Sara Ewing-Merrill
@saraewme.bsky.social
The aim of my life is to be an ally for all who are vulnerable. I walk the spiritual path in the way of Jesus and Mary called the Magdalene.
I’m sharing about the acts of Paul and Thecla with daily meditations on Substack. Come check it out.
Thecla is the story that we need today to inspire us in the work of resisting Empire.
Thecla is the story that we need today to inspire us in the work of resisting Empire.
Sara Ewing-Merrill | Substack
pastor, entrepreneur, hope-seeker, truth teller, justice worker
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September 19, 2025 at 1:32 PM
I’m sharing about the acts of Paul and Thecla with daily meditations on Substack. Come check it out.
Thecla is the story that we need today to inspire us in the work of resisting Empire.
Thecla is the story that we need today to inspire us in the work of resisting Empire.
While the truth about Trump's health is a matter of great consequence, it also matters that he is unable to refute rumors about his ill health.—Robert Hubbell
September 2, 2025 at 12:25 PM
While the truth about Trump's health is a matter of great consequence, it also matters that he is unable to refute rumors about his ill health.—Robert Hubbell
Vance: It’s kind of bizarre that we have a bunch of old, primarily white people who are out there protesting the policies that keep people safe when they’ve never felt danger in their entire lives.
Miller: We’re going to ignore these stupid white hippies. They all need to go home and take a nap….
Miller: We’re going to ignore these stupid white hippies. They all need to go home and take a nap….
Old White Hippies Rule!
August 21, 2025
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August 21, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Vance: It’s kind of bizarre that we have a bunch of old, primarily white people who are out there protesting the policies that keep people safe when they’ve never felt danger in their entire lives.
Miller: We’re going to ignore these stupid white hippies. They all need to go home and take a nap….
Miller: We’re going to ignore these stupid white hippies. They all need to go home and take a nap….
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I wish newspapers wouldn't treat all these executive orders as though they all have teeth and power and stuff. Lots of them are just the fulminations of a geriatric clown and mean nothing or will be overturned in court or are just distractions from what Trump wants to hide about his Epstein crimes.
August 18, 2025 at 12:25 PM
I wish newspapers wouldn't treat all these executive orders as though they all have teeth and power and stuff. Lots of them are just the fulminations of a geriatric clown and mean nothing or will be overturned in court or are just distractions from what Trump wants to hide about his Epstein crimes.
A prevailing outcome of purity culture is that males are taught that their THOUGHTS are pure or impure, whereas females are taught their BODIES are pure or impure.
—Meggan Watterson, The Girl Who Baptized herself
—Meggan Watterson, The Girl Who Baptized herself
August 18, 2025 at 5:27 PM
A prevailing outcome of purity culture is that males are taught that their THOUGHTS are pure or impure, whereas females are taught their BODIES are pure or impure.
—Meggan Watterson, The Girl Who Baptized herself
—Meggan Watterson, The Girl Who Baptized herself
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On this Feast of St. Mary Magdalene, the Church remembers what patriarchy tried to forget: women have always preached, led, and proclaimed resurrection.
"Mary Magdalene Announcing the Resurrection to the Apostles"
Illumination from St. Albans Psalter, St. Godehard's Church, Hildesheim, Germany.
"Mary Magdalene Announcing the Resurrection to the Apostles"
Illumination from St. Albans Psalter, St. Godehard's Church, Hildesheim, Germany.
July 22, 2025 at 12:13 PM
On this Feast of St. Mary Magdalene, the Church remembers what patriarchy tried to forget: women have always preached, led, and proclaimed resurrection.
"Mary Magdalene Announcing the Resurrection to the Apostles"
Illumination from St. Albans Psalter, St. Godehard's Church, Hildesheim, Germany.
"Mary Magdalene Announcing the Resurrection to the Apostles"
Illumination from St. Albans Psalter, St. Godehard's Church, Hildesheim, Germany.
When you put [Mary Magdalene] back in the story, the entire scaffolding of empire religion starts to tremble….
Not rules. Not dogma.
But encounter.
She was the first flame of that.
The Church just couldn’t handle the fire.
Remembering her rightly destabilizes everything.
Not rules. Not dogma.
But encounter.
She was the first flame of that.
The Church just couldn’t handle the fire.
Remembering her rightly destabilizes everything.
🕊️ The Forgotten Bride
She was the first to see him risen—and the first to be erased. This July 22, rediscover Mary Magdalene not as a sinner, but as the apostle, the tower, the forgotten bride.
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July 22, 2025 at 12:35 PM
When you put [Mary Magdalene] back in the story, the entire scaffolding of empire religion starts to tremble….
Not rules. Not dogma.
But encounter.
She was the first flame of that.
The Church just couldn’t handle the fire.
Remembering her rightly destabilizes everything.
Not rules. Not dogma.
But encounter.
She was the first flame of that.
The Church just couldn’t handle the fire.
Remembering her rightly destabilizes everything.
In the dark times
Will there also be singing?
Yes, there will also be singing.
About the dark times.
—Bertolt Brecht
Will there also be singing?
Yes, there will also be singing.
About the dark times.
—Bertolt Brecht
June 23, 2025 at 1:53 PM
In the dark times
Will there also be singing?
Yes, there will also be singing.
About the dark times.
—Bertolt Brecht
Will there also be singing?
Yes, there will also be singing.
About the dark times.
—Bertolt Brecht
I was privileged to join a large group of other people of faith at the coordination of Multifaith Justice Maine at Senator Susan Collins’ Portland office as other groups did the same at her Lewiston and Bangor offices.
Watch until the end to see my 10 second interview. 🤩
Call or email her today
Watch until the end to see my 10 second interview. 🤩
Call or email her today
Mainers pressure Sen. Collins to speak out against Trump's budget
YouTube video by NEWS CENTER Maine
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June 19, 2025 at 10:24 AM
I was privileged to join a large group of other people of faith at the coordination of Multifaith Justice Maine at Senator Susan Collins’ Portland office as other groups did the same at her Lewiston and Bangor offices.
Watch until the end to see my 10 second interview. 🤩
Call or email her today
Watch until the end to see my 10 second interview. 🤩
Call or email her today
Reposted by Sara Ewing-Merrill
I just cheered when Greta Thunberg said 'The world needs a lot more angry young women right now.'
June 10, 2025 at 12:49 PM
I just cheered when Greta Thunberg said 'The world needs a lot more angry young women right now.'
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On June 14th, we show up. Coalition members will be present at all 1,800 events nationwide, over 90,000 strong, helping monitor local conditions. Many veterans have stepped forward to support protesters, stand in solidarity, and defend our right to be heard. We thank them.
June 10, 2025 at 7:11 PM
On June 14th, we show up. Coalition members will be present at all 1,800 events nationwide, over 90,000 strong, helping monitor local conditions. Many veterans have stepped forward to support protesters, stand in solidarity, and defend our right to be heard. We thank them.
It is important to separate the telenovela aspects of the political news from those aspects that imperil the lives and safety of all Americans.
-Robert Hubbell
-Robert Hubbell
June 7, 2025 at 10:45 AM
It is important to separate the telenovela aspects of the political news from those aspects that imperil the lives and safety of all Americans.
-Robert Hubbell
-Robert Hubbell
“We’re rising up because in each and every one of us is this immaculate soul that was given to us by God that is just crying out for dignity and freedom.” #theHandmaidsTale
#ElizabethMoss
#ElizabethMoss
June 5, 2025 at 3:28 AM
“We’re rising up because in each and every one of us is this immaculate soul that was given to us by God that is just crying out for dignity and freedom.” #theHandmaidsTale
#ElizabethMoss
#ElizabethMoss
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Law enforcement officers should never cover their faces when making arrests or conceal their identities (unless they are working undercover). They work for us. We have a right to know who they are. These face coverings are frightening & unAmerican, as though they're ashamed of what they're doing.
June 2, 2025 at 1:50 AM
Law enforcement officers should never cover their faces when making arrests or conceal their identities (unless they are working undercover). They work for us. We have a right to know who they are. These face coverings are frightening & unAmerican, as though they're ashamed of what they're doing.
Reposted by Sara Ewing-Merrill
If you're interested in buying the upcoming book from the author of this article, it's called Liturgies for Resisting Empire: Seeking Community, Belonging, and Peace in a Dehumanizing World by Kat Armas.
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May 8, 2025 at 6:37 PM
If you're interested in buying the upcoming book from the author of this article, it's called Liturgies for Resisting Empire: Seeking Community, Belonging, and Peace in a Dehumanizing World by Kat Armas.
bakerbookhouse.com/products/618...
bakerbookhouse.com/products/618...
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I didn’t give a wit about new pope coverage, but the first American pope being a man with Black ancestry born in Chicago by way of New Orleans by way of Haiti. Names his self after the pope who condemned slavery? In the Trump era? Oh, baebae, I am HERE for it.
www.wwltv.com/article/news...
www.wwltv.com/article/news...
Pope Leo XIV's grandparents were 7th Ward Creoles
The newly elected pontiff, born in Chicago, has ancestral ties to the city’s historic Seventh Ward, according to genealogists at The Historic New Orleans Collection.
www.wwltv.com
May 9, 2025 at 12:11 AM
I didn’t give a wit about new pope coverage, but the first American pope being a man with Black ancestry born in Chicago by way of New Orleans by way of Haiti. Names his self after the pope who condemned slavery? In the Trump era? Oh, baebae, I am HERE for it.
www.wwltv.com/article/news...
www.wwltv.com/article/news...
@rbhubbell.bsky.social
The lesson we must internalize is that resistance is not only necessary but also the only path to victory. Those who resist Trump win—eventually. Those who capitulate are forever in his grasp, supplicants whose reward for groveling is more abuse.
The lesson we must internalize is that resistance is not only necessary but also the only path to victory. Those who resist Trump win—eventually. Those who capitulate are forever in his grasp, supplicants whose reward for groveling is more abuse.
Trump 2.0 as a modern morality play—where the bad guy always loses.
May 3, 2025
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May 3, 2025 at 11:45 AM
@rbhubbell.bsky.social
The lesson we must internalize is that resistance is not only necessary but also the only path to victory. Those who resist Trump win—eventually. Those who capitulate are forever in his grasp, supplicants whose reward for groveling is more abuse.
The lesson we must internalize is that resistance is not only necessary but also the only path to victory. Those who resist Trump win—eventually. Those who capitulate are forever in his grasp, supplicants whose reward for groveling is more abuse.
Reposted by Sara Ewing-Merrill
Marie Antoinette didn’t actually SAY “let them eat cake”, but the Trump regime is definitely keen on saying it over and over again:
May 1, 2025 at 7:30 AM
Marie Antoinette didn’t actually SAY “let them eat cake”, but the Trump regime is definitely keen on saying it over and over again:
May 2, 2025 at 1:17 AM
SINGERS WILL MEET AT 3:15, in front of McGoldrich Center - right behind the bus shelters
More info here: www.mobilize.us/mayday/event...
More info here: www.mobilize.us/mayday/event...
May 1, 2025 at 10:51 AM
SINGERS WILL MEET AT 3:15, in front of McGoldrich Center - right behind the bus shelters
More info here: www.mobilize.us/mayday/event...
More info here: www.mobilize.us/mayday/event...
Don’t be overwhelmed
Just do #OneThing each day to:
Build community
Stand up against evil
Love your neighbor
Serve the oppressed
Show compassion
Advance justice
Defend democracy
Spread joy
Stay grounded
Last 3 days: uprooted 150 unruly strawberry plants to share with others
Just do #OneThing each day to:
Build community
Stand up against evil
Love your neighbor
Serve the oppressed
Show compassion
Advance justice
Defend democracy
Spread joy
Stay grounded
Last 3 days: uprooted 150 unruly strawberry plants to share with others
April 28, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Don’t be overwhelmed
Just do #OneThing each day to:
Build community
Stand up against evil
Love your neighbor
Serve the oppressed
Show compassion
Advance justice
Defend democracy
Spread joy
Stay grounded
Last 3 days: uprooted 150 unruly strawberry plants to share with others
Just do #OneThing each day to:
Build community
Stand up against evil
Love your neighbor
Serve the oppressed
Show compassion
Advance justice
Defend democracy
Spread joy
Stay grounded
Last 3 days: uprooted 150 unruly strawberry plants to share with others
Reposted by Sara Ewing-Merrill
Join us Sunday @10am to kick off our new series:
Undeterred: Stories of Resistance
We are starting with these fierce midwives, Shiprah & Puah, who stood divinely defiant because they had already borne witness to a truth greater than hate and fear-mongering.
Image by @bethfelkerjones.bsky.social
Undeterred: Stories of Resistance
We are starting with these fierce midwives, Shiprah & Puah, who stood divinely defiant because they had already borne witness to a truth greater than hate and fear-mongering.
Image by @bethfelkerjones.bsky.social
April 26, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Join us Sunday @10am to kick off our new series:
Undeterred: Stories of Resistance
We are starting with these fierce midwives, Shiprah & Puah, who stood divinely defiant because they had already borne witness to a truth greater than hate and fear-mongering.
Image by @bethfelkerjones.bsky.social
Undeterred: Stories of Resistance
We are starting with these fierce midwives, Shiprah & Puah, who stood divinely defiant because they had already borne witness to a truth greater than hate and fear-mongering.
Image by @bethfelkerjones.bsky.social
Don’t be overwhelmed
Just do #OneThing each day to:
Build community
Stand up against evil
Love your neighbor
Serve the oppressed
Show compassion
Advance justice
Defend democracy
Spread joy
Stay grounded
Monday: spent quality time one-on-one with two beloved friends & gardened 🌱
Just do #OneThing each day to:
Build community
Stand up against evil
Love your neighbor
Serve the oppressed
Show compassion
Advance justice
Defend democracy
Spread joy
Stay grounded
Monday: spent quality time one-on-one with two beloved friends & gardened 🌱
April 22, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Don’t be overwhelmed
Just do #OneThing each day to:
Build community
Stand up against evil
Love your neighbor
Serve the oppressed
Show compassion
Advance justice
Defend democracy
Spread joy
Stay grounded
Monday: spent quality time one-on-one with two beloved friends & gardened 🌱
Just do #OneThing each day to:
Build community
Stand up against evil
Love your neighbor
Serve the oppressed
Show compassion
Advance justice
Defend democracy
Spread joy
Stay grounded
Monday: spent quality time one-on-one with two beloved friends & gardened 🌱