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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Excited for all the new American banana and coffee factories.

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Matt Pearce @mattdpearce.com · 03/04/2025

elder millennial here. just checking in for my annual “unprecedented times”

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Derek Vreeland @derekvreeland.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

To love others with authenticity requires an awareness of the love we have received from God. We love others as beloved ones because we are aware of our own belovedness. #beloved

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Bruce Springsteen @brucespringsteen.net · 03/04/2025

Seven new studio albums (1983-2018). 82 previously-unreleased tracks. 74 never-before-heard songs. A box set that includes a 100-page hardcover book. Available June 27.

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Bruce Springsteen - Tracks II: The Lost Albums Trailer

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Chuck DeGroat @chuckdegroat.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

GROWING UP | Our most basic instincts are for survival and self-protection - good and important instincts to stay alive - but not sufficient for our ultimate growth. Our more mature development includes the capacity for connection, self-awareness, self-regulation, empathy, and social virtue. 1/3

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Sharon Hodde Miller @sharonhmiller.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

“If you say the heart can be deceived, I will say the mind can also be deceived. A *pure* heart can be trusted. As Jesus said, ‘Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God.’” - Brian Zahnd

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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 19/02/2025

Kamala was right. And it only took him less than 30 days to roll over for Putin.

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Jason, ex Inferis @benedictsred.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

I bet doom scroll meant something way cooler in the middle ages.

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Micah ⳩ @micahmacdonald.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

“The sin of bad theology has been precisely this - to set Christ up against man, and to regard all flesh and blood men as ‘not-Christ.’ Indeed to assume that many men, whole classes of men, nations, races, are in fact ‘anti-Christ’…

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Micah ⳩ @micahmacdonald.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Hear me quickly, Lord for my mind wonders to other things I am more familiar with and more concerned about than I am with you. O Timeless God, for whom I do not have time, catch me with a sudden stab of beauty or pain or regret that will catch me up short for a moment. Ted Loder

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Brian Zahnd @brianzahnd.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

It’s astonishing how angry some people will get if you try to take away their religion of revenge. They’re terribly upset by the idea that God might give divine favor to those they deem unworthy of it—to those who do not belong to their kind of people.

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Knothead, Feral Lutheran Pastor @knothead9620.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

The current American moment summed up in one photograph.

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Micah ⳩ @micahmacdonald.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Everyone should have the opportunity to sit under Fr John Behr while walks through Colossians 1

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The New Evangelicals @thenewevangelicals.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Christian nationalists: “America should be a Christian nation!” Trump: “I’m restricting Christian charities from helping refugees.” Christian nationalists: “we completely agree”

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Micah ⳩ @micahmacdonald.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

“Never be deluded into thinking that if you have contrition for your sins, if you are sorry for your sins, God will come and forgive you—that he will be touched by your appeal, change his mind about you and forgive you. Not a bit of it…

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Michelle Van Loon @michellevanloon.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Compassion is the sometimes fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody else’s skin. It’s the knowledge that there can never really be any peace and joy for me until there is peace and joy finally for you too. –Frederick Buechner

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Micah ⳩ @micahmacdonald.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

If you read one thing about the election, inauguration, and the “next 4 years” make it this. Thanks @esaumccaulley.bsky.social

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Diana Butler Bass @dianabutlerbass.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

King Day is 1/20. And it is the inauguration of DJT. They represent the furthest poles of American faith. The universality, compassion & liberation of King stands in prophetic judgment against the exclusivism, cruelty & authoritarianism of the “Christian” nationalism of DJT.

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Sunday Musings

Remembering Martin Luther King in the Shadow of Authoritarianism

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19/01/2025

blasphemous grifting -- Lee Greenwood says Trump may take the oath of office on a new limited edition Trump bible that is going to be released tomorrow

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Micah ⳩ @micahmacdonald.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

Couple essential adds to the @officialbruce.bsky.social vinyl collection today…

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Emily McGovern @emilyscartoons.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

Get thee to a nunnery ✝️

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Hunter @huntertraveler.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

What if the husband is gossiping about his wife with his twitter followers?

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Bob Stevenson @bobstevenson.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

The triune God has existed forever in perfect Triune love. He created the world out of love. He created humanity out of love. He has sustained us out of love. He has saved us in love. Glory.

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Micah ⳩ @micahmacdonald.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

You'll watch over every step I take, but you won't keep track of my missteps. Job 14:16, The Message

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Neil Lewis, Jr. @neillewisjr.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

"Walmart makes the places it operates in poorer than they would be if it had never shown up at all. Sometimes consumer prices are an incomplete, even misleading, signal of economic well-being." Fascinating studies on the broader effects of Walmart: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

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The Walmart Effect

New research suggests that the company makes the communities it operates in poorer—even taking into account its famous low prices.

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Micah ⳩ @micahmacdonald.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

The world breaks everyone, and afterward, many are strong at the broken places. ERNEST HEMINGWAY

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Micah ⳩ @micahmacdonald.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Day 20 💙📚 #booksky

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Josiah Hawthorne @josiahhawthorne.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

On Twitter, JeremyWingert79 asked how we stay sane through the next few years. Here's my answer -- a 🧵: --Focus on the local, things within your sphere of influence, and your ability to impact. --Cultivate unplugged times. Awareness is important, but this is a marathon, not a sprint. 1/4

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Micah ⳩ @micahmacdonald.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

“If Jesus is right about the gospel, Jimmy Carter is in heaven. And so are a lot of other people—a number no man can count—who were wrong on some or another serious political or moral or social question.”

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Chris Hutchinson 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇬🇱🇵🇸🇮🇷 🕊️ @cahutch1990.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

The same reason that Panama does not have a standing army is the same reason Ukraine gave up its nukes. They trust(ed) the US to protect them. Notice is now being served: everyone start arming up on your own again. At least we have not had the Eugenics Wars. Yet.

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Micah ⳩ @micahmacdonald.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Day 19 💙📚 #booksky

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Micah ⳩ @micahmacdonald.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

CSB for teaching Message for reading NRSV for study That’s where I’m at rn.

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Rick Pidcock @rickpidcock.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

Republicans: You guys are overreacting. We're not violent. January 6th wasn't an insurrection attempt. It was a peaceful climb up the walls and and tranquil tour through the people's house. Also Republicans: Now let's use the military to take Greenland and Panama!

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Brian Zahnd @brianzahnd.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

In critiquing empire I use this definition: Rich, powerful nations that believe they have a divine right to rule other nations and a manifest destiny to shape history according to their agenda. The Bible gives a sustained critique of empire from Genesis to Revelation. Empires are always idolatrous.

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 08/01/2025

Some photos from the arrival of former President Jimmy Carter's casket at the U.S. Capitol today:

Vice President Kamala Harris and her husband Douglas Emhoff pay there respects to Carter's casket. Both stand with their hands over their heart in front of a large wreath, which sits in front of a casket draped in a U.S. flag.

A servicewoman stands at attention in front of former President Jimmy Carter's casket, which is drape with a U.S flag and surrounded by wreathes. A sailor also stands at attention on the other side, staring straight.

Former President Jimmy Carter's casket, draped in a U.S. flag, enters the U.S. Capitol Rotunda, held by a a group of servicemembers. A line of U.S. senators looks on.

Georgia Sens. Ossoff and Warnock standing next to each other in the crowd.

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David Frum @davidfrum.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

The Plan 1) Threaten allies 2) Betray Ukraine 3) Offend democracies 4) Serve Putin 5) Empower China

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Sharon Hodde Miller @sharonhmiller.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

“You are enough” in the same way that a loaf of bread and a fish were enough.

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BrooklynDad_Defiant! @mmpadellan.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

January 6, 2025, by the numbers: ONE certification of election completed ZERO Dems rioting in DC ZERO Capitol Police assaulted ZERO walls smeared with feces ZERO fire extinguishers used as weapons ZERO people chanting "Hang Kamala Harris" ZERO fist-pumping Senators running for his life...

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