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HELL IS A WORLD WITHOUT YOU: Annotated Study Bible Edition by Jason Kirk Paperback and hardcover available at Amazon, Book Shop, Barnes & Noble, Books A Million, and elsewhere. Audiobook available at Supporting Cast, Payhip, and everywhere else. Normal ebooks available als...

Here on Rapture Day, I should tell you about my $3 ebook that includes an 80-page "the Rapture happened, and a group of ex-evangelical young women were left behind" novella, spinning off of my novel. Only available here:

Again already? That's awesome. I have prepared a complete history of the Rapture leading up to Tuesday's Rapture:

Feel like this is one for @jasonkirk.fyi and @vbs.bsky.social

I can understand grieving the death of a person. I can understand lamenting violence claiming yet another life. Unfortunately, I also understand lionizing, sanitizing, and whitewashing someone whose legacy was very intentionally & publiclly inflammatory, incendiary, divisive, dehumanizing, supremacist, and ugly with a thin veneer of Christianity. The first two are because our humanity is still intact. The last is because it is hanging on by a thread. I will make space for the first two. I will not abide the last.

Rewriting history is one thing. Folks are trying to rewrite the present now.

Set a watch, O Lord, before my mouth: and keep the door of my lips.

(Psalm 141:3)

"Maybe today will be the day it happens"

— like half the verses from Isaiah through Psalms or vice versa

I’d like to highly recommend @vbs.bsky.social at this time, where Jason and Emily discuss the parts of the Bible that mention feeding the hungry and taking care of the poor.

Trump's insistence that he wants to try to get to heaven feels to me a huge exemplar of what is inherently problematic with western expressions of Christianity: that it is transactional, it's about results, it's about the endgame. Jesus' call to follow is an ACTIVE call. It's rooted in the present.

Can I tell you about a far more influential Creator

James Dobson Tried To Destroy Us As a former strong-willed child, I’ve had the notion of James Dobson’s mortality in the back of my mind for the last half-decade or so.

"The Bible that Dobson weaponized against millions of us tells us in dozens of ways that it is OK to feel good about evil people running out of chances to inflict evil. It also tells us there is no better revenge than refusing to pay hatred forward," writes @jasonkirk.fyi. sojo.net/articles/opi...

Christian 1: well, we did it. No more pagan gods. A universal faith

Christian 2: sure is buddy. The holy gospel. God's truth. Just the father, the son, and the holy spirit. Who of course proceeds from the father and from the son

Christian 1: the fuck did you just say

🎵 Deuuuuuteronomy 🎵

When your prized chariot horses lose a race to a guy on foot, and you need your wife to have your back @vbs.bsky.social

I had a lot of fun talking about something I don’t understand or want in my life at all!

sipping coffee, listening to the VBS podcast

Downloading the Good News

VBS is back! And they're talking about fighting bears!

Seriously though, this podcast has been extremely informative and entertaining as they read through and contextualize the Bible. Bonus points if you have any roots in 90s/00s Christian music and pop culture.

NEW VBS LET’S GOOOOOOOOO

Finally!

I have thought on it and prayed about it, and I have decided: You can now listen to a podcast episode about volcanic wizard battles and magically rematerializing nightmare women and the world's worst bear shaman and more

BEARS: Pyromaniac vs. Hela (with Spencer Hall) Podcast Episode · Vacation Bible School Podcast · 07/28/2025 · 1h 42m

Hey Bluesky, wanna talk about religion lol

- New episode! TWO HUNGRY BEARS VS 42 YOUTHS with @edsbs.bsky.social !
- Also: Where the name Beelzebub comes from, why Elijah was indisputably the greatest athlete of all time, defending yet another allegedly evil Bible lady, and more!

Relatable

NT Scholars Conspiracy Nuts
🤝
Attributing everything
to a mysterious “Q”
who’s never been proven
to really exist
🤝
Jean-Luc Picard James Bond

And no I won’t be endorsing anyone from the pulpit.

POV you are Moses:

That's not what my youth pastor said

That's right