This has been driving me insane. Like, who cares, but also it's crazy making.
13.10.2025 23:36 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0@redshoepastor.bsky.social
Interim Pastor in the PC(USA). Grumpy and tired most of the time. Advocate for universal love. Ideologically impure progressive. Iowa is home (even if I don't recognize it anymore). Read my seldomly updated blog at http://redshoepastor.blog
This has been driving me insane. Like, who cares, but also it's crazy making.
13.10.2025 23:36 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Sigh. Just....sigh.....
10.10.2025 23:19 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I'll continue to be "I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win"-posting, so figure I should address this point that seems to come up every so often
Q: "is it still 'winning' if only *some* good things happen in the near term instead of total planetary eco socialist revolution?"
A: yes
I kind of only want to hear from the people who believe the rapture is happening but are not confident in their own rapture.
These people who are convinced they get to go...not my kind of people honestly. Like you do you but I don't need to hear from you.
I wonder how many panic attacks caused by fascism and my miniscule and inane personal BS I can squeeze into one week? And how much shame I will feel for having a panic attack in my position of privilege?
At least I can admit they are panic attacks and not just anxiety spirals. Couldn't before.
Be Kind ToΒ Yourself
Be kind to yourself. Stop judging yourself, stop trying to make yourself fit into the morality of anyone else β myself and the Church included β stop βshouldingβ all over yourself. The world is better β fuller, richer, more beautiful β with you in it...
Why do I watch this stupid game?
Also, I will let Cris Collinsworth commentate on my daily life if it means never hearing Joe Buck again.
#SKOL even if we're not doing well...
Rising political violence is bad, even when it happens to someone I do not like, whose views I find reprehensible.
The road of endless escalation leads nowhere good for society.
Violence is bad.
11.09.2025 00:07 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I'm just trying to doomscroll and maybe engage with strangers on the Internet before I start my day and answered "But why Mr. Rogers?" on a separate social media site than the dumb comment.
π€·ββοΈ Okay, I guess.....
In fairness, the MAGA freaks hate Mr. Rogers and would have protested him as viciously as they protest Ms. Rachel if not worse.
Is it protest if the protesters are on the immoral side? I guess to them it is.
And....we won....?
What was that game? I don't know, but it might not be the worst season ever.
#SKOL #Vikings
Okay, maybe it's not so bad.
Also, I don't love winning ref ball.....
This is the Vikings football I was expecting.
I want Sam Darnold back......
I cannot stand Joe Buck and Troy Aikman. They are ruining an already not great game....
09.09.2025 01:25 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Call me a pedant but I think this is extremely important if we are ever getting back to normal. We have to make lying bad again, and that includes lying about evil people. βThat dude sucks so itβs fine to totally misrepresent what he said, for cloutβ is toxic to our society, truth matters
17.08.2025 22:31 β π 260 π 30 π¬ 4 π 2I'm back at trying to increase the love in the world: youtu.be/Q7HyJFKCqjU
Also re-posting this piece I wrote after I gave up on the videos for a while: redshoepastor.blog/2025/07/07/t...
I hate it. I'd love a solution, but I don't even fully know what pulled me out, so I guess I'll just be sadder today.
02.08.2025 13:50 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I truly get why boys fall for it. The manosphere exploits the truth that everyone is worthy of love and lovable. They don't believe it about the boys they manipulate, but they use it, twisting it into a disgusting lie of, "You are entitled to female affection."
02.08.2025 13:50 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0I wasn't that guy, and I knew I wasn't that guy, but I was lost and lonely while those guys all seemed so connected and beloved. Add being a "conservative" Christian into the mix, and I had no place and no space to find myself. (Deconstruction didn't come until seminary.)
02.08.2025 13:50 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0I was so lost as a young man surrounded proto-manosphere messages treating women as toys and possessions. The disgusting conversations and violations of trust I heard and endured in college. I can't imagine what it was like for women.
02.08.2025 13:50 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 2 π 0Harming Trans folk harms Christ.
Harming migrants harms Christ.
Harming the sick harms Christ.
Harming poor people harms Christ.
We love God by loving each other, and we demonstrate our contempt for God when we increase suffering for anyone.
Can we collectively try love just once?
A picture of the cutest Labrador Retriever/Chesapeake Bay Retriever Mix ever named Skye laying on her back on a dog cot just looking content. She is wearing a rainbow collar that uses a seatbelt buckle to close it.
I don't know how to not be...hopeless and exhausted...right now.
But I will try if you will try.
Let's see if we can muster enough love and compassion to care for one person tomorrow (even if that person is yourself).
Picture of Skye, who loves everyone like I wish I did.
This is way too long and took too much of my energy, but I need to put it out there.
The image is an alternate title, I suppose: Can we try love?
βThe children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality.β
Baldwin said it best.
please be kind. discuss the failings of the federal and state governments that led to this but the victims of this were children at a fucking summer camp. they didn't vote for anything. i am literally begging you to maintain some human empathy here
05.07.2025 16:00 β π 2088 π 264 π¬ 17 π 10I know this doesn't matter, but I REALLY HATE that emdashes are a sign of AI.
05.07.2025 17:48 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Anyone who says "This is what they voted for" in response to the tragedy unfolding in Texas is having a vile thought and needs to sit shamefully in a corner until they learn what solidarity is.
05.07.2025 15:04 β π 5406 π 680 π¬ 124 π 0LMA rules for avoiding burn out:
1. Is this accomplishing anything?
2. Is this fun?
We're not gonna tell you what you ought to do, but for us, if the answer is no to both, we don't do it