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Glorious Liberty

@romans821.bsky.social
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A pastor in SW Minnesota, happily married for over 10 years! Author of "Grace Alone: Lutheran in the 21st Century" for those 12-112. Nerds At Church podcast co-host. She/her.

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Glorious Liberty @romans821.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Hey, they're awfully cute!
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
And it becomes a way of enforcing gender conformity in all sorts of ways—it’s literally a Dykes to Watch Out For cartoon from 1995
Mo, a butch dyke, and her trans friend Jillian, both use the bathroom, and though Mo is initially transphobic about sharing a bathroom with Jillian, only Mo is challenged about whether or not she is in the correct loo.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
I like these undefeatist attitudes. Thanks @karenattiah.bsky.social and @chadstanton.bsky.social
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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 22/11/2024
For what’s worth: As a liberal arts school graduate, folks were making fun of my education as useless long before Twitter took off. And they were, of course, always hilariously wrong: I use my education every dang day.
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
“One has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.” -Rev Dr Martin Luther King Jr. And it’s on every cis person in this country to fiercely have trans people’s backs in every macro and micro way, now and always. In the bathroom & in the streets. When they’re present or not. Everywhere.
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Glorious Liberty @romans821.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
You weren't here for the Alf memes, were you.
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Nefarious Filth Bird 𓅾 @sasquatch.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
It's all tied together and don't let them trick you into thinking it's for safety
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Jorts (and Jean) @jortsthecat.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
It is very important work to report on the news, and I am grateful to reporters still doing that. That said I would prefer to read it in private at my own pace and without group discussion that would be disturbed by my deep sighs and other sounds thank you
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damniel spookradski @self.agency · 21/11/2024
They should be required to start an independent nonprofit foundation like Mozilla.
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Billie @billieiswriting.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
FWIW at this point I am more convinced than ever that the Tim Walz "These people are weird and they are bad neighbors who won't mind their own damned business, now let's get back to how we can make things better" would have worked and I don't know why they didn't run with it.
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Glorious Liberty @romans821.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
What if you emailed them with excitement about their interest in learning about your organization? With some links to articles that will illustrate the biblical basis of your open and affirming positions on various topics? And some information that a person joining your church would want to know?
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Glorious Liberty @romans821.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
To take a slightly different tack, if people label themselves as missionaries then I have no problem whatsoever with evangelizing *to* them. What if you assumed that they want to meet with you because they want to learn more about a more generous and welcoming and creative God?
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Dripped Out Trade Unionists @uniondrip.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Shame on the California Academy of Sciences for cutting the youth program because the kids passed out flyers supporting the Museum Workers' Union, who have been without a contract since unionizing last year.
MissionLocal graphic with a picture of a dinosaur skeleton at the cal academy of sciences with the text "Cal Academy of Sciences cuts youth program after teens show solidarity with union"
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Stormverine’s Furaha (she/her) 🕊️ @stormverinejoy.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
This irks me to no end. Do NOT talk about my people if you will reduce us only to needing us to keep things cheap! That is NOT being an ally. That’s just willing to sacrifice us for capitalism.
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Kelly Turnbull @coelasquid.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
This hit my weak point for massive damage
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Not to sound like a curmudgeon, but when I was a teenager, I took the train to go to the record store to find rare stuff. Spotify is way more convenient, but that wasn't the point. The point was to get out and to feel like you're hunting, to feel like you're living your life. I'm going to the movies, I'm going to this show. What streaming has done-it's very convenient, but it's taken the feeling of going hunting and turned it into we're all just being fed. We're all farm animals that are just being fed, and we're being fed content. You can just stay home. Just stay home. We'll just feed it to you. No wonder everyone's depressed.
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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
I know everyone is talking about Matt Gaetz but please don't miss this: Georgia fired every single person on its maternal mortality review committee. Why? They didn't like that reporters found out that the state's ban killed two women www.propublica.org/article/geor...
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Georgia Dismissed All Members of Maternal Mortality Committee After ProPublica Obtained Internal Details of Two Deaths
In a letter, the state’s public health commissioner said the action was taken because “confidential information provided to the Maternal Mortality Review Committee was inappropriately shared with outs...
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David Hansen @revdavid.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
If you aren’t listening to the poor, the suffering, and the vulnerable, you will never hear the voice of Jesus.
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Glorious Liberty @romans821.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
You know, if that was my neighbor, I would be concerned about drug use.
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Glorious Liberty @romans821.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
It's a lovely thought but I have to point out that I have been in far too many offices that would not deserve a cat.
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Constant Screaming @ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Bad press is water. Small actions are water. Small drops do "nothing" but together they become a flood. Be drops. Be water.
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Ian is the Priest-King of the Sacred Grove at Nemi @poetinbabylon.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
every time a Nazi shows up with this slogan (or a NRA gun-fetishist), just remind them what Jesus said: "If anyone comes to me and does not hate father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters—yes, even their own life—such a person cannot be my disciple."
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Lauren Gill @laurengill.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Alabama is planning to execute another man, Carey Dale Grayson, with nitrogen gas today. In allowing the execution to go forward, the courts have largely relied on the accounts of state officials — accounts that stunningly contradict what I and other media witnesses saw during Miller's execution.
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Nate's Scary Myth @natesmith.dev · 20/11/2024
English is just three Germanic languages in a French coat
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caitlin @caitlinmc.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
I think today's the last day of this offer so grab them while you can - and of course buy from the authors/donate to haymarket if you can, too. I'm a few chapters into Let This Radicalise You and it's already building up hope and strength for the better worlds we can build.
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Glorious Liberty @romans821.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
This is why it's just my husband's job to supply me with chapstick, it's easier and also I get to kiss him. 😁
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Glorious Liberty @romans821.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
I've been here for probably over a year, though I took about 6 months off due to other stuff going on in my life before this new boom. I've got lots of great folks on my follow list of you're looking.
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Lydia hates AI @revlydiaposselt.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Friends don’t let friends compare Christian nationalism to Sharia Law or the Taliban. Christians already have a great comparison: the KKK and the 3rd Reich (among others)
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
*extremely Shania Twain voice* let's go girls actionnetwork.org/petitions/no...
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Not In Our Name: Cisgender Women Against Trans Bathroom Bans
House Representative Nancy Mace and the Congressional GOP have launched a campaign of harassment not just against newly-elected trans Democrat Rep Sarah McBride of Delaware, but against all trans and ...
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Read the book Read Raising Expectations (and Raising Hell) @jphillll.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Don’t make me tal the sign meme. The sign says “if we don’t make it dangerous to be a Nazi, they’ll make it dangerous not to be “
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Dr Joanne Williams @jowilliams.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
It's a good advert for the product because we are all talking about it ofc. But the human-in-the-loop aspect of ai is very underappreciated. Would this be a good way of producing it if the usual methods were impossible? Maybe. Is cheaper or quicker, or can be done without human help? Maybe not.
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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
The real trap here is that the Republicans have made defending civil rights seem like a frivolous thing and a whole lot of liberals are falling in line. Even if it was a culture war, so what? This would be a war worth fighting. What are we even doing here, people? Get it together.
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Robert Ford @robertmford.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Here's some useful info on being an upstander: www.apa.org/pi/health-eq...
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Bystander intervention tip sheet
Tips to help you recognize a discriminatory/emergency situation and then take steps to diffuse it. Violence and aggression, whether macro or micro, perpetuate discrimination based on any characteristic, including age, ethnicity, gender, race, religion, sexual orientation, some combination of these or something else.
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Glorious Liberty @romans821.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
My question is, what music was he listening to when he wrote that?
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Glorious Liberty @romans821.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Up until now, as clergy, if I have ever had to discuss a church bathroom it was either because something was broken, or something was a truly unholy mess. I never thought I would say this, but I dearly hope that streak continues.
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Glorious Liberty @romans821.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
My first journey is completed, and no one died! (Everyone did get dysentery at some point though.) Really liking how the new version of the game did actual work on portraying Native Americans. I have a lot more to explore!
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Glorious Liberty @romans821.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Dancing to Beyonce on her phone.
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Prof. Anthea Butler @antheabutler.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
important for researchers in AfAm and Amrel religion
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News Feed @news-feed.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
@NBCNews: An analysis of precinct-level data by the @NBCNews Decision Desk shows the extent to which President-elect Trump’s wins in Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania — and VP Harris’s losses — were driven by weak turnout in heavily Democratic cities.
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Main link in OG tweet
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/weak-turnout-key-cities-hurt-harris-blue-wall-states-rcna180669?cid=sm_npd_nn_tw_ma&taid=673d0a6e25d4c0000151d3e6&utm_campaign=trueanthem&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter
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Glorious Liberty @romans821.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
I'm honestly a little disappointed that a new version of The Oregon Trail has been on Steam for 2 years now and none of you told me about it. (It's on sale.)
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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 19/11/2024
Of note: Speaker Johnson just said that his position here is “what scripture teaches.” I’d be curious to know his exact theology, but his broader point is NOT the universal Christian position. Case in point: Johnson isn’t ordained, but Rep.-elect McBride is — she’s an ordained Presbyterian elder.
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Cabel Sasser @cabel.panic.com · 19/11/2024
bluesky request. do not follow or reward quote-doomers. people who quote an article and only add something like "you have no idea how bad this is" or "it's over" or "say goodbye to everything you love". they succeed from your stress. they're bringing you down with them. stay awake; not like this.
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onion person @junlper.beer · 18/11/2024
it’s pretty funny whenever people talk about needing to have a “wider tent” for a political party they always mean people who are transphobic and not trans people
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Antifa Tech Support @antifatechsupport.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Roxanne Gay spits the fire. Time to strap on our big girl pants and Hello Kitty Doc Martens.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 19/11/2024
You can tell Republicans actually see her as a woman because they want to control her body without her consent.
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Jenna DeWitt (she/her) @jennadewitt.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
A lot of y'all don't speak up because you're afraid as a spiritual leader, you'll be expected to know and defend all the queer theology, hermeneutics, and terms immediately. But no need to reinvent the wheel; I've compiled the basics for you! Read and share: invisiblecakesociety.com/2021/06/05/q...
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Queer theology and the Bible
Is there an affirming way to read the Bible? What contributions and revelations and corrections can queer theology offer the church? What do I say to my church or pastor or neighbors who think quee…
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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
While Trump crows about his great COVID record, remember this, from the COVID Crisis Group (a bipartisan collection of scientists and public health experts), in a study published last year. Excerpt from The Death of Expertise, second edition.
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Steph Herold @stephherold.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
If you’re ready to take action to support abortion seekers, this is for you: a self-paced training from All-Options about offering support when abortion may be out of reach all-options-selfpacedpow.thinkific.com/courses/offe...
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Offering Support When Abortion May Be Out of Reach
Gain a deeper understanding of the current state of abortion care, access, and resources and develop concrete tools and skills for how to support people making pregnancy decisions when their options are limited.
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
One thing I hope we can do as Bluesky gets larger is be less tolerant of the resistance grifters who will try to hack the platform for engagement and growth without any interest in adding anything substantive or meaningful It’s a different kind of troll.
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Glorious Liberty @romans821.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
I have no idea what this is from but I love it:
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a picture of a ground squirrel with katie written on the bottom
Alt: a gopher yells, "Katie!" appears as a caption
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