Ryan J Pemberton
@ryanjpemberton
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i tell stories. writer + editor /director of community cultivation, @Image_Journal / @UniofOxford + @DukeDivinity alum / author: Called + Walking With CS Lewis
Seattle, WA
Joined February 2009
I interviewed Martin Sheen recently on his most recent film, his hopes for America, and how director Terrence Malick helped lead him back to Christianity. “I became happy. I loved being alive. I loved being active. And I loved the focus that my life had taken on.”
The actor and activist talks with Sojourners about faith, service, and his new film ‘12 Mighty Orphans.’
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“I. Insight, never a stranger,
appeared (as love does)
suddenly naked
beside you. The thing you wanted to say
but did not know how.
The word!…” “Epiphany Song,” by John Wall Barger, for @Image_Journal issue 122: https://t.co/5mhHCPErtW
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Insight, never a stranger, appeared (as love does) suddenly naked beside you.
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“Abram just tells his friends, “My dad helps lots of churches show Jesus’ love to people getting out of prison.” New interview with my friend @ChrisHoker for Radix Magazine: https://t.co/mW6bzTzlTk
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“This is the beginning of prison-reentry work: new shoes for people getting out of cages. Getting kids involved. The next generation walking together into a new story: where we belong to one another. When I tell Abram that I work with men getting out of prison, he understands.”
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Been reflecting on this Christmastime favorite film and its depiction of love, achievement, and beginning again for some time. New words in the Substack newsletter on The Family Stone: https://t.co/LyHuR7x2Y3
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2/ “…Feed the hungry, free our captives, strengthen the weak, encourage those who lose heart! All nations shall know that thou alone art God.” —Clement, one of Peter’s early successors as bishop of Rome
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1/ “O Lord, who brings to naught the designs of the nations, O Ruler, who raises the lowly and humbles the lofty, have mercy on those who are disheartened! Raise us who have fallen, show thyself to those who entreat thee, and heal those who are sick…”
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Week 3 of @Image_Journal 's Advent InStudio series: Robert Cording reads his poem, "A Christmas Story," and discusses it with poet and friend @PhilipMetres :
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Such a pleasure to share this conversation with you @ArtAghajanian on your thoughtful essay on Paul Pfeiffer’s work for @Image_Journal ! This piece came up in our Seattle reading group just last night. Thanks for sharing your reflections with Image!
Excited to have had the opportunity to talk with @ryanjpemberton on the @Image_Journal InStudio series about my recently published essay on the art of Paul Pfeiffer. Please share widely! #art #spirituality
https://t.co/DvfoXfqlti
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Week 2 of @Image_Journal ‘s Advent InStudio series: artist Leni Dothan in conversation on “Sleeping Madonna” and “Middle Ages”:
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For those with connections to this project: I’d like to pitch a sequel to the 2007 film, Dan in Real Life. Same plot. Same cast. Told entirely through Marie’s perspective. “Marie in Real Life.” Let’s make it happen.
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“Likewise, we are in a world pregnant either hope, and we live in the expectation of the coming of God’s kingdom on earth. As we wait, we also work, cry, pray, ache; we are the midwives of another world.” —Common Prayer: A Liturgy for Ordinary Radicals
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No Seattle Marathon—again—but a gem of a Sunday sunset run:
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