Santi Elijah Holley

Thank you, I appreciate that!

also ICYMI:

@santiholley.bsky.social wrote a really fun piece about AI theophanies for @religiondispatches.org this week

religiondispatches.org/are-you-ther...

“What Feeds Your Soul”: D’Angelo’s Sacred Secular Ministry In 1992, an 18-year-old preacher’s son sat at an upright piano before the congregation of Refuge Assembly of Yahweh—a Pentecostal church outside Richmond, his family’s church. Sporting an ill-fitting ...

loving this gorgeous eulogy for D'Angelo by @santiholley.bsky.social for @religiondispatches.org

religiondispatches.org/what-feeds-y...

This is the future liberals want

13. #BlackAugust is a time of reflection, particularly to those who are political prisoners, the forgotten, the exiled (like Assata), and those who resist as a whole.

Here's my booklist for Black August.

Free All political prisoners ✊🏾

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Thank you including my book An Amerikan Family in this great booklist ✊🏾📚

I Don’t Know if I Believe in God, but I Believe in Gospel Music

I began writing an essay about my love of classic Black gospel music, but it turned into something much more.

Published today by @nytimes.com

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/22/m...

An app that warns of ICE raids — inspired by the memory of the Holocaust Joshua Aarons created the the ICEBlock app to counter ICE immigration raids, warning that the detentions and arrests echoe Nazi Germany

forward.com/opinion/7540...

We're still fighting for migrants' dignity in Los Angeles (RNS) — The deepest tenets of our religions move us to stand with families, congregants and neighbors who are facing the cruelty and scapegoating by the administration.

OPINION: The ideas behind comprehensive immigration reform are not new. What is new is the Trump administration's aggressive and cruel tactics, disregard for immigrants’ rights and due process, and the involvement of the military.
religionnews.com/2025/07/02/w...

Get those disgusting animals off those horses

Sly Stone And Brian Wilson, Pop Visionaries Who Retreated From A Cruel World The music icons, both dead this week at age 82, were troubled architects of music's future.

I wrote about Sly Stone and Brian Wilson, genuine visionaries who gave us so much, suffered so much, and ultimately retreated from a cruel world not quite ready for the musical visions they summoned.

Down by Law (1986)? Or does that predate you?

Since George Floyd’s Murder, Police Killings Keep Rising, Not Falling

"Last year, the police killed at least 1,226 people, an 18 percent increase over 2019, the year before Mr. Floyd was killed."

www.nytimes.com/2025/05/24/u...

This guy turns 2 years old today and I love him just as much as when he first came into the world

Willie Nelson is still chasing an idealized country in a divided America Nelson's new album, Oh What a Beautiful World, his 77th solo album and 154th overall, doesn't break from convention, but that's exactly why it feels so necessary right now.

I wrote about the Red Headed Stranger for @npr.org

www.npr.org/2025/05/01/g...

This was such a good read and I wanted more of this interview! Love the inclusion of a reading list as well.

Give Ryan Coogler all the awards already

And quoting Marx??

And voted second place winner for worst parking in Los Angeles!

Don't call the police.

"Fairies Wear Boots" has entered the chat

Finally we are freed from the tyranny of low flow

Maintaining Acceptable Water Pressure in Showerheads By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1.  Purpose.

With everything happening in the news so quickly, we must not overlook this equally important presidential directive

www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

(We're all gonna die)

It's now beginning to make sense why Trump kicked off his presidential campaign in Waco

On one hand, it feels wrong for Bruce Springsteen to be a billionaire. On the other hand, if anyone deserves a billion dollars, it's Bruce Springsteen

Are we liberated yet?

Someone please explain this Greenland thing to me

It's a wrap, yall

President Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social I hope you like nice mushrooms