🔗🕊️ Worry and Idolatry

🎶 New Propaghandi just dropped. At Peace 🕊️🏴

🕊️ Anybody want to get together for a Wurstessen Saturday?

Affair of the Sausages

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An Ungovernable Faith

each act cultivates a pattern of nonconformity to state coercion

🕊️ Today we celebrated the life of Linda Jane Dixon.

At a time when interracial marriage was still illegal in many states, she risked being disowned by her family and was married in a Mennonite church in Ohio.

She was gentle and powerful.

She always had something positive to say.

She is missed.

🔗 When Bonhoeffer Became a Christian 🕊️

🕊️ The thing about the whole Bishop Budde thing?

She was gentle, asking for mercy.

She could have called on him to repent, lest destruction fall on his reign. This would have been firmly in the prophetic tradition.

She played within his power fantasies, and they still couldn’t handle the gospel.

🕊️ today we celebrate the 500th anniversary of anabaptism. If you like:

  • separation of church and state
  • peacemaking
  • simplicity
  • reconciliation & restoration
  • economic justice

…you may appreciate Anabaptism.

A few more thoughts of mine in an old post here.

🕊️ Happy Saint Martin day!

May we all work to defeat the triple evils of racism, poverty, and war.

A historical black-and-white photo of Martin Luther King Jr. is overlaid with a quote from his 1963 "Letter from a Birmingham Jail" about disappointment with the white moderate.

🕊️ The traditional inauguration scripture: 1 Samuel 8:10-22

10 So Samuel spoke all the Lord’s words to the people who were asking him for a king. 11 He said, “Here are the policies of the king who will rule over you: He will conscript your sons and put them in his chariot forces and in his cavalry; they will run in front of his chariot. 12 He will appoint for himself leaders of thousands and leaders of fifties,[a] as well as those who plow his ground, reap his harvest, and make his weapons of war and his chariot equipment. 13 He will take your daughters to be ointment makers, cooks, and bakers. 14 He will take your best fields, vineyards, and olive groves, and give them to his own servants. 15 He will demand a tenth of your seed and of the produce of your vineyards and give it to his administrators[b] and his servants. 16 He will take your male and female servants, as well as your best cattle and your donkeys, and assign them for his own use. 17 He will demand a tenth of your flocks, and you yourselves will be his servants. 18 In that day you will cry out because of your king whom you have chosen for yourselves, but the Lord won’t answer you in that day.”[c] &10; &10;19 But the people refused to heed Samuel’s warning.[d] Instead they said, “No! There will be a king over us! 20 We will be like all the other nations. Our king will judge us and lead us[e] and fight our battles.” &10; &10;21 So Samuel listened to everything the people said and then reported it to the Lord.[f] 22 The Lord said to Samuel, “Do as they say[g] and install a king over them.” Then Samuel said to the men of Israel, “Each of you go back to his own city.”