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decolonialist pastor, theologian, humanitarian, writer, adjunct professor and podcaster living in Santa Barbara on occupied Chumash territory UCSB alum, facilitator of Santa Barbara’s Beloved Community Church plus Jesus Collective, an online community

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The Great Falling Apart This is our moment to truly celebrate everything that makes life so beautiful and worth cherishing.

I am disappointed with people who dispute reality, and secondly, I am disappointed with those who seem not to notice reality. Some claim it’s not as we see. Others behave as if they truly don’t see.
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04.11.2025 19:50 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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What I Learned When I Stopped Hoping Christians Would Come Around, Part Fourteen Exploring the search for God beyond dogma—through music, justice, and daily wonders. Drawing inspiration from Lennon, Ono, and the sacred found in every embrace of human and cultural connection.

Lennon grew up in England, heir to one of the world’s most expansive and brutal empires, and within earshot of a U.S. military base. Ono came from the Empire of the East, haunted by its own hierarchies and prejudices. They both stood outside both empires davidnmoorejr.substack.com/p/what-i-lea...

31.10.2025 17:06 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
What’s behind AIPAC’s partnership with Black US politicians? | The Take
YouTube video by Al Jazeera English What’s behind AIPAC’s partnership with Black US politicians? | The Take

I was already aware of this and still listened three times.
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30.10.2025 20:26 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Reminding Angels' fans that your team traded Shohei Otani to the Dodgers because they didn't want to pay him.

29.10.2025 00:38 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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What I Learned When I Stopped Hoping Christians Would Come Around, Part Thirteen A Pastor’s Testimony of Faith Beyond the Christian Brand

I held Western domination deity in one hand, while holding to the God of my mother and father, the Divinity of my ancestors, in the other, eventually relinquishing the former. I “fell away,” to use church language, from Western Christianity.

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27.10.2025 16:05 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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When We Stopped Going to Church Part of the series: “What I Learned When I Stopped Hoping Christians Would Come Around”

Just a few of the kids I grew up with continued with church life beyond high school. It wasn’t only that we were required to attend when we were little; many of us actually loved it for a while. There were the friendships, the youth outings... davidnmoorejr.substack.com/p/when-we-st...

26.10.2025 19:33 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

They caught the NBA personnel!

Why can't they find Tom Homan?

26.10.2025 15:37 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Venezuelan Nobel Winner Machado Holds Call with Netanyahu Nobel Peace Prize laureate Maria Corina Machado, in a call on Friday with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, hailed the fight against "totalitarian forces," in what Israel presented as an endo...

Venezuelan opposition leader and 2025 Nobel Peace Prize winner Maria Corina Machado spoke with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, expressing support for Israel and its actions against "totalitarian forces".

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25.10.2025 05:29 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Radical Love in a Cynical World (Part Two): Love That Lasts A Meditation: Breathe Consciously While Reading

Last Thursday, ICE detained Leo Martinez, a U.S. citizen, while he was exercising his right to observe ICE activity in Ventura County, CA. Leo has community love.

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24.10.2025 18:19 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Green Party of Santa Barbara County backs Butch Ware for governor | Guest Commentary Guest Commentary: Having the federal government pick winners and losers in the energy race — whether it be wind, nuclear, natural gas, or coal — is precisely why we’re in

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24.10.2025 17:49 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Blood Has a Memory: Abel’s Cry and the Conscience of Earth, Part Two Ten of Today’s Whitewashed Tombs

#blacksky Yes, we long for greater consciousness—
More awareness, deeper understanding, even enlightenment.

But perhaps what stifles our consciousness
Is our own willingness
To ignore or silence the voice of conscience within us.

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24.10.2025 03:48 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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My early religious exposure came as a child in small Black Pentecostal congregations.

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19.10.2025 19:28 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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What I Learned When I Stopped Hoping Christians Would Come Around, Part Ten A Pastor’s Testimony of Faith Beyond the Christian Brand

When Christianity was new, it was a vulnerable movement that empowered & validated those whom the empire suppressed. The Gospel initially gave hope to Jews and later to all others who understood that their chances for a future within their world were bleak.
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13.10.2025 18:56 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Please explain to me, like I'm a 5-year-old, what being an elite, non-Indigenous, Zionist, neoliberal, pro-Western, pro-Trump resistor has to do with peace, especially after watching civil disobedients, protestors, statespersons, doctors, journalists, professors, and flotillas fill our stream.

13.10.2025 00:15 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

She won the Nobel, but it was still a concession to DJT because they admire each other. She's an elite white supply-side capitalist in a country with colonized Indigenous peoples. The prize could have gone to a Palestinian, perhaps Mazin Qumsiyeh. The Nobel Committee fears Zionists.

11.10.2025 05:44 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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We are almost never not fighting. I find it dysregulating, but it helps to remind one another of the reality and for people to stop pretending like it's not happening.

11.10.2025 04:35 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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We are almost never not fighting. I find it dysregulating, but it helps to remind one another of the reality and for people to stop pretending like it's not happening.

11.10.2025 04:33 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Trump only wanted a Nobel because Obama has one.

11.10.2025 04:10 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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09.10.2025 18:38 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Gotta love a daughter with a conscience

06.10.2025 21:50 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Edmond Bertrand (@vilniusschoolmaster) Marian Croak, the genius mind behind the technology that powers the way we all communicate today — Zoom, FaceTime, WhatsApp and more — has officially been honored with her place in the National Invent...

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03.10.2025 14:55 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Edmond Bertrand (@vilniusschoolmaster) Marian Croak, the genius mind behind the technology that powers the way we all communicate today — Zoom, FaceTime, WhatsApp and more — has officially been honored with her place in the National Invent...

substack.com/@vilniusscho...

03.10.2025 14:55 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Join this event!

A lot of us have felt overwhelmed this year, watching those in power doing everything they can to take even more control. But we don't have to let them get away with it. I can't wait to hear Stacey Abrams talk about this and what we can do about it! social.redwine.blue/s/ZimDoEk5

02.10.2025 18:24 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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I know antifa isn't a real organization because I don't get 40 texts a week from them asking for donations.

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Lindsay Meyer-Harley (@andstillwerise) To all those who heckled this man to his face tonight, THANK YOU 🙏🏼 may he never go anywhere without hearing people’s anger 🔥🔥🔥🔥

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10.09.2025 16:52 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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When Advocacy Meets Tradition, Part Two How Choosing Solidarity Came at a Price—But Freed My Spirit

When Advocacy Meets Tradition, Part Two
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07.09.2025 21:51 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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ICYMI — We are “concerned” about @SenatorCollins selling out her constituents.

(If youre tired of this, check out @grahamformaine.bsky.social Platner)

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04.09.2025 13:06 — 👍 2940    🔁 1370    💬 215    📌 95

Ossoff supports the genocide of Palestinian children, so he can dismount from the moral high horse.

04.09.2025 04:33 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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When Advocacy Meets Tradition How Choosing Solidarity Came at a Price—But Freed My Spirit

For those, especially in the COGIC, who have wondered, Whatever happened to David?"
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03.09.2025 21:29 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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