Jeremiah

I just wasn’t feeling the blue and heard two different reviewers referred to the silver as a storm trooper color way and that’s all I needed to hear

Ended up going with the big boy Pro Max this year for that battery life. So glad they made 256 a base so no more upgrade fee for me and for the first time ever I went silver!

Gone are the days of waking up at 3 AM EST and crashing websites! The pre-ordering process gets smoother and smoother each year. Had my order in - went for my AM run - came back to Verizon starting accepting orders 2 minutes before 8, so was done with checkout right at 8 on the dot!

So just to be clear - the “protect the kids” party is now shutting the government down to protect sexual predators? Do we have this right?

What a time to be alive…

Had to jump on the trend! Wouldn’t have gotten where I am without amazing people in my corner! #jhagzweightlossjourney

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Blessings as we labor, lament, and love our way toward God’s unfolding wholeness.

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May we be bold enough to love like Jesus:
Fiercely.
Relentlessly.
Unflinchingly.

🌍✊ #LoveInAction #ProcessTheology #MethodistSocialHoliness #CeasefireNow #QueerSacredness #EconomicJustice

This week, let’s ask:
🧡 How do we love through discomfort?
🎙️ How do we amplify silenced voices without demonizing others?
🛠️ How do we turn worship into shared work—
for ceasefire, queer dignity, and economic equity?

True unity isn’t uniformity.

It’s wrestling together toward a love that “bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things” (1 Cor. 13:7).

Whitehead wrote: “Religion is what the individual does with their own solitariness.”

But it’s lived in community—where solitudes collide and spark holy friction.

How do we hold space for those who see Gaza, gender, or governance differently?

Process theology reminds us: each perspective is a thread in the divine tapestry.

This love means leaning into hard conversations.

In a world fractured by ideology, we’re called to listen deeply—not to win, but to witness.

Process theology teaches:
God “suffers with the world and labors in it” (Suchocki).

To love as Jesus loved is to reject silence in the face of genocide, to dismantle systems that dehumanize queer bodies, and to challenge powers that crush the vulnerable.

Love means standing with the marginalized—
🕊️ Palestinians enduring occupation
🏳️‍🌈 LGBTQIA+ kin fighting for liberation
💰 Communities crushed by economic injustice

But Christ’s commandment demands more than ecumenical gestures.

It calls us to disrupt indifference and build bridges where the world builds walls.

Today, our joint service with Saint Andrew’s Episcopal Church embodied this truth.

In shared liturgy, we glimpsed God’s kin-dom: a unity that doesn’t erase differences but transforms them into sacred ground.

Process theology deepens this: God isn’t distant, but luring creation toward wholeness (Whitehead), working through our choices to heal a fractured world.

As John Cobb Jr. writes: “The divine aim is always toward the increase of beauty, harmony, and intensity of experience.”

🌿 Love in Action—Across Every Divide 🌿
This week’s lectionary, John 13:31–35, pierces our complacency: “Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another.”

For Methodists, this is social holiness—grace made tangible in justice, mercy, and solidarity.

Reflect: How does Jesus’ relational witness in John 10 challenge your community’s response to occupation?

✊🏽 #ProcessTheology #MethodistSocialHoliness #FreePalestine

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This Easter, the Shepherd’s voice rings clear: Liberation is not a metaphor. 🕊️

📢 The Lure Is Now:
➡️ Join an ecumenical vigil for Gaza.
➡️ Flood congressional inboxes: No more weapons for genocide.
➡️ #CeasefireNow #SanctionIsrael

Prayer: God of the Exodus, You hear the cries of Gaza, the West Bank, and every besieged body. Sharpen our ears to Your call—not in abstract piety, but in the dismantling of walls. As You hold us in Your hand (v. 28), let us hold fast to the oppressed. Amen.

🔹 Divest: Support BDS to challenge economic ties to apartheid.
🔹 Worship: Host a Bible study linking Jesus’ liberation to Palestine (resources @KairosPalestine).
🔹 Resist: Reject rhetoric that equates Judaism with oppression. Amplify Jewish voices for justice (@JewishVoiceForPeace).

How do we answer the Shepherd’s call today?
🔹 Listen: Center Palestinian voices (e.g., @Mondoweiss, @DecolonizePalestine).
🔹 Advocate: Demand lawmakers halt military funding for occupation (tools via @USCPR).

Likewise, process theologian Monica Coleman reminds us: “God’s aim is toward wholeness. Our task is to disrupt what fractures creation.”

Yet, naming these truths often draws false charges of anti-Semitism. Jewish philosopher Marc Ellis counters: “To criticize Israel’s policies is not anti-Jewish—it is to refuse to let Judaism be held hostage by state violence.”

In Palestine, where apartheid and displacement deny the Imago Dei, silence is complicity. As Palestinian Lutheran pastor Rev. Dr. Mitri Raheb declares: “Jesus was born under occupation. Resurrection means breaking the chains of empire.”

Methodism echoes this call. John Wesley insisted faith is “not solitary religion” but social holiness—works of mercy and justice that testify to God’s kin-dom. To “hear Jesus’ voice” (v. 27) is to answer the cries of those under occupation, siege, and erasure.

Alfred North Whitehead writes, “God does not create the world, God saves it”—not through coercion, but by inspiring us to act as partners in healing.

He points not to dogma, but to the works of liberation he embodies—feeding, healing, and gathering the marginalized. Process Theology illuminates this as God’s persuasive power: a divine lure toward justice that honors freedom.