Lizzo plays a flute and one day later everyone's an expert on flutes. They should keep handing her instruments until we accidentally bring back music education
This is not the day after Fiona. This is yesterday. 12 days after the storm.
We’re delivering meals in the southern part of Puerto Rico. Areas where there is still no water, still no electricity.
People are now dying because of the lack of response.
No justice, no peace.
The level of power we hold must be commensurate with the level of inner work we have done (and are doing). Otherwise we destroy people & ourselves.
This is why there's so many tragedies of leadership in our world: There is little congruence between our inner and outer lives.
Thing is, we have to really be careful about who we hate. Because 10 times out of 10, it’s going to be somebody Jesus loves. And he has a way of taking it personally.
My God didn’t write the 3/5ths Compromise, the Fugitive Slave Clause, the Indian Commerce Clause, or any other part of the Constitution.
And y’all wonder why people, especially millennials and gen z folks, are leaving the church in droves.
It amazes me how Fox News doesn’t believe a word of what law enforcement says when they execute a search warrant against Donald Trump but believes every single claim by law enforcement when they execute an unarmed Black man.
The greatest threat to Christianity is not secularity. It is certainty. When you are so convinced that you are right, then you will create all types of enemies and cut yourself off from all the ways God is active in another person's experience.
As the former Commanding General of the Infantry Center at Fort Benning and Chief of Infantry, I know a bit about weapons. Let me state unequivocally — For all intents and purposes, the AR-15 and rifles like it are weapons of war. A thread:
Opposing CRT has become a litmus test for evangelical orthodoxy. Yet, The Great Replacement Theory, The Lost Cause, & White Christian Nationalism, are not litmus tests for orthodoxy. Only CRT seeks to redress systemic embedded racism. The others embrace White Supremacy. Selah!
Jesus didn’t set us free so that we can fight for “our rights”.
He set us free so that we could lay down our lives (and rights) so that others may flourish.
We know this to be true because this is what Jesus modeled for us.
White supremacy is not mental illness.
Conspiracy theories are not mental illness.
A lack of gun control is not mental illness.
We need to stop blaming mental illness every time something like this happens and start addressing the actual problems.