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The Reconstruction Letters @thereconletters.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

I once needed treatment for what military service did to me. The system could not find me a ride. Tomorrow.

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The Reconstruction Letters @thereconletters.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

The poor pay more for transportation because the affordable option often does not exist.

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The Reconstruction Letters @thereconletters.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Next Wednesday’s letter asks a simple question: Bombs or buses?

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The Reconstruction Letters @thereconletters.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Homes should not depend on family wealth. Today’s Reconstruction Letter: Homes Are For People Why young families now need inheritance, luck, or sacrifice to buy shelter.

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Homes Are For People

Kurt Cobain lived under a bridge.

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The Reconstruction Letters @thereconletters.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Who benefits when ordinary families cannot buy homes?

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The Reconstruction Letters @thereconletters.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

A $90,000 down payment is policy, not nature.

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The Reconstruction Letters @thereconletters.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Today on glass houses and the stern warning not to throw rocks from them

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The Reconstruction Letters @thereconletters.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

No exceptions. No protection for the politically useful. The survivors have been waiting long enough.

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The Reconstruction Letters @thereconletters.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Eric Swalwell: accused to resigned in less than 7 days. Gonzalez followed within hours. That is what the floor of accountability looks like. It should not be remarkable. And yet. Now: every name in the Epstein files deserves the same process.

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The Reconstruction Letters @thereconletters.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

Orbán conceded tonight. 16 years of illiberal autocracy. 77.8% turnout. Babylon always falls. MAGA copied this playbook directly. Hungary just showed what happens when enough people decide enough is enough. Midterms are coming, America. What will we say?

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The Reconstruction Letters @thereconletters.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

Rich Logis ran a MAGA podcast. Now he runs a Leaving MAGA support group and membership is spiking. People are doing the math. It doesn’t add up. The question is what the church does when they show up at the door. The running father didn’t wait for the prodigal to get cleaned up. He just ran.

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The Reconstruction Letters @thereconletters.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

The Swalwell pile-on was instant. The silence about Tony Gonzales was deafening. That gap is not accountability. It is targeting. And while Congress performs, the Epstein survivors are still waiting. Light is a great disinfectant. New chapter Brought to the Light. See link in bio!

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The Reconstruction Letters @thereconletters.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Asking more of us is a deflection of responsibility. Not justice. They heard the performance for exactly what it was. The question that remains unanswered is not what the survivors saw. It is what the people in the photographs are going to do about it.

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The Reconstruction Letters @thereconletters.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Melania Trump called for Epstein survivors to testify in Congress. The survivors answered immediately: we already testified. We already filed reports. We already gave sworn statements. The DOJ still hasn’t complied with the Transparency Act. Pam Bondi refused to apologize to our faces.

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The Reconstruction Letters @thereconletters.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

April 9, 1945. The Reich executed Dietrich Bonhoeffer at Flossenbürg. 18 days before the camp was liberated. They thought they were ending something. They were scattering it. "This is the victory that overcomes the world — our faith." 1 John 5:4 Babylon always falls. The faithful endure.

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The Reconstruction Letters @thereconletters.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Today we remember Rwanda. And we ask ourselves the hard question: whose image are we erasing right now, today, in our language, our policies, our silence? The answer matters. Eternally

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The Reconstruction Letters @thereconletters.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

It is a theological one. And the antidote is not primarily political either. It is the daily, costly, non-negotiable work of seeing the face of God in the person the world is telling you to see as other. That work does not end. It does not get a day off. It is not optional for the follower of Christ

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The Reconstruction Letters @thereconletters.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

That is not incidental. That is the mechanism. Genesis 1:26 says every human being is made in the image of God. Not some. Not the ones who look like us. Every one. If that is true — and it is — then genocide is not primarily a political failure.

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The Reconstruction Letters @thereconletters.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

The answer is always the same: the stripping of the image. You cannot kill your neighbor while believing they carry the image of God. You have to reduce them first. Give them a label. A category. A name that replaces their face. The Tutsis were called cockroaches before they were called the dead.

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The Reconstruction Letters @thereconletters.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

April 7, 1994. The machetes started. Over the next 100 days, nearly one million Tutsi men, women, and children were killed. And the world watched. Neighbors killed neighbors. Men who shared bread. Children who played together. What breaks that? What permits it?

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The Reconstruction Letters @thereconletters.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

The recipe box has been sitting in the drawer. While the church holds another meeting about the building fund. Here is the original recipe. open.substack.com/pub/wayofrea...

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The Lost Recipe Box

There is a kitchen in a church three miles from where Olive teaches fourth grade in Newport Kentucky.

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The Reconstruction Letters @thereconletters.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Clear directions about what to cook and who to feed and what happens when you do it and what happens when you do not.

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The Reconstruction Letters @thereconletters.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

The church was handed a recipe box. Not metaphorically. Literally. Specific instructions from the One who fed five thousand people with five loaves and two fish and had twelve baskets left over.

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The Reconstruction Letters @thereconletters.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

That the stone in their hands right now, the one they had already decided did not fit their structure, was the cornerstone the whole thing depended on.

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The Reconstruction Letters @thereconletters.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

He was not speaking abstractly about a theological principle. He was standing in front of the builders and telling them plainly that they were the ones doing the rejecting.

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The Reconstruction Letters @thereconletters.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

And Jesus quoted Psalm 118 directly at them. The stone which the builders rejected, the same is become the head of the corner. The audacity of that moment is staggering when you sit with it fully.

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The Reconstruction Letters @thereconletters.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

He said it in the temple courts. Standing in the house of the builders. Surrounded by the chief priests and the Pharisees and the scribes. The most credentialed religious establishment in Judaism looking at Him with the particular contempt that expertise reserves for what it cannot categorize.

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The Reconstruction Letters @thereconletters.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

This is our backyard. These are our tax dollars. These are the strangers Jesus said to welcome. Wear yellow. Show up. The link to the full dispatch and the Commissioner meeting schedule is in the post. The light is on. Don’t let it go out.

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The Reconstruction Letters @thereconletters.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

The Lexington Herald-Leader just confirmed what 257 of us in Boone County have been saying for months. ICE detention here has more than doubled. 72% of those held have no criminal charges. And our Jailer won’t come to Commissioner meetings to answer for it.

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The Reconstruction Letters @thereconletters.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

If you're in your own Friday right now, know this: You don't have to rush to Sunday. The grief is allowed. The darkness is allowed. That's the most honest place to be. Read more: open.substack.com/pub/wayofrea...

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Friday's Cost

Most people who dread Friday the 13th could not tell you why.

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The Reconstruction Letters @thereconletters.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Sometimes betrayal comes with a knife. Sometimes with silence. Sometimes with a letter. Sometimes from the ones closest to you at the table.

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The Reconstruction Letters @thereconletters.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

The marriage that ends while you're deployed. The nation that tells you you're fighting for freedom, then presents the invoice anyway. Corporate profits, strategic resources. The confessional where you reach for grace and receive judgment instead.

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The Reconstruction Letters @thereconletters.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Power feels threatened. Power eliminates what it cannot control. Betrayal dressed as loyalty. But there is also a personal pattern:

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The Reconstruction Letters @thereconletters.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

There's a pattern in history that most people feel but never name. Friday the 13th. The Ides of March. The crucifixion. The Knights Templar arrested in a single night. Julius Caesar with twenty-three knives in his back.

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Shane Claiborne @shaneclaiborne.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

Today our brother Dr. John Perkins passed on to the other side. He was a dear friend for over 20 years. Mentor. We wrote a book together. Preached together. Laughed and cried together. He is a gem of a human being. My heart goes out to his beloved Vera Mae and the whole Perkins family.

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The Reconstruction Letters @thereconletters.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

Elijah already came. They missed him. God is moving right now. The question is whether we are paying attention. New piece up at Way of Realignment.

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The Reconstruction Letters @thereconletters.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Abortion. LGBTQ. Culture wars. Man's mandate dressed in God's name. Meanwhile the least of these are still waiting. Jesus was clear about His priorities. The question is whether we are willing to follow them

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The Reconstruction Letters @thereconletters.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

A lyric found me on the road. Nipsey Hussle. Lent. Judas. Thirty pieces of silver. And the question that won't let go. What are you unwilling to trade? See link in bio and below

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The Reconstruction Letters @thereconletters.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

If pastors are saying war fulfills prophecy, we need discernment. Jesus warned of wars, but told us not to be alarmed. The Kingdom does not come through missiles or messianic politics. Christ alone is Lord. God’s name is not a war drum.

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