Rev Leslie Scoopmire
@Scoopexplainsit
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Episcopal priest, Mom, retired AP US history teacher, guitarist, ex-pat Okie. Reverent and irreverent Reverend. All opinions posted are mine.
Okie in Exile in the Midwest
Joined December 2010
1/3 I quoted this in my sermon yesterday, & each time I read it I’m in wonder at how much we can learn right now from the 16th & 17th century Church: “No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. ... #COVID19 #BeingChurch
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Our dog knows way too many phrases now, so my husband and I have resorted to talking like Victorian nobility to get anything by him. "Have you taken the dog on a brisk adventure recently? Would you escort the canine to the backyard, forthwith? Has he supped yet?"
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I once served at a church where a couple of women in the greeting line would comment every so often on my weight. Today I was told I don’t have any wrinkles. HA! WINNING!
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If you get this.. I want to follow you 😘 ( ͡ᵔ ͜ʖ ͡ᵔ )
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I miss Molly Ivins almost every day.
It is just so beyond horrible that Molly Ivins isn’t here for this.
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Dear Black Men Supporting Trump, I'd like to introduce you to this man, Lee Atwater. Now, you may not know who Lee Atwater is, but he's had a profound impact on your life over the past 50ish years. You see, he's the architect of a thing called the Southern Strategy...
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THIS!!!!!!!!
I would encourage people to wait until we actually know what happened before leaping to wild conclusions
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This is basically the story of my psych interview for ordination. Thank you and don’t forget to tip your waiter.
made my therapist laugh until she had tears in her eyes & fell out of the zoom frame nothing can stop me now i am her favorite this is what peak performance looks like i have won all of therapy
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I’ve never wanted to get a whole comic strip tattooed on me before today.
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There are 17 gop states suing the federal government over the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act. The act protects access to very basic things, among which are: - bathroom breaks - access to water - being able to sit or stand as needed - allowing for lactation So let's be clear, in
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Never, ever forget. This was, is, and always will be wrong.
On this day 82 years ago, on February 19, 1942, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, in the height of insanity of racism after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, signed Executive Order 9066. It ordered all Japanese Americans on the West Coast to be summarily rounded up and imprisoned
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Disgusting.
Indiana state Rep. Jim Lucas intimidated Students Demand Action activists yesterday by flashing his gun at them inside a government building. These students--who live under the persistent threat of being shot in their schools--"genuinely felt very unsafe in that moment".
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Today is the Feast of S. Brigid of Kildare, Abbess. She is the patroness saint of Ireland, and one of its three national saints along with S. Patrick and S. Columba. She founded the important abbey of Kildare. I had a dear aunt from Ireland also named Brigid.
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Using the creation order from Genesis to argue for female subjugation is truly ridiculous. If you’re really committed to a creation order hierarchy, here’s the chain of command: 1. Ocean 2. Sky 3. Land 4. Plants 5. Sun 6. Moon 7. Fish 8. Birds 9. Land Animals 10. Humans
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“It’s hard to convince people that a God they can’t see loves them when a church they can see doesn’t seem to like them.” - John Alan Turner
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So true.
Midwesterners leaving the house without a coat on as soon as it’s above freezing
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What, pray tell, are the “good sides” of slavery and Jim Crow that Board Member Puszkar thinks are being omitted?
Students at three high schools within the Francis Howell School District walked out of class Thursday, hoping to send a message to the district’s school board.
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