Chasing the wind. Writing about faith, ideas & the complexities of life. Dogs, kids & cooking disasters too. Freelance; formerly @courierjournal @pres-outlook.
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Just had a conversation with our accountant. I swear, I understood maybe 1% of what she said. And that part was "I'm leaving now to go have a massage, so you have until Monday to hunt for those documents."
Front and center in this: Fern Creek Baptist Church in #Louisville. That's Linda Barnes Popham, the church's pastor, raising up the Bible and making the case for women in leadership.
Breaking News: Southern Baptists finalized the expulsion of two churches with female pastors, after a dramatic clash at their annual convention over moves by an ultraconservative wing to reverse what it sees as a liberal drift. nyti.ms/3p2l6TY
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Louisville is losing homes to short term rentals in the middle of a housing crisis. We introduced legislation to put a moratorium on new short term rentals until we can update the ordinance that regulates them. @Airbnb lied to their local hosts saying our legislation takes their properties, funding, and rights away. This article helps explain what we're doing.
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It's official: #PCUSA stated clerk @jherbertnelson will not seek a third term. "I thank God for the best job I’ve ever had with some of the best people I’ve ever worked with.” pcusa.org/news/2023/4/20/j-h… (Photo credit: Rich Copley)
Listening to @JemarTisby on #GunViolence: It's not just the mass shootings.
”Low income communities, which tend to have disproportionately high numbers of Black and brown folks deal with gun violence almost constantly." courier-journal.com/story/op…
Stunned by this statistic. About 1 in 20 American adults - about 16 million people - own at least one AR-15 rifle. #gunviolence
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Vatican formally repudiates Doctrine of Discovery.
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Progressives in #Kentucky: "We are hate objects for our state's Republican politicians." @perrybaconjr considers whether to leave an increasingly red state.
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Powerful words from @teri_atthepaper on the Nashville shooting.
At church, "I should have sat by the side door. Because as our pastor reminds us, 'If you ever see me start running down the center aisle, get down or get out.'
This is how we live."
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.@GovAndyBeshear vetoes anti-trans, "parental rights" bill. kentuckylantern.com/2023/03/…
Ohio had 81 victims killed in #DomesticViolence incidents in the fiscal year that ended June 2022 - including 22 children. The youngest: a one-day old baby.
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“Once we found out it was a rifle he was using, it was a different game plan we would have had to come up with. It wasn’t just going in guns blazing, the Old West style, and take him out.”
via @TexasTribune
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Kentuckians will be able to indulge in an odd form of judge shopping, thanks to the Republican supermajority and its aversion to Franklin Circuit Court. kentuckylantern.com/2023/03/…
Wow, this is lovely. Out of love for his wife, a stoic man finds a way to ask for help.
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Today, the Presbyteries' Cooperative Committee on Examinations of Candidates issued a statement of apology regarding its use of Judges 19 in the recent exegesis exam. vimeo.com/808054432 #PCUSA
Under consideration now: application for short term rental at 1478 Cherokee Rd. in #Louisville. Out of state owner. Directly across from Cherokee Park. Little dedicated parking, no sidewalk on the park side. Case #22-CUPPA-0414
From @maggiesmithpoet: A list of poems that bring joy. maggiesmith.substack.com/p/p… Because, Maggie says, Mary Oliver was right: “Joy is not made to be a crumb.” Feel free to add to the list. #poetry