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Beth Felker Jones

@bethfelkerjones

2 years

There are no zero sum games in the Kingdom of God. It's loaves and fishes everywhere.

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Beth Felker Jones

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1 year

were you told, as a child, that if a boy picks on you it means he likes you?

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Beth Felker Jones

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2 years

I am DONE with desperately searching for mid thigh shorts before my daughter goes on some Christian youth trip. If they can wear bathing suits they can wear whatever shorts they want & there’s nothing wrong with their legs. Those packing lists are such such pious posturing.

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Beth Felker Jones

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3 years

Church folk, your pastor isn’t going to magically know if you’re hurting. Reach out. Let the church know when you have a need. Come to things!

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It’s funny because it’s true. No slam on my nondenom sibs!

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2 years

Were you immersed in 90s White Christian Culture(TM)? A quiz thread. Keep score as you go.

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Beth Felker Jones

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3 years

Complementarianism is not a thing. Some guys made it up in the 1980s.

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Beth Felker Jones

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2 years

The Bible really is quite clear about patriarchy. From creation (which tells us about God's good will), women are explicitly made in the image of God. That's revolutionary.

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Beth Felker Jones

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1 year

OK, worst sermon I’ve ever heard was a Christmas sermon. 1. The wise men set their sights on what they wanted & followed through. 2. You can too. 3. Like, if your goal is to get that BMW.

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Beth Felker Jones

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4 years

Good news! As a professional theologian, I can say for sure that nobody can hurt God. We can relax on that one.

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Beth Felker Jones

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1 year

What if God loves your body? What we've turned "your body is a temple" into a shaming mechanism, as though it were your job to be good enough, healthy enough, to MAKE your body into a temple? What if "your body is a temple" is, instead, a gift of grace?

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Beth Felker Jones

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2 years

Just remembering how we got a call from the daycare when our 3yo daughter told the class Santa Claus gave dowries to save women from forced prostitution. #happystnicholasday

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Beth Felker Jones

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OK, in brief, here's my theology of feel free to wear those short shorts:

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Beth Felker Jones

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A generational lament: parents taught to worry about drugs and sex, while we missed the looming dangers of mental illness, isolation, cynicism, body hate, and ennui.

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Beth Felker Jones

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My 1st year teaching, while I was lecturing on the trinity, a student stood up & asked "where are your kids right now?" Window into life as a woman teaching theology.

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Beth Felker Jones

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3 years

The modesty business in Timothy is about money. And slaves. Imagine a camp packing list that specified no bathing suits over 20$ or made by slaves.

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Beth Felker Jones

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3 years

“I learned more about Christianity from my mother than from all the theologians in England.” John Wesley

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Beth Felker Jones

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10 months

Currently refraining from telling the other moms in the college freshman parent group that their kids do not want them to arrange their rooms for them. Clap for me.

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Beth Felker Jones

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2 years

Am I the only one still riding or dying on the NRSV?

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Beth Felker Jones

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What's a Christian book that took you beyond milk to meat?

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I fought my calling because I was afraid no one would marry me. This is a description of a world where sex/gender are so bent by sin that young women are frightened of God’s claims on them. Window into life as a girl.

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Beth Felker Jones

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3 years

An unpopular opinion: feminine pronouns for the Spirit reinscribe gender into the Godhead & suggest separation in the Trinity.

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Beth Felker Jones

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1 year

Found out I can use YouTube to do this to my tv. Never going back.

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Beth Felker Jones

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3 years

Yesterday, I became professor of theology at @nseminary and we bought a new home. To new adventures!

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Beth Felker Jones

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1 year

Church Blogmatics: Protestant bodies, Protestant bedrooms, & our furious need for a theology thereof

Protestant bodies, Protestant bedrooms, & our furious need for a theology thereof

On sex, marriage, the gospel, & a truly bad thing on the internet that's going to sell a lot of truly bad books

bethfelkerjones.substack.com

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Beth Felker Jones

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2 years

A thing I think about a lot is the great harm being done as US Christian publishing exports rubbish resources to the world, rubbish resources full of US problems & US assumptions.

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Beth Felker Jones

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3 years

Raise your hand if you had a Bible cover made of quilted floral fabric with handles. Bonus points for lace trim.

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Beth Felker Jones

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2 years

Pro tip: you can believe the whole classic, historic thing (Incarnation, atoning cross, bodily resurrection, infilling of the Spirit, return in future glory, etc) and still be kind, rational, justice oriented, etc. No need for a false opposition here.

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Beth Felker Jones

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“A voice was heard in Ramah, wailing and loud lamentation, Rachel weeping for her children; she refused to be consoled, because they are no more.”

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Beth Felker Jones

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Theology of the body: 1) bodies are good 2) female bodies are good 3) all humans, not just female humans, are called to see each other as family, not meat.

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Beth Felker Jones

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I don't know about dry January but here's my hot take: the history of Christian abstinence from alcohol is not just the sad, crazy, embarrassing, legalism that it's hip to pretend that it was. In other news, alcohol damages lives.

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Beth Felker Jones

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original sin does not erase created goodness, & even total depravity doesn't mean humans aren't good. It means we're totally unable to save ourselves. Just gonna keep repeating this stuff.

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Beth Felker Jones

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2 years

So, Christian parents against dress codes? Feel free to start a movement. :) For now, I'm not policing my daughters's wardrobes.

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Beth Felker Jones

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2 years

This seems like a legit thing to do on Christian twitter, so, the Joneses are facing some hard things, & we need courage & strength for the journey. I'd be grateful for your prayers.

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Beth Felker Jones

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And, an oft repeated point, "don't show flesh" aimed at girls and NOT boys paints girls as objects of temptation, boys as uncontrollable lust monsters, & girls as people who don't feel desire. As if desire were only male to female.

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Beth Felker Jones

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When a camp packing list tells me to avoid prestige brands to equalize the kids, maybe I’ll listen. I’m over how long their shorts are & I’m super over making a teen girl worry about it.

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Beth Felker Jones

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Humans who are learning sanctification have to be learning to look at each other with love, not lust. Telling people not to look doesn't fix lust. Retraining the way we look through the power of the Spirit does.

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Beth Felker Jones

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1 year

“if there’s a prelude and a postlude, how come there’s no lude?” —my boy

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Beth Felker Jones

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2 years

Would you rather be considered “liberal” in a “conservative” space, or vice versa? I used to think I had an answer to this question, but life is complicated.

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10 months

I find it discouraging that folks can argue that Barbie is seriously anti-male. Either this is disingenuous or people are really, really bad at reading/interpreting. Both possibilities make me sigh.

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Beth Felker Jones

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2 years

Theology of the body mixed with feminism: 1) body shame for girls is a huge thing 2) body shame contributes to disordered sexual behavior & eating 3) body shame contributes to misogyny & objectification of women 4) policing women is a big thing with lots of bad stuff attached.

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Beth Felker Jones

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8 months

Fellow humans, I do not like fall. It makes me sad. I don't eat or drink anything pumpkin. I buy summer & winter scented soaps & skip the fall ones. I do not own decorative gourds, though I once was tempted by a decorative fox. Just in case you needed to know you're not alone.

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Beth Felker Jones

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2 years

I usually don’t engage this stuff, but that whole Grudem keynoting the women’s conference business would really be funny if it weren’t a whole world that real women actually have to live in.

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Beth Felker Jones

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1 year

I can’t look at any more of the Josh Butler stuff this week. It’s too sickening. Just remember, even if you’re not worried about abuse, p*nis worship is idolatry.

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Beth Felker Jones

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Exegesis: biblical modesty standards are about 1) flaunting wealth (gold & pearls) 2) resisting slavery (braided hair: styled by slaves) & 3) what clothing signals culturally

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1 year

My favorite modalist meme.

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Beth Felker Jones

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Son and I visited a prominent Catholic University. I was not surprised at the downplaying of and negative assumptions about Catholic identity, but I was surprised at the extent of it.

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Beth Felker Jones

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Hymnal hot take: I’d rather sing *all* the verses.

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Mother’s Day was started by Methodist women protesting child labor and their sons dying in war. Fight the good fight, fam.

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Beth Felker Jones

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2 years

Feminism is Christian, actually. Less well known, but more important: Christianity is feminist.

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Beth Felker Jones

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2 years

Who would be interested in a theology and fiction online book club? Perhaps quarterly?

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Beth Felker Jones

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3 years

I’m struck by how frequently someone on the rise and fall podcast will describe Driscoll as immature. While it’s not untrue, it seems like an apology, as though his age were the problem. Plenty of young men and women show maturity in the Spirit, are consistently kind and wise.

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Beth Felker Jones

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2 years

Dear some people (most of them men), a woman might ask questions because she's interested in what others have to say, & not because she has no answers. This is called conversation.

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Beth Felker Jones

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You wrote down your sins and burned them +2 Bonus: You wrote down your sins and nailed them to a cross +3

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Beth Felker Jones

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1 year

Give a man directions in way that leaves his masculinity uncompromised, wrong answers only.

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2 years

Dwight has been found!!!!!!!!!!!

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Beth Felker Jones

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Sisters, a sinful world says otherwise. A sinful world acts otherwise. But God made us. God loves us. God has good work for us to do. And God is tenderly inviting us into redemption in Christ our Lord. Patriarchy is sin, & it's being undone in Jesus.

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Beth Felker Jones

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You were ministered to by clowns +3 Bonus: You were ministered to by puppets +2 Bonus: You were in a puppet ministry +3 Bonus: You were in a clown ministry +5

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Beth Felker Jones

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3 years

My high school principal asked me if I was going to college to get my MRS. I was a national merit finalist. Just a window into life as a smart girl. As a girl.

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Beth Felker Jones

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Thank you, gracious God, for those sacrificial servants who are willing to run VBS. Great is their witness! Amen.

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2 years

I love all y'all Anglicans, but there's a spiritual disorder called cares-way-too-much-about-vestments, right?

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You made a bracelet with beads on a leather strap: black for sin, red for the blood of Jesus, white for being washed clean...+3 Bonus: You were not aware of the racially charged ways our culture thinks about black & white beads. +2

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Beth Felker Jones

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3 years

Every girl, every woman, is made in God’s image, a beloved daughter of the King, blessed with royal dignity, created for dominion and fruitfulness and witness, loved by the Son who poured himself out for her, intended for glory. Act accordingly.

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Beth Felker Jones

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3 years

Write this down: the doctrine of the virgin birth is not about sex. It's about who Jesus is. #theology

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Beth Felker Jones

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2 years

What's a book you wish Christians would read as much as *Mere Christianity*?

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The CDC now recommends my books as an alternative to books by celebrity pastors.

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Beth Felker Jones

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2 years

Just pausing to recall a favorite comment on a student eval, “there was no way to get a good grade without doing a lot of work.” Another fave “was hoping this class would be more one sided.” Do you have any gems to share?

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Beth Felker Jones

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2 years

Imagine being a systematic theologian & having to live with the fact the Gr*dem is the bestselling “ST” of all time. Trying to learn humility & a fit sense of finitude here, but it’s a thorn for sure. Thanks for hearing my disciplinary whine.

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Beth Felker Jones

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3 years

Excited to share my big news! Beth Felker Jones and Marshall Hatch to Join Northern Faculty | Northern Seminary

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Beth Felker Jones

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Ok re: clown ministry: once, I watched clown Mary give birth to a loaf of Hawaiian bread. The loaf was passed amongst the clowns as it lived its Jesus life. Then a clown nailed the loaf to a cross. Then, the loaf came down & we were offered communion. Kid you not, friends.

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2 years

What was the first book, besides the Bible, to catch your heart on fire and pull you deeper into the mysteries of God?

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3 years

This is your annual reminder that you can refuse to have an Elf on the Shelf.

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1 year

What’s the most on-brand thing you got in trouble for as a kid? I got in trouble for reading in math class.

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1 year

Well, also: Roman empire: You Christians are too inclusive. You keep treating babies & women & slaves like people, like citizens. You threaten the social order by putting Jesus above the Empire.

Timothy Keller (1950-2023)

@timkellernyc

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Roman Empire: 'You Christians are too exclusive. You threaten the social order because you won’t honor all deities.' Modern West: 'You Christians are too exclusive. You threaten the social order because you won’t honor all identities.

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Beth Felker Jones

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Teaching is not about mastery. It's about love. Reading well is love. Teaching well is love.

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At a very important interview, the person in charge asked me how my husband & children were coping with me working. Window into life as a woman (especially in Christian places).

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Beth Felker Jones

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2 years

You worried about whether Amy Grant & Sandi Patty were still Christians +1 Bonus: You worried a little about people who worried about that +2 Bonus: Breath of Heaven is still your favorite song +3

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You highlighted your Bible +2 Bonus: you used two or more colors +3 Bonus: your coded highlighter system involved at least 4 colors +4 with additional pts for more colors +X Bonus: you carried your Bible in a quilted cover made of floral fabric and trimmed with lace +4

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Beth Felker Jones

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3 years

A little gift I received from a student:

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3 years

Your top theological influences? I'll go: 1. Augustine 2. Julian of Norwich 3. The Wesley bros. 4. Sarah Coakley 5. The United Methodist hymnal

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Beth Felker Jones

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2 years

Add 3 points for each statement which is true of you as an adult: I'm really into the Enneagram. I've converted to some location in the Anglican Communion. I've discovered Reformed orthodoxy. I've joined an anti-racist book club &/or committed to local, organic food.

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Beth Felker Jones

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A few additions: You read a Frank Peretti novel. +1 Bonus: You read them all twice. +3 Bonus: that got you pretty worried about the demons +4 Bonus: you participated in a Peretti inspired exorcism +5

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1 year

Yup. Some guys made it up in the 1980s.

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Ah yes, the ancient tradition of biblical manhood.

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I've counseled a lot of young people hoping to marry. Here's my advice: If you marry, marry someone, 1) kind 2) who loves Jesus 3) and wants to help you flourish & use your gifts for the kingdom.

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There is no mention of subordination or hierarchy before the fall, but patriarchal disruption of the male/female relationship is a hallmark of sin.

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Part of the power of the early Wesleyan movement came in the belief that women are full participants in the Christian life, seeking holiness and leading class meetings alongside men.

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Went on a short term mission trip for which you were ill equipped +4 Bonus: wrote about it for your college admissions essays +5 Bonus: your all white group went to a community of color, & this made you feel really good about yourself +5

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Beth Felker Jones

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1 year

Just a few more thoughts on "revival": 1. An event doesn't have to be everything to be good; God works in partial, broken things. 2. If we want to know something by its fruit we have to give it some time to grow fruit. 1/8

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2 pieces of advice re: staying in a church: 1: if the church is abusive, traumatizing, false: run away. 2: if the church is annoying in ordinary ways: stick with it; fidelity yields all kinds of fruit & there's no perfect churches this side of the kingdom.

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3 years

I can imagine a variety of faithful developments in the church’s conversation about sexuality, & I can tell you with certainty that dunking on celibate people is not one of them.

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Shortly, in class, we’ll be taking a peek at several variant takes on the theological task.

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You worried about how far is too far +3 Bonus: you didn't really want a definitive answer to the question +4

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Remember, the Holy Spirit is doing things we don’t know about, working in ways we do not see.

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Listening to DC talk's "Colored People" made you feel a little progressive about your racial politics +2 Bonus: about your taste in music +2

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3 years

A church asking for non compete clauses is one of the most evil things I can imagine. It may be a new heresy & new heresy is pretty rare.

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We can’t live this way

WTVC NewsChannel 9

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NEW TENNESSEE LAW: As of today, a new law lets students report professors who teach concepts which promote political & social agendas. What do you think?

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2 years

I'd be very interested in contemporary modesty standards that were about wealth & slavery, but I don't see this happening (the early Wesleyans were on it, but...)

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And--UNDER SIN--he will rule over her. It's not a stretch to call patriarchy a chief hallmark of life in a sinful world. The goodness of created gender difference is distorted into hierarchical difference, which denies the full imago in the woman.

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3 years

Who grew up loving Psalty the singing songbook? Goodness I loved Psalty.

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2 years

As a master's student, I was asked to lead a discussion section for a course (a TA kind of role), and nervous, I went to talk to Dr. Willie Jennings.

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