"I’m following Karl Barth’s famous dictum to do theology with the Bible in one hand and the newspaper in the other...Love relentlessly, friends." @dianabutlerbass
Sunday Musings
Lament and anger
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January 25, 2026 at 6:33 PM
"I’m following Karl Barth’s famous dictum to do theology with the Bible in one hand and the newspaper in the other...Love relentlessly, friends." @dianabutlerbass
Diane Bass Butler has a recent essay about quiet Christianity resurfacing that I need to read.
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Diana Butler Bass (@dianabutlerbass)
There IS good news: Quiet Christianity is waking up.
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March 6, 2026 at 1:08 AM
Diane Bass Butler has a recent essay about quiet Christianity resurfacing that I need to read.
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Is religion a source of division, or can it offer a way to bring us together during these fractious times? Rabbi Angela Buchdahl, @dianabutlerbass, @simran, @kurtjgray and I take a deep dive on the question in one of our favorites from the archives podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/h...
February 22, 2026 at 2:39 PM
Is religion a source of division, or can it offer a way to bring us together during these fractious times? Rabbi Angela Buchdahl, @dianabutlerbass, @simran, @kurtjgray and I take a deep dive on the question in one of our favorites from the archives podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/h...
Hope means believing despite the evidence, then watching the evidence change.
-Archbishop Tutu on The Cottage by #DianaButlerBass #JimWallis
-Archbishop Tutu on The Cottage by #DianaButlerBass #JimWallis
December 10, 2024 at 9:21 AM
Hope means believing despite the evidence, then watching the evidence change.
-Archbishop Tutu on The Cottage by #DianaButlerBass #JimWallis
-Archbishop Tutu on The Cottage by #DianaButlerBass #JimWallis
Christianity did not begin with a confession. It began with an invitation into friendship, into creating a new community, into forming relationships based on love and service. - Diana Butler Bass
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January 4, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Christianity did not begin with a confession. It began with an invitation into friendship, into creating a new community, into forming relationships based on love and service. - Diana Butler Bass
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I really appreciated this meditation from @dianabutlerbass this morning.
Family Secrets https://dianabutlerbass.substack.com/p/family-secrets?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email&utm_source=twitter
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Family Secrets
Public Shame and Healing American Politics
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November 8, 2024 at 2:52 PM
I really appreciated this meditation from @dianabutlerbass this morning.
Family Secrets https://dianabutlerbass.substack.com/p/family-secrets?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email&utm_source=twitter
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We know what we value by what we celebrate. It is difficult to hold the riches of the #unitedstates alongside the depravity by which this wealth was gained. They don’t go together… grateful for @ibramxk, @dianabutlerbass and the poetry of Sonia Sanchez and the wisdom of #ToniMorrison.
February 18, 2025 at 4:53 AM
We know what we value by what we celebrate. It is difficult to hold the riches of the #unitedstates alongside the depravity by which this wealth was gained. They don’t go together… grateful for @ibramxk, @dianabutlerbass and the poetry of Sonia Sanchez and the wisdom of #ToniMorrison.
LAUNCHING TOMORROW (5/30)—Sign up now so you don’t miss the first issue of our new collaborative Substack magazine, The Convocation!
From @dianabutlerbass , @kkdumez , @robertpjones , and @JemarTisby.
convocation.substack.com/p/coming-soon
From @dianabutlerbass , @kkdumez , @robertpjones , and @JemarTisby.
convocation.substack.com/p/coming-soon
The Convocation - Coming soon!
Stay tuned. The Convocation will launch May 30, 2024.
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May 29, 2024 at 11:12 PM
LAUNCHING TOMORROW (5/30)—Sign up now so you don’t miss the first issue of our new collaborative Substack magazine, The Convocation!
From @dianabutlerbass , @kkdumez , @robertpjones , and @JemarTisby.
convocation.substack.com/p/coming-soon
From @dianabutlerbass , @kkdumez , @robertpjones , and @JemarTisby.
convocation.substack.com/p/coming-soon
Doomed to Repeat It?
#DianaButlerBass
I couldn’t sleep last night.
ICE murdered Renee Nicole Good on a cold Minneapolis street yesterday. She was filming an ICE action and warning residents of their presence in her own neighborhood. She was protesting immoral actions by the United States government.
#DianaButlerBass
I couldn’t sleep last night.
ICE murdered Renee Nicole Good on a cold Minneapolis street yesterday. She was filming an ICE action and warning residents of their presence in her own neighborhood. She was protesting immoral actions by the United States government.
Doomed to Repeat It?
Redeeming memory is a path to salvation
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January 8, 2026 at 3:42 PM
Doomed to Repeat It?
#DianaButlerBass
I couldn’t sleep last night.
ICE murdered Renee Nicole Good on a cold Minneapolis street yesterday. She was filming an ICE action and warning residents of their presence in her own neighborhood. She was protesting immoral actions by the United States government.
#DianaButlerBass
I couldn’t sleep last night.
ICE murdered Renee Nicole Good on a cold Minneapolis street yesterday. She was filming an ICE action and warning residents of their presence in her own neighborhood. She was protesting immoral actions by the United States government.
US churches take careful note take-note.ca/2025/08/09/n... #dei #socialjustice #dianabutlerbass #unitedchurchofchrist #justice
Now they come for the churches — US churches especially, pay attention to this
Thanks Barbara Liotscos for the shareThe following information DOES NOT constitute legal advice in either the US or Canada. The message below is “heads up” only. A warning from DIANA BUTLER BASS AU…
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August 9, 2025 at 1:56 PM
US churches take careful note take-note.ca/2025/08/09/n... #dei #socialjustice #dianabutlerbass #unitedchurchofchrist #justice
The Convocation team is hitting the road. If you're in the #greensboro NC area, come join me, @dianabutlerbass, @JemarTisby, and @kkdumez at First Baptist Church Greensboro for an inspiring evening of music and conversation about Faith & Democracy.
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Faith and Democracy Tour - Greensboro, NC
Join us in Greensboro, North Carolina for an evening of inspiration, music, discussion, and community building!
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October 10, 2024 at 4:39 PM
The Convocation team is hitting the road. If you're in the #greensboro NC area, come join me, @dianabutlerbass, @JemarTisby, and @kkdumez at First Baptist Church Greensboro for an inspiring evening of music and conversation about Faith & Democracy.
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Super powerful Sunday meditation on America in despair by theologian Diana Butler Bass @dianabutlerbass open.substack.com/pub/dianabutle…
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June 15, 2025 at 8:51 AM
Super powerful Sunday meditation on America in despair by theologian Diana Butler Bass @dianabutlerbass open.substack.com/pub/dianabutle…
A couple articles drawn on and shared in this essay are from @Dianabutlerbass
https://dianabutlerbass.substack.com/p/the-sadness-of-the-sacred?utm_campaign=Resisting%20Empire%2C%20Remixing%20Faith&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Revue%20newsletter
https://dianabutlerbass.substack.com/p/the-sadness-of-the-sacred?utm_campaign=Resisting%20Empire%2C%20Remixing%20Faith&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Revue%20newsletter
The Sadness of the Sacred
The Conflict of the Rotunda, Failed Theology, and the Ren...
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November 24, 2024 at 2:07 PM
A couple articles drawn on and shared in this essay are from @Dianabutlerbass
https://dianabutlerbass.substack.com/p/the-sadness-of-the-sacred?utm_campaign=Resisting%20Empire%2C%20Remixing%20Faith&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Revue%20newsletter
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October 13, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Listen: Great new @nplhpodcast on faith, climate & hope in hard political times w/ the visionary @dianabutlerbass https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/6-youve-got-to-have-faith/id1158028749?i=1000381749271&mt=2
#6 You've Got To Have Faith with Diana Butler Bass
Podcast Episode · No Place Like Home · 02/22/2017 · 40m
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December 1, 2024 at 5:24 PM
Listen: Great new @nplhpodcast on faith, climate & hope in hard political times w/ the visionary @dianabutlerbass https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/6-youve-got-to-have-faith/id1158028749?i=1000381749271&mt=2
I loved talking with @dianabutlerbass --and the best part of the interview was the news that she's hard at work on a new book!
https://dianabutlerbass.substack.com/p/bill-mckibben-at-the-cottage
https://dianabutlerbass.substack.com/p/bill-mckibben-at-the-cottage
Bill McKibben at The Cottage
An excerpt from a thoughtful, hopeful conversation
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November 22, 2024 at 5:23 PM
I loved talking with @dianabutlerbass --and the best part of the interview was the news that she's hard at work on a new book!
https://dianabutlerbass.substack.com/p/bill-mckibben-at-the-cottage
https://dianabutlerbass.substack.com/p/bill-mckibben-at-the-cottage
Morality vs immorality, compassion vs exploitation... Talarico and Paxton represent widely divergent understandings of what Jesus taught and how political leaders should behave.
Diana Butler Bass (@dianabutlerbass)
Talarico v. Paxton is going to be a straight up religious argument between Christianity as a religion of love for neighbor and Christian authoritarianism.
There's not been a public theological con...
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June 12, 2026 at 8:51 PM
Morality vs immorality, compassion vs exploitation... Talarico and Paxton represent widely divergent understandings of what Jesus taught and how political leaders should behave.
