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My friend who is a Chief Diversity officer shared that there have been a growing number of complaints by white faculty and staff that the jobs were being reserved for people of color and that their voices were being silenced. They decided to look at the numbers.

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What we see around the great replacement theory should concern us, because it is leading people to conclude things that are not based on facts and figures and in reality.

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They found that white faculty and staff DISPROPORTIONATELY outnumbered all staff and faculty of color, especially in positions of power. Most jobs were still going to white men (who were often the loudest and often had the highest retention rates). But that’s not all…

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They found that white Christian made up the largest percentage of employees, but were also the ones who were most vocal about being replaced by people of color. Those who most strongly felt like they were being replaced at the institution were white Christians.

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When they looked more closely at the survey data, they found that those who identified as white conservative Christians were most vocal about their concerns of being replaced - despite the numbers proving that they were the disproportionately dominant group.

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If you are tired of hearing people talk about racism, trust me, the people who experience it and have to talk about it are far more tired.

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The parents singing “How Great Thou Art” in Korean before we eat breakfast.

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I’m melting. ❤️

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What if young people are leaving so called gospel-centered churches, NOT because they are drawn away by the world, but because they are not drawn in by the preaching of a diluted gospel message that has nothing meaningful to say to the brokenness we see in the world?

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No human being is illegal. No one’s personhood is illegal. Stop calling undocumented people illegal.

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Hello world! ❤️ To all who shared words of wisdom and encouragement, sent notes and various forms of support, thank you! We are so grateful to be entrusted with this precious girl. If you think of us, please pray that she would walk closely with God all the days of her life.

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“One can’t be a Christian and a nationalist at the same time.” Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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When we arrived into the visitor center at Manzanar, a white couple walking out with their very young child said, “This can’t be true. The US would never do anything like this. This must be fake news.”

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This is every single person who has managed to avoid Covid from the start of Covid to now. May the odds continue to be in your favor. #SuperMarioBros #Covid

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Overall, the rise of Christian nationalism is a racist response to the rise in advocacy for racial justice. It’s that simple.

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Political idolatry is killing Christian witness.

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Stop. Killing. Asians. Stop. Killing. Asian. Women.

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A lot of Christians call for a reconciliation that is actually assimilation. Assimilation is not reconciliation.

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The Monterey Park shooter was 72-year-old Huu Can Tran. The Laguna Woods shooter was 68-year-old David Chou. The Half Moon Bay shooter was 67-year-old Zhao Chunli. Something is radicalizing our elders and leading them to procure guns to enact deadly violence.

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A Christianity that is comfortable with racism is not a Biblical Christianity.

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In Korea, the norm is for you to wear a mask to both protect yourself and others. If you *might* be sick, you would wear a mask out of consideration for the others you interact with. Was it inconvenient? Of course, but that’s what loving neighbor requires.

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3 years

Proof that humans are creative: @SenSanders memes.

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I told everyone that 35k people watched this and they were amazed. They all said they wished they prepared a little more - but I told them the beauty was in the honesty of the moment. I then told my father in law that people really liked his voice and he blushed. ☺️

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2 years

The parents singing “How Great Thou Art” in Korean before we eat breakfast.

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1 year

Is it normal to want to hold your baby all day long and constantly take photos of every facial expression they have?! I think I’m addicted to her! ❤️

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If the Bible overwhelmingly agrees with your political position, then you are reading the Bible through politically partisan colored glasses. Both the elephant and the donkey fall short. The lamb however, does not.

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Today, I think about what one of my Taiwanese international graduate students once shared with me. She said in a class, the professor asked what Christian freedom meant to them. She always saw Christian freedom as living in radical self-sacrificing obedience to Jesus. However…

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If you believe Christianity can't flourish without your political party, you really have no idea what Christianity is.

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Jesus was not American. Some people would benefit from remembering this. Jesus loves all Americans, as He loves all people, but he is not invested in nation building. Jesus is interested in establishing God’s Kingdom.

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I just can’t get enough of her. I really can’t.

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Some of y’all asked for an encore with “Great is thy faithfulness” & “It is well with my soul.” Our parents’ only condition was that we would join them at the table, so we did. I hope my singing didn’t ruin it for y’all. This was followed by going around the table giving thanks.

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A dependence on guns over a dependence on God demonstrates a profound lack of faith. A love for guns over a love for neighbor demonstrates a profound presence of idolatry.

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10 months

@therecount Nope. Not in the history of Asian Americans, but in the history of an Asian American who doesn’t know Asian American history.

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Perhaps the greatest apologetic against Christian nationalism is in what we celebrate on Palm Sunday. Instead of riding in on a majestic horse, Jesus rode in on a donkey declaring that His Kingdom is not of this world. He could’ve easily taken Jerusalem and overthrown the Roman…

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4 years

If you are a Christian you are an ambassador for Christ, not your political party. As much as you want to squeeze the kingdom of God into your party, know it doesn’t fit. If you think your party is God’s party, know that your understanding of Christ & His kingdom is too small.

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Jesus would have a lot to say to Christians in the US who think that their political party is the Christian party. He would say that his Kingdom is not of this world and tell us that NEITHER the Republican or the Democratic Party are Christian parties whatsoever.

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I updated my and my wife’s parents on how many people watched them singing “How Great Thou Art” in Korean (120k+) and they spent an hour reading the Twitter replies (translating them into Korean). They were blessed by the responses you all shared. Thank you for blessing them!

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2 years

The parents singing “How Great Thou Art” in Korean before we eat breakfast.

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3 years

Christianity is better when Christians imitate Christ.

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2 years

Christianity is intended to be a faith that is generous is a world that promotes scarcity, kind in a world that is harsh, generative where there is decay, healing where there is hurt, reconciling where there is division, and merciful and loving where there is hate.

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1 year

What is this madness?

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2 years

The hardest racism to endure is and will always be racism from fellow Christians. Always.

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Many of us feel like we are limping towards the end of 2021, when in fact, God is carrying us in our weariness. Even in your exhaustion, God sustains.

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2 years

The insistence on personal rights and freedom can be found nowhere in Scripture. At best, what we are called to do is fight for conditions that lead to the flourishing of others. What’s remarkable is that the obsession of personal rights & freedoms has been conflated with faith.

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To the question about what Christian freedom meant, her “American” classmates responded by saying Christian freedom was the freedom to do whatever they wanted because Jesus died for their freedom. This shocked her profoundly. This idolatry of freedom fuels the idolatry of guns.

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4 years

The way racism hides in plain sight is by calling Christians that challenge unjust aspects of the status quo or call out white supremacy as liberal, Marxist, or socialist. They did this to MLK in the civil rights era by calling him a communist and it continues to this day.

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4 years

Racism might be the most tolerated and minimized sin in western Christianity.

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4 years

This is pure class (and classic Korean): #BongJoonHo is honoring others while he is being honored. #Parasite

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My goodness. This is exactly why Jesus would’ve turned the tables over in the temple during Holy Week. 1) Defiling the Word of God with a personal political agenda. 2) Commodifying the Word of God. 3) Creating barriers for worship. Christian nationalism strikes again.

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Happy Holy Week! Let’s Make America Pray Again. As we lead into Good Friday and Easter, I encourage you to get a copy of the God Bless The USA Bible. @TheLeeGreenwood

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This is not it. Not one bit. Christian nationalism and militarism is an issue that exists on both sides of the aisle. Mourn for the soldiers who lost their lives without conflating them with Biblical prophets who are sent by God on mission to proclaim His word.

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President Biden quotes the book of Isaiah in his speech addressing those killed today in Afghanistan: “Who shall I send?” “The American military has been answering for a long time, ‘Here I am, Lord. Send me.’”

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Stop targeting, attacking, and killing Asian Americans. Anti-Asian racism is destroying us. The silence around Anti-Asian racism is crushing.

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2 years

I usually host thanksgiving for students who get “stranded” on campus. This year, because of surgery recover and my wife getting Covid, my students brought Thanksgiving dinner to us - all from scratch. They texted and told me that “no” was not an option. 😂

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2 years

No one is illegal. To call someone illegal is undignifying and undignified.

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One way to know your faith is in your political party more than it is in Jesus is if you think God needs your political party to be in power in order for the Kingdom of God to be displayed.

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1 year

The Monterey Park shooter was 72-year-old Huu Can Tran. The shooter in Laguna Woods was 68-year-old David Chou. I don’t know what to make of our elders getting access to and turning to guns like this.

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2 years

This is NOT to say we shouldn’t cherish the “freedoms” we have and use them for the flourishing for others. However, to insist on our own freedoms as if our freedom is the highest aim completely neglects almost everything you see in the Bible.

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3 years

I cried a lot today. More than I’ve cried in years.

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Day 3 of the @aachristcollab Asian American History #reclaimtrip : We drove 3 hours to Manzanar, one of ten concentration camps where Japanese Americans were incarcerated for years being able to only bring the things they could carry with them.

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1 year

Having her sleep in my arms… it’s the best thing ever. ❤️

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This was at a mega church. Listen to the crowd roaring after he says Kung Flu, which has been a part of the racist repertoire that has led to violence against Asian Americans. Sad he keeps saying it. Sadder that so-called Christians support it.

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Christianity would be better off if we focused on faithfulness to God more than trying to fit Christianity into conservative or progressive boxes. Too many people have falsely conflated Christianity with their conservative or progressive agendas instead of faithfulness to God.

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It’s always been odd to me that white Christians have frequently been ok with discrediting the theology & faith of MLK Jr. when they hear of his adultery, but desperately work to preserve the theology & faith of people like Jonathan Edwards when his slaveholding is highlighted.

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Want to read some Asian American books? Start with these!

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There is something wrong when Christians are known to be the least gracious and the least truth oriented.

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I’ve only interacted with him a few times, but @timkellernyc helped me to understand the gospel of personal grace in ways that never clicked until he opened his mouth. As he prepares to meet Jesus with unveiled eyes, I pray for many comforting opportunities for him and his loved…

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Preaching to the privileged often leads to applying the gospel to individual issues. Preaching to the marginalized often leads to applying the gospel to systemic issues. When you preach to the privileged, you can typically ignore systemic realities.

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Someone told me that Nashville was experiencing a type of revival. I was told that there was a massive joint effort to pray for years, which brought a lot of evangelical Christians to the city. So many people have told me about how much the new Christian presence was making a…

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Horrifying video from downtown Nashville this morning. @WKRN

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My little cousin died tonight. He was 33 years old, 6’5”, and 340 lbs., but was always filled with childlike energy & a genuine love for others. He loved children & always knew how to make them laugh. His brother & I had to help carry him out of the house. Rest in peace, J.

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2 years

Dear Christian, amendments are not commandments.

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I’m happy to share that the love of my life is pregnant with our daughter! It’s been a great journey and I am so grateful all my wife has been doing to prepare for Baby Chang. Someone asked me what I was most looking forward to. My answer? Having a mini version of my wife.

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@ryanstruyk @MichaelRWear @CNN Asians are left out.. again.

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I’ve been talking with Christian college students from across the country who continue to express their concern about the ways their parents seem to conflate their faith with far right wing politics.

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4 years

Too many Christians have politicized Jesus to the point that they’ve made Him a mascot for their political party instead of obeying Him as the King of the universe. We need more Christians to disentangle Jesus from their partisan idolatry. You cannot serve two masters.

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@jimbobway63 People can self identify.

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There are Christians in the United States. The United States is not a Christian nation. There is a huge difference between the two.

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Be cautious of people and places that want your face but not your voice. Be wary of those who want to use you on promotional materials and exclude you from decision making tables.

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Don’t give up on Jesus because Christians are destroying his reputation.

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If you think one sermon on racial justice & reconciliation a year is going to be sufficient to undo the years & decades of malformation around the topic among the saints of God, you underestimate the formational agenda and power of this world.

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Behold the creativity of God.

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The more you learn Black history, the more you realize how incomplete your education was growing up.

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Palm Sunday marks the beginning of disappointment for those who had believed in a religion of dominance over a religion of meekness. They expected a conquering king. They got a suffering servant. The Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve…

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Christians should be unified against injustice, not divided by it.

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Everyone: please pray that my bag wasn’t taken. I left it at Minneapolis airport at the gate. I was in such a hurry trying to make the flight while also putting my backbrace on, that I forgot to grab my backpack. They are searching for it. Please pray they find it.

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Why do babies sleep so well when they are on top of you or being held and not when they are sleeping on their own in a crib? It’s a mystery of life.

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It’s exhausting when you have to spend time convincing people who haven’t been on the receiving end of racial prejudice, discrimination, and injustice that race issues actually need to be addressed. People were “just preaching the gospel” as they were holding slaves.

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PRAISE GOD! They found my bag. The story is remarkable. Basically, the bag was left at the gate, and when the flight attendant tried to call the gate from the plane as we took off, there was no luck. There was still no luck when we landed. HOWEVER…

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Everyone: please pray that my bag wasn’t taken. I left it at Minneapolis airport at the gate. I was in such a hurry trying to make the flight while also putting my backbrace on, that I forgot to grab my backpack. They are searching for it. Please pray they find it.

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Christian nationalism: When you see Christians spend more time defending the first amendment than obeying the first commandment to have no other God’s before the Lord. When you see Christians worship the graven image of the second amendment over obeying the second commandment.

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This is what the barracks would’ve looked like. It was especially harsh in 100 degree heat. We were barely there for ten minutes and feeling like the oxygen was running out from the hot temperatures. Imagine going from your home to this because the government rounded you up.

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There is something wrong when non-Christians perceive Christianity as bigoted more than they do loving. The early church was known for their unworldly love that demonstrated the Christ they proclaimed.

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1 year

My parents met their granddaughter for the first time and it was so beautiful. ❤️

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I have zero chill for white Christian nationalism because it not only is NOT Christian whatsoever, but because it takes the name of God in vain. White Christian nationalism is white nationalism disguised as Christianity.

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I'm seeing how young people don't want to attend sterile country clubs, but gritty field hospitals that are seeking to make an impact with the love of God in the spaces they occupy. They want something more authentic, more real, & more relevant than what many churches are doing.

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You can't make this stuff up. Life is truly stranger than fiction. My Uber driver asked why I was in CT, so I told him that I was giving a lecture on race and justice. He said that he doesn't believe in racism. He said that people who talk about White supremacy are only making…

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Say their names: 33-year-old Delaina Ashley Yaun 54-year-old Paul Andre Michels 49-year-old Xiaojie Tan 44-year-old Daoyou Feng 74-year-old Soon C. Park 51-year-old Hyun J. Grant 69-year-old Suncha Kim 63-year-old Yong A. Yue #AtlantaMassacre

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The person who took my order at the Thai restaurant said that her favorite dish was this pork & Chinese broccoli dish, except spicy. She then asked if I can handle spicy food. I told her, I’m Korean. My mouth is on fire & I’m concerned about what happens next.

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4 years

Young people today are actively looking for the activity of the Holy Spirit. They are searching for the ways God is moving & want to jump aboard. They are looking for the imprint of Christ in this world. Sadly, they are finding it more outside the American church than inside it.

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2 years

We went from “end racism” to “end the efforts to end racism” in the course of a year. Racial re-entrenchment is too predictable.

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I doubt many people would be able to handle MLK Jr.'s message if it were delivered today in the same way it was delivered 50 years ago. One reason he is palatable today is because people don't think that what he said then has any bearing on them now.

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Dear Evangelical Christians. We are in a position where Donald Trump is the presumptive nominee for the Republican Party again because YOU placed him there. In states like Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina, Nevada, etc. during primary season, your discipleship of your…

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Jim Pluddemann was a seminary professor of mine at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School and also served on the Board of Trustees at Wheaton College. He shared this on Facebook today.

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When was the last time you heard of a Critical Race Theorist go on a shooting spree? Now do White Supremacists.

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When you denounce white supremacy, it's amazing how many people will either shrink into silence or come out swinging with distractions (like black on black crime or black on anything). Racism either actively hides or emerges in full force when racism is denounced.

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