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Assured of things hoped for, convicted of things not seen. United Methodist pastor, theologian of Yinzer liberation. Editor @YetAlive_mag.

Pittsburgh, PA
Joined April 2012
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Try doing actual Charge Conference things at Charge Conference besides rubber-stamping presubmitted reports and I bet everyone will look at you like you are committing a crime
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But also shoutout to the Virginia Conference for somehow having an incredible 6% of all elders under 35 in the US, despite not being an especially large conference or having a UM seminary.
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I used to think the "cult" accusation was overplayed but it's at the very least a cult of personality, beyond all doubt, if one dude governs your epistemology.
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idk man I just feel like a tradition whose entire foundation is a Spirit-filled commitment toward personal and corporate growth in Christ with a missional focus on social justice should have something exciting and relevant to talk about
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Jokes aside, holy shit
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Can someone help me find that journal entry where Wesley beats himself up for touching a boob
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Sincerely, though, I am interested to watch a few polity experiments unfold. Will the "lightweight" general church infrastructure work well? How will the hybrid call system play out? Are they gonna revive the general superintendency? Sort of envious they get to mess with stuff.
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I don't know what the post-Covid issue is here, genuinely. We cannot find anyone to simply mow the tiny yard who will show up and do the fifteen-minute job more than once a month.
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Robinson, Mastriano, Masters, and of course the OG Roy Moore are like normative now unless you're in New England or Maryland
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The purpose of the Christian faith is not to make you a productive, happy neoliberal subject. In fact, I do be suffering when "the goad of the promised future stabs inexorably into the flesh of every unfulfilled present."
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I'm not up in arms about the change (fine, whatever, put another nail in White Claw's coffin), to be clear, it's just that everything this guy says is so irritating. A bipartisan move toward "real freedom", gtfo Josh this is why you didn't get the job
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Florida or Louisiana gets smashed by a Category 5, and you'll have the governor of Texas trying to close the state border.
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Really don't know what you do about this crisis barreling toward us in advance besides try to build a culture of solidarity and, welp.
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Insurance company's answer, by the way, is "here, this tool can help us estimate what cost might be." What 👏does👏a👏visit 👏cost👏
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There's always another group we should be focusing on instead, a narrower and narrower definition of neighbor to love.
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The church budget knower has logged on
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Anyway homie do you desire to flee from the wrath to come y/n
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There should be such an aggressive push for student ministry in an "eds and meds" place like this. teapawt.net/chrisbriem/status/1828…
I put this together last fall: A Profile of College Students in the Pittsburgh Region ucsur.pitt.edu/perspectives.… Nearly 80% of the City of Pittsburgh's residents age 18-21 are enrolled in college, but even ~45% of the city's population 18-30 are undergraduate or graduate students.
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