JenHatmaker
@JenHatmaker
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NY Times bestselling author | Speaker | Host of #ForTheLovePodcast | 👸🏼of the #jenhatmakerbookclub | Cofounder of @LegacyCollect | Mom to 5 maniacs
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In this new world of "What is even true anymore?", I can tell you this: never, absolutely never would Jesus ever laugh at a woman's pain, mock it, parody it, misrepresent it, and incite the crowd to do the same. He disbanded the leering mob to their shame, never hers.
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Trump is an inhumane racist. He poses a legitimate threat to people of color. He greenlit open fire on protesters. I am grieved and furious and remain stunned at the Christians who still back him.
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Eshet chayil, beloved Woman of Valor. You ran a beautiful, faithful race. We are crushed. Well done, good and faithful servant.
@rachelheldevans
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If Biden is elected, the Christian leaders who threw themselves at Trump & defended his indefensible words & deeds will now be left empty handed. You got your 30 pieces of silver, but you lost your witness, your integrity, & the next generation of the church.
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I am exactly between the ages of Shakira and J-Lo and I am seriously reconsidering these nachos.
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Bethlehem.
The manger.
Mary.
The shepherds.
The star.
The unassuming young almost family from Nazareth.
The angels.
The beautiful baby, Lord at his birth.
I'll never get over that this is the way God did it.
The weary world rejoices.
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MA'AM. HOW DARE YOU. We are out here trying to keep our wits about us and you stroll in like THIS. Where are my smelling salts.
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This is utterly insane. It is like watching another country. This is the natural, predictable outcome of four years of outrageous lies, false realities, conspiracy theories, white supremacy, and a complete dereliction of honor, patriotism, and leadership.
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Good morning! Don’t be a white supremacy apologist or gaslighter today. Have a nice day!
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The evangelical reversal on basic morality to align with an immoral president for power & privilege may thrill adherents for a moment, but this political hellscape will have an end - they all do - and the rest of us will remember who abandoned everything they ever held dear.
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"I felt threatened" and "he resisted" and "she did not comply" and "he matched the description" and "I was afraid for my life" are modern-day code words that give white supremacy a secure, reliable foothold in this generation, free of all accountability and justice.
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Hey
@BetoORourke
, I am a Texan with a podcast that has a loooooooot of listeners, and we are into your ideas. Want to come on the show? You can record from that car you’re driving around our state. 👊🏼 (Tell him, crew)
#ForTheLovePodcast
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Well, Humans of Earth, I've just been dealt a devastating truth punch as one critic proclaimed of me: "Apparently her 'absurdly long table' has no seat for white men." I mean honestly, when are white men finally going to get a seat at the table? Poor guys. Can't catch a break.
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Be good to our girl today, world.
A MOMENT OF PRIDE: JEN AND SYDNEY HATMAKER ON BEING GAY, CHRISTIAN AND LOVED
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My kind keeps trying to imagine losing Brandon and one of our kids in the same day. I cannot do it. I wish I could wrap Vanessa Bryant and her family in a blanket and love them around the clock. What a terrible, horrible, unfair loss. The sadness is unthinkable.
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The consistent evangelical defense of locking vulnerable people in cages and separating families has broken my heart into a million pieces. I will never get over it. It has become the most reliable demographic to justify cruelty, trauma, and dehumanization.
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Hello. Almost all my kids are disgruntled, smart-mouthed, & entitled tonight, so here is my PSA reminding you that we also spouted garbage once & our parents didn’t give a rat’s ass & just carried on. Don’t take it personally. We are stronger than them & have more money.
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Everyone keeps saying it is very important to keep up with your routines during this quarantine, so I want to let you know that, at this time, I will continue to not work out just like before.
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Just this very brief word: To those of you for whom parenting is so, so hard right now, with one kid or maybe all of them, and you are fighting battles you didn’t see coming...you aren’t alone. A small comfort, but here we are. Parenting is the hardest, holiest work on earth.
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I am the only member of my family who wants to see Mary Poppins. Do I kick them all out and start a new family from scratch y/n
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One of the greatest loves of my life. There she goes. Lucky me. Lucky world.
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The pop up protests at airports around the US demanding entry for refugees is encouraging me more today than the American church.
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Governor Abbott blamed wind and solar power for the catastrophic blackouts in Texas. 90% of our power comes from fossil fuels. He projected this failure onto the impending Green New Deal.
All on Hannity.
This tells you everything you need to know about Texas leadership.
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Me: *doing all the things for daughter's grad party in the whole of the universe* - "I ordered really cute decorations today." Daughter: "I don't even know if I'll like them. You should've checked with me first." JESUS, BE HER FENCE AND HEDGE OF PROTECTION. GUARD HER FROM WRATH.
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Yes, you might miss the baby stage. Perhaps the 4-year-old little voice stage. Maybe the getting-ready-to-launch senior stage. But hear this: you will not miss 8th grade. I will not. We will not. We will bid it adieu, farewell, and bye to all the Felicias.
#fixitgod
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"Come outside and take a walk so we can celebrate the release of Fierce!" my friends texted. Found my friends dressed up, laughed, then looked up the street and saw cars around the block. All the loves of my life. Cried the entire time.
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One thing that "fell away" for me these last two years was my tolerance for weird Christian talk. It was my first language & thus entirely familiar, but now it raises the hair on the back of my neck. It all feels coded, a warning signal to keep insiders in and outsiders out.
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Sending an extra dose of love to everyone thinking about trying church again today. If you are scared or angry or leery or hurt but somehow still drawn to a gathering of people looking for God, know that I prayed specifically for you this morning.
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“Jen, you can’t just sit around and watch the Olympics for two weeks.”
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I am furious & crushed over
#BothamShemJean
. And the 11-year-old girl tased in OH. Meanwhile, the world explodes over the
#Nike
ad & Christian men release statements denying racism & the church's complicity. It is the Tale of Two Versions of America. One one is true.
#whywekneel
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Just went up to the gate attendant and said: “Did my gate change? I am going to Atlanta” and she stared at me and said, “You are in Atlanta.” Bless up. Mama needs some sleep. Coming in hot to GRAND RAPIDS.
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Even the FACT that Texas is being watched closely in the election, loosely called a swing state, is such a sign of shifting winds. No one even campaigns here. Incredibly proud of the voter turnout.
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I realize this is asking too much, but I would just love our country to be run by non-criminals who are sincere patriots.
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Us before this wedding started: “Meghan probably doesn’t get to plan any of this.” After the Bishop and the gospel choir: “WE WERE DEF WRONG ABOUT THAT.” THANK YOU, MEGHAN!
#RoyalWedding
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It lacks integrity to hold two different definitions of “abuse of power” depending on who is implicated. POTUS in a sexual relationship with an intern is the textbook definition of power differential and abuse.
Hillary Clinton: Bill's affair with Monica Lewinsky wasn't an abuse of power because 'she was an adult'
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Fun fact: I watch CBS Sunday morning every single weekend. Does anyone else under the age of 65 watch this delightful, old-fashioned program?
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Twitter, please acknowledge that I challenged a guy for an hour in the airport who said “climate change was a hoax to control people” and “Mayor Pete is the catcher not the pitcher obviously” and he still bought me a beer at the end because DIALOGUE IS POSSIBLE.
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“The old way is over. The stakes are too high now.” I so dearly love this mentor, sister, and friend. If you only knew how deeply and profoundly she has loved me.
#respect
@BethMooreLPM
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I have. I've tried. I've tried everything. Every brand. Homemade. Alternatives. Sweetened with dates/Stevia/vanilla. I officially surrender. All I want is this coffee creamer made entirely of chemicals. This is who I am for the rest of my life.
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This is all I got: “Come to me, all you who are weary & burdened, & I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you & learn from me, for I am gentle & humble in heart, & you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy & my burden is light.” Jesus, man. The only pure thing.
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I am just bawling. We can't call it justice, because George is still murdered. His family will never see him again. The trauma inflicted on the black community is irreversible. But we can call it accountability. I just realized I sweat through my shirt waiting.
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There is a very small handful of people who have been my friend at every single stage of my public life. I have some “before,” some “after.”
@rachelheldevans
has been a true & loyal friend since the 1st day I met her. Her witness is real. Praying for my dear sister.
#PrayforRHE
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THOUGHT: America’s gun homicide rate is over 25 times the average of other high-income countries. Americans own 48% of the world's civilian-owned guns. PRAYER: I pray we vote out politicians beholden to their NRA money who deny plain facts & blame the mentally ill & video games.
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I wake up and think of
@rachelheldevans
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#PrayForRHE
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Me and my friends just bawled our eyes out at Oprah’s speech. Then Natalie Portman was like HOLD MY BEER.
#theallmalenominees
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My family saw Black Panther without me this week despite being strictly forbidden so I am now holding auditions for a new family. Send your resumes.
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School starts in 4 days so I said we were going to "get back on track" this week with sleep schedules and basic order, so Remy and her friend went to bed around 2:00am and slept until 12:30. No one is in charge here. I am running a frat house.
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Burn everything down. We are as lost from our own gospel as we've ever been while screaming at everyone else that we are the only ones "found." Our women are abused and unprotected, and our "sanctuaries" are nothing of the sort. Why would anyone listen to any of us?
Pew asked Americans if the U.S. had a responsibility to accept refugees.
No group -- racial, by age, religious or political -- was less supportive of that idea than white evangelical Protestants.
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"We, the successors of a country and a time where a skinny Black girl, descended from slaves and raised by a single mother, can dream of becoming President, only to find herself reciting for one."
@TheAmandaGorman
I WANT TO TELEPORT TO DC AND ANOINT THIS YOUNG QUEEN WITH OIL.
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I have a middle school girl. I just said these words to her after listening to a long, rambling, pointless story: “You gotta land this plane.” Jesus be a fast forward button.
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Larry King during my interview: "Evangelicals voted in Trump." Me: "No, WHITE evangelicals voted in Trump. Black evangelicals were sounding the alarm well before the election. They have receipts!" Episode airs tomorrow on PolitiKING.
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THIS IS NOT A DRILL.
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I am so sick of this. I don't want to hear a single empty statement. We are in a GUN VIOLENCE CRISIS where everyone says its not about guns.
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Watching Remy at a middle school tennis tournament. The amount of times someone returns a serve is never. Never times. At least the tourney lasts four hours. GOD BLESS ALL THE PARENTS DOING ALL THE MIDDLE SCHOOL THINGS.
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I've watched this around 900 times. It is just so precious and I can't handle it.
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No matter what party affiliation you hold, late term abortions should make you weep with sorrow.
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Our generation has "new parenting techniques" and fresh rules of engagement and new do's and don'ts, but I'm here to tell you I just pulled out a calm, old-fashioned "I'm just really disappointed" and it still has a 100% SUCCESS RATE.
#theyweredevastated
#momwin
#savage
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I interviewed her almost exactly 1 year ago for our first faith series. I re-listened yesterday, switching between tears & laughter. This whole conversation is like The Best of Rachel. It's all here: everything she fought for, challenged, loved, learned.
🖤
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While I never tire of the ease of summer, I am def over the part where the teens are up at the crack of 11:30 and the entire family operation has downgraded to a frat house.
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"All of this policy, all of this rhetoric, all of this leadership, it affects real live human people. That, for me, is where I am no longer comfortable remaining silent." I spoke at length with Tiffany Stanley at
@politicomag
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This makes my loyal-loving heart burst.
Barbara Bush’s Secret Service detail who have been protecting her for years (and she has been treating them like family) are refusing to leave her side until she is buried.
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This montage to Ellen is making me bawl. What a beautiful human. We are so lucky she didn't stop when the world rejected her.
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The proposition on the FL ballot to restore voting rights to felons who have served their time (with a couple of conditions) is so good and right. Revoked voting rights should not be a lifetime sentence. This is uniquely punitive and an outlier position in the developed world.
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Kindly get His name out of your mouth.
IN AMERICA WE DON'T WORSHIP GOVERNMENT - WE WORSHIP GOD!🎥
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My daughter & her friends just went to yoga then out for Indian food with their dewy skin from their homemade skin products. WHO IS THIS NEXT GENERATION? Me & my friends talked on our land lines for 3 hours about George Michael while eating Ho-Ho's with our untweezed eyebrows.
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Between the Parkland teens & Black Panther, my cynicism is having to TAKE A SEAT. These feel like the times we’ve been praying & hoping and working for. A black cast on top of the world & teenagers speaking truth to power with intelligence & guts. AMEN.
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Whose pastors and churches faced white supremacy and Black Lives Matter head on today? Who is doing the work of the gospel? I’d love to hear about it.
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In dreamy downtown Chicago for a week-long cooking course. 8 hours a day of culinary instruction. My Christmas present from
@brandonhatmaker
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Our dear friend
@JamieTheVWM
is saying goodbye to her son tonight. Will you please say her name to the heavens? Life is so cruel & unfair & impossible. It is impossible to bury your 18 year old. We are hurting for our sister to the depths. Please love her through prayer.
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I am the nicest, most polite traveler you know, and I don’t easily lose patience. EXCEPT. The people who shove to get off the plane without waiting their turn. Sir, please calm down or I will be forced to harm you.
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I think I just became Episcopalian and I need to know if
@PB_Curry
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#RoyalWedding
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@BethMooreLPM
has pastored, mentored, parented, & cherished me in ways the Internet doesn’t even know. 100% of the time, she points me to Jesus. 100% of the time, she increases my faith. She is a church elder and saint, and we are BLESSED to be under her leadership.
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Here is my interview with the very compelling
@BetoORourke
on the
#ForTheLovePodcast
! Stick around for the second half when I discuss it all with Beth and Sarah from
@PantsuitPolitic
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I got my first "how do I make your marinara and cheesy bread" text from Sydney at college. Let the
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season begin. Gavin's first was "how do you peel frozen bananas?" Raising young adults is hilarious.
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This reckoning of sexual abuse is such a broken hallelujah. Let justice reign: every party, every church, every workplace, every home. Let abusers tremble in their boots. Let the abused raise their voices. We believe you. No excusing, explaining, diminishing. Justice for all.
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For white folks still sitting silently on the sidelines or tentatively on the fence: envision what it would look like if you rejected every fear and excuse and just did the right thing. Silence is complicity. Do it. Do the right thing. Have some integrity.
#blacklivesmatter
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My main strategy on deciding who to vote for: I am listening to black women.
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Sending gigantic love to you,
@Lauren_Daigle
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Indecency, immorality, & assault are not partisan.
Indecency, immorality, & assault are not partisan.
Indecency, immorality, & assault are not partisan.
If you give one side a pass while the other gets the hammer, you care nothing for decency, morality, & the safety of women.
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Twitter requires a very certain type of energy, and I find I have it about 1-2 times a week. IT’S A LOT OVER HERE. Maybe Twitter needs this pic of me and my nephew tonight.
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This fixes everything 2020 broke.
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I cannot believe this is real. This is to your utter shame,
@GovMikeHuckabee
. Don’t think we don’t see this. We see you. We see your heart and mind. We see your “faith.”
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I guess we are just going to HAVE US SOME CHURCH at this wedding. “When love is the way, the whole earth will be a sanctuary.” #
#HarryandMeghan
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We got married 24 years ago today when I was 19 and he was 21. Against all odds, those two babies made it. We celebrate tonight as we do: at a Willie concert!
@brandonhatmaker
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This is disgusting. We will not forget. Nor will we forget the Christian leaders that betrayed their sisters in Christ for power.
.
@JerryJrFalwell
: 5 years from now, no one will remember what horrible things Donald Trump said about women.
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Gavin left for Texas Tech & I sent: an entire homemade chicken pot pie, various packages of frozen meat, monkey bread, remnants of Thanksgiving, & I tried to give him "gas money" after Brandon already did. No one makes out better than the college kid going back to school.
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All the tears and all the cheers! American women needed this. Thank you, US Women’s Team.
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I made it through a very weird and complicated weekend for me. Sometimes the best you can say is: well, it's over. Sending love to everyone who just..got through. You did it. Getting through is enough. Onward.
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My daughter moved to college so I self-soothed tonight with a thick layer of Irish butter on white bread with a side of gin and tonic. It's
#whatsfordinner
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We turned 45 and 16 yesterday. One of us got a car and the other went to school registrations and the grocery store. But we’re adorable so tra la la. Love this kid.
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Your voice matters today. Your neighbors, friends, coworkers, church, & family need to hear you resist this evil. Let's normalize THAT.
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This administration is so chronically exhausting and defeating and demoralizing. In your life, could you imagine a president saying this about a whole group of American citizens? In your life?? These are our beloved friends and neighbors and family members.
When the conversation in a meeting turned to gay rights, Donald Trump motioned toward Mike Pence and joked:
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Just to be clear: this is a key evangelical leader suggesting that election interference by a hostile foreign enemy is no big deal, and those of us who alarmed are the real problem.
@Franklin_Graham
, this alignment may one day grieve you as much as it grieves us.
Get over it—Everyone tries to influence elections. Unions, Hollywood, the media…
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Shout out to everyone who got something really wrong & hurt someone you did NOT want to hurt like I did & now you are working hard to make it right. Humility, apologies, hard conversations, hugs & tears: the tools of community according to Jesus. Pride will destroy it all.
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The fruit of the "Nashville Statement" is suffering, rejection, shame, and despair. The timing is callous beyond words.
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Hello, Twitter. Teenagers are cancelled. Have a nice evening.
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