Joshua Dease

This account is probably closed (except when curiosity gets the better of me and I pop back on here to see if it is still as bad as I remember - it is).

[Joshua Dease @kiddashcomics]

“Jesus is the king-a-ling-a-ling-a-ling”

[Joshua Dease @kiddashcomics]

I very much identify with Dorothy Day naming her autobiography "the Long Loneliness".

[Joshua Dease @kiddashcomics]

I am extremely weary of wealthy people trying to make sure that poor people pay their fair share.

[Joshua Dease @kiddashcomics]

"Once I planned to write a book of poems entirely about things in my pockets. But I found it would be too long; and the age of the great epics is past."

-G.K. Chesterton (A Piece of Chalk)

[Mennonite Action @MennoniteAction]

“When we defile the image of God in our neighbor—our Muslim neighbor, our Jewish neighbor, our Hindu neighbor—we also defile God.” -Mennonite Pastor Melissa Florer-Bixler

[Rich Villodas @richvillodas]

Thomas Merton on how to be a pharisee in politics.

(From Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander, 1966)

[Joshua Dease @kiddashcomics]

I think we turn our backs on the hucksters, and follow through by living genuine, authentic lives with as many people as are willing to participate. This is a way to cultures and communities that build instead of drain.

Kingdom building. Homecoming. Peace making. Any term works.

[Joshua Dease @kiddashcomics]

Saw some tweets that stirred some righteous anger in me. Wrote some replies. Didn’t post them.

Decided to make some art instead. That is the only way to overcome the bullshit in this world anyway. It won’t be argued away. It won’t be disproved away. Or hot taked away.

[Joshua Dease @kiddashcomics]

@_ryancagle I want to read this.

[a. Benjamin @a_benjamin]

Via Anthony Gurrola

[Joshua Dease @kiddashcomics]

Studying Religion, Peace & Justice.

(promise)

[Joshua Dease @kiddashcomics]

@CBCCPodcast Gonna get more reboots than Spidey. But, I’m in. Haha

[Joshua Dease @kiddashcomics]

Social media for me this year:

Makes a post. Closes device. Forgets about post.

Opens device. Someone harmlessly engaged with post.

Uneasy gross feeling... deletes post.

[Joshua Dease @kiddashcomics]

We all lost that debate.

[The Daily Show @TheDailyShow]

Jon Stewart's takeaway from tonight's Biden-Trump debate

[Joshua Dease @kiddashcomics]

@a_benjamin It is somehow more depressing than I was expecting.

[Kelly Latimore Icons @KLICONS]

“God does not require us to achieve any of the good tasks that humanity must pursue. What God does require of us is that we not stop trying.”

~Bayard Rustin

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Happy Pride Month!
https://t.co/SGe70HwBK7

[Irish Literary Times @IrishLitTimes]

Ahuh.

[Mason Mennenga @masonmennenga]

i will never understand how so many christians can read the gospels and come away with “we should kill more people”

[Makoto Fujimura @iamfujimura]

Why I do not like these:

1) the artist, like van Gogh, creates paintings by first accepting the limitation of two dimensional space, invoking the transcendent in the limitations, and what paint can and cannot do - this is the essence of what art is. “The Medium is the Message”

2) while these “immersive displays” are gimmicky and “cool”, the effect destroys the contemplative elements of approaching the work to discover beauty (takes work and attentiveness to discover), and therefore the effect is ultimately one dimensional, force fed, and not generative

3) it is digitally based, therefore we are training our senses to see less, and not challenging our senses to expand our vision. Somatic journey toward sanctification of senses begins by taking in the materiality of paint in person.

I am not necessarily against the digital, or immersive. But there is a difference between “using” technology (or used by) vs creating with technology, or transcending with technology.

[Joshua Dease @kiddashcomics]

Frederick Douglass.

#makecomics #frederickdouglass #BlackHistoryMonth #BLM