Rev. Charley Earp

06/09/2025

Latest video: PENTECOSTAL COMMUNISM!

09/05/2024

I have reached 500 followers! Thank you for your continued support. I could not have done it without each of you. 🙏🤗🎉

07/03/2024

It's been a very long time since I posted any kind of update and I have been wanting to do so.

I am in the 11th month of a 12 month chaplaincy residency. For those who don't know this is a full-time educational program based in a hospital, designed to prepare ministers to become professional chaplains.

Each week is divided between didactic, supervisory, and clinical periods. Clinical means visiting with spiritual care recipients (patients, family, staff) in hospital rooms, the emergency dept., and other parts of the hospital.

Those who know that I have been pursuing full-time parish ministry since I graduated from seminary in 2018 may wonder if I am considering becoming a chaplain, instead?

Here's where it gets a bit weird.

For nearly 9 months or more of this residency, I would've said "no way." With full conviction!

So, why did I even do this at all?

I blame God.

Yes, that is partially tongue in cheek, but also literally true in another sense.

When I left my previous ministry position last summer, I had very few prospects for a paid ministry position.

This residency came up as open to more students, the educator impressed me (she's a Mennonite!), and the one serious prospective parish decided to step back from search.

This meant a big drop in my income, but it has been mostly adequate.

Has my "no" changed?

Not really, but honestly, just a tiny bit. Tiny but significant.

God likes to mess with my head.

I have learned so much, felt defeated, won victories, and know I will never be the same.

I don't have a certain plan yet for after this residency. I am still hoping with all my soul that I will find a place in congregational ministry.

And, I am researching what "movement chaplaincy" may possibly hold for me in the future. (Click this link for more about that: https://maitripa.org/movement-chaplaincy/ )

Exploring Emergent Spaces for Spiritual Care on the Frontlines of Social Justice by Dr. Leigh Miller, Tulsi Strickland, and Sonia Arion Increasing awareness of the impacts and pervasiveness of concurrent pandemics in the United States is leading or forcing many into collective grief as well as a nee...

05/05/2024

I'm thinking about starting a weekly zoom check in for communists and revolutionaries. I need something to feel connected to other radicals. Let me know if this interests you?

03/29/2024

I got a halftime parish ministry interview offer!!

Invoke your preferred entities on my behalf!

03/12/2024

HAPPY BIRTHDAY. WOODY GUTHRIE!

When the love of the poor shall one day turn to hate.
When the patience of the workers gives away
"Would be better for you rich if you never had been born"
So they laid Jesus Christ in his grave.

Jesus Christ, written and performed by Woody Guthrie, 1940.

03/08/2024

HAPPY INTERNATIONAL WORKING WOMEN'S DAY!

02/28/2024

I have so many thoughts about this story!

"Aaron Bushnell, the 25-year-old Air Force service member who self-immolated to protest Israeli action in Gaza on Sunday, spent his youth among the devoted church group known as the Community of Jesus.

The Christian organization in Orleans, Massachusetts on Cape Cod has previously weathered abuse accusations associated with its practices. "

"Levi Pierpont, 23, who met Bushnell during basic training and has since left the Air Force, described the two chatting in Ohio as recently as January, when the airman discussed his disillusionment with the military and “state-sanctioned violence,” Pierpont told the outlet."

"In San Antonio, 32-year-old Lupe Barboza told the Washington Post she met Bushnell in 2022 at an event for a socialist group and would deliver provisions to people experiencing homelessness in the area.

The airman, she told the paper, was “outraged, and he knew that no one who is in charge is listening to the protesters out there every week .... He knows that he has privilege as a White man and a member of the military.”"

Before joining the Air Force, Aaron Bushnell spent his childhood in a religious Christian community on Cape Cod

12/30/2023

Welp! This 15-year-old post is a tragic reminder of how long we've been in this struggle.

11/12/2023

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I'll just put my cards on the table, I'm a Marxist and a leftist Christian.

A Marxist reading of the biblical texts centers political economy and probably the most recent and accessible book is Jesus: A Life in Class Conflict https://a.co/d/0EnBV0B.

One quote: "The Jesus movement’s millenarianism was revolutionary in that it envisaged a new social and political order that would wipe away the old one and replace it with a new hierarchy to serve the interests of the peasantry. What was remarkable about the movement’s early manifesto was its insistence that the rich, those perceived largely responsible for the material changes affecting Galilee and Judea, needed to surrender their wealth or face divine wrath at the coming judgment. Of course, the point of championing the interests of the peasantry was not about romanticizing “the poor”; it was about reversing the material hierarchies in Galilean and Judean society."

This gospel attack on wealth and privilege could in no way have been written by Roman propagandists!

Jesus: A Life in Class Conflict

10/04/2023

I finished some hopefully nearly final editing and formatting for my long-delayed book, "Jesus Made Me a Communist!" I have submitted a sample to possible editors to review and quote costs to make it print-ready. Making it look nice in print is a bit above my skill-set, so I'm using Reedsy to see if I can afford some assistance in finishing it. I may do a fundraiser once I have some actual quotes.

07/17/2023

Yay!!