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Alastair Roberts

@zugzwanged

2 years

Free chapter-by-chapter Bible commentary: (video format with chapters bookmarked) (audio format, searchable here: )

Alastair's Adversaria • Explore

audio.alastairadversaria.com

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Alastair Roberts

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2 years

Would love to see more churches cut sermons down to 10-15 minutes, while relocating most of their teaching to alternative formats and contexts, ideally more interactive in character. Overdependence upon the Sunday morning sermon is a straitjacket upon Christian instruction.

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Alastair Roberts

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The book of Revelation was written before AD70.

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Unpopular dating opinions that would get you in this position???

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Alastair Roberts

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8 months

The treatment Liz Bruenig received from some on the left was a sad reminder that much politics is a screen onto which people project the pathologies of their personal psychodramas, and that few things are more maddening to them than the healthiness and happiness of others.

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Alastair Roberts

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2 years

A break from regular programming to announce...! 🙂

Susannah Black Roberts

@suzania

2 years

Wed! It was an absolutely amazing day, and I am so full of joy to be ⁦ @zugzwanged ⁩’s wife. Ok now gotta get to the airport.

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Alastair Roberts

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One advantage of ministers wearing clerical vestments is they greatly weaken the sort of culture that centres the preacher and their personality. An added benefit is that, when ministers wear collars, it likely shortens the great line of attractive women trying to hit on them.

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1 year

Raise your hand if you don’t think this really happened ✋Also, what a bizarre and disturbing reaction he had…

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Alastair Roberts

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An important part of honouring parents needs to be graciously outgrowing, resisting, and overcoming their faults, sins, and errors, while appreciating those ways in which they gave us the means to do so.

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Alastair Roberts

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2 years

On Thomas Achord. Within this post, I provide substantiation for my recent tweet thread and discuss why this all matters for movements of Christian political resourcement.

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Alastair Roberts

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11 months

There was a point at the start of my twenties when I was into belligerent political theology, not dissimilar to some of the Christian nationalism stuff attracting many today. At a point I realized something was off. Whether it was me or the material I was reading, I didn't know.

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Alastair Roberts

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2 months

Went out this evening in Manhattan in the aftermath of the quake. Lots of debris piled up in the streets, stink and commotion, rats, broken infrastructure, and homeless people begging by the side of the road. Reassuring to see that the city survived intact.

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Alastair Roberts

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2 years

The prophet Nathan's parable, about a rich man stealing and consuming a poor man's beloved little ewe lamb, certainly frames David's sin as one of abuse of power, and implies that Bathsheba had little capacity to resist.

Megan Basham

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2 years

Claiming David raped Bathsheba is a perfect example of twisting Scripture to make a story about sin into one about power dynamics. It is creating interpretations God did not in order to fit modern political narratives & agendas. The interpretation is textbook intersectionality.

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Alastair Roberts

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The amount of life we haved lived together since our wedding, all our shared labours, travels, challenges, prayers, and joys, seems far greater than any mere span of two years could contain. @suzania is brilliant, brave, and good, and following Jesus together the greatest gift.

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Alastair Roberts

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1 year

The year is 2030. Right wing commentators are the only people who still have jobs, the only humans who can produce anything that AI can't.

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Alastair Roberts

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11 months

Watching Raiders of the Lost Ark and have a new gif.

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Alastair Roberts

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2 years

It has been genuinely disheartening to see the way some people of whom I had somewhat higher expectations have conducted themselves over the last few days. But this is an opportunity to see the true character of certain people and movements. Pay heed.

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Alastair Roberts

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2 years

One of the greatest challenges facing Christians today is that of resisting a totalizing culture war mindset, of not allowing fixation on cultural battles to crowd out more fundamental matters.

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Alastair Roberts

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2 years

And the word of the Lord came to Jonah, saying, ‘Arise, go to New York, that great city, and call out against it, for their evil has come up before me.’

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Alastair Roberts

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6 years

Whether people are dismissing the scandal of the Bible as 'God learning to be God', or speaking of Jesus 'saving the Bible from itself', it is truly astonishing that this sort of nonsense is allowed to pass for anything remotely resembling Christian religion.

Brian Zahnd

@BrianZahnd

6 years

@JaredDeame @zugzwanged Jesus saves the Bible from itself. Jesus saves the Bible from being just another violent religious text...unless you want to read the Bible in a way where in the end the final solution is the “Final Solution” of God-inflicted hyper-violence. Me? I prefer the Sermon On The Mount.

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Alastair Roberts

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2 years

Let's be very clear about this, an unaccountable culture-warring journalist without church office or apparent theological training using an evangelical conference to undercut ordained ministers is an extremely egregious example of what the original Big Eva critique was attacking.

Alastair Roberts

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2 years

The original point of the Big Eva critique wasn't simply anti-elite. Nor was it just anti currently existing elites. It was anti 'populist, extra-ecclesiastical' movements (Trueman) trying to direct church policy outside proper church channels, nor being subject to its authority.

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Alastair Roberts

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6 years

Why do I so challenge the contemporary Western fixation upon race and gender in theology? Why am I not just nice, polite, and inclusive? The following are a few of the many things that particularly concern me about the new woke theologies:

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Alastair Roberts

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11 months

I see many young men in a similar position to the one I was in then. And I highly recommend the same approach. However important political issues of our day might be, they pale in comparison to the value of your eternal soul.

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Alastair Roberts

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2 years

Much of the dysfunctionality of current conversations about peoplehood and 'place' may be in part a result of the fact that many modern people—and perhaps especially in America, where the modern condition is most pronounced—don't really have anything resembling a 'place'.

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Alastair Roberts

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3 years

I am currently undertaking a massive, multi-year project: a complete chapter-by-chapter commentary on the entire Bible. I have already finished the entire New Testament and only have Psalms, Song of Songs, Isaiah, the Minor Prophets, and some chapters not in the lectionary left.

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Alastair Roberts

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11 months

America is a remarkable nation. Whatever its flaws, there is so much to admire and love about it and its people, and for Americans to be proud of and thankful for. The first thing for me is the land itself, in all its vastness and beauty.

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Alastair Roberts

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11 months

While I could defend it from the Bible, the spirit of the sort of politics I had been getting into was alien to the Spirit of Christ. Reading the gospels deeply and out of delight in them, not as fodder for political argument, was like leaving a miasma and breathing fresh air.

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Alastair Roberts

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5 years

Few things have become clearer to me over the past few years than the fact a healthy emotional state is required for well-ordered thought. We need peace—a peace God can give us—to guard our hearts and minds. Where that is lacking, our thinking is vulnerable to many disorders.

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Alastair Roberts

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2 years

It is easy to regard the monarchy as an irrational mystification of the true character of politics, yet in the death of our monarch and sister in Christ HM Queen Elizabeth II, I am once again sobered by the clarifying and demystifying force of the institution.

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Alastair Roberts

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1 year

It seems noteworthy to me that the Song of Songs isn't really about marriage or about sex, but about *desire*, which is more expansive than both, doesn't terminate on a clear object, and requires the veils of language for its richest expression.

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Alastair Roberts

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7 months

Master and Commander: twenty years since its release today. Incredible movie, in no small measure because it wasn't created for the sensibilities of so-called 'modern audiences'.

Master and Commander at 20: a miraculous masterpiece of action cinema

Peter Weir’s adventure didn’t find enough of an audience in 2003 but its old-fashioned sturdiness has given it a long life

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Alastair Roberts

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2 years

I would very strongly advise everyone not to make escalated statements from which you are not prepared to climb down very soon.

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Alastair Roberts

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2 years

For one whose reign involved such great changes, HM the Queen is a human focal point for considering all that is passing, a reminder of the love and duty needed to sustain a nation, and a humbling reminder that only the reign of the risen King whom she served will endure forever.

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Alastair Roberts

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6 months

The Bible doesn't need to be made applicable to politics, as if politics were foreign to what it is. The Bible has always been a political text. It is a story of nations and kings, of empires and laws, of authority, rule, and judgment.

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Alastair Roberts

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A greatly shortened sermon has the added benefit of allowing more time for the public reading of Scripture, confession of sins and absolution, passing of the peace, confession of the creed, celebration of the Eucharist, etc.

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Alastair Roberts

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2 years

The concern @NeilShenvi raises here really is important. There is a sort of Christian Nationalism that is a sort of identity politics that self-consciously develops itself with CRT as its foil and mirror. This is Stephen Wolfe's podcast cohost, Thomas Achord, on the subject.

Susannah Black Roberts

@suzania

2 years

This was one of the strongest parts of the review. On pp 168 ff Wolfe essentially calls for an appropriation of the methods and strategies of critical theory (a rejection of the idea of universal values, which he calls a Western-specific concept that has become toxic to the West,

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Alastair Roberts

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I knew all the theological arguments and could defend my positions from Scripture. However, for all my theologizing, I did not feel more drawn to Christ. Indeed, I knew my love for him was growing cold. That scared me. So I went completely cold turkey on the political theology.

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Alastair Roberts

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Are we sure we can't just generally stigmatize orgies? Seems like the sort of thing of which a healthy society would be strongly disapproving.

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Alastair Roberts

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1 year

Christian allegorical readings of the Song of Songs go back to the very beginning, being in evidence in allusions in John's gospel and in the book of Revelation. John casts Jesus as the bridegroom in both John and Revelation and repeatedly returns to this central theme or motif.

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Alastair Roberts

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I stopped reading it. I stopped thinking about it. I stopped arguing about it. And I just steeped myself in the gospels, reading and meditating upon them. And I prayed. It didn't take long to experience a significant change; the appeal of the theology largely dissipated.

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Alastair Roberts

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2 years

Any Reformed Christian nationalism that places an emphasis upon ethnicity really needs to speak directly and extensively to the history of Apartheid South Africa and the role played by a so-called ethnic 'Christian nationalism' in the Dutch Reformed tradition in justifying it.

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Alastair Roberts

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6 years

There has been an extensive conversation about the importance of non-white male voices in theology that unexpectedly sprung out of an unrelated tweet I posted. I've barely been on Twitter today and have only occasionally checked in with bemusement and frustration at some of >>

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Alastair Roberts

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4 years

Genesis.

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Alastair Roberts

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7 years

No matter how smart you may be, if you cannot truly forgive the people that hurt you, your thinking will be driven by reaction against them.

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Alastair Roberts

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1 year

A great @malcolmguite poem and a striking choice by His Majesty.

Archbishop Angaelos

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A privilege to attend this evening’s @WAbbey #TogetherAtChristmas Carol Service. A truly joyful occasion with beautiful carols, thoughtful readings, and a moving tribute to Her Late Majesty Queen Elizabeth II “The carol gives the answer ‘Yet what can I give Him-give my heart’”

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Alastair Roberts

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9 months

In framing marriage debates as being about *who* can get married, people frequently missed the fact that the debates were really about what marriage is. This is just one of many illustrations of what is at issue in those deeper debates.

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Alastair Roberts

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2 years

I will say more about this tomorrow, but for now: The ninth commandment is indeed extremely important. I take it very seriously. We shouldn't make damaging accusations against innocent parties without substantiation. I made a claim and I stand by it.

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Alastair Roberts

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2 years

A shorter homily, surrounded by a strong liturgy and several readings, leading to celebration of the Eucharist, can deliver a far more effective punch than a rambling sermon surrounded by hymn-prayer sandwiches.

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Alastair Roberts

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1 year

The article was cringe, saying something largely true poorly, but some of the progressive responses to it on Twitter have been utterly ridiculous and beyond uncharitable.

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Alastair Roberts

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5 years

How long before we get a Marie Kondo/Jordan Peterson 'Clean Your Room!' show, in which they stage interventions in young people's lives, Kondo demonstrating how to fold shirts and Peterson talking about how overcoming chaos in your closet will protect civilization from communism?

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Alastair Roberts

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10 months

We all have potentially embarrassing gaps in our historical education. The apparent ignorance of Emmett Till from some people suggests they need to read more about race in America. And perhaps to consider why they might have had such a gap in their knowledge in the first place.

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Alastair Roberts

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8 months

Seeing the utter inhumanity of some of the acts of Hamas and the shameless wickedness of some of their institutional apologists in the West, it really is important to guard our own souls in peace, lest vengeance and anger should take them. Lord have mercy!

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Alastair Roberts

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4 months

Video games probably function more as a palliative for young men's malaise than as a cause of it. They can provide contexts for male bonding that are lacking elsewhere. And some games genuinely feed imagination and creativity.

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@IVMiles

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The that video games are problematic or even a particular reason for the malaise inflicting guys today is largely contrived and a cheap way for people to unfairly beat up on men.

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Alastair Roberts

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1 year

After yesterday, I would be amused to see Christian Twitter's reactions to some of the erotic imagery in, say, medieval mysticism! Evangelicals can certainly be weird in the way they talk about sex, but no small part of the problem is that they aren't allegorical enough.

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Alastair Roberts

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5 years

If you don't read the Bible as literature, you'll struggle to hear its theology.

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What’s your hottest literature take?

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Alastair Roberts

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2 years

A narrow focus on the question of whether or not Christians are to be pacifists can mask how extensive the agreement between the pacifists and the just war tradition can be in their critiques of the warmaking and warmongering of our age.

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Alastair Roberts

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1 year

Well, this is shameful.

Mirror Politics

@MirrorPolitics

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Ex-Archbishop of Canterbury tells MPs assisted dying is 'profoundly Christian'

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Alastair Roberts

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We must bear in mind the degree to which abortion is like a block in a Jenga tower of social evils and injustices. It is an evil injustice that plays some part in undergirding others in the areas of sexual relations, marriage, gender relations and ideology, economics, etc.

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Alastair Roberts

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In days when bonds are weakening and people feel culturally embattled, it is incredibly easy for us to seek security and unity in political tribes and in shared sociopolitical sensibilities or vibes and to use Christ to underwrite these, dividing the body of Christ accordingly.

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Alastair Roberts

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4 years

Starting reflections on Luke's gospel today. These are the commentaries I'll largely be using.

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Alastair Roberts

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6 years

What do I think we should do about this? A few things, for starters: Spend much more time in the Scriptures, especially in those parts that are strange and unsettling to us. Worship with the Church of all ages. Spend more time in prayer. Read more tried and tested old books.

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Alastair Roberts

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8 months

Careful and principled consideration of jus in bello is imperative right now. Some rough initial remarks. 1. In considering the evils of war, it is very important that we do not flatten things out. Acts that cost innocent lives are not necessarily morally equivalent.

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Alastair Roberts

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Perhaps the key problem with Butler's article was the fact that it was too focused upon the sexual act considered in itself and ordered towards sexual climax. However, the Scriptures overwhelmingly view sexual relations from the vantage point, not of orgasm, but of pregnancy.

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Alastair Roberts

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9 months

While being 'explicitly right wing' may make your institution less susceptible to many serious and culturally dominant errors on the left, tethering formative institutions to culture war and political goals, identities, and affiliations is a great way to diminish them.

Zachary Garris

@ZacharyGarris

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If a Christian college wants to attract students and make an impact for the future, it should be: (1) explicitly right wing theologically & culturally. (2) academically rigorous with competitive admissions. (3) strong in liberal arts (classics, theology, history).

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Alastair Roberts

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23 days

Denouncing antisemitism and racism isn't cheap and easy. Ask me how I know.

Aaron M. Renn 🇺🇸

@aaron_renn

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@WBLittlejohn Denouncing antisemitism - or racism or misogyny, etc - or kicking already marginalized people like Fuentes is cheap and easy. Giving a full throated denunciation of something like dispensational Israel theology, or criticizing big name, powerful, and influential evangelical

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Alastair Roberts

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1 year

Just landed in NYC and saw this news. Thinking about the remarkable blessing Tim Keller and his ministry were to this city and to people across the world.

Timothy Keller (1950-2023)

@timkellernyc

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Timothy J. Keller, husband, father, grandfather, mentor, friend, pastor, and scholar died this morning at home. Dad waited until he was alone with Mom. She kissed him on the forehead and he breathed his last breath. We take comfort in some of his last words...

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Alastair Roberts

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5 years

America, as you endure another seemingly interminable election season, please remember that my country fought an ENTIRE WAR to save you from this fate.

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Alastair Roberts

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11 months

It wasn't that the politics that had appealed to me were without truth. And their measure of truth was easy to focus upon when I was fixated upon bad critics. But when I turned to Christ and his words, I knew I had no defence. They just didn't breathe the Spirit of the gospels.

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I don't doubt there are some well-intentioned supporters of the position, but as a movement 'Christian Nationalism' seems to be diseased with racism, bitterness, and hatred, and not merely at its fringes. And there doesn't seem to be any sense of urgency in dealing with it.

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1 year

More singing from the Shrewsbury Psalm Roar with @TimVasbyBurnie . A truly wonderful day!

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Alastair Roberts

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1 year

He is very greatly changed from even a few years ago, but seeing my father face chronic degenerative illness with faith and with love for Christ, and my mother's courage and steadfast joy, is a repeated reminder of the things that really matter. This is what we are preparing for.

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Alastair Roberts

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11 months

Anyone even considering regarding Andrew Tate as a voice of reason for men and society after watching Tucker Carlson's interview with him should do a bit more research first.

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Alastair Roberts

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2 years

It never occurred to me before that Tolkien having the eagles carrying the hobbits back might have been a nod to his pub.

Jordan Ballor

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Tolkien frequented an establishment with this sign and never thought about the eagles carrying the ring into Mordor? Clearly not a plot hole...

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Alastair Roberts

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9 months

I think people don't register how far north Europe is and how far south North America is. The majority of the Canadian population lives further south than Switzerland.

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Honest, would you’ve known that most of the African continent is located in the Northern Hemisphere? More surprising bits geography trivia here:

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Some of you might be considering a Bible reading project for 2022. I have recently completed a full series of free audio reflections following the morning and evening prayer lections in the Daily Office Lectionary of this 2019 edition of the BCP (, 738ff.).

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In my experience, several people who are impossible to reason with and even quite abusive on social media can far more easily be related to in person. Some of them can even be really friendly. We only see limited aspects of people on social media.

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Just about to fly out to California and one of our best friends from California drops by to join us for breakfast in NYC! @DZRishmawy @suzania

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The Josh Hammer definition of justice as 'the rewarding of friends and the punishing of enemies within the confines of the rule of law' articulates a mindset that is increasingly popular. Whether on the left (кто кого?) or the right, it must be firmly rejected.

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The progressive oppressor/oppressed binary tends to deny true agency on both sides. On the one hand, the agency of oppressors, as it is premised upon and perpetuates injustice, is fundamentally illegitimate, so cannot truly be moral or responsible, only variously blameworthy.

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Liquid boiling and freezing simultaneously at its 'triple point', where solid, liquid, and gas are in equilibrium. (Don't even think it, you heretic!)

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2 years

And the Lord said, ‘Should I not pity New York, that great city, in which there are more than two million wine moms who do not respect right wing politics from the left, and also many cats?’

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And then, when the revelations emerged, Wolfe doubled down and attacked me for doxxing his friend (note, Wolfe's focus was on doxing, not false accusation). The real sin was my exposing his close friend's racist sentiments in a way that damaged him, not the sentiments themselves.

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2 years

While patiently waiting for the full information, which will come, I would recommend that people ponder why @PerfInjust would like this tweet of @TuliusAadland 's from November 2020 and why Stephen followed the account of this supposed impostor.

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I’m back on this account just to meme.

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I think it is very important to pay attention to the phenomenon of Andrew Tate and not simply to pathologize the young man who feel drawn to his message, but Tate is a very evil man and it is crucial not to lose sight of that fact.

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Ep. 9 The Andrew Tate interview

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what’s the oldest event where we know the precise day it happened?

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Most Twitter drama is a profound waste of our time and serves only to heighten the profile of attention-seekers. Unless we want to become shallow people, we should largely ignore it, devoting ourselves to meaningful conversation and reading material with substance.

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Little do the young guys accusing @PLeithart of capitulating to some contemporary spirit of simpery realize that the granddaddy of Theopolitan crypto-feminism, James Jordan himself, was saying all this back in the 80s and 90s!

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Woman is the second form of humanity (Gen 2). Not secondary, but final, eschatological. The Bride is what humanity looks like when it’s all growed up, when mankind is glorified to become like her Husband (Rev 21).

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This really is a great way to ensure that the general public will have much less access to art in the future.

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BREAKING: Just Stop Oil activists have glued themselves to Leonardo de Vinci's The Last Supper at the Royal Academy. More follows...

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There are huge problems on this front in the US, but the abysmal shallowness or lack of catechesis and Christian education in the UK seems FAR more pervasive and systemic. Serious Christian schooling, all age Sunday school, lay theological literacy, etc. are all extremely rare.

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Theology nerd camp.

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Praying for the people of Israel after these evil attacks. May God bring justice and peace.

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2 years

My full statement is still to come, but here are some receipts from Rod for starters. And now we should all consider the indicators that Wolfe knew this all along and consider his behaviour from the last few days—and the character of his broader project—accordingly.

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Alastair Roberts

@zugzwanged

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In the season of Pentecost, I am reminded of this perceptive passage from Oliver O'Donovan's 'The Desire of the Nations'. Why did Jesus not deliver the Jews from the Romans? Surely this is what they deliverance would have required? His remarks are striking.

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Alastair Roberts

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A faithful Church will often tend to have the effect of tempering and relativizing people's loyalties to their national and ethnic groups. It is worth considering the example of the Apostle Paul here.

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Alastair Roberts

@zugzwanged

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Would you rather live in the hellscape of social media and be regularly mugged by users demanding that you answer ever more bizarre hypothetical questions, or would you rather live in the beauty of reality?

Susannah Black Roberts

@suzania

8 months

Would you rather live in the country in an area of great natural beauty but you will get sprayed by a skunk three times in your life, or in the country in a post-industrial slagscape of old coal mines and scrubby tertiary-growth trees but you will never get sprayed?

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Alastair Roberts

@zugzwanged

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Spending time in the Bible and prayer really can feel like breathing the purest air after being in a sickly miasma. It can also reveal just how toxic the atmosphere we typically inhabit actually is. We have unclean lips and we dwell among people of unclean lips.

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Alastair Roberts

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2 years

The biblical principle of love for neighbour is not the same as a principle of generic love for every person: it provides an immediate focus for our realm of our moral concern and duty, making it real and practical.

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Alastair Roberts

@zugzwanged

2 years

Instead of doing lots of teaching in a long (and typically repetitive) sermon, divide the congregation into all-age Sunday school classes and give instruction designed to stretch people at whatever level their understanding might be.

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Alastair Roberts

@zugzwanged

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That Christianity rejects the idea forgiveness merely means 'no biggie' and that even the most wicked sinners—people who have done truly horrendous things—can know the forgiveness of God remains one of the great scandals of the faith. But there is no hope for us without it.

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Alastair Roberts

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There really is no substitute for knowing the actual text of the Bible really, really well. Without such knowledge, your hearing and your use of it will tend to be poor.

Dustin Benge

@DustinBenge

1 year

Poor knowledge of Scripture results in poor use of Scripture.

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Alastair Roberts

@zugzwanged

6 years

What are the five books that have most deeply formed you?

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Alastair Roberts

@zugzwanged

2 years

I've criticized @PerfInjust , but after his withdrawal of his statements on interethnic marriage and support for the good of Americans of all ethnicities intermarrying to solidify their identity as one people, Kinists are now recognizing clear water between their position and his.

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