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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

A tricky thing about modern society is that no one has any idea when they don’t die. Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.

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Bishop +Ken Carter, WNC United Methodist @bishopkencarter.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

As a nation, we are week by week less prosperous, less secure, less humane, less democratic, less prepared for a health crisis or a natural disaster. The responses—widen circle of allies, pressure political leaders, use your voice, vote, be curious, describe the human cost of dismantling the U.S.

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Nate Nims @natenims.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

I don’t know if the text books I had in school were always the best, but at least the propaganda wasn’t that on the nose

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Bonhoeffer's Child @bonhoefferchild.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

This is a fruit of American Evangelicalism.

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Nate Nims @natenims.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

9. If nothing else, I'll at least get a good cold brew out of the conversation

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Nate Nims @natenims.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

8. I asked for clarity, and hopefully, I'll be getting it. If you have questions about where a church stands, you should be able to ask, and you should be able to get an answer, especially when a statement goes one way, but policy decisions go another.

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Nate Nims @natenims.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

7. So I made a little video and stitched the sermon with a couple of screen shots with the statement when it was on their site and their denominational stance, and now I've got a coffee shop meeting scheduled with one of their pastors.

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Nate Nims @natenims.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

6. But to say that everyone is welcome in a sermon, while removing your policy from your website, and being in a denomination with a clear policy that does not include LGBTQ folks in weddings, ordination, and, I assume but don't know for sure, leadership, isn't welcoming.

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Nate Nims @natenims.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

5. That said, there are LGBTQ folks that are members at Hope, so their welcome doesn't exclude people from joining or attending, which is something that other churches can't say.

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Nate Nims @natenims.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

4. To me, the change in their website language seems like an attempt to avoid sounding like a church that won't welcome LGBTQ folks into the full life of the church while being a church that won't welcome LGTBQ folks into the full life of the church.

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Nate Nims @natenims.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

3. at one point, the Hope website had a statement that said, "God's intent for marriage is clear. As a result, we are unable to host same-sex weddings at Hope." That statement is no longer on their website, but all the language on that page only references what the bride and groom should plan for.

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Nate Nims @natenims.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

2. the denomination they are a part of, LCMC, does not ordain LGBTQ clergy and does not endorse weddings for LGBTQ couples saying, "human sexual expression and fulfillment take place only within the boundaries of marriage between one man and one woman" www.lcmc.net/pastoral-adm...

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A Pastoral Admonition - LCMC

LCMC website with clergy and member directories, official documents and resources, leadership positions, and ministry information.

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Nate Nims @natenims.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

1. Last weekend, the lead pastor at Lutheran Church of Hope, the largest church in the DSM metro, said the church policy was to welcome everyone, gay and straight, trans and cisgendered, but that statement raised some questions for me, because they don't officiate weddings for LGBTQ couples

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Nate Nims @natenims.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

It is a hard day to be an Iowan. And yet, there is still solidarity, there will be justice, and we won’t give up on finding it.

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Michael Harriot @michaelharriot.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

By accepting Trump’s anti-Black premise and regurgitating the narrative that equates anything Black as DEI, the NY Times has become part of the propaganda machine

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Nate Nims @natenims.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

When they say the quiet part out loud, believe them

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Laura Belin @laurarbelin.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

New post: This week, Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird & her staff lied repeatedly about a federal lawsuit Iowa joined, which could blow up Section 504 protections for people with disabilities. My report (with audio from my short Q&A with the AG on Monday): www.bleedingheartland.com/2025/02/16/b...

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Brenna Bird hid the ball on major disability case. Now she's lying about it

Laura Belin: Iowa's attorney general and her staff have lied repeatedly about a federal lawsuit that could blow up Section 504 protections.

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Jevinx @jevinx.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Our Trans Family and History WILL NOT BE ERASED 🏳️‍⚧️ Rally at the Stonewall National Monument in New York City in response to the current administration’s efforts to erase transgender people.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

COLLINS: “AP says you banned them because they won’t call it ‘Gulf of America’ — does this mean Trump will retaliate against reporters who don’t use language you want them to, and how does this align with your first amendment commitment?” Beyond parody. Also, chilling.

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Nate Nims @natenims.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

I'm guess it's going to be more of a woke pope thing

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RAYGUN @raygunsite.com · 10/02/2025

Tough night for conspiracy theories. And we were pulling for this one! If you can’t believe in an NFL + refs + chiefs plot to rig an entire football season, what CAN you believe in?! #raygun #superbowl

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stuartpstevens.bsky.social @stuartpstevens.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

This amounts to the most significant data leak in cyber history. Private individuals in the data business now have access to your Social Security information. This violates privacy laws in every state. Hopefully, state AGs will file suit & pursue criminal charges. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/u...

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Elon Musk’s Team Now Has Full Access to Treasury’s Payments System

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Rob Hogg @senatorrobhogg.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

More record-breaking extreme weather in Iowa. First time with highs in the 50s on five straight days in January. The climate crisis isn’t going away because of the election results. #ActOnClimate

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Bonhoeffer's Child @bonhoefferchild.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

1/ Remember This: Trump would not be in office if it were not for the MAGA Christen, CN adherents, and numerous Christian leaders. Everything you see happening in America, RIGHT NOW ... the chaos, pain, and cruelty ... is what a "Christian nation" looks like. It's the fruit of American Christendom.

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Nate Nims @natenims.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Seminary did not prepare me for the amount of pest control there is in parish ministry

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Bonhoeffer's Child @bonhoefferchild.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

Dear MAGA Christen ... is there anyone who can tell me what "distortion" Bishop Budde uttered or how her words deviated from orthodox Christian doctrine? Just ONE citation or point. Bonus: Can you explain how this is not an act of an ersatz Magaministerium fur die Kirchliche Angelegenheiten?

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Randi Mayem Singer @rmayemsinger.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

If she can do it, we can all do it.

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Nate Nims @natenims.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

The church in the United States has lost almost all validity with multiple generations not because we've failed to teach what Jesus would do, but because those who mostly loudly claim to follow Jesus seem to want nothing to do with what they taught us Jesus would do.

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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Now that Trump is in office he's immediately pivoted from "the President is responsible for anything bad that happens in the world" to "Me? That's not my problem."

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Nate Nims @natenims.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Remember this when every climate change denying governor asks for help

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Nate Nims @natenims.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

As a delegate of the longest quadrennium ever, I kind of want an author credit

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🎃GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE🎃 @golikehellmachine.com · 19/01/2025

every single evangelical who read the LEFT BEHIND series is straight up doing the garfield "i wonder who that's for" meme

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Billie @billieiswriting.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

We need to put to bed, forever, the pretense that, in the country, "Justice is blind". Trump received no penalty despite being a convicted criminal because of who he is and the position he is about to hold. I know y'all already know that justice has *never* been blind; just highlighting it again.

"Trump sentenced without penalty in New York hush money case"

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 20/12/2024

Of note: Feucht has yet to change/take down any of the promotions for this event (website, social media, etc) despite the priest now telling multiple outlets it isn't happening at his church. Feucht has, however, claimed there is "warfare" against his efforts to host the event.

The warfare coming against us to host this inauguration worship event on Capitol Hill is UNBELIEVABLE!

Anytime I feel this much resistance, it clearly reveals how much the enemy HATES worship preparing the way for a new season in America!

Would you pray with me for breakthrough and favor? I really feel we are called to do this.

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Nate Nims @natenims.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

Prayers for the church in Nigeria following this fight and shooting

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Nate Nims @natenims.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

After the election, I decided it was a good time to brush up on Bonhoeffer. I always think there should be one more letter from Dietrich

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