Michael Morrell

Is this the persecution of the faithful I was warned about, growing up evangelical? My nationalist co-religionists are denying it now, but these are precisely the scenarios we were breathlessly schooled on, reading stories of saints and martyrs following Jesus at all costs.

Marjorie Taylor Greene no longer trusts the plan After feuding with Trump, the congresswoman resigns and casts doubt on the QAnon conspiracy theory she once promoted on her way out the door.

After feuding with Trump, the congresswoman resigns and casts doubt on the QAnon conspiracy theory she once promoted on her way out the door.

How and for whom can genetics education reduce beliefs in genetic essentialism? pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41267401/
"We also find that the 3 intervention curricula are highly effective across sociodemographic group characteristics [...] we offer evidence-based strategies for curriculum development"

They’re doing to America what they did to Christianity | Bill McKibben Trump’s wrecking-ball approach to America has a precedent: the evangelical perversion of Jesus’s message of radical love to one of hate and aggression

They’re doing to America what they did to Christianity
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When social media exposes traditional media’s deceit, it’s time for independent journalists to investigate why the press is backing a president who undermines free press—and is it coordinated?

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Prices aren't coming down. Trump lied. They started going up as soon as he took the wheel.

HaHa - Jesus is quite demanding, though I find him worth it.

Book Review: Ultimate Rest David W. Hewitt’s Ultimate Rest: The Essence of the Beautiful Gospel is a heartfelt book written from a place of faithfulness and sincerity.  Within the pages of Ultimate Rest, Hewitt argues t…

"In the end, [it's] thought-provoking. It could be especially helpful to those Christians within the Evangelical tradition (or perhaps Exvangelicals who are deconstructing and challenging some beliefs)."

— Rev. Lauren L. Ostrout

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"David W. Hewitt’s Ultimate Rest: The Essence of the Beautiful Gospel is a heartfelt book written from a place of faithfulness and sincerity. Within the pages of Ultimate Rest, Hewitt argues that human beings are made for rest..."

Sanders: Let’s be clear… If this vote succeeds, over 20 million Americans are going to see at least a doubling in their premiums… if resolution is passed tonight, we are on a path way to throw 15 million Americans off of medicaid and the affordable care act, 15 million.

Opinion | The Tragedy of Dick Cheney

A primer on how Dick Cheney paved Trump's road to autocracy.

"The contempt he showed for any constraints on his power paved the way for Mr. Trump and the contempt he now shows for everything but his own naked interest."

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Los Angeles will nearly double recycled water for 500,000 residents Los Angeles is set to double the size of a planned facility that will transform wastewater into purified drinking water, recycling enough water to meet the needs of 500,000 people.

A major shift in where L.A. gets water: The city will double the size of a project to transform wastewater into purified drinking water, producing enough for 500,000 people. The recycled water will allow L.A. to stop taking water from creeks that feed Mono Lake. www.latimes.com/environment/...

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“We have won because New Yorkers have stood up for a city they can afford. A city where they can do more than just struggle.”

May it be the latest of ten thousand such garden cities, blossoming fruits of active peace.

May the morning break on refreshed hearts and steady hands.

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And let us be the ones, like Zohran and Captain Picard, who make it so—not alone, never alone, but together in the great turning toward justice, toward mercy, toward the great chosen family of God’s Kin’dom being birthed, even now.

From the ashes of what was, something lush and living grows—the Viriditas of God’s greening, the fountain fullness of Spirit’s flow.

Alleluia. Ameen. Shalom and Salaam.

Inshallah. Let it be so.

"And a leader unafraid to fight back against rising authoritarianism.”

But tonight’s victory is bigger than one election, one city, one moment. This is a kairos moment—a fullness of time when the ordinary becomes extraordinary, when the widow’s mite multiplies, when five loaves feed the multitudes

The empire says we must compete. The gospel says we must companion one another toward liberation.

In his primary election victory Zohran declared: “Last Tuesday, [our neighbors] spoke in a clear voice, delivering a mandate for an affordable city, a politics of the future..."

May this victory ripple outward like the Spirit skipping across the waters of new creation, calling forth new ripples from the void.

The empire insists there is not enough. The prophets know abundance multiplies when we share.

And may the brighter angels of our becoming beckon billions in communities of embodied, tactile joy. This is what Martin Luther King Jr. meant by the “drum major instinct” transformed—not the desire to be first, but the calling to be first in love, first in moral excellence, first in generosity.

May we emerge in school boards and city councils, in neighborhood associations and mutual aid networks, in every place where people gather to ask: *What if we loved our neighbors as ourselves? What would change?”

May God protect him in the enormous work ahead.

May the Spirit inspire not just *one* Zohran, but thousands of Zohrans to rise up through the earth like seeds that have been buried in darkness, waiting for their season.

Before he was an assemblyman, he was a housing counselor preventing foreclosures, sitting with immigrant homeowners in Queens losing everything , bearing witness to the violence of extractive economy. He learned the housing crisis is not natural—it is a *choice*. And now, NYC has chosen differently.

Gandhi taught us to be the change we wish to see. Zohran’s campaign *embodied* this—not just promising a more affordable city, but *organizing* one into being, block by block, conversation by conversation, relationship by relationship.

This is what it means to be wise as serpents and gentle as doves, wielding power not for domination but for the flourishing of the least of these.

—that dance of solidarity between all people, where those who dream and those who toil are revealed to be one people. This is organizing that begins not with an enemy to defeat, but with Beloved Community to build.

"The wall that separates and divides will disappear and we will become one because the sound of the genuine makes the same music.”

And what a symphony they became! 10k+ volunteers, young and first-time voters mobilized not from a place of bitter self-interest, but from “faith-rooted organizing”