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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

We are paying dearly for the absence of civics education.

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Rev. Emily Nelms Chastain, PhD @enc.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

Driving to Houston tomorrow and there are two Buc-ee’s on the way. I stop at both, right? Coming AND going?

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

The most votes for Trump in any state came from California. The second most votes for Harris in any state came from Texas. The notion that US states are politically uniform, and everyone there deserves the consequences of state elections is absurd.

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Bishop +Ken Carter, WNC United Methodist @bishopkencarter.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

Yes. And this is why our image of God is so important. And why training programs in spiritual direction begin with image of God. If we get this wrong, nothing good follows.

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Rev. Emily Nelms Chastain, PhD @enc.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

Here in Texas, we are celebrating the second annual “Fireworks or Guns” today. So far, guns 2, fireworks 0. It’s not even 8pm.

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Rev. Emily Nelms Chastain, PhD @enc.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

Watching Hamilton today. “Immigrants, we get the job done” hits different this year. Imagine thousands upon thousands of people who themselves (or families) immigrated to have and fight for freedom. 1776: they became Founders. 2025: they’re despised. America no longer has values. Shameful.

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Kylie M. Smith wrote an angry book @drkyliesmith.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

Not only is this an almost impossible time to be an historian, structurally, it’s also a hugely morally distressing one. Our work is manipulated, defunded, and then ignored, and we sit here watching humanity do the same dumb shit over and over again. Thanks, I hate it.

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Art Candee 🍿🥤 @artcandee.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

So much for "no new wars." 🙄

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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

Netanyahu completely played Trump. Outmaneuvered every step of the way. Didn't want to look weak or out of touch so went ahead and joined US in a reckless war with Iran.

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Rev. Emily Nelms Chastain, PhD @enc.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

Merciful God, we confess that we have not loved you with our whole heart. We have failed to be an obedient church. We have not done your will, we have broken your law, we have rebelled against your love…

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Rev. Emily Nelms Chastain, PhD @enc.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

Marco Rubio looks like he’s being held hostage in this presser.

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Rev. Emily Nelms Chastain, PhD @enc.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

Can anyone compare this to any of the proceeds received by the actual writers of the Bible? 🦗🦗🦗🦗

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Rev. Emily Nelms Chastain, PhD @enc.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

Why is it that when I need to be really focused, the most entertaining spammer text comes in and I have to fight the urge to say something really witty and funny? Dude, you don't know where you are? What would you say to this spammer?

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Rev. Emily Nelms Chastain, PhD @enc.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

I just had a seminary student write a rationale on their infographic assignment saying that they went with the specific theme "for V I B E S." I definitely giggled.

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I support Somali-Americans @adamrothman.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

This reminds me of the correspondence between Jefferson and Adams, if you dipped their letters in grease, set them on fire, and dropped them in a dumpster, which was also on fire.

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Sarah T Roberts, PhD @ubiquity75.xyz · 06/06/2025

The public meltdown happening between the world’s richest man 🙄 and the President of the United States 🙄🙄 once again begs the age-old question: are men simply too emotional to be in positions of power?

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Rev. Emily Nelms Chastain, PhD @enc.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

So, a real question... why is the Librarian of CONGRESS appointed by the President? Why isn't it a function/office of the Legislative Branch?

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Dr. Chance Bonar @chancebonar.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Happy conclave day to all who celebrate

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Rev. Emily Nelms Chastain, PhD @enc.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

Best independent bookstores in the DFW area?

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Rev. Emily Nelms Chastain, PhD @enc.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Can the world survive if Zoom is down? (Yes, it's called a phone.)

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Rev. Emily Nelms Chastain, PhD @enc.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Paige Bueckers to the Dallas Wings!!! YES! We have tickets to the Wings/Fever game in June and now I really can't wait!

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Angela Sutton (she/her) @drangelasutton.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Blackness was invented by white people who wanted some way to describe who was enslaveable. Whiteness was invented after that, to differentiate from Blackness. Before the Atlantic slave trade, everyone had a nationality/ethnicity & various amounts of melanin, but no racial designations.

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Rev. Emily Nelms Chastain, PhD @enc.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

This proof of the demand of the patriarchy. Women have to constantly work harder to prove their qualifications and worth.

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Rev. Emily Nelms Chastain, PhD @enc.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Hi, friends! Today is #GivingDay at SMU and I'm asking the alums of Perkins School of Theology - Southern Methodist University and anyone else interested in providing funding for students in theological education to give today! #PonyUpThatMoney

givingday.smu.edu

SMU Giving Day

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Rev. Emily Nelms Chastain, PhD @enc.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

So, female and women are words flagged by this admin, but not the words male or men. (Then, of course the word feminism is flagged.) The patriarchy is growing.

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Rev. Emily Nelms Chastain, PhD @enc.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

In Terminal 5 at ORD, there's an add that says, "Sensory overstimulation is a sign of autism." Yay awareness! And then while you sit in that terminal, there are typically up to three different voices overhead announcing a variety of things. Boo, no accommodation. I want to cry.

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Rev. Emily Nelms Chastain, PhD @enc.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Why are Southern Baptists still arguing about women preachers? They're still extending God's call to everyone, and God still prompts people to accept their call. It keeps happening, because God still calls.

religionnews.com

Why are Southern Baptists still arguing about women preachers?

(RNS) — For the past 25 years, Southern Baptists have officially banned women pastors. That hasn’t stopped churches from having women serve in that role.

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Rev. Emily Nelms Chastain, PhD @enc.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Is the first official day of spring in Texas when you get your first tornado watch? I feel it’s valid.

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

Volodymyr Zelensky's Oval Office visit ended early when Donald Trump and JD Vance began angrily yelling at him. Here's why women like Kamala Harris and Hillary Clinton are too emotional to be president.

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Dave Ryan @kingsgentleman.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

Ike asking Churchill why he doesn’t wear a suit before not suggesting that they cower to a maniac.

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Rev. Emily Nelms Chastain, PhD @enc.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

Am I terrified that our country’s leadership has bought Russian propaganda hook-line-and-sinker? Lord, yes.

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Cory Smith @cory-smith.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

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Rev. Emily Nelms Chastain, PhD @enc.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Call me skeptical, but when I get an email about my student loan account by EdFinancial and it takes literal minutes to go through verification (through blank pages), someone broke something.

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Bunny ✨🐰 Cute Hero Vtuber @cuteherobunny.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

IM SO NORMAL ABOUT THIS I AM SORRY FOR WHO I'M GUNNA BE FOR THE NEXT FEW HOURS GO BIRDS

A photo of Jason Kelce in a Mummers outfit with Gritty, mascot for the Philadelphia Flyers

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Rev. Emily Nelms Chastain, PhD @enc.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

E-A-G-L-E-S, IGGLES! Absolutely glorious beatdown led by a grown man with an all-female management team.

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Kelly S. O'Donnell @kellyodonn.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Gritty is president now, I don’t make the rules

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Rev. Emily Nelms Chastain, PhD @enc.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

This is how those in the humanities have felt for 20 years, watching the irrational removal of studies that promote critical thinking. It’s personal. It tells that my work in higher ed doesn’t matter. And the erosion of education is already evident in society.

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Rev. Emily Nelms Chastain, PhD @enc.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Birmingham and Alabama will suffer from this in big, big ways. UAB has always been one of the biggest NIH researchers in the last few decades.

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Rev. Emily Nelms Chastain, PhD @enc.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

This is unnecessary. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential... 1. Religious freedom is enshrined in the Constitution, not an executive order. 2. Weaponizing government is literally the opposite of what Jesus emulated. (It was Caesar who did so, and Jesus was Jewish.)

whitehouse.gov

Eradicating Anti-Christian Bias

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1. Purpose

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 08/02/2025

Making sure everyone understands: Afrikaners—Elon Musk’s people—built, enforced, and thrived under the apartheid system they created. Not just “white-ruled segregation”—it was systemic racial oppression to keep the white minority in power. They don’t deserve refugee status—they were the oppressors!

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Rev. Emily Nelms Chastain, PhD @enc.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Quite a worrying thread. And then add putting a political appointee over the Archives and even more history will literally disappear.

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Rev. Emily Nelms Chastain, PhD @enc.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Look, if this admin can take away the Dept of Education, then they can take my loans with it. End of story.

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