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Rev Amy Beltaine

@abeltaine.bsky.social
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She/her, Queer, Green-Witch, UU minister Torchbearer. Tending spirit. You are whole, holy, worthy, & beloved. Find your spiritual direction Lives in Portugal. Tithe: www.buymeacoffee.com/AmyBeltaine Web: AmyBeltaine.info

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Rev Amy Beltaine @abeltaine.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
Two feasts coming up. April 5: What's holy about our mistakes? April 19: six years of gathering, and The root-work that sustains us. Sundays 4pm ET. All are welcome: click to get the link … bring a friend. #SpiritualFeast #EarthBasedSpirituality #PaganCommunity forms.gle/qf8k11AkSbqw...
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Cherry Hill Seminary Spiritual Feast
Cherry Hill Seminary Pagan and Nature-based communities through online learning and community. If you are seeking a place to bring your whole self, in a spiritually broad community, you've found it! ...
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Rev Amy Beltaine @abeltaine.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
3 student spirit tenders, free companioning, April ’26–Feb ’27 Lisa for LGBTQ+ folks & activists. Tracy for UUs & complex-family navigators. Gail, who traveled from Baptist to Pagan and UU, for working professionals & moms tending their inner flame. Meet them #SpiritualDirection #SpiritTending
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Three People Who Might Be Exactly Who You've been Looking For
Meet three student spiritual companions offering free companioning: Lisa, Gail. & Tracy. Earth-based, multi-faith. Book a free intro session.
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Rev Amy Beltaine @abeltaine.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
Doctor for your body. Therapist for your history. But who do you call when the question is about meaning? That's what a spiritual companion is for … right now you can try it free with #CherryHillSeminary students. #SpiritualDirection #Paganism abeltaine.blogspot.com/2026/03/is-y...
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Is Your Care Squad Complete? (For Spiritual Independents)
Try spiritual direction for free with Cherry Hill Seminary students. Support for meaning, purpose & earth-based paths. No cost, no commitment.
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Rev Amy Beltaine @abeltaine.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Four student spirit tenders. Free companioning April '26–Feb '27 through Cherry Hill Seminary. One of them might be who you've been looking for. Meet them + book a free intro chat → abeltaine.blogspot.com/2026/02/four... #SpiritualDirection #SpiritTending #PaganSpirituality
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Four People Who Might Be Exactly Who You've Been Looking For
Meet four student spiritual companions offering free companioning: Scott, Cedar, Helena & Mysti. Earth-based, multi-faith. Book a free intro session.
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Rev Amy Beltaine @abeltaine.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Your spirituality doesn't fit the usual containers, and you deserve companioning that doesn't either. Free spirit tending with trained students from Cherry Hill Seminary. Meet them, book a quick hello, see who feels right. #SpiritualDirection #SpiritTending abeltaine.blogspot.com/2025/01/emba...
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Embark on a Spiritual Journey with Free Student-Offered Guidance
Seeking a deeper connection to your inner self and a more meaningful life? Free spiritual direction sessions available through student companions!
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Rev Amy Beltaine @abeltaine.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Two days left to apply. 4 spots remain in our March cohort - spiritual direction training for earth-based, pagan & multi-religious communities. Is this your calling? 🌙 #SpiritTending #CherryHillSeminary #SpiritTending #SacredListening #SpiritualCompanion abeltaine.blogspot.com/2025/01/cher...
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Cherry Hill Spiritual Direction Certification Program
Do you wish to enhance your ability to help others on their spiritual journeys? Join this program to level up! Spiritual Direction Certification.
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Rev Amy Beltaine @abeltaine.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
“Some of the most spiritually enriching experiences I've ever had occurred outside of institutional religion. This course was one of those experiences." Apply now: earth-based spiritual direction training. Feb 15 deadline. abeltaine.blogspot.com/2025/01/cher... #SpiritualDirection #EarthBased
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Cherry Hill Spiritual Direction Certification Program
Do you wish to enhance your ability to help others on their spiritual journeys? Join this program to level up! Spiritual Direction Certification.
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Rev Amy Beltaine @abeltaine.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
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Rev Amy Beltaine @abeltaine.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
First lessons endure: Why Am I Talking? 🌙 Our March cohort learns to witness sacred unfolding, not fix it. 24-month spiritual direction certification for #earthbased & #Pagan communities. 6 spots left. Apply by Feb 15 abeltaine.blogspot.com/2026/02/from... #SpiritualDirection
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From Helping to Witnessing: Transformation at the Heart of Spiritual Direction
Transform from helper to witness. 24-month spiritual direction certification for Pagan & multi-religious communities. March 2026 cohort enrolling now.
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Pop Base @popbase.tv · 02/02/2026
Billie Eilish during her #GRAMMYs speech for Song of the Year: “As grateful as I feel, I don’t need to say anything except that, no one is illegal on stolen land. It’s really hard to know what to say and what to do right now, I feel hopeful in this room and we need to keep protesting… fuck ICE.”
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Rev Amy Beltaine @abeltaine.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
My Slovak grandmother's legacy: ginger cookies, warm hugs, and traditions she was embarrassed to share. In her 70s, she went back to Slovakia. It's never too late to find your way home to what your people knew. 🕯️ #Gromnica #AncestralHealing #witchsky
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Thunder Candles and Ginger Cookies: Reclaiming My Grandmother’s Light
Honoring Slovak traditions lost & reclaimed: Gromnica, thunder candles, & reconnecting with ancestral spiritual practices through Feb's light.
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Rev Amy Beltaine @abeltaine.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
Relationships change us. A MAGA podcaster is calling out Trump's DHS. Is it because he's now a father? That's the work spiritual companions tend. We need relationship building skills in justice spaces, not just church basements and offices. 🌙✨ #SpiritualDirection #JusticeWork #SpiritTending
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When Relationships Change Us: Why Justice Workers Need Spiritual Direction
Relationships change us. Why activists and justice workers need spiritual companions. March certification cohort forming—applications close Feb 15.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
There's something happening here What it is ain't exactly clear There's a man with a gun over there A-telling me I got to beware I think it's time we stop Children, what's that sound? Everybody look what's going down
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Rev Amy Beltaine @abeltaine.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
We need to pay attention to what is true. And…
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Rev Amy Beltaine @abeltaine.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Authoritarianism thrives on brittle spirits. This helps. Become flexible, grounded, unshakable. This isn’t self-care fluff, it’s infrastructure for resistance. Training skilled companions for earth-based communities. March cohort forming. #SpiritualDirection #WitchesOfSky #SacredResistance
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William Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
Just saw it noted that 100% of the world’s Ozempic supply comes from Denmark, as does a somewhat smaller percentage of the world’s insulin. Almost as if it’s really quite a small world!
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Rev Amy Beltaine @abeltaine.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
When you're seeking a guide for the journey, it helps to know the terrain. Spiritual companioning, coaching, therapy, mentorship—they each offer something different. Here's how to find your fit. 🌙✨ #SpiritualCompanioning #Guidance #InnerWork medium.com/@abeltaine/f...
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Finding Your Guide: Understanding Spiritual Companioning vs.
On our life’s journey, we often seek guidance and support. But with so many support options available, it can be confusing to know which…
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Rev Amy Beltaine @abeltaine.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
January in my course is discernment month: when we learn which divination tools honor lineages & which cause harm. tarot? complicated. sortilege? accessible. if you’re discerning your next step, try some new practices. deadline to join the course-2/15 💫 #divination #spiritualdirection #witchsky
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Divination in Spirit Tending: Choose the Tool
Explore ethical divination practices for spiritual companions. Learn which tools avoid cultural appropriation and how to create sacred spaciousness.
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Rev Amy Beltaine @abeltaine.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Having the best conversations with people answering the call to train as spiritual directors. If people come to you with spiritual questions, let's talk! Is this training right for you? 2-year program. Earth-centered, trauma-aware, fiercely inclusive. Info: abeltaine.blogspot.com/2025/01/cher...
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Cherry Hill Spiritual Direction Certification Program
Do you wish to enhance your ability to help others on their spiritual journeys? Join this program to level up! Spiritual Direction Certification.
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Rev Amy Beltaine @abeltaine.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
In another act of depraved immorality Trumps military attacked a capital city, kidnapped the president & wife. This act of war was not approved by Congress. deep concern for the people of Puerto Rico who are the likely locus of Venezuelan retaliation.
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lol We are speed running regional destabilization. Kidnapping a sitting head of state with family and fucking off is probably the opposite of intelligent. But I guess we will see. Quoting The White...
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Rev Amy Beltaine @abeltaine.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
New year with Janus The two-faced god Janus teaches us: look back to remember your strength, face forward with love and commitment. We don't build resilience alone. 🔥✨ Your spiritual practice IS your resistance practice. #witchsky #CollectiveResilience #JanusMagic
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January with Janus: Facing Back to Face Forward
Facing This Moment
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Rev Amy Beltaine @abeltaine.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
#oneofthetwo #mask I mask because I care about other people. I mask because I am immunocompromised, and I don’t want flu or other diseases. I mask because long COVID sucks. I mask because I want to safely visit friends and family who are undergoing cancer treatment. Why do you mask?
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Rev Amy Beltaine @abeltaine.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
On the longest night, we gather at the hearth. 🔥 A #WinterSolstice grounding meditation for tending the communal fire—the warmth we create together that carries us through the dark. For your #solstice circles, personal practice, or quiet ritual tonight. #PaganSpirituality #meditation #witchsky
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Grounding Meditation: Gathering at the Communal Hearth
A winter solstice meditation at a communal hearth, sharing warmth and connection through the longest night. Grounding practice for sacred community.
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Rev Amy Beltaine @abeltaine.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
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Rev Amy Beltaine @abeltaine.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
Deep Listening: While You WAIT Words shape the sacred space of spiritual direction. so does silence. In W.A.I.T.: Why Am I Talking, I explored how intentional restraint helps companions create spaciousness for Spirit. This post is the other side of that practice: what happens while you wait.
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Deep Listening: While You WAIT
Explores deep listening as contemplative practice in spiritual direction-attending to explorer, self, and Spirit through embodied presence and silence
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Rev Amy Beltaine @abeltaine.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Explore consent-based ethics in spiritual direction: trust, accountability, and power named as sacred practices of care and integrity. medium.com/@abeltaine/e...
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Ethical Foundations in Spirit Tending
Spiritual direction rests on sacred trust. A seeker invites us into the tender landscape of their spirit, and our response must be both…
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T. Thorn Coyle they/them @thorncoyle.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Every year for the past decade or so, I’ve posted a prayer of grief for Trans Day of Remembrance. This year? I just feel sad, tired, and angry. I want the scapegoating, hatred, and violence to stop…. #TDOR
Every year for the past decade or so, I’ve posted a prayer of grief for 
Trans Day of Remembrance.

This year? I just feel sad, tired, and angry. I want the scapegoating, hatred, and violence to stop. 

For all who died this year—whether from violence, suicide, or neglect—wishing you an easy rest. 
May you go forth shining. 

                                            — Thorn
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Rev Amy Beltaine @abeltaine.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
I'm excited (and ridiculously proud): NOW accepting applications to the next cohort of the 2-year Spiritual Direction certification program through Cherry Hill Seminary. Thought about becoming a spiritual companion? curious what that means for Pagan and earth-centered communities? Let’s talk.
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Cherry Hill Spiritual Direction Certification Program
Do you wish to enhance your ability to help others on their spiritual journeys? Join this program to level up! Spiritual Direction Certification.
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Rev Amy Beltaine @abeltaine.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
It's Samhain! This is an offering of a fantastic story by Stephen Posch: The story of the First Jack-o-Lantern. youtu.be/GndxOD6SvGo
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The First Jack o Lantern, by Stephen Posch
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Rev Amy Beltaine @abeltaine.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
A guide for spiritual companions on attending to death, dying, and grief with compassion, ritual, and presence. medium.com/@abeltaine/a...
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Rev Amy Beltaine @abeltaine.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
A guided meditation inviting you to rest in the lineage of care—connecting through breath, body, and ancestral love flowing down to you. medium.com/@abeltaine/g...
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Rev Amy Beltaine @abeltaine.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
How engineered fear fuels authoritarianism and why spiritual direction as liberation work, not just comfort, builds the resilience needed to resist. medium.com/@abeltaine/a...
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Authoritarianism Thrives on Brittle Spirits: the Profitable Manufacture of Fear
The Profitable Manufacture of Fear — And the Critical Work of Spirit Tending
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Rev Amy Beltaine @abeltaine.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
New York just showed us what we can do. (Watch for inspiration, context, and guidelines on how do do this in your city.) youtu.be/u5TNLCpx-t8?...
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WATCH: New Yorkers Just CHASED Trump's ICE Out Of MANHATTAN🚨
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Rev Amy Beltaine @abeltaine.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
A guided meditation on fierce love and inner strength. Connect with your protective wisdom and connect to an animal presence that supports your journey. medium.com/@abeltaine/a... guided meditation, fierce love, inner strength, grounding, self-compassion, protective wisdom, mindfulness, bear wisdom
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A Meditation on Fierce Love and Inner Strength
For the reader: Speak slowly, with warmth and quiet strength. Pause between paragraphs. Let your voice feel like a safe, protective…
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Rev Amy Beltaine @abeltaine.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
This work to protect the vote is so important! Regaining control of our country is necessary, but retaining control equally necessary.
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Rev Amy Beltaine @abeltaine.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
On bear goddesses, manufactured fear, and why spiritual practice is revolutionary resistance. A homily offering fierce love as a third way. medium.com/@abeltaine/f...
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Fierce Love in Fragmented Times: A Homily for the Bear Goddess Within
Reclaiming spiritual practice as revolutionary resistance
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Rev Amy Beltaine @abeltaine.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
Experience a guided Nautilus Labyrinth meditation—spiraling inward and outward through breath, presence, and spiritual reflection. medium.com/@abeltaine/n...
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Nautilus Labyrinth Meditation
Let’s start by coming here to this moment… to this heartbeat… to this breath. And the next breath. And the next breath.
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Rev Amy Beltaine @abeltaine.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
You're Not Alone: Some of Us Never Joined the Cult I see the heartbreak. The devastation of watching family swept into MAGA hate. We're still here.
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You’re Not Alone — Some of Us Never Joined the Cult
I see the heartbreak. The devastation of watching parents, elders, mentors swept into the hateful MAGA cult — abandoning compassion, truth…
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Rev Amy Beltaine @abeltaine.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
Tired of hype & hustle? Here's a list of heart-centered, anti-capitalist biz coaches for healers & helpers 💗 Rooted in justice, consent, & care. medium.com/@abeltaine/h...
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Heart-Centered, Anti-Capitalist (or Post-Capitalist), Consent-Based Business Coaches
Especially for Healers, Therapists, Spiritual Companions, and One-on-One Helpers
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Rev Amy Beltaine @abeltaine.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Fall Equinox: Abundance, Gratitude, and Giving in Times of Trouble, the Earth pauses. This turning point in the year invites us to do the same: to pause, reflect, and ask ourselves what we've gathered and what we're ready to give. With guided meditation.
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Fall Equinox: Abundance, Gratitude, and Giving in Times of Trouble
spiritual practice, deep listening & the sacred journey. Explore wisdom from diverse traditions, and spiritual directon. You are whole, holy & worthy.
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Rev Amy Beltaine @abeltaine.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
on point. and filled with relentless optimism based on real info. She follows indivisible’s briefings, and is in Portland Oregon. m.youtube.com/watch?featur...
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Disney is freaking out as Kimmel Cancel creates HUGE Backlash
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Rev Amy Beltaine @abeltaine.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
Started writing about all the terrifying news, then stopped. We've recited that list 1000x already. For my fellow healers/caregivers feeling dysregulated: stop perseverating. Turn toward what sustains you. Ask for help when you need it. The world needs you whole, not empty. 💙
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Healers, Heal Thyselves: Finding Ground in Groundless Times
I started writing this blog post with a litany of all the things happening in the world that scare me and break my heart. Then I stopped…
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Rev Amy Beltaine @abeltaine.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Gen. John F. Kelly (retired Marine four-star general, former White House Chief of Staff under Trump) In interviews with The New York Times, Kelly said Trump “meets the definition of a fascist” and “prefers the dictator approach to government.”
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Rev Amy Beltaine @abeltaine.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Gen. Mark Milley (retired Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff) In Bob Woodward’s book War, Milley is quoted saying that Donald Trump is “fascist to the core” and “the most dangerous person to this country.”
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Rev Amy Beltaine @abeltaine.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
A private message from 2016 attributed to JD Vance said: “I go back and forth between thinking Trump is a cynical asshole like Nixon who wouldn’t be that bad (and might even prove useful) or that he’s America’s Hitler. That quote was leaked later (in 2022) by a former Yale roommate(s).
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Rev Amy Beltaine @abeltaine.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Boycott ABC/Disney+ & subsidiaries until they stop silencing dissent. Defend the Constitution, protect free speech, and resist censorship! Hate speech prosecution belongs in the courts, free expression isn’t up for debate in the USA! #FreeSpeech #NoCensorship #BoycottDisneyABC
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Rev Amy Beltaine @abeltaine.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Boycotts work
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Rev Amy Beltaine @abeltaine.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
You GO League of Women Voters!
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Rev Amy Beltaine @abeltaine.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
Quick question: where do you go when your SOUL needs guidance? We have therapists for minds, advisors for money — but when justice work burns you out and the calling remains, where do you turn? Sacred questions need sacred space. abeltaine.blogspot.com/2025/09/wher...
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Rev Amy Beltaine @abeltaine.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
NO to gun violence. NO to harming others. NO to fomenting violence toward others.
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