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Knothead, Feral Lutheran Pastor @knothead9620.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

This whole thread from @riotgrlerin.bsky.social is brilliant, as usual. You should be following her.

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Knothead, Feral Lutheran Pastor @knothead9620.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

"I hate inflatable yard deco-" "Perhaps I've been too hasty."

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Knothead, Feral Lutheran Pastor @knothead9620.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

Regional medical system: "We value the role of chaplains as members of the hospice care team, and we appreciate your grad degree, board certification, and 21 yrs of experience. Therefore, we're offering you a position that pays less than your denomination mandates for someone fresh from seminary."

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Knothead, Feral Lutheran Pastor @knothead9620.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

"Castellio eventually took up residence in Basel, where the city and church authorities were rapidly developing the principle that no one who hated Calvin could be all bad." -Diarmid MacCullough I've never been prouder of my tenuous Swiss roots.

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Knothead, Feral Lutheran Pastor @knothead9620.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Watch closely when a cash register asks if you want to round up for charity. Lowe's recently invited me to round up for hurricane relief, which I'm all in favor of. One of the orgs, though, was Samaritan's Purse, run by Franklin Graham. I declined and sent $ to an organization I trust instead.

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Rev. Justin Berkobien @justinberkobien.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Scripture is often misapplied to America but this one fits like a glove

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Sojourners @sojo.net · 12/06/2025

"As Brueggemann repeatedly pointed out, one of empire’s key projects is to shrink our imagination until the future we imagine doesn’t threaten its agenda."

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The 'Dangerous Oddness' of Walter Brueggemann

The late theologian saw the direction the country was headed, and he knew the key to fighting it was to start dreaming bigger.

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Knothead, Feral Lutheran Pastor @knothead9620.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

I have never done cosplay, but now I have an overwhelming urge to dress up like a Disney princess and go give ICE agents big wet sloppy kisses.

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Knothead, Feral Lutheran Pastor @knothead9620.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

This is silly and childish, and a complete waste of money by an administration that claims to be rooting out waste. All because Trump's tiny self-esteem needs to erase anything Biden did. Pathetic. apnews.com/article/trum...

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Army restores the names of seven bases that lost their Confederate-linked names under Biden

Seven Army bases whose names were changed in 2023 because they honored Confederate leaders are all reverting back to their original names.

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Knothead, Feral Lutheran Pastor @knothead9620.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

Just passed a big banner reading ORGAN COOKOUT SUNDAY 2 PM Then I realized it was in front of a church and is actually advertising an organ *concert*. I need a vacation.

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Knothead, Feral Lutheran Pastor @knothead9620.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

Bill goes to the hospital with an impacted bowel. His friends hurry to help. Joe brings a dozen bran muffins. Mike brings a gallon of prune juice. Ted brings a batch of freshly baked oatmeal bars. Seeing this, Bill's nurse smiles with wonder and says, "With friends like these, who needs enemas?"

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Jared Stacy @jaredstacy.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

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Knothead, Feral Lutheran Pastor @knothead9620.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

We just adopted a memorial directing the Churchwide Assembly to standardize the timing of ELCA-required training, ten minutes after being told that, according to the ELCA Office of the Secretary, the training in question is not required.

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Knothead, Feral Lutheran Pastor @knothead9620.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

For context, the US Navy has 74 Arleigh Burke-class destroyers in service. Continuing to send ships and crews that just returned from high-stress combat deployments to the border is poor personnel management and poor materiel management. www.businessinsider.com/navy-sends-m...

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Trump's Pentagon keeps sending destroyers that fought in the Red Sea to the US southern border — a fourth one is on its way

The Arleigh Burke-class destroyer USS Cole is the latest warship to go from the US Navy's counter-Houthi mission to America's backyard.

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Knothead, Feral Lutheran Pastor @knothead9620.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

We talk a lot about the decline in trust in institutions but we often miss a key point: huge numbers of institutions, from government to business to the church, have proven themselves untrustworthy. If people don't trust us, it's often because we deserve it.

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Knothead, Feral Lutheran Pastor @knothead9620.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

In honor of the end of the most talked-about bromance of the year. Apparently the Tangerine Tragedy is no longer feeling the Muskrat love. youtube.com/watch?v=xBYV...

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Captain & Tennille MUSKRAT LOVE

YouTube video by Darren Q.

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Knothead, Feral Lutheran Pastor @knothead9620.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

The ELCA: "We need fresh ideas and new blood!" Also the ELCA: <nominates the same people for positions of leadership over and over and over again>

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Knothead, Feral Lutheran Pastor @knothead9620.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

The bishop uses the rules of procedure to move the 2nd ballot up before everyone is in the room. Bios of three nominees aren't published before the second ballot. 2nd ballot is changed to paper instead of electronic. Not inspiring a lot of trust in the integrity of the process. #lsselca2025

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Danny Deraney @dannyderaney.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

Every year on Memorial Day, I share this video of French caretakers who take sand from Omaha Beach in Normandy, and scrub them into the letters to give them the gold coloring. They do this for all 9,386 US soldiers who died. France also gave us this land as American soil.

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Knothead, Feral Lutheran Pastor @knothead9620.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

Seventeen years later and this song is as relevant as it ever was. And President Dexter is kinda creepily prophetic. youtu.be/oObL3Ajmr2Y?...

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The Offspring - Stuff is Messed Up

YouTube video by The Offspring

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Jeff Tiedrich @jefftiedrich.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

first they came for the white South Africans, and I didn't speak out— because no one is coming for the white South Africans, you deranged paranoid lunatics. what the fuck is wrong with you

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

Stop calling kidnapping and trafficking people to countries they’ve never been to “deporting.” It’s criminal behavior by a country with no conscience. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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US ‘illegally deported’ Vietnamese and Burmese migrants to South Sudan

Immigrant rights advocates say White House violated court order and ask judge to order nearly a dozen people’s return

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Knothead, Feral Lutheran Pastor @knothead9620.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

I was raised to respect LEOs. As an adult, stories like this have tempered that respect. LEOs, if you want the respect and trust of the public, you MUST stop shielding the lawless in your own ranks.

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Angry Staff Officer @pptsapper.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

The writ of Habeas Corpus has been suspended nation-wide only once, and that was during an actual civil war featuring insurrection, invasion, and violent death on the scale of hundreds of thousands No matter how you fall on the border issue, this is absolutely and plainly not even close to that

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Knothead, Feral Lutheran Pastor @knothead9620.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

This is profoundly disturbing and offensive to me. As a Christian, as a veteran, and as a citizen.

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Knothead, Feral Lutheran Pastor @knothead9620.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

I really, REALLY hope these words were part of his first address to the curia!

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Knothead, Feral Lutheran Pastor @knothead9620.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

American conservatives would have crucified his boss.

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Knothead, Feral Lutheran Pastor @knothead9620.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Crash Davis was right: there ought to be a Constitutional amendment outlawing Astroturf and the designated hitter.

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Knothead, Feral Lutheran Pastor @knothead9620.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

Easter good news: • God's got a big ol' but • Peter isn't defined by his worst moment, & neither are you • Jesus isn't defined by the hate spewed at him, & neither are you • Violence, vengeance, death, and dehumanizing hate don't get the last word • Life, grace, redemption, and hope do • Love wins

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Cryptkeeper Sophie Luther @sophieluther.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

In honor of the surrender of the Confederacy.

A photo General William Tecumseh Sherman

"Confederate monuments? You mean participation trophies for losers."

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Knothead, Feral Lutheran Pastor @knothead9620.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

Waiting for the "But..." - Easter morning sermon, live on TikTok, ~9:40ish Eastern US time! Come join us, and wait for the "But..."! (And trust me, God's got a big ol' "But..."!) www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8jXwUS8/

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Knothead, Feral Lutheran Pastor @knothead9620.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

If you presume to deny someone God's gifts in the means of grace unless articulate their faith to *your* satisfaction, you might need to revisit the concept of grace. And humility. And gospel. And love.

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Knothead, Feral Lutheran Pastor @knothead9620.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

If you have to have your surrogates debate people about what the exact definition of "concentration camp" is, you're probably the villain.

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Knothead, Feral Lutheran Pastor @knothead9620.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Exactly fucking this. Human worth is not determined by utility to the state.

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Knothead, Feral Lutheran Pastor @knothead9620.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Quick reminder that "Jesus had to die for God to forgive you" is rancid theology, and if you hear it in a sermon, you should walk out.

White text on black background that reads: Quick reminder that "Jesus had to die for God to forgive you" is rancid theology, and if you hear it in a sermon, you should walk out.

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

dear god

All of this revealed a fundamental miscalculation. In colonial India, in the Jim Crow South, and in Palestine, the goal of nonviolent resistance was to leverage one’s sacrifices, to use one’s courage when faced with the repressive violence of the state as a tool for moral awakening, to move people of conscience to act. To that end, it had worked. Over the past decade, sympathy for Palestinians in the United States has grown steadily, particularly among the young, while support for Israel has plummeted. But last year’s campus demonstrations were almost everywhere repressed by the police, and the fact that a majority of Americans supported putting conditions on military aid to Israel found no reflection in either party’s platform.

Manal, Bilal, and others in Nabi Saleh had done everything they were supposed to do. The moral awakening occurred as planned. It just didn’t make a difference. What they hadn’t counted on was the utter lack of real democracy in the West.

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John Pavlovitz @johnpavlovitz.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

This Administration is trying to erase a human being. Don't allow it. We are all connected.

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Knothead, Feral Lutheran Pastor @knothead9620.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Soothing the Sunday Scaries. Chatting about whatever comes up. This is an LGBTQIA+ safe space. People of all faiths and no faith are welcome. www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8Yn7dPy/

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Knothead (@knothead9620) is LIVE - TikTok LIVE

Soothing the Sunday Scaries | Watch Knothead (@knothead9620)'s LIVE on TikTok and interact with others in real time.

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Knothead, Feral Lutheran Pastor @knothead9620.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

The foolishness of cutting off US foreign aid is breathtaking. These clowns don't understand that China, Iran, and other nations hostile to our interests will be lining up to fill the void. This is what hairband when the uninformed elect the ignorant.

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Knothead, Feral Lutheran Pastor @knothead9620.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

"I wanted them to make life miserable for queer people, immigrants, and women, not ME."

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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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Knothead, Feral Lutheran Pastor @knothead9620.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

The "Why did I have to waste time on algebra in high school?" crowd are now making it clear that they didn't pay attention in history, economics, or government class, either.

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