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Garrett Andrew

@garrettjandrew.bsky.social
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Central coast California living, ukulele amateur, even more amateur writer, professional laugher and mourner. ko-fi.com/garrettandrew garrettjandrew.substack.com

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Garrett Andrew @garrettjandrew.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
When the preacher is arrested open.substack.com/pub/garrettj... A #sermon on the #lectionary #gospel text from #Matthew that reminds us #politics is always a part of #religion and #spirituality
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When the preacher is arrested
A sermon from a ruptured preacher on Matthew 4:12–23. Exploring the end of respectable religion, border-town politics, and the rough edge of God's seizing call.
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Garrett Andrew @garrettjandrew.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
open.substack.com/pub/garrettj... I’m sure plenty aren’t looking for #sermons but here is one. If you’re a #Christian who knows something is wrong with #ICE and the #USA right now. I’d love to know what you’re looking for. #preaching #Jesus
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"What Are You Looking For?"
A sermon on learning to walk again, the addictive rush of being right, and what it actually means to "come and see" in John 1:29-42.
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Garrett Andrew @garrettjandrew.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
Epiphany for the Exhausted - I wrote this for anyone who is exhausted by resolutions and needs an Epiphany for their exhaustion. #epiphany #exhausted #spirituality #philosophy #lifelessons #calculus open.substack.com/pub/garrettj...
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Epiphany for the Exhausted
On ruptured tendons, the calculus of grace, and why I’m not auditioning for 2026.
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Garrett Andrew @garrettjandrew.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
Some days you are on hold for 30 minutes hearing the count down until it's your turn, only to get there and leave a voice mail! #winning
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Garrett Andrew @garrettjandrew.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
The empires of the world all run on exhaustion. It’s why they all end. Sabbath is dissent, woven into the week, against the tyranny of empire. open.substack.com/pub/garrettj... #faith #theology #sabbath
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These Days, I'm Not Keeping Sabbath. Sabbath Is Keeping Me.
Thoughts on rest, from a couch I'm not allowed to leave.
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Garrett Andrew @garrettjandrew.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
Sabbath is the only commandment capitalists fear. #sabbath #faith #grace #theology #spirituality
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Garrett Andrew @garrettjandrew.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
Been on this couch a lot. A knee surgery has me benched from work for months, which is humbling. My writing is the one thing I can still do, so I turned my reflections on the spiritual platitudes that fail us into a new 36-page e-book: "The Lies We Tell Ourselves (About God)"
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Garrett Andrew @garrettjandrew.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
Been on this couch a lot. A knee surgery has me benched from work for months, which is humbling. My writing is the one thing I can still do, so I turned my reflections on the spiritual platitudes that fail us into a new 36-page e-book: "The Lies We Tell Ourselves (About God)"
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Garrett Andrew @garrettjandrew.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
Passing By the Sea - here are my notes on Mark 1:16-20. A story most Christians think they know. A story they don't know nearly as well as they think. #WritersOnBluesky #Spiritual #Faith #Religion #Christianity #ProgressiveChristianity #MarkGospel #Bible open.substack.com/pub/garrettj...
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Passing By the Sea
Mark 1:16–20 as the Gospel in Miniature
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Garrett Andrew @garrettjandrew.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
New reflection just went up: The Title We No Longer Deserve On what it means to be called a Christian, and what it used to mean. open.substack.com/pub/garrettj... #Substack #Christian #SpiritualPride #Hypocrisy #SocialJustice #Theology
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Garrett Andrew @garrettjandrew.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
open.substack.com/pub/garrettj... Many things we say, or heard say that sound wise and helpful about the Divine, are the opposite. How can we learn to live in the mystery? #faith #spiritualgrowth #christianity #suffering #grace
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The Lies We Tell Ourselves (About God)
Why so much of what we think God said actually causes deep harm – and what the Bible really reveals about grace, presence, and love.
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Garrett Andrew @garrettjandrew.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
open.substack.com/pub/garrettj... I’m a preacher, this isn’t a sermon because I’m not preaching right now… but I believe the Scriptures of my tradition can speak life into the death of this moment.
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I Expected Seventy (a reflection on Luke 10:1–20)
But peace has never come the way we expected it.
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Garrett Andrew @garrettjandrew.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
I'm not feeling the 4th today... so I wrote, and I'd love to know what you think: open.substack.com/pub/garrettj... #USPolitics #FourthOfJuly #TaxCuts #HealthcarePolicy #SocialJustice #OneBigBeautifulBillAct #AmericanIdentity
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The Words Still Burn: A July 4th Reflection from a Mourning Patriot
This isn't about fireworks. It's about fire. And truth. And the ache of liberty not yet realized.
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Garrett Andrew @garrettjandrew.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
open.substack.com/pub/garrettj... I’m going to make it sport of responding the Christian nationalists who use the Bible for nationalist ideologies. I’d love to know what you think. #ChristianNationalism #SocialJustice #Immigration
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Keep the Christ in Christian
Not every post wrapped in Scripture is biblical. Christian nationalism isn’t Christianity. Silence isn’t an option for those who know Jesus.
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Garrett Andrew @garrettjandrew.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
The news is crazy, people of all kinds are being threatened because of who they are, and people of "faith" are cheering it. As a person of faith, I grieve. #LGBTQ+Rights #ProgressiveChristianity Blessed Are Those Who Mourn: A Dispatch from the Firehose open.substack.com/pub/garrettj...
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Blessed Are Those Who Mourn: A Dispatch from the Firehose
On Juneteenth, justice, and staying awake in a world unraveling
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Garrett Andrew @garrettjandrew.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
As we approach Pride Month, this is a mediation, a sermon for any who has ever been told they don't belong to the church. #PrideMonth #InclusiveChristianity #QueerTheology #LGBTQ+ What Is to Prevent Me? open.substack.com/pub/garrettj...
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What Is to Prevent Me?
The gospel of a eunuch, the gospel for the ones left out.
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Garrett Andrew @garrettjandrew.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
"i missed you again today." My new prayer, 'A Playful Presence,' is an invitation to find the giggle-God in life's ordinary moments. When did wonder sneak up on you this week? #SpiritualitySky #SpiritualJourney #Mindfulness #Poem #EverydayGrace A Playful Presence open.substack.com/pub/garrettj...
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A Playful Presence
Learning to laugh with God again.
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Papa Woof und Krampus und Bleaken @papawoof.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
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Garrett Andrew @garrettjandrew.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
open.substack.com/pub/garrettj... On Palm Sunday, the crowd celebrates, but Jesus weeps. This reflection explores the quiet courage of a peace that rides in anyway—through confusion, through suffering, through love that doesn’t flinch. #Jesus #HolyWeek #PalmSunday #Theology #GriefandGrace
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The Saddest Parade
What if peace doesn’t ride in with applause—but with tears?
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Garrett Andrew @garrettjandrew.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
open.substack.com/pub/garrettj... "If the church continues using Genesis 19 to exclude, then it is not standing with Jesus—it is standing with the mob outside Lot’s door." #LGBTQTheology #Inclusion #BibleStudy #JesusAndJustice
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Breaking the Clobber Verses: What Genesis 19 Really Says About LGBTQ+ People
How the Church Turned a Story of Injustice into a Weapon of Exclusion
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Garrett Andrew @garrettjandrew.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
When fundamentalists read Leviticus and say, “See? The Bible says homosexuality is an abomination,” they are ignoring the why of the passage. And in ignoring the why, they turn it into something it was never meant to be. #LGBTQTheology#QueerFaith#FaithAndInclusion open.substack.com/pub/garrettj...
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Breaking the Clobber Verses: What Leviticus Really Says About LGBTQ+ People
How ancient trauma shaped purity laws—and why Jesus moves us beyond them.
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Garrett Andrew @garrettjandrew.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
If you are someone who is about to celebrate Lent with Ash Wednesday tomorrow, I invite you to read this and let me know what you think: open.substack.com/pub/garrettj... #faith#ashwednesday#love#Christianity#spirituality
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Garrett Andrew @garrettjandrew.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
You were never meant to live hidden, you and I are the light of the world! open.substack.com/pub/garrettj... #Christianity #humanity #spirituality #love
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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
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Rick @rickylongthread.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
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William Murphy @futuredude.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
This is how many hours per week a person needs to work in order to escape poverty. The US is dead last. #Poverty #USA
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Garrett Andrew @garrettjandrew.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
"We say we want peace, but we hold onto our injuries like proof of purchase. We say we want freedom, but we guard our resentments like family heirlooms. But Jesus walks in, breathes, and says, ‘Peace be with you.’ And he means it." open.substack.com/pub/garrettj... #love#peace#humanity#freedom
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The Weight We No Longer Have to Carry
It is easy to believe that peace is something waiting for us at the end of all things.
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Garrett Andrew @garrettjandrew.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
I'm a Christian cleric who is convinced the way of Christ is towards "A Kingdom Without Enemies." Here is a prayer I wrote to move into that way: open.substack.com/pub/garrettj...
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A Kingdom Without Enemies
(a prayer after the weight of revenge, the ache of release, and the whisper of the Spirit)
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Garrett Andrew @garrettjandrew.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
There is fire in your bones! You are amazing! #Humans>$#Love#Mysticism#spirituality
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Garrett Andrew @garrettjandrew.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
You are more amazing than you can know! #Humans>$ #love #justice open.substack.com/pub/garrettj...
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The Fire in Your Bones
Wake Up
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Garrett Andrew @garrettjandrew.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
The Tumbleweed and the Tree (And the Wonder We Forgot) "That wonder is not an escape. It is the antidote. That to stop and behold is not to betray the world’s pain. It is to refuse to let the pain win..." Read more: garrettjandrew.substack.com/p/the-tumble... #faith#wonder#pain#beauty
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The Tumbleweed and the Tree (And the Wonder We Forgot)
Somewhere, in the middle of the night, you wake up and check your phone.
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Garrett Andrew @garrettjandrew.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Another prayer for justice, if you are the praying type: open.substack.com/pub/garrettj... #faith#justice#grace#spirituality#prayer#poem
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A Prayer for the Shaken and the Silent
O Voice that will not be silenced,
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Garrett Andrew @garrettjandrew.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
On Reddit someone asked me what I thought the Bible taught about same sex attractions. I replied, "Very little." All I know for sure is all my brothers, sisters, and cousins wherever they are on the rainbow are beloved #love #rightsforall
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Garrett Andrew @garrettjandrew.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
"The world is trembling. The powerful are panicking. The smallest and the silenced are still waiting—waiting for justice to roll, for mercy to matter, for love to look like something real." a prayer for this moment #Faith #Justice #Spirituality #Protest open.substack.com/pub/garrettj...
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Rise Again: A Prayer for Justice in a Trembling World
O Voice that trembles through history,
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Michelle W. @ruffledbygrace.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
My Jesus does not need a task-force. He needs us to: make sure children are fed and not gunned down in schools ensure immigrants are welcomed and aid is given to the poor have empathy for our neighbors and courage to speak truth to power. #unitedstatesofamerica
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Garrett Andrew @garrettjandrew.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Christianity tied to nationalism isn’t Christianity—it’s empire. Jesus didn’t preach conquest or demand allegiance to a flag. He lifted up the poor, the oppressed, the ones the world cast aside. Pledging allegiance to a flag is breaking the commandment to have no other gods before God.
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Garrett Andrew @garrettjandrew.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
“What if stopping—actually stopping—was the most spiritual thing you could do?” The world tells us we have to earn rest. But what if we don’t? What if Sabbath was never about deserving it? I explored this and would love to hear your thoughts: open.substack.com/pub/garrettj...
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Without Sabbath, Nothing Is Ever Enough
Of all the commandments in Scripture, Sabbath is the one we are reminded of the most.
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
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Garrett Andrew @garrettjandrew.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
I’ve deactivated all my meta accounts and X. Let’s see what a new world looks like.
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Garrett Andrew @garrettjandrew.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Getting ready to do my wife’s stepfather’s funeral. Grateful to use my gifts for those I love.
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Garrett Andrew @garrettjandrew.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
A shot of the moon for a first post
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