Jon Phillips (Frank Lloyd Wrong)

A Pastoral Letter to Chicago Presbytery Churches “God blesses those who are merciful, for they will be shown mercy.” – Matthew 5:7 Dear Siblings in Christ, On Friday, the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights (ICIRR) issued an alert…

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YouTube video by Dan McClellan Is that a Christian? #maklelan2932

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Massive immigration raid on Chicago apartment building leaves residents reeling: 'I feel defeated' The Department of Homeland Security said federal agents with Border Patrol, the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives arrested 37 people in the raid.

Those who see such suffering and rejoice are lost.

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Things the Church Dogmatics are good for that Barth probably never intended them for:

Setting up a platform on my desk because i need to use my phone for zoom meetings today.

Sorry, Karl

if i get any more texts from the governor, i’m going to start feeling important

Michigan Mormon church shooting live: Two killed as church set on fire Officials are set to give further updates, as they fear more victims will be found.

Lord, in your mercy

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My unsurprised face

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It is a rather niche theological invention more or less of 19th century Anglo-American fundamentalists that became popular though a poorly researched study Bible and a series of, from my opinion, equally poorly written fiction.

Please plan accordingly. 2/2

No. Nobody is going to be raptured this week.

The rapture isn’t a thing.

It’s not even biblical. 1/2

Working on Advent this morning… so i guess it means it’s time to break out the Christmas/holiday episodes of This American Life.

i long for a world where violence has no place in it.

The fun part about the world we live in is that we are experiencing what happens when a coalition consisting of the people that think the Handmaidens Tale is a great idea and the people who think 40k lore is a great idea get together to rule.

Gee, i wish i had a dollar for every Senator who was alarmed by something they enabled

Federal agents arrest firefighters working on WA wildfire Federal agents showed up northeast of Lake Cushman to check identification of crew members fighting Washington's largest active wildfire.

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It’s fun that we’re real time watching the end of a 250 yo democracy because a rich boomer wanted to avoid prison for the dozens of felonies he was convicted of.

Can’t have books about two mommies yet I’m going to have to hear the name “Big Balls” for the rest of this cursed life.

Pritzker: This is not about fighting crime. This is about the President and his complicit lackey, Stephen Miller, searching for ways to lay the groundwork to circumvent our democracy, militarize our cities, and end elections.

We had visitors this morning!

i lament that i’m no where near as good a preacher as they say St. Francis was.

Also, remember that fascism is evil and must be resisted.

Jury’s still out on mine

Are 'COVID kindergartners' ready for school? More than 3.6 million children born in 2020 amid the COVID-19 global pandemic are walking into elementary schools across the country this fall.

More than 3.6 million children born in 2020 amid the COVID-19 global pandemic are walking into elementary schools across the country this fall.

*with “em” referring to any vulnerable person who the bigotries and biases and hatred are en vogue in the dim culture and who we are currently scapegoating, taking advantage of, and oppressing 4/4

Instead of what so many of us do these days - buff Jesus from a misreading of Revelation coming to get em* 3/

actually mattered to us and informed our religoon through thoughtful and faithful engagement. 2/

It would be lovely if more Xns paid attention to, well let’s face it, I was going to cite a portion of Acts 2 but really it would be great if we acted like the Gospels, Acts, most of the Epistles, the Torah, Writings, and Prophets… 1/

Rubio says both Russia and Ukraine ‘have to make concessions’ for peace deal US secretary of state says talks between Putin and Trump had ‘made progress’ but ‘big areas of disagreement’ remain

um… what?

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i’m far enough into my first play through of Starfield to realize how grateful i am that Mal did not, in fact, become the King of all Londinium and wear a shiny hat.

Latest ICE Recruitment Materials Include Overt Neo-Nazi Reference and Nazi-Nazi Script It’s not the first time we and others at Religion Dispatches have had to point out that Trump’s Department of Homeland Security is firehosing the internet with white supremacist propaganda. And it wil...

This didn’t have to happen.

We could have had a Harris presidency.

But apparently that was too much for some of us to ponder, so instead this is the future we get.

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