“They were illegal prostitutes. He had a mental illness. He wouldn’t have gone if the parlors didn’t exist. He just shot at whoever.” I knew it. I knew this would happen. This country humanizes its attackers & dehumanizes its victims because it cannot bear to look at itself.

Here's exactly what happens next after Boulder - 1. The #NRA announces that Biden's coming for your guns. 2. Ppl believe this, & buy more guns. 3. Gun manufacturers make massive profits after yet another massacre. 4. Repeat.

For some people, religious speech is only labeled “political” when it doesn’t support their politics.

Nothing’s more unpatriotic than playing partisan games with voter rights. Franchise should be sacred in the civic space. My elders shed blood to exercise that right so save all the baseless justifications for robbing people of voice to maintain power.

that walk back to the mic 🔥 watch this ⬇️ #gapol "Folks keep asking what we are going to do about the filibuster. I think they ought to ask my colleagues on the other side of the aisle, what are they going to do about voting rights? Why won't they stand up for voting rights?"

They signed it under a painting of a plantation.

Jesus said that people would know us by our love. Sadly, many people know us by our distrust, violence, exclusion, arrogance, and abuse. Jesus does not protect himself or us from unloving Christians but he does show us a better way: a way that embraces humanity, not destroy it.

Evangelicals always get mad at exactly the wrong things. What if instead of being angry at a gay musician and a shoe company, we got mad at our own systems that made a gay musician feel like hell was a better place to be than the church.

People are paying attention to how Christians operate in political life. They want to know if faith makes a difference in how we think about politics and how we engage. Do they see the will of God through our political engagement or generic conservative and progressive agendas?

I wish I felt more relief. But this entire process has felt inadequate. this verdict means that it took the largest racial justice protests in history to shift public opinion & push the system to make an exception.

Don’t let up. We’re not fighting for a world where cops go to jail for killing people... we’re fighting for a world where cops don’t kill people.

Police have killed an average of three people per day since Derek Chauvin’s trial began. Accountability in this trial alone is not enough.

Thread: The early church was marked by a deep concern for the poor and for racial equality (Gal 2:10; 3:28). At the very same time, it taught that sex was only for within a mutually self-giving life-long covenant of marriage (1 Thess 4:3-8; 1 Cor 6:12-20). 1/7

Protect the prophets. Imagine if Israel protected the prophets and heeded their words.

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