Chinese-American, New Orleanian who treats my dog like my first born, is always thinking about food & eating, and on my best days, works for justice and peace.
Critiquing a gun-related bill today, TX Rep. James Talarico—a Presbyterian seminarian—rejected 'thoughts and prayers' rhetoric.
"There is something profoundly cynical about asking God to solve a problem that we're not willing to solve ourselves. God moves, God works through us."
#GA225 commissioners approve HSB-11 Affirming Reproductive Justice by a vote of 348-38. The item affirms pregnant people are full moral agents and have the moral capacity to make decisions about pregnancy. The item also asks the #PCUSA to support them in their decision making.
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📬 I delivered “Protect Voting Rights; Oppose SB7 & HB6” from Kathy, a constituent in Dallas, Texas, to Rep. Turner and Sen. Johnson #TXpolitics
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The death penalty is fundamentally a poor person’s issue. Over nearly 40 years of visiting death row facilities across the United States, I have never met a single person with money or resources. Capital punishment means “those without the capital get the punishment.”
On today, the Feast of the Epiphany, I am reminded that an insecure ruler named Herod was so threatened by the birth of Jesus that he tried to overthrow the result by putting a hit out on a toddler.
For 30 years, Mr. Hinton was stripped of all his rights while he sat on Alabama's death row for a crime he didn't commit. This morning, he arrived at the polls and exercised his right to vote. #ElectionDay#Vote2020
I’m obsessed with the energy of this NextDoor vigilante whose hobby is going places people on NextDoor say bad things about and writing “actually it’s good.”
@Sarcasticluther I have loved so many of these! All of these replies are reminding me to get caught up on Season 2. I think what I love most is the honesty around our brokenness and the sheer magnitude of God’s grace evident in our lives. I wept listening to Lenny’s exchange with his daughter.
Why has the United States handled this pandemic so badly? The Editors note that although we came into this crisis with enormous advantages, our current political leaders have demonstrated that they are dangerously incompetent.