Joshua Rawleigh

Trapped in a world of books, writing, and making chicken stock | PhD@IUB | researches Victorian Lit, Syriac, George MacDonald, and Poetry/Religion

[Colby Townsend @ColbyTownsend16]

If anyone is planning to present at the @Navsa2023 conference this coming fall, my friend @JoshuaRawleigh and I are putting a panel together tentatively on how texts revise the present with the past. If interested in joining please reach out. [email protected]. Panel is due Mar 1.

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@frankendodo @mcleish_t So glad to have the opportunity!

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@JQLindsay @ChristiansVoice @SkyeJethani @JaseRuggy @philvischer Also, is no one going to talk about how none of the LOTR movies filled out their bar more? I mean, surely at least Fellowship is as good as the first Matrix and far exceeds X2?

[Shane Claiborne @ShaneClaiborne]

This “pro-life” President, and this “pro-life” Supreme Court, just killed more people than we’ve seen in 120 years.

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@JackieHillPerry Captain Picard?

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Also @RepJimBaird @SenatorBraun and @ToddYoungIN

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"When a man unprincipled in private life desperate in his fortune, bold in his temper, possessed of considerable talents, having the advantage of military habits—despotic in his ordinary demeanour—known to have scoffed in private at the principles of liberty—

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Sound like anyone holding office today? Impeach @realDonaldTrump to protect democracy

[John Fea @JohnFea1]

If the #25thAmendment is not invoked, Congress should impeach Trump immediately for “high crimes and misdemeanors." How is inciting an insurrection against a branch of the United States government not a high crime and misdemeanor? https://t.co/3cGT6XhrX5

[Shane Claiborne @ShaneClaiborne]

Dear world: this is not my Jesus.

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perhaps in repeated failure, seeking tirelessly to restore, wherever he can, and first of all in himself, the capacity of love and which makes man the living image of God.” -Thomas Merton- “Christianity and Totalitarianism"

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Thinking a lot of Thomas Merton's sage wisdom today. He knew better than most than any attempt to ally Christianity with something even approaching fascism or totalitarianism merely drives another spear in the side of the crucified Christ.

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this plague of intolerance, prejudice and hate which flows from the crippled nature of man who is afraid of love and does not dare to be a person. It is against this temptation most of all that the Christian must labor with inexhaustible patience and love, in silence,