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Jim Calhoun

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Absolutely true. Might be even tougher with an anti-social.

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Thinking about starting a movement called XAnon that refutes and debunks racist and nutty conspiracy theories.


Seems like the the GOP fear and loathe those who vote their conscience.


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Dogs just wanna have fun.

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Humans love formulas, steps, and guarantees when it comes to love and marriage. But the truth is: Even if you do everything "right," you can end up marrying someone dangerous, whether that danger shows up immediately or later. That's why we must allow life-saving divorce.


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Any religion that professes to be concerned about the souls of men and is not concerned about the slums that damn them, the economic conditions that strangle them and the social conditions that cripple them is a spiritually moribund religion awaiting burial Martin Luther King Jr


And as the force they use to make you come close becomes resistance in you, they feel hurt and rejected, completely unaware it is because of the force they use.


It is easy to force people away. It is impossible to force people to be close, intimate. Force creates resistance, resentment and rebellion even as it compels compliance and submission.


Every church should have “little schools of love” where people learn to put aside their ploys, control, coersion, force, violence, manipulations and start loving others instead of using others to meet their “needs.”


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I do a talk called “the spiritual life of the church planter” in which I name Irritable Bowel Syndrome as a frequently reported symptom.

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I’ve found the Enneagram helpful since I first learned about it more than 20 years ago. But it tells me very little about my deepest identity “hidden with Christ in God.” It tells me much more about how I run from that deep identity.


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How is it that we’ve managed to move forward with the notion that being called “Mormons” after the book of scripture we hold dear is an epithet. So, we do everything in our power to enforce a name change. Yet, we’re still running with the narrative that “dark skin is a curse? 1/T

SISTASinZION's tweet image. How is it that we’ve managed to move forward with the notion that being called “Mormons” after the book of scripture we hold dear is an epithet. So, we do everything in our power to enforce a name change. Yet, we’re still running with the narrative that “dark skin is a curse? 1/T

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I'm annoyed by people who say they want to engage on these complex topics, but swear they can't find good resources to help them understand.


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This is basically every pastor’s worst nightmare writ large: being publicly undermined by your retired predecessor. americamagazine.org/faith/2020/01/…


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