D.Min (church revitalization through decolonization); Follower of the Jesus way, enjoy #reading, #history, #hiking, good#conversation; #jazz, #author, #YellowstoneNationalPark is a favorite destination. Privileged to be married to Susan since 1984, No DMs.https://bsky.app/profile/bchiker.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/bchiker.bsky.social/post/3mwqjofavys2nA THOUGHT FOR TODAY: “Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.” #ElieWiesel, writer, Nobel laureate (30 Sep 1928-2016)30 Sep 2026 14:13 +0000at://did:plc:fp42aytefvnyorcjfyyhxa2p/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwqjofavys2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/bchiker.bsky.social/post/3mwlflobevc2wA word for our times: https://wordsmith.org/words/idiocracy.html28 Sep 2026 13:17 +0000at://did:plc:fp42aytefvnyorcjfyyhxa2p/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwlflobevc2whttps://bsky.app/profile/bchiker.bsky.social/post/3mwirbajxvc2rA THOUGHT FOR TODAY: “If ever the time should come, when vain and aspiring men shall possess the highest seats in government, our country will stand in need of its experienced patriots to prevent its ruin.” #SamuelAdams, revolutionary (27 Sep 1722-1803)27 Sep 2026 12:08 +0000at://did:plc:fp42aytefvnyorcjfyyhxa2p/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwirbajxvc2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/bchiker.bsky.social/post/3mvn6q6iaic2v“Soon silence will have passed into legend. Day after day he invents machines and devices that increase noise and distract humanity from the essence of life, contemplation, meditation. Tooting…booming, crashing, whistling, grinding, and trilling bolster his ego.” #JeanArp, artist and poet16 Sep 2026 12:54 +0000at://did:plc:fp42aytefvnyorcjfyyhxa2p/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvn6q6iaic2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/bchiker.bsky.social/post/3mvay46qyr224 THOUGHT FOR TODAY: “You may not be able to change the world, but at least you can embarrass the guilty.” #JessicaMitford, author, journalist, and civil rights activist (11 Sep 1917-1996)11 Sep 2026 16:24 +0000at://did:plc:fp42aytefvnyorcjfyyhxa2p/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvay46qyr224https://bsky.app/profile/bchiker.bsky.social/post/3muwso22fbk2hA THOUGHT FOR TODAY: “The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.” -Robert M. Pirsig, author and philosopher (6 Sep 1928-2017)07 Sep 2026 15:20 +0000at://did:plc:fp42aytefvnyorcjfyyhxa2p/app.bsky.feed.post/3muwso22fbk2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/bchiker.bsky.social/post/3mu5dysqqjk25A THOUGHT FOR TODAY: “Nothing is more terrible than ignorance in action.” #JohannWolfgangvonGoethe, poet, dramatist, novelist, and philosopher (28 Aug 1749-1832) *Such as what we are seeing from the current administration…28 Aug 2026 12:21 +0000at://did:plc:fp42aytefvnyorcjfyyhxa2p/app.bsky.feed.post/3mu5dysqqjk25https://bsky.app/profile/bchiker.bsky.social/post/3mtyas7jmtk2bA THOUGHT FOR TODAY: “We can pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.” #JohnBuchan, poet, novelist, and politician (26 Aug 1875-1940)26 Aug 2026 11:40 +0000at://did:plc:fp42aytefvnyorcjfyyhxa2p/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtyas7jmtk2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/bchiker.bsky.social/post/3mtuako2sj22mI am catching up some devotions I have written for my church newsletter. https://davidjennys.substack.com/p/a-lesson-from-the-oyster?r=18nus3&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true https://davidjennys.substack.com/p/come-by-here?r=18nus3&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true24 Aug 2026 21:25 +0000at://did:plc:fp42aytefvnyorcjfyyhxa2p/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtuako2sj22mhttps://bsky.app/profile/bchiker.bsky.social/post/3mtuagfzqns2mI am catching up posting devotions written for my church newsletter. These two were written in late winter and spring. I pray they are a blessing for you in any season. https://davidjennys.substack.com/p/betraying-the-lord?r=18nus3&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true https://davidjennys.substack.com/p/changing-seasons?r=18nus3&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true https://davidjennys.substack.com/p/a-lesson-from-the-oyster?r=18nus3&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true24 Aug 2026 21:23 +0000at://did:plc:fp42aytefvnyorcjfyyhxa2p/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtuagfzqns2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/bchiker.bsky.social/post/3mte6dowtk22dA THOUGHT FOR TODAY: “Someone needs to explain to me why wanting clean drinking water makes you an activist and why proposing to destroy water with chemical warfare doesn't make a corporation a terrorist.” #WinonaLaDuke, activist, environmentalist, economist, and writer (b. 18 Aug 1959)18 Aug 2026 12:03 +0000at://did:plc:fp42aytefvnyorcjfyyhxa2p/app.bsky.feed.post/3mte6dowtk22dhttps://bsky.app/profile/bchiker.bsky.social/post/3msaoqjhvds2z“America has changed over the years. But these values my grandparents taught me--they haven't gone anywhere…That's why anyone who threatens our values, whether fascists or communists or jihadists or homegrown demagogues, will always fail in the end. #BarackObama, US President (b. 4 Aug 1961)04 Aug 2026 09:21 +0000at://did:plc:fp42aytefvnyorcjfyyhxa2p/app.bsky.feed.post/3msaoqjhvds2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/bchiker.bsky.social/post/3mrwwhe6ejc2cA THOUGHT FOR TODAY: “Kind words, kind looks, kind acts, and warm hand-shakes, -- these are means of grace when [people] in trouble are fighting their unseen battles.” #JohnHall, pastor (31 Jul 1829-1898)31 Jul 2026 12:12 +0000at://did:plc:fp42aytefvnyorcjfyyhxa2p/app.bsky.feed.post/3mrwwhe6ejc2chttps://bsky.app/profile/bchiker.bsky.social/post/3mrrsx5zykk23A THOUGHT FOR TODAY: “No protracted war can fail to endanger the freedom of a democratic country.“ #AlexisdeTocqueville, statesman and historian (29 Jul 1805-1859)29 Jul 2026 11:26 +0000at://did:plc:fp42aytefvnyorcjfyyhxa2p/app.bsky.feed.post/3mrrsx5zykk23https://bsky.app/profile/bchiker.bsky.social/post/3mr5t3m4wuc2tA THOUGHT FOR TODAY: “Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime. Ask the infantry and ask the dead.” #ErnestHemingway, author and journalist, Nobel laureate (21 Jul 1899-1961)21 Jul 2026 12:35 +0000at://did:plc:fp42aytefvnyorcjfyyhxa2p/app.bsky.feed.post/3mr5t3m4wuc2thttps://bsky.app/profile/bchiker.bsky.social/post/3mqh44z2rnk24A THOUGHT FOR TODAY: “I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.” #HenryDavidThoreau, naturalist and author (12 Jul 1817-1862)12 Jul 2026 11:46 +0000at://did:plc:fp42aytefvnyorcjfyyhxa2p/app.bsky.feed.post/3mqh44z2rnk24https://bsky.app/profile/bchiker.bsky.social/post/3mqc7p5wkm223"They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." #AndyWarhol10 Jul 2026 13:06 +0000at://did:plc:fp42aytefvnyorcjfyyhxa2p/app.bsky.feed.post/3mqc7p5wkm223https://bsky.app/profile/bchiker.bsky.social/post/3mpuduyjgt22yI posted this last year and thought I’d post it again. What do you all think? https://open.substack.com/pub/davidjennys/p/the-prayer-within-the-national-anthem?r=18nus3&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=post%20viewer05 Jul 2026 00:44 +0000at://did:plc:fp42aytefvnyorcjfyyhxa2p/app.bsky.feed.post/3mpuduyjgt22yhttps://bsky.app/profile/bchiker.bsky.social/post/3mplfpvss6s2sA THOUGHT FOR TODAY: “One's first step in wisdom is to question everything -- and one's last is to come to terms with everything.” #GeorgChristophLichtenberg, scientist and philosopher (1 Jul 1742-1799)01 Jul 2026 11:23 +0000at://did:plc:fp42aytefvnyorcjfyyhxa2p/app.bsky.feed.post/3mplfpvss6s2shttps://bsky.app/profile/bchiker.bsky.social/post/3mozvtflbv222A THOUGHT FOR TODAY: “Life is an adventure in forgiveness.“ #NormanCousins, author, editor, journalist, and professor (24 Jun 1915-1990)24 Jun 2026 12:23 +0000at://did:plc:fp42aytefvnyorcjfyyhxa2p/app.bsky.feed.post/3mozvtflbv222https://bsky.app/profile/bchiker.bsky.social/post/3mnwsmndxbs2wA THOUGHT FOR TODAY: “Everybody needs [their] memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door.” Saul Bellow, writer, Nobel laureate (10 Jun 1915-2005)10 Jun 2026 13:23 +0000at://did:plc:fp42aytefvnyorcjfyyhxa2p/app.bsky.feed.post/3mnwsmndxbs2whttps://bsky.app/profile/bchiker.bsky.social/post/3mnuqsphj6s2wA THOUGHT FOR TODAY: “Live and let live, be and let be, / Hear and let hear, see and let see, / Sing and let sing, dance and let dance. ... Live and let live and remember this line: / "Your bus'ness is your bus'ness and my bus'ness is mine."” #ColePorter, composer and songwriter (9 Jun 1893-1964)09 Jun 2026 17:45 +0000at://did:plc:fp42aytefvnyorcjfyyhxa2p/app.bsky.feed.post/3mnuqsphj6s2whttps://bsky.app/profile/bchiker.bsky.social/post/3mnhlqjm3vc2iA THOUGHT FOR TODAY: “Live a balanced life. Learn some and think some, and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some.“ #RobertFulghum, author (b. 4 Jun 1937)04 Jun 2026 12:10 +0000at://did:plc:fp42aytefvnyorcjfyyhxa2p/app.bsky.feed.post/3mnhlqjm3vc2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/bchiker.bsky.social/post/3mneznnctks2xA THOUGHT FOR TODAY: “There are many forms of patriotism and telling the truth is one of them.” #AndersonCooper, journalist and commentator (b. 3 Jun 1967)03 Jun 2026 11:41 +0000at://did:plc:fp42aytefvnyorcjfyyhxa2p/app.bsky.feed.post/3mneznnctks2xhttps://bsky.app/profile/bchiker.bsky.social/post/3mn5injyqms2g”The question, O me! so sad, recurring—What good amid these, O me, O life? Answer. That you are here—that life exists and identity, That the powerful play goes on, and you may contribute a verse.” -Walt Whitman, poet (31 May 1819-1892)31 May 2026 11:48 +0000at://did:plc:fp42aytefvnyorcjfyyhxa2p/app.bsky.feed.post/3mn5injyqms2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/bchiker.bsky.social/post/3mmtimb2qfc2iThe moral test of government is how that government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly; and those who are in the shadows of life-the sick, the needy, and the handicapped. #HubertHoratioHumphrey, US Vice President27 May 1911-197827 May 2026 12:20 +0000at://did:plc:fp42aytefvnyorcjfyyhxa2p/app.bsky.feed.post/3mmtimb2qfc2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/bchiker.bsky.social/post/3mmltsjzu6c22A THOUGHT FOR TODAY: “It is the people who scream the loudest about America and Freedom who seem to be the most intolerant for a differing point of view.“ #RosanneCash, singer-songwriter and author (b. 24 May 1955)24 May 2026 11:19 +0000at://did:plc:fp42aytefvnyorcjfyyhxa2p/app.bsky.feed.post/3mmltsjzu6c22https://bsky.app/profile/bchiker.bsky.social/post/3mm4wh4iskk2c“The first step in a fascist movement is the combination under an energetic leader of a number of men who possess more than the average share of leisure, brutality, and stupidity. The next step is to fascinate fools and muzzle the intelligent...” #BertrandRussell, philosopher, author, Nobel laureate18 May 2026 12:57 +0000at://did:plc:fp42aytefvnyorcjfyyhxa2p/app.bsky.feed.post/3mm4wh4iskk2chttps://bsky.app/profile/bchiker.bsky.social/post/3mldrt5dcds24A THOUGHT FOR TODAY: “If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about the answers.” #ThomasPynchon, novelist (b. 8 May 1937)08 May 2026 12:57 +0000at://did:plc:fp42aytefvnyorcjfyyhxa2p/app.bsky.feed.post/3mldrt5dcds24https://bsky.app/profile/bchiker.bsky.social/post/3mkpkpk3ipc2oA THOUGHT FOR TODAY: “How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.” #AnnieDillard, author (b. 30 Apr 1945)30 Apr 2026 11:57 +0000at://did:plc:fp42aytefvnyorcjfyyhxa2p/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkpkpk3ipc2o