Rhonda Mawhood Lee

The engineer priest finds a place and a way to set up the hammock!

He does not have to care! ✊🏻🙏🏻🩷

RIP, The Defiant Middle On planned obsolescence

"In lieu of flowers, the author suggests that you make a donation to any writer who still has a pulse, because this gig is brutal.”
Thanks to everyone who supports me and other writers as best they can.
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Updated - Cathedral Peregrine Webcams - The Association of English Cathedrals Updated for 2026 - all the live peregrine falcon webcams for cathedrals in 2026. Lots of the webcams are now coming online.

Fed up with people? Down on the church? All understandable. Take a break to watch peregrine falcons (once endangered) nest and nurture their chicks at English cathedrals. 🕯⚓️

englishcathedrals.co.uk/latest-news/...

Still Unbelievable!

I had a great time on the "Still Unbelievable" podcast with host, skeptic Matthew Taylor and his Christian psychotherapist wife Sarah. If you're seeking respectful dialogue between Christians and atheists who all care about #mentalhealth and #suicide, give a listen. ⚓️🕯
www.iheart.com/podcast/256-...

A well-used muffin tin containing five golden-brown Yorkshire puddings.

U.S. friends have been longing for Yorkshire pudding, so for the first time in over 30 years, i.e. since my mother died, I made some today. I'm glad to be able to share this gift my mother taught me with beloved friends, celebrating life together.
Up with dough, down with war and warmongers.

My #BibleStudy on 1st #Corinthians is now available! Published by Presbyterian Women, it's not just for Presbyterians, and not just for women. If you're looking for a Bible study for adults, this one will take you through the academic year. ⚓️
www.presbyterianwomen.org/current-bibl...

So NJ lawmakers wrote a bill to rein in ICE.

And this is what they called it.

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/21/n...

Vikings receiver Rondale Moore dies at 25 (Gift Article) Police say Moore was found dead inside the garage of a property in New Albany, Ind.

I am so sorry for this, another loss by suicide. May Mr. Moore rest in peace.
www.nytimes.com/athletic/706...

Reveal its unity, guard its faith, and preserve it in peace.

#Accountability, even too late, is also #SuicidePrevention (for the next generation of survivors). God bless you, Virginia #Giuffre.

"Thames Valley Police said...that it had 'arrested a man in his sixties from Norfolk on suspicion of misconduct in public office and are carrying out searches at addresses in Berkshire and Norfolk.'”
I would've enjoyed writing that (about A. #Mountbatten-Windsor).
#CastDownTheMighty
#LiftUpTheLowly

Title page of a first edition of The Color Line, inscribed "To Rhonda Mawhood, with the cordial best wishes of John Hope Franklin" and "Rhonda Keep Hope Alive Jesse Jackson."

In early 1993, #JesseJackson visited #Duke. One of his stops was the launch of #JohnHopeFranklin's book, The Color Line: Legacy for the Twenty-First Century. May both these gentlemen rest in peace and rise in glory.

Reward tiers include art by @annamaltese.bsky.social, former Simpsons animator and all-around badass.

Laughing at Nazis *with* racial and feminist analysis, by a distinguished military historian and a world-class animator? Who wouldn't want this? (I'm biased. But still.)

Congratulations!

She reminds me of child #immigrants today, most of whom are denied the legal status Cathie's family enjoyed because they were British, and who therefore face terrible risks--risks that people in power could spare them, if they chose.

People not in the Epstein files:

- drag queens
- transgender athletes
- librarians
- Black journalists
- “radical leftist scum”
- hungry family needing SNAP benefits
- workers on strike
- the cast of Sesame Street

😆

"Horrendously cruel" is right. Affirming #trans people of every age *is* #suicide #intervention.

Oh, damn.

For Minneapolis’s Native Americans, a New Fight Echoes a Bitter History

“As Native people, we’re pretty accustomed to fighting the federal government going back 530 years since they landed with their ships...It just so happens that everyone else is waking up to it.”
You can support Powwow Grounds by Venmo @powwowgrounds.

www.nytimes.com/2026/01/28/u...

🙌🏻🎉

I'm so sorry you're having to go through this, and I'm praying for you. Also, amen.

If you have a few spare dollars, you can help a #Native business feed and caffeinate #Minneapolis residents. ☕️🤎
Venmo @powwowgrounds

I pray it does gain traction.

Suicides Were Frequent at the Golden Gate Bridge. Not Anymore.

Zero #suicides at the #GoldenGateBridge in the last half of 2025. Deterrents work. I wrote about this in Suicide and the Communion of Saints.
It took San Francisco damn long enough to build the barrier. I wrote about that, too.

www.nytimes.com/2026/01/20/u...

Oh, geez. I'm glad you got them since you needed them. I'm praying for you! 🩷

They Love Him Dead A Sunday Sermon on America’s Necrophilic Relationship With MLK and His Dream

"Tomorrow is #MartinLutherKingDay. Tomorrow, America will say his name out loud. They’ll say it slowly. Reverently. They’ll say it like a prayer it does not intend to answer."
@drstaceypatton.bsky.social speaks truth. ⚓️🕯

open.substack.com/pub/drstacey...

I'm fortunate to be able to give to #Minneapolis/Minnesota #MutualAid. Maybe you're able, too.
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