Dennae Pierre

Jesus follower, wife to my best friend @pastorvp, mother of 5. Co-Lead @cretecollective, @citytocityna, & @surgenetwork

[Dennae Pierre @dennaepierre]

@Seth_Troutt ✋🏽 feminist who loves hideous strength & I guess like everything else in the world, it all depends on the lens you read through

[Dennae Pierre @dennaepierre]

@lukedsimmons @EndWokeness You're not acting like the Luke I know you have in you. You're acting like a two faced ass ... saving my words for another week or two. But get some perspective.

[Dennae Pierre @dennaepierre]

Reason #720,386,799 for never never

[Mike Cosper @MikeCosper]

Letting my never be never never felt so good.

[Dennae Pierre @dennaepierre]

How many times have you been to the border @briankruck ? How much time with sex trafficked women or taking care of abused? Maybe we shouldn't "consider" this false dichotomy, but get involved. Especially when your president isnt putting us at risk of open borders.

[Brian Kruckenberg @briankruck]

The conversation about immigration policy is an important one. As Christians, we are clearly taught to show compassion to the foreigner/alien/stranger in our midst.

Yet, we must also consider the lack of compassion that an open border policy shows. Sex trafficking, sexual abuse, drug running, using children as pawns, and many more atrocities are encouraged without common sense border protections.

In sum, the heart of the Christian citizen must always regard the alien and stranger as our equal and worthy of the same respect. And, the mind of the Christian citizen cannot be so naive to think that allowing unfettered and unvetted access to a country is in any way reflective of a government that is conducting itself in the ways that scripture advocates.

[Dennae Pierre @dennaepierre]

What are you
willing
to sacrifice
to create
a more beautiful
world?

What beauty
are you willing
to sacrifice,
to get by
in this world?

My answer?
Everything.
Nothing.

[Dennae Pierre @dennaepierre]

My newest pondering/ writing about the lost Christian practice of regularly gazing at the dying body of Jesus. Much of American Christianity proclaims a Christ-less cross. https://t.co/fFQFUNP4hf via @missioalliance

[The Crete Collective @cretecollective]

Our #FreedomToPlant campaign continues until midnight July 4th. Before you finishing grilling and shooting fireworks, help us plant more churches in neglected and vulnerable Black and Brown neighborhoods. Here are 6 reasons to do so:

[Dennae Pierre @dennaepierre]

Our scars are perhaps the thin tissue Christ's light shines brightest if we remember because of his love, the most tender places have been healed....

[Rasool Berry @rasoolberry]

Speak from your scars, not your wounds. @burnsclan_ #joyandjustice23

[Dennae Pierre @dennaepierre]

In a religious system that didn't purify a leaper w/out payment, Jesus touched him & sent him back healed to the priests as protest. Jesus became unclean in order to make a leaper clean. Who are we willing to become unclean & no longer welcome inside the city for? (Mark 1:45)

[Dennae Pierre @dennaepierre]

"If the church refuses to face the stern reality of sin,it will gain no credence when it talks of forgiveness.Such a church sins against its sacred trust& walks unworthy of the gospel. It is an unholy church,squandering the precious treasure of the Lords forgiveness." Bonehoeffer

[John DelHousaye @jdelhousaye]

New Seeds

[Dennae Pierre @dennaepierre]

“The church, when it really serves the poor, is the place where the violence of the world is overcome with the violence of love.” -Oscar Romero

[Dennae Pierre @dennaepierre]

@NotUnderBondage @butlerjosh Barbara, thank you for your vulnerability & sharing honestly about your PTSD and the feeling of drowning for a week. I resonate/relate. I respect your willingness to share your story and the fact that you read and engaged the work further.

[Dennae Pierre @dennaepierre]

@OctaviusIV But I also don't think we can or should ever substitute lives where we aren't seeking embodied community we can repent to (not sure it's ever easy). The more we do it in the intimacy of our physcial lives, the easier it is to imagine it in a virtual "public" space.

[Dennae Pierre @dennaepierre]

@OctaviusIV I think even online you can start with listening to understand, confrssion, demonstration of humility, curiosity, and teachability...make committments to learn something new, follow through on those committments, or even give yourself a long timeout from using certain platforms.

[Dennae Pierre @dennaepierre]

@OctaviusIV 2/2 The entire internet can cancel you, but a community that is able to hold your worst actions, ignorant oversights, and unique beauty is one that empowers you to repair harm & live with peace when the entire world still sees you as whatever is frozen in time.

[Dennae Pierre @dennaepierre]

@OctaviusIV (1/2) I dont know that the online space is where we can.... but we learn to live into our forgiven identities in committed friendships & community. We dont minimize or erase what happened, but we also have our belovedness re-narrated through our communal practices.

[Dennae Pierre @dennaepierre]

I wonder if crying is one way to convert anger to the truer and deeper thing: grief, betrayal, powerlessness, sorrow, vulnerablity to harm. Anger is like bracing yourself for impact. Those deeper places are the tender spots love can penetrate and heal.

[Dr. Nicole LePera @Theholisticpsyc]

Tears are your nervous systems regulation at work. Cry. Suppressing tears blocks your body’s ability to release the emotion.