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Rev. Malcolm Foley, PhD

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Rev. Malcolm Foley, PhD

@MalcolmBFoley

2 years

When the choice is to suffer or dominate, suffer. When the choice is to suffer or exploit, suffer. When the choice is to suffer or attack, suffer. This is the way of the cross.

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@MalcolmBFoley

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Lynching scholar here. Don’t watch the lynching. It shapes and forms you. We know that police violence is an inevitable and brutal element of the system. Yes, it is evil. Invest your time in the material and political support of your neighbor as resistance. Eat. Sleep. Love.

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Rev. Malcolm Foley, PhD

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Historical hint: if someone refers to a "race riot" from 1880 to 1930, what they're referring to is a mass lynching in which some Black people defended themselves.

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Rev. Malcolm Foley, PhD

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4 years

Big news! The Lord has been extremely gracious and I'm going to have a full-time job at @Baylor !! I've been appointed to be: Special Advisor to the President for Equity and Campus Engagement and Director of Black Church Studies at Truett Seminary. Thanks to @LindaLlivings !

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3 years

Dr. Foley is in the house. #PhDone

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@MalcolmBFoley

2 years

A glorious day today… My second daughter, Junia Corynn Foley, is born!

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Rev. Malcolm Foley, PhD

@MalcolmBFoley

3 years

You know how I know we’re not a “Christian nation”? Because if Christians orchestrated widespread genocide and racialized chattel slavery, building their land and wealth on human death and exploitation…there would be a whole lot of enthusiastic repentance and reparation.

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Rev. Malcolm Foley, PhD

@MalcolmBFoley

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Capitalism is fundamentally about self-interest and ultimately hoping that the self-interest of others incidentally coincides with yours. Christianity is fundamentally about the denial of self-interest. Like…it’s not actually a debate. They’re different political economies.

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@MalcolmBFoley

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Let’s get back to being a faith that folks ridicule as a religion of the poor and the outcast. Let the world ridicule us because of our unrelenting welcome, elevation and commitment to the liberation of the poor, marginalized and oppressed.

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Rev. Malcolm Foley, PhD

@MalcolmBFoley

2 years

Jesus didn’t spend a lot of his time and energy trying to convince the religious leaders that the blind were blind, that the poor were poor and that the oppressed were oppressed. He just set folks free. Go and do likewise.

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Rev. Malcolm Foley, PhD

@MalcolmBFoley

5 years

If we as Christians are to err (which we will), let us err on the side of protecting the oppressed rather than protecting the powerful.

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@MalcolmBFoley

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And on Friday, July 17th, a warrior gave birth to a warrior. Jasmyne Ida Foley was born. Yes, her middle name bears witness to the most important anti-lynching crusader in American history. She bears the beauty of Black history in her precious form.

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Rev. Malcolm Foley, PhD

@MalcolmBFoley

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"Laws can't save people. Only Jesus can!" MLK: It may be true that the law cannot change the heart, but it can restrain the heartless. It may be true that the law can’t make a man love me, but it can restrain him from lynching me, and I think that’s pretty important also.

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Rev. Malcolm Foley, PhD

@MalcolmBFoley

4 years

On speaking truth to power: David may not repent, but Nathan still must speak.

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@MalcolmBFoley

2 years

The fact that the Christian church is not commonly known as a robustly anti-greed institution is a SERIOUS indictment. It ought to be one of the most recognizable things about us.

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Rev. Malcolm Foley, PhD

@MalcolmBFoley

3 years

I just think you all should know that I made it through a PhD without a drop of coffee. This probably makes me a psychopath.

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@MalcolmBFoley

4 years

Let's remember that White Christianity lynched us on Sunday afternoon as well after advertising it on Sunday morning.

Pastor Ben

@BenjaminPDixon

4 years

We don’t talk enough about how white Christianity used to lynch us on Saturday night and then go to church on Sunday morning.

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Rev. Malcolm Foley, PhD

@MalcolmBFoley

3 years

We out here. #BaylorGrad

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@MalcolmBFoley

3 years

Just a yearly reminder that O Come O Come Emmanuel is the only Advent song that matters.

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@MalcolmBFoley

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This arrived today and I’m just hugging it… Took a lot of work to get this baby out.

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@MalcolmBFoley

4 years

Look, one day Tim Keller will put something out that isn't gold. Today is not that day.

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Rev. Malcolm Foley, PhD

@MalcolmBFoley

4 years

19 years ago, I was pulled out of school by my mom and my pastor. This was the only day in my life my mom ever told me to play video games. Why? To distract me from the fact that we hadn't heard from my dad in hours and he was in the hotel across from the World Trade Center...

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Rev. Malcolm Foley, PhD

@MalcolmBFoley

5 years

A little while ago, my ancestors were taxable income on the Foley plantation. Now my dad's Chief Judge of the US Tax Court. Later, my great-great-grandfather fled Mississippi because a lynch mob was after him. I'm doing a PhD on lynching. O, the depths of the grace of our God!

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@MalcolmBFoley

3 years

1st lesson of American History: Legal ≠ Right.

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@MalcolmBFoley

2 years

Jesus said it was impossible for a rich person to enter into the Kingdom of God. I feel like we should sit with that and organize our ambitions accordingly.

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Rev. Malcolm Foley, PhD

@MalcolmBFoley

4 years

The cries of the grieving often sound foreign to those unacquainted with the pain.

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Rev. Malcolm Foley, PhD

@MalcolmBFoley

5 years

So it turns out that this is going to be possibly the most momentous year of my entire life. Planning to finish my dissertation, be ordained, AND BECOME A FATHER. Y'all ain't ready. Baby Foley 'bout to drop like a 🔥 mixtape.

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Rev. Malcolm Foley, PhD

@MalcolmBFoley

3 years

Dissertation quote of the day: "A church silent in the face of lynching was worthy of more than a Christ-like temple cleansing; it was worthy of a Samson-like temple toppling."

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@MalcolmBFoley

3 years

Twenty years ago on #September11th , a terrifying day for my family, I got pulled out of lunch in sixth grade. They called my name because my mom and pastor had come to pick me up. I didn’t know why but I was going home! I would find out why later…

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Rev. Malcolm Foley, PhD

@MalcolmBFoley

4 years

Historical note: in 1880, James Webster Smith, the first Black cadet in West Point's history was found gagged, bound and beaten with his ears slit. The other cadets said he did it to himself. Also, Black people don't publicly hang themselves on trees. Not a thing. Ever.

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Rev. Malcolm Foley, PhD

@MalcolmBFoley

3 years

Well, just basically preached against white supremacy, capitalism and war on a Christian campus. Let’s see if I make it home to Waco!

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@MalcolmBFoley

4 years

Hey. The message of the Resurrection is not a generic statement of human possibility or general uplift. It is the particular message that the unique Son of God took on flesh and took on Sin and Death and for the first time in history, they ran up on Someone they couldn't beat.

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Rev. Malcolm Foley, PhD

@MalcolmBFoley

2 years

Sorry, y’all. I’m not on board when dear brother Russell Moore calls Christian nationalism “liberation theology for white people.”

Liberation Theology for White People: The Preferential Option for Moore

I offer a brief reflection today and one that is perhaps more theological than my other pieces. To add to the cascade of sources and writings decrying

www.patheos.com

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Rev. Malcolm Foley, PhD

@MalcolmBFoley

3 years

Every year, as I mourn both those lost and the fear and xenophobia that overtook us, I also thank the Lord for preserving my dad. Terrorism in its many forms has taken many Black lives, but not my dad. Not this time. He got to see a granddaughter 19 years later.

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Rev. Malcolm Foley, PhD

@MalcolmBFoley

3 years

Well, it happened. The church that I serve/basically co-pastor voted almost unanimously to leave the PCA. Here’s why I’m tweeting about it. I have an invitation.

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Rev. Malcolm Foley, PhD

@MalcolmBFoley

2 years

Some personal news: Do you want to free yourself and your communities from the demonic cycle of self interest that undergirds both race and capitalism? Well, have I got the book for you. Actually, I’m writing it with @BrazosPress ! Coming in 2025!

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@MalcolmBFoley

4 years

To my white brothers and sisters, you would do well to spend time considering the ways in which white supremacist structures, thoughts and actions actually deform you. Oppression is bad for everyone actually.

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@MalcolmBFoley

4 years

Like I said, Ahmaud Arbery was lynched.

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@MalcolmBFoley

4 years

Today, it's real. I joined the ranks of @Baylor 's senior administration (WHAT?!) by the grace of God to serve the marginalized and to serve the institution. Looking forward to it (and inching ever further from Mr. Foley toward Dr. Foley!!)

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@MalcolmBFoley

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Image of God Thread: I keep seeing people talking about the image of God as though it is primarily or solely about human dignity and since my current research is on lynching, it takes me a few moments to remember why: it's a Western Christianity account.

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@MalcolmBFoley

4 years

The Gospel is personal, communal, and cosmic. De-emphasize any one of those at your peril!

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@MalcolmBFoley

2 years

I see we’re back defending the thought and legacies of slaveholders again. Are we really still that desperate for heroes that we feel the need to defend those in public, flagrant and unrepentant sin? Give me Jesus. There are no other heroes.

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@MalcolmBFoley

3 years

Glad that the lynching of Ahmaud Arbery won’t go unrecognized and unaddressed. Lamenting that it ever happened. Praying and working to keep it from happening again.

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@MalcolmBFoley

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The Lord preserved him that day. He was the first Black judge on the US Tax Court and now he's the first Black Chief Judge of that court. Every day, I'm thankful for the example of a godly father who makes it easy for me to know God as Father.

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Rev. Malcolm Foley, PhD

@MalcolmBFoley

2 years

I get deep into American history and one of my prevailing thoughts is, “We’re exceptional all right…in our violence!” Then I get deep into world history and think, “Oh. No, it’s basically everybody.”

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@MalcolmBFoley

3 years

Two days till the Twitter handle changes to Malcolm Foley, Ph.D…God willing.

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@MalcolmBFoley

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I’m thankful that I didn’t lose him that day. He has been, for me, a model of godly, Christ-like manhood: an example of loving and serving his wife, kids and all those in his path. To this day, my favorite gift from him was a pen engraved with the words, “Well pleased indeed".

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@MalcolmBFoley

4 years

If you start noticing that I use "racism" less and terms like white supremacy, whiteness, and white normativity more to describe our predicament, it's because apparently the first is too nebulous and people still want to hide. Precision will find you even if you scurry.

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@MalcolmBFoley

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On this day, I remember that so many weapons are arrayed against our lives. Yet the Lord has seen fit to give us another day. So I'll lament the lost, laugh with my dad, and look to the Lord in His providence.

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@MalcolmBFoley

4 years

As I go back to my dissertation (Rev. Dr. is coming!), one more word of encouragement: The deeper you get into this, the more you will find that the tendrils of white supremacy are long and its talons are deep. You will need more than duty to continue. You will need hope.

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@MalcolmBFoley

3 years

Well, if the folks in my congregation don’t learn about the racialization of our society in their schools and their responsibility to battle its injustices, I guess they’ll have to learn it in our church…from our sermons, from our pastoral care, and from the power of the Supper.

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@MalcolmBFoley

3 years

It's not leftist to say that America was founded on white supremacy. It's true. White supremacy set and dictated many of the material conditions and laws. These ideas were enshrined in the (legal!) justifications for the genocide of the indigenous and the enslavement of Africans.

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@MalcolmBFoley

4 years

When we refer to racialized chattel slavery as an unqualified evil from the root to the fruit, we are not "imposing a foreign moral standard to people outside of our time." We are repeating the words of those who suffered under it. "They were people of their time" won't cut it.

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@MalcolmBFoley

3 years

We don’t have to spend our valuable time and energy always dragging people toward liberation. We can, by the Spirit, hold one another’s arms up as the battle is waged and won by our Savior. It’s about time we were free to live in union with Christ.

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@MalcolmBFoley

1 year

Y’all ever realize that Jesus’ parable about the rich fool who, because his storehouses are full, decides to build bigger ones is a perfect example of an indictment of capitalist accumulation and colonialist expansion? Luke 12:13-21 The most anti-Gospel of the vices is greed.

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@MalcolmBFoley

4 years

Happy to bring what I've got to the table!

Baylor University

@Baylor

4 years

We are happy to announce the appointment of Malcolm Foley as special advisor to the president for equity & campus engagement, and director of the Black church studies program at @TruettSeminary , effective July 1. (1/2)

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@MalcolmBFoley

2 years

May the day come when the first reaction when any outsider looks at our church budgets is, “Wow, it seems that these folks’ first priority is the needy.”

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@MalcolmBFoley

4 years

You know what needs to be standard across the board? Paternity leave.

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@MalcolmBFoley

3 years

It arrived. We out here.

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@MalcolmBFoley

3 years

Years of work and struggle culminated in today’s congregational meeting. After a unanimous vote… this coming Friday, I’ll be a Rev. Dr.! I’m elated to continue to preach and apply a personal, communal and cosmic gospel with @mosaic_waco !

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@MalcolmBFoley

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@MalcolmBFoley

4 years

Let me clarify my feelings about White Jesus. I don't have time for White Jesus. Instead, give me the real Jesus. The brown-skinned Palestinian Jewish Jesus of the Scriptures. The eternal Son who suffers with me and died for me. The Jesus who was raised and is coming back.

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@MalcolmBFoley

2 years

Officially been a pastor for a year! It’s great to have a church I love and one where I can truly be free!

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@MalcolmBFoley

3 years

Ok, ok. One more thing. And maybe it's just me who thinks this. In which case, cool. But racialized chattel slavery wasn't a blindspot. Involvement in it and profit from it counts as serious, public sin, and if there was no repentance, add unrepentant to the list.

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@MalcolmBFoley

2 years

Me and the homies.

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@MalcolmBFoley

2 years

I found a denominational statement of faith that I absolutely adore…perhaps at Westminster level.

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@MalcolmBFoley

2 years

Had the glorious pleasure of baptizing my infant daughter today. Welcome to the covenant family, Junia!

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@MalcolmBFoley

3 years

Rev. Dr. Ordination complete.

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@MalcolmBFoley

4 years

Today's take on racial justice: Discussion of methods is invited! But if there's a knife in my back, I do not want a surgery team with diversity of thought on whether I have a knife in my back. I want a team that sees the problem and wants me to live and thrive.

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@MalcolmBFoley

3 years

I love my PCA brothers and sisters. But I can’t submit to that system. I will continue to pray for those I know who can!

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@MalcolmBFoley

2 years

John Chrysostom on welfare reform: “For if you wish to show kindness, you must not require an accounting of a person’s life, but merely correct his poverty and fill his need.”

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@MalcolmBFoley

2 years

Always a joy to hang with my dissertation writing (and book writing) partner, @JemarTisby !

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@MalcolmBFoley

4 years

Uncontroversial Advent tweet: The best Advent hymn is O Come, O Come Emmanuel. Those who disagree will be swiftly and summarily canceled, blocked, muted and excluded without mercy.

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@MalcolmBFoley

3 years

More personal news since I can’t go a week without it: Wheaton named me one of their Faith and Learning Fellows alongside…some ridiculous names. IYKYK.

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Rev. Malcolm Foley, PhD

@MalcolmBFoley

1 year

If I have to choose between Augustine, Cicero, and Plato on one side and Jesus on the other side when it comes to violence, war, and whether it is ever justified… I’m siding with Jesus. At the core of the Christian ethic and gospel is enemy love and forgiveness.

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@MalcolmBFoley

3 years

When I graduate with this doctorate on Saturday, I will be wearing my regalia to the celebratory dinner, to sleep that night and to church the next day. Well, maybe not to sleep. But definitely around the house. Then my daughter can get to calling me The Reverend Doctor Daddy.

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@MalcolmBFoley

2 years

Welp, infant and a two year old. Con: productivity ‘bout to drop. Pro: I HAVE TWO DAUGHTERS NOW. The pro definitely outweighs the con.

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@MalcolmBFoley

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Guilty on all counts. Good to know that in this case, the court saw what we all saw. Now if we can form a system that adheres and conforms to the truth more often so that such events, proximate justice that they are, are less of a surprise.

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@MalcolmBFoley

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Things that annoy me to no end: PLEASE stop reading all trenchant critiques of capitalism as affirmations of state ownership of the means of production. It shows lazy thinking. Marx isn’t the only one who condemned capitalist exploitation. Enter: the Black radical tradition.

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@MalcolmBFoley

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Send up the prayers, saints. October 5th, I'll defend "Ought We Kiss the Hand that Smites Us?: Black Protestants in the Age of Lynching". Then it's Malcolm Foley, Ph.D.

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@MalcolmBFoley

2 years

Christopher Columbus on American indigenous folks: “They do not bear arms, and do not know them… With fifty men, we could subjugate them all and make them do whatever we want.” Yeah, you don’t need a day to celebrate you.

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@MalcolmBFoley

3 years

I was watching the documentary, Pray Away, which is about conversion therapy, where our gay and lesbian brothers, sisters and neighbors were in many cases called not to holiness but to heterosexuality and marriage. This led to depression, self-harm, suicide…and it makes sense...

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So for now, we’re Congregational. But I’m now also reaching out to Black Presbyterian women and men who have felt these same frustrations. DM me. I think it’s time to build a new table.

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Q: Why spend time railing against racism? A: Because it is idolatry, oppression and the justification thereof. Those are actually the things that God hates the most according to...every single Biblical prophet.

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@MalcolmBFoley

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Guess who's blurbing my book after I finish this dissertation?!?! Wonderful to meet you, brother @CornelWest and @Baylor was blessed to have you and @McCormickProf !

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@MalcolmBFoley

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To those who respond to the removal of Confederate monuments/flags with "Where does it end?", here's the answer. It ends when we're no longer causing, exacerbating, and enabling trauma. In other words, we've got a ways to go.

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The more we keep getting flooded with Dominionist garbage (Christians should take over the world by embedding themselves in positions of political and social power), the harder I’m going to Mennonite. I’m going to do so very, very aggressively.

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Lynching then and lynching now. This was at the top of my mind so writing it was easy in one way, excruciating in many other ways. #AhmaudArbery

Lynching Then and Lynching Now: Racial Justice as Christian Imperative

The killing of Ahmaud Arbery is tragically not an anomaly in American history: It is, rather, another tragic chapter in our nation's long story of lynching.

mereorthodoxy.com

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Happy #stutteringawarenessday ! I've stuttered since childhood, which you probably know if you've listened to me speak! Yet the Lord has still seen fit to put me in positions which require me to constantly speak. So I do it by His grace!

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I immediately dismiss national claims that "we're better than this", whatever "this" is. It was said about lynching, slavery and Jim Crow, none of which changed because of dramatic national moral shifts. Sorry.

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When you ethically affirm the image of God in your neighbors, you affirm their dignity, yes. But you also affirm their capability. As long as they live, bearing that image, the grace of God reaches out to them, beckoning them to life-giving covenant and cosmic redemption.

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Still true: if you're more concerned about riots than the men, women and children unjustly imprisoned and killed by the justice system... The nicest thing I can say is that there's some priorities you need to shift. The first of which is placing human life above...things.

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A note on credentials: When this PhD is done, best believe my daughter will call me Dr. Daddy (kidding) and it'll go in my Twitter bio (not kidding). There are far too few Black PhDs and I've done far too much work to act like speaking on history is a free-for-all.

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Hey, every small group in America. Value the time of your Black friends and instead of taking up all of their time, just read @JemarTisby . Unqualified recommendation from me.

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When I sat down to write a dissertation on how Black Christians affirmed their own dignity and maintained hope in the era of spectacle lynching... It didn't hit me that I'd actually be living it. Turns out we've still got a world poised for our death. Huh.

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If you are a pastor in this country, it is imperative that you disciple your congregation to love their neighbors wisely and well in a racialized society. If you are a Christian here, it is imperative that you demand this of your pastors. It is pastoral care.

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When I advocate for the people having access to and control over the means of production, I’m not getting it from Marx. I get it from Micah. In the day of the Lord, we will sit under our own vines and fig trees, y’all. And no one will make us afraid. Equity is the vision.

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From a fellow lynching scholar to your eyes and ears.

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Y'all! It's my debut on The Witness. And it's about the totally non-controversial topic of reading James Cone! Check it out. Thanks, @JemarTisby and @TheWitnessBCC !

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It’s really, REALLY uncomfortable to say that the nation’s economy was built on labor made available by human and sex trafficking but…that’s what American chattel slavery was. Makes us rethink our “nice slaveholders” who “treated their slaves like their own family”, doesn’t it?

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