Elizabeth

For my young comrades One plus a friend plus a friend plus a friend don't say that makes four the whole is greater than the sum of its parts small numbers mean friendship large ones revolution Begin with what you can count on your fingers for a friend does not dominate a friend always has time or knows someone else who does a friend always finds an answer or knows someone else who will a friend is always competent or will find someone else who is Small numbers provide a network large ones build the new city

By German theologian Dorothee Sölle, from Of War and Love (1983)

Father @cebm.bsky.social is a Lutheran now and that's on the power of being friends with me and @varbergensis.bsky.social

Teaching middle school confirmation is so precious to me because where else could I hear the exact phrase, "Pastor Elizabeth, I'm bouta crash out" ?? Nowhere

Today is also the 34th anniversary of my baptism :)

I love to go to church!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

seriously considering what Christianity is, and what the truths of the Gospel are

So much online conservatism these days is just "I miss being a kid"

huge news: my cat Zadie just ate a cheeto

going to a Department of War press conference and singing the Holden Evening Prayer version of the Magnificat

you really do learn something new every day

thanks, I hate it

This man was murdered by the federal immigration authorities as surely as Renee Good and Alex Pretti were

Why didn't I hear the phrase "theology of the cross" til seminary? Why did I believe throughout my youth and adolescence that being a Christian was basically about "being a good person" & the fate of our individual souls when we die? WHAT ABOUT THE RESURRECTION?? WHAT ABOUT THE NEW CREATION???

Thinking a lot about mainline American Protestantism failed so many in generation, maybe bc it's gotten subsumed into American evangelicalism, that weird mix of Calvinist cruelty and Anabaptist solipsism. We desperately need to get better at catechesis - "not being evangelical" is not good enough!

“Men are hardwired to—“ no they’re not.

Will never stop being baffled by how many Christians think that Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah" is 1) a Christian song and 2) a worship song. My brothers and sisters in Christ, why are we singing "remember when I moved in you" in the middle of church

7:45 a.m. annual meeting... penance for my sins

Pope Leo Will Spend July 4 Visiting Migrant Crossing Island Pope Leo has spoken out against the treatment of migrants in the United States several times over the last year.

JD Vance personally invited Pope Leo to the U.S. 250th celebration on the 4th of July. Today the Vatican announced Leo will be spending the day with migrants instead.

I am never going to get over the fact thar so many Americans died that corpses stacked up in nursing homes and hospital morgues, that refrigerator trucks had to be brought in for the overflow, and that the big takeaway from Important Pundits is there should have been *less* mitigation.

gray/white tabby cat lying on a pillow

please look at my cat

The person I gave a cross shaped chemical burn to was at least myself

Blessed Ash Wednesday. If you are responsible for the imposition of ashes today, please remember not to mix them with water because you will create lye and inadvertently give someone a cross shaped chemical burn. Do not ask me how I know this.

he is also reading infinite jest!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

upending gender norms by being a woman who got her boyfriend to listen to cameron winter and geese

A hand pets a dark gray bunny lying on a light blue blanket. Boxes and slippers are visible in the background.

I am five-and-a-half years sober today. Thanks be to God!

Jesus Christ is the light of the world, the light no darkness can overcome

i once thought that i was a valentine's day hater but now that i am in love, i have seen the error of my ways!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I went to Minneapolis to bear witness—and to make amends Once a leader in the Christian right, I joined clergy risking arrest to confront ICE—and the faith I helped weaponize.

The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God has come near; repent, and believe in the good news. (Mark 1:15)