From @maggiesmithpoet: A list of poems that bring joy. maggiesmith.substack.com/p/poems-that-m… Because, Maggie says, Mary Oliver was right: “Joy is not made to be a crumb.” Feel free to add to the list. #poetry

Today, the Presbyteries' Cooperative Committee on Examinations of Candidates issued a statement of apology regarding its use of Judges 19 in the recent exegesis exam. vimeo.com/808054432 #PCUSA

Wow, this is lovely. Out of love for his wife, a stoic man finds a way to ask for help. nytimes.com/2023/03/15/us/…

10/10 for the replies

Kentuckians will be able to indulge in an odd form of judge shopping, thanks to the Republican supermajority and its aversion to Franklin Circuit Court. kentuckylantern.com/2023/03/20/leg…

“Once we found out it was a rifle he was using, it was a different game plan we would have had to come up with. It wasn’t just going in guns blazing, the Old West style, and take him out.” via Texas Tribune propub.li/402zRU1

Ohio had 81 victims killed in #DomesticViolence incidents in the fiscal year that ended June 2022 - including 22 children. The youngest: a one-day old baby.

.Governor Andy Beshear vetoes anti-trans, "parental rights" bill. kentuckylantern.com/2023/03/24/bes…

Powerful words from @teri_atthepaper on the Nashville shooting. At church, "I should have sat by the side door. Because as our pastor reminds us, 'If you ever see me start running down the center aisle, get down or get out.' This is how we live." kentuckylantern.com/2023/03/28/thi…

Progressives in #Kentucky: "We are hate objects for our state's Republican politicians." Perry Bacon considers whether to leave an increasingly red state. washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/…

Vatican formally repudiates Doctrine of Discovery. apnews.com/article/vatica…

Stunned by this statistic. About 1 in 20 American adults - about 16 million people - own at least one AR-15 rifle. #gunviolence washingtonpost.com/nation/interac…

Listening to JemarTisby.Substack.com. on #GunViolence: It's not just the mass shootings. ”Low income communities, which tend to have disproportionately high numbers of Black and brown folks deal with gun violence almost constantly." courier-journal.com/story/opinion/…

It's official: #PCUSA stated clerk J. Herbert Nelson II will not seek a third term. "I thank God for the best job I’ve ever had with some of the best people I’ve ever worked with.” pcusa.org/news/2023/4/20… (Photo credit: Rich Copley)

Louisville is losing homes to short term rentals in the middle of a housing crisis. We introduced legislation to put a moratorium on new short term rentals until we can update the ordinance that regulates them. Airbnb lied to their local hosts saying our legislation takes their

My dad found this in the driveway in Mt. Sterling, KY and said they’re in the driveways throughout their subdivision and in the neighboring subdivision. How unbelievably frightening.

Front and center in this: Fern Creek Baptist Church in #Louisville. That's Linda Barnes Popham, the church's pastor, raising up the Bible and making the case for women in leadership.

Just had a conversation with our accountant. I swear, I understood maybe 1% of what she said. And that part was "I'm leaving now to go have a massage, so you have until Monday to hunt for those documents."