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decolonialist pastor, theologian, humanitarian, writer, adjunct professor and podcaster living in Santa Barbara on occupied Chumash territory UCSB alum, facilitator of Santa Barbara’s Beloved Community Church plus Jesus Collective, an online community

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davidnmoorejr.substack.com @dmooresb.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
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I Feel Alive
Tuesday was a beautiful morning
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davidnmoorejr.substack.com @dmooresb.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
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Four Lessons for Difficult Days Ahead
This is as important as it was at the beginning of last year, perhaps more
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davidnmoorejr.substack.com @dmooresb.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
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It Will Happen Again
The March for Our Children’s Lives
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davidnmoorejr.substack.com @dmooresb.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
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The Boy on the Water, Never Alone | David N Moore
Nolan Xavier Wells, the Black press, and who should be demanding answers Yesterday, I watched the NAACP National Convention stream from Chic
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davidnmoorejr.substack.com @dmooresb.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
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WHEN DOORS WON’T OPEN
Disability, Belonging, and Making a Way Out of No Way
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davidnmoorejr.substack.com @dmooresb.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
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davidnmoorejr.substack.com @dmooresb.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
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davidnmoorejr.substack.com @dmooresb.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
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They Can’t Have Jesus
Good news to the poor, weary bones, and why we are winners
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davidnmoorejr.substack.com @dmooresb.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Howard Zinn: “I’m worried that students will take their obedient place in society and look to become successful cogs in the wheel—let the wheel spin them around as it wants without taking a look at what they’re doing." davidnmoorejr.substack.com/publish/post...
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Still Refusing the Official Doctrine
Ten locations, three months, and the work of not becoming a passive acceptor
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davidnmoorejr.substack.com @dmooresb.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
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The Boy on the Water, Never Alone | David N Moore
Nolan Xavier Wells, the Black press, and who should be demanding answers Yesterday, I watched the NAACP National Convention stream from Chic
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davidnmoorejr.substack.com @dmooresb.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
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Where the Invisible Divinity Becomes Visible | David N Moore
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davidnmoorejr.substack.com @dmooresb.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
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The Boy on the Water, Never Alone
Nolan Xavier Wells, the Black press, and who should be demanding answers
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davidnmoorejr.substack.com @dmooresb.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
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Jess Craven (@jesscraven101)
A powerful reminder of why every Senator must vote no on Todd Blanche.
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davidnmoorejr.substack.com @dmooresb.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Gather more than you need and it rots. That was the rule in the wilderness. It is still the rule. Manna does not keep. www.patreon.com/davidnmoore/...
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Manna Doesn't Keep | David N Moore
This morning I pressed play. A voice came through my headphones, soft and certain. It told me to breathe. It told me to open my hands. Then
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davidnmoorejr.substack.com @dmooresb.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
A view of the US, the country of my birth and citizenship--from South Africa davidnmoorejr.substack.com/p/i-want-goo...
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I Want Good News. I Don’t Want Hype.
A view of the country of my birth and citizenship--from South Africa
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davidnmoorejr.substack.com @dmooresb.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
If the same American public that poured into the streets over the overturning of Roe had been pouring into the streets, year after year, over the persistent dismantling of Black voting power, we would be living in a different country. substack.com/home/post/p-...
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I Want Good News. I Don’t Want Hype.
A view of the country of my birth and citizenship--from South Africa
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Outspoken™️ @out5p0ken.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Trump’s unconstitutional executive order intends to create a list of confirmed U.S. citizens eligible to vote in each state. Where’s DOGE @ #TrumpVotedByMail
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davidnmoorejr.substack.com @dmooresb.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
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Grace, Wretchedness, and the Words We Sing
What I began to hear when I started listening differently to worship songs
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davidnmoorejr.substack.com @dmooresb.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
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Three Countries Voted "No" and I Am Not Surprised
Toni Morrison, the white gaze, and the system that cannot acknowledge what it did
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davidnmoorejr.substack.com @dmooresb.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
He turned around, pointed to another boy—Danny Machusek— and told me: “Nobody plays with that kid.” I didn’t know why. But I remember this: Danny was Polish. And I remember something else too. Many of the boys drew swastikas on their book covers. davidnmoorejr.substack.com/p/what-i-cou...
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What I Couldn’t Tell My Children
And What It Meant to Keep Going
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davidnmoorejr.substack.com @dmooresb.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Some worship music is transporting in the way anesthesia is transporting. He soothes the status quo. He blesses stability. He spiritualizes suffering. He can be gentle in song and bellicose in policy. davidnmoorejr.substack.com/p/the-coloni...
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Preemptive Strikes and Managed Violence: State, Security, and the Christ of the Cross
The Christ My Body Knows, Week Two
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davidnmoorejr.substack.com @dmooresb.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
Barry Goldwater--Israel runs Congress, 1988 www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdjA...
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Barry Goldwater commenting on Israel - 1988
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davidnmoorejr.substack.com @dmooresb.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
It is about recognition. About the Jesus our bodies know before our arguments catch up. The Jesus who stands in embodied solidarity with the poor, the incarcerated, the colonized, the publicly humiliated. www.patreon.com/posts/152459...
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Two Jesuses and a Nervous System | David N Moore
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Trump wants this guy in charge of Homeland Security.
Side-by-side collage of two images. On the left, a man with a beard sits in a legislative chamber seat, leaning forward over a desk with papers. On the right, two men stand behind podiums during what appears to be a debate or TV segment; a pink circle highlights a block or platform under one of the men’s feet.
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Monica @softtail65.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
Oh, I almost forgot! Grok was asked to roast musky boy today and it's fucking good! 😅🤣😂 I don't & would never use it, but this is funny. Tomorrow Grok will be down for "adjustments." Lol.
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Skye @simplyskye.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
Rep. Mary Gay Scanlon: “So he is using YOUR Tax Dollars to protect oil tankers from attacks in the Strait of Hormuz, which will cause gas prices to go up — because he started a war using YOUR Tax Dollars”
Rep. Mary Gay Scanlon speaking during a congressional hearing
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davidnmoorejr.substack.com @dmooresb.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Happening. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nyry...
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Celebrating the Life of Rev. Jesse L. Jackson Sr.
YouTube video by Rainbow PUSH Coalition
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davidnmoorejr.substack.com @dmooresb.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Rev. Dr. David Moore These are the Democrat Senators who confirmed Kristi Noem, with blood on their hands. Sen. John Fetterman (Pa.) Sen. Maggie Hassan (N.H.) Sen. Tim Kaine (Va.) Sen. Andy Kim (N.J.) Sen. Gary Peters (Mich.) Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (N.H.) Sen. Elissa Slotkin (Mich.)
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davidnmoorejr.substack.com @dmooresb.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Our “holiness” churches didn’t ask me to accept Jesus as my personal savior; they asked my whole body to step into a river that was already moving. davidnmoorejr.substack.com/p/two-jesuse...
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Two Jesuses and a Nervous System
The Christ My Body Knows, Week One
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davidnmoorejr.substack.com @dmooresb.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
You're creating dots so you can connect them.
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davidnmoorejr.substack.com @dmooresb.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
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davidnmoorejr.substack.com @dmooresb.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
I find Stephen Colbert far more believable than Brendan Carr.
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davidnmoorejr.substack.com @dmooresb.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
Robert Kraft, owner of the Super Bowl-bound New England Patriots, is a prominent philanthropist and an outspoken supporter of Israel. He has made more than one hundred trips to the country. None of it is treated as “too political” for sports. davidnmoorejr.substack.com/p/the-limits...
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The Limits of Acceptable Justice
What Stephen Curry, Colin Kaepernick, and Gaza Reveal About American Sports
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davidnmoorejr.substack.com @dmooresb.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
If justice was never universal, was it ever justice at all? This is why so many who fight “for the people” fall silent here. Because Palestine does not just ask for solidarity. It demands the collapse of Western moral innocence. davidnmoorejr.substack.com/p/read-the-r...
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Read the Room
On Reparations, Grief, and the Politics of Selective Compassion
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davidnmoorejr.substack.com @dmooresb.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
In light of revelations about Steph Curry’s Zionism, I went online to find out how many players have appealed for mercy for Palestinians. There’s not a lot out there. Pretty demoralizing. www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/o...
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Most athletes have chosen to ‘shut up and dribble’ over Gaza | Nathan Kalman-Lamb and Derek Silva
Why have so few athletes spoken about Gaza? Fear of backlash, lost sponsors and being branded antisemitic all help explain the silence
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Ms. Alisa @msalisaj.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
I did not know it was 4, I was only aware of 2. Please share for awareness.
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davidnmoorejr.substack.com @dmooresb.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Consider the calculus of Trump’s cabal arresting Black journalists Don Lemon and Georgia Fort while releasing some of the Epstein Files. Don’t take your eyes off of Gaza or Iran. Stay sharp and active, my friends.
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davidnmoorejr.substack.com @dmooresb.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
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Full Press Conference: NABJ, Journalists, Family Speak After Georgia Fort, Don Lemon Arrests
YouTube video by KARE 11
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davidnmoorejr.substack.com @dmooresb.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Did they test Black people at all? Because all my Black friends who died during the pandemic died before vaccines.
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davidnmoorejr.substack.com @dmooresb.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
You could call this “first-world problems.” But it doesn’t feel like the first world anymore. davidnmoorejr.substack.com/p/these-days...
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These Days Are Bringing Out My Shadow
Finding meaning in the discomfort of now
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davidnmoorejr.substack.com @dmooresb.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
... both the highly educated and the uneducated are equally capable of being intelligent—or not. Intelligence demands humility, curiosity, and connection.https://davidnmoorejr.substack.com/p/you-are-intelligent
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davidnmoorejr.substack.com @dmooresb.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
You are refusing the script. Refusing to rename murder. Refusing empty patriotism. You are building community— not around a flag, but around shared survival. This is what hope looks like... people who refuse to kill in order to live. davidnmoorejr.substack.com/p/breathe-a-...
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Breathe: A Word for Those Living Under Empire
A People Who Refuse to Kill to Live
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davidnmoorejr.substack.com @dmooresb.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
I'm feeling some schadenfreude… yes, for Machado, but even more for the Nobel Institute. I wrote my observations last August, two months before the Nobel Committee shamelessly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize to María Corina Machado. davidnmoorejr.substack.com/p/maybe-the-...
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Maybe the Nobel "Peace" Prize Was Never That Deep
Can we talk about it?
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davidnmoorejr.substack.com @dmooresb.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
When this is over, let's talk.
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davidnmoorejr.substack.com @dmooresb.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
... there is the silence—or strategic ambiguity—within parts of Black America. While the global majority overwhelmingly stands with Palestinians, many of my own Black siblings remain quiet. davidnmoorejr.substack.com/p/unlearning...
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Unlearning Zionism: A Spiritual and Political Reckoning
Progressive Except for Palestine?
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davidnmoorejr.substack.com @dmooresb.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
Renee Nicole Good left a message for the Latino Community.
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davidnmoorejr.substack.com @dmooresb.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
• Practice stillness – prayer, meditation, or mindful breathingˆ • Experience nature – let the earth remind you how to slow down • Gather face-to-face – with your sangha, soul-tribe, or chosen family. It’s always worth the effort. davidnmoorejr.substack.com/p/you-are-no...
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A Time to Rest
On Urgency, War, and the Spirit of Resistance
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davidnmoorejr.substack.com @dmooresb.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
"If there is a country that has committed unspeakable atrocities in the world, it is the United States of America. They don't care for human beings." Nelson Mandela
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