Gemma

Mom to 6, clergy wife. I’m trying to do justly, love mercy, walk humbly with God, and be known for loving and following Jesus. ❤️

[Gemma @wardcircus]

My 11 year old daughter was diagnosed with brain cancer today. Specifically DIPG. We would be honored and love it if you would pray for us. 🥹 Her name is Zoe. ❤️

[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

To everyone so eager to cancel someone for a tattoo they got at age 22, a drunk text, a selfie they took in the middle of a mental health crisis:

Show us your laptop.
Show us your iCloud.
Open your entire digital life to your worst enemy. No context. No filter. No explanation.

You won’t.

You won’t because you know what I know. Any one of us, frozen at our worst moment, photographed in our lowest hour, looks like a monster. Looks like a stranger. Looks like someone who deserves to be cast out.

That is not who we are.

My mom and baby sister were killed in a car accident when I was just a kid. Cancer took my brother Beau, my best friend and my rock. I battled alcoholism. I battled addiction. I chose the coward’s way out more times than I can count.

For years I believed the defining chapters of my life were written by tragedy, loss, and shame.

I no longer believe that.

Pain can shape us. Loss can humble us. Failures can leave scars that never fully fade. But none of them have the authority to define us.

And it sure as hell ain’t the critic that counts.

That authority belongs to us alone-the person in the arena.

Every setback presents a choice. Play the victim, or cut the bullshit and take ownership for who we become next.

Life does not determine our character. It reveals it.

Again and again we are asked the same question. When shit happens, what next?

We are not defined by what happened to us. We are not defined by the worst photo, the worst text, the worst tattoo, the worst night. We are defined by the person we choose to become. And by the courage to choose that person, every single day.

So before you reach for the gavel - show us your laptop.

You won’t.

The whole world saw mine. And I am still here. Still becoming. Still choosing. Still standing.

That is the only definition that matters.

[PlainSpoken @PlainSpokenPod]

The Southern Baptist Convention is hemorrhaging churches — not because of theology, but because of dishonest institutional maneuvering. People don't only leave over doctrine. They also leave when they find out the people they trusted shouldn't have been trusted.

[Gemma @wardcircus]

@davidmb1989 Knowing what I know now, I will never trust an SBC church or their leaders with me or my children.

It is sad because I know so many of them and know they love Jesus…but you are *not safe* if you can overlook abuse, minimize women, and protect men in leadership.

[Gemma @wardcircus]

@davidmb1989 As a woman, I am free to finally be myself and have a voice in my nondenominational church. It is healing parts of me that have been ashamed to be a woman and felt loved less by God for my whole life.

[Gemma @wardcircus]

@Ben_Dennis_ @davidmb1989 Your poor daughter. 😢

[Dr. Kevin M. Young @kevinmyoung]

The SBC just banned women from pulpits.

Same convention. Same week. They elected a president who called their sexual abuse crisis a "hoax."

Not just ironic, it’s abuse.

The research is clear. The history is documented.

Women: it's time to run.

🔗 https://t.co/bBoVGCuYzC

[Josiah Hawthorne @JosiahHawthorne]

Any time I am tempted to take the SBC seriously, I remember two years ago when these two breakout sessions happened back-to-back...

[ClergySexualAbuseSurvivor @AbuseClergy]

@kevinmyoung It shows just how low they will go, calling clergy sexual abuse a “hoax”, meanwhile they are subjugating more than half of their membership. @meredithstone absolutely nails them in this @ABC interview!

https://t.co/GoO1ELcvze

[Brian Dembowczyk @BrianDembo]

How quickly the SBC went from "Let's do whatever is needed to address abuse, even if that means waiving privilege" to "let's elect a president who believes abuse reform was weaponized."

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

🚨 HOLY SMOKES.

Pam Bondi reportedly told House investigators the FBI had already “scrubbed” or redacted Epstein survivor interview documents BEFORE they even reached the DOJ.

Read that again slowly.

The DOJ is now allegedly saying:
the FBI filtered material BEFORE Justice Department officials received it.

Which immediately raises another question:

WHO decided what got removed?

Because now Bondi is reportedly pointing at Todd Blanche…

while lawmakers are saying they need to question Kash Patel next about what documents were withheld, altered, or missing entirely.

[Gemma @wardcircus]

@BenMorrow25 @Brent_Hobbs The rules change when it isn’t *white* men we are speaking to.

[Gemma @wardcircus]

@Digitalnitro1 @MichelleObama 🤦🏻‍♀️🙄🙄🙄🙄

[Jürgen Nauditt 🇩🇪🇺🇦 @jurgen_nauditt]

This is the repugnant character of a man who has spent his entire life expecting others to clean up his mess. A person completely incapable of taking responsibility—even for the smallest gesture.

This is precisely what makes him so dangerous and unsuitable as president: Someone who treats everything like dirt and expects his subordinates to clean up after him will treat a country the same way. Without respect, without a sense of responsibility, without any consideration for those who will come after him.

This is not the kind of character one wishes upon the president of the United States. This is the character of a spoiled, ruthless egomaniac.

[Eli McGowan @elimcgowan]

I regret all the times I cared more about politics and more about theology than the simple Gospel of Jesus Christ and His love for us.

Back in the fall of 2024, when I was embedded in Asheville with a non-denominational church doing everything for their neighbors, I saw so much Jesus in them and in their love for neighbor.

I’d seen that same love in the charismatic Oregon fishermen we profiled during 2023 on another docu project, who talked about Jesus all day in the midst of their rough language, and went home the most sincere prayer with family someone could be part of.

I saw it in Iraqi Christian refugees of unknown denomination I met in Germany, who opened up their houses and gave their guests everything they had.

It’s the defining mark of the church and the church’s martyrs throughout history and all around the globe.

"By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another."

[💕 Brittany Belle 💕 @BrittanyinTexas]

DON’T LET THIS STORY DIE.

A sitting congressman, Ted Lieu, said on the record the Epstein files are being blocked because they show Trump raped and threatened to kill children.

This is a national emergency.

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

BREAKING: Protesters in Hungary have flooded the streets in open defiance of Viktor Orbán and his ally Vladimir Putin demanding an end to creeping authoritarianism.

Mainstream media is barely touching it. Let’s make sure the world sees it.

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

🚨Congressman Salud Carbajal to Pete Hegseth in a congressional hearing:

“You are an embarrassment. You are unfit to lead. Get the hell out.”

This is a sitting congressman. On the record. In a hearing. To the Secretary of Defense.

The same Pete Hegseth who:

— Refused to give a casualty count when asked directly
— Hid 30 wounded soldiers in Kuwait from their families
— Told his 13-year-old son Americans died to stop a nuclear Iran that didn’t exist
— Banned cameras from military funerals
— Said consumer pain is “the last of our concerns”
— Drew maps of “Greater North America”
— Asked for $200 billion in weapons while accusing Iran of choosing weapons over people

Bipartisan members of Congress have called for his resignation.

[David French @DavidAFrench]

I love this crew. What tremendous ambassadors for the space program.