Purity culture. Already been chewed gum, a licked cupcake, a used toothbrush, a rose with its petals plucked, stapled paper, tape that's lost its stick. You're now worthless and undesirable. It's aimed at women. It's very difficult to shake off this deeply embedded shame. Relate?

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Eyes on the prize, though: The real point is forcing House GOP members to put their "don't release" votes on the public record before 2026 re-election campaigns begin. They just hate having to do that.

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The world will be destroyed by two things, it seems to me: greed and violence... That’s why great spiritual teachers will always teach you to live a simple life, to not take more than your share, so that communion and community, brotherhood and sisterhood, are possible. - Richard Rohr

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To care is the most human of all human gestures. It is a gesture that comes forth from our common need for one another and the grace of compassion that binds us together. - Henri J. M. Nouwen

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OT reading for 8/24 (Isa 58). DHS won't be quoting it. If you remove the yoke from among you, the pointing of the finger, the speaking of evil, if you offer your food to the hungry and satisfy the needs of the afflicted, then your light shall rise in the darkness & your gloom be like the noonday.

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