Mel Partain Moore

Talk to me about Scotch, Antarctica, SQL, learning every day, exploring around the world and in our own back yard, joining God in making all things new.

[Mel Partain Moore @melpmoore]

@oureric I am so delighted to realize that the @oureric who gave a phenomenal talk at #evolvingfaith2022 is the SAME @oureric who eviscerated stbx's Rainbow Unicorn frappucchino for Elle back in 2017. Laughed soup out of my nose re-reading it tonight

[Mel Partain Moore @melpmoore]

.@prophiphop throwing shade on papyrus font makes me sing #evolvingfaith2022

[Mel Partain Moore @melpmoore]

Remind us that any belonging that requires us to sacrifice any aspect of our true selves at the altar is not belonging, it is bondage. @blackLiturgist #EvolvingFaith2022

[Mel Partain Moore @melpmoore]

@Lisa4839 @SarahBessey 💯

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Oh, @SarahBessey, cracking it all wide open. Finding all that life burried deep inside our grief. Oh, my heart #EvolvingFaith2022

[Mel Partain Moore @melpmoore]

#EvolvingFaith2022 @SarahBessey coming in hot naming our collective anger, exhaustion, shame, doubt, exclusion, confusion, grief. Holding space for each of us.

[Mel Partain Moore @melpmoore]

How is each speaker more powerful and prophetic than the next?? I will need to listen to that word from @oholyshift about a billion more times #EvolvingFaith2022

[Evolving Faith @EvolvFaith]

"How offensive are you? Do you find more time trying to find the right applesauce for the hard pills that you’re preaching and teaching than summoning the courage you’ll need to preach and teach?" @oholyshift #EvolvingFaith2022

[Mel Partain Moore @melpmoore]

The Gospel has nothing to do with becoming successful or with self-preservation of any kind. Will you engage in justice work that's more than exchanging one rung for another on the ladder of white righteousness @oholyshift #EvolvingFaith2022

[Mel Partain Moore @melpmoore]

"The more Jesus settled into his call, the more trouble he was in. ... From the start he was a doomed man. A life with Jesus is a life of downward mobility. It is a life of intimacy with hopelessness." @oholyshift #EvolvingFaith2022

[JLNeyhart on all the apps @JLNeyhart]

“I was malnourished by a high-fructose corn-syrupy theology diet of Christianity that traded moral courage and the risk of state execution for bully pulpits that were pretty and big enough to hide all of the sexual, economic and ethical abuse." @oholyshift #EvolvingFaith2022

[Mel Partain Moore @melpmoore]

"My faith has not mended my broken heart. God has not fulfilled all of my longings. I feel like I make my bed in the wilderness." @oholyshift #EvolvingFaith2022

[Mel Partain Moore @melpmoore]

"Malnourished on corn syrup Christianity." @oholyshift What a perfect description. #EvolvingFaith2022

[Mel Partain Moore @melpmoore]

.@oholyshift "our justice work was really charity work. We just wanted to give everyone what we had so they'd be respectable like us ... [This was] our filthy rags righteousness." Wow. Spot on. #EvolvingFaith2022

[Mel Partain Moore @melpmoore]

"Even in the midst of a miracle, we find something to complain about" #EvolvingFaith2022
@marcoprefersnot is calling me out!

[Mel Partain Moore @melpmoore]

@EvolvFaith @JenniferNeyhart @marcoprefersnot Whoops! Thanks!

[Mel Partain Moore @melpmoore]

Needed another 30 min in that breakout session on disagreement. So good (and I caught up with an old friend who was in the same session!) #EvolvingFaith2022

[Mel Partain Moore @melpmoore]

#EvolvingFaith2022 @EvolvFaith thank you. To listen to and learn from such a diverse group of wise, courageous, compassionate, honest, and (shockingly!) patient people is a gift beyond measure. I am overflowing, energized, and stunned into seeing in new ways.

[Mel Partain Moore @melpmoore]

@Tanya_Marlow Yes, yes, yes. This conference is a breath of fresh air

[Mel Partain Moore @melpmoore]

Conversation around rootedness in liminal, shifting, migratory places makes me think of Rich Mullin's song, Land of My Sojourn. This land is my country, but it's not my home. #EvolvingFaith2022