Rev. Jeff Lukens 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
@revjefflukens.bsky.social
United Church of Christ Pastor. Progressive Christian. LGBTQ+ affirming. He/Him/His.
A Love Your Neighbor kind of Christian, not the Storm the Capitol kind.
Skeets are my own & do not necessarily represent my employer.
https://linktr.ee/revjefflukens
A Love Your Neighbor kind of Christian, not the Storm the Capitol kind.
Skeets are my own & do not necessarily represent my employer.
https://linktr.ee/revjefflukens
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Just in case you need a reminder. Queer folx are beloved children of God just as they understand themselves to be. Full stop.
Being queer is NOT a sin, but homophobia is.
Link in bio for resources
Being queer is NOT a sin, but homophobia is.
Link in bio for resources
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Twenty-nine sailors drowned when the Edmund Fitzgerald went down in the Great Lakes' icy waters on Nov. 10, 1975. The ship was immortalized in a surprise hit 1976 folk ballad by Gordon Lightfoot.
50 years ago, the Edmund Fitzgerald, a 'rock star' ship, sank in Lake Superior
Twenty-nine sailors drowned when the Edmund Fitzgerald went down in the Great Lakes' icy waters on Nov. 10, 1975. The ship was immortalized in a surprise hit 1976 folk ballad by Gordon Lightfoot.
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November 10, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Twenty-nine sailors drowned when the Edmund Fitzgerald went down in the Great Lakes' icy waters on Nov. 10, 1975. The ship was immortalized in a surprise hit 1976 folk ballad by Gordon Lightfoot.
Thank you!
Bullies gain power when their misconduct succeeds in causing righteous people to yield in the face of wrongdoing. That’s why voting for Trump's continuing resolution - without any protection against his health care cuts or his growing illegality - is a mistake.
I voted NO.
I voted NO.
November 10, 2025 at 2:22 AM
Thank you!
@chrismurphyct.bsky.social @blumenthal.senate.gov
Please HOLD THE LINE and don’t give in to the GOP on a “promise”
We know they won’t stick to the promise.
Keep on fighting. The American people are with you 100%
Please HOLD THE LINE and don’t give in to the GOP on a “promise”
We know they won’t stick to the promise.
Keep on fighting. The American people are with you 100%
November 9, 2025 at 9:40 PM
@chrismurphyct.bsky.social @blumenthal.senate.gov
Please HOLD THE LINE and don’t give in to the GOP on a “promise”
We know they won’t stick to the promise.
Keep on fighting. The American people are with you 100%
Please HOLD THE LINE and don’t give in to the GOP on a “promise”
We know they won’t stick to the promise.
Keep on fighting. The American people are with you 100%
Heartbreaking loss for KC
November 9, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Heartbreaking loss for KC
I’ll be fucking pissed if the Dems cave. They’ve got the GOP against the rope here, with POTUS refusing SNAP benefits despite court orders and then ordering states to not step in to fund it in the meantime. The Dems have all the momentum, they need to USE IT and FIGHT
BREAKING: Deal to end government shutdown in reach
Deal to end government shutdown in reach
At least 10 Senate Democrats are expected to support a key procedural motion.
www.axios.com
November 9, 2025 at 6:59 PM
I’ll be fucking pissed if the Dems cave. They’ve got the GOP against the rope here, with POTUS refusing SNAP benefits despite court orders and then ordering states to not step in to fund it in the meantime. The Dems have all the momentum, they need to USE IT and FIGHT
And thanks to YouTubeTV, I can’t watch it.
November 9, 2025 at 6:45 PM
And thanks to YouTubeTV, I can’t watch it.
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BREAKING: Colorado voters approved a ballot measure that would raise state income taxes on higher-earning households to fund free meals for all public school students.
Follow AP for live updates.
Follow AP for live updates.
Live updates: US voters head to the polls in first general election since Trump's return to power
One year after Donald Trump retook the presidency, 2025 Election Day includes closely watched races for New York City mayor, New Jersey governor and California's Proposition 50.
bit.ly
November 5, 2025 at 3:33 AM
BREAKING: Colorado voters approved a ballot measure that would raise state income taxes on higher-earning households to fund free meals for all public school students.
Follow AP for live updates.
Follow AP for live updates.
And, thanks to YouTubeTV, I can’t watch it.
UConn vs #20 Louisville
📍 U.S. Navai Academy
⏰ 5:30 PM
📺 ESPN
📍 U.S. Navai Academy
⏰ 5:30 PM
📺 ESPN
November 4, 2025 at 3:36 PM
And, thanks to YouTubeTV, I can’t watch it.
One thing that I took away from my time doing CPE (hospital chaplain rotation part of my training) is that these euphemisms confuse people. I now only use “died” or “dead” (in a pastoral way, ofc)
To communicate the hope of resurrection to the bereaved, euphemisms should be avoided, argues Daniel Sandham
Christians should reclaim the language of dying
PEOPLE used to die. Now, it seems, they pass away. Or — say it quickly and quietly enough no one will even notice — they just pass. Media outlets report the passing of someone famous. Undertakers now refer to the deceased as having passed away whe...
www.churchtimes.co.uk
November 1, 2025 at 7:50 PM
One thing that I took away from my time doing CPE (hospital chaplain rotation part of my training) is that these euphemisms confuse people. I now only use “died” or “dead” (in a pastoral way, ofc)
This doesn’t sound like a cease-fire…
BREAKING: Israeli strikes overnight in Gaza have killed at least 60 people, including many children, local hospital officials say.
Israeli strikes overnight in Gaza kill at least 60 people, including children, local officials say
Israeli strikes overnight in Gaza have killed at least 60 people, including many children. That's according to local hospital officials on Wednesday.
bit.ly
October 30, 2025 at 4:22 PM
This doesn’t sound like a cease-fire…
We’ve reached that milestone day where it’s cold enough that my fingers are finally skinny enough to get my real wedding band on!
(From April-Oct my fingers are too big, and I end up wearing a silicone band)
(From April-Oct my fingers are too big, and I end up wearing a silicone band)
October 28, 2025 at 11:12 PM
We’ve reached that milestone day where it’s cold enough that my fingers are finally skinny enough to get my real wedding band on!
(From April-Oct my fingers are too big, and I end up wearing a silicone band)
(From April-Oct my fingers are too big, and I end up wearing a silicone band)
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Our own government, funded by us, is committing abuse and violence in our name.
The vast majority of Americans don’t want this.
I am donating to help but it also pisses me off - I already paid for this service once, with taxes.
The vast majority of Americans don’t want this.
I am donating to help but it also pisses me off - I already paid for this service once, with taxes.
Local news in Boston is now running a countdown clock for when SNAP benefits run out
October 28, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Our own government, funded by us, is committing abuse and violence in our name.
The vast majority of Americans don’t want this.
I am donating to help but it also pisses me off - I already paid for this service once, with taxes.
The vast majority of Americans don’t want this.
I am donating to help but it also pisses me off - I already paid for this service once, with taxes.
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“Just go to a food bank, a church or a charity”
For every meal the food bank provides, the SNAP program provides 9.
Even if donations are rapidly scaled up, they won’t be able to meet the needs of 42 million Americans who are about to go hungry.
It’s not sustainable.
For every meal the food bank provides, the SNAP program provides 9.
Even if donations are rapidly scaled up, they won’t be able to meet the needs of 42 million Americans who are about to go hungry.
It’s not sustainable.
October 27, 2025 at 8:42 PM
“Just go to a food bank, a church or a charity”
For every meal the food bank provides, the SNAP program provides 9.
Even if donations are rapidly scaled up, they won’t be able to meet the needs of 42 million Americans who are about to go hungry.
It’s not sustainable.
For every meal the food bank provides, the SNAP program provides 9.
Even if donations are rapidly scaled up, they won’t be able to meet the needs of 42 million Americans who are about to go hungry.
It’s not sustainable.
Let me guess. This guy calls himself “Christian”
Most folks with SNAP benefits either work, are Senior Citizens and retired, or KIDS WHO ARE TOO YOUNG TO WORK!
Immigrants don’t get SNAP benefits (even though they pay taxes)
EVERYONE DESERVES TO EAT
Most folks with SNAP benefits either work, are Senior Citizens and retired, or KIDS WHO ARE TOO YOUNG TO WORK!
Immigrants don’t get SNAP benefits (even though they pay taxes)
EVERYONE DESERVES TO EAT
October 26, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Let me guess. This guy calls himself “Christian”
Most folks with SNAP benefits either work, are Senior Citizens and retired, or KIDS WHO ARE TOO YOUNG TO WORK!
Immigrants don’t get SNAP benefits (even though they pay taxes)
EVERYONE DESERVES TO EAT
Most folks with SNAP benefits either work, are Senior Citizens and retired, or KIDS WHO ARE TOO YOUNG TO WORK!
Immigrants don’t get SNAP benefits (even though they pay taxes)
EVERYONE DESERVES TO EAT
I’m grateful for this @uconnwbbhighlights.bsky.social game on TV, but the production is awful. They’re playing background music that drowns out the sounds of the game. Awful
October 26, 2025 at 5:47 PM
I’m grateful for this @uconnwbbhighlights.bsky.social game on TV, but the production is awful. They’re playing background music that drowns out the sounds of the game. Awful
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FYI: it’s, uh, *not nothing* that the head of an entire Christian denomination — here Rev. Karen Georgia A. Thompson of the United Church of Christ — issued a statement decrying DHS agents for shooting one of her pastors in the face with a pepper round, adding, “No one is safe from tyranny."
October 26, 2025 at 4:40 PM
FYI: it’s, uh, *not nothing* that the head of an entire Christian denomination — here Rev. Karen Georgia A. Thompson of the United Church of Christ — issued a statement decrying DHS agents for shooting one of her pastors in the face with a pepper round, adding, “No one is safe from tyranny."
I had one of these in high school/college…
Most histories of hoodies go with 12th century monks as the originator, but I like to show my students this one from 5th-7th century Egypt.
October 26, 2025 at 12:04 PM
I had one of these in high school/college…
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Hope is not a sentimental optimism that things will somehow work out; hope is the subversive conviction that injustice and death will not have the final word and acting on that belief. Hope is not passive waiting it’s active persistence. Hope prays, peacefully protests, weeps, and keeps showing up.
October 25, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Hope is not a sentimental optimism that things will somehow work out; hope is the subversive conviction that injustice and death will not have the final word and acting on that belief. Hope is not passive waiting it’s active persistence. Hope prays, peacefully protests, weeps, and keeps showing up.
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Notice how it’s always, “the Bible must inform our laws!” until it comes to the +2,000 verses in the Bible that discuss the generous use of wealth and possessions in a way that prioritizes the needs of the poor, this sick, the stranger, the vulnerable, and the oppressed.
October 22, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Notice how it’s always, “the Bible must inform our laws!” until it comes to the +2,000 verses in the Bible that discuss the generous use of wealth and possessions in a way that prioritizes the needs of the poor, this sick, the stranger, the vulnerable, and the oppressed.
The book of Jeremiah could have been written for 2025 USA.
October 19, 2025 at 7:21 PM
The book of Jeremiah could have been written for 2025 USA.
So, they weren’t criminal drug dealers after all, and the US Government just murdered their boat mates for no reason then?
Breaking News: The Trump administration has decided to repatriate two survivors of a deadly U.S. strike this week on suspected drug runners in the Caribbean Sea rather than prosecute them or hold them in military detention, people with knowledge of the matter said on Saturday.
U.S. to Repatriate Survivors of Its Strike on Suspected Drug Vessel
The U.S. military rescued the two men in the Caribbean Sea after Special Operations forces fired on a semi-submersible that was assessed to be smuggling drugs.
nyti.ms
October 18, 2025 at 7:43 PM
So, they weren’t criminal drug dealers after all, and the US Government just murdered their boat mates for no reason then?
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Julius Caesar was the first Roman to put his own living face on coins, weeks before his death. It is one of the deepest cultural signifiers of something autocracies do and republics do not.
“Render unto Caesar.” A practice so notoriously arrogant Jesus himself dunked on it with snarky wordplay.
“Render unto Caesar.” A practice so notoriously arrogant Jesus himself dunked on it with snarky wordplay.
Treasury Department Has Plans To Mint Dollar Coin Featuring Donald Trump's Likeness | Defector
The United States Department of the Treasury has developed, to the brink of production, a dollar coin that features the face and likeness of President Donald Trump, according to a source within the Tr...
defector.com
October 3, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Julius Caesar was the first Roman to put his own living face on coins, weeks before his death. It is one of the deepest cultural signifiers of something autocracies do and republics do not.
“Render unto Caesar.” A practice so notoriously arrogant Jesus himself dunked on it with snarky wordplay.
“Render unto Caesar.” A practice so notoriously arrogant Jesus himself dunked on it with snarky wordplay.
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WTF? He's not a king. www-nbcnews-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/www.nbcn...
Trump coin design touted by Treasury
The design features President Donald Trump's face on one side and an image of him raising his fist on the other.
www-nbcnews-com.cdn.ampproject.org
October 3, 2025 at 8:32 PM
WTF? He's not a king. www-nbcnews-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/www.nbcn...
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Phee for WNBA Commissioner!
October 1, 2025 at 12:43 AM
Phee for WNBA Commissioner!