My publicist is on my case about my infrequent use of this infernal website He says engagement is down and so are metrics and something something who cares There I wrote a tweet Are you happy now Terry

This is very helpful and has summed up an underlying theme I've been trying to convey sermon after sermon for the two years I've been preaching in way too many words. Thank you @richvillodas !

"If there is, anywhere on earth, a lover of God who is always kept safe, I know nothing of it, for it was not shown to me. But this was shown: that in falling and rising again we are always kept in that same precious love." —Julian of Norwich

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“The greatest challenge to making disciples of Jesus in the American context is that most people are already thoroughly discipled into the rival religion of Americanism.” - @BrianZahnd

We begin the day in silence because God should have the first word. We end the day in silence because God should have the last word. - Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Our culture is full of the sirens call. Static dancing and flickering in ever ecstatic but ceaseless and unending noise. It's good to break from word, voice and information consumption to meditate on what is, here and now.

I just heard that Navajo Nation, which has done a heroic job wrestling the coronavirus to the ground, is now donating extra PPE to India. The Navajo have been a model of resolve in fighting the pandemic, and are now a model in supporting others worldwide who need help.

And then there's this. (I find humble living is a constant discipline of confronting our biases?) Thank you for informing this Environmental Filmmaker turned pastor, @BrianZahnd. Happy Earth Day everyone.

Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be. (Kempis)

This is food for thought for any agnostic.

Spent years working for food justice. Bittman is worth reading on this subject if you care to know more.

This is clearly put. Following Jesus is a process of listening, and constant revision in an effort to be near Jesus.

You are loved long before other people can love you or you can love others. You are accepted long before you can accept others or receive their acceptance. You are safe long before you can offer or receive safety... - @HenriNouwen

I'm sorry this is just too good.

Waste less food. Eat less meat. The simple way to help climate change with your diet. Not organic, not local. Just waste less. Less meat. Possible on a low income food budget. #creationcare

Must see!! The long-lost Lord of the Rings adaptation from Soviet Russia is a glorious fever dream

Someone once said (maybe Eugene Peterson?) that the antidote to burnout is not rest, but wholeheartedness. In other words, it's not mere work that is killing us, but distractedness, clutter. I think about this almost daily. It's happy and freeing to pursue wholeheartedness.