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Clint (progressive pastor in the South) @clintschnekloth.substack.com · 4d

top seven action recommendations when the kleptocracy has decided to starve the poorest

Some folks are reaching out to ask, so here are my top seven action recommendations when the kleptocracy has decided to starve the poorest:

Clint (progressive pastor in the South) @clintschnekloth.substack.com · 7d

Pilgrims of the Broken Economy

On our pilgrimage for home, a pattern has become evident.

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Clint (progressive pastor in the South) @clintschnekloth.substack.com · 8d

Clint (progressive pastor in the South) @clintschnekloth.substack.com · 9d

Alternatively Amazon could just ship everyone the food they need for free.

Clint (progressive pastor in the South) @clintschnekloth.substack.com · 9d

Plus they already have all the supplies, the supply chain logistics. And since they got even more rich from the last disaster (Covid) maybe this time around they can pay it forward.

Clint (progressive pastor in the South) @clintschnekloth.substack.com · 9d

Why put downward pressure on already resource strapped non-profits? Walmart has the staff, the infrastructure, the know how. They could put free food lockers outside their stores and gain tons of good will.

All last week, Republican leaders tried to portray the No Kings protests scheduled for Saturday, October 18, as “Hate America” rallies.

Clint (progressive pastor in the South) @clintschnekloth.substack.com · 9d

Food banks and churches will not be able to cover a gap in SNAP funding, but you know who could?

Walmart. Walmart could just make all groceries free for November.

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Dr. Lisa Corrigan @drlisacorrigan.bsky.social · 12d

Grateful for the last word in @hcrichardson.bsky.social's newsletter about #NoKings. As a social movement scholar, the protests were important for their size and for how many sites participated but also because they are part of a trajectory of participation of millions. A 🧵:

Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 12d

October 19, 2025

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Dr. Lisa Corrigan @drlisacorrigan.bsky.social · 13d

In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.

Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 13d

Not a shitpost: #NoKings is feel-good performative activism for comfortable mostly upper and upper middle class white folks and that’s good, actually. Millions of people in the streets protesting a fascist regime is good. It is good for the normie baseline to be massive displays of public dissent.

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Clint (progressive pastor in the South) @clintschnekloth.substack.com · 18d

Do you follow the Lutheran Confessions blog? If not, would love to have you swing over and subscribe. I try to do my best work over here.

Celebrating What We’ve Got: Culture Without the Nostalgia Trap
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Celebrating What We’ve Got: Culture Without the Nostalgia Trap

I’ve been thinking more and more about what it is we actually mean when we talk about a culture.

Live with Clint Schnekloth

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Bob Moody @livehappy.bsky.social · Sep 26

This discussion between 2 Lutheran pastors, @clintschnekloth.substack.com and @angeladenker.bsky.social is enlightening. They talk a lot about Christian Nationalism and associated movements and show how progressive Christianity is different.
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A recording from Clint Schnekloth's live video

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Douglas Estes @douglasestes.bsky.social · 29d

Talking Tolkien, AI, and biblical interpretation today at Lutheran Confessions, with special thanks to @clintschnekloth.substack.com

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Live with Clint Schnekloth

A recording from Clint Schnekloth's live video

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Clint (progressive pastor in the South) @clintschnekloth.substack.com · 25d

The $1.3 Million Gospel: Why Faith-Based Initiatives Can’t Replace the Public Safety Net

“Why don’t you house the homeless first?” — when conservative critics made that challenge in response to our work developing refugee resettlement in the region, I took them literally.

Clint (progressive pastor in the South) @clintschnekloth.substack.com · Sep 22

Thinking about the effects of secondary religious trauma in communities like ours

Absorbed Ambivalence

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Clint (progressive pastor in the South) @clintschnekloth.substack.com · Sep 13

Standing with the Targeted, Without Radicalizing

A Confessional Response to the Death of Charlie Kirk

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Clint (progressive pastor in the South) @clintschnekloth.substack.com · Sep 10

One of the real benefits of living through a midlife unraveling (what a lot of us experience in our 50s) in 2025 is that it's all entirely masked by the now unavoidable anxiety of living under rising authoritarianism and climate change.

It's not me. It's f*cking everything.

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Emily @emdem29.bsky.social · Aug 28

"Justification isn’t only about individual forgiveness but about God reclaiming the whole cosmos. The disciple participates in that cosmic project, living in such a way that others taste freedom"

Clint (progressive pastor in the South) @clintschnekloth.substack.com · Aug 28

The Freedom of Disciples of the Crucified Nazarene Under Rising Fascism

A friend asked me to explain this short quote from Ernst Käsemann that I posted the other day:

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Clint (progressive pastor in the South) @clintschnekloth.substack.com · Aug 28

The Freedom of Disciples of the Crucified Nazarene Under Rising Fascism

A friend asked me to explain this short quote from Ernst Käsemann that I posted the other day: