Lisa Jackson Tresch

Adoptee. Former city desk reporter, magazine editor and nonprofit founder. Author of Move the Needle. PR proud 🇵🇷

[Angry Staffer @Angry_Staffer]

Guys, it’s not over yet.

The frustrating part to me is that if this was Karl Harris vs Donald Trump, Democrats would be winning by double digits.

[Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @AOC]

🇵🇷 Eyes on Puerto Rico:

Tonight Puerto Ricans amassed the second largest political rally this ENTIRE cycle - behind only Harris’ 75k-person Ellipse speech.

Over 50,000 Boricuas rallying for the anti-Trump, anti-corruption Alianza movement & @juandalmauPR.

Political earthquake.

[Yashar Ali 🐘 @yashar]

NEW

Bad Bunny just posted this video to his Instagram account which has 45 million followers.

The caption on the post is “Garbage.”

It is basically a love letter to Puerto Rico and about having pride in being Puerto Rican.

It features footage of extraordinary Puerto Ricans as well.

[Shane Claiborne @ShaneClaiborne]

27 years ago today.

On September 19,1997 -- musical legend Rich Mullins died in a tragic car accident.

Here's a little tribute I wrote to Rich...

I know many of you don't know his name -- he died before you were born... he lived before the internet was much of a thing... before Facebook, way before Twitter, etc. I know it's hard to imagine that ancient world back in the 1900s.
But Rich Mullins is a name I want us to pass on to our kids and grandkids.

He had Quaker roots, and you could hear his disdain for violence in his songs, with lyrics like: "Why do the nations rage? Why do they plot and scheme? The bullets can't stop the prayers we pray in the name of the Prince of Peace."

He often joked about how surprising it was that so many evangelicals took him seriously. He said things that--even though they came straight from the Gospels-- were at odds with what had come to characterize much of evangelicalism in the 1980s and 1990s.

Here's one of my favorite quotes:
“Christianity is not about building an absolutely secure little niche in the world where you can live with your perfect little wife and your perfect little children in your beautiful little house where you have no gays or minority groups anywhere near you. Christianity is about learning to love like Jesus loved and Jesus loved the poor and Jesus loved the broken... This, I know, will go against the teachings of all the popular evangelical preachers. But they're wrong. They are not bad, they're just wrong.” -- Rich Mullins (he said that in the 1990s)

I can remember when I was at Wheaton College. Rich spoke in chapel and told this very evangelical audience essentially this: "You're all into the 'born-again' thing. And that's great -- Jesus said that to a man named Nicodemus, to enter the Kingdom of God you need to be born again... But if you tell me that I've got to be born again, I can tell you that you need to sell everything you have and give it to the poor. Because Jesus said that to one guy too. But I guess that's why God invented highlighters... so we can highlight the parts we like."

That's what I love about Rich -- he spoke truth, and laughed as he did it. He had the winsomeness of a kid, and the wisdom of an elder.

There's an old story about Rich and his buddy riding on a train. As they travelled, they began to share some of their deepest struggles, pouring out their souls, including some of the not-so-pretty stuff. As they arrived at the station, one of the passengers in front of them recognized Rich, and said, "Excuse me, are you Rich Mullins?" Rich said that he immediately began to rehearse in his mind all of the things she might have heard him say... and he had to decide whether or not he was Rich Mullins. And of course, he looked her in the face, smiling, and said, "Yes... I am Rich Mullins." He owned his funk, and he gave us permission to own ours.

He struggled with his own darkness, loneliness, sexuality. And because of that, he is an inspiration to all ragamuffins. He's a reminder that the world out there is not looking for Christians who are perfect, but they are looking for Christians who are honest.

When people remind me that the church is full of hypocrites I often say -- inspired by Rich-- "No we aren't full of hypocrites... we always have room for more." Rich Mullins reminds us that this whole Christian thing is not about how good we are, but how good God is. The Church is a bunch of imperfect people falling in love with a perfect God, and hopefully becoming more like the one we Love.

[Republican Accountability @AccountableGOP]

Ronald Reagan: “Can we doubt that only a divine providence placed this land...here as a refuge for all those people in the world who yearn to breathe freely: Jews and Christians…the boat people of Southeast Asia, of Cuba and of Haiti?”
https://t.co/CWJztdPp7N

[Zach W. Lambert @ZachWLambert]

I can think of very few things less Christlike than chanting “SEND THEM BACK” while proudly waving “MASS DEPORTATION NOW” signs.

Jesus said the way we treat immigrants and foreigners is the way we treat him.

[Lisa Jackson Tresch @LisaTresch]

On page 155 of 320 of Maame, by Jessica George https://t.co/WCcSFpzm0d

[Mason Mennenga @masonmennenga]

when white evangelicals have an eschatology that needs as much war and destruction as possible in order for jesus to come back, it makes sense why they support policies that cause as much war and destruction as possible

[Ken Burns @KenBurns]

We are at a critical point in our country’s history. If you do not understand the complexities and promise of our past, you cannot imagine a better future. We either invest in the humanities, including history and civics, or we forfeit our democracy. https://t.co/kMzhDRpj7x

[Middle Church @middlechurch]

Your #MayDay reminder: the Bible says nothing about abortion but relentlessly condemns wage theft.

[Lisa Jackson Tresch @LisaTresch]

And all I can think about is how I don’t care about the books because that mattress is too thin for words

[Into The Forest Dark @ElliottBlackwe3]

The reader in me is asking: Where have you been all my life?

[Mason Mennenga @masonmennenga]

my favorite part of the bible is when jesus said it’s easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than an lgbtq person to go to heaven

[Lisa Jackson Tresch @LisaTresch]

Amazing on #NationalSiblingDay to post a photo of me with one of my four brothers. So many adoptees never know if they have siblings out there, but keep searching and resisting the systems that keep us from our truth. #adopteetwitter

[Middle Church @middlechurch]

“The other Jesus? The white, Aryan, bearer of AR-15s—the hater of women, queer folks, Jews, Black people, poor people?

We need to bury that Jesus. We don’t have time to play with hatred pretending to be love.” - @RevJacquiLewis

[Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove @wilsonhartgrove]

1 reason MLK’s “Letter from a Birmingham Jail” touched so many Americans was b/c he wrote it on Easter Weekend.

If you try to betray justice on Thursday & crucify truth on Friday, you might think you’ve won on Saturday. But Sunday’s coming.

[Shane Claiborne @ShaneClaiborne]

Here it is… predictably, members of the Trump cult compare him to Jesus during Holy Week. Trump-evangelicalism really is a religious cult.

[Lisa Jackson Tresch @LisaTresch]

@lindaholmes

[Lisa Jackson Tresch @LisaTresch]

@MerriamWebster ONE and FIVE are the same, yes? And yes to both.

[Scott Simon @nprscottsimon]

This will be a tough week at NPR. Much sad news. Great talents and familiar voices will be missed. But all will carry on. I know I say this in a lot of promos. But please let me say it now, too: if the work we do means something to you, please help your local station. Thank you.

[Lisa Jackson Tresch @LisaTresch]

@NiallHarbison This is beautiful.