Brett Duiser

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Engineer, 5w4, husband, father, Christian, he/him (in no particular order)
Continuing to learn and grow in my faith. Active in the RCA church.
Advocate for mental health and LGBTQ+.
Detroit sports (yes even a Lions fan) and Fighting Illini basketball

I’m working with a team at our church putting together songs for Lent. Each day of Lent there will be a song with some theological reflections. These will be songs that express brokenness, grief, connection with the world, and mortality.

If you want to use this resource for your Lenten journey, follow the link and subscribe using your email address. http://lentsongs.substack.com

Songs of Lent

A guide for Lent through music. Click to read Songs of Lent, a Substack publication. Launched 20 days ago.

Always on the watch for that pesky squirrel

Occasionally good things can be found on Facebook.

“When male pastors call on us to recover something called “biblical manhood” I suspect they're not thinking of the silent, loyal Joseph submitting himself humbly to his wife’s God-given calling.”

@gcnewsman it’s been many years since I’ve up there. Hoping to make a trip through the UP with my family next summer.
If you live in Michigan or surrounding states, this is a great deal for the best pasties around. #Pasties #UP #Yooper
@pastorlibrarian that makes it way more cool

My 10 year old just said that I was “beefy” and have “pecs of steel.”

I don’t know if I should feel flattered or urgently schedule him an eye exam.

Historians in the time of the early church were horrified about this new religion that empowered women and the poor.

How on earth have we taken that reputation and instead insisted Christianity is about being manly and subjugating women? It's beyond me.

@RevEricBurrowsStone I’m here. Been part of the Reformed Church in America most my life.
I get nervous saying I’m Reformed because it seems to have a negative connotation for many people. The stereotype I picture from Twitter is a patriarchal, complementarian, know-it-all, more interested in arguing theology than loving others.
I’ve not experienced any of that in real life from the RCA circles I’ve been in, but maybe I’ve just been fortunate.
I find that Christians aren’t upset when you quote Scripture & say that we should “lift up the voices of the unheard.”
But when you start identifying who those voices belong to, then many of them do get angry. Because those voices don’t agree with their perceptions of reality.
Who are those voices in America?
Immigrants
Disabled
Bipoc
Women
The poor
LGBTQ
“Those leftists! I hear them everywhere!” They cry in disdain.
Hearing is not listening.