John Graham ⚓️

@UFLaw grad. I help people hurt by others’ negligence.

Tweets ≠ legal advice, RTs ≠ endorsements, and my opinions ≠ my employer’s.

[John Graham ⚓️ @attyjdgraham]

@yunghic1 God rest their souls. This is terrible to hear.

[John Graham ⚓️ @attyjdgraham]

@shebringsjoy Praying for y’all and your lawyers, as well as any judges or other decision makers. The insurance industry is the servant of Mammon. May God bless and keep y’all during the fight.

[Paul J. Pastor @pauljpastor]

"The Fall of Rome," by W.H. Auden.

[Nᴀᴛᴇ ⚓️ @oblatenate]

Me: So, Fr. Illich, what are angels?

Illich: Not juicy.

Me: ………..hwhat?

[John Graham ⚓️ @attyjdgraham]

@mrdavidrowe “…whose numbers run like Revelation’s Greek.”

[Hans Fiene 🦬 @HansFiene]

From yesterday's sermon:
Like many of you, I saw those pictures from the security camera footage of Iryna Zarutska, looking up in horror right after she’d been stabbed. I’m still haunted by the expression on her face. And I imagine it will haunt me forever. I don’t think I’ll ever get over it. And I think there are a few reasons for that. First, I’m a father and seeing her looking up, confused and terrified, bewildered and curled up like an innocent little child…I can’t even bear the thought of that happening to one of my children.

But theologically speaking, the picture haunted me as well. At first I thought it haunted me because she looked like a lost little sheep being devoured by a wolf for no reason. And she certainly did. But the more I’ve thought about it, the more I realized that the look of innocent, childlike terror on her face haunts me so much because I think that’s the kind of expression that Jesus had on His face as He cried out, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?” It’s the expression of an innocent one being hated without cause, an innocent one being pierced by those under the power of the demons.

And that look, that expression? That’s the expression that Jesus willingly let be burned upon His own countenance to make you His own, to open your ears to hear His voice and to follow Him in the arms of God. That’s the sorrow that Jesus allowed to be emblazoned on His face in order to rescue you from sin and death and sorrow forever. That’s what Jesus Christ has done for you. It’s what He did for lost sheep who were also acting like vicious wolves. It’s what He did for David and Paul and countless others. And it’s what He still can give to countless souls in a world that seems filled with countless wolves.

So just as we pray for the families of the Catholic school shooting in Minnesota, just as we pray for the families of Iryna Zarutska and Charlie Kirk, so we can also pray for those vicious murderers who took innocent life and we can pray for the vicious hearts than enabled those murders and cheered them. We can pray for the government to punish the wicked where laws have been broken, just as we can pray that Jesus would find the wicked on the cliffs of their own making and bring them home. We can pray for God to use the government to shut the jaws of those flashing their fangs, and we can pray for God to use the church to turn the howling mouths of wolves into the hungry mouths of sheep who will feast on His forgiveness.

Don’t despair over the state of the world. Jesus Christ has already overcome the world, and the devil and the wolves under his power are only howling because they know their time is short. But Jesus Christ will continue to pull His sheep out of the devil’s jaws and make for us brothers and sisters we never thought possible. Then, on the Last Day, He will return and burn all evil into ashes, just as He will lift us out of the graves, dry our tears eternally, and deliver us into the kingdom where we will never know sorrow again. This will happen. It’s more certain than the sun rising tomorrow. Don’t despair. The King who makes sheep out of snarling wolves is already reigning, already holding you in His hands, and He will never let this world devour you.

[John Graham ⚓️ @attyjdgraham]

@SallyThomasNC I’ve been off X, and this poem is how I discovered Jane Greer passed. An enormous loss.

[John Graham ⚓️ @attyjdgraham]

Log in for the first time in a while.

Immediately see pro-bestiality tweet.

…you guys okay?

[John Graham ⚓️ @attyjdgraham]

No way is Zaxby’s the most popular fried chicken in SC.

[Midwest vs. The Rest @midwestern_ope]

Most Popular Fried Chicken by State

[John Graham ⚓️ @attyjdgraham]

We’ve known about LLM hallucinations forever. No professional should be using AI for research/knowledge functions.

[Pankit Parikh @pparikhxr]

Doctors. This is important. Please look at these screenshots very carefully. This is supposedly very legitimate AI. @DutchRojas @farkomd @txsportsdoc @SandeepBaglaMD @YazanKhatib9 @AmputationSuck @CHICKVIR @TheRealDoctorOs

[John Graham ⚓️ @attyjdgraham]

Welcome, Brother Cogswell.

[The Post and Courier @postandcourier]

Bailey: Mayor Cogswell goes full beard. Is it a hair too far for Charleston? https://t.co/sv1QTOdxUv

[Bill Young @YoungInjuryLaw]

Tell me again how South Carolina's "legal climate" is hurting the state.

[James Bernice Moore III @BooMoore]

South Carolina GOP leadership has abandoned its voters for insurance industry cash.

They're pushing the same "tort reform" that failed Florida - where premiums INCREASED while claim denials skyrocketed.

Real conservatives protect citizens' rights, not corporate profits.

[John Graham ⚓️ @attyjdgraham]

They’re gonna make it worse. Crazy.

[Reform Insurance Now SC @reform_ins_sc]

🚨 THREAD: A Backroom Deal to Sell Out South Carolina?

1️⃣ BREAKING: Talk around the State House is that a compromise on S.244 was almost done—until global corporations, backed by big insurance, swooped in with help from insiders to rewrite the rules to shield themselves from liability for poisoning our water with “PFAS”.🧵⬇️

[John Graham ⚓️ @attyjdgraham]

This isn't to dunk on anyone, but to say that, when I was in the cowo setting, folks would malign liturgy as rigid, limited—but nothing could be farther from the truth. Liturgical churches can and do have a deep connection to the whole Christian tradition, including modern music.

[John Graham ⚓️ @attyjdgraham]

In my experience, liturgical worship incorporates the breadth of the Christian tradition far better than contemporary worship. For example, today our liturgy used music ranging from the 1500s to 1995, including chant, French and Latin, Gospel, and contemporary music.

[John Graham ⚓️ @attyjdgraham]

Cowo services I attended in my evangelical days would have considered Gospel music "traditional," effectively limiting their musical canon to the last 100 years. Some churches limited their repertoire even more.

[John Graham ⚓️ @attyjdgraham]

Although we might disagree about some of the substance of S244, I appreciate @JoshKimbrellSC's very measured take on this. It's always good to see our elected officials standing up for their constituents!

[Dave Wilson @DaveWilsonSC]

The debate on insurance/tort/liquor liability reform will come to a head this week in the SC Senate. Sen. @JoshKimbrellSC gives his take on S.244 and the House version of liquor liability. https://t.co/JvuYnZjWn9

[John Graham ⚓️ @attyjdgraham]

@HansFiene Happy birthday to her! She is truly a wonderful person!

[John Graham ⚓️ @attyjdgraham]

It’s vaguely similar to a bishop’s mitre, so I suggest “bishop.”

[Chess.com @chesscom]

accepting new name ideas for this piece: