Greg McCaw

Emerging in faith, life, love and service! Convener - Emergent Wilmington; Founding member/singer/recording artist - Micah's Rule!

[Greg McCaw @EmergentGreg]

Again, Keith Olbermann comes through... in this video, he voices exactly how I feel. Exactly what I believe to... https://t.co/B21O02F5ge

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

🤡 This guy is seriously unhinged and any Christian who voted for him should be ashamed of themselves.

[Brian Krassenstein @krassenstein]

BREAKING: Massive protest in New York City just now.

I don’t remember a single protest this large against Joe Biden.

We now have had protests like this for weeks all across the nation. People see Trump as a danger to our democracy.

[💙Brittney💙 @AZ_Brittney]

Totally! 💯

[Neil deGrasse Tyson @neiltyson]

Been thinking a lot lately about the morals of Jesus of Nazareth.

As a tan man from the Middle East, if Jesus were an undocumented American immigrant, I wonder if angry mobs would get ICE to deport him — especially for speaking out against greed and advocating for the poor.

[Shane Claiborne @ShaneClaiborne]

A little reflection for Good Friday...

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We call it Holy Week. But it was a terrible week.

His trial reeked of injustice. His own disciple sold him out for a few pieces of silver, betrayed him with a kiss… and hung himself.
As he was arrested, one of his closest friends disregarded all his teaching on love – pulled out a knife – and cut a guy’s ear off. (Jesus called him out… and healed the other guy). A lot of the stuff that happened that first holy week was pretty unholy.

Once arrested, he was passed back and forth between politicians and bureaucrats. There was Caiaphas the priest, the Sanhedrin council, Pontius Pilate, the crowd – everyone seemed to want him dead, but no one wanted blood on their hands. Even Pilate washed his clean.

They had all kinds of accusations… Insurrection. Inciting a riot. Conspiracy. Terrorism (plotting to destroy the temple). Blasphemy.

But all he did was love. And heal. And give people hope.
Despite any substantial evidence, witnesses, or signs of any crime committed – he was pronounced guilty and sentenced to die.

As he awaited his fate, he was bullied, interrogated, harassed, tortured, beaten to a pulp. The authorities humiliated him and stripped him naked. They mocked the claims of his divinity – ramming a crown of thorns onto his head and wrapping him in a royal purple robe as they laughed.

And so it went. This man who many believe was the holy one that the prophets spoke of, the long awaited Messiah, God incarnate, love with skin on – was executed, brutally. He died with his body convulsing as his lungs collapsed, with vultures swarming overhead, hoping to clean up after the execution. There is nothing more evil than what happened that “Good” Friday.
Most of his friends deserted him and left him to fend for himself. Some of them were so scared they denied even knowing him. Only the women stayed. The long loneliness was so agonizing, so gut-wrenching, he felt like God had bailed on him. Among his last words were these: “My God, My God… why have you forsaken me?”

But even though it was a gruesome week – love gets the last word. We call it “Good” Friday because it wasn’t just death that made the news – but resurrection. The empire, the cross, the bloodshed was not the end of the story. On the cross Jesus made a spectacle of evil – he exposed the hatred we are capable of. And he triumphed over that hatred with love. He died with forgiveness on his lips. Just as he came to set the oppressed free, he also came to set oppressors free.

Holy Week is not just about the resurrection – it is also about the cross. Without Good Friday there is no Easter. But we can’t leave Jesus on the cross. In the end this is a resurrection story. Holy week is about a God who suffers with us – bleeds with us, cries with us, hopes with us. As we celebrate Holy Week, let’s connect the passion of Christ with the passion of the streets. As we remember the violence inflicted on Jesus, we remember the crucified peoples of our world, the victims of violence today.
One of the most powerful Good Friday services we’ve ever had was a few years ago. We carried the cross into the streets and planted it outside the gun shop in our neighborhood. We had our services there. We read the story of Jesus’s death… and heard about the women weeping at the foot of the cross. And then we listened to the women in our neighborhood weep as they shared about losing their kids to gun violence.

Calvary met Kensington.

Afterwords, one woman said to me: “I get it! I get it!” I asked her what she meant. And then she said something more profound than anything I ever learned in seminary: “God understands my pain. God knows how I feel. God watched his Son die too.” Then I realized she was the mother of a 19-year-old who had just been murdered on our block.

God understands our pain. That is good theology for Good Friday. And that kind of theology only happens when we connect the Bible to the world we live in.

[Brian Krassenstein @krassenstein]

BREAKING: Remember this video of a Democratic woman being was dragged out of a Republican Townhall in Idaho? Remember how MAGA claimed that the security officers acted appropriately?

They were ALL just charged.

Here are their Names/Charges.

- Paul Trouette – Battery, false imprisonment, security agent uniform violation, security agent duties violation 

- Alex Trouette IV – Security agent uniform violation, security agent duties violation 

- Russell Dunne – Battery, false imprisonment, security agent uniform violation, security agent duties violation 

- Chistofer Berge – Battery, false imprisonment, security agent uniform violation, security agent duties violation 

- Jesse Jones – Battery, false imprisonment, security agent uniform violation, security agent duties violation 

- Michael Keller – Battery

[BrooklynDad_Defiant!☮️ @mmpadellan]

Right wingers sure are making a big deal out of people having tattoos as being some kind of proof that they're gang members or terrorists.

Which gang is this guy a member of?

[Shannon Watts @shannonrwatts]

Easter message from an incompetent maniac.

[Shane Claiborne @ShaneClaiborne]

This is Trump’s Easter message.

Someone tell him - Easter is about Jesus. It is the day Christ rose from the dead.

Trump-evangelicalism is a cult.
You cannot serve two masters.
Follow Jesus… not Trump.

Christ is King. Donald Trump is not.
Hallelujah!

[Greg McCaw @EmergentGreg]

@RomanVelluto Top! I want your ass!

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

BREAKING NEWS

Trump CAVES again and postpones all tariffs on Canada after millions of dollars of goods were already removed from Canadian shelves.

In return, Canada has agreed to continue commitments already agreed to under Biden. Art of the deal. 🤡

[Morgan J. Freeman @mjfree]

I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget what Trump did.

[James Martin, SJ @JamesMartinSJ]

In its simplest terms, the apparent demise of #USAID is the result of the world's richest man ending a program that helps millions of poor people. You don't need a Ph.D. in moral theology to see why this is an evil. You can just read Jesus's parables on the rich and the poor.

[Michael de Adder @deAdder]

The Globe and Mail

[Adam Kinzinger (Slava Ukraini) 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @AdamKinzinger]

Dear Democratic Leaders: here’s a free idea, send members of congress into the buildings where Elons people are and see what they’re doing. Dare them to stop you.

Do something