Born again anarchist & preacher-teacher poet-theologian. Deconstructed Jesus mystic, basking in the mystery. He/him. Repenting & resisting on Cherokee land.
@DavidAFrench You know what is even more outrageous than adding a journalist to a group text about war? A group text about war. But even more outrageous than that: war.
Prominent voices in the nonviolent Christian Left in the United States are reviving Just War Theory on the corpses of Ukrainian & Russian conscripts. Baal is pleased but not Christ. Dorothy Day & Daniel Berrigan, pray for us.
@ShaneClaiborne@ShaneClaiborne Why are you repping for war? Ukrainians don't even have conscientious objectors. Men are grabbed off the street & forced into battle. No Putin No Zelensky No war. Yes to everyday Russians & Ukrainians.
America has done a lot of awful things over the years, but according to most of my "friends" on social media today refusing to support an unwinnable proxy war in a country more than 5000 miles away is the most shameful & embarrassing thing we have ever done.
my boyfriend was raised by quakers on a steady diet of pacifism and anti-fascism and i just sang the lyrics and showed him the choreography to "i'm in the lord's army."
“Hail Mary full of grace, punch the devil in the face” & by the devil I mean most American politicians of both parties. ***metaphoric punching, said the angry pacifist....
The American "left" was & is wrong about the endless arming of the war between Russia & Ukraine. As an anarchist, leftist, & religious pacifist, this breaks my heart. So many unnecessary deaths.
@DavidDark@bobsmietana@ericmetaxas@timkellernyc I have listened to sibling Charles Marsh on this & won't waste my precious waning bandwidth on this movie. We could recommend the exceptional Marsh biography & countless other resources.
@DavidDark@bobsmietana@ericmetaxas@timkellernyc Sibling @DavidDark -- here & on another platform you mention the "film we haven't seen." Why in the world would we cross a moral "picket line" of sorts to share popcorn with people who want to kill us?
Can I revoke my vote? "The party platform: no mention of police brutality. 'We need to fund the police'; ...more police on the streets in order to protect communities. Democrats also do not have opposition to the death penalty on their platform for the first time since 2012."
Watching Gen Z men veer right hits different for Millennials. We lived through Columbine, 9/11, the Iraq War, 2008 crash, 2016 election, covid, abortion bans, & now this. We watched institutions repeatedly fail us while older generations selfishly protected the status quo. 🧵1/
JD Vance is the The Hillbilly Forgery. Hopefully, now his connections to Purdue Pharma and his fake opioid nonprofit will be exposed. Here is our statement. https://t.co/iUh6A6SmcM
@ShaneClaiborne Yes @ShaneClaiborne yes. Not just Gaza, also Ukraine. Also all armies, all terrorists, all police, all prisons, & every gun or bomb, & every flag that is a banner for such barbarity.
@TaylorMatthewD Even though I was trying to reduce social media scrolling in the collective anxiety fallout, I quickly lost count of the number of times I saw secular leftist liberal types were posting Revelation 13:3 in full.
@BradleyOnishi All violence & political violence inudes Gaza & Ukraine, all police & prisons, all terror cells & all armies, & all banners & flags that glorify these. If you have not read the statement by @CornelWest, a good place to start.
This is only for the people who got furious with me over that last video (which was bound to happen eventually). If you’re NOT furious with me then feel free to keep on a-scrollin’