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Michael Morrell @genuinemichael.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Update: for my latest writing, let's connect on Substack! I'm sharing practices, parables, & provocations for weary travelers re-sprouting faith from the compost up — where the mystic, the neighbor, and the organizer turn out to live inside us all.

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Opti-Mystic Ways that Work — with Michael Morrell & Friends | Substack

Practices, parables, & provocations for weary travelers re-sprouting faith from the compost up—where the mystic, the neighbor, & the organizer turn out to live inside us all. Cultivating Jesus' four-...

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Michael Morrell @genuinemichael.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Walkin' with you down through Echo Park The ghosts fillin' the trees The fire never understands the spark The way it is with you and me — Joseph Arthur (words & art)

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Michael Morrell @genuinemichael.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Truer words… Chicago-bound! Soularize here I come!

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Michael Morrell @genuinemichael.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

You like me; you really like me 🥹 Truly: thank you for the love, y'all. I'm glad you're digging the new Substack; if you keep reading, I promise to keep writing: practices, parables, and provocations for us in these bone-weary times.

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Michael Morrell @genuinemichael.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Indeed. Let’s watch, pray, and act with what leverage we can. 🙏🏼

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Michael Morrell @genuinemichael.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Remember the words of our Lord: Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you. (Matthew 5: 44) — wisdom from Brother Francis, on the 800th anniversary of his Transitus — his 'Urs' welcoming Sister Death to cross over into the ultimate wedding with the Beloved.

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Canticle of the Sun

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Michael Morrell @genuinemichael.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Blessed the man who is patient with his neighbor’s shortcomings as he would like him to be if he were in a similar position himself.

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Michael Morrell @genuinemichael.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

May the power of Your Love, O Lord, fiery and sweet as honey, wean my heart from all that is under heaven, so that I may die for love of your love, you who were so good as to die for love of my love.

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Michael Morrell @genuinemichael.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Humility, patience, perfect simplicity, and true peace are all the Heart's aim, but above everything else it desires the reverence of God: the divine wisdom and the divine love of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

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Michael Morrell @genuinemichael.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

With all our hearts and all our souls, all our minds and all our strength, all our power and all our understanding, with every faculty and every effort, with every affection and all our emotions, with every wish and desire, we should love our Lord and God.

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Michael Morrell @genuinemichael.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

We should make a dwelling-place within ourselves where he can stay, he Who Is the Lord God almighty: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

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Michael Morrell @genuinemichael.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

How holy and beloved, how pleasing and lowly, how peaceful, delightful, lovable and desirable above all things it is to have a Brother like this, who laid down his life for his sheep. ✛ Art: St. Francis of Assisi and the Heavenly Melody (1904), oil on canvas: Frank Cadogan Cowper

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StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Sir Ian McKellen orates 'The Stranger's Case' from 'Sir Thomas More' by Shakespeare about the Evil May Day xenophobic riot of 1517 in London. This passage was written 400 years ago, but times never change. Humanity refuses to change its unwarranted bias against 'others'.

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Eddie Smith @eddsmitty.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

⚠️WOKE CONTENT⚠️™️ 🧵 Nov. 11, 1909, Cairo, Illinois was the site of one of the most violent lynchings in American history. A mob not only lynched William James—a White man was lynched as well. Yep. A double lynching. Pull up a seat🪑.(cont) #ProudBlue #ResistanceRoots #USDemocracy #Voices4Victory

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 01/10/2026

The American Bar Association laid out the receipts. Big donors get appointments. Big money flows in, investigations disappear, pardons follow, regulations loosen and foreign governments get favorable treatment. The article calls it an “unprecedented pay-to-play culture.” #PayToPlayPresident

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Jessy Edwards @jessyedwards.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Puerto Rico is in a water crisis, as a US board slashes the island's social/infrastructure spend to protect corporate bondholders, and a developer tries to build a $2.5B private city on acres of untouched coastline. As one councilmember explains, much of this exploitation can be traced back to NYC.

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How Do You Protect Puerto Rico From NYC's Vulture Capitalists?

City Councilmember Alexa Avilés is urging the state government to rein in New York's "vulture funds" and opportunistic developers, while calling on Congress to dismantle the island's financial oversig...

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Michael Morrell @genuinemichael.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Two years ago today, the floodwaters of Helene engulfed us in western North Carolina. I haven't known what to say about such a strange anniversarry; thankfully @sarahskinner.bsky.social gives voice to the heart of it: "A time of war was upon the people. In far off lands, and even between siblings..

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Michael Morrell @genuinemichael.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Earnest prayer may be our best inoculation against managed consciousness, the drowsy reductionism that insists nothing is real except what can be monetized or measured.

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Indy Auntie @indyauntie.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Reading this thread from @genuinemichael.bsky.social and article from @sarahskinner.bsky.social is a good way to begin your new week with a reflective, compassionate mindset that is much needed in these difficult days.

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Rev. Dr. Ruth Shaver @thefunrevucc.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Wow. 💕❤️

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Michael Morrell @genuinemichael.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Sarah’s full reflection is well worth reading; the ending is the most poignant: kaleidoscopeinstitute.substack.com/p/love-witho...

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Love Without End

A Parable from Western North Carolina in the Time of Helene

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Michael Morrell @genuinemichael.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"The Republican and the Democrat, the libertarian and the anarchist, the hippie and the veteran, the pastor and the atheist all chopped wood, carried water, baked bread, and lay hands upon one another’s wounds. And they beheld no stranger."

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Michael Morrell @genuinemichael.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

And the town’s officers lay down their weapons, saying, “Bring us the children, so that way we may play. For we are like children now and made new again.”

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Michael Morrell @genuinemichael.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

LOVE gathered the lost from the riverbeds, and LOVE was with them as they wept together for those they could not find. It was said that the lion & the lamb would lie down together, and with LOVE great men and small babes, the rich & the poor, the Anglos and the Latinos, huddled close & held hands.

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Michael Morrell @genuinemichael.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

And seeing this, the spirit moved within peoples from near and far. Trucks full of food and clean water, and generators for warmth were sent into the hills where the people both wept and loved one another at the same time.

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Michael Morrell @genuinemichael.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

And the LOVE said: who among you does not have food to eat? Bring them to me, so that they may eat. Some said, we have very little to share, surely there cannot be enough? But LOVE said: we have food and fellowship, it’s not much food, but man does not live by bread alone.

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Michael Morrell @genuinemichael.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Within the empty hollows of sorrow LOVE filled their hearts and wrapped golden wings around their grief. And suddenly, the LOVE was with them. The LOVE said: who among you does not have water to drink? Bring them to me so that they may thirst no more.

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Michael Morrell @genuinemichael.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Standing in the shadow of mountains that had once sheltered them, standing in valleys surrounded by death, the people cried out, “Where are you, gentle river? Where are you, sheltering mountain? Where are you, oh, Lord? Have you forsaken us? All is lost. All is gone.” But one thing had remained.

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Michael Morrell @genuinemichael.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

And the people cried out, “Where is our Lord?” and “The Lord will show YOU! I am right!” And then the rivers washed the people to their knees, swept away all that they held dearest, and the people trembled with fear for there was no Lord left in the land at all.

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Michael Morrell @genuinemichael.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Progressing in faith, hope, and love, with joy from your most wondrous aid, we may cry with gratitude unto the Master of angels and humanity: Alleluia! Full 9-day prayer here: genuinemichael.substack.com/p/bringing-f...

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Bringing forth what is within you:

A nine-day prayer invitation with Michael the Archangel — and a new direction

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Michael Morrell @genuinemichael.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Pray with me? Unto us who desire liberation we find you to be a firm helper, O Michaēl. Deliver and preserve us from distress and mishap, and even more so from our own mechanical habits and ways distant from love’s shore.

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Michael Morrell @genuinemichael.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Walter Wink went so far as to call these old angelic categories “a bone in the throat of modernity.” Good. Let’s keep them there. Intrigued? Read the full refleciton here: genuinemichael.substack.com/p/bringing-f...

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Bringing forth what is within you:

A nine-day prayer invitation with Michael the Archangel — and a new direction

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Michael Morrell @genuinemichael.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Earnest prayer may be our best inoculation against managed consciousness, the drowsy reductionism that insists nothing is real except what can be monetized or measured.

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MJ @bstnboy.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

💥💥BOOM💥💥 Costco took its $184M in rebate refund and used it to lower costs targeting products that would have the most impact for members!! Kudos Costco!! www.seattletimes.com/business/cos...

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Costco clinches $184M in tariff refunds, with more expected

The big-box retailer said the money was reinvested to give "value back to our members." It’s more than a third of the total tariff refunds the company expects.

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Wendy the Woke @nomorex61.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

“changes have hindered the C.D.C.’s ability to respond to outbreaks as measles spreads at home and Ebola abroad“ This is dam scary, but please read. It’s almost as if they want millions of children to die. The GOP is putting your children in danger. #Sheshed www.nytimes.com/2026/09/26/h...

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‘Zombified’ C.D.C., Hobbled by Cuts, Struggles to Fulfill Scientific Mission (Gift Article)

The agency has lost its independence and nearly a third of its staff, as Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and associates have tightened control.

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Michael Morrell @genuinemichael.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

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925 Sterling Silver pendant inspired by angelos 'messenger' imagery, face approx 16.5×15mm, weight 12.4g.

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Michael Morrell @genuinemichael.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

“See that you do not despise one of these little ones. For I tell you that in heaven their angels always see the face of my Abba who is in heaven." — Matthew 18:10

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Michael Morrell @genuinemichael.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

"For you—the LORD is your refuge, the Most High you have made your abode. No harm will befall you, nor affliction draw near to your tent. For G-d's Messengers He charges for you to guard you on all your ways. On their palms they lift you up lest your foot be bruised by a stone." — Psalm 91:11-12

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Michael Morrell @genuinemichael.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

“And the LORD appeared to Abraham in the Terebinths of Mamre when he was sitting by the tent flap in the heat of the day. And he raised his eyes and saw, and, look, three men were standing before him.” — Genesis 18:1-2

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Michael Morrell @genuinemichael.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

"Above him stood the seraphim. Each had six wings: with two he covered his face, and with two he covered his feet, and with two he flew." — Isaiah 6:2 Coming soon: A custom rosary, made by the Sisters of Carmel.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Benjamin Netanyahu is a war criminal and his government has committed genocide in Gaza. The United States should stop all military assistance to Israel. Saying this is not antisemitic. (I’m Jewish, by the way.)

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Carly @nautiluscarly.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Drexel University obtained the oldest natural history museum in the Americas, kept it for 15 years, and is gutting and closing it next week, two years before its 200-yr-anniversary. (The physical museum, the Academy itself, was formed in 1812).

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Michael Morrell @genuinemichael.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

If you’ve been circling the Contemplative Enneagram Summit since I wrote about it, this is the weekend: September 26–27 (starting TOMORROW), live on Zoom, with Russ Hudson opening and Suzanne Stabile closing.

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Contemplative Enneagram Summit

A two-day online journey. Join us live to explore the Enneagram as a contemplative path of self-awareness, inner transformation, and deeper rootedness.

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Michael Morrell @genuinemichael.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Registration is sliding-scale, scholarships are available with no interrogation attached, and everyone receives lifetime access to the recordings if you can’t make the live sessions. Details and registration here: contemplativeenneagramsummit.com/referral/CES...

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Contemplative Enneagram Summit

A two-day online journey. Join us live to explore the Enneagram as a contemplative path of self-awareness, inner transformation, and deeper rootedness.

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Michael Morrell @genuinemichael.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I’ll name again what drew me: 9 teachers who treat your type as a threshold rather than a cage, who don’t stop at informing. The teaching is woven together with shared silence and contemplation—the difference, for me, between merely knowing your patterns and becoming a little more lucid inside them.

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Contemplative Enneagram Summit

A two-day online journey. Join us live to explore the Enneagram as a contemplative path of self-awareness, inner transformation, and deeper rootedness.

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Michael Morrell @genuinemichael.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

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Contemplative Enneagram Summit

A two-day online journey. Join us live to explore the Enneagram as a contemplative path of self-awareness, inner transformation, and deeper rootedness.

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Michael Morrell @genuinemichael.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

"Praying with Angels, though? Really? I’m too deconstructed (or too Protestant) for that!" If you’re a card-carrying ex-vangelical, progressive, or even garden-variety Protestant who files angels somewhere between Precious Moments figurines & dodgy History Channel specials, you’re in good company.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Incredible. First Secretary Mullin claimed that DHS had identified 15,903 noncitizens on Nevada’s voter roll. Then DHS officials told a skeptical Nevada, no no no, that’s just people we flagged. Here are the names of 185 people we KNOW aren’t citizens. All 185 were citizens. DHS got 100% wrong.

When the Department of Homeland Security sent Nevada a list of 185 names last month that it claimed identified noncitizens who had been improperly allowed to register to vote, state election officials got to work.
On Tuesday, the state sent a strongly worded rebuke to the federal government: Every single person on the list was a lawful citizen.
"As for the 185 individuals, our records indicate that they were citizens," Greg D. Ott, a deputy attorney general in Nevada, wrote, according to a copy of a letter sent to Department of Homeland Security officials obtained through open records requests.
"You have provided nothing of substance to suggest otherwise."

Following the meeting, Ms. Vogt sent a clarifying email to Nevada officials. "I also wanted to be sure I clarified that we did not reduce the 15,903 to 185," she wrote. "We've manually reviewed some of the 15,903 and confirmed 185 are not U.S. Citizens."
Now, Nevada officials are saying even that 185 number is wrong. They also took issue with a letter D.H.S. sent them in early September, in which the agency reiterated its initial claims about nearly 16,000 noncitizens on the rolls and pressured state officials to review each case in a letter to Nevada officials in early September.

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