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Anti-fascism. Accountability for harmful Christian institutions.
Anti-fascism. Accountability for harmful Christian institutions.
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You thought I would forget, but I remember.
October 19, 2025 at 12:01 AM
How I've been feeling this week.
When will it feel like fall?
When will it feel like fall?
October 4, 2025 at 7:19 PM
How I've been feeling this week.
When will it feel like fall?
When will it feel like fall?
I can't stop thinking about this Frederick Douglass quote.
We can't stay silent about the dehumanization and cruelty those claiming Christ are exhibiting in our country. It is antithetical to the gospel, incompatible with Christianity, and the epitome of taking God's name in vain.
We can't stay silent about the dehumanization and cruelty those claiming Christ are exhibiting in our country. It is antithetical to the gospel, incompatible with Christianity, and the epitome of taking God's name in vain.
September 18, 2025 at 7:25 PM
I can't stop thinking about this Frederick Douglass quote.
We can't stay silent about the dehumanization and cruelty those claiming Christ are exhibiting in our country. It is antithetical to the gospel, incompatible with Christianity, and the epitome of taking God's name in vain.
We can't stay silent about the dehumanization and cruelty those claiming Christ are exhibiting in our country. It is antithetical to the gospel, incompatible with Christianity, and the epitome of taking God's name in vain.
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The legacy of James Dobson is child abuse, misogyny, sexual shame, and authoritarianism. And the denigration of the gospel.
August 21, 2025 at 3:04 PM
The legacy of James Dobson is child abuse, misogyny, sexual shame, and authoritarianism. And the denigration of the gospel.
Thinking of everyone affected by the flooding in SE Wisconsin.
Waukesha, 8/11/25
Waukesha, 8/11/25
August 12, 2025 at 2:09 AM
Thinking of everyone affected by the flooding in SE Wisconsin.
Waukesha, 8/11/25
Waukesha, 8/11/25
The Apostle Islands sea caves lived up to the hype.
July 19, 2025 at 12:44 AM
The Apostle Islands sea caves lived up to the hype.
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There is a direct through line from those saying "touch not God's anointed" when speaking up about pastoral abuse to "don't you love your country?" when speaking against the atrocities happening in this country under the current regime.
July 10, 2025 at 2:13 AM
There is a direct through line from those saying "touch not God's anointed" when speaking up about pastoral abuse to "don't you love your country?" when speaking against the atrocities happening in this country under the current regime.
Telling someone they aren't allowed to resign from church membership and that private counseling details will be made public if they don't go to a meeting with church leaders is so cult-y.
A former member has sued Grace Community Church, led by prominent evangelical pastor John MacArthur, saying church leaders disclosed confidential information about her during a church service.
julieroys.com/former-membe...
julieroys.com/former-membe...
Former Member Sues John MacArthur’s Megachurch for Public Shaming
A lawsuit filed in California state court accuses the church of violating a former member’s privacy and inflicting emotional harm.
julieroys.com
July 9, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Telling someone they aren't allowed to resign from church membership and that private counseling details will be made public if they don't go to a meeting with church leaders is so cult-y.
“That’s become part of our heritage to this day, to be people who stand for justice, for American Baptists to embrace diversity.”
apnews.com/article/bapt...
apnews.com/article/bapt...
A volunteer finds the Holy Grail of abolitionist-era Baptist documents in Massachusetts
A volunteer searching the archives of the American Baptist in Massachusetts has found a nearly 180-year-old document shedding light on the church's support for ending slavery.
apnews.com
July 5, 2025 at 5:37 PM
“That’s become part of our heritage to this day, to be people who stand for justice, for American Baptists to embrace diversity.”
apnews.com/article/bapt...
apnews.com/article/bapt...
Van Orden forgot or just doesn't care that his actual job is representing his constituents with his votes. Instead he'll pass off the responsibility to Evers and lie about the impact.
www.msnbc.com/top-stories/...
www.msnbc.com/top-stories/...
July 5, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Van Orden forgot or just doesn't care that his actual job is representing his constituents with his votes. Instead he'll pass off the responsibility to Evers and lie about the impact.
www.msnbc.com/top-stories/...
www.msnbc.com/top-stories/...
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Every Wisconsin Republican in Congress just voted to cut BadgerCare for thousands of Wisconsinites.
July 3, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Every Wisconsin Republican in Congress just voted to cut BadgerCare for thousands of Wisconsinites.
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PLEASE consider the valid concerns of those who voted this administration into power. Yes, millions of people are going to lose their health insurance and/or jobs now but what if a trans person had won a swim meet?? What if pronouns in bio came to life and bit people who could afford medical care???
July 3, 2025 at 8:12 PM
PLEASE consider the valid concerns of those who voted this administration into power. Yes, millions of people are going to lose their health insurance and/or jobs now but what if a trans person had won a swim meet?? What if pronouns in bio came to life and bit people who could afford medical care???
The cruelty is unfathomable.
Weird thing for a Republican congressman to be celebrating but at least he's being honest
July 3, 2025 at 8:28 PM
The cruelty is unfathomable.
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“Whoever oppresses the poor shows contempt for their Maker, but whoever is kind to the needy honors God.” -Proverbs 14:31
July 1, 2025 at 7:02 PM
“Whoever oppresses the poor shows contempt for their Maker, but whoever is kind to the needy honors God.” -Proverbs 14:31
This is Ethnos360/New Tribes Mission. Hiring an attorney to protect a missionary who abused a child, one they should have already kicked out of the organization based on previous behavior, and then celebrating his ministry service. 🤢
open.substack.com/pub/whispers...
open.substack.com/pub/whispers...
He abused a Toddler—and They Threw Him a Party
A story of a child’s trauma, one mother’s agony, and the mission that protected the man who did it.
open.substack.com
June 16, 2025 at 3:25 PM
This is Ethnos360/New Tribes Mission. Hiring an attorney to protect a missionary who abused a child, one they should have already kicked out of the organization based on previous behavior, and then celebrating his ministry service. 🤢
open.substack.com/pub/whispers...
open.substack.com/pub/whispers...
No Kings protest.
Waukesha, Wisconsin.
Waukesha, Wisconsin.
June 14, 2025 at 8:19 PM
No Kings protest.
Waukesha, Wisconsin.
Waukesha, Wisconsin.
Mother's Day afternoon at the lake was perfection.
May 12, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Mother's Day afternoon at the lake was perfection.
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Yesterday, a top Trump Administration official made an apparent threat to arrest me.
Here’s my message to Wisconsinites. I encourage you to take a few minutes to watch. ⬇️
Here’s my message to Wisconsinites. I encourage you to take a few minutes to watch. ⬇️
Gov. Evers Releases Message to Wisconsinites Regarding Apparent Trump Administration Arrest Threats
YouTube video by Governor Tony Evers
youtu.be
May 2, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Yesterday, a top Trump Administration official made an apparent threat to arrest me.
Here’s my message to Wisconsinites. I encourage you to take a few minutes to watch. ⬇️
Here’s my message to Wisconsinites. I encourage you to take a few minutes to watch. ⬇️
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Dangerous stunts by the Trump Administration to arrest judges and threaten arrest of our governor are an attempt to distract and divide us.
They want to stir up chaos and deflect accountability by scapegoating others in hopes we won’t notice as they starve our communities.
They want to stir up chaos and deflect accountability by scapegoating others in hopes we won’t notice as they starve our communities.
May 2, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Dangerous stunts by the Trump Administration to arrest judges and threaten arrest of our governor are an attempt to distract and divide us.
They want to stir up chaos and deflect accountability by scapegoating others in hopes we won’t notice as they starve our communities.
They want to stir up chaos and deflect accountability by scapegoating others in hopes we won’t notice as they starve our communities.
I wish I could say this surprises me, but it doesn't. Ethnos360 has failed missionary kids over and over. They've taught us their mission matters and we don't. Proud of this brave MK.
Ethnos360/New Tribes Mission is in the news again with another lawsuit. How many of these awful abuses (that occurred post-GRACE recommendations) does it take for members and supporters to believe there's a problem?
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
Christian organization plagued by allegations of child sex abuse faces another lawsuit
A missionary is accused of abusing a girl for years while serving in Indonesia for Ethnos360, a religious nonprofit group.
www.nbcnews.com
May 1, 2025 at 3:35 AM
I wish I could say this surprises me, but it doesn't. Ethnos360 has failed missionary kids over and over. They've taught us their mission matters and we don't. Proud of this brave MK.
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Cheering for the dehumanization of people, no matter who they are or what they've done, is evil. If you don't see a problem with this sick prison porn propaganda, you have lost the plot of what it even means to be a human being. Appalling.
at his rally in Michigan, Trump plays a propaganda video of prisoners having their heads shaved at the Gulag in El Salvador to big cheers from the crowd and "U-S-A!" chants
April 30, 2025 at 12:23 AM
Cheering for the dehumanization of people, no matter who they are or what they've done, is evil. If you don't see a problem with this sick prison porn propaganda, you have lost the plot of what it even means to be a human being. Appalling.
"If I speak in the tongues of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing." 1 Cor. 13:1-2
This was filmed at the White House. It's a meeting of the Faith Advisory Board. If you watch it long enough, you'll get a glimpse of the evil Stephen Miller singing a hymn.
Nothing unusual going on here. Nothing at all. 🙂
Nothing unusual going on here. Nothing at all. 🙂
April 30, 2025 at 12:59 AM
"If I speak in the tongues of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing." 1 Cor. 13:1-2
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This morning, the FBI arrested Milwaukee Judge Hannah Dugan for allegedly instructing an immigrant, who appeared in court on April 18, to walk into a public area when ICE agents showed up to her courtroom looking to apprehend him.
April 25, 2025 at 5:18 PM
This morning, the FBI arrested Milwaukee Judge Hannah Dugan for allegedly instructing an immigrant, who appeared in court on April 18, to walk into a public area when ICE agents showed up to her courtroom looking to apprehend him.