Laurie Gates-Ward

UM Pastor, love God and my family. Heart ❤️ Warrior, she/her/hers

[Laurie Gates-Ward @crossandflame68]

@KarlieChronicle @CelesteFinally The evangelical right has destroyed the church’s reputation in this world. As a pastor I spend every day trying to counteract it. But I’m so very tired.

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@_MKNLY @tojisluvr @reveIIer The fact that you don’t means you are an awful human being.

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@jongault_523581 @appacuseme Voting for a racist, misogynistic, cheat means you endorse racism, misogyny and cheating. No other way to spin it.

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@natgrace79 Easy to say from your position of privilege.

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@EdKrassen Try again. She lost because she is a black woman and they voted for the white man who hates the people they hate.

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@msleen1970 @harryjsisson They sure did and they had help from white men and Hispanic voters.

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@DogginTrump Watching Big Bang Theory for at least the next hour or so.

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@lookingglasself @techgirl1908 You can stay in the sun that long without a sunburn???:)

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@techgirl1908 Some of us do....but I worry about the rest....the track record isn't great.

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@maureen_Down @Dylan_spores She didn't have depression and anxiety. She had POTS.

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@broadwaybabyto Thank you for this thread. I am so sorry you experienced this. My daughter went through misdiagnosis before her POTS diagnosis as well. She was 14 at onset and could barely get out of bed. Docs tried to say it was depression/migraines. It was POTS.

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@AntifaWearsPink @BradMossEsq The way his people are standing behind him as he gets in reminds me of how I stand behind my 92 year old mom when she gets in a car.

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@PastorBenMarsh Maybe it’s a “black job.” Didn’t Mike Johnson complain about inflammatory rhetoric last week? So he didn’t mean it actually? Shocking.

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@realeverywriter Oh way more than that. I am never more than a couple of feet away from a book in my house.

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@dianabutlerbass Thank you! Pray for those of us shepherding our flocks through this.

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@dianabutlerbass As a pastor of a purple church I am skirting challenging realities. Feel like I’m not doing enough, Doing a series on biblical qualities of good leadership. Encouraging voting. What would you be doing right now?

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@jkbjournalist @tide Earth Breeze sheets clean well and are better for the environment. Really easy to pack for trips as well.

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@MrDanielBuck It’s attitudes like this that have created an ill informed electorate. My kids had a mock election when they were in Elementary School to help them understand the process. They didn’t know who their teachers were voting for. But they knew about the election.

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@TheOnlyEsta Absolutely not.

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@PeteButtigieg Yeah, but they are still unsure and need people to pander to them to convince them who to vote for.