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Robert Hasselblad
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Language, Image, Joy. Poetry in the driver's seat. Art my own unless otherwise noted. Higher ground whenever possible.
A. Krieder's PATIENT FERMENT OF THE EARLY CHURCH provides insight into the Church before Constantine.
which grew not by evangelism but creating communities of committed to radical patience, even during persecution, and yet grew in ways that may seem odd to us centuries away and often too impatient.
June 16, 2025 at 4:48 PM
And also from this poem, near-biblical words:

Consider the world and its poor, its suffering--
you see how it is when something speechless
begins to think into you, to manifest, to bear down

on you as our doubles-self dissolves?
Shall we cower and beg together now?
June 13, 2025 at 3:05 PM
In a similar vein, Rev. Andy Yee reminded attendees at recent NW Washington ELCA synod convention

OUR SOCIAL IMAGINATION EMBODIES OUR THEOLOGY

NW Washington Synod / ELCA
‪@lutheransnw.bsky.social‬
May 21, 2025 at 3:01 PM
This is true now and at all times. Reach within for God's abundance that is already ours. We are greater joined in common hope than separate...and if we don't stand together, we may fall apart.
May 21, 2025 at 12:20 AM
I will be attending in support of neurodiverse creatives in my own communities (family and faith) and for greater awareness that our common humanity is great enough to embrace and connect us in diversity.
Location Mount Vernon WA Library Community Room
Time 1 pm on Saturday May 31
May 21, 2025 at 12:16 AM
Is this not the original meaning of the cross, the instrument of death by which the Roman Empire tried to rid itself of every troublemaker and speaker of truth?
April 20, 2025 at 2:18 PM