@communioncourage
Catholic priest (RCWP). Fierce for repro rights + co-conspiring to uproot systems of oppression. Focused on the intersection of religion & public health at BUSPH OLMPH. If I’m not hyper-focusing, I’m probably on a side quest or sky gazing. She/her.
There are also children who receive SSI payments because they are born with qualifying disabilities and the income helps their low-income parents survive and provide for them. The ignorance slashing and hacking at our systems is deadly.
Indianapolis HANDS OFF!
Whether it's faith, wisdom, or science that guides you—radical love practiced together changes everything. Let's lean in. #PublicTheology #LoveAsResistance
Last weekend I preached in solidarity with the #CatholicWomenStrike, reminding myself (and maybe you, too) that lavish, collective love is our best antidote to quiet cruelty, especially the cruelty within.
🚨ATTENTION PUBLIC HEALTH ALLIES!🚨
We have power together. To see our strength and build community, we ask that you wear something 💚green💚 to work on WEDNESDAY to show solidarity and readiness to defend public health.
Please spread the word!
#courageiscontagious #spreadthecolor
I'm voting NO on the Republican shutdown bill.
NO on handing Donald Trump and Elon Musk a blank check to spend your taxpayer money however they want.
NO on cutting funding that helps families put food on the table and crack down on wealthy tax cheats.
We need to push back.
OK #HoosierSky so this is happening
Share amongst your peeps
Those who are in science
Those who like science
Those who have been helped by science
Those who value truth and facts
Come hang with the cool kids and say hi to some rad scientists
Absolutely disgusting.
Horrifying trend.
Medicaid work requirements are yet again a hot topic. Let’s see what’s behind that, shall we? 🧵
#medicaid #insurance
It's a DISASTER, and the GOP knows it. Please call. www.forbes.com/sites/sarado...
Need more info? Impactful information from @busph.bsky.social Medicaid Policy Lab:
www.bu.edu/articles/202...
Need a script? Download the 5 Calls app to make calling your congresspeople easier.
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Medicaid is on the chopping block today. Call your House Rep in the next few hours and tell them to oppose Medicaid cuts. Health care for 83 Million low income and disabled Americans, including nearly 40% of US children, is at stake.
1-800-224-3121
www.kff.org/medicaid/iss...
Hoosier families are not ok. This article states one of the justifications for rolling back child labor laws is “parental rights.” Parental rights to what? To force kids to work? Note the U.S. is the only UN member who hasn’t ratified the 1989 UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.
Praying for safety for you, your spouse, kiddo, and all. 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
Human beings deserve human rights.
All of them.
Even ones whose governments and/or representative bodies commit atrocities.
Even ones who--yes-- commit atrocities themselves.
You don't lose your right to human rights, ever.
That's why they're called inalienable human rights.
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This is an excellent resource!! I have the book and workbook and am going back for a second read. Who wants to work through it together? Thanks to @prisonculture.bsky.social and @mskellymhayes.bsky.social for sharing their wisdom this way.
God of blessing & woe, disturbing the deadly order of the world: give us faith tested in poverty, hunger for what truly satisfies, eyes softened by tears & hearts ready to laugh at what is false & pompous that we might protect the dignity of all people; thru Jesus, who turns the world upside down.
As the expected Christian Nationalism EO came in, I’m seeing a bunch of “this isn’t real Christianity” noise in my mentions.
Nope.
Christian friends. 1/x 🧵
This is 💯 part of the history of Christianity, dating to Constantine, to the Holy Roman Empire, forced conversions, Inquisitions, +
Quote of the day from Insight Timer featuring words from Tara Brach: “The boundary to what we can accept is the boundary to our freedom.”
We have to ask ourselves what limitations to our collective freedom we’re willing to accept. And then we have to hold fast to our boundaries.
⚠️ Another nightmare dimension of the Trump administration’s foreign aid freeze and shutdown of USAID: thousands of participants in clinical trials around the world are in limbo without essential monitoring or care, raising major ethical concerns. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/06/h...
