Katelyn Beaty
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Book author x2 | Midwestern transplant to NYC | Kiki to friends | karaoke queen | @rns podcaster | editorial director @brazospress | I, too, have a Substack
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If you like what I tweet, I think you'll like what I write even more. And that's where I'm investing more time these days, at The Beaty Beat -- now with more than 6,000 subscribers.
Get the Beat dropped in your inbox (most) every week.
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I miss old Instagram, where you could post a brunch photo and be like 'here's some good food I ate!' and now in Christian IG world it's 'here is my brunch, and here is how the Lord spoke to me through my omelette, here is the lesson God wants me to give you through my toast'
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On Easter, I recall that I'm a Christian in part because no one would have invented a religion that (1) features an itinerant Galilean preacher rising from the dead, and (2) had the whole thing hang on the testimony of women. It's nothing they, or we, would have expected.
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What is "toxic positivity"?
The best I got is a 23-year-old white Christian woman who just got married and is very on Instagram
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This isn’t a dig but I’ve never met a man who didn’t say physical touch was his love language
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Also when did addressing abuse in the church become a liberal/“woke” issue? What’s the long game here?
I have theories but I’m also genuinely asking. I can’t understand the culture-war framing of something that’s simply about protecting vulnerable people from harm.
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Never attribute to persecution that which can be adequately explained by Christians being complete goobers.
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Probably too sweeping to be helpful. This is simply something I've seen (not all men, etc.):
The most arrogant Christian men I've met are those with just enough seminary education to think they have the answers, but not nearly enough life experience to have tested most of it.
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Now that we're talking about Dave Ramsey 🙃, I want to share something from the chapter in "Celebrities for Jesus" on abuses of power:
We tend to forget that anger and malice are disqualifying behaviors for Christian leaders.
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Y'all: these men color-coordinated their outfits for this.
There was an email or text thread in which it was declared that burgundy tones would look good from the stage.
There's no way this is coincidence.
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Twitter etiquette after someone's death is tricky, but:
Imagine a group of friends, family, and loved ones gathered at someone's funeral, and you bust in from the back to list off all the ways you personally disagreed with the dead person.
We agree this is tacky, yes?
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So glad to have sang “O Come O Come Emmanuel” this morning, thus having entered the church year’s emo goth phase
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This may mean I'm really just an evangelical normie but: I do not like "Jesus Christ" as a curse. Can we not extend respect for the sacredness of others' beliefs? Are there not literally hundreds of other ways to express frustration?
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If your church fires a leader for abuse, misconduct, or inappropriate behavior, church leaders *must* let the community know why the leader was fired.
I've heard one too many stories of leaders being given a pleasant send-off, only to learn they repeated their abuse elsewhere.
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This is exciting and humbling! After three-plus years as an acquisitions editor, I've accepted the position of editorial director of
@BrazosPress
. Thanks to
@PublishersWkly
for including the announcement
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Will there be an introvert space in heaven or will sanctification mean I have to become a..."people person"? [shudders]
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“As for Carl and Laura Lentz, I’m not a betting woman...But I’ve seen enough to wager that Carl will announce a return to church ministry within six months.” - me, exactly six months ago.
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@PaulTripp
on deconstruction: "We should all be deconstructing our faith, we better do it. Because our faith becomes a culture, a culture so webbed into the purity of truth that it's hard to separate the two. I celebrate the church of Jesus Christ...but I'm sad for the church"
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On Easter morning I recall that I’m a Christian in part because no one could have invented a religion that (1) features an itinerant Galilean preacher rising from the dead, and (2) had the account hang on the testimony of women. It’s nothing they, or we, would have expected.
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My book CELEBRITIES FOR JESUS will be out 8.16.2022 from
@BrazosPress
👑🐍
You can pre-order and get the first TWO chapters at
Special thanks to
@KSPrior
@DrCEdmondson
@JemarTisby
@drmoore
@scotmcknight
&
@richvillodas
for your endorsements!
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@TGC
This is a very strange take, since the basic plot of the Little Mermaid hasn't changed in this movie, or the previous movie, from the 1837 fairy tale from Hans Christian Anderson.
What has changed is the reviewer's fixation on finding 'LGBTQ agendas' in relatively banal things.
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When a male leader consistently crosses physical boundaries, you start to rationalize that it's normal behavior.
Then you realize that not one other male colleague has ever touched you in the workplace, ever.
Power is the ability to warp others' perceptions of what's normal.
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I've read a lot of articles on 'why people are deconstructing,' and nearly to a person, they end up sounding defensive, dismissive, or speculative. Pastors are so eager to explain to other pastors a phenomenon that is best understood by talking to individuals.
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My doctor just told me that allergies in NYC are so terrible this season because the city planted a ton of male trees, which release more pollen.
So basically these male trees need to keep it in their plants.
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What’s a food whose ‘healthier’ version you simply reject?
Mine is veggies masquerading as noodles. Get out of here with your spiralizer. No one has ever eaten a bite of zucchini noodles and thought, ‘yes this brings the same amount of mouth joy as carbonara’
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Saying this very much as an SBC outsider, it's hard for me to see why all women shouldn't leave the SBC.
What if anything has the denom communicated to women in recent years that would make them feel valued, protected, and esteemed as co-laborers in Christ?
It has also become clear to me that I am simply not well-suited to the politics of institutional life in the SBC.
Therefore, I have made the difficult decision not to return to SEBTS in the fall.
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Ah okay, I'll go in on one of my bits.
I don't find the deconstruction thread about worship music being "manipulative" that convincing. Why is live music manipulative in an evangelical worship service, but a powerful encounter of transcendence or whatever at a U2 show?
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For anyone who knew Tim Keller personally or has a story to share: he seemed to me to be anti-celebrity pastor, even while he had national name recognition and multiple best-selling books.
Do you have any stories to share about how he resisted celebrity? Share them here (or DM)
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Okay one more thing about faith deconstruction (my goat was gotten): it’s not the same as deconversion. Re-examining long-held beliefs, doubting, and questioning can be natural parts of faith *development.* Life is long. People come back to church—maybe just a different church.
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Editors shorten
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“So many pastors put themselves on this pedestal. And it’s basically, church can be surrounded around the man, the pastor, the guy, and it’s like, ‘This guy has this ultimate relationship with God...' The reality is, every human being has the same access to God.”
@justinbieber
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Single women having a rough go of it on this site the past few days. All this vitriol from men who fashion themselves to be culture warriors, dunking on single women for, IDK, not being miserable?
Meanwhile, the data show that women are faring better than men by every metric.
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My 93-year-old grandmother (who is vaxxed and boosted, thankfully) tested positive for COVID today, prayers are appreciated for her recovery
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How can anyone really claimed to have been 'canceled' when they have a new book, tour, and comedy special? At this point, how can Crist advance the victim narrative with a straight face?
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For better or worse, I can’t help editing sermons in my head while listening. Cut the long anecdote in which you’re the hero!
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What better way to signal your irrelevance as a thought leader than to chime in on “leggings” in the year of our Lord 2022?
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Watch how pastors talk about people in their church when they're speaking with other pastors and leaders.
Disdain, dismissal, and mockery are big 🚩
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This is the Mark Driscoll version of modesty:
It’s not about women’s dignity as women. It’s about male insecurity: only I get to objectify you.
Acceptable occasions to wear yoga pants…
Alone in your house w/ your husband.
Working out alone in your private gym while your husband watches you.
The end.
No public venues. Not social media.
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the male urge to get just enough seminary training to accrue the smugness needed to tell women they will die lonely and sad if they don't start having babies
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Oh okay, the man I was engaged to a long time ago is now an Anglican priest who co-authored an open letter calling for a moratorium on women's ordination. Not that I ever wanted to be ordained, but you know how they talk about dodging a bullet?
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What’s with the recent spate of mean takes against single, childless women in their 30s? Are the misogynists entering some kind of solstice?
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We should all pay attention to the sermon at churches because we want to hear from the Holy Spirit, not because we want our pastor to know they are doing a good job.
This is micromanaging.
Small ways to encourage your pastor during the preaching event:
1. Sit near the front
2. Keep Bible open
3. Eye contact
4. Whatever non-verbal and verbal feedback you can muster, befitting your culture and personality
5. Phone silenced and away
6. Stifle yawns
7. Stay put
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The sheer artistry of how they made Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg lyrics mom-friendly 😂
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One cannot understand the psychological (not merely theological) dimensions of modern evangelicalism without considering “fear of liberal drift.” You can be outside that orbit for years and still worry that any change of perception is spiritually suspect.
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Maybe we assume that men like Ramsey, Mark Driscoll, James MacDonald, John MacArthur, etc. are displaying righteous anger. But there's a difference between anger when one is personally offended or challenged, and Jesus' anger over greed and injustice perverting God's temple.
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I don't mean this to sound conspiratorial, as if color coordination is evil! 😂
I'm highlighting this simply to underscore that everything that happened on Sunday at TVC was planned for appearances.
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Okay I'm going to say it because no one else will and it could get me canceled:
It's extremely bad for pastors to show photos of their genitalia to staff!
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how do i ask a man on a date?
i realize this seems like it has a simple answer, but after having been in a christian subculture where women weren't supposed to ask men out, i'm learning a new skill.
submit answers by 5pm ET Friday 😂
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A general principle about drawing analogies between sex and faith:
The more graphic the details, it not only becomes more cringe, it also strays further from the scriptural analogy in Eph. 5.
Paul calls it a "profound mystery," so leave it at that.
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I need a Christopher Guest mockumentary about a megachurch’s outreach ministry of drama and puppets
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I don't use this word often but it takes some particularly large CAJONES to go all in on defending complementarian ideology and church structures today
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Persecution ≠ feeling butthurt after reading a thinkpiece
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The best feeling when you write a book is holding it, and the second best feeling is submitting the final manuscript …. WHICH I JUST DID FOR CELEBRITIES FOR JESUS.
How should I even celebrate?
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The New Testament says Christians are to put away hostility, enmity, "fits of anger," dissension, wrath, and malice. Church leaders are not to be quarrelsome but gentle.
Evangelicals have a pretty good ethical framework for sex and money. Anger, not so much.
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I burped so loudly on the sidewalk that two dudes looked up, this, too, is feminism
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We all get irritated! We all have let our anger get the better of us. (Especially on here!) Christian leaders are human, and many of them are under a lot of pressure.
But if a leader regularly verbally lashes out at others, that's a big red flag. In fact, it's disqualifying.
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Who's the one famous Christian (currently alive!) who you'd most like to sit down with over a meal and like, ask them stuff?
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For
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So, I spoke with JP Pokluda -- probably best known here as the Waco pastor who inappropriately described a woman's body in a sermon, then apologized (inc. to me) -- about why most pastors shouldn't write books.
Unless you're like Eugene Peterson.
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If you are interviewing someone and plan to record their face as well as their voice, please let the person with the face know in advance
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Public figures' legacies are worth discussion and debate! But waiting a hot second honors the person *as a person.*
I'm worried we all just see public figures, and their deaths, as a chance to rehash our ideological talking points. IOW, here's another chance to talk about meee!
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If you want to understand why so many women who came of age in the 1990s and early 2000s struggle mightily with body image, look no further than this.
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Last week I learned that a forthcoming book on orthodoxy is being marketed with the offer of $100 for people who agree to tweet about it twice.
At the very least, influencers should disclose they have been compensated to tweet, yes?
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(Then again, when your masculinity borrows more from John Wayne than Jesus, pastors like Driscoll and leaders like Ramsey often confuse bold leadership with acting like an SOB. 🤠
Some of this is fearing that gentleness might make you look weak. "Real men" take charge etc.)
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Besides Hillsong, Bethel, and Elevation: which current individuals or groups are creating good music for use in corporate worship settings?
Drop your recommendations here. 👇
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I still think about this photo as an ad for Hillsong Oslo
Expect Adam Driver and Lady Gaga to each win their second Oscars, this time for their performances in ‘House of Gucci’.
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Good things don't need a spiritual lesson extracted from them in order to count as good! We can just enjoy created goods for what they are, not for whatever content we can wrest out of them. (To be clear, I do this too sometimes; it works. But I don't like that it works.)
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Amid the TGC article dustup, some people are surprised that a couple book endorsers hadn't read the full book.
But that's exactly in line with the way endorsements work in Christian publishing these days.
And that's a problem. My piece for
@CTmagazine
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@daneortlund
This implies there are no healthy or unhealthy churches, which is obviously false. Putting aside questions of abuse, we need categories for assessing a church’s spiritual health, maturity, hospitality, care for those in need, and all the other things that mark the body of Christ
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Omg it’s out in the wild!
Christmas either came late or very early. Can’t wait to crack this open.
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My heart is full after spending the evening with the Rev. Fleming Rutledge (
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I'm convinced it's no coincidence so many critics of JESUS AND JOHN WAYNE for the life of them can't spell Kristin Kobes Du Mez's (
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BARBIE was so delightful for so many reasons, and Margot Robbie brought an unexpected depth and tenderness, but Ryan Gosling as Ken might be his best acting ever? He stole every scene. I want to see more actors commit this wholeheartedly
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Stephen Colbert is arguably the most famous living Christian apologist, and I'm not mad about it at all
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Me at the car rental: “Are you sure you don’t have anything besides the Mustang? I really just want a basic car.”
Clerk: “Oh we thought you’d like it! Like you’re in Thelma and Louise! Vroom vroom!”
Me: “Have you seen the end of that movie?”
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So I knew that the
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report was coming, because I spoke with the reporter a few months, and people are asking if I'm really surprised, and the answer is yes and no.
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This will be bad for his soul, and I hold the professing Christians connected to Turning Point and all those who fund their efforts largely responsible
Hesitate to post this, but do we realize who we are becoming? This is absurd. It’s one thing to say a young man who made foolish decisions should be declared legally innocent. Another to turn him into a traveling folk hero. Not to mention what this will do to him, personally.
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I don’t mean to add to the pile-on but we sometimes forget that children are people, so to say that you dislike a large swath of people is essentially discriminatory
i will die on this hill: it’s fine and normal to dislike children
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Adviser boards and top staff might find it hard to address the leader's anger, because they don't want a verbal lashing and they don't want to lose their job. It's hard to stand up to a bully!
But we can be on the lookout for patterns early on in someone's leadership.
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A pastor who has abused their power over people doesn't need a wellness retreat.
My concern is that this "pastoral recovery" center will be a place where unhealthy leaders cycle in and out, to check off a box in order to return to public ministry.
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World Magazine? More like Worldly MAGAzine!!!
Here is advance access to my lead editorial for
@WNGdotorg
tomorrow:”The Verdict Is In: The Manhattan Show Trial Ends With Former President Trump Convicted— But Now the Real Trial Begins”
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"...and I'm sad we've become so loyal to this culture, we're afraid to deconstruct in places where it's lost its way, it's harmful, it's producing things that allow the world to mock and cause young people to walk away...."
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For the evening crowd: I'm not a betting woman but if I were, I'd wager that Carl Lentz will be back in church ministry and/or that he and/or his wife will publish a redemption story in the next 6-12 months.
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there might be other reasons
Just got a call from my book publisher
@HarperCollins
and they are canceling my book because of my political views.
This is nuts!!! 🤯
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So being an obnoxious presence on Twitter is our only option
Christians being a “faithful presence” in secular institutions has been a resounding failure.
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This is why this story is not just about individuals behaving badly, but also about a culture that allows individuals to behave badly without recourse. It's culture, it's systemic, and it's undeniably rooted in male privilege.
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This is an unfortunate response to the reality of abuse in the church. And yes, I’m addressing it publicly because it’s public speech.
Many people publicly address abuse because they tried to address it privately and were ignored or dismissed.
Here's best-selling evangelical author Shaunti Feldhahn reprimanding people who call out abusive pastors:
"There's something that feels really good about venting...But we're told in Scripture that's not [something] we should be perpetuating."
#churchtoo
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The communion wafers were stuck together this morning so I got three, and now am wondering what hot mess the Lord is prepping me for
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The
@BrazosPress
was excited to finally meet
@bethallisonbarr
and celebrate THE MAKING OF BIBLICAL WOMANHOOD! Maybe you’ve heard of it? 😏
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On a more serious note, I would be interested in a book that addresses toxic positivity from a theological perspective and connects it to lament, grief, and joy.
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Popped on X after a month away (glorious!) long enough to catch wind of a dustup involving Alistair Begg, followed by reaction and then reaction to the reaction.
It captures what I think defines modern evangelicalism and why I'm glad to be out of that subculture: ANXIETY.
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He's back and, if you can believe it, got weirder? Like, we've always known he's offensive, but having him quiet for several months, he now just seems to me so impossibly *weird*
This is the man that nearly 8 out of 10 evangelical at the ballot box voted for. Be careful what you worship, folks.
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A few general principles on book endorsements:
- Endorse books you have read
- Endorse books you have read based on quality of content (not simply as a favor)
- Do not endorse books you don't have time to read.
- Do not offer 'endorsements' written by someone other than you.
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What's something an editor can do when they see an author who's quite overdue on their manuscript tweeting to and fro?
I'm looking for something both passive and devastating.
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