Matt Huffman

Come to think of it, Avengers Infinity War offers a good critique of rapture theology.

Today I’m watching Avengers Infinity War to celebrate the coming rapture.

“Instructions for living life:
Pay attention.
Be astonished.
Tell about it.”
- Mary Oliver

Despite bond being set, Ernesto Manuel-Andres to remain detained - Bowling Green Daily News The Department of Homeland Security has blocked the release of Ernesto Manuel-Andres, despite a federal immigration judge ordering that he be released on bond, according to the nonprofit working with ...

Update on Ernesto, an 18-year-old in Bowling Green, KY who was taken by ICE: “The Department of Homeland Security has blocked the release of Ernesto Manuel-Andres, despite a federal immigration judge ordering that he be released on bond, according to the nonprofit working with him.”

“I will try.
I will step from the house to see what I see and hear and I will praise it.
I did not come into this world to be comforted.
I came, like redbird, to sing.”
-Mary Oliver

Israeli forces kill or injure 11 Palestinians awaiting food trucks, say Gaza officials

Eleven Palestinians were killed or injured on Tuesday morning after Israeli forces opened fire on a crowd waiting for food trucks in central Gaza, civil defence officials said.

University of Michigan using undercover investigators to surveil student Gaza protesters

The University of Michigan is using private, undercover investigators to surveil pro-Palestinian campus groups, the Guardian has learned.

Did you know that the working class includes trans people? You're acquiescing to a right wing fantasy alienated from the history of the left. Worker struggles have always most successfully advanced by understanding and integrating, not denying, the many ways people are oppressed and marginalized.

“If the deepest ground of my being is love, then in that very love itself and nowhere else will I find myself, and the world, and my [neighbor] and Christ. It is not a question of either-or but of all-in-one.” Thomas Merton

“Prayer… never touches us as long as it remains on the surface of our lives, as long as it is nothing but one more of the thousand things that must be done. It is only when prayer becomes ‘the one thing necessary’ that real prayer begins.” Jim Finley

🇵🇸 Today, May 15th, Palestinians mark 77 years of the Nakba, or catastrophe. Decades later, Palestinians experience an “ongoing Nakba” with continuing restrictions, violations of rights, and ongoing genocide.

👉🏽 Contact your members of Congress today: ow.ly/ibxz50VSQIf

Mask wearing paramilitaries detain a sitting mayor

Father Nathan Monk posted on Facebook a message. This is a screenshot of the message, which says, "You are about to watch the whole world respect a chosen name. It's that easy."

It really is this simple.

#TransRightsAreHumanRights

"The individualistic understanding of Jesus as “my personal savior” is a catastrophic consequence of capitalism."

– Dorothee Sölle

“Like hit-and-run drivers, we injure our souls by the speed with which we move on the surface; and then we rush away, leaving our bleeding souls alone. We miss, therefore, our depth and our true life.” Paul Tillich

“The modern way to flee from God is to rush ahead and ahead, as quickly as the beams before sunrise, to conquer more and more space in every direction, in every humanly possible way, to be always active, to be always planning, and to be always preparing.” Paul Tillich

If Jesus had focused more on kitchen table issues and less on unpopular outcasts like lepers and prostitutes, he might have won more support from white working-class Judeans.

Happy Cassadaga Day* to those who celebrate!

*The album “Cassadaga” by @brighteyesband.bsky.social came out 10 years ago today.

Dude I am terrifyingly too far from finished with my paper for this class. My written capstone is due tomorrow so I’m prioritizing that but maaaaaaaannnnnn I want to be done

I have such brilliant friends. @mhuffman.bsky.social

Thank you!!!

Tomorrow I’m presenting my MDiv Capstone Project to a small group of chaplains, scholars, and comrades. It’s called “Chaplaincy, Capitalism, and the Courage to Be.” I’m nervous and excited.

New litmus test for the senate just dropped: If you can’t fillbuster as long as Sen booker you’re too old to be in the senate

DOJ directs prosecutors to seek death penalty for Luigi Mangione 1 hour ago CAH CNN Gunman who killed 23 in racist attack at Texas Walmart offered plea deal to avoid death penalty

Huh, weird

Image shows a social media post re-posted by Congressman Andy Barr that says “Overdraft fees make it feasible for banks to extend a little grace to Americans in emergencies. Congressman Andy Barr illustrated that exact scenario before Rules. Thanks to overdraft fees, a local community bank was able to front a military family the cash to change a flat tire.”

I wish this was satire. I hate it here.

And I wonder—how much of our false purity codes and agendas come from our inability to believe that we deserve to be loved? If we can’t accept that we are deeply beloved just as we are, I don’t think we can accept that others are beloved children of God either.

Rohr continues later, “So, as we sit in silence this morning and every morning, let’s pray that’s what we’re praying for: an increase in compassion by letting go of false purity codes and agendas, which we think make us holy or worthy of God’s love.”

“If the emptiness of ‘letting go’ is not pretty soon filled up by ‘holding on’ to some kind of deep solidarity with the suffering of the world, I don’t know that it’s Christian contemplation or even meaningful contemplation at all.” Richard Rohr with that cold piece in todays CAC meditation