Robert Hendrickson
@FrRHendrickson
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Rector, Saint Philip’s in the Hills Episcopal Church; author of Yearning: Young Adults, Authentic Transformation, and the Church; all opinions here are personal
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Joined July 2011
This is every priest giving a tour of his church — “See up there...that water stain? We have no idea where the leak is coming from.”
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The average taxpayer pays $47 per month to ensure that hungry people are fed. Let’s say a ridiculously high 20% of all food benefits are fraud. The average taxpayer, in that absurd scenario, is paying $17 per month to ensure that $30 goes to feed kids and seniors with next to
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Just to be clear. While churches gather food for food banks because people are hungry, our very Christian administration is petitioning the Supreme Court, with an emergency request, to halt payments for food for those most in need — and in supine acquiescence they agree that
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Imagine having spent a lifetime in military service fighting with honor across the globe to be drug home to listen to this infantile fascist agitprop from our civilian leaders. What a disgraceful display from the president and the secretary today. There is nothing redeeming
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Thin skinned leaders channel the rage of people who feel robbed somehow by society or the economy or culture or education or whatever—so they can’t afford to appear weak or ridiculous. Imagine if George H.W. Bush had been so weak as to cancel SNL because he didn’t like Dana
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The stupidity and malice of this administration cannot be underestimated. No sane country can look at a nation that threatens its allies with territorial expansion (Greenland), abandons those who helped it (canceled Afghan visas), assaults the livelihood and sovereignty of its
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We are one country, united, even the losers who supported my predecessor, the worst president in history. It is sad these animals poisoning the blood of our country won’t cheer when I call them pigs and won’t clap while I kick their dogs — which would have been eaten if it
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I’d offer that feeding starving people is the opposite of spreading atheism. Faith without works is dead and the work of feeding the hungry is at the heart of every faith tradition. Indeed, it’s just at the heart of being a decent human.
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This is a misunderstanding of the role of clergy. Jesus himself says “Do not think that I have come to bring peace to the earth; I have not come to bring peace, but a sword.” The role of clergy is to cut through the bs of this world with a clear word from the Kingdom.
Bishop Budde hijacked the National Prayer Service to promote her radical ideology. This was an opportunity to unify the country in prayer, but she used it to sow division. Even worse, she’s continued her political crusade in media interviews. Shameful.
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Since we’re going to throw out one amendment (birthright citizenship) we might as well have a 2 for 1 sale.
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As I understand it, there was a pledge to “preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States” and then, almost immediately, an unconstitutional attack on birthright citizenship was launched. It’s almost like this guy doesn’t take vows seriously.
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When I was a kid, I remember a friend of mine and I found his parents’ liquor cabinet. We discovered vodka and had no idea what we’d opened up but it was fun until we passed out. A lot of folks think this is fun but there’s a serious hangover coming for all of us.
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I’ve typed and re-typed a dozen things here. But here’s the only honest thing I’ve come up with watching this today. God help us. I’m trying not to dislike neighbors, family, and friends who made this possible. But God help us. I’ll find more to say. But God help us.
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It’s five years now…and still the letters and e-mails come…but it’s definitely not a cult.
Two years later and I still get frothing outraged, threatening, and bizarre letters and e-mails from people about a post I wrote about the then-president. But it’s definitely not a cult.
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…courageous enough for photoshop…on the eye…and on the jowls…and on the cheeks…and on the hair…but courageous…except on the shading on the collar and lapel…but definitely courageous…except around the tips of the ears…and the shading filters…but definitely courage…
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People have asked why we home school or why I don’t trust the school system. Not that long ago, when the public school system said they had no room for our son after his IEP was approved, he couldn’t read. He couldn’t write. He couldn’t do basic math. He would come home and
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Marc Elias’ take on Donald Trump: “Donald Trump is not Hitler. He is not Stalin. His vision of America is neither pre-war Germany nor the post-war Soviet Union. The United States is not at risk of falling into totalitarianism. The United States has its own history and culture.
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I’m personally absolving everyone who day drinks this week.
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This is my letter to the congregation about the election: When I was young, I had a paper route. I had to get up early, around 5:00am, before boxing practice at 6:30, and get out and deliver newspapers. I don’t know if you’ve been in northern Indiana in the winter. But at
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We’ve literally chosen the worst character in every story we tell our kids about character and decency.
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