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Brian Kaylor @briankaylor.bsky.social · 14h

1st US military execution since WWII by firing squad will be on Dec. 3. Not sure what it is about rightwing Christian politicians killing people during Advent, but some governors have done it as well (publicwitness.wordandway.org/p/christmas-...).

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 06/10/2026

Anyway, hire more religion reporters.

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Word&Way @wordandway.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Today’s issue of A Public Witness drives over to the opening stop of the 2026 @interfaithalliance.org “The Vote Is Sacred Tour” at a Missouri church that’s seen firsthand the efforts this year to distort elections and dilute the voting power of Black communities.

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Clergy Rally for Voting Rights, Against Gerrymandering at Start of Interfaith Bus Tour

“We are here because human dignity matters.

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Rex Huppke @rexhuppke.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I don't mean to make waves or anything, but as a journalist, I am definitely opposed to the president talking about arresting journalists.

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Word&Way @wordandway.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s conscription of Isaiah 6:8’s “send me” to promote military recruitment has drawn rebukes from Sen. Raphael Warnock as well as Christian Nationalist figures such as pastor/commentator Joel Webbon and former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene.

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‘I’m Standing With Isaiah’: Warnock Blasts Hegseth for ‘Twisting the Scripture’

Marjorie Taylor Greene also attacks Hegseth for ‘using God’s name in vain.’

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Brian Kaylor @briankaylor.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

No, I'm not taking execution advice from the torture memo guy. The fact that he's on Fox News instead of in prison is an indictment of how we failed to deal with the lawlessness of the W. Bush administration.

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Missouri Independent @missouriindependent.com · 25/09/2026

Breaking: The U.S. Supreme Court rules Missouri's 2022 map will be in effect during the general election, blocking use of the gerrymandered map drawn last year. story coming soon at missouriindependent.com. #moleg #mogov

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Word&Way @wordandway.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Today’s issue of A Public Witness looks at how some Republican politicians are attacking the faith of mainline Christians and how United Methodists are pushing back against the bigotry.

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An Act Against One Church Is An Act Against All

“I believe in an America … where religious liberty is so indivisible that an act against one church is treated as an act against all.”

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S.T. Bikes KC 🚶🚴 🚌 & 🚎 @stbikeskc.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

It's nice to see our elected officials using Active Transportation and even better to see the Mayors of Missouri's two largest cities having a rolling meeting on bicycles!

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

NEW: Eighth Circuit orders the district court, on a TRO appeal in the Onder case, to issue a permanent injunction that Missouri use the 2025 maps. This changes nothing immediately, however, and almost surely won't change anything for the 2026 elections. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Before LOKEN, STRAS, and JUSTIN D. SMITH, Circuit Judges.
PER CURIAM.
On November 3, 2026, Missourians will vote for federal and state candidates in this year's general election. Spirited congressional and ballot measure campaigns have intersected in federal and state courts. The question presented to this Court is which congressional district map Missouri should use for the November 2026 elections: the map adopted in 2025 and used in the August 2026 primary election, or the map adopted in 2022. The people of Missouri deserve an answer to this important question.
This Court holds that Missouri's current plan to use the 2022 map in the November 2026 general election violates the Constitution. Only use of the 2025 map complies with the Constitution and federal law. We affirm the district court! and remand for entry of a permanent injunction.

To allow for appellate review, the district court should administratively stay its permanent injunction until September 28, 2026, at 5 p.m. Central Daylight Time.
Without any stay, Secretary Hoskins and local election authorities would be required to immediately begin implementing the 2025 map before the Supreme Court receives or decides any appeal. And without a limit to the stay, PNP could wait to file its petition for a writ of certiorari until the December 21, 2026, due date, see SUP. CT. R. 13.1, thus preventing the Supreme Court from considering the merits of this case until after Missouri has conducted the November 2026 general election.
The mandate shall issue forthwith.

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Brian Kaylor @briankaylor.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Hegseth continues to misuse Isaiah 6:8, conscripting the verse for military recruitment. Says he's going on a "Send Me Tour" (by which he really means send you to fight his stupid war). But the verse doesn't mean what he thinks it does: publicwitness.wordandway.org/p/hegseth-co...

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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 18/09/2026

You'll never guess what this is in reply to.

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The destruction is intentional. They don’t care if this loses money. This is not meant as an entertainment offering. This is a cultural and political project meant to destroy Christianity in the Western imagination, and they’ll happily lose money to do so.

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Word&Way @wordandway.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Our fresh religion news roundup features stories about the latest Pentagon worship service, rightwing "Christfluencers" in Germany, a Trump administration idea for paying stay-at-home parents, and more.

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Weekly Roundup: Sept. 18

Here’s the weekly roundup from A Public Witness. This week we published a look at Pete Hegseth’s 9/11 observance theology, an interview with Kristin Kobes Du Mez about her new book, and a report on th...

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Kenneth Ethan Frantz @kennethefrantz.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Great reporting from @wordandway.bsky.social! The fact that Pete Hegseth wants to give the children of military personnel a “classical” Christian education hints at Doug Wilson’s influence. Small detail in the report that stood out to me.

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Brian Kaylor @briankaylor.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

As is true most months, A Public Witness was the only outlet to cover yesterday's Pentagon worship service (publicwitness.wordandway.org/p/hegseth-pr...). Find our full coverage on our "Government Worship Watch": publicwitness.wordandway.org/p/government...

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Government Worship Watch

During the second Trump administration, leaders of federal agencies have started hosting official worship services in government buildings during work hours led by Cabinet members.

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Word&Way @wordandway.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The 17 government worship services have featured nine sermons by Southern Baptists, three by pastors in the Communion of Reformed Evangelical Churches (including Doug Wilson), Franklin Graham + one of his sons, a businessman/evangelist, and a former priest who is now a married Fox News commentator.

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Hegseth Praises Bari Weiss’s ‘60 Minutes’ at Pentagon Worship Service

Southern Baptist pastor Wesley Welch of King’s Church DC delivered a sermon on the prayers of Moses.

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Word&Way @wordandway.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

One day after the U.S. House of Representatives approved a measure that would require President Donald Trump to end the war with Iran and Republican Rep. Thomas Massie moved to impeach Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, the Pentagon held its “SECWAR Monthly Christian Prayer & Worship Service.”

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Hegseth Praises Bari Weiss’s ‘60 Minutes’ at Pentagon Worship Service

Southern Baptist pastor Wesley Welch of King’s Church DC delivered a sermon on the prayers of Moses.

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Brian Kaylor @briankaylor.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Missouri GOP still trying to get unconstitutional gerrymandered map approved for November: missouriindependent.com/2026/09/16/m... For background, here's my @ms.now piece on the mess: www.ms.now/opinion/miss...

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Missouri Republicans ask federal court to revive gerrymandered map, block referendum • Missouri Independent

Secretary of State Denny Hoskins wants the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to remove a redistricting referendum from the Missouri ballot.

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Word&Way @wordandway.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Today’s issue of A Public Witness features an interview with @kkdumez.bsky.social by @kennethefrantz.bsky.social about her new book “Live Laugh Love: The Secret History of White Christian Women and the World They Made.”

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Performative Submission and the Gospel of Free Market Capitalism

An interview with Kristin Kobes Du Mez on White Christian womanhood.

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Word&Way @wordandway.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Such misuses of the Bible might not be as funny as when Hegseth prayed the Pulp Fiction version of Ezekiel 25:17, but what he offered on Friday is even more heretical.

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Hegseth Uses 9/11 Pentagon Ceremony to Push Religious War

The head of the U.S. military — who has Crusader imagery tattooed on his body and the cover of his Bible — spent the anniversary promising divine violence.

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Jeremy Fuzy @jeremyfuzy.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

“The state GOP’s proposed map would not make the delegation more Christian, but it would make it more Republican — and more white.”

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Brian Kaylor @briankaylor.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Midterm convention played the cultic "God made Trump" video: bsky.app/profile/atru... I wrote about this video when they used it during campaign rallies in 2024: publicwitness.wordandway.org/p/prayers-of...

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Jeremy Fuzy @jeremyfuzy.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

You don’t want to miss this wonderful essay on education and artificial intelligence 👇🏻

Here is what I am not going to let the chatbot do for my students. I am not going to let it hand them the conclusion that human making has consequences while sparing them the work of reading the pages in which a man works out, slowly and in public, what those consequences are and what we owe each other because of them. The conclusion is free. Anyone can have it in under a minute. The reckoning is not free. It costs you the effort of reading.

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Adam Klasfeld @klasfeldreports.com · 10/09/2026

Missouri Supreme Court Justice Powell: "Before we recess, we direct your client, the Secretary of State, to not venture far from Jefferson City until the contempt motion is resolved." Tough morning for Missouri's MAGA SecState Denny Hoskins

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Brian Kaylor @briankaylor.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Good news for the moment: #SCOTUS pauses federal TRO. But the legal saga continues. At the moment the Mo Supreme Court ruling stands as the only ruling in effect, meaning the GOP's gerrymandered map is not in effect. bsky.app/profile/stev...

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Brian Kaylor @briankaylor.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

We're in constitutional crisis in Missouri because GOP Sec of State didn't follow state Constitution & forced use of unlawful map. Instead of holding him accountable, GOP lawmakers are threatening to impeach state Supreme Court justices. All in quest to gerrymander out of office a Black UMC minister

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

BREAKING: Dueling rulings cause chaos over Missouri maps. By Tuesday night, Missouri Secretary of State Denny Hoskins faced an order from the Missouri Supreme Court to show cause why he should not be held in contempt. New, at Law Dork:

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Dueling rulings cause chaos over Missouri maps

By Tuesday night, Missouri Secretary of State Denny Hoskins faced an order from the Missouri Supreme Court to show cause why he should not be held in contempt.

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Brian Kaylor @briankaylor.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

BREAKING: Looks like Mo GOP appeal to #SCOTUS to try & save their gerrymandered map that was thrown out by state Supreme Court has failed. Background on the SCOTUS filings here: missouriindependent.com/2026/09/07/m...

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Brian Kaylor @briankaylor.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Judge Saylor heard virtual oral arguments today to consider if DHS should be held in contempt for violating injunction by repeatedly spying on a Baptist church in Minneapolis (background on spying & injunction here: publicwitness.wordandway.org/p/in-worship...). He didn't rule yet. 1/

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In Worship and in Court, Churches Respond to DHS Spying in Their Buildings

At the start of worship on Sunday morning (Aug. 16), Rev. Cody Sanders gave an announcement that’s not what he typically offers: the congregation had been one of several churches “targeted by undercov...

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Brian Kaylor @briankaylor.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Big news: Mo GOP tried to gerrymander out of office Rep. Emanuel Cleaver (a Black UMC minister) but state Supreme Court just blocked new map from being used in November! I testified against gerrymandering effort last fall (www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAWq...).

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Brian Kaylor @briankaylor.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Some updates on DHS spying on churches: defendants in Cities Church protest case cite the 'church invasions by ICE' in motion for dismissal & faith groups protected by injunction dispute DHS arguments while urging federal judge to force DHS changes: publicwitness.wordandway.org/p/a-weaponiz...

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‘A Weaponized Bureaucracy That Chills First Amendment Activity’

Activists, mainline denominations push back against Trump administration for ‘church invasions by ICE.’

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Brian Kaylor @briankaylor.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Unintentionally funny line from DHS as it complained that allowing any event at protected church's building to be covered by injunction would "broaden the scope of the injunction so that their places of worship are effectively turned into sanctuaries" publicwitness.wordandway.org/p/dhs-denies...

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DHS Denies Violating Injunction, but Refuses to Give Evidence or Detail Extent of Church Spying

In new filings in federal courts in Minnesota and Massachusetts, the U.S.

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Word&Way @wordandway.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

While denominational groups that won an injunction against DHS noted in a recent court filing that a nearby library parking lot surveilled by agents is within 100 feet, DHS insisted in its response that “agents could not confirm” whether that was true. publicwitness.wordandway.org/p/dhs-denies...

Screengrab from Google Maps of University Baptist Church, with an entrance to the church’s gym marked in red and the library parking lot marked in yellow (a driveway's width apart).

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Jeremy Fuzy @jeremyfuzy.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

DHS argued, without any apparent sense of irony, that allowing any event at a protected church’s building to be covered by the injunction would “broaden the scope of the injunction so that their places of worship are effectively turned into sanctuaries.”

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Brian Kaylor @briankaylor.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Excellent piece by a pastor in the Twin Cities about how mainline churches are responding to ICE & news that DHS spied in churches:

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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

More people need to understand the intersection of car culture, toxic masculinity, and fascism. I'm glad to see @19thnews.org tackling this, especially given the amount of car brained NIMBYism we see from liberals and progressives. The fights against fascism and car dependency are intertwined.

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Real men don't bike: How cars became the symbol of American manhood

Inside the Trump administration's campaign to sell a vision of masculinity rooted in speed and strength — and what it means for people who walk, bike and ride the bus.

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 27/08/2026

A week after Trump's inauguration, faith groups began suing over his immigration policies. They never stopped. In fact, so many faith groups, denominations, and clergy have filed suits (22 so far) that we teamed up with @lawrightsreligion.bsky.social to track them. religionnews.com/2026/08/27/r...

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Religion & Immigration Litigation Tracker

(RNS) The Religion and Immigration Litigation Tracker follows federal lawsuits involving religious groups, individual faith leaders, and the second Trump administration over the administration's immig...

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Word&Way @wordandway.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

The Church of England showed that a major denomination can look past political pressure and hear the cry of a people still suffering under occupation in this moment. To match what they did, American Christians and congregations have to stop treating prayer as the finish line.

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Eulogies Do Not Save the Living - Word&Way

Real solidarity with the Palestinian church asks us to choose between institutional comfort and the kind of justice the gospel actually demands, the disruptive kind, the kind that costs something — as...

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Brian Kaylor @briankaylor.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

DHS spied on a Baptist church covered by federal injunction blocking DHS warrantless actions (publicwitness.wordandway.org/p/in-worship...). The judge who granted injunction is now asking DHS to explain its actions & "why they should not be held in contempt for violating the preliminary injunction."

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Matt Staub @staubio.com · 19/08/2026

In 2008, Kansas City was rated the worst city for cycling and the BBC visited to tell the story. They just came back, and it's a different story. www.bbc.com/audio/play/p... Still very frustrating to advocate for change in this city, but it is a good reminder of how far we've come.

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BBC Audio | The Documentary Podcast | The Kansas City cycling revolution

Kansas City was named America's worst city for cyclists in 2008. Has it improved?

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

The widespread availability of self-driving cars will be a nightmare for cities. Thousands of empty cars clogging up roads delivering burritos when we should be restricting auto use and expanding public transport.

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Brian Kaylor @briankaylor.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Here's my write-up on five churches (4 in the Twin Cities & 1 in Michigan) where DHS sent undercover agents into events to secretly spy on people (including church members who weren't targets of any investigation): publicwitness.wordandway.org/p/department...

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Department of Homeland Security Spied on Churches in the Twin Cities

According to documents filed in federal court this week, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security sent undercover agents into church buildings to track activists attending events at Lutheran, Baptist,...

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