Steve Watson
stevenewatson.bsky.social
Steve Watson
@stevenewatson.bsky.social
Faith that sets us free,
Hope that keeps us in the struggle,
Love that brings us back together.
https://www.reservoirchurch.org/2024-advent-christmas-guide/
28 Days of Good News - Day 6, Matthew 6
What is the good life? Manage your image? Grow wealth? More,more,more? Nope. Musk, Trump, and all (OK, for Jesus it was King Solomon) have it wrong. Don't be impressed or afraid. Manage self, love and trust God, do justice. One day, one step at a time.
February 6, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Bernice King says it well. We needed compassion, empathy, humility, and truth this week from our president. We got lies, blame, racism, and mean-spirited, petty attacks on our trans and differently-abled siblings.
February 1, 2025 at 2:40 AM
January 20, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Just digging into this new collection of essays, including one of mine, supporting, challenging, & applying the work of my mentor @thomasjayoord.bsky.social. Grateful to be part of a community of people wondering how faith & religion can be truer, healthier, more winsome forces for good in the world
January 2, 2025 at 10:03 PM
"If the concept of God has any validity or any use, it can only be to make us larger, freer, and more loving. If God cannot do this, then it is time we got rid of Him."

I read about 50 books this past year. 7 of them stuck with me the most. One was The Fire Next Time by Baldwin.

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December 31, 2024 at 7:45 PM
So grateful for this family, gathered together for a couple weeks at the end of the year.

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December 25, 2024 at 10:05 PM
Winter is beautiful here!
December 21, 2024 at 2:11 PM
Sang Handel’s Messiah for the first time in decades. Even at a community singalong, that stuff does not disappoint!
December 14, 2024 at 2:40 AM
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.
One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations? No reviews, just covers.
Day 20
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December 12, 2024 at 11:54 AM
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.
One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations? No reviews, just covers.
Day 19
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December 11, 2024 at 1:18 PM
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.
One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations? No reviews, just covers.
Day 18
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Thanks, @randywoodley.bsky.social, for how your work has shaped me!
December 10, 2024 at 4:28 PM
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.
One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations? No reviews, just covers.
Day 17
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Thanks, @bradleyjersak.bsky.social.
December 9, 2024 at 1:57 PM
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.
One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations? No reviews, just covers.
Day 16
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Acevedo’s translation and commentary transformed my interaction with this text
December 7, 2024 at 2:19 PM
Acevedo’s language and insights on faith born out of trauma are beautiful.
December 7, 2024 at 2:18 PM
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.
One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations? No reviews, just covers.
Day 15
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Baseball, religion, fathers, sons, war, and grace. Just a stunning novel.
December 6, 2024 at 1:59 PM
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.
One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations? No reviews, just covers.
Day 14
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A story about Afghanistan. Also a story about moral accountability and redemption. So good.
December 5, 2024 at 12:06 PM
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.
One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations? No reviews, just covers.
Day 13
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December 4, 2024 at 11:06 AM
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.
One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations? No reviews, just covers.
Day 12
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Not even the whole book, just the title essay, which I think about all the time.
December 3, 2024 at 12:10 PM
Love my frosty, beautiful, weird neighborhood this morning.
#morningwalk
December 2, 2024 at 1:49 PM
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.
One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations? No reviews, just covers.
Day 11
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#booksky
#books
December 2, 2024 at 12:13 PM
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.
One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations? No reviews, just covers.
Day 10
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December 1, 2024 at 12:17 PM
From this morning’s frosty walk around the neighborhood.
November 30, 2024 at 1:53 PM
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.
One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations? No reviews, just covers.
Day 9
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#booksky
#books
November 30, 2024 at 1:48 PM
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.
One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations? No reviews, just covers.
Day 8
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I kid you not on this one. My favorite book ever to read - and sing - to our kids when they were little.
November 28, 2024 at 3:03 PM
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.
One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations? No reviews, just covers.
Day 7
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Side by side, the two books that taught me how to be an English teacher - together, worth far more than my M.Ed!
November 27, 2024 at 11:53 AM