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@Kaegler @kaegler.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Yup, it's an insurance company now - but it was originally what we would today call a mutual aid network for immigrant families in a minority religious expression within Christianity.

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@Kaegler @kaegler.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

The Parable of the Wedding Banquet - but it's a sketch from I Think You Should Leave, or a plot in Curb Your Enthusiasm.

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Tim Robinson's 'What The Hell' Reaction

ALT: Tim Robinson's 'What The Hell' Reaction

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 05/10/2026

I was honored to visit Our Lady Salam, the first Arabic-speaking Lutheran parish on Staten Island. Its congregants hail from as close as Hylan Blvd to as far as Palestine, Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, Jordan, & Egypt — yet have planted roots in our city. Many carry the weight of war and genocide daily.

Mayor Mamdani greets members of Our Lady Salam parish on Staten Island.

Mayor Mamdani meets members of Our Lady Salam parish on Staten Island.

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

There is a moment at the very very end of Abdul El-Sayed's podcast with Ezra Klein (book recommendation section) where he talks about the idea of "speaking truth to pain" and this will be staying with me for an extremely long time. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o...

But there’s also something about truth to pain. We talk a lot about truth to power, but I think it’s actually a lot harder to speak truth to pain. I say that as someone who went to medical school, realizing that in a lot of our politics right now, we’ve got to get a lot better at speaking truth to pain if we’re going to get through some of these challenges that we have.

What does “truth to pain” mean?

It’s one thing to look power in the eye and say: You’re wrong about this. But there’s a way in which pain is very difficult to reason with. Because when somebody is in their pain, they’re in their trauma. They see that pain, and they may not see what’s causing it.

I remember just very explicitly being in a trauma ward with a gunshot wound patient and watching this big guy with his hand on his gunshot wound. All the folks are trying to pull his hand off his pain, that point of his gunshot wound, this clear vulnerability.

And this emergency room doctor had the presence of mind to be like: Everyone, stop. And she looks him in the eyes, and she’s like: I get that really hurts, and I’m so sorry that you’re here. You don’t want to be here. We don’t want you to be here. But if you don’t let us fix this, you could die. So I’m going to take your hand, and I’m going to move it off, OK? Because I need to get there so that you can live.

She was speaking truth to pain. He understands he’s at the hospital, he needs care, but he also doesn’t want anybody to touch the wound. Which is a natural thing. And I think it is a really great metaphor for how we think about a lot of these challenges we talked about today.

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@Kaegler @kaegler.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Celebrating St. Michael and All Angels at United Lutheran Seminary.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Everything the pro-Trump billionaire Ellison family will now own: Paramount+ CBS CNN Showtime HBO Warner Bros TNT TBS MTV DC Studios Nickelodeon Comedy Central And more... With this comes the power to decide which stories get told, but more importantly, which stories DON'T get told. Shameful.

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@Kaegler @kaegler.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

A sermon on how forgiveness is both difficult and necessary without quoting "Up the Wolves." (impossible)

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

""What did he study? “Philosophy and theology. A teacher in high school said, there’s no money in that, and I said: ‘Sir, that’s disrespectful. That’s insulting, because not everybody’s about money.’" he's one of us!

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‘I don’t chase the dollar. I never did’: the astonishing hidden life of Mr T

He grew up in the ghetto, became a global superstar – then gave it all up. Why did he step away from the spotlight?

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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

In 1947 10yr old Richard Allen of San Francisco spent a week at the movies

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@Kaegler @kaegler.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Sometimes it's about the texts, sometimes it's about the shared experience, sometimes it's about the community, sometimes it's about history, and sometimes it's about shared formation, or the shared hope. I don't think not sharing all those things puts a stop to belonging or self-identification.

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@Kaegler @kaegler.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Even more in regards to cultures. The reality of life, politics, missionaries, etc. means that someone shaped in the Church of Denmark in Copenhagen will probably think differently and believe differently than someone in the (also Lutheran) Batak Christian Protestant Church in Indonesia.

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@Kaegler @kaegler.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I'm a Lutheran. So was Kierkegaard, and so was his often quite fierce opponent Grundtvig. Both of them worked very hard to speak, decipher, translate, and above all share faith with others who also understood themselves as Lutherans. But belief looks different in different people.

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@Kaegler @kaegler.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

In it - the author notes that people often say someone is "very" religious if they are extremely strict. But that's really reductionistic. People relate to the texts, to the assembly, and to their Lord differently. But what look like different beliefs are often more like different hermeneutics.

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@Kaegler @kaegler.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Simply due to the course of history, and the divisions, diversions, and developments over the history of religion and traditions - this is a much more complicated topic than most people think.

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@Kaegler @kaegler.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Here’s a dumb pun for old millennials who know enough military history. A wealthy, rakish Spanish member of a North African light infantry unit, dressed in distinct garb: Rico Zouave. You’re stuck with that stupid thing now. I am too and it’s all my fault.

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brent 🌹🗽 @therealbrent.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

I really do not understand the purpose of this. No one is asking for this.

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Retro Tech Dreams @retrotechdreams.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

iTunes from 2001, when we sat in front of our computers just to listen to music.

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

As a Religious Studies professor, this directly targets my livelihood in a way that makes a mockery of any supposed profession of concern the administration has ever expressed for me as a Jewish person on campus.

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@Kaegler @kaegler.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Well the script fills me with Fear and Trembling!

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Analysis | New 60 Minutes correspondent Ross Douthat has no investigative journalism experience and no cachet among the 25-to-49-year-olds advertisers covet. But don't underestimate his ability to deliver the key demographic of over-65 cranky white male billionaires.

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CNN International PR @cnnipr.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Breaking: European soccer governing body UEFA has voted unanimously to boycott men’s and women’s World Cups in reaction to the global soccer governing body FIFA’s plan to inject private money into its competitions. CNN Sports' Patrick Snell explains why this is so significant.

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@Kaegler @kaegler.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

So sad, and so grateful for the life and witness of Bishop Davenport, who baptized my child, and was there for me in hard times.

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@Kaegler @kaegler.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

The Plain Dutch were the Amish and Mennonites. The Fancy Dutch were the Lutherans and the Reformed. One fun little relic of this divide in Pennsylvania - some older restaurants are named “Plain and Fancy” to market to their generations-past clientele, and indicate PA Dutch menu options.

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@Kaegler @kaegler.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

In case there’s any doubt- England’s first goal shouldn’t have counted (the ball hitting a camera wire and falling means a stopped play), and Norway’s second should have (Haaland pushed back, the guy took a dive, and it was before play).

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

the provinces decline to offer tribute, the armies return in defeat, the temple of the arts has closed its doors, and the name of the Emperor is scoured from the palaces by his own magistrates. now the sun and storms turn against him. the Mandate is lost.

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@Kaegler @kaegler.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Worth noting that by this point, that for all the talk of its predecessors you might hear in Lutheran circles, the ELCA is older than any of its immediate predecessor bodies in America got to be.

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@Kaegler @kaegler.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

The ALC was generally the inheritor of 19th century immigration-wave Lutheranisms, mostly in the Midwest and West. Garrison Keillor stories come from that wing. The AELC were the people kicked out of the LCMS for being willing to interact with the historical-critical lens of biblical scholarship.

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@Kaegler @kaegler.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

The ELCA was a merger of the LCA, ALC and AELC. Each of those were themselves the result of complicated and sometimes arcane mergers and divisions. The LCA was generally the inheritor of both colonial-period Lutheranisms and high-church 19th century Swedish immigrants. Very ecumenically minded.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 01/07/2026

The most corrupt president in history and it's not close: "Trump reaped a stunning windfall in his first year back in the White House, including about $1.4 billion from his family’s cryptocurrency businesses, a new filing shows"

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Trump Pulled in at Least $2 Billion After Returning to the White House

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@Kaegler @kaegler.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

I for one, root for every chance Norway has to defeat Sweden. So that is why I am rooting for Sweden to defeat France. #worldcup

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@Kaegler @kaegler.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Can anyone sum up the interesting or challenging things going on at the PC(USA)’s General Assembly for an out-of-the-loop Lutheran? #pcusa #ga227

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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Man, what is going on down there in Korea? The headlines are like “North Korea offers to execute South Korean soccer coach with anti-aircraft gun as reconciliation gesture. Seoul rejects offer as too humane.“

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 27/06/2026

Every one of these guys: Totalitarianism is good bro, trust me.

“Radical transparency is coming. A future where you can know anything, anytime, anywhere. A future where no one can hide,” he wrote on Substack. “We are wrapping the planet in an ‘Sensor Ecosystem’: a living, multi-layered sensing system that runs from the cameras in your home, to the phone in your pocket, to autonomous cars and humanoid robots on the ground, to drones and flying cars in the air, all the way up to a constellation of satellites imaging every square meter on the Earth every single day.”
Diamandis’ comments come roughly two years after Oracle founder Larry Ellison said something very similar. ”

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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

This week someone targeted my family for harm with a false report. We’re physically OK, but that doesn’t mean we weren’t harmed. I am beyond furious. Whatever your politics, this is awful, wrong, and can never become normal.

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A Terrible Thing Happened to My Family

Even in today's climate, there should be one fundamental principle everyone respects: whatever you think about someone in politics, you leave their kids alone.

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Rep. Melanie Stansbury (NM-01) @repstansbury.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

What is Leon Black hiding? Because, if he isn’t hiding anything, why did he walk out of his Transcribed Interview in the Epstein investigation today? We will get answers. Nobody is above the law.

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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

"Did becoming anti-immigrant hawks save the European social democratic[Danish social democrats]/far-left [BSW]?" "No, but it might work for us [Labour/left-populists)."

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Aalia Mauro @aaliamauro.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Let’s clear this up once and for all. 1. She had a digital receipt. 2. Her friend was stopped, not her so she kept walking with her kid. 3. She wasn't driving. Her friend was and never drove at any cops.

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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 17/06/2026

Dems must stop running as Republican-lite & actually run as a party that is pro working families, anti-war, & anti-billionaire. You can't take money from the same people funding MAGA and expect people to trust you. Corporate Dems still won't run FOR something, and we're all worse off for it. 3/3

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Sara Carter-Easter @sce007.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Sunday Bonhoeffer: "But do not seek the value of education in the high achievements it enables you to attain but rather in the fact that it enobles the human being through the inner freedom and dignity it imparts." Klaus Bonhoeffer's last letter to his children Easter 1945

A black and white photo of Klaus Bonhoeffer. He is a white man in his 40's with dark hair and a serious and pensive looking his face. He is wearing a dark suit , white collared dress shirt and a stripped tie.

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Robert Downen @robertdownen.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

The Texas GOP just brought an elephant into the convention hall and it apparently pissed all over the place

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Max B 💙 🔶 🇺🇦 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 @maxbrockbank.com · 12/06/2026

Fun fact. For the 1966 World Cup, England debated denying visas for North Korea. FIFA responded that if any players from any teams were denied visas,they would relocate the World Cup, even at the last minute.

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@Kaegler @kaegler.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

The hell is a “hydration break?” A chance for FIFA to get more money from Powerade?

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@Kaegler @kaegler.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Today in North Jersey deep-cuts, I’m still salty they turned Elmer’s Country Store in Upper Saddle River into a generic Wawa stye convenience store/gas station.

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