In times of change and uncertainty, there is a risk that fear will dominate. But let us remember: We are a religious people – a people of hope and imagination! There is powerful magic in our tradition which welcomes the future, not with fear, but as the breaking of a new day.
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UU minister, lover of change, queer transgender guy (they/him), artist, poet, granddad, activist
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I think it hasn't really sunk in for a lot of people that the CDC was telling everyone else it was OK to go back to working in person, but they're still working remotely for their own safety.
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Let me bookmark this tweet for myself and any columnist or commenter who dares ask a parent for one more thing.
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Please believe us when we say they are coming for us. Their goal is to make us seem like monsters so you don’t notice or care while they strip us of our ability to exist. Don’t let them.
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Marjorie Taylor Green releases bill to medically detransition all trans teens. It also targets trans adults:
- Ban on care and forced detransition for trans teens
- Bans insur. coverage for adult trans healthcare!
- Bans higher ed/accreditation from teaching trans healthcare!
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The books in the inSpirit Series are perfect for on-the-go reflection or quiet, meditative time at home. We hope these meditations on resilience, justice, and more will nourish your spirit. All are available from at bit.ly/1YbGL2L.
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Today's gender is inexplicable.
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Over a five-year period, 2,400 Chicago kids lost parents to gun violence, according to .
Now, on WBEZ.org/live we're talking about the impact on children who witness gun violence.
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But there's always been another Christianity—the true gospel. The one whispered by enslaved folks in secret; one that endured batons and firehoses for freedom.
The one that loudly proclaims, "Your lynching tree is crucifying Jesus, still."
It's in that faith that I find hope.
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Socialism is a scare word they've hurled at every advance the people have made. Socialism is what they called public power, social security, deposit insurance, and independent labor organizations. Socialism is their name for anything that helps all people.
--Harry Truman, 1952
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No one should be threatened or attacked for exercising their right to express themselves.
We are relieved to hear Salman Rushdie is on the road to recovery.
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It is with great sadness—but greater appreciation for his well-lived life—that we share the news of Frederick Buechner’s peaceful passing at 96. Please share your thoughts, prayers, and favorite quotes here and elsewhere in his memory. #inmemoriambuechner frederickbuechner.org/in-memoriam
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Dismantling education is a core requirement for fascism. Free thinking is harder to control.
This public sabotage is deliberate and it will not stop at schools.
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Thinking of Anne Heche being shamed for "going back" to dating men and Demi Lovato being shamed for "going back" to she/her pronouns and how a plurality of queer people are bi and a plurality of trans people are NB and how every border implies the violence of its own maintenance
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Forced detransition of trans adults.
The denial of trans reality, needs, healthcare.
The UN defines genocide as “the intent to destroy a group, in whole or in part.” When trans people talk about genocide, they talk about the forced obliteration of trans existence.
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🚨 TRANS PEOPLE ARE UNDER ATTACK
🚨 THIS IS NOT A DRILL
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As promised, it's now all ages. Thousands of people are about to have their endocrine systems hit with a truck because DeSantis wants to be president.
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Thinking a lot about Adam Schiff’s words this week:
“He has betrayed our national security, and he will do so again… You cannot constrain him. He is who he is. Truth matters little to him. What’s right matters even less, and decency matters not at all.”
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Why didn’t anyone ever tell me that grief is still just love?
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if you can learn the gospel from animated vegetables you can learn the gospel from a queer person
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"And yet the taste
of this perfectly ripe
pear on my tongue
reminds me of heaven
and of gifts beyond
measure: like sweetness
and sunset
and again, tomorrow."
—Rev. Sean Parker Dennison
Breaking and Blessing: Meditations
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A powerful call from ’s urging us to understand that the brutal attempt on #SalmanRushdie’s life is an attack against the freedom to write, read, and think. #wordsmorepowerfulthanknives
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Three months ago I heard Salman Rushdie speak at the PEN World Voices Festival. He said: “A poem cannot stop a bullet. A novel can’t defuse a bomb … But we are not helpless … We can sing the truth & name the liars.” We must tell better stories than the tyrants.
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Here’s the deal: If a president violated the Espionage Act, all of his Supreme Court picks should automatically be removed and replaced.
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NPR scolding Beto for cussing out the guy laughing at 19 dead children is the essence of modern liberalism
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hi, are you doomscrolling? is there a hobby you can do instead, like a craft or tending to your plants? You still deserve time to rest and recover.
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The new CDC guidelines are meant to protect capitalism, not people.
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CDC like “nibble a little tide pod if you want, you deserve a treat”
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Between Hillary emailing risotto recipes from a private server and Trump selling our nuclear secrets, neither side seems to care much about protecting important information.
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“the first thing the oppressors want to do is constrain your sense of what’s possible” -
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If only we hated homelessness instead of hating homeless people.
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Right now the CDC sounds like when we would REALLY get on our mom’s nerves and she’d be like “You know what? Do whatever you want then.” And like, for a second you think you won. But you really did not.
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The most insidious form of gaslighting I know is the way many churches use fear and shame to make people think they’re being delivered from fear and shame.
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This should be the framing.
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The issue is not DOJ explaining itself; it is Trump explaining himself. Why did he have classified documents and what was he doing with them?
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PROPOSAL: scandals no longer get a “-gate” suffix. The new suffix of choice should be “-a-lago”
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Shifting the discourse from “that person was a bad fit” to “you didn’t give that person room.”
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