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Our brains are extraordinarily powerful, taking even the remotest of possibilities and running with it. What could be possible, if only we could imagine things like wealth equity, universal healthcare, free education, and justice for all God's children instead of only a few?
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A3. Truly, #SlateSpeak is helping me get through this transition. I had family drama this week that just intensified my anxiety. You don’t know how many times I was 🥺😭 when I saw y’all boosting the mutual aid and sending your hard earned money.
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The tendency of Christians to take the Bible literally instead of seriously has deep (and painful) roots.
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Be well, #SlateSpeak! Feel free to continue the conversation.
We'll be back here next week. Same bat time, same bat channel. Thursdays, 9pm ET/ 6pm PT
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(1/2) Tonight, I’d like us to talk about being present for one another and sitting with people in their sorrow. There’s certainly enough of it to go around, from personal trauma to the collective pain of witnessing gun violence and political attacks on the vulnerable. #SlateSpeak
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Welcome to #SlateSpeak, a weekly Twitter chat sponsored by @TheSlateProject, which is Progressive Christian but open to folks of all faiths (or none) who want to listen and chat. Let’s start with a quick prayer, if you’re so inclined.
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More thoughts on community. Got me thinking about last week’s #SlateSpeak
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For most of us, community means being part of a forest. Part of something bigger where we play a role but we also have the comfort and safety of those around us.
But what happens when the forest no longer feels safe to you?
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The smarter you are, the less you loudly spout theories from the rooftops of the world. May our world quiet down to listen to the truly wise, and tune out the utterly foolish and dangerously ignorant. #tbt
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We might as well get used to change. Know it's coming. Roll with it. Learn to greet it as a lost friend, warmly and without judgment.
Perhaps Octavia Butler had it right: "God is Change."
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"Dear lovely Death," wrote Langston Hughes, as though addressing an intimate lover. "Change is thy other name." Change is the only constant in a wild and unpredictable universe. Everything changes, "everything flies and goes away" as Frida Kahlo put it.
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Tonight at 9pm Eastern Time: #SlateSpeak, a progressive, interfaith-ish conversation space brought to you by .
I'm thinking about Community. What can we learn about ourselves and our beliefs from the ways we use this word?
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Funner fact? Catherine of Sienna received one of these from the Virgin Mary herself… to wear as a BRIDAL BAND to represent her marriage to Christ.
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Introducing DEVASTATING DEVOTION, a new series looking at the sweep of Christian history and focusing on when the divine becomes dangerous. When devotion has devastating effects. But first up, let's call it an appetizer: the Holy Prepuce.
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Introducing DEVASTATING DEVOTION, a new series looking at the sweep of Christian history and focusing on when the divine becomes dangerous. When devotion has devastating effects. But first up, let's call it an appetizer: the Holy Prepuce.
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Tracy and Jason take requests from Tracy's brother Eric! We're going all the way back to the late 1900s, y'all. Listen here - buzzsprout.com/273576/12703454
Also, it's not too late to add your own movie(s)! docs.google.com/document/d/1Pb
BEFORE THE LAST QUESTION: There is really a lot of healing to be had here at #SlateSpeak, so I personally feel Duty bound to let folks know about it. Please join me in the next week and tweet, post about this on facebook?
Seriously. Share and invite others to this lovely thing!
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Q1: what are your two most reliable sources of wisdom? How do you know they're reliable?
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Hey y'all it's me. Francisco () tonight's #SlateSpeak moderator. Please join us tonight (6pm PT/8pm CT/9pm ET) when we talk about something super important:
recognizing wisdom (1/3)
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What a task to ask, to love what will not last. "Wilted flowers do not cause suffering," Mary Oliver's contemporary, Thich Nhat Hanh, reminds us. "It is the unrealistic desire that flowers will not wilt that causes suffering."
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#SlateSpeak is pretty great.
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Pablo Neruda (1904-1973) certainly had a way with words, but his evocative imagery for pride is unforgettable. We must see pride from the vantage point of where we will, inevitably, end up: to the dust to which we shall return. The earth which is our home.
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As seen in this country that worships guns at the altar of gun culture. There are too many hashtags. #Nashville
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Before we get to final thoughts…
Y’all. #SlateSpeak is getting lonely. I’m going to start making announcements about doing it once or twice a week and invite folks to come. We do good ministry here, and others will be healed.
Who will join me? It’ll be fun <3
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Lament usually has three parts. 1. Statement of pain and anger / 2. Statement reminding God of their previous love / 3. Statement asking God to intervene and return to faithfulness. So I’ll now make prompts for each and respond in kind. #SlateSpeak
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Hospitality is at the core of what it means to follow Jesus (and of what it means to be human, together). Please give.
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Looking for something to do? Give to @AlainaKailyn’s fundraiser - she’s been ready for this moment, and she and her community are selling their property to relocate close to Canada to make a home/way-out for refugees. Give generously fundly.com/help-build-the #SlateSpeak
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What does this movement of Jesus of Nazareth mean? To where does it lead? There are no easy answers. Perhaps we've been asking the wrong questions. Watch the innovative “Mary Magdalene” (2018) for its take on the movement. It is a perfect Easter Saturday film. #ForAllYouCare
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Once he’s taken into custody, Jesus does not have any recognizable power. He’s at the mercy of his captors. In this power dynamic, Jesus plots a new way. Not unlike the heroine of the late Octavia Butler’s masterpiece, “Kindred” (1979) - octaviabutler.com/kindred #ForAllYouCare
Judas is there at the Last Supper: Jesus doesn’t deny him this sacrament. When Judas can’t take what he’s done, he dies by suicide. Centuries after Jesus, this was considered a death beyond the loving grasps of the Divine. As if such a thing were ever possible. #ForAllYouCare
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