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Andrew Stehlik @andrewgoldfinch.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

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A new short video introducing the Transfiguration of the Lord holiday this Sunday. Stranger things can happen on biblical mountains! youtube.com/shorts/hm4Fm...

"Horney Moses" Lost in Translation or Ancient Iconography/Theology?

Andrew Stehlik @andrewgoldfinch.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

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Rutgers Church has been celebrating Evolution Sunday since its inception in 2004. And I introduced that in Binghamtown (West PC) a year later. This year, we marked the birthday of Charles Darwin by turning to biblical wisdom literature. www.youtube.com/watch?v=v00f...

"Evolution Sunday Homily - Faith That Refuses to Fossilise"

Andrew Stehlik @andrewgoldfinch.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

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youtu.be/PQR3_Bk_dk8?... Gospels read diagonally, reveal a world shaped by surveillance, danger, and courage. For anyone who has lived under political or religious oppression, gospel stories will feel familiar -- and they still offers encouragement and guidance for faithful living amid adversity.

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Jesus and his disciples were not naive about power.

Andrew Stehlik @andrewgoldfinch.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

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How could nation who prides itself to be “Christian” is ruled by those who dismiss empathy as dangerous weakness!? Here is my response youtube.com/shorts/1Cw6A...

Empathy, not Cruelty that what the Bible teaches. #ChristianEthics #SteadfastLove

Andrew Stehlik @andrewgoldfinch.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

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On this MLK holiday here is my homily asking with Dr. King "Where do we go from here?" youtu.be/0m8LqtzvWXk?...

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Hope beyond Exhaustion - Where Do We Go From Here?

Andrew Stehlik @andrewgoldfinch.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

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An overture to the higher governing bodies of our Presbyterian Denomination (PCUSA) which got approved yesterday evening by the Session of Rutgers Presbyterian Church.

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Andrew Stehlik @andrewgoldfinch.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

Proud of my church for this statement. Please share. We have to do all we can to stop these warmongers!

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Andrew Stehlik @andrewgoldfinch.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

“At the beginning was the Word…” John’s Gospel retells creation in a new key. This short reflection shows how the Prologue of John functions as a modernized creation story, shaped by biblical Wisdom traditions and Hellenistic philosophy, and why that still matters today. youtube.com/shorts/kOfVh...

“John’s Creation Story” From Wisdom to Word #gospelofjohn #LOGOS

Andrew Stehlik @andrewgoldfinch.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

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Our Christmas gingerbread cookies inscribed with a message in the Ugaritic cuneiform script - barş šlm. Come to Rutgers Church on this Christmas Eve to receive one.

Andrew Stehlik @andrewgoldfinch.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

A statement of my church, rejecting dangerous hate speech.

Andrew Stehlik @andrewgoldfinch.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

Isaiah 35 - A maze is not a labyrinth! In this short reflection, discover why the difference matters for the spiritual life — and why a single winding path can calm the mind, heal the soul, and echo Isaiah’s promise of “a way on which no one shall get lost.” youtube.com/shorts/boIS0...

Izaiah 35 and the biblical labyrinth?

Andrew Stehlik @andrewgoldfinch.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

The 2025-09-06 Sunrise in NYC. The Sun this high above the horizon should not be photographable! It was because of the smoke from wildfires in British Colombia - a continent away! I was even able to capture four sunspots without any special filters and with just my daily universal lens.

Andrew Stehlik @andrewgoldfinch.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

Ever thought that Jesus could sound like a military strategist? 🪖 His words about kings at war may echo real battles in his own time. A parable about war, peace, and power has more political bite than you might think. Was Jesus teaching strategy, or subverting it? youtube.com/shorts/Vy6SS...

Jesus on War -- Strategy of Peace

Andrew Stehlik @andrewgoldfinch.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

Another recent short homily - this time a little about my ordination and radical liberation teaching and practice of Jesus. A link to the YouTube recording is again in my first comment.

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Andrew Stehlik @andrewgoldfinch.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

Lovely alignment of planets on the 26th of August morning.

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Andrew Stehlik @andrewgoldfinch.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

This was an environmental and activist homily on the text which is not that often preached on - Luke 12:54-59 - interpreting an ancient urgent eschatological message for our times. (Link to a YouTube in comments.)

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Andrew Stehlik @andrewgoldfinch.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

On the first evening of summer I saw my first fireflies! In my homeland we call them Saint John’s Flies - so it was full four days before their holiday!

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Andrew Stehlik @andrewgoldfinch.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

These are real strawberries from our CSA (community supported agriculture). Can you discern differences with those from supermarkets? And that makes them so much more real and delicious!

Andrew Stehlik @andrewgoldfinch.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

To celebrate the international day of bees - the 20th of May - I post this short video with happy bees of my sister in Czech-Moravian Highlands.

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Andrew Stehlik @andrewgoldfinch.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

A stork above our ancestral village.

Andrew Stehlik @andrewgoldfinch.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Traveling by trolleybus in Brno - first time in more than thirty years!

Andrew Stehlik @andrewgoldfinch.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Wine cellars of Pavlov. In ice age people could survive here and hunt mammoths, in interglacial period they can grow here vitis vinifera.

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Andrew Stehlik @andrewgoldfinch.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Venus of Dolní Věstonice - one of the very first examples of stone-age pottery circa 26,000 BP predating functional pottery from China by eight thousand years and predating Middle East pottery by almost 20,000 years!

Andrew Stehlik @andrewgoldfinch.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Easter Jesus of Velke Pavlovice - celebrating resurrection as is appropriate for someone who begin his ministry by changing water into at least 150 gallons of choicest wine.

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Andrew Stehlik @andrewgoldfinch.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Velke Pavlovice - the resurrected with a chalice of wine.

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Andrew Stehlik @andrewgoldfinch.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Artdeco Church in Jablonec nad Nisou. Great example of the German version of this style combining flair and austerity. It was built for the Old Catholic Church denomination.

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Andrew Stehlik @andrewgoldfinch.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

Someone should tell the Enterprise/Alamo rental car company that both Ivrit (modern Hebrew) and Arabic are written from right to left. What they have written actually reads LIZID or something like that!

Andrew Stehlik @andrewgoldfinch.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

Liberec Botanical Garden - outside collection - Purple Pasqueflower from mountain meadows.