Chris Lilley ✠ 🇵🇸🇺🇦
@frostinthepines.bsky.social
Science, religion, and philosophy. Liberal theology in a liberative mode. Postulant for Holy Orders︱alum Princeton Seminary, Marquette U︱#Episcopalian︱He/him
@billieiswriting.bsky.social never misses. Spot on, as usual!
MAGA is American Fascism. That shouldn't even be controversial at this point but in case it is, here is my most comprehensive essay to date explaining and demonstrating that fact.
open.substack.com/pub/billieis...
open.substack.com/pub/billieis...
Yes MAGA is American Fascism
A post for the trolls - with slides
open.substack.com
November 28, 2025 at 8:56 PM
@billieiswriting.bsky.social never misses. Spot on, as usual!
A major stumbling block I frequently encounter in conversations with moderate and liberal folks about I.C.E.’s violent racism and cruelty is the widespread assumption that America’s immigration system is basically good, with only a few rogue actors or extremists taking it too far.
November 28, 2025 at 6:53 PM
A major stumbling block I frequently encounter in conversations with moderate and liberal folks about I.C.E.’s violent racism and cruelty is the widespread assumption that America’s immigration system is basically good, with only a few rogue actors or extremists taking it too far.
Just added to my reading list! Achingly relevant today.
I'm so pleased to share that my first book, "Reinventing Protestant Germany," appears today with @harvardpress.bsky.social. It offers a new take on West Germany's winding path toward postwar democracy, highlighting the ambivalent role of the Protestant Church. www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...
Reinventing Protestant Germany — Harvard University Press
A revealing account of how German Protestant leaders embraced democratic ideals after WWII, while firmly and consequentially refusing to account for their earlier complicity with Nazism.Germany’s Prot...
www.hup.harvard.edu
November 28, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Just added to my reading list! Achingly relevant today.
My family asked me not to make any puns on Thanksgiving.
I just don't know if I can quit cold turkey though.
I just don't know if I can quit cold turkey though.
November 27, 2025 at 5:21 PM
My family asked me not to make any puns on Thanksgiving.
I just don't know if I can quit cold turkey though.
I just don't know if I can quit cold turkey though.
I used to have a good relationship with bread.
But now that I'm making some, I'm realizing how kneady it can be.
But now that I'm making some, I'm realizing how kneady it can be.
November 27, 2025 at 4:50 PM
I used to have a good relationship with bread.
But now that I'm making some, I'm realizing how kneady it can be.
But now that I'm making some, I'm realizing how kneady it can be.
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Pope Leo to International Theological Commission: “Just as there is no faculty that faith does not enlighten, so there is no science that theology may ignore.” www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news...
November 26, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Pope Leo to International Theological Commission: “Just as there is no faculty that faith does not enlighten, so there is no science that theology may ignore.” www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news...
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The turkey is in the smoker!
smoke is coming out of a roasted turkey in a pot
ALT: smoke is coming out of a roasted turkey in a pot
media.tenor.com
November 27, 2025 at 1:58 PM
The turkey is in the smoker!
I believe history will one day scrutinize the church’s silence or complicity in the face of I.C.E.’s cruelty, racism, and state-sanctioned terror in the United States just as it has judged the church’s response to Nazism in 1930's Germany.
To follow Christ is to resist I.C.E.
#ice #abolishice
To follow Christ is to resist I.C.E.
#ice #abolishice
November 26, 2025 at 6:53 PM
I believe history will one day scrutinize the church’s silence or complicity in the face of I.C.E.’s cruelty, racism, and state-sanctioned terror in the United States just as it has judged the church’s response to Nazism in 1930's Germany.
To follow Christ is to resist I.C.E.
#ice #abolishice
To follow Christ is to resist I.C.E.
#ice #abolishice
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from now on, responding to all AI-generated pitches with “this won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.”
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
Even God Is Worried About ChatGPT
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
www.vulture.com
November 26, 2025 at 3:51 PM
from now on, responding to all AI-generated pitches with “this won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.”
To me, there's always something magical about the first snowfall of the year. ❄️🌨️☃️
November 26, 2025 at 4:44 PM
To me, there's always something magical about the first snowfall of the year. ❄️🌨️☃️
November 26, 2025 at 2:32 PM
I feel like there's multiple headlines every day like "President Trump unveils scheme to sell stockpile of limb prosthetics for veterans to pay for gold-plated toilets on Air Force One and claims, without evidence, that immigrants are stealing the teeth from hard working white Americans"
November 25, 2025 at 12:00 AM
I feel like there's multiple headlines every day like "President Trump unveils scheme to sell stockpile of limb prosthetics for veterans to pay for gold-plated toilets on Air Force One and claims, without evidence, that immigrants are stealing the teeth from hard working white Americans"
I recently met @jonathan-foster.bsky.social at theology beer camp, and his gift for distilling deep theology into accessible insight left me eager to explore his work.
#JonathanFoster #sacrasage
#JonathanFoster #sacrasage
November 24, 2025 at 11:33 PM
I recently met @jonathan-foster.bsky.social at theology beer camp, and his gift for distilling deep theology into accessible insight left me eager to explore his work.
#JonathanFoster #sacrasage
#JonathanFoster #sacrasage
Few things disgust me more than professing Christians baptizing their hatred and cruelty in the language of sacred scripture.
Jesus doesn't know your name.
Jesus doesn't know your name.
November 23, 2025 at 11:38 PM
Few things disgust me more than professing Christians baptizing their hatred and cruelty in the language of sacred scripture.
Jesus doesn't know your name.
Jesus doesn't know your name.
A History of Waffles - Communion Wafers to Eggo
YouTube video by Tasting History with Max Miller
youtu.be
November 23, 2025 at 12:07 AM
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11 years ago today, 12 year old Tamir Rice was gunned down by police officers on Cleveland’s west side.
The officer shot him within seconds of arriving at the park he was playing in.
Tamir’s life mattered. It still does. My thoughts are with his family today.
The officer shot him within seconds of arriving at the park he was playing in.
Tamir’s life mattered. It still does. My thoughts are with his family today.
November 22, 2025 at 11:32 PM
11 years ago today, 12 year old Tamir Rice was gunned down by police officers on Cleveland’s west side.
The officer shot him within seconds of arriving at the park he was playing in.
Tamir’s life mattered. It still does. My thoughts are with his family today.
The officer shot him within seconds of arriving at the park he was playing in.
Tamir’s life mattered. It still does. My thoughts are with his family today.
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Suggesting that science is or has “orthodoxy” is a fundamental misunderstanding.
Orthodoxy implies unquestionable dogma.
Science doesn't work like that: it’s a method designed to question, test, and revise if necessary.
Orthodoxy implies unquestionable dogma.
Science doesn't work like that: it’s a method designed to question, test, and revise if necessary.
Breaking News: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said he personally instructed the CDC to abandon its position that vaccines do not cause autism. The move underscores his determination to challenge scientific orthodoxy — in this case, that vaccines save lives — and bend the health department to his will.
RFK Jr. Says He Instructed CDC to Change Vaccines and Autism Language on Website
In an interview, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. cited gaps in vaccine safety research. His critics say he is ignoring a larger point: Vaccines save lives.
nyti.ms
November 21, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Suggesting that science is or has “orthodoxy” is a fundamental misunderstanding.
Orthodoxy implies unquestionable dogma.
Science doesn't work like that: it’s a method designed to question, test, and revise if necessary.
Orthodoxy implies unquestionable dogma.
Science doesn't work like that: it’s a method designed to question, test, and revise if necessary.
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Final nail in the coffin for any respectability the CDC once had. Once this regime is gone it's going to be a true struggle to get any of it back.
CDC website changed to include false claims that link autism and vaccines | CNN
Scientific information on the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s website was replaced Wednesday with anti-vaccine talking points that don’t rule out a link between vaccines and autism, de...
www.cnn.com
November 20, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Final nail in the coffin for any respectability the CDC once had. Once this regime is gone it's going to be a true struggle to get any of it back.
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With every single insane post Trump makes, he becomes less powerful. Less believable. Less authoritarian.
He’s a weak man.
He’s a weak man.
November 20, 2025 at 6:57 PM
With every single insane post Trump makes, he becomes less powerful. Less believable. Less authoritarian.
He’s a weak man.
He’s a weak man.
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“I want their morale as low as possible because a team with low morale is ineffective.”
Meet the veteran who chases ICE on a scooter
Meet the veteran who chases ICE on a scooter
Meet the veteran who chases ICE on a scooter
Clifford “Buzz” Grambo patrols the streets of Baltimore to keep his neighbors safe—and make federal agents uncomfortable.
www.motherjones.com
November 20, 2025 at 2:00 PM
“I want their morale as low as possible because a team with low morale is ineffective.”
Meet the veteran who chases ICE on a scooter
Meet the veteran who chases ICE on a scooter
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When I was in highschool, I thought I came up with a knock-down argument for young Earth creationism 😂😬
Based on this:
"My servant Moses is not so, who is faithful in all mine house. With him will I speak mouth to mouth, even apparently, and not in dark speeches"
Num. 12:7-8, KJV
Based on this:
"My servant Moses is not so, who is faithful in all mine house. With him will I speak mouth to mouth, even apparently, and not in dark speeches"
Num. 12:7-8, KJV
November 19, 2025 at 8:44 PM
When I was in highschool, I thought I came up with a knock-down argument for young Earth creationism 😂😬
Based on this:
"My servant Moses is not so, who is faithful in all mine house. With him will I speak mouth to mouth, even apparently, and not in dark speeches"
Num. 12:7-8, KJV
Based on this:
"My servant Moses is not so, who is faithful in all mine house. With him will I speak mouth to mouth, even apparently, and not in dark speeches"
Num. 12:7-8, KJV
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Just a reminder, calling a woman “piggy” (though absolutely reprehensible) isn’t even close to the worst things Donald Trump has done to women, BY HIS OWN ADMISSION.
November 19, 2025 at 2:25 AM
Just a reminder, calling a woman “piggy” (though absolutely reprehensible) isn’t even close to the worst things Donald Trump has done to women, BY HIS OWN ADMISSION.