Belonging to Become @slunited.bsky.social · 16/07/2025We're a nanny state too. We just have a more wicked nanny. 000
Belonging to Become @slunited.bsky.social · 01/06/2025Will you ignore Jesus and the scriptures just because they don't sound like Republican talking points? 000
Belonging to Become @slunited.bsky.social · 29/04/2025These are times when we can see how the Humanities have so much practical value. 000
Belonging to Become @slunited.bsky.social · 28/04/2025"Our resources are not just for us or for our loved ones. Our duty, as Calvin says, is not “fully discharged” if we only attend to our own people. As Jesus taught us, the category of neighbor is far more expansive than we assume." www.plough.com/en/topics/ju...plough.com“If I Go Back, They Will Kill Me”What helping refugees in Greece and Nevada taught me about generosity and hospitality. 031
Belonging to Become @slunited.bsky.social · 20/04/2025Eternal life has always been. As long as God has existed. We're invited in. It's our inheritance if we want it. 000
Belonging to Become @slunited.bsky.social · 19/04/2025With falsehoods coming at us in torrents, I'm glad for the courts and their adversarial process for uncovering facts, evidence, and truth. #dueprocess 000
Belonging to Become @slunited.bsky.social · 19/04/2025My work as a faith formation pastor has been grounded in 1 John 1:3: That which we have seen and heard we proclaim also to you, so that you may have fellowship with us; and our fellowship is with the Father and with his Son Jesus Christ. 100
Belonging to Become @slunited.bsky.social · 19/04/2025I was hungry; you gave me something to eat. I was thirsty; you gave me a drink. I was a stranger; you invited me in. I needed clothes; you clothed me. I was sick; you took care of me. I was in prison; you came to visit me. Whatever you did for the least of these, you did for me. 010
Belonging to Become @slunited.bsky.social · 18/04/2025"Teacher, we know that you are a man of integrity. You aren’t swayed by others, because you pay no attention to who they are; but you teach the way of God in accordance with the truth." (Mark 12:14) 000
Belonging to Become @slunited.bsky.social · 14/04/2025It's troubling that the American people are more bothered by tariffs than disappearing people without due process. We should be bothered by the tariffs. We should be outraged by the dehumanization. 021
Belonging to Become @slunited.bsky.social · 13/04/2025"that which we have seen and heard we proclaim also to you, so that you may have fellowship with us; and our fellowship is with the Father and with his Son Jesus Christ." ⎯ 1 John 1:3 000
Belonging to Become @slunited.bsky.social · 13/04/2025The power of re-reading. www.plough.com/en/topics/cu...plough.comRereading Favorite BooksGrace Hamman on the joy and value of rereading favorite books. 042
Belonging to Become @slunited.bsky.social · 13/04/2025Like in the 1960s and 70s, we need artists to help us find a heart and soul. 010
Belonging to Become @slunited.bsky.social · 08/04/2025We are watching trust in America evaporate. Trust is a commodity that's way more valuable than silver or gold. Just look at the markets. Character matters. 010
Belonging to Become @slunited.bsky.social · 05/04/2025@derwinlgray.bsky.social Really appreciated your talk today at Hopewords! Thanks for coming! 121
Belonging to Become @slunited.bsky.social · 05/04/2025NC neighbors: this is really important. Left or Right, make sure your vote counts. Search your name on this site. thegriffinlist.comthegriffinlist.comThe Griffin ListA list of 60,273 North Carolina voters – these are registered voters who showed ID to early vote in the November 2024 election – whose votes Jefferson Griffin wants to not be counted. ... 010
Belonging to Become @slunited.bsky.social · 04/04/2025The emperor's new clothes won't be coming from Shein. 000
Reposted by Belonging to BecomeEmily Polis Gibson @barnstormingblog.bsky.social · 02/04/2025Tonight provided sanctuary from the storms in the headlines 011
Belonging to Become @slunited.bsky.social · 02/04/2025Reading again about the Japanese internment camps during WWII. Much of what's happening today will be another shame our nation will have to bear in the future. 000
Belonging to Become @slunited.bsky.social · 30/03/2025For those with eyes to see and ears to hear, a warning from my hometown. History rhymes. www.pbs.org/wgbh/america...pbs.orgAmerican Coup: Wilmington 1898 | American Experience | PBSThe little-known story of a deadly 1898 race massacre and coup d’état in Wilmington, North Carolina, when white supremacists overthrew the multi-racial government of state’s largest city through a cam... 000
Reposted by Belonging to BecomeBozLaw @bozlaw.bsky.social · 25/03/2025“Jesus is saying that when we observe suffering, the question isn’t who is to blame, but how can we help. We’ve all seen Christian leaders assign blame upon victims. But blame is what the satan does. Followers of Jesus are called to co-suffering love, not theological stone throwing.” [B. Zahnd] 0123
Belonging to Become @slunited.bsky.social · 13/03/2025MAGA legislation: "A day is not a day." Pretty much sums up where we are right now. 000
Belonging to Become @slunited.bsky.social · 02/03/2025The way of Jesus is love. The gift of the self. Self-sacrificing and others-oriented. There is no counter balance. No tension to manage. It's an all-in proposition. And it looks like 1 Corinthians 13 and Galatians 5. 000
Belonging to Become @slunited.bsky.social · 21/02/2025We're not called to change the world, though that might happen. We are called to love the world, to be Good in the world and for the world. What happened? 000
Belonging to Become @slunited.bsky.social · 07/02/2025I write about Christ and his kingdom. People like to say it's theoretical. Aspirational, yes. But I mean it to be practical. 000
Belonging to Become @slunited.bsky.social · 07/02/2025When he saw the crowds, he had compassion on them, because they were harassed and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd. 100
Belonging to Become @slunited.bsky.social · 07/02/2025Elijah: Am I the only one left? God: There are seven thousand in Israel—all whose knees have not bowed down to Baal and whose mouths have not kissed him. You, who hold Jesus front and center, encourage one another. You're not alone. 020
Belonging to Become @slunited.bsky.social · 03/02/2025But now that you know God—or rather are known by God—how is it that you are turning back to those weak and miserable forces? Do you wish to be enslaved by them all over again? —Galatians 4:9 010
Reposted by Belonging to BecomeRich Stearns @richstearns.bsky.social · 31/01/2025Suspending all US foreign assistance and most humanitarian aid is a reckless decision. NGOs will need to fire grant supported staff, life saving services will be suspended and it’s likely that many will suffer and die. These grants were ‘promises’ made by Congress to suffering communities. Reckless! 085
Reposted by Belonging to BecomeBrian Zahnd @brianzahnd.bsky.social · 25/01/2025Jesus is the fulfillment of Scripture, and all Scripture is fulfilled in Christ. This may sound like a simple statement, but it’s actually an essential foundation for good theology. 9955
Reposted by Belonging to BecomeAnne Lamott @annelamott.bsky.social · 25/01/2025Love is not just an idea. Love is something alive, living, personal, and true, the creating and nourishing power within life. It is patient, free to all, and it is medicine and food. 541656
Reposted by Belonging to BecomeAnn Ahrens 🇺🇦 @aahrens430.bsky.social · 25/01/2025I woke up thinking about this poem. Seems appropriate given the relentless grim news of this past week. 2244
Belonging to Become @slunited.bsky.social · 25/01/2025The public portrayals of Christianity seem so unlike the mind of Christ. This is the very definition of taking the Lord's name in vain. 010
Belonging to Become @slunited.bsky.social · 24/01/2025Hey, Christian Nationalism, take a good look at Hindu Nationalism. Love compels us to take a different course. www.plough.com/en/topics/ju...plough.comReligious Persecution in the World’s Largest DemocracyAttacks on churches and mosques are only one symptom of the Hindu nationalism gripping India. 020
Reposted by Belonging to BecomeBrian Zahnd @brianzahnd.bsky.social · 21/01/2025Can you feel the falseness? 14610
Reposted by Belonging to BecomeRich Stearns @richstearns.bsky.social · 12/01/2025More from Richard Rohr: “Remember this: There are always two worlds. The world as it operates is power; the world as it should be is love.” This is why political power is never the answer. 0145
Reposted by Belonging to BecomeEmily Polis Gibson @barnstormingblog.bsky.social · 10/01/2025January afternoon in Whatcom County 011
Belonging to Become @slunited.bsky.social · 05/01/2025From Colossians 1 we know we have been rescued and resettled. Spiritual formation is the process of embedding the culture (values and patterns) of God's kingdom in the life of the believer and the church so that this other Way becomes more normal, less foreign. 010
Belonging to Become @slunited.bsky.social · 05/01/2025Jesus says eternal life is about knowing God. It is more of a quality of life than a quantity. It's an eternal kind of life that we inherit from the Trinity. 010
Belonging to Become @slunited.bsky.social · 04/01/2025Formation Loop … to share in a companionship of the saints, with the Father and the Son, where Kingdom life is becoming more normal, less foreign; working for good in the world, and recruiting one more disciple of Jesus … (repeat) 000
Belonging to Become @slunited.bsky.social · 29/12/2024Public and institutional morality seems very flexible right now. Or, if Money-Power is god, maybe it's not flexible at all. 000
Belonging to Become @slunited.bsky.social · 29/12/2024For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face; now I know in part, but then I will know fully, just as I also have been fully known. But now faith, hope, and love remain, these three; but the greatest of these is love. 010
Reposted by Belonging to BecomeEmily Polis Gibson @barnstormingblog.bsky.social · 28/12/2024barnstorming.blog/2024/12/28/t...barnstorming.blogThe True Dwelling of the HolyHave you ever noticed how much of Christ’s life was spent in doing kind things – in merely doing kind things? … he spent a great proportion of his time simply in making people happy, in d… 011
Belonging to Become @slunited.bsky.social · 28/12/2024On the fourth day of Christmas, I replaced our toilets. 000
Reposted by Belonging to BecomeDavid W. Swanson @davidwswanson.bsky.social · 26/12/2024"Because of His visitation, we may no longer desire God as if He were lacking: our redemption is no longer a question of pursuit but of surrender to Him who is always & everywhere present. Therefore at every moment we pray that, following Him, we may depart from our anxiety into His peace." -Auden 141
Reposted by Belonging to BecomeEmily Polis Gibson @barnstormingblog.bsky.social · 20/12/2024Let love be heard barnstorming.blog/2024/12/20/w...barnstorming.blogWe Are No Longer Alone: Love Calls Us By NameLucy woke out of the deepest sleep you can imagine, with the feeling that the voice she liked best in the world had been calling her name.― C.S. Lewis from Prince Caspian photo by Josh Scholten He … 011
Reposted by Belonging to BecomeEmily Polis Gibson @barnstormingblog.bsky.social · 25/12/2024Come kneel alongside barnstorming.blog/2024/12/24/c...barnstorming.blogCome Kneel Beside ThemChristmas Eve, and twelve of the clock.“Now they are all on their knees,”An elder said as we sat in a flockBy the embers in hearthside ease.We pictured the meek mild creatures whereThey dwelt in th… 011
Belonging to Become @slunited.bsky.social · 25/12/2024Today we're reminded that God is with us. Let's surrender our other loves and be with him. 000
