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“Our workplace is our worship space. Where we show up in our workplace and how we show up in our workplace has everything to do with our life with God.” Rich Villodas joins Matt Rusten for episode 3. Catch it here: hubs.ly/Q03rqG2w0

Fantastic stuff here. 🙏🏽

Integrity is not about living something perfectly, but wrestling with something faithfully.

My NY METS are playing great baseball 💪🏽

Nobody gets to heaven without a letter of reference from the poor. - James Forbes (Matthew 25)

“We must not balance the budget on the backs of the poor.” - Gabriel Salguero I stand with National Latino Evangelical Coalition on these matters of cruel and indiscriminate practices related to immigration as well as budget cuts that crush the poor and vulnerable communities.

The poor, if we read scripture carefully, are not a problem to be solved but people to join.     - Eugene Peterson

One of my favorite trilogies of all time

“It is very easy to preach in generalities. I don’t want to preach in generalities … I really want to preach with as much specificity as I can to the hearts of the people there.” - Rich Villodas on episode 3 of “The Flourishing Pastor.” hubs.ly/Q03sh6NP0

Nobody gets to heaven without a letter of reference from the poor. - James Forbes (Matthew 25)

When I pray for peace, I pray not only that the enemies of my country may cease to want war, but above all that my own country will cease to do the things that make war inevitable. - Thomas Merton (1961)

In Wyoming with some friends. Went fishing for the first time. Caught a tiger trout! What a feeling!

New season! Knicks in 6!!!

So cool to get a Korean translation copy of my second book, Good and Beautiful and Kind! 🙏🏽

An pastor filmed as ICE agents arrested two of his church members. He told the agents that the Iranian couple was fleeing religious persecution. They're asylum-seekers, he said. "It doesn't matter," one of the agents replied. My latest for Christianity Today tinyurl.com/2w4m66ce

In my role as a pastor, I’m not trying to get everyone to agree on everything so much as I’m attempting to create environments where our disagreements don’t automatically become cause for disunity.

Laughing in front of cages designed to hold migrants and refugees, many of whom came to this country fleeing extreme violence and poverty, and hoping to raise their children in a more compassionate country. And many of whom followed all the legal procedures to enter the country.

“Silence shapes social imagination. Prayer forms a consciousness of justice. Reflection grounds one in a state of awareness to the areas of human fragmentation that need healing.” Rich Villodas on how contemplation shapes us for public life. bit.ly/3ToLseu

The Story of scripture in four phrases repeated throughout its pages: I love you. I am with you. Don’t be afraid. You can come home.