@mattgeiler Any chance you would don a Santa suit, set up a green screen, make your background the North Pole, and give us some other holiday GIF options?
Fred Rogers is one of my favorite Presbyterians. His television ministry was a practical theology of empathy, neighbor love, and the imago dei.
We could really use him right now.
If a movement cannot maintain cohesion through a shared goal, it will try to maintain cohesion through a shared enemy.
Believer, we are united around who we love...not around who we hate.
I'd be totally cool with Joe's and Kamala's holograms attending the Inauguration while their real bodies and souls were at a safe, undisclosed location while they eat popcorn and watch themselves officially officially officially win.
"Do not leave the house without your mask on" is this decade's trying-to-reduce-anxiety-but-ends-up-escalating-it mantra, finally replacing my other life-long mantra,"Do not leave the house without your pants on."
If we won’t tell the truth about earthly things people can see, how can they trust us to tell the truth about heavenly things they can’t see?
Disinformation and baseless conspiracies are Christian witness issues.
Okay, Joe might not be afraid to take his oath outside but can we at least make sure The Rock is his bodyguard and not Capitol Police. Except Eugene Goodman. The Rock and Eugene Goodman please.
"Alcohol" - A pandemic / insurrection/ whatever Black Mirror episode we are living in haiku
Alcohol is bad
I wish it was good for me
Cuz I still drink it
Imagine waking up this morning, ashamed and embarrassed of what you did yesterday, except instead of accidentally getting drunk, making out with a stranger, and telling him your favorite tv show is Vampire Diaries, you stormed the capitol and engaged in domestic terrorism.
Google’s most searched terms from the last few weeks are “what’s it called when you try to take over the government by force” and “how do you pronounce coup d'etat.”
Trump didn’t change America.
Trump revealed America.
To those who say: “This isn’t America”... I wish that were true. The truth is this IS America... Not all of America, but much more than we want to believe. We have work to do.