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Signing off of social media for Lent isn’t terribly original. But especially this year, I find myself desperately needing the holy silence of Lent.
I’ll look forward to reconnecting at Easter, when we celebrate the Resurrection of Christ and remember that God is always bringing life out of death.
BREAKING: The Department of Education has ended its directive that attempted to restrict diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts in schools nationwide.
This is a victory for academic freedom and education equity.
Good news. The FDA will review Moderna’s mRNA flu shot, mRNA-1010, after initially refusing the application. If approved, the vaccine could be available for the 2026-27 flu season.
A dark, star-speckled background displays the full text of Malcolm Guite’s poem “Ash Wednesday” in centered white serif type. The poem reads: “Ash Wednesday. Receive this cross of ash upon your brow / Brought from the burning of Palm Sunday's cross; / The forests of the world are burning now / And you make late repentance for the loss. / But all the trees of God would clap their hands, / The very stones themselves would shout and sing, / If you could covenant to love these lands / And recognize in Christ their lord and king. / He sees the slow destruction of those trees, / He weeps to see the ancient places burn, / And still you make what purchases you please / And still to dust and ashes you return. / But Hope could rise from ashes even now / Beginning with this sign upon your brow.” The author’s name, Malcolm Guite, appears at the bottom.
"Ash Wednesday" by Malcolm Guite
#ashwednesday #malcolmguite #poetry
The lesson clear: live well we must—
Remember, man, that you are dust…
—Ben Broussard, "Memento, Homo…"
#mardigras #shrovetuesday #poetry
One glance, we know—deep down, at least—
Our bones will soon be vermin’s feast.
Once workers clean the streets of trash
Our foreheads will get marked with ash.
Yet like those in their tombs so near,
God knows our hearts: are we sincere?
And gone the crowds, the krewes, the cheers.
Their stories now encased in stone
Will fade away, untold, unknown.
How many passed, their souls prepared?
How many more cursed and despaired?
These sprawling silent cities tell
To all who pass: “You’ll soon here dwell.”
These well-laid monuments and graves
Are resting place for knights and knaves.
The proud, the weak, profane and solemn
Are hid beneath arch, vault and column.
Their precious wealth and worldly deeds
Are now like cheap doubloons and beads.
All songs have faded from their ears
If we should go to New Orleans
We’ll see our share of raucous scenes
At Mardi Gras soirees and balls
With kings and queens in grandiose halls.
We’ll see the floats sail down Saint Charles
Then claim a berth as traffic snarls.
Inching along…what’s that ahead?
Ah, yes… cities of the dead.
A woman holds a baby and a sign that reads "My Mom is a DREAMER" near the U.S. Capitol. The scene conveys determination and hope.
ICYMI: In 24 years, only 77 “illegals” have voted — representing 0.00000764% of total votes…
And the research comes from the far-right Heritage Foundation
electionfraud.heritage.org/search?combi...
From their statement: “Sacred Scripture consistently reminds us of our obligation toward the vulnerable and displaced. Jesus himself identifies with the migrant when he says, ‘I was a stranger and you welcomed me.’”
My persistent temptation in writing sermons is to cram every single theological insight I can think of into a sermon.
I need to spread them out! 😅
The city of Minneapolis and its people have been formally nominated for the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize.
This #CupOfJoe comes in the form of an action.
Sign this petition to send to the Norwegian Nobel Committee. actionnetwork.org/petitions/su...
#ValentinesDayResistance
A humorous pink Valentine’s Day card featuring Grand Moff Tarkin from Star Wars. At the top, bold text reads: “Roses are red, violets are blue.” Below it is a quote attributed to Tarkin: “You think this pilot acted alone? He was dispatched from the installation on Eadu.” At the bottom are blank “To:” and “From:” fields.
Happy Valentine's Day! #valentinesday #starwars
The American right does not defend slavery because progressives say it was bad. They defend slavery because racial hierarchy has been an important and increasingly explicit component of their ideology for 70 years. Read a fucking book.
The removal of the Pride flag at the Stonewall National Monument is not just symbolic — it is an attempt to obscure sacred history...
youtube.com/shorts/YH4eZ...
@tastinghistory.bsky.social #shrovetuesday #pancakes
You can't... repeal... a scientific finding. At that point it's just called lying about it.
An illustrated “Tree of Life” shows a branching evolutionary diagram filled with diverse organisms—birds, mammals, reptiles, amphibians, insects, plants, fungi, jellyfish, octopus, and microscopic life—arranged along the branches. At the base, a small figure of Charles Darwin stands dressed like a stage magician, holding a magician’s top hat as if presenting the tree. A dark red curtain forms the background. A quote at the bottom reads: “Endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.” — Charles Darwin.
Happy Darwin Day! #DarwinDay
Watching MAGA Christians use Romans 13:7 to demand absolute loyalty to Trump, then cry “persecution” whenever a law or policy doesn’t go their way, reveals how selectively Scripture can be applied when it serves power instead of faithfulness to the God revealed in Christ.
And exactly like you said, if a skeptic came to church, they were never healed, and we explained it away with "well, they weren't open to God's healing" and "didn't have faith."
Faith healers had "power" because the believers in the crowd *gave* them power in their own minds.
Good comparison!
One of my "jobs" in the church at the time was to record all of the "healings." Every single one was the sort of subjective "my back doesn't hurt as much anymore." The sort of non-verifiable stuff. Really common were "eyesight" healings that ALWAYS magically reversed the next day.
I'm so sorry that happened to you 🫂. "I guess you didn't have enough faith," or "you must have sin in your life," were such common, harmful ways to explain away the fact that healings didn't actually happen. It caused so much unnecessary shame.
Sometimes I think about all the religious gaslighting strategies "faith healers" used in my charismatic church growing up to explain why "miraculous healings" didn't work.
One of my favorites was, "the healing is on the way; you just need to keep having faith until it gets here!"
(It never did)
Okay, TradCaths, let me get this straight: you want a hemisphere-wide Catholic empire, but you don’t want to have to hear people speak Spanish?
