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Lura Groen @luragroen.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I preached about how white middle class respectability has become an idol in American churches. Important, and serious. But it’s extra fun in a congregation that can laugh about double entendres like “doing lines in church.” (communion, not cocaine)

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Lura Groen @luragroen.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Sometimes being a good pastor is coming out as a medical cannabis user to help de stigmatize it. But also talking about responsible use, how edibles are much stronger than the joints boomers might have smoked in college, and how we would never put THC in our baked goods without telling everyone

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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

And what we’re seeing now is not men who are different from their fathers. We’re seeing their masks slip when women aren’t properly submissive like their mothers.

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

being properly open-minded doesn’t mean shrugging every time you encounter a fucked up viewpoint and saying you guess it takes all kinds. it means interrogating the viewpoints you encounter and deciding whether they’re fucked up. being thoughtful and interested but ultimately making a firm call

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Lura Groen @luragroen.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

If you don’t have trans women in your life, including Black trans women, and yes including Black trans women who work the streets, you are missing out on some of the beauty in the world. You are missing part of the image of the Divine.

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Lura Groen @luragroen.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Is it time yet to talk about how many progressives who loved Dolly still hold the anti Appalachian stigma she spoke out against? Poor white rural people are *also* marginalized, oppressed, and economically exploited.

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Lura Groen @luragroen.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I don’t think Death is confused. I think the Death is taking away the good ones who have run their race, the ones that don’t need to see anymore.

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Lura Groen @luragroen.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

My therapist: I’m so proud of you for admitting thar to me. Me: don’t be. You’re my therapist. You’re easy. Him: I can be a judgy bitch! Me: You’re not allowed to judge me. I know your ethics! Him: therapy is much harder with someone who knows all the rules!

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Lura Groen @luragroen.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

It’s the Sunday of the Holy Poop Joke. And a woman calling Jesus out for his bigotry, and Jesus learning from it.

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Lura Groen @luragroen.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Just caught a three day reddit ban for explaining how lynching works.

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Lura Groen @luragroen.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Today is the 18th anniversary of my ordination. This was a Sunday that I didn’t preach, Vicar Jenny led most of worship, and many parts of the service were lead by lay leaders.

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Lura Groen @luragroen.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

If you, like me, have strong feelings about dog movies, you should know that The Odyssey is one. I was unprepared.

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Lura Groen @luragroen.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Private equity for profit nursing homes are evil. Making decisions based on money instead of the well being of our elders. Pure, systemic evil.

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Lura Groen @luragroen.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

It’s Jesus the promiscuous farmer Sunday! That man’s just throwing his seed everywhere! (Mathew 13. Not only is the word “seed” the same as the word for “sperm,” they literally thought they were the same thing.)

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Lura Groen @luragroen.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

My favorite thing is when conservatives try to hit me with “you probably think baby-killing is Biblical.” And I know they’re accusing me of supporting abortion. (I do!)

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Lura Groen @luragroen.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Not Gay as in “God loves you,” Queer as in “The Divine reorders the universe to make space for your unique and beloved self.” Yes, this is a Mathew Vines Reformation project subtweet

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Lura Groen @luragroen.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

In honor of Pride, a repost: (CN sexual language) May the Mighty One dance Her fierce dance on all the walls of injustice. May the Strong, Proud Mama keep all Her babies safe. May the Femme of all Femmes paint us in beauty.

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Lura Groen @luragroen.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Biblical Theology recs please! I have a lay leader, well educated and willing to read hard stuff, who is looking for a commentary on Luke or Luke/Acts. Would love to give him some liberation theology. What would you recommend?

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Dana Houle @danahoule.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Last time the Knicks were NBA champions was the year the DOJ charged Fred & Donald Trump with housing discrimination based on race.

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Lura Groen @luragroen.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

People who don’t love Queer and Trans people are missing out on so much joy. How could you not love watching someone’s delight at discovering their true selves? Their true loves? It’s so fucking beautiful

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Lura Groen @luragroen.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

My beloved Queer ones, Our lives are holy. Our dancing is holy. Our protest is holy. Our community is holy. Our gender presentations are holy. Our bodies are holy. Our sex is holy. Our love is holy.

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Lura Groen @luragroen.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

When I have to talk to men about their own sexist actions, I try to remember all the times my BIPOC friends and colleagues have had to sit me down and explain my own racist actions to me. (And let’s be real, 99% of the time that has been Black women.)

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Lura Groen @luragroen.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Not gay as in “God loves you” Queer as in “The Divine is shaking Her promiscuous ass at you and you and you.”

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Lura Groen @luragroen.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

I couldn’t think of the word “neurotypical” yesterday, and referred to a friend as “neurobland.”

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Stephanie Kollmann @slkollmann.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Yes. Using a computer now feels like this at all times.

Man yelling into bored woman's ear in nightclub meme captioned

I can summarize that for you

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Lura Groen @luragroen.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

I just accidentally said “God invites us into a three-way” mid sermon. I didn’t mean to, and that isn’t language I think is helpful from the pulpit. But also, not wrong.

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Lura Groen @luragroen.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

You can’t believe Acts 2 and believe women can’t preach. You can’t both believe in the Holy Spirit and think She cares about gender

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Lura Groen @luragroen.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Listening to the Holy Spirit will make you weird. She’s wild. I love Her, but wow.

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Lura Groen @luragroen.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Sometimes the people I pastor let me bless their dogs. Which I love *almost* as much as when they let me baptize their babies.

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Lura Groen @luragroen.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

The more I learn about Rededicate 250 the more horrified I am. This is not the religion of Jesus, but a sick twisting of everything he taught. (Although Christians are still the ones responsible for calling it out, since it is our religion that is getting twisted.) God loves *the world.*

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Lura Groen @luragroen.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Dear white siblings, being discriminated against for some other part of our lives does not make it magically impossible for us to be racist. Even if we grew up poor, or an immigrant, or trans or Queer, we still need to consciously unlearn white supremacy.

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Lura Groen @luragroen.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

When you’re a monster truck auntie but also a nerdy preacher “Ok, I’ll play with Kindergarten…..de-constructer?” (It’s “Kindergarten Crusher, in case you also need the reminder.)

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Lura Groen @luragroen.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Gas stations are often the site for strange interactions with men, but today was the strangest. I was filling up my tank, ignoring cat calls from the next pump, when I noticed that shit, my tire is flat again. 🧵

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Lura Groen @luragroen.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

My new therapist said I have the most convoluted brain hacks he’d ever heard of. So I’m fairly sure that means I win therapy today.

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Lura Groen @luragroen.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

On social media this morning for all the Met Gala protests. But also the Met Gala looks.

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Lura Groen @luragroen.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

Being a congregational pastor brings me such great joy. I suspect that whatever your call is, it will or does bring you joy too. Do you know what it is yet?

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Lura Groen @luragroen.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Community will also sometimes include boredom, and somebody is probably going to have to do the dishes, and move the chairs. If we want a village, we will need to show up, over and over again, for the mundane and awkward work. In person, if physically possible. But it’s worth it, in the end.

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Lura Groen @luragroen.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

If you want true, authentic, diverse community, you are going to have to learn to tolerate awkwardness. Because in between the moments of the the sublime…. Oh boy.

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Lura Groen @luragroen.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Some of our congregational leaders, instead of saying we will read the Psalm “responsively,” have been saying “responsibly.” And it’s one of my favorite not- mistakes ever!

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Lura Groen @luragroen.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Sometimes I get to be Pastor Lura who talks about death and sexuality and Christian communism and resurrection and abundant life. And sometimes I get to be Aunt Lura and pick up a Sparkle Smash monster truck birthday present. On a really good day I get to be both.

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Lura Groen @luragroen.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

It’s Christian communism Sunday! I’m kidding. Sort of. Listen to the Acts reading.

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Lura Groen @luragroen.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

I have not seen enough of my male clergy colleagues speaking out about rape culture lately, and barely any talking about *that* website.

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Lura Groen @luragroen.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

One of many takeaways from this conference: the joy of meeting seminary students at Chicago. The ones I talked to were so bright and interesting and creative in how they talked about church. They gave me some faith back in the future of our church.

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Lura Groen @luragroen.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

I’m sorry, was no one going to tell me about Daniel Levy playing a gay pastor in Big Mistakes? These are at least three of my favorite things!

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Lura Groen @luragroen.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Human beings are so weird and beautiful and complicated. (Can you tell I’m at a conference full of Queers?)

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Lura Groen @luragroen.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

If we don't crucify the idol of the white male Jesus, he will continue to crucify the rest of us.

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Lura Groen @luragroen.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

My Lutheran church’s Bible study prayed in gratitude and thanksgiving today for a granddaughter’s conversion to Judaism. Because a good relationship with G/d is a good relationship with G/d, and worth rejoicing over.

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Lura Groen @luragroen.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Sometimes when I preach about Trans and Queer shit, cis het people think my sermon isn’t for them, and I’m only preaching to the Queers. No baby, I’m revealing the Trans splendor of God to you. You’re the one who needs to hear this.

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