Greg Brewer

It's just wild the global leaders both here and abroad who have chosen a particular, explicit way of framing the decisions America faces with "there's the way of Jesus, which is knowable, and you'd be better off not choosing it."

A year ago this week, Ruben Ray Martinez, a 23-year-old U.S. citizen, was shot and killed by an ICE agent in Texas. But it was not until this past February, 11 months after the shooting, that ICE confirmed its involvement. It's now become the first publicly known instance of ICE fatally shooting a U.S. citizen as part of President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown. While the Department of Homeland Security says Martinez intentionally rammed his vehicle into an agent, recently released body cam footage — which shows shots being fired into Martinez's vehicle — calls that narrative into question. And one year later, Martinez's family is still searching for answers. @GeoffRBennett spoke with Ruben Martinez's mother, Rachel Reyes, and her attorney, Charles Stam.

This should have been on the front page of The New York Times. I speak to students in America and most have no idea that more than 30,000 Iranians were killed for protesting and demanding freedom. No names. No faces. No coverage. This silence kills me.💔 Thank you, Australia.

This famous prayer is called “The Lorica of St. Patrick” and it dates back to 5th century Ireland. “Lorica” is Latin for breastplate and it’s a genre of prayer meant to act as spiritual armor. Patrick prayed Christ into every direction, every moment, and every encounter.

With all eyes focused on Iran, Trump and DHS are pushing forward on border wall construction through Big Bend National Park. They will hand the Rio Grande to Mexico, destroy thousands of jobs, and ruin the last remaining wild West, all for less than 1% of all border crossings:

America’s real strength has never been just its power—it’s that our allies choose to stand with us. When we weaken those ties, we weaken ourselves. In a world shaped by rising authoritarian powers, partnership isn’t a luxury. It’s a core strategic advantage—and we’re eroding it.

@PhilKlay Joining you in this. The family of my paternal grandmother, Helen Goodwin, was from county Mayo.

I arise today Through a mighty strength Happy St Patrick’s!

I just visited Dilley and met with kids who are too scared and traumatized to eat and go to the bathroom – let alone play. It’s horrific and should alarm everyone in our country. We can’t let them do this in our name. We need to shut down Dilley. propublica.org/article/life-i…

Profoundly moving story from Baroness Finlay, former BMA president and a leading figure in palliative care, about one of her patients. “36 years ago a GP referred a distraught young man whose prognosis—as estimated by him, the surgeon, and the oncologist—was about three months, saying: ‘He is the most clear-cut case for euthanasia I have ever seen.’ “In total pain, desperate for lethal drugs, with his youngest child only six weeks old, his care was challenging, particularly in the first fortnight. “Eleven years after that visit, and after many times of complex care, David phoned me. His beautiful young wife was dying of advanced cancer. By then a wheelchair user, he and his three children were with her in the hospice as she died. “Just two days ago, I visited David, who—with his three fine adult children who he has brought up on his own despite his disability—said I could speak of this, in tribute to him and all his care has taught me. “They’re watching this debate today. I know they have tuned in. It’s a great privilege to be entrusted with such care.” (h/t @nmdacosta)

Grieving the death of my friend, hero, and fellow Mississippian John Perkins. He stood up to Jim Crow and stood up for Jesus Christ. Enter into the joy of rest brother. I am grateful for you.

@danielsilliman One of my hero’s.

Civil rights veteran and evangelical hero John Perkins has died.

@jacobsoboroff @JoaquinCastrotx Thank you for posting this. The more we are faced with actual humans who are at risk the more people with compassion will rise up to stop this. It is the antidote to corrosive indifference.

“There’s another young boy I met last time whose name is Liam Nias,” @JoaquinCastrotx said. “He’s 7, from Honduras, I believe. He reminded me of Liam Ramos, except no one knows this other boy — he’s just unknown and sitting there in this prison.” nytimes.com/2026/03/13/us/…

@collinhansen The lie that is at the heart of most cinema.

Writing about Perelandra. The quote that came to mind: “Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring. Imaginary good is boring; real good is always new, marvelous, intoxicating.”
— Simone Weil

Zelenskyy is our friend. Putin is our enemy.

I think one of the reasons the right-wing Christian Nationalists are coming out so hard against James Talarico is that they know his version of Christianity looks a whole lot more like Jesus than theirs does and they know people are catching on.

Reading the news of the day can tempt us to despair, and despair’s insidious effect is to rob us of the ability to care by numbing us to the grief of our neighbors and to the horror of real-time tragedies that play out in our own backyards and across the planet. And so we pray:

Beware of any Christian movement that demands the government be an instrument of God's wrath but never a source of God's charity, mercy, or compassion.

“I don’t fear the prospect of dying and find to my relief that my faith in the ‘resurrection of the body and the life everlasting’ has only grown stronger over the past few weeks.” #bishopofguildford #death #dying #Echobox=1772616093" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2026/…