Robert Bingham
@rcbingham.bsky.social
pastor, theologian & psychotherapist in Baltimore, Maryland ...writing & editing thegathering.blog ...engaging at the intersection of theology, psychology & politics.
great content to have while debating with your MAGA family members over the holidays... #OnEarth
Opinion | The Outrageous False Equivalences That Prop Up President Trump
www.nytimes.com
November 24, 2025 at 6:25 PM
great content to have while debating with your MAGA family members over the holidays... #OnEarth
"The approach that Pope Leo takes, by contrast, puts virtue outside and above politics. His declarations are the living embodiment of Martin Luther King Jr.’s admonition that the church “is not to be the master or the servant of the state, but the conscience of the state.” #OnEarth
Opinion | A Christian Answer to Trump and Trumpism Is Finally Here
www.nytimes.com
November 18, 2025 at 9:32 PM
"The approach that Pope Leo takes, by contrast, puts virtue outside and above politics. His declarations are the living embodiment of Martin Luther King Jr.’s admonition that the church “is not to be the master or the servant of the state, but the conscience of the state.” #OnEarth
…a clip from my sermon last Sunday on our communal responsibilities- from Isaiah 6
Redirecting...
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November 16, 2025 at 2:08 AM
…a clip from my sermon last Sunday on our communal responsibilities- from Isaiah 6
for the complicit― words worth remembering in these days of corporate wickedness...
“A major fact of our present civilization is that more and more sin becomes collective, and the individual is forced to participate in collective sin.” ― Jacques Ellul, The Presence of the Kingdom
“A major fact of our present civilization is that more and more sin becomes collective, and the individual is forced to participate in collective sin.” ― Jacques Ellul, The Presence of the Kingdom
November 15, 2025 at 4:10 PM
for the complicit― words worth remembering in these days of corporate wickedness...
“A major fact of our present civilization is that more and more sin becomes collective, and the individual is forced to participate in collective sin.” ― Jacques Ellul, The Presence of the Kingdom
“A major fact of our present civilization is that more and more sin becomes collective, and the individual is forced to participate in collective sin.” ― Jacques Ellul, The Presence of the Kingdom
“Woe to those who make unjust laws, to those who issue oppressive decrees, to deprive the poor of their rights and withhold justice from the oppressed of my people, making widows their prey and robbing the fatherless.” Isaiah 10:1-2 (in the background of my sermon this morning.) #OnEarth
November 10, 2025 at 2:07 AM
“Woe to those who make unjust laws, to those who issue oppressive decrees, to deprive the poor of their rights and withhold justice from the oppressed of my people, making widows their prey and robbing the fatherless.” Isaiah 10:1-2 (in the background of my sermon this morning.) #OnEarth
…if Trump cares about Christians or anyone else in Nigeria, all he needs to do is restore aid and let babies live. #OnEarth
Opinion | Trump Aid Cuts Kill More Christians Than Jihadists Do
www.nytimes.com
November 8, 2025 at 1:17 PM
…if Trump cares about Christians or anyone else in Nigeria, all he needs to do is restore aid and let babies live. #OnEarth
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New Jersey and Virginia have chosen well by electing
@mikiesherrill.bsky.social and @spanbergerforva.bsky.social as their next governors!
They are proven leaders who won by focusing on what matters most - how politics and policy can make everyday life better and more affordable.
@mikiesherrill.bsky.social and @spanbergerforva.bsky.social as their next governors!
They are proven leaders who won by focusing on what matters most - how politics and policy can make everyday life better and more affordable.
November 5, 2025 at 3:01 AM
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madness on the right is ever rising… #OnEarth #GiftArticle
Opinion | Nick Fuentes Was Charlie Kirk’s Bitter Enemy. Now He’s Becoming His Successor.
www.nytimes.com
November 4, 2025 at 12:21 PM
madness on the right is ever rising… #OnEarth #GiftArticle
“The right is now eager to embrace the ideas that led to tyranny, the gulag and Mao’s Cultural Revolution.” #OnEarth
Opinion | Hey, Lefties! Trump Has Stolen Your Game.
www.nytimes.com
October 30, 2025 at 9:15 PM
“The right is now eager to embrace the ideas that led to tyranny, the gulag and Mao’s Cultural Revolution.” #OnEarth
prayers up tonight and tomorrow...looks horrific. (In earlier times in America, we might have FEMA and our military ready to go and help...I'm guessing that's not going to happen with this administration.)
October 28, 2025 at 1:07 AM
prayers up tonight and tomorrow...looks horrific. (In earlier times in America, we might have FEMA and our military ready to go and help...I'm guessing that's not going to happen with this administration.)
Opinion | The Thread Tying Together Everything Trump Does
www.nytimes.com
October 27, 2025 at 12:49 AM
Reposted by Robert Bingham
“The United States isn’t exceptional because of our common cultural heritage; we’re exceptional because we’ve been able to cohere despite faiths, traditions and languages that set us apart, and sometimes against one another.” #OnEarth
Opinion | The Right-Wing Myth of American Heritage
www.nytimes.com
October 24, 2025 at 12:02 AM
“The United States isn’t exceptional because of our common cultural heritage; we’re exceptional because we’ve been able to cohere despite faiths, traditions and languages that set us apart, and sometimes against one another.” #OnEarth
Trump is infamous for distracting and obscuring his worst deeds. What do you think tops the list of Trump evil deeds since inauguration? First place for me is "cutting off USAID and other aid for the poorest around the world." Gift article attached tells the story.
What is your number one? #OnEarth
What is your number one? #OnEarth
Opinion | Trump’s Most Lethal Policy
www.nytimes.com
October 23, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Trump is infamous for distracting and obscuring his worst deeds. What do you think tops the list of Trump evil deeds since inauguration? First place for me is "cutting off USAID and other aid for the poorest around the world." Gift article attached tells the story.
What is your number one? #OnEarth
What is your number one? #OnEarth
what are you worried about?
Mortality in the news vs. what we usually die from
Our World in Data compared causes of death in the United States against how much those causes are covered by the New York Times, Washington Post, and Fox News. The results are about what you would …
flowingdata.com
October 18, 2025 at 6:47 PM
what are you worried about?
interesting read - looking at our fears of surveillance from the inside-out...
"Basically, we should turn the Surveillance State into State Surveillance. Watch what government is doing at all times. If anyone doesn’t like that, get a different job. See who is okay with their masks off." #OnEarth
"Basically, we should turn the Surveillance State into State Surveillance. Watch what government is doing at all times. If anyone doesn’t like that, get a different job. See who is okay with their masks off." #OnEarth
State Surveillance - Hugh Howey
In 1949, George Orwell coined the term “Big Brother” in his (unfortunately) timeless novel 1984. The fear then — and now — was that mass surveillance would give totalitarian states even greater contro...
hughhowey.com
October 17, 2025 at 1:14 PM
interesting read - looking at our fears of surveillance from the inside-out...
"Basically, we should turn the Surveillance State into State Surveillance. Watch what government is doing at all times. If anyone doesn’t like that, get a different job. See who is okay with their masks off." #OnEarth
"Basically, we should turn the Surveillance State into State Surveillance. Watch what government is doing at all times. If anyone doesn’t like that, get a different job. See who is okay with their masks off." #OnEarth
In light of the exposure of the horrific texts of young Republicans, I recommend the story of one young (former) Republican who finally saw the movement for what it was and is… (thanks to TN) #OnEarth
I Thought I Belonged. Then I Realized What I Was Part Of.
Why I left the conservative movement--and why you can too.
open.substack.com
October 17, 2025 at 2:07 AM
In light of the exposure of the horrific texts of young Republicans, I recommend the story of one young (former) Republican who finally saw the movement for what it was and is… (thanks to TN) #OnEarth
“Evangelicals might be growing in political power, but there is not much evidence that they are growing in devotion.” #OnEarth
Opinion | Something Is Stirring in Christian America, and It’s Making Me Nervous
www.nytimes.com
October 17, 2025 at 1:19 AM
“Evangelicals might be growing in political power, but there is not much evidence that they are growing in devotion.” #OnEarth
Reposted by Robert Bingham
Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva on Mike Johnson refusing to swear her in: "The excuses depending on the day keep changing ... the timing is the fact that I am the 218th signer to the discharge petition for the Epstein files"
October 16, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva on Mike Johnson refusing to swear her in: "The excuses depending on the day keep changing ... the timing is the fact that I am the 218th signer to the discharge petition for the Epstein files"
“the best safeguard against tyranny is a legion of people who believe in an authority higher than any political program, prince — or president.” #OnEarth #GiftArticle
Opinion | A Lesson From the German Resistance That Applies Today
www.nytimes.com
October 15, 2025 at 2:35 PM
“the best safeguard against tyranny is a legion of people who believe in an authority higher than any political program, prince — or president.” #OnEarth #GiftArticle
"...in a sane democracy, it would have ended Trump’s political career as Republican lawmakers barred the doors forevermore.
But the lackeys at last week’s hearing continued to prop him up and to pretty him up, to pamper and to please him..." gift article #OnEarth
But the lackeys at last week’s hearing continued to prop him up and to pretty him up, to pamper and to please him..." gift article #OnEarth
Opinion | The Appalling Campaign to Erase Jan. 6 Never Ends
www.nytimes.com
October 13, 2025 at 1:56 PM
"...in a sane democracy, it would have ended Trump’s political career as Republican lawmakers barred the doors forevermore.
But the lackeys at last week’s hearing continued to prop him up and to pretty him up, to pamper and to please him..." gift article #OnEarth
But the lackeys at last week’s hearing continued to prop him up and to pretty him up, to pamper and to please him..." gift article #OnEarth
laugh every time…
October 13, 2025 at 1:16 PM
laugh every time…