ThinkingOutLoudWithAkua
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👩🏿🏫:Theologian @yaledivinityschool
👩🏿:✝️Christian faith #AllThingsBiFaith 💗💜💙#LGBTQinChrist
📚:African politics history labour movements, religion gender & sexuality
👩🏿:✝️Christian faith #AllThingsBiFaith 💗💜💙#LGBTQinChrist
📚:African politics history labour movements, religion gender & sexuality
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To reject the US as a fundamentally American country with a deep shared history and commonality with the rest of the Americas, including that Spanish has long been our de facto national second language, is on a deep level anti-American. It's hating actual American culture and history and tradition.
February 9, 2026 at 3:19 AM
To reject the US as a fundamentally American country with a deep shared history and commonality with the rest of the Americas, including that Spanish has long been our de facto national second language, is on a deep level anti-American. It's hating actual American culture and history and tradition.
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the Epstein files are really devastating because they remind me of how many girls and women miss out on professional opportunities, mentorship and careers because of how many powerful, rich and influential men only view girls and women — and interactions with them — through the lens of sex
February 5, 2026 at 5:05 PM
the Epstein files are really devastating because they remind me of how many girls and women miss out on professional opportunities, mentorship and careers because of how many powerful, rich and influential men only view girls and women — and interactions with them — through the lens of sex
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Saw a Star Trek fan post this for welcoming in Black History month, and loved it, so I'm sharing it too.
February 1, 2026 at 3:49 PM
Saw a Star Trek fan post this for welcoming in Black History month, and loved it, so I'm sharing it too.
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The one lesson all should take from Black History is that no matter how bad the world gets we will *always* have time for jokes and looking fly af lol.
Easter eggs for Hitler, that is funny AF
February 1, 2026 at 3:14 PM
The one lesson all should take from Black History is that no matter how bad the world gets we will *always* have time for jokes and looking fly af lol.
Gen Z friends,
What are 3 things about a church that would make you regulary attend and participate?
What are 3 things about a church that would make you regulary attend and participate?
February 1, 2026 at 6:26 PM
Gen Z friends,
What are 3 things about a church that would make you regulary attend and participate?
What are 3 things about a church that would make you regulary attend and participate?
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People being surprised Meg is with Klay cause he’s a nerd…. Ummmm she’s a nerd. She’s just fine
January 21, 2026 at 6:52 PM
People being surprised Meg is with Klay cause he’s a nerd…. Ummmm she’s a nerd. She’s just fine
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The point of integration wasnt to "be around white people". The point of integration was access to a long list of shit black people were paying taxes for but not getting which was only really possible with segregation. A lot of people get that twisted.
January 22, 2026 at 10:47 PM
The point of integration wasnt to "be around white people". The point of integration was access to a long list of shit black people were paying taxes for but not getting which was only really possible with segregation. A lot of people get that twisted.
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The funny thing about "integration was a mistake" takes is the assumption that "integration" actually occurred in the first place.
January 23, 2026 at 12:21 PM
The funny thing about "integration was a mistake" takes is the assumption that "integration" actually occurred in the first place.
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At the end of the day, the Black Lives Matter era was about whether people should be killed in the street, and lots of people decided yeah and put those little blue flags on their cars. It spread to everyone because it stopped for no one.
January 24, 2026 at 4:45 PM
At the end of the day, the Black Lives Matter era was about whether people should be killed in the street, and lots of people decided yeah and put those little blue flags on their cars. It spread to everyone because it stopped for no one.
I ask for your prayers as I prepare to be confirmed into the Anglican church tomorrow. Thank you 🙏🏿🙏🏿
#LGBTQinChrist✝️❤️💚🖤🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
#LGBTQinChrist✝️❤️💚🖤🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
January 21, 2026 at 4:07 AM
I ask for your prayers as I prepare to be confirmed into the Anglican church tomorrow. Thank you 🙏🏿🙏🏿
#LGBTQinChrist✝️❤️💚🖤🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
#LGBTQinChrist✝️❤️💚🖤🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
"The Bible is best seen as a script that inspires faithful ab-lib among its readers, rather than a verbatim mindset that seeks to reproduce a blend of environment and original text cannot be recreated centuries later"
-- Rev Dr Andrew Wilkes
-- Rev Dr Andrew Wilkes
January 12, 2026 at 3:15 AM
"The Bible is best seen as a script that inspires faithful ab-lib among its readers, rather than a verbatim mindset that seeks to reproduce a blend of environment and original text cannot be recreated centuries later"
-- Rev Dr Andrew Wilkes
-- Rev Dr Andrew Wilkes
Reading for my Systematic Theology Class
January 12, 2026 at 2:01 AM
Reading for my Systematic Theology Class
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Example: The German Christian Movement of the 1930s-40s.
October 6, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Example: The German Christian Movement of the 1930s-40s.
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You don’t need to have many Bibles. One Bible is ok too. The best Bible is the Bible you will read every day.
December 23, 2025 at 4:57 PM
You don’t need to have many Bibles. One Bible is ok too. The best Bible is the Bible you will read every day.
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As the old socialist Catholic Dominican theologian put it:
"As long as Christian morality is thought to be mainly about whether and when people should go to bed, no bishops are going to be crucified. And this is depressing."
-- Herbert McCabe, O. P.
"As long as Christian morality is thought to be mainly about whether and when people should go to bed, no bishops are going to be crucified. And this is depressing."
-- Herbert McCabe, O. P.
i’m sure ICE guys with their guns and masks fancy themselves big brave men, but when you see real, honest courage it knocks you on your ass. it’s a glimpse of something holy.
At last night’s candlelight vigil for Renee Nicole Good, Bishop Rob Hirschfeld of the Episcopal Diocese of New Hampshire announced he had asked the clergy of the diocese to get their affairs in order and to make sure they have their wills written ...,
January 11, 2026 at 1:51 AM
As the old socialist Catholic Dominican theologian put it:
"As long as Christian morality is thought to be mainly about whether and when people should go to bed, no bishops are going to be crucified. And this is depressing."
-- Herbert McCabe, O. P.
"As long as Christian morality is thought to be mainly about whether and when people should go to bed, no bishops are going to be crucified. And this is depressing."
-- Herbert McCabe, O. P.
"Canadian socialists should embrace what makes us Canadian as well as socialists... It also means generating ideas with Canadian historical and cultural salience rather than reflexively following the lead of the Left in the United States"
jacobin.com/2026/01/cana...
jacobin.com/2026/01/cana...
To Emulate Zohran, Rebuild Left Institutions
Zohran Mamdani’s win in New York has inspired the Left far beyond the city. But in Canada, as elsewhere, trying to replicate his style without rebuilding the institutions and political cadre that made...
jacobin.com
January 11, 2026 at 6:00 AM
"Canadian socialists should embrace what makes us Canadian as well as socialists... It also means generating ideas with Canadian historical and cultural salience rather than reflexively following the lead of the Left in the United States"
jacobin.com/2026/01/cana...
jacobin.com/2026/01/cana...
Good eats 😋
January 11, 2026 at 5:55 AM
Good eats 😋
Good eats 😋
January 11, 2026 at 5:54 AM
Good eats 😋
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Strange takes on Mayor Zamdani swearing his oath on the Qu’ran. It has nothing to do with church & state. The point of the oath is for the person swearing in to do so upon some text that is sacred TO THEM. Some Presidents swore in w/o any book. John Quincy Adams was sworn on a law book. His choice.
January 1, 2026 at 11:07 PM
Strange takes on Mayor Zamdani swearing his oath on the Qu’ran. It has nothing to do with church & state. The point of the oath is for the person swearing in to do so upon some text that is sacred TO THEM. Some Presidents swore in w/o any book. John Quincy Adams was sworn on a law book. His choice.
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Men doing this whole “I will vanquish continents for my children” LARP is so goofy in the context of household surveys. It’s nice you’ll kill millions for your daughter, maybe we can start at doing a load of laundry for your wife who does the vast majority of household labor?
December 30, 2025 at 11:51 PM
Men doing this whole “I will vanquish continents for my children” LARP is so goofy in the context of household surveys. It’s nice you’ll kill millions for your daughter, maybe we can start at doing a load of laundry for your wife who does the vast majority of household labor?
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“Can’t believe NYC elected a Muslim as mayor.”
In truth—a Black American Christian woman swearing in a Ugandan American Muslim of South Asian ethnicity as his Syrian American wife holds the Qurans he swears in on, all while standing on the steps of a subway station—is the most NYC thing imaginable.
In truth—a Black American Christian woman swearing in a Ugandan American Muslim of South Asian ethnicity as his Syrian American wife holds the Qurans he swears in on, all while standing on the steps of a subway station—is the most NYC thing imaginable.
January 1, 2026 at 11:43 AM
“Can’t believe NYC elected a Muslim as mayor.”
In truth—a Black American Christian woman swearing in a Ugandan American Muslim of South Asian ethnicity as his Syrian American wife holds the Qurans he swears in on, all while standing on the steps of a subway station—is the most NYC thing imaginable.
In truth—a Black American Christian woman swearing in a Ugandan American Muslim of South Asian ethnicity as his Syrian American wife holds the Qurans he swears in on, all while standing on the steps of a subway station—is the most NYC thing imaginable.
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I'm glad people not getting married and not having kids is being normalized. In that group, there are a LOT of people who shouldn't have even considered doing either one of those things in the first place. Society shouldn't put one ounce of pressure on them to do so.
December 8, 2025 at 3:00 PM
I'm glad people not getting married and not having kids is being normalized. In that group, there are a LOT of people who shouldn't have even considered doing either one of those things in the first place. Society shouldn't put one ounce of pressure on them to do so.
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I see some responses here from yt people saying that so and so are “just as American as me.” And, while I appreciate that sentiment probably comes from a good place, I’d like to gently suggest changing your own orientation so that you recognize YOU do not represent the standard of “Americanness”
Stephen Miller is now arguing that assimilation is fundamentally impossible and that certain cultures are not compatible with Western civilization
November 28, 2025 at 3:47 PM
I see some responses here from yt people saying that so and so are “just as American as me.” And, while I appreciate that sentiment probably comes from a good place, I’d like to gently suggest changing your own orientation so that you recognize YOU do not represent the standard of “Americanness”
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ah, perhaps instead of pumping millions into endless factional infighting Dem donors could invest in making local Dem organizations genuine civic spaces that can reach people during and between elections
November 5, 2025 at 12:49 PM
ah, perhaps instead of pumping millions into endless factional infighting Dem donors could invest in making local Dem organizations genuine civic spaces that can reach people during and between elections