Author. Parent. Jesus-follower. 🏳️🌈 Trying to leave everyone a little more loved than I found them. [email protected] 🇨🇦
Guelph, Ontario
Joined September 2009
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I was largely formed in the Charismatic tradition of the Christian church. One of the major ideas drilled into me for a long time was not to grieve or quench the Holy Spirit, explicitly because your life would suck if God abandoned you, – at Guelph, Ontario
(basically checked all the boxes of my tradition) AND was affirming of LGBTQ+ relationships. Some parts of me I needed that example, needed to hear him speak in tongues, to know it was OK. – at Guelph, Ontario
Our dear friend @SaveWildBees died on Sunday. She was a wonderful human being, a brilliant researcher, passionate about grassroots justice work.
Among many of the gifts she and Marc gave us, was introducing us to Puerto Rico (the board game) and good espresso.
She was 43.
Hilarious and spot on. Bravo.
My column on the TOP! SECRET! White House Signal group
theguardian.com/commentisfre…
There was a time, years ago, when I thought Elon Musk was super cool. Like a real life Tony Stark.
Lex Luthor seems a more appropriate comparison now.
The whole thread is cool.
Ever thought about viewing the world differently..? This thread on cool maps is here to blow your mind
1. All roads lead to Rome
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
Cartographically speaking, it’s a matter of visualization that shows the roads leading to any specific point.
Here is a technical tutorial showing how all roads lead to Mainz (Germany): rcarto.github.io/posts/build_os…
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The loss of hope does not always look like despair. Sometimes it looks like control.
We know we have stopped hoping in God when we take matters into our own hands.
"Presence not withheld" is what God's love feels like.
"Presence not withheld" is also what we can offer ourselves, and especially to our pain.
There is endless grace & care for the ways we numb out / dissociate in order to survive. But healing and growth is about presence.
"Doubt is not an act of unbelief, in fact and ironically, doubt may be a supreme act of faith and devotion. If this is too much to claim, at least doubt and skepticism are stances that Scripture understands and for which the Bible has the utmost sympathy."
— Hubert Locke
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"God said, 'Let us make human beings in our image, to be like us. They will reign over the fish in the sea, the birds in the sky, the livestock, all the wild animals on the earth.'" (Genesis 1:26) – God made us to care for the earth, bearing witness to his own care for the world.
Why I believe in universal reconciliation and what it means for our nervous system for God to come to us self-emptied.
youtu.be/TYLEkof8SSs?si=94N_…
A reminder: The US makes up a tiny percentage of the population of the world. Most humans are not thinking about this election. It's OK to be about other business.
And to my US fam: grace upon grace to you. Don't feed the principalities. Trust love and walk humbly.
"You won't last very long in a church if you don't continually return to the wellsprings within you to drink the refreshing waters of your own loving connection with Jesus." — Carl McColman
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Two millennia later, people are still asking “Who is my neighbor?” hoping God will say “Just this small circle of people who are like you.”
- Chad Eslinger (@chadmeslinger)