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RevDrSparky on TikTok. Unplugged.

Because reasons. — www.tiktok.com/@revdrsparky I’m getting ready to come back on Medium, with twice the snark and triple the urgency, since I have now completed a breakneck year as an interim minister and am freed up to speak out to all you kids — we’re all children of God, so we’re all kids…

Climate Change

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RevDrSparky on TikTok. Unplugged.
RevDrSparky on TikTok. Unplugged.
Climate Change

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Get Thee to a Monastery

I was out of spiritual fuel. So I went where they make it. — Hey, kids! (we’re all children of G*d, right?) it’s been a while since my last post, so I’ve called RevDrSparky back into service to walk with you through the absurdity. I am so glad to be still on the planet — which is never a given, day to day —…

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Get Thee to a Monastery
Get Thee to a Monastery

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Into the Awesome Aweful

A word of love and caution for the holy days ahead — The Rev Dr Sparky has been awfully busy these days, what with dealing with an interim ministry in a congregation In Real Life. But she has not forgotten the virtual world, and wants to remind us all to tread gently as the holiday season approaches. The veil gets thin around All Souls Day, and you are reminded that All Souls are in Secret Saved…

All Souls

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Into the Awesome Aweful
Into the Awesome Aweful
All Souls

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Jun 25, 2021

In the Name of the Wayshower

Another reluctant poem for seekers and believers — Humbly mumbling my sorrow and shame I ask for permission to call Your true name: Speaker of galaxies; Mother of time; Father of energy; Breath of creation; Matrix of living things (deep love and real flesh and one earth to share); Eternal soul in a person like me; Born here but…

Spirituality

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In the Name of the Wayshower
In the Name of the Wayshower
Spirituality

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·May 23, 2021

Found In Translation

Pentecost reboots the church — So RevDrSparky kept her promise and did not spam your email box with too many newsletters, did she? Well, that’s how I’m spinning the fact that I’ve actually been dazed and confused for the past months and have neglected my newsletter venture. As I have worked through my call to…

Christianity

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Found In Translation
Found In Translation
Christianity

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May 23, 2021

Pentecost: Best Holy Day Ever

Can we please have one now? — Today is Pentecost, the Christian version that originated from the extraordinary story reported in Acts 2:1–21. Apparently, on that day, a whole crowd of Spirit-struck believers were speaking in different languages, but everyone was hearing in their own language. And there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as of fire…

Religion

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Pentecost: Best Holy Day Ever
Pentecost: Best Holy Day Ever
Religion

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May 8, 2021

God Called Me… and Then Put Me on Hold For a Year

But I think I’m finally next in the queue — In September of 2019, I had a mountaintop experience at the top of an actual mountain, at the beautiful monastery of Our Lady of Guadalupe. There, on my first ever spiritual retreat, I felt a true call to return to the ministry I had left behind. I was sure God…

Spirituality

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God Called Me… and Then Put Me on Hold For a Year
God Called Me… and Then Put Me on Hold For a Year
Spirituality

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Feb 26, 2021

The End of White American Christianity
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Sara Zarr

The pandemic SHUT DOWN all those churches, my friends.

The pandemic SHUT DOWN all those churches, my friends. In the midst of a historic movement for justice for people of color, the worship hour was STILL the most segregated hour in America, and it looks like Jesus said, "That's it. Get out of my house." Just like he tossed the moneychangers out of the temple... But those congregations who use their sojourn in the virtual church world as a time of repentance, deep anti-racism faith work to de-center whiteness and combat white supremacy, and realignment with Jesus, may survive and thrive.

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Feb 23, 2021

The Once and Future Tabernacle

Religion for the real world — When the pandemic closed the churches, it felt like being kicked out of the Garden again. Desperate to stay alive, congregations invented online services overnight, and now virtual church is here to stay. But where is here? We are worshippers tabernacled (yup, you can verb it; I looked it up)…

Lent

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The Once and Future Tabernacle
The Once and Future Tabernacle
Lent

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·Updated Feb 22, 2021

Into the Desert

The once and future tabernacle… — I’ve missed you all, though I’ve been right here — and I know so have you — but you know how time goes: quickly when you are racing to finish something, slowly when you are waiting for the next thing to race to. I’m deep into a book that I’m…

Christianity

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Into the Desert
Into the Desert
Christianity

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Rev Dr Sparky

Rev Dr Sparky

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Preaching real real/igion for real people and courage in the face of absurdity. Follow me into the wilderness on TikTok at www.tiktok.com/@revdrsparky.

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