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I write & speak on the intersection of religion & culture, science, & philosophy / Author of “Dis-Ordered”/ M.A. Christian Thought (Bethel Seminary)

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The man pictured on the right is my friend, Bob. Bob has been going to this church for over 65 years. Several months ago, Bob’s wife passed away. “I don’t know how to set the table anymore,” he told me. “I keep setting out two sets of silverware and plates.” Bob’s children &…

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Joe Rogan, once a vocal evangelist of New Atheist talking points on religion, now yearns for the "just and righteous" Kingdom of God and believes the world "needs Jesus...for real." That's quite a change, but his journey is emblematic of a wider shift in attitudes towards…

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The primary difference between Friends and Seinfeld is that while all the main characters in both shows are in a state of despair that Kierkegaard called the "aesthetic stage" of life, Seinfeld's writers are aware that their characters are in despair & are not moral exemplars.…

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The Prince of Egypt is a masterpiece that seems impossible to be made by a major studio today.

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If you have an advanced degree in philosophy, theology, etc, would you consider sharing your knowledge via YouTube and/or podcasting? By all means, continue writing academic papers, books, etc, but the first place most people are going for answers isn't to academic journals...

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If depression stems from a sense that one is not progressing towards any meaningful goal that can increase our social acceptance, then it would make sense that any placebo which convinces us that we are progressing towards a goal might be all the signal our serotonergic system…

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Psychotherapy is hardly any more effective than a placebo sugar pill.

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When people ask me what bands I listen to these days

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This is actually a really great illustration of how ancient paganism worked- The personification of forces that seem beyond human control but that humans strive to appease through sacrifice.

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At Apple, we believe that climate change is one of the world’s most urgent priorities and we are deeply committed to doing our part. Today we had a special guest—a real force of nature—stop by to check on our progress.

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Most may not have caught it, but having grown up saying a pledge to it every day, I noticed it immediately. That is the "Christian Flag" being carried in. Decades of training Christians to be culture warriors, filling ourselves with Manifest Destiny theology... I'm ashamed.

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BREAKING: Protesters are on the Senate floor now:

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When I was young, I heard that the heroism of Dietrich Bonhoeffer was found in him standing up to an authoritarian state. But now I see Bonhoeffer standing up to a cultural Christianity that had lost its mind and soul to a totalizing culture war narrative as even more heroic.

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When I saw this quote from Seth Rogan, all I could think of was this from @JonHaidt

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Church was good today. Not a single person mentioned the Super Bowl from the platform. The text was Psalm 90 & we talked about soberly numbering our days. My daughter made cards for homeless in Sunday school. Just one of millions of churches you've never heard of doing the same

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Can you imagine if in a month a mass produced "Songs from Asbury, Vol 1" was announced with big tours & record deals for the leaders? Well, that is what my generation did. We turned what was pure into a commercialized product & sold "revival" as a commodity. It was wrong.

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I don’t like to get political on this website, but I’d like to announce that I’m endorsing Dan Campbell to be the next president of the United States. If he can turn the Lions around, America will be easy.

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Would it be too much to ask to have a viable political party in America that is simply against killing kids? Kids in the womb. Kids on the border. Kids in Iraq, Syria, Yemen... I don't feel like I'm asking for much here. Just, "Hey, anyone here not want to kill any children?"

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God in the Hands of Angry Sinners

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Hit a patch of ice tonight on 35E tonight. Spun out from the middle lane, somehow missed all the cars in the right lane, hit the ditch, and began to roll. My wife and I were trapped in the truck for just a few minutes before the first responders arrived. They arrived quickly,…

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they're going to YouTube & podcasts and what they often discover is poor scholarship and unvetted perspectives being passed off as profound insight. There is a deep need for better alternatives to so much of the Ancient Aliens-esque content out there.

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Both fundamentalist evangelicalism (Christ against Culture) & progressive woke religion (Christ of Culture) derive much of their identity on an "in group vs out group" narrative. Both actually rely on legalism too. Righteousness= one's ability to follow all in-group rules.

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Rick Rubin is preaching here- "It's all an offering to God..." ..it can't be better than this devotional act." @RickRubin

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Ultra-conservative fundamentalism & progressive woke culture share this feature: Your salvation and acceptance into the in-group is dependent on your self-righteousness, yet your self-righteousness is simultaneously never quite good enough to give you the assurance of salvation

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Once again, I present you with the "Stages of Creed is Awesome" chart. (I'm telling you that I'm not making this up!)

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Andrew Heaney just shared that as the team was going through the rollercoaster of the second half, they started having fun and playing Creed before games. He said that if Creed was played at GLF on Tuesday or Wednesday and fans started belting out the song, it would fire them up!

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I watched @PageauJonathan talk on pursuing The Good that he recently gave, and I had many points of shared agreement but some important follow-up question emerged: Don't all people already pursue what they perceive as the Good? Aquinas argued that at the core of all evil is…

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Our charismatic-evangelical liturgy and theology in America has failed. We have shaped people to believe that Christ is a means to our desired ends. We've served Mammon and become enslaved to the principalties of the Culture War.

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Women just arrived at the Clark County election department. They tell me they’re praying justice will be done and that righteousness prevails.

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Compare and contrast: The ancient, historic Christian faith & Modern American Civil Religion

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Nagasaki was the birthplace of Christianity in Japan & had a significant population of Christians during WW2. Oppenheimer's bomb was dropped on the Christian district & killed all who worshipped in St. Mary's Cathedral that morning. 70% of the Christians in the area were killed.

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@oldbooksguy "The crowd is untruth." -Soren Kierkegaard The cost of social rejection is typically the price every Truth seeker pays for their quest.

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3 years

The one thing I always tell people who are thinking about leaving the Christian story and Christian community for something else is this: Get to know what you're leaving first. The Way of Jesus is wider, deeper, and more diverse than your church or denominational context.

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Saddened by the news of Michael Heiser's passing. Though I don't know if I track with his thesis 100%, I always loved reading him and hearing him speak. One of my favorite stories is when he was invited to speak at a UFO conference & tore apart Ancient Aliens 😂

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Rewatched Top Gun Maverick tonight and its amazing how its just a simple movie about dudes being unapologetically competent at their jobs and everyone was like, "This is so refreshing. I think this saved theaters."

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I know this isn't Instagram, but marriage is difficult and we've made it 16 years together as of today and I think that's worth celebrating. Worthwhile things are hard. Persevere and get deep roots.

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If you pay attention to some of the key voices with cultural influence right now among men- Joe Rogan, Andrew Huberman, Lex Fridman -you'll notice that the conversations on religion and God are shifting. Is New Atheism dead? (Here's two examples from just this week)

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Even our secular substitute religions have a prosperity gospel.

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What is metamodernism? Metamodernism uses postmodern methods of communication (like hyper-irony) but applies them to task of positive reconstruction instead of mere deconstruction. Wes Anderson's work is typically one example of this. "Ironic detachment with sincere…

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You can tell that politics is someone's religion when their hermeneutic lens for interpreting all of reality, even a pandemic, reduces the complexity of life to partisan political polemics.

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Signs (2002) is a movie about aliens that isn't really about aliens. It's actually a film about when disappointment, suffering, and loss cause us to experience a crisis of faith. Long before the term "deconstruction" was en vogue, this movie gave a poignant portrayal of a pastor…

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Let me encourage you to consider that absolutely no one's opinion on abortion, no matter what side of the issue you're on, will be changed by what you tweet today. Wisely invest your energy in things that will be fruitful.

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Nowhere in the New Testament will you find Jesus or the Apostles say: “If you believe ___ you will get to go to heaven.” “I can only imagine what heaven will be like” Postmortem soul vacation as a reward for cognitive acceptance of certain propositions isn’t a Biblical idea.

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@KatelynBeaty Political moderation shouldn't be confused for a qualitatively different commitment to Christ. If someone says, "You have to choose between playing baseball or football" and you say, "I choose basketball" that's not moderation. It's rejecting the artificial binary constraints.

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This is a really interesting meme on multiple levels. 1) The historical reality is that the U.S. is neither Superman or Homelander. 2) Is history told from the perspective of the victor biased? Yes. But guess what- so is history told from the perspective of the loser or victim.

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A clip of @jordanbpeterson & @PageauJonathan recent conversation that I found particularly moving. Peterson embodies in this clip what the proper response is to the genuine revelation of Christ, "it's too terrifying."

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This man has practiced piano 7+ hours a day for 60 years in order to preserve and share what is good and beautiful with others. Im afraid we've given ourselves far more to railing against what is not good than to being people known for preserving what's good even in Babylon.…

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Both Fox News and MSNBC would hate the real Jesus of Nazareth if he came on to talk about his vision for the world. Sure they may like some things, but when they realized his message couldn't be coopted into their ideology they'd crucify him.

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I’ve said before and I’ll say again- pay attention to the resurgence of explicit paganism as a key indicator of an increasingly #PostSecularAge .

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🗣️ “Apollo, God of sun, and the idea of light, send your rays and light the sacred torch for the hospitable city of Paris. And you, Zeus, give peace to all peoples on earth and wreath the winners of the Sacred Race.” #Paris2024 | @Paris2024

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The notion that public schools are religiously neutral is part of the secular myth that you can have "neutral" spaces that are completely devoid of claims as to what should be of ultimate concern. There are no godless spaces.

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Corey A. DeAngelis, school choice evangelist

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BREAKING: U.S. Supreme Court just ruled in a 6-3 decision that preventing school choice families from taking their children's taxpayer-funded education dollars to religious private schools violated the Free Exercise Clause of the 1st Amendment.

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Charismatic theology, when done well, is a way of affirming that the here and now is filled with the glory of God & that we can affect the future by partnering with the Spirit. When done poorly it becomes about escaping the here and now & controlling the future by magic words.

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My response to a Christian caught up in the Q cult who said I should be more focused on speaking out against Antifa:

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If you're interested in thinking more about what is happening in this current cultural shift, read my article: "Spiritual Species in a Secular Age" over at @ProfectusM with Editor in Chief @clayroutledge

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Spiritual Species in a Secular Age - Profectus Magazine

For the last several years, I have served at a small, midwestern church that is nearly 140 years old. By American standards, that’s a fairly old church. There are some families here that have four...

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Paul Anleitner

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I'm not an alarmist, but this might be the most concerning graph I've seen this year. In less than 3 years, people have become substantially more open to using violence to advance their political goals. How do we flatten this curve before its too late?

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Paul Anleitner

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"Man, those ancient people and their superstitious religions. It's a good thing we don't believe in that stuff anymore..."

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I use to see the differences among Christian denominations as a quest to figure out which one should rule them all. Now I see it like the different races of Tolkien's Middle Earth. Each with their own unique contributions to bring where others in the fellowship may be weak.

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Recently, someone reached out to me about doing a worship event at the George Floyd memorial. Though our church is just two miles down the same street, what I told them is what I'd advise anyone considering this who looks like me or doesn't live in the neighborhood. DON'T

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If you think movies are merely "entertainment" then you will misunderstand why a room full of strangers would react like this in public. What you should hear in these boisterous shouts that sound like a Pentecostal tent revival are people caught up in ecstatic praise over merely…

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This is Christian nationalism too and its just as idolatrous as when it happened in the previous administration (and the one before that, and the one before that, and the one...)

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President Biden quotes from the Book of Isaiah before a moment of silence for service members: “When the Lord says, ‘Who shall I send?’ … The American military has been answering for a long time, ‘Here I am, Lord. Send me.’”

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When I was a kid I thought people who watched a lot of news and who were always talking about politics must be extremely intelligent. Now I feel a deep sense of sadness when I meet those people.

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"Hey son, how was school today?"- Me "It was great. Yoda came to school today." -Justice "Wait...what do you mean YODA came to school today?!!"-Me "Yeah the guy who plays Yoda came to our school today."-Justice Turns out @TheFrankOzJam came to my kids' small little school today!

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1 year

Here's a dose of wholesome content for your twitter feed: My grandmother turned 101 yesterday.

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The man attempted to kill traditional religion and never stopped to consider whether or not humans were fundamentally religious or if the gods that would fill the vacuum would be less benevolent.

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Richard Dawkins ( @RichardDawkins ) on the recent political trend of scientific journals: “Editorial policy has swung to a very political direction to the point where scientists have to conform to a kind of political orthodoxy that almost amounts to a religion.”

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I have found that most who are prone to melancholy are also deeply creative. Don’t let the waves of darkness take you under. You can learn to ride them. The full color of life includes loss and sorrow. Your creativity helps others process those dimensions of life and heal.

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In hindsight, as I talk with people experiencing burnout in Charismatic contexts, one of the things that is so exhausting in many communities is the sense that you have to constantly reinvent something new every week. Though no one would explicitly say this, many Charismatics...

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When I publicly spoke out about the dangers of the Q Anon cult, some told me it was just some odd corner of the internet and that I shouldn't be that concerned. Pictured here is a well known Q leader known as the "Q Shaman". Still think it's just a weird, fringe internet fad?

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How many church scandals have you read about? Lets say its as high as 1,000 You might be tempted to think the Hollywood trope about clergy is accurate... But there are 350,000 churches in U.S. That would be less than .3% There are far more boring, loving, & kind preachers

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RainnWilson

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I do think there is an anti-Christian bias in Hollywood. As soon as the David character in “The Last of Us” started reading from the Bible I knew that he was going to be a horrific villain. Could there be a Bible-reading preacher on a show who is actually loving and kind?

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Zeus was a rapist. He didn't even have the strength to resist his sexual urges. How weak. What kind of neighborhood would you prefer to live in- one where everyone manifested the character & virtues of Zeus or of Christ? Gustave Doré's painting put Zeus in his rightful place

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Pete Holmes borrowing from my "Everyone believes in God" talk here 😂

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Language warning. But pretty sharp.

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My daughter puts on a Hillsong Young & Free song. My son says with 100% sincerity upon hearing the song, "Man, I wish I could go to that church. I would actually be so excited every Sunday." Me (a pastor in a very not Hillsong Y&F church)-

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I think I've come to an epiphany, and I couldn't let the picture leave my mind until I tried to capture it (welcome to my inner world after midnight!) . Here it is:

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Today my Grandmum is 100 years old. I think that's pretty special.

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From now on I'm calling Lent: "Mark Wahlberg's 40-Day Challenge"

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Mark Wahlberg is talking about Lent on the Today show and this lower third is killing me

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I'm afraid that I'm hearing more & more worship songs that seem to be saying that the Kingdom of God is just quantitatively more of the things other "kingdoms" offer instead of saying that the Kingdom is a QUALITATIVELY different kind of kingdom altogether. There's a difference.

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Politics has become our subsitute religion. It is the guiding story that supercedes all guiding stories for millions of Americans. One of the sure fire ways you can tell is that even interpretations of a virus get shaped to fit within the simplistic two-party narratives .

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Heterodox Academy

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“Our results... offer a path by which the pandemic could ultimately bring ideological groups closer together. We found that the general effect of ideology on perceived COVID-19 threat significantly decreased at higher levels of experience with COVID-19...”

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When I see someone who leaves a Fox News fueled Christian upbringing only to become an even more zealous MSNBC progressive mouthpiece, I don't see someone who learned how to "think for themselves." I see someone hurt by one group looking for belonging in its antithesis.

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I'm starting to think that we actually don't WANT the remedy to our meaning crisis in the West. Nihilism frees you from responsibility, conscience, and the pursuit of virtue. It frees you from sacrifice, carrying your cross, forgiving, and loving your neighbor. Nihilism is easy

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Dear @elonmusk , Please make my Twitter feed filled with the people I actually follow. 🙏

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Hey @clayroutledge , more evidence of a culture using nostalgia to try and stabilize itself in the midst of a meaning crisis !

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This is an especially cruel trick to play on time-travellers.

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In the West, many have largely misunderstood religion as: religion= irrational beliefs about supernatural beings. But a better understanding is: religion= the highest guiding story that one finds their deepest sense of meaning and identity in.

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Here are some signs that you may have been programmed by dispensationalist theology more than the Sermon on the Mount If your first reaction to seeing this is: -suspicion of its validity because I'm retweeting a Muslim -responding w/ "but Hamas!" instead of lament

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I hadn't seen this. It is difficult to watch. A Palestinian father finds out that his four kids were killed by an Israeli airstrike. He says "There were four. Where are they? Where are they?"

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Just got word from a friend who owns a local small business in St. Paul. His mom and pop store is being ransacked at this very moment. Please pray for Minneapolis & now St. Paul. This is an urgent hour for the Twin Cities.

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I'd like to make a modest proposal for serious consideration: Every Christian in the U.S. gives up cable news for Lent.

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Is this not a more Christian message than what Patriarch Kirill of Moscow teaches?

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Bakhti Nishanov

2 years

An address to Muslims of Russia: “Ask Allah for protection from the evil of tyrants; don’t accept draft notices; if you take them, rip them apart, better to be in prison than kill innocent people. Leave the country. If you find yourself drafted, surrender.”

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This kind of "wisdom" is indicative of church cultures that read a chapter of Proverbs every day but never engage with the other wisdom books like Ecclesiastes or Job.

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John Whitehouse

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3 years

Fox News guest Dave Ramsey: "I don't believe in a stimulus check because if $600 or $1400 changes your life you were pretty much screwed already. You got other issues going on."

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Instead, if you're feeling a burden to do something, get connected with pastors of color who have to live this reality day in and day out, listen to what they say they need, and then just do what you can to help them quietly and in the background. No stages or platforms.

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2 years

This one never gets old.

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2 years

As far as we know, in all of the universe, only humans tell stories. To me this an overlooked feature of our fundamental calling: We serve as narrators of the cosmic drama.

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3 years

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6 months

In practice, Halloween has to be one of the most Christian holidays. Welcome neighbors and strangers to your home and blessing them with a gift and hospitality- this may be the only day in the year where this practice is the norm across nearly every neighborhood in the U.S. I…

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4 years

Dear Christian, Remember the times you thought that atheists should bet on "Pascal's wager" (better to believe in God and be wrong than to not believe and be wrong)? This might be a good time to apply a similar wager on the minor incovenience of masks even if you have doubts.

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2 years

Seek the flourishing of the places you inhabit. You need not go around tearing idols down. If you don’t bow your knees to them, they will eventually crumble. You won’t need a culture war. Entropy will be a harsh enough judge. Preserve what is good. Contribute something beautiful.

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1 year

@PrestonSprinkle It's checkers to chess. The board looks the same, but Jesus isn't playing the same game. But if all you've ever known is checkers, when Jesus makes a move that looks like its within the rules of that game people go, "See! He's on our team!"

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Paul Anleitner

7 years

No one tells you that your adult life with children is simply brief intermissions between continous cycles of doing dishes.

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Paul Anleitner

3 years

Rick Warren sees all of your book shelves in the background of your Zoom meetings and says, "How cute."

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Paul Anleitner

4 years

@ZackSnyder @ZackSnyder Zack, I think many people misunderstood #batmanvsuperman at the time, but I found it to be one of the most philosophically & theologically rich comic book movies ever. Did I come close to capturing what you were trying to symbolically explore?

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4 years

Pastoring in 2020...

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6 years

Retweet if you think @Spotify should create a "tip jar" feature where people could directly support artists they believe in with more $

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Paul Anleitner

5 years

The new prosperity gospel that's deceiving my generation isn't that following the right faith formula will get you a Bentley or a personal jet, it's that God is a means to bring you the career of your dreams and to make you "influential".

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1 year

Congrats to one of my favorite dialogue partners @vervaeke_john on the launch of his new series. Sometimes I marvel at how John seems to grasp what it means to follow Jesus better than many professing Christians.

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4 years

@KatelynBeaty People who have never really seen basketball and are stuck in the binary might say, "Hey this looks a little bit like football in some ways and baseball in other ways." But it isn't either. It's not a centrist position or even "non-partisan". It's an entirely different game.

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1 year

My eyes and heart on #asburyrevival from afar. In my youth, I experienced a very similar phenomenon when a usually-boring chapel service was suddenly hit with a weight of transcendence that none of us had ever experienced. Chapel didn't end that day...

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3 years

Do you ever see a picture like this from the past and find it utterly impossible to picture humans ever making buildings like this again? (Palace d'Eau in Paris in 1900)

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The general insistence that pastors communicate at an 8th grade educational level only sends an untold number of spiritually hungry & intellectually curious young men and women to YouTube instead of church.

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