Rev. Rob Van Ess 🏳️‍🌈

My DeeDee crossed over the rainbow bridge last week after a sudden illness. I keep opening the bedroom curtains each morning and leaving her favorite toy on the windowsill like I always did. She was my heart.

Thank God.

Does anyone know if that anonymous UCC synod Twitter/ X poster has crossed over to Bluesky?

Hello!

The way they are running around Capital Hill like chickens with their heads cut off to pass this bill says just as much as this shameful legislation does about who we are as a country today. God have mercy, and may the people find their common sense and love for their neighbor at the ballot box.

Reposed from a dear friend.

“I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.
"So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

I understand strategy, yet I am disappointed and a bit disgusted that it appears the party that ran against Project 2025 had no plan in place to fight against it if they lost.

My babies.

Neenah Menasha Ministerial Association held a prayer vigil for peace, and the community response was wonderful. We really felt a connection, so many showed up because they wanted to be a part of the solution. THIS gives me hope.

Heard a term today. Manufactured outrage. It's a thing I know. But the way they broke it down as a logical tool, along with a biased media course, It's both terrifying the exhausting. How do we respond?

"Trans rights are human rights."
"Because of the queens who have come before us, our crowns shine brilliantly today."
"Silence + death."
"Gay by birth, fabulous by choice."
"Born this way."
"Gay power."

I am talking about look it up. I need a moment before I can sit at the table with my enemies, and that's OK, because God loves all of us, and I will not do this work alone.

The National Park Service can remove the T and the Q+ from the previously posted LGBTQ+ language on the website for the Stonewall monument, leaving the ridiculous LGB, but they have never been able to stop this movement and they never will. If you don't know what

We will continue to exist and thrive and create more stories with every dam day of our lives, and we will make a new way for the next generation, just as every generation has done so before us. I work with queer youth. This isn't a joke, this is a matter of life and death.

Everyone I know will hear about her bravery, her courage, her struggles, the movement she inspired, and what it means to so many of us. If queer history has to go back underground so be it, we've done it before, we'll do it again, but our stories will not be erased.

I don't usually rant online, it's not my style, but today is the day. Do what you want, I will continue to talk about Marsha "Pay it no mind" Johnson until the day I die. I will tell her story.

The actual #GulfofAmerica

if I understand American politics correctly, progressivism is something that requires 60 senate votes to work, while national conservatism doesn’t require any votes at all

Tim Kaine!

PROP - PR Over Policy.

Don't confuse them.

He is flooding the zone. He knows that media will cover everything he does. Getting people upset. Which helps give him more coverage of the upset people. All just talking about him.

Dems need to be strategic.

Just a note say if you are experiencing trauma today, you are not alone. I am toast. When I'm ready to deal, I truly do believe we will get through this together.

Posted this protest sign I made 8 years ago, and I still believe this to be true.

I covet this tree and want to make my own.

I should have added "the newly formed Neenah-Menasha Min. Assoc."

A little eccumenical trouble making with the Neenah-Menasha Min. Assoc. on 11/27/24.

Family Fun.

Mustard, so much so, I want to visit the National Mustard Museum.