Duane Larson 💙

the routine, pay for play pardons are all by themselves one of the worst corruption scandals in american history!

This picture didn't catch all the brightness. There were maybe 35 seconds when the sun caught the branches and leaves from below, coloring all ablaze. It was a Gerard Manley Hopkins moment. It reminded me that we must see and advance beauty with zeal; the only way for the world's hope and healing.

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View from my new home. It's a gorgeous night in Chicago, where I'm rooting for the Padres.

Little else gets me moving as quickly as when my dog starts horking bile onto a nice rug. Like POTUS, though no one will move him at all.

Isn't it interesting (or should we have expected so) that erstwhile DJT supporters are now louder in complaint about gas prices than stifled evidence of child sex trafficking? I'm asking a theological/moral question to purported evangelicals.

OMG! Senator Kennedy asks Patel "why are you into beastiality?" KP answers "If you are talking about trafficking..." JFC, Kash! Who is trafficking whom/what in your DJT world? Reader note! I'm clergy who's been around the block re hearing confessions. But KP just upped the incredulity index.

Suppose Dems actually get to 52 Senate seats, assuming Dem dominance in the House. Will they have the moral spine to impeach and remove Blanche, Patel, and Hegseth, all whom defy the constitution in favor of Trump?

We can sigh some relief at SCOTUS' 7-2 denial ofTrump's effort to inhibit mail-in voting. The 2 were Thomas and Alito. Now constitutional patriots must secure the Senate by 52 either to impeach them or to block a more anti-democracy nominee to the court should either soon resign.

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The Anthropic whistleblower today got over 157 million views (!) of his warning about the nihilistic path of AI and the ethically uneducated tech bros don't like it.

James Talarico is awesome.

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The developmentally arrested adolescent who prizes himself as the "Secretary of War" cares not one whit for rightly supporting the families necessary for an effective self-honoring military. www.stripes.com/branches/nav...

Been on a long work/real vacay. After a week + in Salisbury, a great week in Sweden, ends today with visit to the "Bogman;" 13th c local Varberg dude fully preserved in a bog, looking at my own future prospects. Then a week's mtg in Aarhus, for which I must still write a paper. "Retire" life.

Pro Tip: Happy Hour with a good 12 year old single malt and BSKY friends is enjoyable, and inspiring.

July 4, 2026. Our nation's capitol. You tell me who the courageous freedom loving patriot is.

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The algorithm almost never gets these posts "out there." But I'll spit against the wind anyway. I write over at Substack. Here's a quick meditation about this July 4. duanelarson386343.substack.com/p/life-parsi...

You notice that the criminal-in-charge who sues everyone for everything is drop dead quiet about this. Says a lot.

I'm inspired. We'll call "glory!" We will.

The man who today became the first trillionaire in the history of the world is also the first American to order the deaths of 750,000 people in the first year alone after his cutting USAID. This mirrors the state of American moral monstrousness today.

Today Texas Republicans put the conflict of Christian Nationalism vs. Christianity itself under the national spotlight by pitting Paxton against Talarico.

I don't know about you all, but this is shaping up to be the worst birthday for a 250 year old that I've ever attended. Whoever's doing this, please oh please remove me from the guest list for the next one.

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Brent Hege and I edited the 6/26 issue of Dialog, A Journal of Theology, on Authoritarianism, with superb writers like @queenofthinair.bsky.social; some yet to post. Our op/ed might interest you. About Authoritarianism - Larson - Dialog - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

This moment watching Artemis II splashdown is deeply moving. It is so heartening to be a proud American in this moment, for a change. I don't recall feeling this way when growing up watching in the years of Mercury through Apollo.

This is an evil man whom good people with the authority and power to do so would remove from office immediately. Since that it is not happening, we can only conclude that we have no good people with the authority and power to do what will preserve our constitution and country.

https://www.nokings.org/

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I missed it. But when Tom Nichols says something definitive, I listen. bsky.app/profile/radi...

If you need and desire to follow a worship service online tomorrow as you adjust to DST, try the St. Luke's Episcopal Church, Evanston, IL live stream on YouTube at 10 Central. The choir, music and space always inspire. And this olding goat is humbled to serve as the preacher.

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I have a substack that Bluesky seems not to parlay. No success here in months.Trying a different way here to transcend my usual aversion to self-promotion. Would love your subscribing for free. This one looks at Christian Nationalist disregard of Just War thinking. open.substack.com/pub/duanelar...

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I wrote a substack on how MAGA "Christians" read the Bible so wrongly and dangerously. It not just about the fallacy of literalism, but surely starts there. Do please subscribe for free there and follow here. open.substack.com/pub/duanelar...

This halftime celebration of patriotic anti-colonialism presented as spectacle was ironically profound. I look forward to reading the interpretations for weeks, even years.

Watching Green Day. I really like their stuff. Maybe I should bleach my hair blonde and wear sunglasses all the time and play my guitar again. Really loud.

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