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Daniel Smith-Christopher

@dchristo

Quaker, left-Christian, Anabaptist influenced, Tolstoy fan, socialist sympathies, Hebrew Bible professor. Blues fan. Oregonian.

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Portlanders! Join us at Reedwood Friends Meeting (2901 SE Steele) on Nov 23, 9:30am, I’ll be preaching - but the real treat that day will be Dr Irina Gordeeva at 2:00 who is a Russian scholar interested in Tolstoy and modern Russian dissidents! All are welcome: we are not a conservative church.

30.10.2025 23:35 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Anyone in the Portland (Or) area are warmly invited to come and consider AI from a progressive Christian (Quaker) perspective…Mar 05, Wednesday evening. I’ve been reading on “socialist AI” and the ideas are interesting, to say the least. Blessings to all,
Daniel

19.02.2025 18:10 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

How can we possibly continue to believe that the growing wealth of the few - used to purchase political power and impoverish workers - is somehow morally acceptable? You don’t have to be a socialist to read your Bible:

Isaiah 5:8
Micah 2:1-2
James 5:1-4

The Bible is no friend of oppressive greed.

16.01.2025 23:26 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

New years greetings to all. This will be a year of vigilance against right-wing excesses - especially by those who invoke the name of Jesus to justify hatred and repression. Among my favorite sayings of Jesus - to be as ‘peaceful as a dove, but as clever as a serpent.’ Nonviolence is not naïveté.

02.01.2025 00:22 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

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