And then for our lectio divina practice, we read excerpts from @poetdavidwhyte's "Still Possible." Thank you to @kurtsimonson for choosing the song and the poem, for creating the graphic (with his own photograph!), and for reading so beautifully for us tonight. 🙏🏼❤️🏳️🌈
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Things that did _not_ kill kids today:
- a renaissance sculpture
- a film about Ruby Bridges
- drag queen story time
- the word ‘tampon’
- critical race theory
- woke banks
- saying that Rosa Parks was Black
- gender-affirming care
- ‘The Bluest Eye’
What did:
-an AR-f––ing-15
Looking back on my Evangelical upbringing, one of the most notable characteristics I found so troubling was the fragile picture it painted of Christianity for our world. One it still paints today.🧵
For the past several months, my team and I have been designing the new zoological park coming to the Sacramento region. First major public US zoo in decades. Working with SHR and Sac Zoo. Here’s what happens when you let a bunch of former Disney Imagineers create a kickass zoo!!
We’re fed up with these mass shootings—and so are the 24 other organizations joining us (watch until the end). Hit the RT button and vote on 11/8 if you are too. #vote#passtheban
"Students graduating from Seattle Pacific University (SPU) were seen giving the president of the school LGBT pride flags as part of a protest against the school's ban on allowing full-time staff to be in same-sex relationships."
https://t.co/9F0HSDyfEE