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Assured of things hoped for, convicted of things not seen. United Methodist pastor, theologian of Yinzer liberation. Editor @YetAlive_mag .
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"Haha who needs helmets? It's called Darwinism, survival of the fittest, natural selection"
Well I admit it does seem like the thickest-skulled of prior generations are indeed alive and tweeting
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Interesting. What's Trump's church like?
Walz’s church, Pilgrim Lutheran, appears to be fully reconciled to the sexual revolution.
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Join a union or political org or something.
You can't gather people, unless they're gathering around something larger than individually wanting to better themselves.
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@Gisele_ShoeSmug
Yes. I think the cultural swing toward overprotection is related and problematic, but doesn't negate protecting your kid's brain from the pavement.
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@VentusArgentum
Sure. Much fewer of them.
It is hard for me to accept that improvements in safety equipment led to bigger egos, and if a consequence for a child's action is dying or becoming disabled for life, I am glad that consequence has been greatly lessened.
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Anyway the TikTok goes on to say like "what if there was a place we could watch a talk about reaching your goals or personal finance or something" and you could show up weekly or once a month or holidays and build community but that's... not the stuff on which community is built!
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@stark__tara
I hit the road HARD off a scooter as a kid. Broke a tooth off, cut my lips up a good bit...after just arguing with my dad about wearing a helmet. If I HADN'T had a helmet on I do wonder whether I'd have needed my face put back together.
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I promise I've heard of Unitarian Universalism and having friends, folx
One of those things is literally just church with a broader concept of religion, the other is something that is wonderful but does not serve the same social niche as a religious institution
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I will also say that I've handled requests like this three times in the last week alone. They are very rarely the simple, straightforward payment of a critical bill, and often the kind of complex ongoing need that really ought to belong to a caseworker.
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"hey pastor I don't mean to bother you but I have a spiritual question"
NO NO NO, I AM BEGGING YOU TO BOTHER ME
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@bilbosfootcomb
Rare for someone to include so much evidence in a tweet that they're gleefully choosing the fires of hell
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@ettingermentum
This is genuinely the first thing that has caused me to question Biden's inevitability.
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It is blowing my mind how out-of-touch these people are. Normal people do not see the ELCA as a Marxist Gaia cult.
They went to one for VBS.
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@cosmofromca
AA is a good counterexample, but imo it works precisely because its participants are drawn together at an existential level, like a religious community: "we're gathering to hold ourselves collectively accountable in a shared journey." No one comes just to chat and have coffee.
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@HannahPosted
Cannot express the wonder that was associated with this location as a Pennsylvania child heading to the beach. Fall asleep at 5am in the dark back seat, wake up at sunrise in Breezewood as the smell of Cinnabon wafts through the opened van door.
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Heating bill: $3,000/mo
Stained glass window repair: $250,000
Congregation: 12 loyal trads
Someone who is good at the economy please help me, I don't want to worship in a converted Pizza Hut
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This is a very neutral question, so if you're having a conniption, it must be due to something you yourself know about Donald Trump's religiosity
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Nah, I'm sorry, that's not it.
Millions of mainliners walked out of church for the last time after Confirmation or graduating high school and never looked back, trauma-free. Our issues are not a result of evangelical misdeeds.
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We should do this, and it's bizarre no one even talks about it when the last time the House was expanded was 1929, when the US population was well under half what is is today. Congressional districts are too big.
If the US followed the Cube Root Law, where the size of the lower house is the cube root of the population being represented, it would have 693 House seats.
Each member would represent ~477,000 people, down from today's 760,000.
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@glpresley
Yeah, any time a discourse about taxing the churches or about how uncharitable churches are comes up, I realize:
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Anyway I need to go add something very specific to the building use agreement
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@blagojevism
This sort of historical pissing-match is so goofy, no matter who's doing it.
"There's never been a country called Palestine"
Yeah buddy the nation-state as a concept is only like 300 years old and there was a little polity called the Ottoman Empire around for a bit
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Sitting around a table with my trustees like this is Apollo 13, trying to figure out what we can do with a slingshot, or a length of PVC pipe, or another balloon with a hook on it, or...
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@Boonsch
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It's a WWII-era diagram of where returning airplanes had with the most bulletholes, so armor was added in those places.
...except the planes that received deadly hits never came back, so they were armoring non-critical portions of the plane.
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@FellateMinion
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It's a contentious hypothesis! But one that seems to have merit.
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If you have something to talk to me about besides that the toilet is running again, you didn't like that one hymn, or that it's time to write a newsletter article, I'm all in
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@zakmcintyre
Right? And it's not, in my experience, like there's a mainline epidemic of people openly praying for one another.
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@tarenceray
It totally worked for a minute too! Can't remember how long it's been since I heard the phrase Medicare for All and "defunding the police" has been effectively scapegoated despite never happening. And now it's all crumbling.
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@HannahPosted
"modern kitchens are overrated" is something you can say only if you've never lived in a house that was apparently built before the invention of the pantry
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@LookVote
And there's plenty of people in the church who want this too, for sure. Community as a public utility. Unfortunately does not work that way!
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Yes, I understand the reasoning behind this and its contextual applicability. No, I do not think this is generally helpful within a progressive/mainline church setting.
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@jaqui4
@Gisele_ShoeSmug
My issue is with the implication that that was a better state of affairs
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@flglmn
Very clever to disguise his allegiance to the resistance by also being a major military contractor
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@Holgrave
I have gotten very jaded about this stuff in my tenure as well, to a degree I would not have imagined when I started. I still handle it as generously as I can, but there aren't many situations where I'm *sure* we helped someone in genuine need.
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@OldTomMoore
It is a subset of the Lutheran tradition, not of a denomination.
And "progressive" and "extremely left-wing" are not the same thing. The ELCA is deeply mainstream.
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@clarkshark22
Even on the rare occasion when we have cultivated biblical literacy, we have not cultivated the understanding that it is good literature, filled with humor
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Instant passive voice from Kamala when talking about "what is happening in Gaza," as opposed to Hamas' attack on Israel.
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Just got an email linking to UM "resources" for avoiding clergy burnout, improving spiritual vitality, etc. and it appears the resources are all articles and reports. Suggestions we take up mindfulness and what have you
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@MatthewSitman
The question "does anyone want to debate me?" has never been answered in the affirmative.
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@dieworkwear
He might also consider Western Pennsylvania Vernacular, a riff on classic workwear styling
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@aquel_gringo
Idk if I can do a ranking, but some that come to mind:
–Sarah laughing when God says she'll have a kid, then denying it, and God saying "yes, you did laugh"
–Eutychus falling out a window bored while Paul preaches
–Paul telling the Galatians to go castrate themselves
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@danie7kovacs
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I still think that's not quite the same. The difference here, for example, might be "yes you can ride your bike a few miles away without a parent and explore, BUT you need to wear a helmet." Freedom (which you're talking about) and safety precautions play out differently.
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@dvdpeters
Having closed a church last year, it enraged me to hear from the community about how important and beloved the church was and how awful it was we were closing down. Not important enough to, you know, be a part of it, but they'd really miss its presence.
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