"Let no one hope to find in contemplation an escape from conflict, from anguish or from doubt...The deep, inexpressible certitude of the contemplative experience awakens a tragic anguish and opens many questions in the depths of the heart". - Thomas Merton.
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@S_L_Sanderson
Former teacher where: because sad things are part of the truth, and we cannot repair the results of past sad things or prevent future sad things without knowing about them. Because our happy lives are not the only reality.
@TalbertSwan
@DonaldJTrumpJr
Hey Don Junior, your 70 million saw their candidate lose. They did not see their husband or son or brother or daughter or mother or sister murdered. Sorry that difference escapes you.
I don’t post much, but I just saw the phrase “sinfully took his life” and that must be one of the cruelest things I have seen (today.)
My very dear older brother took his life, 2 years ago this December 1. I think of him every day.
Stop making life harder for those who mourn.
@aubrey_huff
@cmclymer
Aubrey Huff - you’re a Christian and you mock people this way? I am one, too. 50 years now. And I don’t talk to people like this. You owe Ms. Clymer an apology AND sincere thanks for her service.
The
#FBI
has ID'd many who incited violence at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, but it still needs your help to bring others to justice. If the person in this photo looks familiar, submit a tip at or 1-800-CALL-FBI, and mention photo
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-AFO.
#DemVoice1
@KimJonesICONS
@dvduadotcom
@DocAhmadMalik
Please spell out that “obvious harm.” I am a cisgender woman and Dylan Mulvaney is a transgender woman and we’re both women. I lose nothing by recognizing Dylan as a woman.
@heckyessica
@TrevDon
Your father was a hero for doing that. My father taught in Missouri in the 60s and we didn’t have a lot of extra. He worked at the concessions at school football games for $1 an evening to buy me a special gift at Christmas.
@RabbiHarvey
@catechismcliche
I did not know this. I am a Christian in the US—and you are right. This is precisely the prevailing vocal version of my faith. And my faith needs to clean up on this. Thank you, Rabbi.
@AbbyJohnson
I have no idea who you are or think you are but Jesus has been mine—and I have been His—for over 50 years, and I meet with Him and His online each Sunday. My church cares enough about people not dying that our building is closed. Your presumption is nauseating.
I am deeply ashamed that Representatives Boebert and Gaetz acted as they did during President Zelenskyy’s address. And I am contacting my Representative on Tuesday to ask that they be officially censured in the House of Representatives. I hope many will join me.
#censure
@TalbertSwan
And you think of the students who work SEVERAL jobs and study like crazy - this is so wrong that this girl had her way bribed into school. What a waste and what a demonstration of white/wealth privilege.
@Right_NotLeft
Because “hotness” is the attribute most of us are looking for in a First Lady and who cares about a woman with a doctorate, right? Maybe get some new standards...
@TansuYegen
If you were aware of how often women have to deal with men touching them without permission/trying to touch them/acting as if they are about to touch women, you would not be surprised that we won’t shake a random stranger’s hand.
I’m a feminist and I believe trans women are women. It’s no slap in my face. And a great many people are mosaics who have all sorts of cells that don’t correspond to their “biological sex” if they but knew it.
Including the type of people who tweet no sense like ⬇️
So a biological male was just given an award by Jill Biden on international women’s day. If this isn’t a slap in the face to feminism, I don’t know what is.
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Auschwitz is a cry of despair and a warning to humanity...
Ideologies that led to Auschwitz still exist, human hatred still results in dehumanisation & humiliation, people are murdered because some other people feel superior to them.
Never again?
#NeverAgainIsNow
@pastorlocke
@TalbertSwan
Hey, wife-beater. What you may not realize is that no one - including Bishop Swan - is required to legitimize you by agreeing to “meet and speak” in public. Just so you understand that.
@cmclymer
I cannot imagine anyone criticizing this little child or his parents. He’s 4. And he was excited, chatty, and probably bored and tired of sitting still. I thought he was lively and very well-behaved. His mom did great. It’s not like he bit anyone!
@bakerjjw
@DennyBurk
God forbid that they learn that the great Body of Christ universal has room for questions and different positions on various matters and that an unexamined faith is not worth much.
I am fascinated 🙄 that there are adults in this first day of February in 2024 who believe Dr. Jill Biden is trying to pass herself off as a medical doctor.
People, she has a doctorate in Education. She may use the title Dr.”
She is Dr. Jill Biden.
@fred_guttenberg
@IJam2DMB
Thousands upon thousands of us care about
@fred_guttenberg
‘s daughter Jaime. “Matt”, we now know much more about you than you can imagine. Jaime’s name will live in blessed memory; yours will be forgotten (except when Twitter suspends your account after we reported it.)
@SteveDalyDE
They can hold a State funeral. We’ll put his ashes in a coffee can, pulled by a 7-year-old dragging a rusted Radio Flyer with a wonky wheel, accompanied by a 5th-grade Kazoo Band playing “If You Got the Money, Honey, I Got the Time” going right down Main St. in Waukegan, IL.
@DHuddlestonKY
I am a Christian and to put it in language the Evangelical community can understand, I received Jesus Christ as my personal Lord and savior 50 years ago this summer. I am not anti-Christian. I love my nation, but she is not my God. And no one advocates murder.
@AWeissmann_
@SS2719942032638
He *was* successfully impeached. Twice.
He was not, however, convicted in the Senate either time, which would have led to his removal from office and still left him open to court proceedings.
Impeachment is not removal.
@TalbertSwan
Bishop Swan, I quote you frequently to people re: Candace Owens. “You don’t like her because you’re white.” “Nope, let me tell you what a Black Pentecostal Bishop thinks of her.” Keep telling the truth about EVERYTHING.
@HereforBTSOT7
@TheTNHoller
Same here. Tulsa Oklahoma. Trinity Episcopal. The government is not infringing in our First Amendment freedom of religion. Not sure why some people do not get this.
@TheCut
@AllisonPDavis
Never heard of The Cut, but I have a subscription to Vogue. Also: she may indeed be a Duchess by marriage in the UK but here in the US, she’s the equal of the rest. Also: her one-note of complaining about the royal family is past its sell-by date.
@elizpingree
@kaklimakankat
@ewarren
Nah, it’s great. Good for her. This is part of the problem - men do this shot and women are supposed to make nice and not be inappropriate. HE was inappropriate and in a power position. So good for Warren.
@MaureeTurnerOK
@bakerjjw
I am a cishet White Christian Boomer in Tulsa county and I shouted with gladness at your election. You give me hope for Oklahoma. The best to you as you lead.
@kelly1952
@PrettiestFrog
This is a hateful, snotty reply. You don’t appear to know or care to know any trans people. I suspect that lack applies to LGB people. You have missed what’s important by a country mile…
@KevOnStage
I don’t have 3 hours: I spent decades in the heart of Tulsa’s Evangelical-Charismatic Word of Faith cult. Am a happy Episcopalian where the wildest stuff is animals drinking out of the holy water on the Feast of St Francis.
@freedomsbride
This is SO true. I go to a trained, licensed therapist. Yes she’s a Christian, but she is a trained therapist. More damage is done by Christians with no training but a Bible in their hands than can be imagined.
@kristinodell_
A parent’s death is profound. And the C19 just makes it worse. May he live in blessed memory. I do care. My father died many years ago, but this is an even harder time to mourn a parent, I am sure. ❤️
@T_S_P_O_O_K_Y
@TalbertSwan
He is a Bishop of the Church of God in Christ - the largest Pentecostal denomination - and he knows what he’s talking about.
@Diamond_Jax
@tonyposnanski
Good woman. Years ago, I wrote a check in a grocery store in BFE California and upon showing my ID (with longer hair than I was wearing) the idiot checker asked sarcastically, “What happened to your HAIR?” Today, I would ask for the manager, but then, I replied “CHEMO!” 😂
@KristenMarble
@mommy97giraffe
Good for you. That statement is unbiblical and reeks of privilege. And to say that in so many situations is sadistic. My brother took his life last week. It did not happen for some redemptive reason. And yes, I am a Christian. God is my help in this but God did not will it.
@natgrace79
@strangefigures2
I have a few very far right evangelical Christian friends on FB. I enjoy posting this just to tweak their Bible-worshipping noses:
@LauraJeanTruman
I think you are right and I sometimes irritate my Evangelical friends (deliberately, because I am mature like that; am former Evangelical) by quoting Lewis: “The Bible is not the Word of God. Jesus Christ is the Word of God.” Bibliolaters hate that.
@PrettiestFrog
Bless you. I am a former high school teacher and college prof and I just want to hug you for doing this and being a safe person for LGBTQIA+ young people. You are doing a holy thing.
@ldrider
@TalbertSwan
I’m a 67-year-old White Episcopal woman who hates what Trump and his ilk have done to and revealed about America, and
@TalbertSwan
is my Bishop.
@DanalineB
@MysterySolvent
I didn’t think anything could surpass the tone deaf obscenity of Trump retweeting the Bretbart “article” detailing Melania’s $10k+ outfit, but this is it. Those poor children.
@RevDrBarber
Dr. Barber - I needed to read what you wrote about praying for my enemies so I do not become like them. I mean, I really needed to read that. Thank you so much.
@olderwoman18
She has some awful takes on all sorts of things. If these were her personal opinions, fine. But she “teaches” this nonsense to younger women and then cannot take any pushback. At all. She prescribes her opinions for all women. Ugh.
@gr8tballafire
@antifaoperative
@kdawg0113
“Treated that way”? Maybe the unvaccinated could have told the bride and groom (and really, the whole world) that they were going to show contempt for other people’s health by appearing unvaccinated. “Treated that way” my fat a$$.
@TalbertSwan
No, Bishop Swan is an actual Bishop, ordained and consecrated by an actual denomination, The Church of God in Christ, the largest black Pentecostal denomination. Not sure this ding-dong thinks he is getting his facts...but they aren’t factual.
@sheologian
💯💯💯💯 people say, “Oh, no one is pro-abortion.”
I am. I am pro-anyone who chooses one can get one.
And no one is getting one like it’s a ticket to the hot concert…
@mrbenwexler
@dudleybell383
You are 💯💯💯 correct and it is worth pointing out lest we normalize that particular person’s behavior. It may be *his* norm, but it is neither normal nor acceptable. So, thank you.
@deray
@MonicaLewinsky
I live here in Tulsa and you are right. And the Greenwood Center does a great job of teaching. White people like me are learning to sit down and shut up and listen. And helpnin any way to amplify the true narrative of this massacre.
@NickAdamsinUSA
As a fellow Christian, let me remind you that Joe Biden is a Christian and you are not Lord of the Table. Trust me, this is not the flex you think it is.
@Cimarron_man
@blkgrlpoet
I went to grad school at 50 and was miserable and intimidated and anxious the entire time. I wish I had known this. And I was not the slowest turtle in the race...
@Kyrc3ton
As a fellow Christian, let me ask you to please not appropriate Jewish festivals. The Christian tradition has a rich variety of observations and worship rituals. Observe those. Please.
@sheologian
My cat died 3 days ago and I am avoiding crowds of people for the time being and giving myself permission to cry if I want or not cry. The president lost a great dog—I mourn with him and Dr Jill.