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Thomas Horrocks

@thomaslhorrocks

8 months

A big announcement, and a big ask.

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Thomas Horrocks

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3 years

Evangelicals always get mad at exactly the wrong things. What if instead of being angry at a gay musician and a shoe company, we got mad at our own systems that made a gay musician feel like hell was a better place to be than the church.

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Thomas Horrocks

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I tweet for the people who don’t want to abandon Christianity but who feel abandoned by the Christianity of their youth. For those who were told to ask “what would Jesus do” only to be called “woke” for actually doing it.

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I once heard someone say that bullies who find religion often become just become bullies who think God is on their side, and I regularly think about how true that is.

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Thomas Horrocks

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2 years

Have you ever stopped to think about how truly ridiculous it is that healthcare is tied to employment?

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2 years

Barbara Brown Taylor heavy on the mind this morning.

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Thomas Horrocks

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4 years

Wanna know what sin the Bible talks about more than just about any other? Mistreatment/exploitation/oppression of the poor.

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Thomas Horrocks

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3 years

Today evangelical celebrity Franklin Graham, son of evangelist Billy Graham, compared the 10 Republicans who voted to impeach Trump with Judas, the betrayer of Jesus. I hope, politics aside, we can all agree that comparison is absolutely buhhhhhhhh-nanas!

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Thomas Horrocks

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4 years

Loving our neighbors means dismantling the systems that oppress them.

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Thomas Horrocks

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3 years

Do you what the Bible almost never does? Blame the poor for their own poverty. Do you what the Bible overwhelmingly condemns? The oppressive practices of the rich. Bible so woke.

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Thomas Horrocks

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2 years

Kurt Vonnegut’s piercing insight into the folly of Christian Nationalism years before this current resurgence.

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4 years

Hypothesis: Privileged American Christians are so drawn to false persecution narratives because we can’t escape the reality of the Bible’s clear teaching that God sides with the oppressed.

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2 years

The more I think about it, the more I realize how absurd it is that LGBTQ inclusion has become the primary fault line in the church. When I look at how many hermeneutical issues we DON'T divide over, it becomes clear that this is rooted in bigotry, not biblical interpretation.

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Thomas Horrocks

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3 months

Babylon Bee guy accidentally interprets the Bible correctly.

Seth Dillon

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3 months

If Jesus is your savior then anyone trying to break into your home is your neighbor.

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Thomas Horrocks

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1 year

You can love Jesus and LGBTQ people too. You can follow Jesus and oppose the criminalization of abortion. You can be Christian and vote for a democrat. You can ignore the bullies who claim otherwise and threaten you with hell if you disagree.

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Thomas Horrocks

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2 years

In fact Christ explicitly told us the criteria by which he’ll judge the nations. Do they: - Feed the hungry - Welcome the stranger - Clothe the naked - Care for the sick - Visit the prisoner

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1 year

Normalize apologizing to your children.

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Thomas Horrocks

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10 months

I really don’t want to draw attention to it, but the women’s sports breast reduction discourse is a reminder that the culture wars isn’t limited to trans people. They want to enforce their views on gender on everyone. Trans rights really are human rights.

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Thomas Horrocks

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9 months

Hey siri, why don’t people take Christians seriously?

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@LivingGodsTruth

9 months

Premarital sex and pornography are a greater crisis to humanity than climate change ever will be.

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Thomas Horrocks

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5 years

I’ll say it: Being moved emotionally by injustice and human suffering is a strength, not a weakness.

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5 years

I’ll say it: @AOC 's frequent crying only reinforces the stereotype that women are too emotional for politics.

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Thomas Horrocks

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2 years

Vulnerable post: how do you avoid developing a bitter resentment toward the people who are hijacking Christianity in their bigoted pursuit of power and shipwrecking the faith of many?

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Thomas Horrocks

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1 year

I suspect that one of the reasons conservative pastors oppose psychology/therapy is that they realize it might expose their manipulative tactics and threaten their power.

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Thomas Horrocks

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1 year

Some Good Friday wisdom from Barbara Brown Taylor.

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Thomas Horrocks

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10 months

I pastor a small town church. In Bible study today I was asked about the controversy over Jason Aldean’s song “Try That In A Small Town.” It led to a history lesson on lynching and a fruitful conversation about empathy, understanding, and the difference between intent and impact.

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Thomas Horrocks

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9 months

Some people have this silly bird app, man.

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Thomas Horrocks

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2 years

I think one of major fault lines in western Christianity is whether the primary emphasis is on getting people to heaven or bringing heaven to earth.

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Thomas Horrocks

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3 years

COVID vaccine update #1 : Got a phone call from Gates and Soros last night (directly on the microchip!) congratulating me on my induction into the New World Order. Other than that and a little muscle soreness, no side effects.

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Thomas Horrocks

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4 years

If the version of Christianity that we are teaching our children falls apart the first time it is exposed to critical scholarship, perhaps it’s not the “liberal” Christian college that’s the problem. And the solution is not a better-insulated echo chamber.

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4 years

CHRISTIAN PARENT: There is hardly anything more destructive you can do to child’s faith than to send him to a “Christian” college/university that is theologically liberal, trending left, or only nominally Christian. /1

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Thomas Horrocks

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3 years

I created a helpful Venn diagram

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Thomas Horrocks

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1 year

Conservative Christians are worried about losing the ability to discriminate against LGBTQ folks with impunity. LGBTQ people are worried about getting murdered.

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Thomas Horrocks

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4 years

Perhaps one of the greatest fake news campaigns in American history was convincing American Christians that political conservatism is an inherently Christian value.

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Thomas Horrocks

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3 years

Can I make a confession? As a pastor, I hesitate to refer people to Christian counselors when it comes to things like a marriage and infidelity because there is so much bad Christian advice on those topics.

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Thomas Horrocks

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3 years

Love for neighbor > religious liberty

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Thomas Horrocks

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4 years

I’ve decided I’m going to start treating denials of systemic racism like flat-earth and anti-vax claims.

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Thomas Horrocks

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1 year

I have never once in my adult life separated lights from darks when doing laundry and you know the result has been? Clean clothes. That’s it.

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Thomas Horrocks

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3 years

You may not realize this, but if you are a Christian the forgiveness of debt is central to your religion.

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Thomas Horrocks

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5 years

I still find it strange that a concern for justice and equality for marginalized people is considered a "left" concept.

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Thomas Horrocks

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2 years

Read this whole thing. It’s incredible. Short version: a New Testament master’s student named Libbie may have discovered a textual variation that will change our Bibles as we know them.

Mary the Tower

What would Christianity be like if Mary Magdalene hadn't been hidden from view?

dianabutlerbass.substack.com

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Thomas Horrocks

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3 years

Holding people accountable for harmful behavior is not “divisive,” and overlooking harmful behavior is not “unity.”

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Thomas Horrocks

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3 years

Imagine being so racist you get upset about a federal holiday celebrating the emancipation of slaves.

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Thomas Horrocks

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3 years

The Venn diagram overlap of people who deny systemic racism, deny the severity of Covid, and deny the legitimacy of the election results is rather significant.

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Thomas Horrocks

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2 years

Can I be vulnerable and admit how futile prayer feels in these moments?

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Thomas Horrocks

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4 years

I absolutely do not believe that God sent COVID as judgment for anything (because Jesus), but isn’t it a wee bit strange that natural disasters are always judgment on gay people and not, say, evangelical’s endorsement of Trump, worship of wealth, mistreatment of immigrants, etc?

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Thomas Horrocks

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3 years

Charity doesn’t fix what policy created.

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Thomas Horrocks

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1 year

A thought I had today: one reason the Christian right is trying so hard to hide the existence of LGBTQ people is that they realize once their kids meet a gay or trans person, those kids will discover that LGBTQ aren’t actually the monsters their parents portrayed them to be.

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Thomas Horrocks

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2 years

Hot take: You can honor and support veterans AND be intensely critical of the military industrial complex that exploits them. It doesn’t have to be one or the other.

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Thomas Horrocks

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1 year

Imagine thinking that allowing gay people to get married somehow diminishes heterosexual marriage.

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Thomas Horrocks

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2 years

Progressive Christians have been far too quick to cede the Bible to fundamentalists. It was the Bible that made me progressive, and I maintain that when it's understood correctly, it's still one of the best tools we've got.

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Thomas Horrocks

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1 year

Hey Christians, you absolutely do not have to be bullied into thinking you have a moral imperative to vote Republican. The more they accuse you of supporting the murder or mutilation of children, the clearer it is that intimidation is a cover for the lack of substantive argument.

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Thomas Horrocks

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2 years

I've been thinking most of the day about how the Bible condemns excess wealth as a moral failure far more than it does poverty.

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Thomas Horrocks

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2 years

If a woman could deliver the Word, a woman can deliver the word.

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If a woman can birth Jesus, a woman can preach about Jesus.

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Thomas Horrocks

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I’m now a pastor’s husband. We had a private ceremony since her house sold so quickly. We’re waiting to exchange rings with our family in July, so we exchanged carabiners, symbolic of our shared love of climbing, and more deeply symbolic of our commitment to support each other.

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Thomas Horrocks

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1 year

I refuse to concede Christianity to the toxic right wing so my act of resistance today is gathering with the saints for worship and preaching on the power of love to conquer fear.

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Thomas Horrocks

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4 years

As a Christian pastor who studies and teaches the Bible professionally, I can confidently say that firing tear gas and rubber bullets into a crowd of peaceful protestors in order to take a photo holding a Bible in front of a church is absolutely antithetical to the way of Jesus.

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Thomas Horrocks

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3 years

There’s something profoundly wrong with our country when white mass shooters are arrested peacefully and Black men are killed during traffic stops. This is exactly why we need to continually assert that Black Lives Matter, because our system acts like they don’t.

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Thomas Horrocks

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4 years

Christianity can never sanctify nationalism, nationalism will always corrupt Christianity.

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Thomas Horrocks

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2 years

My 3 y/o calls hand sanitizer “hanitizer” and no I will not be correcting him.

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Thomas Horrocks

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3 years

Beth Moore getting so deeply under the skin of all the compromised theobrogians this weekend was immensely satisfying.

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Thomas Horrocks

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1 year

Friendly periodic reminder that if a person advocates criminalizing abortion and also opposes the social programs proven to actually reduce abortion, “saving babies” isn’t actually their primary concern.

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Thomas Horrocks

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6 years

@JohnPiper Read to your children the story of the prodigal son, then look them in the eye and tell them that if their rebellion leaves them empty, their Heavenly Father will be waiting for them with open arms and a great big party.

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Thomas Horrocks

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1 year

If you think faithful Christians can disagree about - baptism - communion - pacifism - ecclesiology But not - gender and sexuality - women’s ordination You’re telling on yourself.

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1 year

While I’m on the topic of controversial parenting, I don’t think kids should be forced to eat foods they don’t want to. I totally understand not wanting to cook more than one meal, but having one backup option they’ll eat isn’t that difficult.

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Thomas Horrocks

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3 years

What if I told you that disregarding the severity of a public health crisis in order to maintain a particular form of worship actually dishonors God and makes you look like a jerk?

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Thomas Horrocks

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2 years

The obsession southern Baptist theobrogians have with Beth Moore is really creepy.

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Thomas Horrocks

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6 years

Christians, scroll through the #churchtoo hashtag. Weep with your brothers and sisters who have been hurt in what *should* be the safest place on earth. Then, do better and demand better.

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Thomas Horrocks

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4 years

This is your semi-regular reminder that if your goal is to reduce abortions, criminalization is impractical, ineffective, and harmful to women. On the other hand, progressive social policy has proven to be far more effective at reducing abortion without harming women.

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Thomas Horrocks

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1 year

Things will make a lot more sense if you realize that 8.5 times out of 10 “religious liberty” means “Christian supremacy.”

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Thomas Horrocks

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3 years

In white Christianity, incivility is treated as a greater sin than injustice. This is not an accident.

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Thomas Horrocks

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1 year

Been a while since I’ve poked at Calvinism, but this is incisive.

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4 years

Them: “My mom was Catholic and my dad was Christian.” Me: “So your parents were both Christians.”

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1 year

Nobody ever refers to heterosexuality as a “lifestyle.”

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Thomas Horrocks

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3 years

You guys have big church plans for the final Sunday before Christianity becomes illegal in America?

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2 years

Honestly, it’s hard to get more biblical than a periodic redistribution of wealth.

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1 year

I always found the argument that Christians should be free to refuse services to LGBTQ people to be quite sub-Christian and illogical, even in my non-affirming days.

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Thomas Horrocks

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1 year

This morning I raise my coffee cup to the people still clinging to Jesus even while reeling from the disillusionment of discovering that the religion of their youth was little more than a facade for right wing politics and bigotry.

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Thomas Horrocks

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5 months

When Jesus stood up to “Satan,” he did so by healing the sick, feeding the hungry, and liberating the oppressed. He didn’t get distracted by powerless statues.

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Thomas Horrocks

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3 years

Reminder: The Bible is *way* harder on predatory lending than it is borrowing. The latter is warned against as unwise, but the former is condemned as immoral and unjust. The Bible assigns greater “personal responsibility“ to the lender than to the borrower.

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Thomas Horrocks

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2 years

A professing Christian in my mentions called loan forgiveness “unjust” and that’s really telling.

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Thomas Horrocks

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5 years

Good afternoon. Christianity is incompatible with nationalism. That is all.

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Thomas Horrocks

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4 years

The same white people who have been telling black people that “violence isn’t the answer” are now posting about how they are preparing to defend their neighborhoods with guns. It’s almost as if there’s a double standard for acceptable violence.

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Thomas Horrocks

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1 year

This is a periodic reminder for my Christian followers that it’s inappropriate to use the term “Pharisee” pejoratively, especially to describe believers who you think are legalistic or hypocritical.

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1 year

A genuinely Christian nation would focus a whole lot more on distributing resources according to need than on policing the sexual morality of outsiders, this I know, for the Bible tells me so.

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1 year

The work of Satan looks a lot more like fusing Christianity with ethnonationalism than it does a singer wearing a devil costume at an award show.

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Thomas Horrocks

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4 years

Reading Matthew’s gospel and I’m struck by how the strongest opposition to the liberating work of God comes from religious leaders trying to maintain the status quo.

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2 years

It’s a beautiful day to remember that right wing Christians aren’t the gatekeepers of True Christianity, no matter how boisterously they posture themselves as such. Be free.

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3 years

Why are Protestant, saved-by-grace-and-not-by-works Christians so opposed to “handouts?”

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Thomas Horrocks

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3 years

Critical race theory *is* indeed a threat to white nationalism, so it makes sense that the people who have conflated white nationalism with Christianity would see CRT as a threat to Christianity.

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4 years

Hey, do you guys remember how just preaching the gospel brought about the end of slavery and segregation and gave Black people civil rights without any protests or government intervention whatsoever?

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Thomas Horrocks

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4 years

The greatest trick the capitalists ever pulled was to convince poor white people to defend a system that literally preys on them by making them think poor Black people and immigrants were a greater threat to their well-being.

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2 years

I think part of the reason I’m so bothered by Christian Nationalism is that it’s such a cheap counterfeit. Christianity has the potential to something so much more beautiful. I want better for us. God wants better for us.

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3 years

“Faith over fear,” they shout, as they stockpile guns and ammo.

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4 years

I’ve been spending a lot of time in the Hebrew Scriptures and one of the things that makes God pretty angry is when God’s people make alliances with wicked rulers for self-preservation.

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3 years

I’m not SBC but my feed is like 90% SBC21 news right now and yiiiiikes.

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Christians resisting masks is a failure of basic discipleship.

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3 years

A few weeks ago I read an article from a church leader warning young Christians about the dangers of “deconstruction.” But here’s the thing, deconstruction is usually not something people choose.

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Thomas Horrocks

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4 years

This may come as a surprise to some of you, but I’ve spent the last year away from home. 3 months of training and 9 months deployed in the Middle East. I’m so happy to be back with my family! More pics from deployment to follow on Instagram soon.

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Thomas Horrocks

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Some of y’all need to go back and read the gospels and pay attention to the kinds of people that were drawn to Jesus and the kinds of people that were repelled by him.

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Thomas Horrocks

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4 years

When lots of people of color are saying that something is racist, I’m going to trust that they probably know what they are talking about, even if I don’t totally understand. There is a greater likelihood that I harbor unacknowledged racist ideas than that they are making it up.

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5 years

"YOU NEED TO SUBMIT TO THE AUTHORITY OF ᵐʸ ᶦⁿᵗᵉʳᵖʳᵉᵗᵃᵗᶦᵒⁿ ᵒᶠ SCRIPTURE!"

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Fundamentalist/Conservative Christians: “I wonder why so many people are deconstructing.“ Us: “It’s the hypocrisy, judgmentalism, and compromise for power.” F/CC: “They are just looking for an excuse to sin.”

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I’ve noticed an awful lot of overlap between the people who mock participation trophies in sports because “kids need to learn how to lose” and the people who refuse to accept the election results.

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