Wordle in 3, purple connections on 3, perfect Strands. Is this what it is like to slay?
Melissa Florer-Bixler
@melissaf-b.bsky.social
Mennonite Church USA pastor and writer. Mennonite Action, Anabaptist World board, Christian Century columnist, L’Arche for life
Across the ecumenical divide, Pope Leo and I build a bridge of unity that is tweet dunking JD Vance.
Reading Naomi Klein’s Doppleganger and I’m being COVID retraumatized. The chill that went through me when I heard Plandemic
An older adult in my spin class gave a shout for our first song (Van Halen) and announced that he loved this song and because it reminded him of his first girlfriend and a summer of “serious lapses in morality”
Tommy Orange 🤝Kaveh Akbar Is the main character alive at the end?
"And so the women, the dependent, the victims, seek for what is not there; and it is only because they seek, it is only in their seeking, that the risen Christ appears to them." @melissaf-b.bsky.social quoting Frei Betto. melissaflorerbixler.substack.com/p/empty-tomb...
Empty tomb, absent Christ, and Kilmar Abrego Garcia
Painting by Salvadoran folks artist, Fernand Llort
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Happy Easter, fellow Radical Left Lunatics! Jesus is risen!
And I’m listening to Ezra Klein again so I guess that’s how badly things are going
I’m about to board my flight to El Salvador, where I hope to meet with senior government officials to discuss the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia. I also hope to see Kilmar and check on his condition — and remind him that we won’t stop fighting until he’s home.
Headed to El Salvador to meet with government officials and discuss return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia
YouTube video by Senator Chris Van Hollen
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I think it’s fine for men to preach but Luke 24 does give one pause!
My algorithm is just a series of different angles on Bernie at Coachella
“I invite you to know and remember, as an act of compassion and humanization, the names of Palestinians who suffer under Israel’s repression.” – @melissaf-b.bsky.social www.christiancentury.org/voices/us-me...
The US media is biased against Palestinians
Compassion compels us to remember people journalists choose to...
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Guess who offered to relocate the public talk? Columbus Mennonite Church, a congregation that also provided sanctuary during Trump 1.0
@nerdpsyche.bsky.social · last yr.Ongoing efforts to silence testimony to human rights abuses in Gaza. This incl. violence against healthcare workers and hospitals. An account from Maynard (March 2024): "When I was in Al-Aqsa Hospital, we were forced to withdraw two days early, because there was a missile attack on the ICU."
Not superstitious but got the Wordle in 3, and a perfect Strands so it’s going to be a great day
Maybe I’m too emotionally fragile to be reading The God of Small Things right now
Why can’t my Oura ring tell Duolingo that I’M Too Sick For Spanish????
Come to the United States, where you’ll be kidnapped in broad daylight because you wrote an op-ed.
Preaching on the parable of the prodigal son and on behalf of oldest children everywhere - how dare you, Jesus
Almost done with the Elon Know Your Enemy pods which present the clearest case of “men will do anything but go to therapy” to date
Tucson, Arizona today. Original projected attendance was 3,000 people. 23,000 showed up.
Every time I hear Christian leaders fretting over polarization I laugh a little and think, “yes, followers of this Jesus who was notoriously committed to depolarization.”
The winner is @tifflball.bsky.social !!!
Melissa Florer-Bixler@melissaf-b.bsky.social · last yr.It’s the book birthday of Isaac Villegas’ Migrant God with @eerdmansbooks.bsky.social Because I am a Very Good Friend I bought a copy in addition to a copy from the publisher. As it is let’s do a #bookgiveaway ! US only please! I’ll pick a name on 3/15 at 8 pm
It’s the book birthday of Isaac Villegas’ Migrant God with @eerdmansbooks.bsky.social Because I am a Very Good Friend I bought a copy in addition to a copy from the publisher. As it is let’s do a #bookgiveaway ! US only please! I’ll pick a name on 3/15 at 8 pm