Persis 🙏🕊️📚🧶 @thecuriousreader.bsky.social · 01/10/2026This raises the ? of why do people give up agency, sense of self, and discernment to influencers who shouldn’t be telling people how to live their lives. I think @kkdumez.bsky.social is right in connecting the dots to Robert Lifton’s work on totalism. It’s a system that demands total obedience. 020
Persis 🙏🕊️📚🧶 @thecuriousreader.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Yes. On the next page 👇 “Inerrancy may not have been able to grant evangelicals the unadulterated interpretive and epistemic certainty its proponents desired, but in the end, it gave them something just as powerful. It gave them a weapon.” That last sentence… 010
Persis 🙏🕊️📚🧶 @thecuriousreader.bsky.social · 29/09/2026“Now, forty years later, we might be forgiven for asking, What if we do not come to the same conclusion? What if our interpretation differs from that of these 250 predominately white, American men?” “Desiring Certainty: The Making of Biblical Inerrancy” Jason A. Hentschel, pgs. 147, 149-150 121
Reposted by Persis 🙏🕊️📚🧶TheValuesVoter @thevaluesvoter.bsky.social · 26/09/2026To the “Christians” who condone every evil and sadistic action taken against immigrants because “they’re illegal,” here is what the Bible says about how foreigners should and should not be treated. You know, the Book you claim to believe in. 69337
Persis 🙏🕊️📚🧶 @thecuriousreader.bsky.social · 26/09/2026The only one I’ve watched is Downton Abbey and just the first few seasons. 020
Persis 🙏🕊️📚🧶 @thecuriousreader.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Book mail is the best mail @sarahstankorb.bsky.social @broadleafbooks.bsky.social 1131
Reposted by Persis 🙏🕊️📚🧶🌬Breeze @cool-summer-breeze.bsky.social · 24/09/2026This is the Stolen Neighbors Quilt. Each of the 11,000 squares represents a person taken by ICE in Minnesota. 122122445209
Persis 🙏🕊️📚🧶 @thecuriousreader.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Of all the flavors in the world one could choose, why? (Poutine would have been more Canadian, but just as weird.) 010
Reposted by Persis 🙏🕊️📚🧶taenia @taenia.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Goooooood morning, pika fans It's September, and you know what that means! That's right, we are Making Hay, we are Perching On Rocks, we are Squeaking 5338109
Reposted by Persis 🙏🕊️📚🧶Rev. Chris Lilley 🇵🇸🇺🇦 @frostinthepines.bsky.social · 25/09/2026"Time and again, Christianity has been appropriated by empires as a powerful tool for subjugating others... They have pillaged and profaned Jesus... merging the kingdom of God with the kingdoms of this world, and blending Christianity with tyranny" (p. 14). (2/5) #DefyingTyrants 111
Persis 🙏🕊️📚🧶 @thecuriousreader.bsky.social · 25/09/2026From page 63 in “Live Laugh Love” re: Frank Buchman founder of the Oxford Group and Moral Re-Armament. There is nothing new under the sun. #livelaughlovebook #historyrhymes @kkdumez.bsky.social 010
Reposted by Persis 🙏🕊️📚🧶Robert G. Callahan, II - author / attorney @rcallahanwaco.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Sometimes maturity looks like realizing the person you thought was overreacting was actually responding to something you had the privilege of never noticing. 081
Reposted by Persis 🙏🕊️📚🧶Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 22/09/2026Tyrannosaurus xkcd.com/3300/ 92121542103
Reposted by Persis 🙏🕊️📚🧶Robert G. Callahan, II - author / attorney @rcallahanwaco.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Before asking whether someone's response to injustice is appropriate, perhaps we should ask what they had to endure to become angry in the first place. 161
Reposted by Persis 🙏🕊️📚🧶Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Spielberg is demonstrating he understands airborne infection and how to mitigate it! He’s outside at the opening of the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art and he’s wearing a KN95! A good respirator protects you and those around you. Covid is not over and a mask is a great way to stay healthy. 502649561
Reposted by Persis 🙏🕊️📚🧶Joey Cochran @jtcochran.bsky.social · 19/09/2026An evangelical cultural apologetic cannot be built on the anecdotal fallacy. Your exceptional personal experience does not give you cause to deny and dismiss the experience of others or the overwhelming evidence of history. 162
Persis 🙏🕊️📚🧶 @thecuriousreader.bsky.social · 18/09/2026I recall the pressure to attend meetings even if you were feeling ill with the promise that if you showed up, God would heal. No mention of God needing to heal everyone you infected. 🤦♀️ 110
Persis 🙏🕊️📚🧶 @thecuriousreader.bsky.social · 18/09/2026I can relate. Becoming a “Christian” -> transcending being human with human needs. 110
Persis 🙏🕊️📚🧶 @thecuriousreader.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Why is “Well, that isn’t/wasn’t *my* experience…” a gut response when hearing/reading something uncomfortable? Why shouldn’t someone else’s experience be different? After all, it’s a different person. It’s only a problem if one experience is normative and the rest aren’t. 030
Reposted by Persis 🙏🕊️📚🧶Will Quinn @willquinnart.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Daily bunny no.3444 practiced their scales 72430506
Reposted by Persis 🙏🕊️📚🧶The Sacred Slope @thesacredslope.bsky.social · 15/09/2026As a cultural historian, I’m also interested in power. Power dynamics.” - Dr. Kristin Kobes Du Mez @kkdumez.bsky.social, author of Live Laugh Love: The Secret History of White Christian Women and the World They Made - out 9/15! Convo out now youtu.be/mb5j_wGpMbY?... #christianity #deconstruction 152
Reposted by Persis 🙏🕊️📚🧶Robert G. Callahan, II - author / attorney @rcallahanwaco.bsky.social · 16/09/2026We should be far less interested in whether Christianity is losing influence and far more interested in why some believed following Jesus required so much influence in the first place. 062
Persis 🙏🕊️📚🧶 @thecuriousreader.bsky.social · 15/09/2026I need to get the audiobook too so I can listen on my commute. 100
Persis 🙏🕊️📚🧶 @thecuriousreader.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Book mail is the best mail! #livelaughlovebook @kkdumez.bsky.social @matthewdtaylor.bsky.social 1172
Persis 🙏🕊️📚🧶 @thecuriousreader.bsky.social · 13/09/2026I'm reminded of the line from the "Wizard of Oz" - "Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain." But you keep pulling back the curtain and exposing the system that's trying to hide. Keep up the good work! 040
Persis 🙏🕊️📚🧶 @thecuriousreader.bsky.social · 12/09/2026I am so sorry you had to go through that. 🫂 010
Reposted by Persis 🙏🕊️📚🧶Hannah ☕📚🧶😻😷🍂🍁 @ruhamah07.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Please read all 8 posts: 011
Persis 🙏🕊️📚🧶 @thecuriousreader.bsky.social · 08/09/2026This is going to be good. 👇 And probably make waves. Also good. 132
Persis 🙏🕊️📚🧶 @thecuriousreader.bsky.social · 07/09/2026#ShowMeYourKnits - What's on your needles? Pattern: Malabrigo Neck Thingie Yarn: Brediculous worsted in Winter Cottage It’s a quick knit. I cast on yesterday afternoon and hope to finish today. 🧶 41014
Reposted by Persis 🙏🕊️📚🧶Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Covid is a mass disabling event. Just because you had it and were “fine” doesn’t mean there isn’t silent damage in your body. Multiple infections increase the risk of long covid … you never know which one could leave you disabled. This is why we mask. Why we clean the air. 236494
Reposted by Persis 🙏🕊️📚🧶Cascade Yarns® @cascadeyarns.bsky.social · 04/09/2026🦝Jimothy the Legendary Raccoon is out in the wild today with 𝐒𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐧𝐨𝐧 𝐃𝐮𝐧𝐛𝐚𝐛𝐢𝐧 at 𝐒𝐞𝐚 𝐁𝐫𝐞'𝐬 𝐘𝐚𝐫𝐧 in Coupeville, WA! Stop by this cozy LYS to explore an amazing selection of Cascade Yarns. ✨ 🧶𝐏𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐧: buff.ly/UdsOfQF #cascadeyarns #pnw #yarn 031
Reposted by Persis 🙏🕊️📚🧶Michelle says: Be kind. Always. ❤️ @snarkysillysad.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Brown bear floating along in Bristol Bay Alaska: #AGoodPlace Source: www.reddit.com/r/NatureIsFu... 265105301582
Reposted by Persis 🙏🕊️📚🧶Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 04/09/2026There is a pandemic happening in the school districts but it’s not that they’re secretly transitioning your kids. It’s Covid. It’s not gone. It’s not mild. Kids aren’t immune. Long Covid recently surpassed asthma to become the most common childhood illness. Clean air in schools now. 219549
Persis 🙏🕊️📚🧶 @thecuriousreader.bsky.social · 01/09/2026I took a box of books to a local used bookstore. I was browsing and saw this on the shelf. I was tempted to buy it to be in good company with Emma M. Lion and Islington, Duke of. 🙂 120
Reposted by Persis 🙏🕊️📚🧶Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 28/08/2026I really feel like it should be bigger news that fibreglass is in IV saline bags in the US. This isn’t a situation where you might get a little sick. Fibreglass going directly into your veins will kill you. IV saline is used for almost every medical procedure. This is unconscionable:fda.govBaxter Issues Voluntary Nationwide Recall for Two Lots of 0.9% Sodium Chloride Injection Due to Potential Presence of Particulate MatterFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – AUG. 25, 2026 – DEERFIELD, Ill., Baxter International Inc. (NYSE:BAX) is voluntarily recalling two lots of 0.9% Sodium Chloride Injection due to the potential presence of parti... 6420991416
Persis 🙏🕊️📚🧶 @thecuriousreader.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Have not read but in my TBR stack - Binding the Strong Man by Ched Myers. It’s a political commentary though. 100
Reposted by Persis 🙏🕊️📚🧶Massimo (mirror) @rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social · 27/08/2026The most innocent thing you'll see today. Original post 382125232253
Reposted by Persis 🙏🕊️📚🧶Sarah M @lore.house · 25/08/2026Be the kind of person that when you die, people crash the servers trying to donate to your library project to give kids books. 04615
Reposted by Persis 🙏🕊️📚🧶Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Dolly Parton's Imagination Library gifted more than 332,000,000 books since it was first created 31 years ago. 219239475929
Persis 🙏🕊️📚🧶 @thecuriousreader.bsky.social · 24/08/2026That looks very interesting. Adding it to the TBR list. 010
Persis 🙏🕊️📚🧶 @thecuriousreader.bsky.social · 24/08/2026Merino is soft and squishy. Maybe a blend of wool and synthetic? 110
Reposted by Persis 🙏🕊️📚🧶Rae Radford @raeradford.bsky.social · 22/08/2026See, you don't need to rush... #BookSky 752912519
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