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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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Reminding Angels' fans that your team traded Shohei Otani to the Dodgers because they didn't want to pay him.
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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What I Learned When I Stopped Hoping Christians Would Come Around, Part Thirteen
A Pastor’s Testimony of Faith Beyond the Christian Brand
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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...
When We Stopped Going to Church
Part of the series: “What I Learned When I Stopped Hoping Christians Would Come Around”
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They caught the NBA personnel!

Why can't they find Tom Homan?
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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Radical Love in a Cynical World (Part Two): Love That Lasts
A Meditation: Breathe Consciously While Reading
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#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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Blood Has a Memory: Abel’s Cry and the Conscience of Earth, Part Two
Ten of Today’s Whitewashed Tombs
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My early religious exposure came as a child in small Black Pentecostal congregations.

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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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What I Learned When I Stopped Hoping Christians Would Come Around, Part Ten
A Pastor’s Testimony of Faith Beyond the Christian Brand
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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.
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.
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.
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.
Trump only wanted a Nobel because Obama has one.
Gotta love a daughter with a conscience
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
Join this event!
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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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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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