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James Earley @pj-earley.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Oh that's a good word! Thanks for this tip.

James Earley @pj-earley.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Right? Creepy for sure. And I was surprised at just how open the swearing was throughout. During the ghost blowjob scene, my youngest was like, "daddy why are they doing that?" >> "uh... it's ghost stuff, buddy." ☠️

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James Earley @pj-earley.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

My kids are 5 & 6. We watched the original Ghostbusters movie a month ago. I forgot PG in 1984 is NOT the same as PG in 2026. 🫠

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James Earley @pj-earley.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

I lost $20 last night to a new licensed candidate for ministry in the RCA. I offered him 20 bucks to convincingly slip in the phrase "Eternal Subordination of the Son" during his oral exams. He did it and I'm so proud of him. ☠️ Even important moments deserve whimsy. May it abound for you!

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James Earley @pj-earley.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

*Steven Furtick has entered the chat*

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James Earley @pj-earley.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

"beef is gross, I just like toppings." :)

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James Earley @pj-earley.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

😂 six year old? No, sir. We don't coach six year olds in Mario Kart. We leave them in the dust of our exhaust pipes. It's the one thing we have. Across all sexual orientations and identities. Beating kids in Mario Kart unifies us all.

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James Earley @pj-earley.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

"hurr durr I hate Paul" and "everything I don't like about classical theism is calvinism" feel like they go hand in hand in my circles.

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James Earley @pj-earley.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

The church cannot see itself as the bastion of righteousness when it produces the wickedness that infects the land.

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James Earley @pj-earley.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

The implications abound for the church when the holder of the highest office in the land--who received 81% of white evangelical votes--posts AI videos comparing the Obamas to apes. Those implications increase exponentially when the same caricatures are easily discoverable within Christian circles.

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James Earley @pj-earley.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

The group was filled with Christian adults from southern Minnesota who had been important and influential to me as a teenager and young adult. It was a Christian group.

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James Earley @pj-earley.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

One of the first times I saw the Obamas compared to apes, it was in a Facebook group I had been invited to join called "Eyes Wide Qpen" somewhere around 2021. Yes, "Qpen" as in, Q-Anon. The invite came from a woman I credit with instilling an "alive" faith in me when I was a teenager.

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James Earley @pj-earley.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

You can't be on God's side while you murder people in the streets. You can only join God by siding with the oppressed. They are God's unique possession, and the only ones who can possess God. If you want to be righteous--for your life to hold meaning at eternity--you must side with the oppressed.

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James Earley @pj-earley.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

Gestapo-style ICE operations are plastered on our screens. And somehow we aren't all unified in the conviction that it is *wrong*. We are like those who have eyes and are never seeing; ears and never hearing; minds and never understanding. The prophets have words for us. May we listen.

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James Earley @pj-earley.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

"I don't believe you would have so warmly commended the police force if you had seen... if you would watch... if you would observe their ugly and inhuman treatment of Negroes here in the city jail..." We're observing it. We're watching it. We're seeing it. It's happening every day.

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James Earley @pj-earley.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

I think Dr. King was right about everything. Except *maybe* this one thing. 🧵 He describes in his Letter from Birmingham Jail the many varied ways the police force had abused the jailed protesters. He writes to the white moderate church about these atrocities...

An image of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. from his recording of Letter From a Birmingham Jail.

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James Earley @pj-earley.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

Oh my word. Peace to you, and gumption. And Lord willing: rest for you all.

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James Earley @pj-earley.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

Imagining Peter Jackson's LOTR but every ring is actually a bird the wearer somehow has to keep tamed to benefit from.

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James Earley @pj-earley.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

...in the land of Mordor, in the fires of Mount Doom, the dark lord Sauron forged, in secret, a master ring to control all others. And into this ring, he poured his cruelty, his malice, and his will to dominate all life.

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James Earley @pj-earley.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

Reminder: tomorrow is the FIFTH day of Christmas, on which, my true love gave to me five golden rings. BUT. they were all of them deceived, for another ring was made...

An image of five golden rings interlaced.

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James Earley @pj-earley.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

IDK about the rest of you pastors, but as for myself, I wrapped up our church's Advent prep a solid 22 hours early this year. #WorkingAhead

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James Earley @pj-earley.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

me, every day when my meds wear off: "why am I suddenly starving??"

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James Earley @pj-earley.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

I'm not posting on bsky enough these days for it to be clear I was joking about the hell part. 😅

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James Earley @pj-earley.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

In the last week I've been using the word "divination" quite a bit when I actually meant "divinization." And that may not seem like a big deal to you but I might have signed a few tickets to hell with that one... 😬

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James Earley @pj-earley.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

During dinner, my kid climbs in my lap and whispers: "Daddy, is the government giving our neighbors food yet?' >> "No, buddy, they still haven't." "Ohhhh but they are supposed to help!" They are supposed to help. It's the whole point of government. My kids get it; when will the adults get it?

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James Earley @pj-earley.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

We cannot offer a meaningful salvation to those we are unwilling to know. We cannot offer a meaningful alternative to suffering we are unfamiliar with. We cannot offer liberation to those in need if we are unwilling to be liberated from the privileges that hold us hostage.

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James Earley @pj-earley.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

If we are satisfied with a faith that promises heaven “somewhere out there” but keeps hell alive and well on earth; if we are satisfied with increasing the tally at heaven’s gate, while continuing to gatekeep those things that could mean life for us on earth… it is not the faith of Jesus.

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StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

ICE agents arrest Alderperson Jessie L. Fuentes (26th Ward of Chicago city council) after she questions them on whether they have a signed judicial warrant to arrest a person at Humboldt Park Hospital. “He has Constitutional rights.” “No.” ICE’s exact mindset: no one is allowed any rights now.

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James Earley @pj-earley.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

Spent the last half of my session debating with my counselor about whether or not humans actually "make" choices. So, anyway, therapy is going well.

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James Earley @pj-earley.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

In the sermon today, I shared a phrase I learned from a mentor: "Don't should yourself." I have received several communications expressing concern over my language in church. Someone pray for the Lord to help me enunciate more gooder.

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James Earley @pj-earley.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

Every time someone is like, "sorry to cancel last minute," I'm like: "no, no... I was glad to meet. And I'm also glad for the surprise grey space." 😂 It's my own version of radical acceptance.

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James Earley @pj-earley.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

Thanks for saying all this. It resonates deeply with Dr. Cone's assertion that the enslaved Hebrews were "God's people" precisely because they were oppressed. We cease to function as God's people when we are the oppressors. ⚪ Xtianity is the same old enslavement agenda baptized in Christ's name.

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James Earley @pj-earley.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

Truthfully, I think I just experienced it as permission to allow reality to happen. It's going to be what it's going to be regardless; so the work is actually about self-regulation in its wake. That makes sense to me. 🤷🏼‍♂️

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James Earley @pj-earley.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

I mean, I found that really helpful. You may remember I called you shortly after I left a multi-staff mid-size church for my current small church. This work is so much harder, and you advice rings true.

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James Earley @pj-earley.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

And we who bare God's name are called to name him according to their vision; for as long as we cling to security and self-sufficiency at the expense of our neighbors, our vision is clouded from seeing God's truth.

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James Earley @pj-earley.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

Those whom God allows to name him are the poor, disenfranchised, systematically disinherited, marginalized, used and abused.

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James Earley @pj-earley.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

Abraham could be argued as experiencing deep distress, too, and doesn't name God until the sacrifice of Isaac... Those who most accurately (read: honoringly) name God are experiencing deep distress... AND do not have the material resources to alleviate their distress.

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James Earley @pj-earley.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

Hagar is the first person to name God. There are a plethora of implications to be made from this fact. Today, I notice: Those who most accurately (read: honoringly) name God are experiencing deep distress. But not only that:

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James Earley @pj-earley.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

*soap box. 🤦🏼‍♂️

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James Earley @pj-earley.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

Biiiiiingo (full agree across the board) Thanks for getting up on this slap box so I don't have to. 😂

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James Earley @pj-earley.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

This morning in church, in a moment of distracted glory, I gave the wrong definition of a word I was trying to make an alliterative point with. I saw a retired judge in our congregation slowly shaking his head. I abandoned that line of argument promptly.

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Robert G. Callahan, II - author / attorney @rcallahanwaco.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

Faith without works is dead children.

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James Earley @pj-earley.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

*conventionally handsome man walking down the sidewalk* my wife: "this guy is pretty." me: "wow... I'm standing right here." my wife, perturbed: "the. sky. is. pretty."

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James Earley @pj-earley.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

Listen y'all... I do not want to commit libel. But the number of times I've seen weird uncles accidentally post their freaky searches to social media... It's "interesting."

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