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Lutheran Potluck @lutheranpotluck.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

“Diversity,” “equity,” “inclusion” and “accessibility” are reflections of justice when it is fulfilled. Like many saints before us have said, justice is the form love takes in society. —Bishop Yehiel Curry #ELCA #Lutheran #DEI #DEIA www.elca.org/news/all-tog...

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All Together in One Place: Celebrating Our Diversity

All Together in One Place: Celebrating Our Diversity provides information and news from the ELCA.

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Tranquility Press @tranquilitypress.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Star Trek represents many things, but it is at heart about exploration - not just of the stars themselves, but of ourselves and the world around us. Storytelling is at the heart of that exploration, whether it come from the pen of Benny Russell or from one of our many, many contributors.

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Jenna DeWitt (she/her) @jennadewitt.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

You're actually wanted here. Love is a verb, not a weapon. Gentleness is a strength. And Jesus is a Gardner, not a cop. Hands, minds, hearts, and doors are open. You can come on in. No murdering experience required.

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Dylan @dyl057.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

United Methodists really have some grit to their social witness overseas (the Philippines come to mind as well)

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Jay Hulme @jayhulmepoet.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Like, if you don't fix the pendulum speed, the clock will be right for a handful of seconds about once or twice a year or something. That's the real clock maintenance experience. Not stopped. Just broken and wildly unpredictable.

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Jay Hulme @jayhulmepoet.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

People say "a stopped clock is right twice a day", but I care for a church tower clock and I gotta tell you, clocks don't tend to stop, they just start going at weird speeds, so mostly you're gonna be encountering broken clocks that are only right when you don't expect it. That's the real metaphor.

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Bishop Karen Oliveto @bishopkarenoliveto.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

“When we refuse to see the image of God in others, we prepare our hearts for violence. Racism and genocide begin not with weapons, but with a failure to love.” — Henri Nouwen

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Jay Hulme @jayhulmepoet.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Can't stop thinking about this friend of mine who got off heroin around 30 years ago, but is finding his new addiction to social media (Facebook in particular) impossible to kick, despite it destroying his marriage... And I just think we need to reckon with what's happening to our brains every day.

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Jay Hulme @jayhulmepoet.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Yeah sure I could answer my emails, or I could lay down on the floor and stare at the ceiling while feeling incredibly overwhelmed, you know?

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Dylan @dyl057.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

I did a pastor transition/onboarding this evening, and a few member of the congregation said their dream is for the church to be known in their area as a place that loves God and their neighbors. If they end up collectively putting their energy toward that, I think it'll work for them.

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Dylan @dyl057.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

My parishioners probably think I love drawing up bylaws and figuring out investment strategies. I do not. My hope is infrastructure, as it did in early Methodism, can equip mission, even if I'd rather have jumpstarted the social holiness component instead.

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Jay Hulme @jayhulmepoet.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

My friend is moving house soon, and her husband had me print a load of these for everyone who's helping them, so when it gets a bit much, we can just hand one to her, and honestly? To be loved is to be known.

A pile of little coloured paper cards that say 'time out! You look stressed, overwhelmed, or agitated. Take a moment to yourself. Have a walk. A cup of tea. A sit down. I love you."

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Dan Schwerin @danschwerin.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

In Ps. 40:11 today: 'Do not, O Lord, withhold your mercy from me.' Too many have been talked out of mercy and compassion by fear and hate. Violence creates ripples of revenge. Immigrants are not our ruin. Build social capital. Love your neighbor. Mercy is my work today.

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Jay Hulme @jayhulmepoet.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Don't do rhyme that often in work I write for publication, but I do love to sit on a hillside and write a little ditty on occasion...

A short untitled poem:
I eat the bread, I drink the wine,
I enter into life divine,
and after all that holiness
I find that I love sinning less.

But bread is bread six days in seven,
and earth seems very far from heaven,
so oft I fall, and fail to see
that I was born with God in me.

By Jay Hulme

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Doug Clement (he/him) @dclement06.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Praying with all of our transgender brothers, sisters, and siblings as they face continued efforts to deny their humanity. You are God's beloved, and with you God is well-pleased! 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

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Dan Schwerin @danschwerin.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

In Ps.56:11 today: 'I trust in God; I won't be afraid.' King's 4th principle of nonviolence: 'accept suffering without retaliation for the sake of the cause to achieve the goal.' Despite the suffering, we must not succumb to fear. Love wins. Trust is my work today.

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Dan Schwerin @danschwerin.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

In Ps.60:11 today: 'O grant us help against the foe, for human help is worthless.' We can show up where God is helping: UMCOR for quake relief, making mission hygiene kits, or flood buckets. Multiply God's help by joining it. Neighborliness is a third way. Help is my work today.

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Jay Hulme @jayhulmepoet.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Grab a friend. Go on an adventure. Be reminded that the world is so big and so beautiful and we are but very small parts of it.

Jay runs along a rocky path with his arms held out to the side like an aeroplane

Jays friend stands by a trig point marking the highest point and looks out over the landscape

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Dan Schwerin @danschwerin.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

In Ps.69:18 today: 'Draw near to me, redeem me, set me free because of my enemies.' Unequal treatment under the law does not create flourishing or freedom. God, free us of our capacity to be divided by fear. Our Exodus God is with us. To be free is my prayer and work today.

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B. @bcentz.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

For all those Christians who have so much to say about the sex lives of others (especially LGBTQIA+ folk), but have little to nothing to say about wealth inequality and the existence of billionaires and now one trillionaire, it’s time for you to go reread the Gospels with fresh minds.

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Doug Clement (he/him) @dclement06.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Reading up on expressions of hospitality (or lack thereof) from Genesis 18 and following in preparation for worship this week, and it has further highlighted the blasphemy of trying to pass off what we are doing to the least of these as "faithful living".

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Jay Hulme @jayhulmepoet.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

It's Joan of Arc's feast day today. Here's a poem for everyone who needs to remember that there's more to life than the fight.

from 'The Vanishing Song' by Jay Hulme

'What rage or madness drives you?'

Joan of Arc, March 1430

You will not find Joan of Arc in the Bible, she is something stranger than scripture. Her sword rattles among the saints, arms aching for another fight.

When she arrived she found Heaven more difficult than expected -a place of pure justice; her steel unnecessary. Hands unbloodied. Speeches unspoken.

Joan waits for the prayers of wronged women. Her hands grasp the pommel of a blade. When God asks what she is doing in this place of peace, she says:

Lord, you have made me for war, and I have no idea what to do with the gift of all I was fighting for.

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David Simmons @frdavid.org · 14/05/2026

Christians, don’t stand around staring at heaven. Love and work to heal the world around you. As Jesus body was transformed, transform the creation in the name of Gods love for it.

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Jenna DeWitt (she/her) @jennadewitt.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

"I became as convinced as ever that if the church continues to marginalize and stigmatize LGBTQ+ Christians, then the church as a whole will suffer." - Rachel Held Evans in 2014

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Bishop Karen Oliveto @bishopkarenoliveto.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Today marks the 2nd anniversary of removing anti‑LGBTQ language from The UMC Book of Discipline. I hold gratitude for liberation—and grief for those who didn’t live to see it. May no child of God ever doubt their belovedness because of the Church’s—or society’s—myopia

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KidzBoptotenlieder @theodramatist.com · 30/04/2026

I think paying taxes is good for you and even if we *could* pay for everything we want now through taxing billionaires out of existence (we can’t) we should all still pay a properly progressive tax to have even more robust social services

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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 19/04/2026

Just a thought: How about we stop shaming the poor for buying things that may not be essential, and start shaming the rich for making a profit off things that are essential?

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conrad 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈✝️📿 @conradelliot.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

But here is the thing: the Gospel *is* political, in that in the Gospel the bare truth is that all kings, presidents, militaries, every and all power is nothing compared to God, who always chooses solidarity with the poor, the oppressed, the crucified. Before God, all riches are rot.

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KidzBoptotenlieder @theodramatist.com · 07/04/2026

There is absolutely no grounds for civilizational genocide ever, most especially when the one threatening has access to nuclear weapons. But it is a special kind of depraved, a special kind of Antichrist that threatens this for saving face because of a poorly planned war of aggression.

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KidzBoptotenlieder @theodramatist.com · 07/04/2026

...Fill him with the love of truth and righteousness, and make him ever mindful of their calling to serve this (and all) people in your fear; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, world without end. Amen. 🕯️

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KidzBoptotenlieder @theodramatist.com · 07/04/2026

O Lord our Governor, whose glory is in all the world: We commend this nation to thy merciful care, that, being guided by your Providence, we may dwell secure in your peace. Grant to the President of the United States wisdom and strength to know and to do your will...

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Doug Clement (he/him) @dclement06.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

"Cure thy children's warring madness, bend our pride to thy control; shame our wanton, selfish gladness, rich in things and poor in soul. Grant us wisdom, grant us courage, lest we miss thy kingdom's goal, lest we miss thy kingdom's goal." -- (United Methodist Hymnal, 577)

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Dan Schwerin @danschwerin.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

In Ps. 139:5 today: 'You surround me front & back.' The Good Shepherd's care encompasses all of us. Jesus' authority is concerned with the common good. May this day not hold escalation and death, may it hold prayer for God's encompassing love. Surround is my prayer today.

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Doug Clement (he/him) @dclement06.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

When a world leader threatens that "a whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again", that is genocide. Praying for those who suffer for the sake of the ego of men and nations.

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Dan Schwerin @danschwerin.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

In Ps. 140:1-2 today: 'Guard me from violent people who plot evil things in their hearts.' War crime level violence is battering Iran. Innocents are being brutalized & detained. Remember King's principle: 'attack forces of evil not persons doing evil.' Guard is my work today.

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Dr Jo Kershaw @mthrjo.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

The world is in a very bad state and I don’t have any clever solutions. But I can do my best to be faithful - which includes being decent, honest, and not throwing the vulnerable under the bus for the sake of expediency. And it also means trying to not get swept up in bullshit and lies.

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Dan Schwerin @danschwerin.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

In Ps.9:8 today: 'God will establish justice in the world rightly.' We will not be saved by division and power schemes. God's justice is for the common good. Consider the hungry, the orphan, and the immigrant. Justice comes by grace. Justice is my work today.

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Dan Schwerin @danschwerin.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

In Ps.17:5 today: 'My steps have held fast to your paths.' This moment contrasts an 'anti-neighbor,' 'go it alone,' 'we don't need others' ethos with the nonviolent resistance of love of neighbor. Each of us can choose the steps of peace. Practice hope. Steps is my work today.

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Ian is the Priest-King of the Sacred Grove at Nemi @poetinbabylon.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

whenever you are tempted to think that the work of the Church, or the Power of Christ should look like domineering or tyranny or knocking heads, remember the time the Rev Dr Fred Rogers stood before superstars and media executives and made them cry inviting them to think about those they love

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KidzBoptotenlieder @theodramatist.com · 19/02/2026

There’s also just no such thing as an apolitical human. Politics is how power is organized in a community.

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Dan Schwerin @danschwerin.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

In Ps.39:7 today: 'My hope is in you.' I celebrate the catalyst-nearness of our God. We are called to be salt, leaven, and light--non-violent change agents living as part of the change. Awake and active. God is as near as our breath. Hope is my work today.

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Dan Schwerin @danschwerin.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

In Ps. 52:9 today: 'I will hope in your name because it is so good.' There are many names of God and each points to faithfulness. Each name reveals the one who shepherds justice and common good. This is the ground of our hope. Fear not. Hope is our work today.

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KidzBoptotenlieder @theodramatist.com · 31/01/2026

To join in the cause of the poor and oppressed, as a Christian, is not only to align oneself with a God who is a God of justice, but it is also to engage in an act of anti-idolatry, to remember that God can work through human weakness and that the powerful of this world are NOT gods.

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Dan Schwerin @danschwerin.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

In Ps.59:16 today: 'But I will sing of your might; I will sing a loud of your steadfast love in the morning.' New every morning is God's steadfast love. New with each dawn is the power of God's love. Fear and violence will not produce our flourishing. Love is my work today.

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Jenna DeWitt (she/her) @jennadewitt.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

Truth matters still. Facts have to be demanded. There's a broad gap between someone telling the truth with facts, sources, and data vs. someone making assumptions and then having feelings loudly on the internet. Just because it sounds like it aligns with your biases and opinions doesn't make it real

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Seán Ferrick @seanferrick.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

Woke Star Trek, am I right? #StarTrek #FuckICE #StarfleetAcademy

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Dan Schwerin @danschwerin.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

In Ps. 61:3: 'For you are my refuge, a strong tower against the enemy.' Our refuge is in the one who created love. Moral strength & non-violent action is sourced by our Refuge. Peace & hope for all who are protesting the wrongful shooting of Alex Pretti. Strong is my work today.

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KidzBoptotenlieder @theodramatist.com · 24/01/2026

To be “fishers of men” is to proclaim the goodness and justice of the Kingdom of Heaven over and against the corruption of the present age. To follow Jesus is to be aligned with a King who challenges the rulers of this age, a kind identified with the lost, forgotten, disappeared, state-murdered.

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Dan Schwerin @danschwerin.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

In Ps. 62:7 today: 'Creator is the one who sets me free' (FNV). We will not be free if we are fooled into dividing, hating, & cyclical violence. We must heal the internal violence of the spirit. Creating love sets us free. Grow in love. To free is my work today.

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Rev. Kerri Parker (she/her) @tellthestories.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

Timeline cleanse. A story of humanization and care across time.

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