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Robert Wallace

@rewallace.bsky.social
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(He/his) Spent 20 years as a full-time undergrad professor, teaching biblical studies, but since 2018, I’ve been a senior pastor in McLean, VA. 
I care about justice issues, equality, reconciliation, pedagogy, and a host of other things

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Angri Bundel @anibundel.com · 11/05/2026
We lost Douglas Adams 25 years ago today. This has made a lot of people very sad and has been widely regarded as a bad move.
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Robert Wallace @rewallace.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
Duh. It’s OBVIOUSLY not a golden calf in Exod 32 or 1 Kgs 13. It’s much more analogous to Daniel 3
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Robert Wallace @rewallace.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Thinking this morning about how at my first full time university, our LMS was an install of moodle shaped by an IT dept (and @shorterpearson.com ) to be what we needed. I think we’d be better off with that, instead of one, for profit , one size fits all LMS and tell profs to adapt.
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Julie Novkov @jnovkov.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
This amazing image really captures the Tennessee fight and it's all over the internet. I am reposting it to encourage people to credit photographer Nicole Hester and the Tennessean.
Rep. Justin Pearson D- Memphis attempts to attend a Senate Committee meeting and is denied entry by the Sergeant at Arms on the second day of special session concerning redistricting at Cordell Hull State Office Building in Nashville on Wednesday, May 6, 2026.
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Robert Wallace @rewallace.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
This is the actual last step in the writing process
 I know this paper is ready to be published because I hate it now and I never wanna see it again
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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 04/05/2026
We have friends everywhere.
and/or
conjunction
ˈand-ˈȯr 
—used as a function word to indicate that two words or expressions are to be taken together or individually
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Robert Wallace @rewallace.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
My son had a Star Wars celebration yesterday and invited several of his friends over. One is transitioning and I could tell was uncomfortable when I walked in from church in my “work” clothes (suit and tie).
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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 29/04/2026
This is coming from a place of warmth and acceptance… -It’s ‘sleight of hand’ -It’s ‘bated breath’ -It’s ‘lo and behold’ -It’s ‘one fell swoop’ -It’s ‘brass tacks’ -It’s ‘free rein’
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Robert Wallace @rewallace.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
A dear friend and former student (thanks to Hannah Curtis) invited me on her podcast to talk about my ministry. She has long been a fan, and it's always nice to hang out with people that think you're awesome...it's good for the spirit. open.substack.com/pub/laurengr...
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Julia Is Waving, Not Drowning @booktweeting.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
okay, when you’ve lost the former director of Mossad, maybe it’s well past time to rethink your policy decisions
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Rhianna Pratchett @rhi.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Happy birthday, Dad. Wish you were here. You’d know what to do. Or at least you’d know what to write. ❤️
Terry and Rhianna Pratchett dressed up for the launch of Dodger in 2012.
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The Map Center @mapcenter.com · 26/04/2026
It's a shame that "defend your culture" always means "hate strangers different from you" and never "enact anti-pollution laws so that you can go fishing with your grandkids the way your grandpa taught you."
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Robert Wallace @rewallace.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
While visiting my mom today, the song playing over the speakers in the common area of this MEMORY CARE FACILITY was, "Forget You," by CeeLo Green. I can’t figure if that’s bad taste or right on the nose.
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Stephen Hopkins @phil-lol-ogist.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
My favorite art history genre is "Judith beheading Holofernes"
A photo of a cat biting a dog's neck with magnificent lighting worthy of Caravaggio
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Robert Wallace @rewallace.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
I am proud to announce that Good Faith Media has agreed to publish my next book: “Speaking of Israel and Palestine: A Primer for American Christians.” It has only just entered the queue for publication so it will be a bit before it’s out. Watch this space.
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Robert Wallace @rewallace.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
In the absence of external victories or obvious progress, often broad coalition groups look for internal victories, which is how those groups break up and lose ground.
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Pope Corky IX @popecorkyix.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
Me reading The Art of War: this was considered revolutionary? Surely armies knew to have enough supplies and food before going to war! Me today: oh.
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Robert Wallace @rewallace.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Sure. Times are tough. But we will be able to tell our grandchildren that we were alive when “pope-splaining” was invented.
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The Whimsical Muse @whimsicalmuse.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Someone just told me that The Princess Bride is "overrated" and long story short it's perfectly acceptable to remove toxic people from your life.
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Julie Roginsky @julieroginsky.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Pro-tip for the Swalwell campaign staff now maligning the women accusing their boss of sexual misconduct: it's not worth it. There will be other campaigns and other candidates but there will never be another time that you won't regret behaving this way towards survivors.
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Mary Robinette Kowal @maryrobinettekowal.com · 11/04/2026
I'm struck by the number of modes of transit these astronauts will experience today. 1. Slicing through the Earth's atmosphere in a spaceship 2. An inflatable raft 3. A rope swing 4. Helicopter 5 Aircraft carrier 6. Airplane. 7. Van.
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Rebecca M. Townsend @rmtownsend.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
I hope that the return of Integrity is a trend that continues.
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Robert Wallace @rewallace.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
“Italian Beef” is a Temu Cheesesteak
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Amos Posner @amosposner.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
There is no McTry.
A McDonald’s where the sign has been reduced to McDo.
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Robert Wallace @rewallace.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
My escape from [wildly gestures at everything] is Terry Pratchett’s Discworld. I’m approaching the end again, and it’s so beautiful how PTerry left Discworld better than he found it. Goblins have rights. Dwarves have gender. Humans have (some) understanding. It’s a model that gives me hope.
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Robert Wallace @rewallace.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
@merriam-webster.com Is there a word that is an antonym for "onomatopoeia?" I need a word to describe words that do NOT sound like their meaning, like "pulchritude" or "bucolic"
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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
“Hang on to your hope.” E. B. White in 1973.
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 07/04/2026
A few have suggested that some aspects of this mission--joy, international teamwork, diversity--are being played up to stick it to the hateful attitude of the administration. But I don't think it's that. I think it's just that those things are essential to and inseparable from a mission like this.
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 06/04/2026
NASA isn't why the US doesn't have universal healthcare, or a social safety net. The US doesn't have those things because politicians with the power to provide them choose specifically not to (with varying levels of support from voters). Enthusiasm for human spaceflight doesn't drive that choice.
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Christopher Hale @christopherjhale.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
“Let those who have weapons lay them down. Let those who have the power to unleash wars choose peace. Not a peace pursued by force, but through dialogue. Not with the desire to dominate the other, but to encounter them.” — Pope Leo XIV
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 05/04/2026
We are so, so small. #Artemis
Looking through one of the four windows of the Orion spacecraft, a tiny crescent Earth is illuminated against the blackness of space and grows smaller as the crew journeys closer to the Moon. Part of the window edge is visible; the rest is darkness. [Alt-text slightly revised from ESA/NASA version]
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Star Trek Minus Context @nocontexttrek1.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
Happy First Contact Day 🖖🏽
Star Trek First Contact scene, and if you haven't watched this one you should cancel all plans and view immejietly. (Also has a Mark S from Severance cameo) Ok, it's nighttime and we're close in on 2 dudes, closest is Zefram Cochrane, and just behind him is William T. Riker, famous tromboner. Both are in civilian clothes, Riker a leather jacket, and Zefram in a bomber type coat with the white fluffy wooly stuffing around the collar. Zefram is also wearing a weird black hat that is sort of like a bandana in form and function, but instead of fabric it's bedazzled leather. He's speaking, and looks kind of dumbfounded or stumped. Closed caption reads, "You're all....astronauts .. on some kind of Star Trek"

Happy First Contact Day 🖖🏼Alt in pic 1
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
Your regular reminder that dehumanizing the people who are dehumanizing others isn’t how we’re gonna get to liberation. We have to live into the world we want to create.
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Robert Wallace @rewallace.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Christ be with me,Christ within me, Christ behind me, Christ before me, Christ beside me, Christ to win me, Christ to comfort and restore me. Christ beneath me, Christ above me, Christ in quiet, Christ in danger, Christ in hearts of all that love me, Christ in mouth of friend and stranger-St Patrick
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Isaac Chotiner @ichotiner.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
New Interview: www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...
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Robert Wallace @rewallace.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
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@benlorber8.bsky.social on Bluesky
As time goes on, Jewish anti-Zionism reveals itself not only as solidarity with Palestinians but also as an anti-antisemitism strategy. We want out of this toxic dialectic, this terrible feedback loop between Israeli belligerence and the Jewish precarity it incessantly engenders
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Megan Goodwin @mpgphd.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
ah yes, stages 3 and 7 in the writing process both precede "what if I just set this whole thing on fire" stages (the imagined fires get bigger the later in the process you get)
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Robert Wallace @rewallace.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
My book is now out in Spanish translation! Thanks to Smyth & Helwys for committing to a Spanish copy! Thanks to Isra Hermosillo for his translation! Thanks to Héctor Hermosillo for writing a Foreword to the Spanish edition! a.co/d/d4QhUtJ
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Every single county in Virginia shifted Blue.
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Updates Key Races N.Y.C. Mayor

Va. Gov.
County
Margin

Shift from 2024 pres.
T Votes
Loudoun

Spanberger +29
* 12 pts.
164,366
Prince William

Spanberger +34
× 16 pts.
161,419
Portsmouth

Spanberger +47
* 8.1 pts.
29,956
Washington

Earle-Sears +49
* 4.5 pts.
20,927
Louisa

Earle-Sears +20
* 6.5 pts.
18,719
Orange

Earle-Sears +15
* 9.3 pts.
17,127
Powhatan

Earle-Sears +40
* 4.4 pts.
16,957
Pulaski

Earle-Sears +38
* 7.1 pts.
12,466
Dinwiddie

Earle-Sears +17
~ 6.3 pts.
11,974
Harrisonburg

Spanberger +41
× 15 pts.
11,753
Manassas

Spanberger +30
* 16 pts.
11,514
Carroll

Earle-Sears +57
~ 6.1 pts.
11,277
Wise

Earle-Sears +59
~ 4.6 pts.
10,962
Fairfax City

Spanberger +45
* 11 pts.
10,232
Fredericksburg

Spanberger +43
* 11 pts.
10,191
Salem

Earle-Sears +12
6.9 pts.
9,374
King William

Earle-Sears +34
* 7.1 pts.
8,999
Russell

Earle-Sears +63
* 4.9 pts.
8,860
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Micah @rincewind.run · 05/11/2025
it's been seven minutes since the polls closed, Virginia
media.tenor.com
a man in a white shirt stands in front of a crowd wearing a hat that says ' sx ' on it
Alt: well... we're waiting
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Robert Wallace @rewallace.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
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@stevenrharmon.bsky.social on Bluesky
“The senior minister at Lake Street Church of Evanston, Woolf is affiliated with the American Baptist Churches USA and the Alliance of Baptists. He also serves as one of the associate regional ministers for the American Baptist Churches of Metro Chicago.” https://publicwitness.wordandway.org/p/baptist-pastor-shot-in-leg-by-officer
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Incredibly funny to watch the right wing going Oh so just because I love money and hate poor people I'm a bad Christian according to "the pope"???
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Robert Wallace @rewallace.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
It’s a weird feeling to outlive colleges that at some point have turned me down for a job
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Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 04/11/2025
I need this. Don't take this from me. I need a 2 part video series, where Sadiq Khan visits NYC, and he and Zohran Mamdani take the subway to Mets-Willets to watch a Mets game, and talk about hopeful things. Then in part 2, Zohran visits London. They take the Tube to watch Arsenal play Liverpool.
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Robert Wallace @rewallace.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
I know many of the wonderful people at Firehouse. They constantly look for ways to make this world a better place for everyone.
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Robert Wallace @rewallace.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
My article with Christian Citizen about my peacemaking trip to the West Bank. www.christiancitizen.us/articles/can...
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Can these stones live? — Christian Citizen
Faithful Palestinian Christians too often feel abandoned, or worse, betrayed by Western Christians. They want to be seen by their Christian family, but they feel forgotten.
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Robert Wallace @rewallace.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
@thegrizzlylabs.com Love GeniusScan! Unfortunately since a recent update it’s no longer including the file when I try to export to Upnote. All other services (like AppleNotes, Dropbox) all work. But not Upnote. Any thoughts?
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Robert Wallace @rewallace.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
I think I'll take a minute and offer thanks to the NFL for helping me better understand the phrase "Bread and Circuses." I'm not proud of it, but I understand it.
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Robert Wallace @rewallace.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
"Silence challenges our cultural addiction to amusement, words, music, advertising, noise, alarms and voices. Silence asks for patience and waiting. And both silence and waiting make us uncomfortable"--Adele Calhoun
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