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David Grishaw-Jones

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Weaver of communities, clueless believer, lover of loons...my blog is VALLEY RISE UP at https://valleyriseup.blogspot.com/...

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DISOBEDIENCE: "Getting Clear and Courageous Now" Saturday Night / As Trump Decides If you're my age, you probably remember 2002 and 2003, the fog of 9/11, the maddening lies out of the Bush...

Candidates that take money from big money lobbies like AIPAC or the weapons industry should be voted down and voted out--Democrats and Republicans. Companies still profitting in any way from Israel's apartheid system of racist control and illegal settlements in the West Bank should be boycotted.

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SABBATICAL 25: "Judean Desert, American Temptations" Wilderness / Sunday I packed hurriedly, accepted the counsel of trusted friends, and left Bethlehem quickly Sunday morning.Β  "This time feel...

valleyriseup.blogspot.com/2025/06/sabb... Valley Rise Up: SABBATICAL 25: "Judean Desert, American Temptations"

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Multiracial pluralistic democracy? That’s a threat to whom exactly? C’mon, Kristi. Let’s be serious.

10.06.2025 06:34 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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21: "Pentecost and Palestine: Powerful Together" My grace is sufficient for you, for power is made perfect in weakness. 2 Corinthians 12:9 Monday Morning / Area C Most mornings, when I've h...

The possibility of power...the promise of liberation...and what kind of spirituality might meet this moment with resilient hope...

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Changed my faith, changed my preaching and teaching, changed my activism, changed my life...

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Walter Brueggemann, influential biblical scholar, dies at 92 - The Presbyterian Outlook Walter Brueggemann's books were influential with clergy, but his concepts have become familiar to many churchgoers.

Walter Brueggemann, influential biblical scholar, dies at 92

His books were influential primarily with clergy, but through their sermons Brueggeman’s concepts have become familiar to many churchgoers.

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POEM: "As the Madleen Sails to Gaza" Sailors, Madleen She sails toward catasrophe, but only such sailors can save us now: bearing in her berth medicines and instruments of heali...

A Poem, or Maybe a Prayer

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SABBATICAL 18: "Walls, Tables and Beloved Communities" Tuesday Morning, My View It's a few minutes past ten on a Tuesday, and I'm working at in a shady courtyard at Wi'am , the Palestinian Confl...

How do you human communities maintain spirt and resistance in the face of inhumanity and cruelty?

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POEM: "Jubilee" Our Lady Who Brings Down Walls After Luke 4:18-19 Somewhere along apartheid's seam God grieves, Mary weeps, our sister Preaching not with wo...

A poem exploring the land between grief and possibility...

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#antigenocidepledge #fastforgaza

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#fastforgaza

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'Let us live', a message from the West Bank: Grishaw-Jones As I sit down to write tonight, my Palestinian hosts are steeling themselves for news of a renewed Israeli assault on the civilians of Gaza,

Notes from a West Bank neighborhood: "Let Us Live."

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A POEM: "Monday Morning, Palestine" Monday Morning, Palestine Two flights below a wave of kidsΒ  Hauling backbacks bigger than they are Poke one another and laughΒ  As they clim...

Not sure whether poetry is just another extravagance in a season of genocide...but in case it makes any difference at all...

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A POEM: "Monday Morning, Palestine" Monday Morning, Palestine Two flights below a wave of kidsΒ  Hauling backbacks bigger than they are Poke one another and laughΒ  As they clim...
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SABBATICAL 7: "A Base Community in Bethlehem" Wednesday Afternoon / Wi'am in Bethlehem At its best, the Jesus Movement is a thick and interdependent network of 'base communities' (a nod ...

When strong and dynamic communitiesβ€”committed to justice, mercy and mutual aidβ€”imagine a way of healing and humility…

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The siege of Gaza has been enforced for 70+ days and the suffering of the people is appalling. Please fast for Gaza as a simple but powerful campaign to tell politicians and leaders that we need action. End the siege and get food and supplies into Gaza to save the people. Use #fastforgaza and share.

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SABBATICAL 4: "Nonviolence is Anti-Occupation" Tuesday Afternoon, Hebron Issa Amro (founder, Youth Against Settlements) and Jeff Halper (Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions) have ...

Nonviolence is anti-occupation.

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A graphic with a colorful abstract background and a white square in the center. Inside the square, bold black text reads: "HUMANITY, not racism." Below it is the UN logo and the hashtag "#FIGHTracism."

A graphic with a colorful abstract background and a white square in the center. Inside the square, bold black text reads: "HUMANITY, not racism." Below it is the UN logo and the hashtag "#FIGHTracism."

Humanity, not racism.
Dignity, not division.
Justice, not hate.

πŸŒπŸ’™

#FightRacism #HumanRights

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HOMILY: "This Jericho Road" A Meditation on the Parable of the Samaritan (Luke 10:25-37) Sunday, March 16, 2025 1. Samaritan and Christ Four Sundays from now we’ll be w...

Empathy is resistance!

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'No Other Land' Wins Best Documentary Feature Film | 97th Oscars Speech (2025)
YouTube video by Oscars 'No Other Land' Wins Best Documentary Feature Film | 97th Oscars Speech (2025)

Full acceptance speech youtu.be/3gzo7PiFiaM

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NH state troopers, local police seek to participate in immigration efforts The New Hampshire State Police, the Gorham police department and the Belknap County Sheriff's Office are all seeking to join a program that deputizes local police officers to carry out federal immigra...

"...Eva Castillo of the NH Alliance for Immigrants and Refugees said participating in the task force program was going to be a β€œdisaster.” She cited the potential for harm due to racial profiling and a decrease of trust between the police and communities of color..."

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This Week in the World: Progress in Congress: Opportunities Amid the Chaos | Friends Committee On National Legislation The second Trump administration has been marked by chaos and rising threats of authoritarianism, oligarchy, and White Christian nationalism.

Progress in Congress: Opportunities Amid the Chaos

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I stand with Ukraine.
I stand with Palestine.
I stand with Western Sahara.
End the occupations!

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Their body language is clear: your pain means nothing to us, your presence is an inconvenience to us, you are of value to us only as you give us what we want. This moment is like so many others over the past ten years--but terrifying in the way one generation bequeathes its nihilism to the next.

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POEM: "Good Friday" After Mark 9:2-9 I'm thinking today about this mountain's top Photo by Farzaneh Farhoodi And how satisfying it is to claim a home here. I'm ...
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Thank God for the poet who understands the power of her calling…and the integrity required of us now.

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This is a stand-up and be-counted moment for us all.

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HOMILY: "Looking at the Thorn, Seeing the Rose" A Meditation on the Parable of the Mustard Seed (Luke 13) Sunday, February 23, 2025 1. I pulled into our driveway Thursday night and parked ...

A meditation on tiny acts of resistance, and the spirit of small things in a season of big fears...

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