John Pavlovitz
@johnpavlovitz.bsky.social
Author, pastor, activist, fighter for the common good.
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December 15, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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Devastating news. What a tremendous loss for the world.
Homicide detectives are investigating an address connected to Hollywood director Rob Reiner.
According to a Los Angeles Fire Department official, the deceased were a man and a woman, ages 78 and 68. The same ages as Reiner and his wife.
According to a Los Angeles Fire Department official, the deceased were a man and a woman, ages 78 and 68. The same ages as Reiner and his wife.
December 15, 2025 at 3:13 AM
Devastating news. What a tremendous loss for the world.
PROCRASTINATORS' ALERT!
Monday is the last day to get signed books and prints in time for Christmas!
Monday is the last day to get signed books and prints in time for Christmas!
December 14, 2025 at 11:01 PM
PROCRASTINATORS' ALERT!
Monday is the last day to get signed books and prints in time for Christmas!
Monday is the last day to get signed books and prints in time for Christmas!
At Brown University, exactly 13 years after the horrors of Sandy Hook Elementary, Conservative America’s abnormal adoration of guns continues to kill our children.
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Sandy Hook Elementary, Brown University, and the Conservative Gun Lust Killing Our Children
Every allegiance has a cost.
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December 14, 2025 at 4:16 PM
At Brown University, exactly 13 years after the horrors of Sandy Hook Elementary, Conservative America’s abnormal adoration of guns continues to kill our children.
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Yeah, Republicans, it's the damn guns.
You can deny it, hide from it, refuse to acknowledge it, and try and distract from it, but that's simply the truth.
And if you won't admit this and won't commit to doing anything about it, then yeah, it's you too.
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You can deny it, hide from it, refuse to acknowledge it, and try and distract from it, but that's simply the truth.
And if you won't admit this and won't commit to doing anything about it, then yeah, it's you too.
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Hey Republicans, It's the Damn Guns. And, It's You.
Dear Republicans,
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December 14, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Yeah, Republicans, it's the damn guns.
You can deny it, hide from it, refuse to acknowledge it, and try and distract from it, but that's simply the truth.
And if you won't admit this and won't commit to doing anything about it, then yeah, it's you too.
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You can deny it, hide from it, refuse to acknowledge it, and try and distract from it, but that's simply the truth.
And if you won't admit this and won't commit to doing anything about it, then yeah, it's you too.
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MAGAs are glad to apparently be able to say "Merry Christmas" again... in addition to being able to protect a rapist, celebrate the beating of immigrants, applaud the taking of food from children, and cheer the elimination of healthcare for sick people.
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'Happy Holidays' isn't an Insult to Jesus. Christians Who Weaponize Christmas are.
American Evangelicals’ annual campaign against the supposed “War on Christmas” began early this year, with the White House promising the apparently perpetually oppressed faithful that with Donald Trum...
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December 12, 2025 at 7:50 PM
MAGAs are glad to apparently be able to say "Merry Christmas" again... in addition to being able to protect a rapist, celebrate the beating of immigrants, applaud the taking of food from children, and cheer the elimination of healthcare for sick people.
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Kirk has left a hateful, dehumanizing legacy of words that Conservative Christians are either choosing to ignore in their zeal to canonize him, or they simply share his racist, phobic, misogynist, Islamophobic, antisemitic, supremacist sentiments.
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The Shameful Christian Idolatry and Fraudulent Martyrdom of Charlie Kirk
As news of his shooting broke, the Jesus-washing of Charlie Kirk’s life by Conservative Christians began almost immediately.
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December 12, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Kirk has left a hateful, dehumanizing legacy of words that Conservative Christians are either choosing to ignore in their zeal to canonize him, or they simply share his racist, phobic, misogynist, Islamophobic, antisemitic, supremacist sentiments.
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The long-anticipated, perennially delayed GOP healthcare plan, the one they’ve had fifteen years to provide as an alternative to Obamacare, seems to finally be confirmed: everyone going broke, suffering needlessly, and dying prematurely.
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The Republican Healthcare Plan: Suffering, Bankruptcy, and Death
Trump and the Republicans are furthering their dismantling of the Affordable Care Act, taking away desperately needed subsidies from tens of millions of Americans.
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December 12, 2025 at 2:57 PM
The long-anticipated, perennially delayed GOP healthcare plan, the one they’ve had fifteen years to provide as an alternative to Obamacare, seems to finally be confirmed: everyone going broke, suffering needlessly, and dying prematurely.
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If MAGA loved Jesus half as much as they love Charlie Kirk… they wouldn’t love Charlie Kirk.
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Conservative White Christians Will Worship Anyone But Jesus
I’d like to say I’m shocked.
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December 12, 2025 at 3:38 AM
If MAGA loved Jesus half as much as they love Charlie Kirk… they wouldn’t love Charlie Kirk.
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MAGA Christianity in America cannot peaceably coexist with the Jesus of the scriptures; with the truth of the poor foreign baby in the center of the Nativity; with the non-white, non-American reality of Christmas, which is why it is choosing to remove him.
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The War on Christmas is Finally Here, America. Conservative Christians are Waging it.
Well, it turns out, the Evangelicals were right.
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December 12, 2025 at 3:32 AM
MAGA Christianity in America cannot peaceably coexist with the Jesus of the scriptures; with the truth of the poor foreign baby in the center of the Nativity; with the non-white, non-American reality of Christmas, which is why it is choosing to remove him.
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Trump is a felon and a r*pist.
If you support him, you're just a sh*tty human.
That's just how this is.
If you support him, you're just a sh*tty human.
That's just how this is.
December 11, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Trump is a felon and a r*pist.
If you support him, you're just a sh*tty human.
That's just how this is.
If you support him, you're just a sh*tty human.
That's just how this is.
As an American, I feel like I need to apologize to the world every day.
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Dear World, (An Apology From Decent Americans)
Dear World,
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December 11, 2025 at 2:57 AM
As an American, I feel like I need to apologize to the world every day.
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In an ICE officer interaction with another human being, the former is far more likely to be a criminal than the latter.
December 10, 2025 at 11:18 PM
In an ICE officer interaction with another human being, the former is far more likely to be a criminal than the latter.
Few cults survive the passing of their leaders, and MAGA will not outlive the departure of Donald Trump from the White House or from this earth, whichever comes first...
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The MAGA Nightmare is Almost Over, America.
This will all be over soon, America.
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December 10, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Few cults survive the passing of their leaders, and MAGA will not outlive the departure of Donald Trump from the White House or from this earth, whichever comes first...
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What child is this?
I’ve sung this song for my entire life, and as a younger version of myself, I would always see a single child, born in the cold, surrounded by the smell of damp straw and animal dung. One child whose attention my heart demanded...
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I’ve sung this song for my entire life, and as a younger version of myself, I would always see a single child, born in the cold, surrounded by the smell of damp straw and animal dung. One child whose attention my heart demanded...
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'What Child Is This?' Why Followers of Jesus Should Have No Peace This Christmas
Have you ever felt like something was off, something you couldn’t quite place but you were sure of just the same; that despite all the trappings of normal and appearances of routine, there hovered a s...
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December 10, 2025 at 6:00 PM
What child is this?
I’ve sung this song for my entire life, and as a younger version of myself, I would always see a single child, born in the cold, surrounded by the smell of damp straw and animal dung. One child whose attention my heart demanded...
johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/what-child...
I’ve sung this song for my entire life, and as a younger version of myself, I would always see a single child, born in the cold, surrounded by the smell of damp straw and animal dung. One child whose attention my heart demanded...
johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/what-child...
'We Can't Change These Hateful People, America. We Have to Outnumber Them.'
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December 10, 2025 at 3:17 PM
'We Can't Change These Hateful People, America. We Have to Outnumber Them.'
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8 billion funerals are happening simultaneously right now.
Every single one of us is carrying grief.
Let’s carry one another as we do.
On January 11th, join me for a 2-week video series called GOOD GRIEVING: FINDING REAL LIFE AFTER REAL LOSS.'
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Every single one of us is carrying grief.
Let’s carry one another as we do.
On January 11th, join me for a 2-week video series called GOOD GRIEVING: FINDING REAL LIFE AFTER REAL LOSS.'
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December 10, 2025 at 2:53 PM
8 billion funerals are happening simultaneously right now.
Every single one of us is carrying grief.
Let’s carry one another as we do.
On January 11th, join me for a 2-week video series called GOOD GRIEVING: FINDING REAL LIFE AFTER REAL LOSS.'
johnpavlovitz.substack.com/goodgrieving
Every single one of us is carrying grief.
Let’s carry one another as we do.
On January 11th, join me for a 2-week video series called GOOD GRIEVING: FINDING REAL LIFE AFTER REAL LOSS.'
johnpavlovitz.substack.com/goodgrieving
Please read this.
Not for me, but for small-platform creative people who deserve that you do.
It matters.
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Not for me, but for small-platform creative people who deserve that you do.
It matters.
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Please, Do Feed the Artists
Valuing Creatives in an Entitlement Culture
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December 10, 2025 at 12:36 AM
Please read this.
Not for me, but for small-platform creative people who deserve that you do.
It matters.
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Not for me, but for small-platform creative people who deserve that you do.
It matters.
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Christian, if you aren’t capable of manufacturing the slightest bit of compassion for the hurting and hungry and terrified and desperate right now, what on earth are you singing for?
Just what exactly are you celebrating?
It sure as hell isn't Jesus.
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Just what exactly are you celebrating?
It sure as hell isn't Jesus.
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Christian, If You're Supporting ICE, You Shouldn't Be Celebrating Christmas
Christian, I’m trying to reconcile two things I’ve seen this season, maybe you can help me make sense of them…
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December 10, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Christian, if you aren’t capable of manufacturing the slightest bit of compassion for the hurting and hungry and terrified and desperate right now, what on earth are you singing for?
Just what exactly are you celebrating?
It sure as hell isn't Jesus.
johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/christian-...
Just what exactly are you celebrating?
It sure as hell isn't Jesus.
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If you’re celebrating the mass deportations of distraught, exhausted human beings seeking refuge, you probably shouldn’t be singing sweet songs about a baby with “no crib for a bed.”
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December 9, 2025 at 11:58 PM
If you’re celebrating the mass deportations of distraught, exhausted human beings seeking refuge, you probably shouldn’t be singing sweet songs about a baby with “no crib for a bed.”
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GOOD STUFF ALERT!!!
The amazing Stacey Chomiak and I have officially begun work on our children's book, 'HERE and NOW and SMALL and CLOSE,' which will catapult into the world in April!
The amazing Stacey Chomiak and I have officially begun work on our children's book, 'HERE and NOW and SMALL and CLOSE,' which will catapult into the world in April!
December 9, 2025 at 6:46 PM
GOOD STUFF ALERT!!!
The amazing Stacey Chomiak and I have officially begun work on our children's book, 'HERE and NOW and SMALL and CLOSE,' which will catapult into the world in April!
The amazing Stacey Chomiak and I have officially begun work on our children's book, 'HERE and NOW and SMALL and CLOSE,' which will catapult into the world in April!