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Christian, Texan, Korean American, librarian. Whatever those words bring to mind, I'm probably not that.
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just in case: i'm on instagram and letterboxd as manders76, i have a blog that i very occasionally update at (if twitter dies i will probably write there more), and i'm on like ten different discord servers
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@DannyDeraney
“Don’t do that, don’t be silly. Stop it” is such an English thing to say in this situation 😂
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The longer I go on as a Christian, the more I think we need real, robust ministry to women by women. Not “this is how to be a good wife and mom” ministry or “this is how to be a content single woman that doesn’t freak out men” but “this is how to be a disciple of Jesus—
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Some folks Twitter: Christianity is inherently white supremacist!
The 2000-year-old Church in Ethiopia and Egypt: Oh word?
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Shut it down, I win everything for today
Wordle 226 1/6
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
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The God of Israel didn't erase my Asianness; He blessed it and brought it into His family.
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Hey maybe we shouldn’t give Christian leaders celebrity-level platforms
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Biblically masculine men aren’t threatened by strong, wise women and the gifts that God has given them; instead, they build environments where those women can thrive and bring life to others. That’s what Jesus does for the Church, after all.
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black licorice literally killed this guy, affirming all of us who are convinced that black licorice is straight from hell
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Almost engaged with a theobro and then decided to protect my peace, please clap
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Anyway, racism is one of the demons that possesses this country and we will never be okay unless we exorcise it
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i'm not a christian because it comforts me (in a lot of ways it really does not); i'm a christian because i'm convinced Jesus Christ is raised from the dead
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Hey! So I'm moving on Saturday to a new apartment, somewhere I'm hoping to stay for a while.
Now, I'm unmarried, no kids. Would it be weird/attention-grabby/selfish if I posted a link to a housewarming registry?
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“—in whatever situation you happen to be in.”
Also, this is not the pastor’s wife’s job description. She can if she wants to and has the bandwidth, obviously, but this shouldn’t be an automatic expectation on her.
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It feels like to me that a lot of y’all married folk are the halves of couples that are extremely online and your spouses are extremely not
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I love the sweetness that Paul writes to Timothy with. He’s a single guy with no kids writing to a young man with an unbelieving dad, calling him “my beloved child” and adding these personal details like, hey, take care of your stomach, can you send my warm cloak and my books
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The thing about racists is that they're *not* monsters, they're our neighbors, our coworkers, our family, our fellow parishioners, they're people we like and who are "normal."
And that's exactly what makes them dangerous.
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I'm just saying, maybe we could start talking about singleness and celibacy in terms of what we are saying yes to instead of what we can't do or are missing
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Every baby should get to eat, regardless of where they're born or who their parents are. I don't get how this is even up for debate.
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me: *gets spiritually formed by reading and listening to C.S. Lewis, Madeleine L'Engle, N.T. Wright, Esau McCaulley, Lauren Winner, Tish Harrison Warren, Fleming Rutledge, Desmond Tutu, Thomas McKenzie*
also me: I don't really know why, but I'm drawn to the Anglican tradition
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Listen, I am not a very marriageable woman on paper. I’m not trophy wife material. And that’s okay. I don’t have to be. If I find someone who’ll love me as I am and that I can love as he is, awesome. And if not, that doesn’t lessen my dignity and my calling to follow Jesus.
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I wonder if Jesus made stuff. Not, like for His job as a craftsman, but I wonder if at night around the fire He carved or whittled things for fun, or if He sat around and fixed His shoes or work apron or tools, or if He patched His cloak when it got holes in it.
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Tim Keller has died and Hank Green has cancer and why am I so sad about these two guys I’ve never met
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listen, if i weren't a Christian already and saw the way some of y'all treat marginalized people on here, i don't know that i'd want to be a Christian
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Let me tell you about my brother. He joined a gang when he was 14. I have no doubt that he ran away from police on numerous occasions. He sold drugs and illegal guns. He dropped out of high school and was in and out of jail a lot when I was little.
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i keep a running list called "things that make me happy" and that list is now 8 years and 759 items long. pick a number from 1-759 and i'll tell you an item from this list
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Just to be clear, the Church in places has picked up some not-great habits from our neighbors: Colonialism, slavery, racism, sexism, and the like. But we do so in disobedience to Jesus, not in agreement with Him.
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Ever think about how Jesus had a dude who was an anti-government assassin *and* a pro-Roman tax collector in his crew and He did that entirely on purpose
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Today I learned that "arctic" means "near the bear" and thus "antarctic" means "not near the bear." The bear in question is Ursa Major, the constellation; it's entirely coincidental that polar bears only live in the Arctic and not in Antarctica
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I want my theology to lead me to justice and loving my neighbor; I also need it to lead me to love the Lord my God with all my heart. We don't need to choose between the two. The Bible doesn't.
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Here’s the job now: Let’s build a society that actually supports women and families, especially poor women and families. Because right now we don’t have it
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Going to a party, kind of feeling myself, might delete later
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I think I may be the last person on Christian Twitter who has exactly zero opinion about Kanye's new album
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there is a difference between being persecuted because of righteousness and receiving the consequences for being obnoxious on purpose
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Y'all, there are few things that will humble you as much as reading blog posts you wrote when you were 19.
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It occurs to me that one of the most effective apologetics we can have as Christians in these times is just being normal and not weird
Like
Can we just do that
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What are your must-watch movies during the holiday season?
Mine:
- White Christmas
- Little Women
- Lord of the Rings (they came out in December, IT COUNTS)
- A Charlie Brown Christmas
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Listen: I’m an Asian woman in America. I’m not generally fearful for my physical safety in the city where I live (although I do take sensible precautions because I’m not stupid). But believe me when I say that I’m more nervous these days, and it’s not b/c of the media.
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i am somewhat disappointed with adulthood for not providing more opportunities to wear ballgowns
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Just to give you an idea of how young our country is, if you count its beginning as the signing of the Declaration of Independence, Jimmy Carter has lived through 40% of the existence of the United States
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But let me be abundantly clear: Even if he never got out of the gang, even if he went on to be a notorious criminal, no one deserves to be murdered after doing what they’re told, while unarmed. But least of all a 13-year-old kid whose whole life was ahead of him.
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you know how in high school you'd go over to your friend's house or they'd come over to yours and your entire hanging out consisted of you sitting around in a bedroom talking about everything and nothing until dinner
anyway, we should do that more often as adults
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White friends, take how burnt out you are from the last two years, and then imagine how much worse it is for folks who’ve had racial trauma on top of that
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If y’all don’t stop retweeting O**n Str****n into my feed I swear
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Death doesn’t discriminate
Between the sinners and the saints
It takes and it takes and it takes
**But we keep living anyway**
We rise and we fall and we break
And we make our mistakes
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Y’ALL
I’M ON NETFLIX
MY EPISODE OF JEOPARDY IS ON NETFLIX
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In heaven I hope there will be a chance to sit in companionable silence with likeminded folks and a pot of tea and catch up on all the reading we didn’t get to finish here.
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Jesus is better than whatever it is you think you want
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“This theology is inherently abusive” and “this theology was used to abuse me” are not the same thing; it is also very difficult to distinguish the two when you are the one who’s been abused
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Here’s the thing, though. Now he’s a husband, a dad, a grandpa. He serves our country overseas in the military. He graduated with honors from college. He had a chance to turn his life around and he is an extraordinary dude.
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We have to do better for the young people of our country, especially young Black and brown people.
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It’s almost like discipling people to love political power and safety instead of taking up our cross and following Jesus into sacrificial death has spectacularly backfired
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someone please tell the 1689ers that charles spurgeon had to cancel a speaking tour of america because he was getting death threats from people because he was actively opposed to slavery
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Adam Toledo got robbed of that chance. Who knows who he could have become?
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imagine trying to explain homestar runner to a gen z person
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Don’t mind me, just thinking about how having to wait more than even an hour to vote discriminates against disabled and elderly people
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this is a friendly reminder that the rapture as it’s portrayed in left behind is a concept that’s only about 150 yrs. old and you all need to read some historical theology and calm down
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A theme I'm starting to see in the Simone Biles discussion is that a lot of people don't realize that it's okay not to suffer unnecessarily. Like, come on, life has enough problems as it is; let's maybe try to alleviate some pain for other people and advocate for ourselves, too.
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The Bible doesn’t start or end with our sinfulness; it starts and ends with both the goodness of God and humans as His image bearers.
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While I was singing “were you there when they laid Him in the tomb,” I started thinking about Mamie Till having an open casket funeral for Emmitt, and then I started thinking about Mary having to deal with the ruined body of her Son.
Sometimes it causes me to tremble, indeed.
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I am:
- an immigrant from a non-European country
- a naturalized citizen
- educated (maybe too educated, some might say)
- an unmarried, childless, middle-aged woman
- not heterosexual
And there is a place for me in America, and more so there is a place for me in God’s family
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In other news, I got a packet of masks from the South Korean government in the mail today--they had a program where Korean adoptees could sign up if we wanted some. This is great, and it's also such a freaking flex, lol
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Remember, folks, Jesus died for you because God loves you, not because He hates you
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can i be honest? i'm growing a little jaded about the church these days and could use some reminders that God's at work there. anyone have any examples?
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tfw you learn from NPR that LaVar Burton originally went to seminary to study for the Catholic priesthood
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The one where they *opened* with the senior pastor resigning due to disqualifying sin and then expected us to just have a normal service after that while we were all internally disintegrating
I need to qualify that this was at a church plant with fewer than 100 members
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Regardless of what you believe about formally ordaining us, remember that women, too, are co-heirs with Christ and priests in His kingdom. We are not men's inferiors. We are your sisters and mothers.
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The etymology for helicopter isn’t heli + copter, it’s helico + pter, spiral + thing with wings (same root as pterodactyl)
Have fun with that
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hey, everybody, don't drag adopted people into your abortion debates. we're not your pawns, we're people and as such we have a diversity of opinions and convictions around the subject
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What about your life now would blow the mind of your 18-year-old self?
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being freaked out about the culture getting more secular is not a good look for someone who professes a faith that was birthed in the ancient roman empire as a persecuted minority sect
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We just are more concerned about protecting our own interests than we are about loving our neighbors and in that sense we have never been a Christian nation. We don't need to return to God, we need to be converted.
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@danielcrosby
Jane Austen. John Calvin would almost never tweet, but when he did it'd be one of those 100+ tweet threads. Dr. King's Twitter would probably be our conscience most days. Mr. Rogers probably wouldn't have liked Twitter but if he used it he'd also probably be very good at it.
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@_CDooley
@jabuc
@BethMooreLPM
“The law can’t make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that’s pretty important.” —MLK
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I wonder if American evangelicalism likes to call things persecution that aren’t persecution because we want to control how we experience persecution. Real persecution takes control of the narrative and experience away from you, and that’s terrifying to Americans.
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Today's Korean American Day! The first Koreans arrived in Hawaii, which was then an American territory, on January 13, 1903
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Biblical masculinity also doesn’t demean others, doesn’t harass others. It is humble, teachable, kind, gentle, patient, self-controlled. Its strength comes in vulnerability. It’s not self-serving. It’s inclusive—it doesn’t seek to shut other people out.
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Did y'all know that South Korea's been sending missionaries to evangelize Americans since the 1970s?
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Maybe everyone should just keep their heads down and tend to their own people in their local body and have really really good accountability structures in place that are hard to circumvent
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Today is the feast of St. Michael and All Angels, which is a good day to re-enchant our worldview a little and remember that there are spiritual beings that aren’t us at work in God’s service, and isn’t that rad
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Hey! Guess what! When your mom dies during the holiday season, and the holiday season come around again, it sucks! A lot!
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Here's the thing: I am all for Christian unity, because Jesus is for Christian unity. But there can be no unity without reckoning with what's keeping us apart to begin with. There's some confession and repentance that has to happen first.
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today i learned that doug jones, who's played everyone from abe sapien in hellboy to the creature in the shape of water, is a christian but is remarkably chill about it
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@JoLuehmann
Like third or fourth grade, thanks to American Girl books. I live in Texas, though, and I feel like I should have learned this in school but somehow didn’t
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folks, the phrase is "sneak peek," not "sneak peak"
i know you want to spell them the same because they rhyme, but english is a moshpit of a language and there are no rules
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@Nicole_Cliffe
Have you heard the story about how when he first encountered a tape recorder, he spoke the Lord's Prayer in Gothic into it to exorcise any demons that obviously would have been living in it
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Still one of the best things I’ve ever seen on Twitter
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