Tom Costello 🌈☘️

Christian writer, interested in history, folk music and country music.
Lives in Dulwich, South London. Deacon in a local Baptist church. I'm on Bluesky.

[Tom Costello 🌈☘️ @caerlagan]

Our wonderful God and everything He does, by the way, seems too good to be true all the time: in fact this great salvation is too good to be false as the angels see it. Of course He loves and accepts us all.

[Tom Costello 🌈☘️ @caerlagan]

@Jolz_Aust Anyone quoting the teaching of Jesus, such as the Sermon on the Mount, is treated in the same way, while extreme right wing views are presented as 'Christian'!

[The Root @TheRoot]

A Louisiana resident who identified himself as Marshawn delivered a fiery, emotional speech to lawmakers during a state Senate hearing over redistricting Monday, accusing Republicans of trying to “cheat” Black voters out of political power.

[Tom Costello 🌈☘️ @caerlagan]

@stephenRB4 60s

[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

Reverend Jesse Jackson called on each of us to be heralds of change, to be messengers of hope; to step forward and say “Send me” wherever we have a chance to make an impact.

How fortunate we were that Jesse Jackson answered that call. What a great debt we owe to him.

[Tom Costello 🌈☘️ @caerlagan]

@stephenRB4 Swallows and Amazons.

[Jolz 🌹 @Jolz_Aust]

If Jesus walked the earth today, he’d be addressing the same issues he named 2,000 years ago: injustice, exclusion, pride, greed.

[Tom Costello 🌈☘️ @caerlagan]

@stephenRB4 I can see this tweet.

[Tom Costello 🌈☘️ @caerlagan]

@SketchesbyBoze @jeannebodine A beautiful list!

[Simon Schama @simon_schama]

this is splendid and urgently needed

[Mason Mennenga @masonmennenga]

people don’t leave christianity because of jesus. they leave christianity because of christians who vote for a president who is like the opposite of jesus

[angry buni 🤬 @theangriestbuni]

Let this man Cooke.

[Tom Costello 🌈☘️ @caerlagan]

@Nickyshearsby22 Yes. It happens now and then.

[Tom Costello 🌈☘️ @caerlagan]

@mrdavidrowe I think that the main reason I'm glad to be Baptist is the Priesthood of All Believers and the way that's put into practice. Also my own local church very definitely have an Open Table.

[Tom Costello 🌈☘️ @caerlagan]

@Jolz_Aust I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord. Rom. 8:38,39

[Tom Costello 🌈☘️ @caerlagan]

@timfarron I pray that America will survive this and last 250 years and beyond.

[Simon Schama @simon_schama]

I hope all of those who, when warned before the election, about what would unfold should Trump win, and told us all to calm down and carry on, are now sleepless and contrite. It is much much worse than any of us anticipated.

[Tom Costello 🌈☘️ @caerlagan]

@MargMowczko @thejuniaproject Thank you again for this helpful clarification.

[Tom Costello 🌈☘️ @caerlagan]

@MargMowczko The main reason I responded to your tweet was your insights into verse 15, which did not seem to be too dissimilar to what I had been thinking.

[Tom Costello 🌈☘️ @caerlagan]

@MargMowczko Thanks so much for this. I will try to assimilate it and update my website. I do admit that I copied the information about the meaning from the Junia Project, and I did acknowledge this.