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Feb 2 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
Conservatives think I'm a partisan hack.
I've been a registered independent my entire life, and I'd been writing the blog for years and never mentioned a politician or party.
I began speaking explicitly in 2016 because I felt we were at a moment of unprecedented urgency here.
As a longtime pastor, it was particularly alarming seeing Christians embracing the unapologetic hatred, vitriol, and exclusion Trump was peddling, and I felt it was my responsibility to name and condemn it.
Each year since then has made me grieve more deeply the way so many professed people of faith have abandoned Jesus' call to love their neighbors and embraced the very heart sickness he spent his life and ministry warning us against.
I don't believe the Democratic Party is perfect by any means and don't see them as the savior, but I do believe this iteration of the GOP and this man are the antithesis of Jesus and I won't stop calling out the hypocrisy of declared Christians completely lacking empathy.
So their labels of "divisive" and "hateful" and "partisan" don't bother me, because I know that these are the kinds of ugliness, projection, and otherizing that this movement traffic in.
I know that I am for the common good.
I know that I see the world as a single, interdependent community.
I know that if your religion yields less empathy, diversity, and equity, it's not worth having.
Call that what you want.
I'm for humanity.
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Nov 6, 2021
7 years ago at this Starbucks table I was fired from a church for my progressive stances on sexuality, race, politics.
Weeks later a blog went viral.
I've since written 6 books and reached tens of millions of people.
Even if I hadn't, it still would have been worth it.
There is power in your story and resonance in your voice. Yours. Speak with clarity about what you have seen and experienced, and trust that will put you where you need to be. This will be especially difficult to remember when you're seated at "the table." Be encouraged.
There is a cost to authenticity but it is priceless. Be willing to lose something to gain the truest version of yourself. If you are, you will always win regardless of the circumstances.
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Oct 28, 2021
It’s FDA-approved and 750,000 Americans have died. If you could put down your political tribalism and think critically for a second, you might develop some common sense and some empathy. As it is, you’re helping the virus, failing the adult test—and your kids if you have them.
Our kids have to have several vaccines in order to attend school. Your objections to this one are not based in science or data, but the same politically-generated conspiratorial nonsense that is swallowing up the minds of once-rational people. It's a global disaster. Do better.
I was in the ICU four weeks ago. My nurses think you're a stubborn and ignorant person who is making their already difficult job exponentially more difficult, and helping the virus kill people prematurely and painfully. I agree with them.

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Oct 27, 2021
If you’re a Trump supporter and you think you’re going to challenge me to a “Biblical debate” save it. If you’d truly read the Bible you’d recognize the golden idol you’re bowing down to. And if you really cared about the teachings of Jesus you wouldn’t be a Trump supporter.
Nothing tells me you’ve lost the plot more than being anti-mask, anti-vaxx, anti-immigrant, anti-empathy, and pro-gun—while claiming you follow a Jesus who healed the sick, fed the hungry, welcomed the stranger, and shunned retributive violence. Hit the books again.
I have news for you: Donald Trump is the antithesis of Jesus and MAGA is exactly the kind of hateful, nationalistic, predatory, violent movement Jesus spent his life warning good people to reject. If you have a problem with that, take it up with God.
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Oct 19, 2021
Last week on the second day home from surgery my blood pressure skyrocketed to dangerous levels. At 3AM a group of first responders were in our living room.
I was grateful they were all masked and told me they were vaccinated.
All frontline healthcare/law enforcement should be.
It's antithetical to the work first responders do, to exacerbate people's fear/worry/trauma by bringing the possibility of a deadly virus into moments when they are at their most vulnerable.
This shouldn't even be a conversation or debate.
EMTs, police, rescue, and healthcare workers of any kind who refuse to be vaccinated or wear a mask in the field should be terminated. If the protection, healing, and safety of the public they serve are not priorities, they don't belong there.
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Oct 11, 2021
10/11 AM Recovery Update:

Hello everyone! John here. Most of today's tweets have been prescheduled, as I planned in advance not to be online much while my body begins recovery from brain surgery.
I wanted to check in with a real-time update on my progress:
Follow-up visits today with both neurosurgeon and ENT who performed my procedure to assess my progress.

Hoping to get clarity on the wildly fluctuating hormone and BP levels, and the water/sodium balances which have been the most challenging so far to get a handle on.
Actual surgery site pain-free and invisible from the outside (as they broke through my sinus cavity and removed the tumor in sections through my nasal passages... amazing). No issues aside from steady but manageable sinus pressure, lack of sense of smell, and profound congestion.
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Oct 2, 2021
John here!

Feeling well enough to give you a brief update while waiting on my wife to arrive:

Tumor removal went very well and I avoided cranial fluid leak which would have made recovery much longer and more involved.
During surgery my BP did drop significantly so they inserted an arterial line to monitor continually and treated to bring up. Now trying to get it down to normal levels. Weaning my off those meds.
Have had some significant hand swelling they will try to get to the bottom of. That and BP levels will likely keep me here tonight, but my surgery site itself is great and my head is almost pain-free with limited meds!
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