Via @adellembanks.bsky.social: Black ministers denounce Project 2025, urge collective Black resistance —> religionnews.com/2025/01/28/b...
Black ministers denounce Project 2025, urge collective Black resistance
(RNS) — The ministers’ statement also criticized white evangelicals, whom it described as ‘drunk on the religion of white Christian nationalism.’
religionnews.com
January 29, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Via @adellembanks.bsky.social: Black ministers denounce Project 2025, urge collective Black resistance —> religionnews.com/2025/01/28/b...
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This is our church, Jubilee, and I cherish this whole thread so much 🩷🪩🌈
A little over a year ago I was in Texas, where I preached a sermon for an explicitly inclusive Episcopalian church which had made its home in a strip mall - we don't have them in the UK but it was just like those you see on TV, a parking lot with glass fronted units beside an enormous road.
January 29, 2025 at 4:35 PM
This is our church, Jubilee, and I cherish this whole thread so much 🩷🪩🌈
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This is our church, and we loved having you.
And our windows are still wide open, and full of color, and we are here. Loud. Proud. Full of joy with quivering voice. Because God sees us and it’s important for people to still see us, too. 🩷
And our windows are still wide open, and full of color, and we are here. Loud. Proud. Full of joy with quivering voice. Because God sees us and it’s important for people to still see us, too. 🩷
January 29, 2025 at 4:34 PM
This is our church, and we loved having you.
And our windows are still wide open, and full of color, and we are here. Loud. Proud. Full of joy with quivering voice. Because God sees us and it’s important for people to still see us, too. 🩷
And our windows are still wide open, and full of color, and we are here. Loud. Proud. Full of joy with quivering voice. Because God sees us and it’s important for people to still see us, too. 🩷