Silverside Social Justice, Spirituality, Self-Care David Albert Farmer, Ph.D., www.silverside.today

King David.  Prince Jonathan.  Bathsheba.  LGBTQ biblical personalities.  Song of the Bow.  David's funeral lament over Jonathan and Saul.  Pride. Happy Pride Month. Journalist:  Straight Jacob "Take" Zapper.  Episode Art:  Gottfried Bernard Goez, "Jonathan Greeting David after David Killed Goliath"

Going and Not Knowing.  Abram/Abraham.  Sarai/Sarah.  The lure of God. Divine GPS:  God, Pragmatics, Self.  Rosalia de Castro.  Martin Luther King Jr. Episode Art: Rosalía de Castro, Urban Art, Metropolitano Gallery 

What have you wanted so badly, however out of reach it seemed, so badly you could taste it?  Reaching forward toward, straining for, what really matters and leaving behind anything else, what the Apostle Paul called skubala (dung). Jack London. The powerful image one of the psalmists envisioned of a deer panting for water; that's how thirsty we are without God who alone can quench our spiritual thirst.  The energy of that deer metaphor applies to other spiritual endeavors that get us to God, one of which is keeping spirituality community healthy. Episode Art:  "Woman Runner Running, Jumping," Pablo Romero captures, though not the artist's intent, the energy of the Apostle Paul's image of straining forward with one's all toward life's ultimate goal.

Pride. Spirituality and Pride.  The Bible properly interpreted in not an enemy of LGBTQIA+ folks. Loving oneself is a part of Pride; being able to love oneself fully is built on God's love for each of us.

No place for closed minds.  Liberals by definition are always open to new ideas and new ways of doing things.  Leonard Bernstein.  Henry David Thoreau.  Father Richard Rohr.  Jesus was a liberal.  Episode Art:  Leonard Bernstein photo and quote.

Spiritual freedom. Galatians 5:1.  For freedom the Jesus who overcame death sets us free; therefore, do not submit to the yoke of any slavery.  Beware spiritual slaveries.  Peter Santos.  Institutional anxiety when confronted by free spirits.  Churches that must control people with their rules versus free spiritual communities.  Episode Art:  Artist and title unknown, discovered at Sentinel Digital Desk.