@alejojoyner

Writer and pastor of Charlottesville First United Methodist church. Editor of Heartlands magazine.

 Charlottesville, VA
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Netanyahu mentioned a very important point about repopulating Israel, one ignored by the left- "My great-grandfather came here [to Israel] in the 19th Century. Most of the Palestinians who are alive today came here after him." Thank you @DineshDSouza

Netanyahu Answers "Do Jews In Israel Have A Connection To The Bible?"

Tucker Carlson asked Ted Cruz if Jews under Netanyahu have any connection to the Jews of the Bible. I posed the question to Netanyahu himself.

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Traveling America’s inland sea. My new piece on Streetlight: streetlightmag.com/2025/08/0… @StreetlighMag
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Fleming Rutledge would like a word...from God alexjoyner.com/2025/04/11/fl…

Fleming Rutledge would like a word…from God

For all the space it takes up in our worship services, the sermon as an object of critical study has suffered from criminal neglect. Enter Fleming Rutledge.

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Father's Day in Bujumbura--my new post on Streetlight magazine: alexjoyner.com/2025/03/18/fa…

Father’s Day in Bujumbura

My latest post is up on the Streetlight Magazine blog. A reflection on connection and hope in Burundi. Check it out!

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Each attendee got a packet detailing what IMPACT cville said are problems in the community, what the is solution, and what can be done about it. 29news.com/2025/03/11/around…

Group seeks solutions to Charlottesville-area issues

Each attendee got a packet detailing what IMPACT cville said are problems in the community, what the is solution, and what can be done about it.

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Controversial Take: Vindictiveness is not a virtue.
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#1 and a recap - 2024 Best Reads List Concludes alexjoyner.com/2024/12/28/1-…

#1 and a recap – 2024 Best Reads List Concludes

I like being an iconoclast but James was worthy of all the accolades.

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#2 - Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver - 2024 Best Reads alexjoyner.com/2024/12/26/2-… @b_kingsolver

#2 – Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver – 2024 Best Reads

The titular character, Demon, is looking back on this story with an adult’s eye and musing about how things got to where they did in the devastated, opioid-scarred landscape of Lee County.

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#3 - The Known World by Edward P. Jones - 2024 Best Reads alexjoyner.com/2024/12/24/3-…
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#4 - Zero at the Bone by Christian Wiman alexjoyner.com/2024/12/20/4-…

#4 – Zero at the Bone by Christian Wiman

Wiman’s got a knack for expressing the hard-won, tentative faith that seems the only kind on offer in contemporary America.

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#5 - The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store by James McBride alexjoyner.com/2024/12/19/5-…

#5 – The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store by James McBride

The class and race lines are complicated. It’s America, after all. One of the Jewish characters wonders if becoming part of the American stewpot is worth the cost. “We are integrating into a burnin…

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#6 - The Ninety-Third Name of God by Anya Krugovoy Silver - 2024 Best Reads alexjoyner.com/2024/12/18/6-… @AnyaSilverPoet

#6 – The Ninety-Third Name of God by Anya Krugovoy Silver – 2024 Best Reads

What to do with these strangely limited bodies? Perhaps poetry is the best defense we have against oblivion. As Krugovoy Silver shows, God is found in the reflected light of passing things.

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#7 - Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel - 2024 Best Reads alexjoyner.com/2024/12/11/7-…
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#8 - The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver alexjoyner.com/2024/12/08/8-… 2024 Best Reads

#8 – The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver – 2024 Best Reads

The course of the characters’ lives once there will both pull the family apart and give them a future in which Africa will nourish them.

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#9 - Larry McMurtry by Tracy Daugherty - 2024 Best Reads alexjoyner.com/2024/12/07/9-…

#9 – Larry McMurtry by Tracy Daugherty – 2024 Best Reads

Texans today are noted for loud self-assertion, but just below the surface is an unfinished project—to make a place out of the disparate dreams and violent expeditions that have led people here. An…

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#10 - Reading Genesis by Marilynne Robinson - 2024 Best Reads alexjoyner.com/2024/12/06/10… We have been reading and, as we’ve done since 2017, we’re ready to spill some tea on the 2024 reading campaign.

#10 – Reading Genesis by Marilynne Robinson – 2024 Best Reads

We have been reading and, as we’ve done since 2017, we’re ready to spill some tea on the 2024 reading campaign.

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"This is PRECISELY the time when artists go to work. There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write... That is how civilizations heal." In these wordless hours, a lifeline from Toni Morrison worded 20 years ago: themarginalian.org/2016/11/1…

No Place for Self-Pity, No Room for Fear: Toni Morrison on the Artist’s Task in Troubled Times

“There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal.”

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Happy to be serving as @IMPACTCVILLE co-president this year!
IMPACT@IMPACTCVILLE29 Oct 2024
Replying to @IMPACTCVILLE
We elected a new slate of executive officers for the coming year!
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Final day of Fan Appreciation Weekend. Repost for a chance to win this Adolis GarcĂ­a Home Run Derby Bat!
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🚨 Final Fan Appreciation Weekend Giveaway 🚨 Repost for a chance to win this Marcus Semien Gold Collection jersey.
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