Starla Gooch

[Starla Gooch @StarlaGooch]

"My tradition teaches that no heart is as whole as a broken heart, and I would say that no faith is as solid as a wounded faith."Elie Wiesel

[Starla Gooch @StarlaGooch]

Really shocked by @AMCTheatres experience. About to watch a 3 hour 15 minute movie, and it still hasn’t started 50 minutes past show time. We sat for 25 minutes of commercials, then trailers began 30 minutes past showtime. What a way to spend Christmas.

[Starla Gooch @StarlaGooch]

The real-life version of "Love Is Blind": seeing pictures for the first time of podcasters you've listened to for years but didn't realize you didn't know what they look like.

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@jacobhuneycutt_ Jacob, I don't think I know you, but as a woman and ordained minister, I just want to say thank you. One of the worst feelings as a human is being dismissed by another. Once someone dismisses us as invaluable, there's nothing we can do to advocate for ourselves. So thank you!

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@SkyeJethani "who also like occasional butt news" 😂😂😂😂

[Starla Gooch @StarlaGooch]

@jordannicole_r And if I had visited your dorm room freshman year, I would have been jealous. My level of decorating was this brightly colored comforter for the bed. I would have thought your tissue paper was brilliant!

[Starla Gooch @StarlaGooch]

@jordannicole_r I also bet you felt a certain level of pride for that curtain and tissue paper.

[Starla Gooch @StarlaGooch]

@jordannicole_r This is so real 😆😆

[Starla Gooch @StarlaGooch]

Learning about @rachelheldevans’ recent passing, I find myself surprisingly emotional. Though her theology was further liberal than mine, I felt her love for Jesus. And so I grieve today as part of Christ’s body—thus part of my same body—has died.

[Starla Gooch @StarlaGooch]

@jordannicole_r Interesting...

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@patrickfischl Yeah, you’re right. Probably more of a Snapchat guy.

[Starla Gooch @StarlaGooch]

@patrickfischl I don’t know—there is really just no adequate response to preaching almost 300 sermons a year. 😶😶😶

[Starla Gooch @StarlaGooch]

@patrickfischl Life before electricity???

[Starla Gooch @StarlaGooch]

Yes, yes, yes!! So stoked! Can’t wait!

[Starla Gooch @StarlaGooch]

@richvillodas Not sure if I’m making sense, but I appreciate the conversation and your keen engagement! And if you’re preaching in the morning, I’m praying for both your mind and your heart. May you be full of the Spirit—in both word and deed—as you proclaim Christ to your people.

[Starla Gooch @StarlaGooch]

@richvillodas I think we also must embrace how much platforms can corrupt our souls and have a tendency to distort the gospel over time if left unchecked. And that seems to be a key issue to me: is it possible to put a person’s message on a platform without also putting the person there?

[Starla Gooch @StarlaGooch]

@richvillodas Their teaching probably remains fairly moot until they either demonstrate genuine repentance evidenced by life change—so as to provide a more nuanced perspective—or someone else, with proven character, picks up the valid theological points and reframes them for meaningful praxis.

[Starla Gooch @StarlaGooch]

@richvillodas Thus, if a person can preach a message that seems to have had negligible impact on his or her life, what is our impetus to listen to their teachings—past or present?