BrotherBocanegra ⚓
@joshuabocanegra.bsky.social
Theologian and writer. Interested in Christian ethics, Chican@ and Latin@ theology, ecosystems, and the kingdom of God.
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anyway, stay woke.
September 16, 2025 at 3:45 AM
anyway, stay woke.
i don't really know how to introduce this one, but here are some late night reflections after the killing of charlie kirk
open.substack.com/pub/joshuabo...
open.substack.com/pub/joshuabo...
I cried out, "Violence!"
Reflections in the wake of the killing of Charlie Kirk
open.substack.com
September 11, 2025 at 1:43 PM
i don't really know how to introduce this one, but here are some late night reflections after the killing of charlie kirk
open.substack.com/pub/joshuabo...
open.substack.com/pub/joshuabo...
roots are where the mycelium runs
September 4, 2025 at 4:32 PM
roots are where the mycelium runs
drinking wine from a whiskey glass sounds like a bad lyric from a song i would have liked in the early 2000s, but it is what i'm doing right now.
August 13, 2025 at 3:36 AM
drinking wine from a whiskey glass sounds like a bad lyric from a song i would have liked in the early 2000s, but it is what i'm doing right now.
Surviving church in the United States
Faithful presence in unjust times
joshuabocanegra.substack.com
August 3, 2025 at 4:09 PM
For Mary Oliver
If,
when the sunset
finally finds me,
I have written anything
half as buzzing
with the life of earth,
half as soaked through
with firefly light,
I'll have done a good
for the soil of the world.
O Mary, full of grace,
forever praying
from these white leaves
pray for me now.
If,
when the sunset
finally finds me,
I have written anything
half as buzzing
with the life of earth,
half as soaked through
with firefly light,
I'll have done a good
for the soil of the world.
O Mary, full of grace,
forever praying
from these white leaves
pray for me now.
July 13, 2025 at 2:47 PM
For Mary Oliver
If,
when the sunset
finally finds me,
I have written anything
half as buzzing
with the life of earth,
half as soaked through
with firefly light,
I'll have done a good
for the soil of the world.
O Mary, full of grace,
forever praying
from these white leaves
pray for me now.
If,
when the sunset
finally finds me,
I have written anything
half as buzzing
with the life of earth,
half as soaked through
with firefly light,
I'll have done a good
for the soil of the world.
O Mary, full of grace,
forever praying
from these white leaves
pray for me now.
i think millennials gave western beauty standards a run for their money, but the rise of ultra-conservatism is bringing it right back to its reigning status as the norm, left, liberal, conservative, and right.
July 8, 2025 at 2:58 PM
i think millennials gave western beauty standards a run for their money, but the rise of ultra-conservatism is bringing it right back to its reigning status as the norm, left, liberal, conservative, and right.
not to be on my leftist bullshit, but generations of black and brown singers were transgressive, sexual, and hated so that sabrina carpenter could be cute, sexy, and the queen of soft girls.
July 7, 2025 at 5:17 PM
not to be on my leftist bullshit, but generations of black and brown singers were transgressive, sexual, and hated so that sabrina carpenter could be cute, sexy, and the queen of soft girls.
people will be like, "women pastors are making the church liberal," all the while ignoring our pastors and leaders that are abusing women and children in all kinds of horrendous ways.
June 30, 2025 at 7:57 PM
people will be like, "women pastors are making the church liberal," all the while ignoring our pastors and leaders that are abusing women and children in all kinds of horrendous ways.
call me joe cause i'm sleepy
June 30, 2025 at 3:28 PM
call me joe cause i'm sleepy
Truth Telling
The theologian who writes poetry, or the poet who writes theology?
open.substack.com
June 26, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Modern humanity's denial of awareness in nonhuman nature is born not by any conceptual or scientific rigor, but rather by an inability, or a refusal, to fully perceive other organisms.
David Abram
The Spell of the Sensuous
David Abram
The Spell of the Sensuous
June 25, 2025 at 4:22 AM
Modern humanity's denial of awareness in nonhuman nature is born not by any conceptual or scientific rigor, but rather by an inability, or a refusal, to fully perceive other organisms.
David Abram
The Spell of the Sensuous
David Abram
The Spell of the Sensuous
thinking about that time i had to read a book in seminary entitled
"a thicker jesus"
"a thicker jesus"
June 24, 2025 at 9:56 PM
thinking about that time i had to read a book in seminary entitled
"a thicker jesus"
"a thicker jesus"
i have questions, you have answers.
1. what constitutes a human being (what parts make up a human)?
2. what is a spirit?
3. what is a soul?
4. what is a body?
5. what's the difference between soul and spirit?
1. what constitutes a human being (what parts make up a human)?
2. what is a spirit?
3. what is a soul?
4. what is a body?
5. what's the difference between soul and spirit?
June 23, 2025 at 7:34 PM
i have questions, you have answers.
1. what constitutes a human being (what parts make up a human)?
2. what is a spirit?
3. what is a soul?
4. what is a body?
5. what's the difference between soul and spirit?
1. what constitutes a human being (what parts make up a human)?
2. what is a spirit?
3. what is a soul?
4. what is a body?
5. what's the difference between soul and spirit?
This morning the water lilies are no less lovely, I think, than the lilies of Monet.
And I do not want anymore to be useful, to be docile, to lead
children out of the fields into the text
of civility, to teach them that they are (they are not) better than the grass.
~ Mary Oliver
And I do not want anymore to be useful, to be docile, to lead
children out of the fields into the text
of civility, to teach them that they are (they are not) better than the grass.
~ Mary Oliver
June 23, 2025 at 4:44 AM
This morning the water lilies are no less lovely, I think, than the lilies of Monet.
And I do not want anymore to be useful, to be docile, to lead
children out of the fields into the text
of civility, to teach them that they are (they are not) better than the grass.
~ Mary Oliver
And I do not want anymore to be useful, to be docile, to lead
children out of the fields into the text
of civility, to teach them that they are (they are not) better than the grass.
~ Mary Oliver
Our life, our need to make meaning from it, is all a kind of blindness.
Christian Wiman
Zero at the Bone
Christian Wiman
Zero at the Bone
June 17, 2025 at 4:19 AM
Our life, our need to make meaning from it, is all a kind of blindness.
Christian Wiman
Zero at the Bone
Christian Wiman
Zero at the Bone
The workers unite not merely to redistribute wealth but to suture estranged spheres of activity and reconnect life with work, workers with one another, production with need, humans with the powers they have unleashed in the world.
Wendy Brown
Foreword to Capital, by Marx
Wendy Brown
Foreword to Capital, by Marx
June 15, 2025 at 1:53 PM
The workers unite not merely to redistribute wealth but to suture estranged spheres of activity and reconnect life with work, workers with one another, production with need, humans with the powers they have unleashed in the world.
Wendy Brown
Foreword to Capital, by Marx
Wendy Brown
Foreword to Capital, by Marx
From small shops, family farms, and cities to gigantic industries, massive rain forests, and even states, everything capital makes or needs it will eventually also destroy.
Wendy Brown
From her forward to the new translation of Marx's Capital
Wendy Brown
From her forward to the new translation of Marx's Capital
June 13, 2025 at 5:25 PM
From small shops, family farms, and cities to gigantic industries, massive rain forests, and even states, everything capital makes or needs it will eventually also destroy.
Wendy Brown
From her forward to the new translation of Marx's Capital
Wendy Brown
From her forward to the new translation of Marx's Capital
spotify is down because i was listening to the new single from m.i.a. too much
June 12, 2025 at 10:11 PM
spotify is down because i was listening to the new single from m.i.a. too much
sometimes i wish i didn't grow up as such a "good christian" because of the way it ingrained in me this obsession with being correct. it hampers, i think, my courage to be creative.
June 10, 2025 at 3:35 PM
sometimes i wish i didn't grow up as such a "good christian" because of the way it ingrained in me this obsession with being correct. it hampers, i think, my courage to be creative.
We lived with three kinds of windows: transparencies that pulled in light; electronic screens that gave off light; and paintings that lived on light.
Alice Fulton
feeling as a foreign language
Alice Fulton
feeling as a foreign language
June 7, 2025 at 1:11 PM
We lived with three kinds of windows: transparencies that pulled in light; electronic screens that gave off light; and paintings that lived on light.
Alice Fulton
feeling as a foreign language
Alice Fulton
feeling as a foreign language
abebooks emails are like, "you can have 20% off if you spend $50," and i'm like, "if i was looking to spend $50 (or $40 with the discount), i wouldn't be on abebooks dot com
May 30, 2025 at 7:28 PM
abebooks emails are like, "you can have 20% off if you spend $50," and i'm like, "if i was looking to spend $50 (or $40 with the discount), i wouldn't be on abebooks dot com
New post about why I'm a little hesitant about all these new men coming to church.
open.substack.com/pub/joshuabo...
open.substack.com/pub/joshuabo...
Men at Church
Why the return of young men to church gives me pause
open.substack.com
May 29, 2025 at 2:36 PM
New post about why I'm a little hesitant about all these new men coming to church.
open.substack.com/pub/joshuabo...
open.substack.com/pub/joshuabo...
For while there is jealousy and among you, are you not in the flesh, and behaving like ordinary people?
1 Corinthians 3:3
1 Corinthians 3:3
May 26, 2025 at 2:48 PM
For while there is jealousy and among you, are you not in the flesh, and behaving like ordinary people?
1 Corinthians 3:3
1 Corinthians 3:3
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I hate the antichrist! I hate the antichrist! I hate the antichrist!
Burn it all down
"Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth led a Christian prayer service in the Pentagon’s auditorium on Wednesday morning, during working hours, in which President Trump was praised as a divinely appointed leader."
"Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth led a Christian prayer service in the Pentagon’s auditorium on Wednesday morning, during working hours, in which President Trump was praised as a divinely appointed leader."
Pete Hegseth Leads Christian Prayer Service in the Pentagon
www.nytimes.com
May 21, 2025 at 9:23 PM
I hate the antichrist! I hate the antichrist! I hate the antichrist!