@marcusgwomack.bsky.social
UMC Pastor. Longhorn (undergrad), Vandy (seminary), Wesley Theological Seminary (DMin) grad. Married to Alyssa, parent to Graham and Wesley. Howard Thurman Scholar. Music, justice, peace, love are most of my content.
i don't know how to teach people to be more curious but i think that's what we desperately need
For what it’s worth…
Some professional news from my world that was shared today…looking forward to joining FUMC Colleyville, TX in July and making the most of the months ahead with Plymouth Park UMC where I’ve served since 2019.
I think about this Tony Benn speech much more than I used to
Can we come to our senses?
I believe in a better way.
Wouldn’t it be wild if a former president struck a deal to avoid this very thing and your boss backed out of it because that president was Black
this is a great brief and it appropriately ends with a killshot: the simple observation that if trump's meaning held, the birthright clause would not have overturned dred scott, the one thing it was absolutely meant to do.
Congratulations. Also, my condolences.
paul to the disciples
Some levity...
Sunday is Transfiguration Sunday, all about how Jesus undergoes "metemorphothe/metamorphosis." Also, "transfigured" is more often translated these days as simply "transformed."
So take you pick this weekend with "Transformer Jesus" or "Mighty Morphin' Power Jesus."
You're welcome.
Militant Catholics, I beg you…please respect the Reformation! Luther didn’t nail all of those theses up for me to have you in my business like this.
(Also, God bless every single clergywoman who has to deal with this FAR more than me)
I don’t think I’ll ever understand why some folks get so worked up when you say you hope hell ends up empty. Wouldn’t that be the best news for every expression of faith? God’s love actually bringing wholeness to every person?
I'm hardly the first person to note this, but it's enormously instructive that our President and his followers saw the message "THE ONLY THING MORE POWERFUL THAN HATE IS LOVE" and understood it, correctly, as an attack on them
It's not even midnight and we're already at "Deport Elmo."
Just so we’re clear.
“Stunningly racist” was the most apt description I read in a headline today.
I know it’s not news, but how long, oh Lord?
"You can't un-post racism." ~ Bernice A. King
NGL this description of Bsky in Vulture cracked me up
Had a similar wedding today, too, thanks for sharing this glimpse of some rhyming beauty in the universe!
Except it’s exactly how many support their churches already…
Placing a layer of algorithmic recommendation on speech does not make speech less free, but it does pervert it.
Algorithmic mediation turns speech into a resource extracted from human behavior.
Platforms do not value speech because it is protected, they value the service it provides them.
Things I keep remembering today…
Walz: What side do you want to be on? The side of an all powerful federal government that can kill, injure, menace and kidnap its citizens off the streets or on the side of a nurse at the V.A. who died bearing witness to such government
We have to actually try for love to cast out fear.
Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O'Hara: "People have had enough. This is the third shooting in less than 3 weeks. The MPD went the entire year last year recovering about 900 guns from the street, arresting hundreds of violent offenders, and we didn't shoot anyone ... this is not sustainable."
THIS! For God Sake, THIS!
Federal immigration officers have shot 12 people since September as the DHS has ramped up deportation operations around the country.
In the majority of the shootings, officers have fired into cars — a tactic that authorities and policing experts have been trying to curtail. nbcnews.to/49TLGSx
