Curtis Freeman
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Theologian. Ecumenist. Historian. Husband. Father. Professor @DukeDivinity Author #UndomesticatedDissent #ContestingCatholicity #PilgrimLetters #PilgrimJourney
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Check out my piece in
@CTmagazine
on “Making Disciples in a Secular Age” that introduces my two recent books on basic Christian instruction.
@Fortresspress
@DukeDivinity
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Looking forward to welcoming
@BethMooreLPM
as our preacher in
@DukeChapel
on Sunday morning December 3. Yes women preachers are welcome in the pulpit. There is a great company of them, just like the Bible talks about (Ps 68:11).
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Best question in the debate about the
#SBC23
amendment to Art III of the Constitution: What does it say that we are slow on the take in addressing the sexual abuses of women but fast on the draw to remove them from ministry? The answer is clear to anyone who is listening.
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We were pleased to welcome the wise and wonderful Dr. Justo Gonzalez who helped us imagine the future of theological education.
@DukeDivinity
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I am delighted to learn that Professor Janet Martin Soskice has accepted an appointment to the faculty of
@DukeDivinity
, effective July 1, 2020, as the William K. Warren Distinguished Research Professor of Catholic Theology. What a great opportunity for our students.
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In 1988 the SBC passed a resolution that subordinated the priesthood of believers to the authority of the pastor. It urged messengers to "obey your leaders." It was wrong then, and it's still wrong. The pastor is a servant not a CEO.
#DontBeAJurk
via
@RNS
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@kkdumez
This whole report is sickening and sad, but not surprising when the two architects of the SBC “conservative resurgence” were abusers. One wrote the article on the family that made complementarianism a denominational doctrine. That fostered the toxic culture we’re reading about.
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@aramtch
@BillyGraham
And this by Elesha Coffman
@BaylorHistory
, one of Grant Wacker's former PhD students. She raises serious question about whether BG was compos mentis in this last decade of life. Franklin Graham exploited that to his own benefit.
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"As long it refuses to examine the culpability of its explicitly patriarchal theology in fostering abuse, the SBC’s systemic abuse problem is going to remain unsolved."
@C_Stroop
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Today is the 2 yr anniversary of an insurrection on the US Capitol. The blame does not lie on militant militia or radical politicians, but with Pentecostal pastors and Evangelical ministers who promoted violent rebellion based on spiritual warfare and dominionist theology.
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@aramtch
@BillyGraham
Grant Wacker, BG biographer had many personal meetings with BG over the last few years, and one of the few admitted into the archives. BG was non compos mentis for the last decade. FG claims BG was lucid and wrote books, articles, and voted. No way.
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Today I described the 1637 examination of Anne Hutchinson as a
#MeToo
moment. The all male General Court refused to believe her when she said she heard "the voice of God's own spirit in my soul." I believe you Anne, and to all the women who hear the voice, I believe.
#ChurchToo
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When I was a student at SWBTS I tried to buy a book by Barth in the bookstore. I was told his books were not allowed to be sold there. I went to Perkins Seminary in Dallas and bought the whole Church Dogmatics. I have never regretted my decision. Barth4Baptists
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"Will no one rid me of this turbulent priest? A question raised by Henry II King of England. The statement did not explicitly order the execution of the Abp of Canterbury, but it prompted 4 knights to travel from Normandy to Canterbury, where they killed Becket. Words do things.
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Lots of evangelical friends embraced Kanye’s so-called “conversion” to “born again” Christianity. His recent racist turn certainly aligns with recent defenses of Christian Nationalism. Would love to see Eva friends disavow CN, Kanye, Trump and move toward historic Christianity.
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Anyone interested in my book
#UndomesticatedDissent
: Here is a very short video summary. "Democracy demands dissent, and dissent defends democracy."
@DukeDivinity
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1/12 With so many Christians defying public health warnings to wear mask, wash hands, and social distance, appealing to their personal rights, and claiming to trust in God’s protection, consider these words from Martin Luther.
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To prep for the Twitter Live Chat session with
@BaptistBlogger
I pulled out this church history chart. Find out where you fit. See you Monday at 10 am ET.
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POTUS Joe Biden quoted Isaiah 6 today confusing/conflating US Foreign policy with the Mission of God. The Holy One of Israel is not recruiting soldiers to advance or protect US national interests or Western civilization. That is an offensive if not idolatrous statement.
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Our reality. My spouse quarantining at home. Multiple family members COVID-19 positive. This is not a hypothetical possibility. It kills people. Don’t miss that.
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32 years ago James Wm McClendon Jr. pondered why Baptists have produced so little theology. Were he alive today I think he would be happily surprised to see the contributions our denominational family members are making.
@lukestamps
@M_Y_Emerson
@srharmon
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The SBC “conservative resurgence” was imagined and orchestrated by two abusers. This is fruit of the poison tree.
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@geekyguyjay
The SBC can’t have it both ways: the conservative takeover was good but Pressler-Patterson were bad. Those are identical.
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I just received my copy of the new ed of
@bethfelkerjones
*Practicing Christian Doctrine*. It is a wonderful text for intro to theology classes and a great resource for anyone who is interested in understanding the deep connection between faith and practice.
@BakerAcademic
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I am grateful to my brother in Christ
@drmoore
for his conviction that the gospel of Jesus Christ matters more than secular politics. I am embarrassed by
@JerryFalwellJr
for his anti-Christian/anti-intellectual/blatantly political approach.
@WestLondonMan
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Outgoing Pres
@jdgreear
of the SBC: "We have political leanings. But we are not the party of the elephant or the donkey. We are the people of the lamb.” Sadly untrue. Every resolution, sermon, speech was straight GOP partisan. No room for democrats in SBC.
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My friend and colleague prof in an SBC seminary, who shall go unnamed, told me that he once mentioned my name in a conversation with Paige Patterson, who replied, "How is it that you know all these liberals?” My friend replied, “Sometimes I just want an intelligent conversation.”
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Due to the exponential growth of COVID-19 cases in recent weeks due to the Delta variant, the city and co. of Durham NC have announced a state of emergency and now require mask be worn indoors, even among those who are fully vaccinated. Effective 5 pm on Mon, Aug 9, 2021.
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I have learned the last two days that many/most? do not think the abuse crisis in the SBC has anything to do with gender. I've been instructed that it's not power dynamics, social structures, or gender hierarchies. Just a few evil people. Nothing systemic. An awakening for me.
Check out this article by
@DrCurtisFreeman
@DukeDivinity
who courageously confronts the
#SouthernBaptist
's "all-male leadership and power structure that excludes women" and has "shielded countless abusers from facing the truth of their actions"
#ChurchToo
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Today we traveled to Texas to spend Christmas with family. Leaving DFW Airport we passed this building. I asked my spouse what she thought it was.
“A church?” she answered haltingly.
“No. It’s a data center. These days you can’t tell.”
Have a a convergent Christmas!
@ryanburge
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Watching Baptists in the news today. Despite the hype about
#SBC22
the real Baptist witness is
@ReverendWarnock
. Thank you sir!
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“You can measure the health of an organization by whether it is seeking converts or trying to find heretics.” PBS Commentator Mark Shields
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If white evangelicals are committed to racial repair, solidarity, and truth-telling, then they must deal with the influence Fox News has had on their ideas about race and racism.
@JemarTisby
via
@JemarTisby
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Latest Pew Study--Only 39% of US church members said their clergy encouraged them to get vaccinated for Covid. That dropped to 21% among evangelical Protestants. Black Church congregants said 2/3 of their clergy encouraged people to get vaccines.
@RNS
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I reiterate: communities that teach complementarianism foster cultures where systems and structures of abuse go unchecked.
Mohler says he finds it hard to believe allegations against Pressler are true via
@baptist_news
@markwingdallas
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I’m delighted to have just received this excellent new book by Dr. Robert Creech. Highly recommended.
@BakerAcademic
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Last wk
#SBC
excluded women preachers from their churches. Next week
#CBF
will hold their General Assembly in Atlanta. 3 women preachers will lead the services. 2 Rev. Dr. LaTonya Agard and Rev. Dr. Kat Spangler are
@DukeDivAlumni
.
@DukeDivinity
@cbfinfo
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The Shingles vaccines boasts a 90% effective rate. Wait, it’s not 100%? No! Actually no vaccine is 100% Please explain to the Covid vaccine hesitant because it’s not 100% effective.
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It only took 7 mths for the SBC EC to take action to remove Saddleback Church, but they still have not acted to remove congregations that refuse to address violations of clergy abuse. Tell us what is really important.
@baptist_news
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Thank you Rev. Dr.
@ralphdwest
on
@PoliticsNation
for calling the
#SBC
Seminary Presidents to (1) Tell the truth about their insensitive statement on CRT, and (2) Have a robust conversation on systemic racism. White supremacy isn’t just bad actors. It’s also bad structures.
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@allinwithchris
@JoyAnnReid
@madow
@lawrence
If you want to see what a data driven, scientifically responsible, research based coronavirus policy looks like, don’t look at the big fail universities. Take a look at
@DukeU
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"No atheist, no secularists or materialists, could inflict nearly as much damage to the Christian faith as these leaders within the Christian Church have done."
#SBCtoo
@Peter_Wehner
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@angiekayhong
Barbara Brown Taylor and a whole lot of women preachers have stood behind the sacred desk in
@DukeChapel
. It's good to have
@BethMooreLPM
on that long list.
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@rickpidcock
When you see the same people throwing shade on Pope Francis and Alistair Begg, you know that something weird is going on in the moral universe.
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@SteveRHolmes
Some early Baptists tried to distinguish between prophesying and preaching, the first which all Christians were permitted to do, but the second only for men. It's hard to tell the difference. More on Baptist women preachers here. 👇
@bethallisonbarr
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@HunterCrowder6
@Docjonas
@baptistpress
@jdgreear
Important question. My sense is no, they did not. These women would have offered testimony that would be inconsistent with the dogma that women should be silent and submissive. And because women's voices are silenced and marginalized the report will be unbelievable.
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When I had just begun teaching, a young visionary and energetic pastor was a student in my class. Tonight he was my teacher. Fellowship Baptists gathered in Dallas thank you Dr.
@ralphdwest
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@cbfinfo
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Christian culture criticism that’s fun to read. Snark with a smile. Never mean. Ever truthful. Thank you
@KatecBowler
.
@RNS
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When you are a non-creedal church, you have to get a lot of doctrine on your sign.
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Today marks the 359th anniversary of the Great Ejection. On August 24, 1662, over 2,000 dissenting ministers were forced out of the Church of England for their unwillingness to violate their consciences by conforming to the Act of Uniformity and the newly reinstated BCP.
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You are welcome to come and hear this conversation with
@bethallisonbarr
at 4pm November 16 in Goodson Chapel at
@DukeDivinity
.
@DukeDivAlumni
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These arrived today. Get them wherever books are sold, and you could grab a few extras to share with others on the
#PilgrimJourney
@Fortresspress
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Today James Wm McClendon Jr would have celebrated his 96th birthday. Theologian, mentor & friend, we still miss him so much but we're grateful for his writings, his legacy and for the brief time we got to share in his life.
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As I've said before, when you're part of a non-creedal church tradition you have to squeeze your doctrine on your sign. This one is a tight squeeze. Missing KJV only. Heretics! HT
@LRLevens
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Today the last member of my immediate nuclear family bubble, 16 yo son, got his 2nd dose of the Covid vaccine. Walk-in vaccinations are available Mondays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays 9:00AM-4:00PM, and Tuesdays 9:00AM-6:00PM!
#GetVaxxed
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@NashvilleMann
@BethMooreLPM
@DukeChapel
Yes. The Baptist House and Anglican House are co-hosting a student lunch afterward along with Duke Chapel.
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The verse, “Let every person be subject to the governing authorities” (Rom 13:1) joins “Let your women keep silence in the churches” (1 Cor 14:34) and “Slaves obey your earthly masters” (Eph 6:5) as one of the most abused passages of Scripture in history.
#NotBiblical
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It was never about his opposition to Trump, though
#RussellMoore
was right about that too. It was always about race, gender, immigration, the environment and a whole lot of things the Bible, and the Bible only, is perspicuously clear about.
#Nabal
@RNS
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@JohnInazu
Excellent reflection, John. Lots to think about. I agree the logic of the pandemic restrictions are falling apart, but given I have friends and family who contracted and succombed to the coronavirus from in-person church gatherings, the implications are not hypothetical.
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Went to the Twitter page & YouTube channel of this man arrested re. 1/6 Storming the Capitol. It was filled w/ a mix of hymns, praise songs, bible verses, conspiracy talk, & hate speech. Where are the churches that can correct and restore lost souls?
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Does it make any difference that the “moral” and “theological” “realignment” of the Southern Baptist Convention was designed, planned, and implemented by this man?
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@kkdumez
@JohnFea1
@bethallisonbarr
Evangelicalism has a history of patriarchy and racism and nationalism but also of evangelism and social reform. Can we expect it can be reduced to one story? 4/
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@kkdumez
When
@JohnFea1
argues J&JW doesn’t tell his father’s story, it misses that neither
@kkdumez
nor
@bethallisonbarr
were writing a totalizing evangelical metanarrative. 3/
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Here is the link to my article in the Houston Chronicle. My hope and prayer is that our churches might be sanctuaries for all.
#ChurchToo
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When Roman Catholics and Southern Baptists are reconsidering the ordination of women who knows what the future might hold?
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@BethMooreLPM
@DukeChapel
Wonderful sermon today connecting the prophet’s prayer for God’s coming down in Isaiah 64:1 with God’s incarnate coming down in Christ (John 3:13). That’s the sort of exegesis lectionary preaching encourages. You modeled what we teach. Thank you.
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What's missing in SBC response? 1) a database to track & warn about known predators, 2) mandatory training to recognize & address abuse, 3) repudiation of a low view of women that contributes to a culture of abuse.
#MakeChurchSafeAgain
via
@baptist_news
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This is why I left the SBC. This why I hope others will exit.
“The Summit Church is unashamedly and uncompromisingly complementarian. What’s more, we consider the complementarian position a biblical truth to be celebrated.”
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“When prominent Christians affirm absurd political lies with religious fervor, nonbelievers have every reason to think: ‘Maybe Christians are prone to swallowing absurd religious lies as well.’”
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My freedom ends when it endangers your health. Stop the libertarian death march in America.
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Among white Americans, higher participation in churches is correlated w holding more racist attitudes and supporting anti-democratic, anti-pluralistic ideologies like nativism, white Christian nationalism and so-called Replacement Theory. via
@baptist_news
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We are not all the same. We are different and diverse, buried into the body of Christ in baptism, and raised into the new creation that Christ has begun.
Jerusha Neal
@DukeDivinity
#CBFassembly
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@DennyBurk
And chattel slavery was legal until the 13th Amendment of the US Constitution was passed by Congress on January 31, 1865. That led to Black Americans being able to claim equal rights. Why the yearn for a return to that racist and discriminatory past?
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@freedomsbride
It’s called Kentucky. And Baptists have their very own spirit called bourbon. It was “invented” by a Baptist preacher named Elijah Craig. There’s even a story about Elder Craig burying a barrel at Georgetown College. Preachers sometimes got paid in whiskey in the 18th and 19th c.
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“There’s no other way to say this: The decline the SBC is experiencing is at a scope and scale that has not been seen in any other Protestant denomination in American history”
@ryanburge
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Important word. “We’re not being discriminated against. This is a safety issue,” Pastor Rick Warren said about churches' response during the coronavirus pandemic. # via
@HuffPostRelig
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@griffingulledge
The SBC “conservative resurgence” was imagined and orchestrated by two abusers. This is fruit of the poison tree.
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The 25 minutes that the VPOTUS was allotted to speak to the
#SBCAM18
was TWICE the time of ALL women total speaking from the platform. That sent a clear signal about women's voices in the SBC.
@jdgreear
@Wade_Burleson
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I was confronted after my lecture by an angry young man demanding I consign Jews to hell bec "they reject Jesus." I reminded him Jesus was a Jew & said, "If you or I have any hope of salvation it's bec we are children of Abraham." Words matter. Fundamentalist hatred kills.
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Dear
@BethMooreLPM
. Thank you for the many ways you have stood against the wave of misogyny in the the
#SBC
and wider evangelical world. Your courage and conviction are an inspiration to many.
@JonathanMerritt
@BethMooreLPM
Welcome to the “other Baptist” world.
@DrCurtisFreeman
@JaimeClarkSoles
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If you are a member of US Congress and you depict yourself killing a member of Congress and the POTUS then yes it is reasonable and prudent that you are censured (i.e. cancelled). You have no right to represent the people.
#GosarGoodbye
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@worldviewconvos
@bekahmason
@joelascol
@GePa109
@LarryFarlow
@tomascol
@SEBTS
Buried in the middle of the video is a panel about lynching w my colleague Will Willimon as evidence that SEBTS is departing from the faith. Really? If to oppose lynching is to be liberal please include me.
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And for news in the Baptist world, Hulk Hogan gets baptized.
Total surrender and dedication to Jesus is the greatest day of my life. No worries, no hate, no judgment… only love!
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@SteveRHolmes
Je fais semblant de savoir le latin, mais je ne connais pas la différence entre le latin et le français.
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Former Trump national security advisor MFlynn has argued that the USA should follow Myanmar by government suppressing democracy. This is Trump. This is
#ChristianNationalism
. This is the supermjority evangelical Christian view. They want to suppress dissent. They want to control.
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@kelliwardaz
Dudette. Chill. You’re sounding pretty weird. Are you okay? I know a good counselor.
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We’ve gone from the absurd to the ridiculous. John Milton’s 'Paradise Lost' banned by a Florida county not for heresy but as pornography. This is the Republican Party today.
@KSPrior
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It's not that he couldn't tell the story of "the war." Just that no one, not even the generals, could tell the whole story. All stories need to be told, and
@kkdumez
asks an important question by wondering how all these stories exist within the same religious-cultural world. 2/
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James Wm McClendon Jr is one of the most significant professional theologians of the 20th century. Beginning Thursday June 18
@andygoodliff
& I will lead a virtual McClendon reading group. If you are interested message Andy for a personal Zoom invitation.
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@kkdumez
And this is the judgment, that the light has come into the world, and people loved darkness rather than light because their deeds were evil.
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@KSPrior
Some of us. Me/Others/People pushed out by conservatives knew this 30 years ago. The conservative resurgence was led by 2 men who supported the abuse of women and mandated a theology that ensured it. We don’t expect an apology for warning the SBC. We hope the SBC will reassess.
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