Dan Pontious

Bike commuter & transit rider, Radnor-Winston Assoc. pres., child of NJ suburbs, Baltimore City parent. Tweets my own.

[James Martin, SJ @JamesMartinSJ]

NB: Jesus was often critical of those who would put family first. When Jesus' own family came from Nazareth to Capernaum to "seize" him, he was told that his mother and brothers were waiting outside a house in which he was preaching. Jesus said, "Who is my mother, and who are my brothers?”... Whoever does the will of my Father in heaven is my brother and sister and mother" (Mt 12:46-50). For Jesus, ties to the Father were more important than family ties. And responsibilities to family took second place to the demands of discipleship.

[James Martin, SJ @JamesMartinSJ]

Actually no. This misses the point of Jesus's Parable of the Good Samaritan (Lk 10: 25-37). After Jesus tells a lawyer that you should "love your neighbor as yourself," the lawyer asks him, "And who is my neighbor?"

In response, Jesus tells the story of a Jewish man who has been beaten by robbers and is lying by the side of the road. The man is helped not by those closest to him (a "priest" and a "Levite"), but rather by a Samaritan. At the time, Jews and Samaritans would have considered one another enemies.

So Jesus's fundamental message is that *everyone* is your neighbor, and that it is not about helping just your family or those closest to you. It's specifically about helping those who seem different, foreign, other. They are all our "neighbors."

But Jesus's deeper point can only be understood from the point of view of the beaten man: our ultimate salvation depends, as it did for that man, upon those whom we often consider to be the "stranger."

[Dan Pontious @danpontious]

@FreddieTheOsFan Sounds like good analysis to me. Live by the home run, die by the home run. Time to play some baseball.

[Baltimore Orioles @Orioles]

This moment between Gunnar and Elly 🥹 https://t.co/INuY6xrYUm

[Dan Pontious @danpontious]

@crazypastor 🙏🙏🙏

[Dan Pontious @danpontious]

This is one reason why baseball is so awesome.

[Baltimore Orioles @Orioles]

Milkman, Milkman, Milkman, them boys up to something.

[Alec MacGillis @AlecMacGillis]

The power of print, even in the absence of print. No digital equivalent.

[Dan Pontious @danpontious]

Just makin’ them look silly.

[Baltimore Orioles @Orioles]

Making a statement.

[Baltimore Orioles @Orioles]

Making a statement.

[Baltimore Metropolitan Council @BaltoMetroCo]

We're sharing a survey to recruit folks in our region interested in paid focus groups on transportation and housing in central Maryland. You can enter to win a $50 gift card, and we may follow up if you qualify for the focus group. Survey at https://t.co/IH4bC2iNJf

[Baltimore Metropolitan Council @BaltoMetroCo]

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[Dan Pontious @danpontious]

@CChristine19 Really powerful story. Thanks for writing about this -- I didn't know.

[Dan Pontious @danpontious]

Pitchers & catchers! ⚾️

[Baltimore Orioles @Orioles]

Clocking in 🫡

[Dan Pontious @danpontious]

Another good reminder to wear ur helmet.

[Dan Pontious @danpontious]

.@BmoreCityDOT I don’t know how to 311 this, but this speed bump thing is unsecured at 28th St. & Huntington, and I took a pretty bad spill not seeing it well in the late afternoon light (first photo). I moved it back (2nd photo), but it really needs to be nailed down.

[Dan Pontious @danpontious]

I am loving this 28th St. bike lane, but this was bad today.

[Dan Pontious @danpontious]

.@AlexCortright you are playing such an awesome set this afternoon on @WTMD! Rag & Bone by White Stripes is quite a song.

[David Folkenflik @davidfolkenflik]

The Baltimore Sun's new owner, David D. Smith, met with staffers today for more than two hours. Many left on edge.

He claimed he had read the paper just four times. He grew up here; his family's local TV empire - Sinclair - is based in Baltimore Co.

Other highlights:

[Dan Pontious @danpontious]

@MDOTMTAHolly @mtamaryland Great to hear the North-South study is moving forward. We are eagerly awaiting the results at the York Road Partnership! 🙂

[@judgeluttig @judgeluttig]

The Constitution is not a suicide pact with America's democracy. Indeed, it is the very contrary in this instance. It is plain that the entire purpose of Section 3, confirmed by its literal text,