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priest in The Episcopal Church, prof of New Testament @westernsem
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I’m happy to say there’s now a cover and a pub date for my Eastertide book:
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“How can it be that Mary Magdalene, the first person to proclaim Jesus’ resurrection, would not be allowed to share that news this morning from the pulpits of most churches?” — James Kay
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I was ordained a priest today, thanks be to God
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If you pray, I'd appreciate your prayers this weekend. Lord willing, I'll be ordained to the priesthood on Saturday.
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I have a friend whose dog prefers to be tucked in before bed and basically I live for records of this.
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Taking a look at the Megan Basham book, which says I graduated from a PCA seminary (I didn’t, and there’s only one).
As a specialist, I judge “generalist” books by how they treat what I know something about. If they don’t get that right, I doubt the reliability of the rest.
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HBO presents The Baptist Pope
Qualifications for the new Pope that would bear most fruit. He should believe that
justification is by faith alone,
baptism is a sign not a cause of regeneration,
Christ is at the Lord’s Supper by memory and faith not physically,
the Bible alone has final authority not the pope.
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Sobering take from Tom Wright on the current evangelical landscape:
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Two years a priest today. Lots of things are confusing right now, but my calling to spread the good news about Jesus isn’t one of them. Thanks be to God.
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“For all we know, we still are the early church.” — Rowan Williams
“A millennium from now, everyone will be studying the Latin American and African ‘church fathers’ of the twenty-first century.” — Peter Leithart
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Some personal news: I'm really honored and happy to announce that I'm joining the faculty of
@westernsem
starting this summer.
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Can confirm
“Dear married people: one of the greatest gifts you can offer your single friends is an invitation to be a part of your family. Save them a seat at the table, remember them on holidays, invite them to make a post-dinner ice cream run with your kids...”
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Today is the one-year anniversary of my ordination as a priest in Christ’s one holy catholic and apostolic church. Thanks be to God!
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One of the most beautiful sentences in the history of Christian theology.
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Probably my favorite story from Billy Graham's autobiography:
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Rowan Williams was 2 blocks from the WTC on 9/11. He wrote afterward: "A good many... found themselves made aware that they were experiencing briefly what is the daily experience of people in other parts of the world, living under the threat of bombardment and random death."
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You know you're with a Christian when in Jurassic World a character asks if raptors are safe and your friend whispers, No, but they're good.
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For a long time I've wanted to try to write about how and why, as a single person, I've become such good friends with married people. Here's my best effort for
@commentmag
's summer issue on loneliness:
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Telling gay Xns "Be open to/pursue heterosexual marriage" is becoming a common piece of advice among conservative evangelical/Reformed folks, and honestly the only thing I can conclude is that those repeating it have never spent 10mins in conversation with an actual gay Xn.
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What an absolute theological trainwreck.
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“… the church of God, which he obtained with his own blood” (Acts 20:28).
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I forget who said but never look down on someone who mispronounces a word because it means they learned it from reading.
Anyone else get a little freaked out when you suddenly realize that you’ve *read* a word a thousand times but never *heard* it said out loud, and you might be saying it wrong in your head every time?
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it me
Just heard a guy at the dog park tell his dog "NO!" and then more quietly, "We talked about this!"
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Sang "America the Beautiful" at church this morning, sitting behind a Palestinian couple. Halfway thru, I closed the hymnal. Couldn't do it.
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Probably the most helpful thing I've read on prayer (which I still think about all the time). It's from a Herbert McCabe sermon.
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Christ is risen! Khristos voskrese! Christos anesti! Christus resurrexit! Le Christ est réssuscité!
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My godson Solomon was buried and raised to new life with Christ in baptism today 🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼
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My heart is really full after
#Revoice18
. I can’t tell y’all how life-giving it’s been to spend a weekend with other queer folks seeking to know the love of Christ and follow His way. I feel like I’m among family. Like I can breathe and smile without reservation.
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I talked w/
@episcopal_news
about being a gay, celibate priest. I know a bunch of y'all, on all sides, won't be happy with my answers (*I'm* not exactly happy with them either), but I hope you can tell I'm struggling to trust and love Jesus along with you.
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"Indeed, had God not loved his enemies he would have no friends." — St. Bernard of Clairvaux
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I keep thinking about tweeting the link to my church's livestream and then I check myself by saying that folks need to be tuning in to their own parishes' livestreams. The ecclesiology of the coronavirus is ultra confusing.
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I have been thinking lately about how making small talk can be a really important way of practicing hospitality and how “deep” conversation, especially if it takes the form of question-asking, sometimes isn’t.
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“[T]he question [for preachers] is: What does this [biblical] text promise, and what may I promise, that can come because and only because Jesus lives?” — Robert Jenson
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So I wrote something about the “unhitched” sermon:
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One thing I'll say about Revoice: When I'm invited to speak in Christian spaces, I mostly get asked to speak about sexuality. But at Revoice, I get asked to speak about Jesus. It's refreshing, and I'm already excited about
#Revoice20
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Honest question for Conservative and Progressive Christian Twitter: are those of us who are so grievously, catastrophically Wrong on the Internet sisters & brothers to be reasoned with or enemies to be exposed and paraded? It’s hard to tell sometimes.
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God "accepts no one except the abandoned, makes no one healthy except the sick, brings no one to life except the dead, [and] makes no one holy except sinners." — Luther
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I put Felicity (3yo) to bed tonight. Twenty mins later, I can see that she's turned her light on. I go in and find a book open on her lap. "Sweetie, it's late. It's time to go to sleep." She immediately starts sobbing and says, "I don't want to go to sleep, I want to read!" 😭😊
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Found out tonight I got promoted to Associate Professor — so I'm now at the pub! 🍻
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Hermeneutical rule of thumb: any time you decide Scripture is patting you on the back for who you presently are, go back to the text.
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I've thought of this quote from George MacDonald every day since Alan Jacobs shared it on his blog last week:
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Lord willing, I'll be ordained as a deacon in the Episcopal Church this weekend. This post, by
@victorleeaustin
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My housemates and I were talking about one of the readings from this morning. “I think it’s one of the most remarkable verses in the whole Bible,” Aidan said. “And when you think about it, only God could have come up with that. Only God could have written it.” Merry Christmas!
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I spent two good years serving the Somali population of Minneapolis at a food shelf. This is revolting.
Trump vows to crack down on Somali refugees in a city with one of the largest Somali populations in the country
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I forget who said it, but the noun for a group of millennial men is “a podcast.”
son: mommy what’s a podcast?
me: well, dear, when a group of men love their opinions very much...
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I had to come out to a group of CPE colleagues last week. I realized I hadn't come out to hardly anyone in over a decade — since in almost all the spaces I'm currently in, people already know. It was still hard, FYI (and hard to come out as celibate too).
#NationalComingOutDay
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“Christ is much more powerful to save than Adam was to ruin.” — Calvin
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The first time I visited was 15 years ago. I was young and had hardly traveled outside the US. I remember sitting inside for a long time, in awe. The last time I visited was 37 days ago. I took this on the way out. I’m heartbroken.
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*is
God has placed His strength where your weakness was!
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Jürgen Moltmann on his spiritual awakening as a German prisoner of war in Scotland in 1945:
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Christianity, for me, is about the Jesus of this Holy Week. He, and this 3-day liturgy remembering Him, are why I'm still in it (fitfully, confusedly, gratefully). I think what He did and who He is makes this life possible and gives us any hope we have for a future.
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I have always thought evangelical churches won't become more welcoming of Side B gay people until more pastors/leaders come out. This is such an important and hopeful testimony from
@PcaMemorial
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Just finished this wonderful book. I haven’t read much of Peterson’s stuff, but this makes me think I should.
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“It’s not that there will be no marriage in heaven. It’s that there will be *one* marriage in heaven.” — Nathan Jennings
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Sad to see this from
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Filing this for the next time I teach biblical hermeneutics under "Examples of Bad Readings."
Cities in Bible times had walls and gates for protection. When there was a threat, the gates were closed--temporarily.
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Best godparenting advice I’ll probably ever read, from the treasure who was/is Robert Farrar Capon.
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Knives Out = most fun I've had at the movies in a while. Hearty homage to the classic murder mystery with some subtle and fun subversions, with a bunch of quirky and hilarious performances. Already eager for the second viewing.
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For, you know, no reason in particular, just thought I'd remind everyone that Clifford Green once wrote a fairly devastating review of a certain biography of Bonhoeffer:
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A lot of straight Christians are heavily invested in getting celibate gay Christians to stop calling themselves "gay." I really wish they'd prioritize other things.
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Phrase # 5826 I’d like to see Christian writers permanently retire: “increasingly polarized society.”
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I’m going to write something about the forthcoming Hays book on sexuality. Reading Richard’s infamous chapter in his Moral Vision book shaped the trajectory of my life. I can’t imagine my vocation w/o his work on Paul. I’m thankful for him and am praying for his health.
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I disagree with Jürgen Moltmann on what feels like every major Christian doctrine. And somehow, at the same time, few theologians have moved and provoked and inspired me in the way he has. His work is all about the crucified and risen Jesus. RIP.
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This one turned 5 today. I will convey to Karl any and all birthday wishes you leave here.
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Tonight I will give a presentation to which Stanley Hauerwas will offer a response. My academic career is all downhill after this.
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Had no idea how providential it would turn out to be that I waited until Holy Week to watch *A Hidden Life*. It is a searing witness to the passion of the Lord Jesus.
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AG Sessions' defense of the separation of immigrant families is yet more proof, if proof were needed, that Romans 13 is one of the most misused texts of the New Testament:
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2yo goddaughter to the public librarian today: “I’m baptized!”
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Theological hot take: "Merry Christmas" is supposed to sound like a universal invitation that quells fear, not a taunt that incites it.
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"Christians learn more deeply and truly of Jesus in the Eucharist as nowhere else because here the living Christ takes the matter of his death and our betrayal and sets them forth as the bread of heaven, the food of angels." — Kate Sonderegger
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My (soon to be) godson Solomon Everett was born this morning. Rejoice with us! 🎉
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I will testify to y'all that I have rarely been so adoring of the Lord Jesus than when singing hymns at the Revoice conference with other Side B folks.
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I too grew up fundamentalist. Discovering Philip Yancey's books when I was — 16? 17? — was a lifeline, a doorway to a lighter, truer world.
“'The most important thing I’ve learned is that God is on the side of the suffering person,' Yancey told me." A profile in
@TheAtlantic
on the life of a remarkable man, Philip Yancey.
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"It is not that marriage and monasticism are the only two 'legitimate' forms of Christian life: martyrdom is the form of Christian life, and is lived either through marriage or through monasticism or in the single state. The cross is one and the same for all." — Fr. John Behr
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I sometimes think “The Church’s One Foundation” is my favorite hymn. We sang it in church this morning, and I realized again how much beautiful theology is packed in its lines.
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Starting a new adult ed series at church this morning on how to pray Morning Prayer. I’m pumped.
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Imagine getting to preach Jesus Christ to a room full of people who care about preaching and feel called to be preachers themselves. That's what my experience as a seminary prof has been, and I sometimes I'm just struck by how grateful I am to get to do this.
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I wish Nadia Bolz-Weber's book had more Lutheran theology in it.
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I'm no longer a Baptist, but I still kinda wanna use all the Baptist-y tactics for teaching kids the Bible. Like, I'm ready to order flannel graphs and memory verse cards for Felicity. (She already has a stack of Arch Books.) That stuff was great — for me, at least!
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"The essence of chastity is not the suppression of lust, but the total orientation of one's life towards a goal." — Bonhoeffer
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I am very pleased to announce that my book on the Lord’s Prayer is available for pre-order:
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As more and more Christians change their views on same-sex marriage, I keep thinking about this haunting question:
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I'm teaching a class on "Sexuality in the New Testament" this week in Singapore, a.k.a., basically just trying to unpack this paragraph:
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Pssst: It’s even better when it’s about friendship, not just finances.
Married with roommates: Some couples are opting to rent out a room in their homes to help with finances, and it has become a growing trend.
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Take 5 minutes before tonight is over and read Austin Farrer’s “Christmas” homily.
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Reread ++Rowan's book on the Resurrection this wk. When God decided to come back to talk to us after we killed God, the msg was/is: "Peace be with you. Te absolvo. Now go love like you have nothing to lose." It's totally gobsmacking & disquieting & — one hopes — life-changing.
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