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John Wakefield
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Episcopal priest now in South Haven, MI, USA. 📕 YSR. 3x Girldad. Ex-sportswriter. Leeds United fan. LOTR & Narnia, of course. STL-SEA-CLT. fthrjohn.com

Find me in real life at @epiphanysouthhaven.org.
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This is domestic terrorism.
pauleric70.bsky.social Paul Eric Scannell @pauleric70.bsky.social · 13h
Brian Krassenstein

A Charlotte man was stopped twice by ICE. The first group checked his ID and let him go. Minutes later, another set of agents rolled up, smashed his window, dragged him out, and assaulted him

He was a U.S. citizen…
November 16, 2025 at 3:30 AM
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This was our favorite local bakery, just down the road from Ab’s school when she taught elementary school classes full of immigrant kids… Charlotte won’t go quietly.
myelita.bsky.social Myelita Melton @myelita.bsky.social · 13h
Manolo’s Bakery in Charlotte closed today to protect their customers from ICE. This is a hard working Charlotte family. They deserves better than having trumps goons hassling their customers. They aren’t chasing criminals.

We all deserve better than #Felon47.

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‘They're not chasing criminals.' Manolo's Bakery owner closes store to protect customers (The Charlotte Observer)
Manuel "Manolo" Betancur closed his Charlotte bakery for the first time in 28 years Saturday afternoon at the city's arrival of U.S. Border Patrol agents, an...
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November 16, 2025 at 3:20 AM
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NEW: In his first interview since his arrest for protesting outside the Chicago-area ICE facility, @revdrmichaelwoolf.bsky.social tells me he has "bruises all over my body."

Even so, he said, “the cruelty that goes on that facility … must be 100 times worse." religionnews.com/2025/11/15/a...
(RNS) — In video recorded on Friday (Nov. 4) outside the embattled U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Broadview, Illinois, the Rev. Michael Woolf stands alongside fellow protesters, fiddling awkwardly with his backpack as faith leaders and other protesters chant slogans at a line of police officers. A moment later, one officer can be seen walking forward, grabbing Woolf by the wrist and yanking. Demonstrators attempted to hold on to Woolf, who was a clerical collar, but four officers wrenched him from the crowd and tossed him to the ground. After turning him onto his stomach, officers proceeded to arrest Woolf, and removed him to the Cook County Sheriff’s Office in Maywood, Illinois. “I’ve got bruises all over my body,” Woolf, an American Baptist minister who is pastor of Lake Street Church of Evanston, Illinois, told Religion News Service. He was speaking in his first interview since being released Friday afternoon after about seven hours in custody. Woolf said when he asked the arresting officers to loosen the plastic handcuffs that were causing his hands to go numb, an officer replied: “Nobody wants to talk to you — shut the f–k up.” “It’s part of the dehumanizing nature of it, and it’s it gives me a lot of clarity around what’s happening here,” said Woolf, who has been active in protests against ICE. “It’s really a spiritual emergency.”
November 15, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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Fridays are for fun YouTube videos at the Wakefield house… enjoy. youtu.be/I2cE1TM2wmI?...
Flo & Joan - Rest of My Life: Melbourne Comedy Festival 2025
YouTube video by Flo & Joan
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November 15, 2025 at 12:52 AM
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Reverence for the bread and the wine of the Eucharist is the beginning of reverence for the whole world.

—Rowan Williams, "Being Christian" ⚓
Rowan Williams elevates the host during a celebration of Eucharist. There are chalices and cruets of wine on the altar, and in the background members of the choir can be seen.
November 12, 2025 at 10:25 PM
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The crowd is singing “Go Tell It On The Mountain”

“Let my people go”
November 14, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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I would say this is how every Democrat should be talking but pretty much every Democrat is on board with the imperial project so
Colombia President Petro: "A clan of pedophiles wants to destroy our democracy. To keep Epstein's list from coming out, they send warships to kill fishermen and threaten our neighbor with invasion for their oil. They want to turn the region into another Lybia, full of slaves."
November 11, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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🙏
November 14, 2025 at 12:17 AM
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Never thought they’d actually do this. I totally get it, but a huge appeal for me was always that MLS didn’t always run up against English leagues or the NFL, NBA, and NHL.
tombogert.bsky.social Tom Bogert @tombogert.bsky.social · 2d
BREAKING: MLS owners have voted and passed a schedule change. The league will run from the late summer months through May.

This is due to start in summer of 2027. MLS will take winter break in Jan/Feb

More from @paultenorio.bsky.social on the ground at BOG meeting: www.nytimes.com/athletic/680...
MLS owners vote to flip schedule to European calendar, change format starting in 2027
MLS will soon align with leagues that play from the fall to the spring after a transformational decision made by its owners
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November 13, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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It’s all of them, every last one of them
timdickinson.bsky.social Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 3d
just opening up the new Epstein docs at random:
November 13, 2025 at 1:46 AM
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Young men and women are "getting actively pulled apart in a way that doesn't just have political consequences, but I feel like is going to have lasting cultural consequences."

@sarahlongwell25.bsky.social talks women and the Republican party and more with @davidfrum.bsky.social
November 12, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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"Nothing withstands the influence of wealth. Everything submits to its tyranny, everything cowers at its dominion." #SaintBasil #Resist
November 10, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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Charlie the church dog, now officially in residence. Welcomed to the family on October 27, already runs the Church of the Epiphany as of November 5.

📕 ⚓️ #dogsofbluesky
November 6, 2025 at 1:15 AM
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Preached yesterday about how even the most outcast of the outcasts (and even the rich!) can respond to Christ’s love… by feeding the poor.

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A Wee, Little, Wealthy, Unlikely Saint
St. Zacchaeus saw Jesus coming, ran toward him, climbed a tree to see him, and then gave what he could give so that he could walk in the way of love.
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November 3, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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Just had a beautiful afternoon service at @epiphanysouthhaven.org called “Claiming the Unclaimed,” where we honor those left behind at our local funeral home. Ten souls honored today, 24 in attendance.

For Wanda, Thomas, Phyllis, Robert, Carlin, Polly, Joseph, Edward, Timothy, and Luis, we pray. 📕
November 1, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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Got to experience my own church as a “visitor” today because we had a guest preacher/presider… I wore a St. Louis Blues sweatshirt and old jeans. Whole experience is highly recommended if you can swing it.

So, so thankful I get to do this work in this place. 📕 @epiphanysouthhaven.org
October 27, 2025 at 2:35 AM
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Privileged to hear Presiding Bishop Sean Rowe speak at our diocesan convention today. When asked for parting advice, he simply said, “I’m not the first to say it, but seek first the kingdom… and all the other things will come.” About cried. Really, really great.

📕 @greatlakesepisco.bsky.social
October 25, 2025 at 2:42 AM
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Preached yesterday about wrestling Jacob, the persistent widow, and the necessary foundations for @epiphanysouthhaven.org’s many No Kings protesters.

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Persistence in Protest, Prayer, and Patience
A life of prayer will ground us in a faith and in a relationship with God that will form us into a people best equipped to change the world around us.
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October 20, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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I will be throwing the word “doggedly” into this morning’s sermon in hopes that it subconsciously pushes the Mrs. across the line on this puppy. Is that an appropriate use of the pulpit? Will she notice? Probably not.

📕 🐶 #dogsofbluesky
October 19, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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Of course women don't like the Cybertruck.

Women only want one thing, and it's Gwaihir the Windlord, swiftest of the Great Eagles
October 17, 2025 at 12:18 AM
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A parishioner brought a puppy to church on Sunday hoping the rector’s wife would adopt it. Close, but no luck. (We’ll keep trying.)

⚓️ 📕 #dogsofbluesky
October 14, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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Preached yesterday about our irrational (and ultimately sinful) fear of anyone we deem different from us… like Bad Bunny.

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The Foreigner as Teacher, Never Threat
“Jesus, Master, have mercy on us,” for not knowing enough modern-day lepers. Lead us into those relationships, that we may learn from them and love.
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October 13, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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Preached yesterday about if Zuckerberg and Jobs deserve millstones… and how being surrounded by a school of love really can make a difference.

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Baptismal Community as an Alternative to Hate
It is our privilege here to be a different example... to lead each other toward life, toward the practice of love, toward connection, toward our God.
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October 7, 2025 at 3:07 AM