Christopher Marlin-Warfield

Everyone is saying Epstein this and Epstein that, but no one is saying worship this and Jericho that

The Lost Sheep and the Lost Coins – Rev. Christopher Marlin-Warfield Imagine what the celebration must be like as all of creation is brought into God’s reign of love!

Another Sunday means another sermon, and this Sunday means a new sermon series about being lost, being found, and being celebrated. So let's start with a sermon about the God who is always seeking out the lost and who is always eager to welcome us home!

A Miss Rachel 2028 graphic I made

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The Heavenly Neighborhood – Rev. Christopher Marlin-Warfield The hungry, the immigrant, the homeless, the beastly, the sick, the imprisoned, the enemy, and everyone else, are brought together as one people in God’s resign of love. And we can live in that love—e...

A little trouble with the video this morning, but a new Sunday means a new sermon as I wrap up this series on neighborliness!

"Unity" at the cost of the poor and the oppressed is a betrayal of the Crucified Christ.

Once was a king called Ozzy (MANDIAS!)
Had a wrinkled sneer to cold (COMMAND US!)
Wanted all the peeps to despair at his (WORKS!)
Giant statue of himself lookin like a (JERK!)
Statue broke down in the endless (WASTE!)
Only legs left and a busted (FACE!)

Neither reasonable nor acceptable.

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

FYI: it’s, uh, *not nothing* that the head of an entire Christian denomination — here Rev. Karen Georgia A. Thompson of the United Church of Christ — issued a statement decrying DHS agents for shooting one of her pastors in the face with a pepper round, adding, “No one is safe from tyranny."

Our Enemy Neighbor – Rev. Christopher Marlin-Warfield We love this way: we are for the well-being of even those who are against us!

Another Sunday means another sermon, so let's talk about, <deep breath> loving our enemies.

So they‘re willing to deny people needed food in the service of denying people needed healthcare.

Our Imprisoned Neighbor – Rev. Christopher Marlin-Warfield We love this way: we care for those who are imprisoned and we welcome those who come back home!

Another Sunday means another sermon, and I'm honestly surprised about how well saying that God is a prison abolitionist was received!

Our Sick Neighbor – Rev. Christopher Marlin-Warfield We love this way: we provide care for the body and the spirit until everyone lives in health!

Another Sunday means another sermon, so here's one about the American healthcare system and how we can do a better job of loving our sick neighbors!

Our Beastly Neighbor – Rev. Christopher Marlin-Warfield We love this way: we protect our common home and work towards an earth where every creature can live in peace and plenty!

Another Sunday means another sermon! We were outside blessing the animals today, so there's really only audio, but you can still check it out on my website!

Me (spotting a shoplifter sneaking an NKJV “word study” Bible inside their coat): Jeez, buddy, no. Steal a better translation. Steal a better HERMENEUTIC. …

The state could have backed him but instead they demonstrated for the thousandth time that there is no level of respectability that will prevent white people from serving you up on a platter in order to appease powerful racists.

Age yourself with a film you saw in a cinema as a kid.

Our Homeless Neighbor – Rev. Christopher Marlin-Warfield The path that God chooses for us includes inviting the homeless into our homes and covering the naked! So we love this way: we rise as a light in the darkness and satisfy the needs of the afflicted!

Another Sunday means another sermon! I've been told this one was especially powerful.

Des Moines Public Schools Superintendent Ian Roberts detained by ICE agents The superintendent of the largest school district in Iowa has been detained by federal immigration officials. Superintendent Ian Roberts of Des Moines Public Schools was detained Friday morning, accor...

What the fuck?

Our Immigrant Neighbor – Rev. Christopher Marlin-Warfield My wife, the Rev. Mariah Marlin-Warfield preached as part of this series! Please enjoy!

Another Sunday means another sermon, this one preached by my wife, Rev. Mariah Marlin-Warfield!

The sooner people realize that the Christofascists behind Project 2025 consider democracy to be an obstacle to be destroyed on the path towards a white patriarchal ethnostate, the more current US politics will make sense.

Kimmel’s suspension prompts free-speech Republicans to reconsider their boundaries One Republican said she no longer considers the First Amendment to “be sort of the ultimate right,” as she would “in normal circumstances.”

Weird. It's almost as if these people were being disingenuous from the start.

How does this all square with all their years of insisting on the importance of free speech? That's very simple, they were lying

The challenge to endure “difficult” ideas and speakers only extends in one direction. The pleas to tone down political violence only benefit one side. And it’s the side that is most violent toward marginalized people, which is granted bipartisan approval and protection

If Trump was the kind of person who thought it terms of strategy (and he is not), I'd say he was banking on Dem leadership being more afraid of a shutdown than fascism, and that he's probably right.

Our Hungry Neighbor – Rev. Christopher Marlin-Warfield We love this way: we take enough for ourselves; and if we discover that we have too much, we share with our neighbor who does not have enough. We share in God’s extravagant abundance!

Another Sunday means another sermon! Let's talk about hunger; let's talk about how it's ridiculous that anyone goes hungry.

Is your retirement still decades away? How to take a ‘mini-retirement’ now — without quitting your job. Don’t wait for the future to pursue your dreams, this author says.

In the rest of the developed world, these are called 'vacations'.

The Earthly Neighborhood – Rev. Christopher Marlin-Warfield What if we imagined that everyone is everyone’s neighbor; that everyone should love everyone as we all love ourselves?

Another Sunday, a new sermon series, some thoughts on James Dobson...