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Cultural historian. Asst. Professor @spst1958 . Regular @anxious_bench . Medieval Chivalry & the Making of Anabaptist Identity forthcoming w/ @AmsterdamUPress .

Oklahoma City, OK

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Jake

1 month

Here’s a fun one! Over the next few weeks, @ansleyquiros and I will be thinking out loud and talking together about @Matt_A_Sutton ’s provocative take on evangelicalism’s historical identity. Who Are Evangelicals, Again? Two Historians Weigh In -

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Who Are Evangelicals, Again? Two Historians Weigh In

In a recent, already field-defining, essay in the Journal of the American Academy of Religion, historian Matthew Avery Sutton offers a historiography of In a recent, already field-defining, essay in...

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2 years

Simply begging people calling Beth Moore unchristian for using romantic language in spiritual contexts to read *anything* by medieval Christians.

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6 months

I want a Graves Into Gardens worship bridge that keeps listing all the stuff God turns into other stuff YOU TURN STICKS INTO SNAKES *bum bum bum bum* YOU TURN WIVES INTO SALT *bum bum bum bum* YOU TURN WATER TO BLOOD YOURE THE ONLY ONE WHO CAN

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2 years

One of the weirdest things I've encountered this semester is that my students--both Catholic and Protestants--refer to a "Catholic" religion and a "Christian" religion. Like, Protestants are Christians and Catholics are Catholics. It irks me to no end.

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1 year

And here is why Christianity cannot align itself with world powers and remain the faith of the Crucified One. The Powers: "I'm not going to feed electricity or water to my enemies." The Servant: "I say to you, if your enemy is thirsty, give them something to drink."

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Chay Bowes

1 year

On Sky news ex Israeli PM Naftali Bennett was asked- "What about the babies in incubators in Gaza who's life support has been turned off because the Israelis have cut off the power" His answer - Are you serious asking about Palestinian civilians? What's wrong with you?

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HEY YOUNG MEN are you tired of turning the other cheek are you ready to cast the first stone ready to send Mary back to the kitchen with her sister does the thought of wielding carnal weapons against flesh and blood make you giddy with glee WE HAVE THE SEMINARY FOR YOU

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5 months

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2 years

I just found out that there's a Baptist church in my area that only ever does communion privately and individually--like, "during the last song go to a station and take some communion if you feel so led..." I am going to scream.

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2 months

How. You. Deal. With. Sources. Determines. The. Quality. Of. Your. Argument. Scholarship doesn't run on vibes. Good grief.

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1 year

Colin Firth as Billy Graham

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1 year

Luther had strong opinions on dads changing diapers, too!

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If a man is ever changing diapers, there is something seriously wrong with the relationship or with the order of the home. It is a sign the family has much bigger problems.

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11 months

My dude, Christians were doing theology in Chinese as early as the 7th century. This is racist and shows an ignorance of Christian history and theology.

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Nate Fischer

11 months

Some languages lack the vocabulary to concisely distinguish concepts. This is particularly true of languages without a long history engaging Christian thought. Fortunately, English has a rich vocabulary for the expression of these distinctions, offering an opportunity to grow.

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9 months

Beware of lists like this about Jesus: Jesus - - scatters the proud - brings down the powerful from their thrones - fills the hungry - sends the rich away empty - brings good news to the poor - releases the captives - gives sight to the blind - frees the oppressed

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2 years

Want US culture and law to better reflect Christian morality? Instead of blasphemy laws, some good places to start might be: - paying livable wages - investing in public education - addressing food insecurity - taking care of sick people

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5 months

I do not say this lightly at all. This is one of the dumbest things I've heard said from a church platform.

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Dean Defuria

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“There’s no such thing as PTSD. There’s no such thing as OCD. There’s no such thing as ADHD.” — John MacArthur

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1 year

I don’t know too many families who get together for an hour a week to sit facing a stage instead of one another and pay one of the family members to prepare an hour-long speech. Can church be a family? ABSOLUTELY. Is Sunday gathering important? Completely. But let’s be honest.

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2 years

A little personal news: I'm very happy to say I've accepted a position as Assistant Professor of the History of Christianity at Saint Paul School of Theology at OKC University! It's an incredible blessing and a unique opportunity to do what I love for the good of the church.

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2 years

Wolfe’s Christian Nationalism may have enjoyed some time in the sun pre-release—and it may still in some popular circles—but these kinds of brilliant and mercenary academic reviews are going to keep coming. The project is intellectually destitute.

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A Children's Crusade

Stephen Wolfe and "The Great Restoration"

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2 years

i like to imagine the desiring god ideas board is just clippings from gq, cigar aficionado and field and stream with post-it notes that say "theology?" and "biblical reference?" sprawled haphazardly among them. and yes, i think dg is basically a lifestyle brand at this point.

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1 year

Butler is in scary territory here. Why? Because he is dangerously close to denying the teaching of Jesus. Jesus says that the icon of kingdom abundance and new creation is *specifically* not childbirth but Spirit-birth. Baptism, not sex, bears witness to the work of the Spirit.

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Sheila Gregoire--She Deserves Better is here!

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1 year

Josh Butler (of "that" TGC article) and Christopher West talk the ethics of contraception. "A condom dams up the “river of life,” preventing its life-giving waters from reaching the opposite shore. " Plus it's like killing Grandma.

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6 months

Southern Baptists after the Trump abortion post

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2 years

This is definitely problematic, and something evangelicals need to get a grasp on. A youth setting where adult pastors come in as a spiritual authority with little accountability *AND* see the female student population as a dating pool strikes me as very unsafe.

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Amy Smith

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Matt Chandler met his wife when she was a high school camp student and he was the camp pastor.

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11 months

@CraigACarter1 Craig, Christians historically have been at the forefront of anti-Jewish hate from antiquity on. And anti-Muslim rhetoric, as your tweet illustrates. If you’re looking for culprits of anti-Semitic and/or anti-Muslim speech, I’d be interrogating that 53% first.

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10 months

God is on the side of the poor, the trampled, the dispossessed. That isn’t a partisan reality, but it is taking a side. Precious few Christians in the US think about their social commitments on those terms. And that is the very uncomfortable reality.

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Josh Howerton

10 months

A very uncomfortable reality: As secular progressivism increasingly hijacks the Left, and (as Mark Sayers has insightfully shown) the organizing principle of secularism is an "exorcism of Christianity", we are going to have to acknowledge some awkward 'partisan' realities.

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Y'all, SBC publishing in the 1980s was the Wild West. This was a book on world missions published by Broadman Press, the official SBC publisher, in 1981. God broke up Pangea and sent Columbus to the Caribbean instead of North America so Baptists could keep the pure gospel!!!

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4 months

I see it’s time for this again

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Dr. Naomi Wolf

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Reading the Hebrew Gospel of Matthew, in Hebrew. This text’s word choices give a significantly different picture of Jesus, than do English translations from Greek or Latin. This Gospel depict a Jewish rabbi engaged in recognizably Jewish scholarly activities, and the later

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2 years

Something I've been thinking about: Our profound discomfort with how strange the Bible is + our impulse to jump straight to application leads us to spackle over the cultural gaps between us and antiquity. Examples abound. For instance...

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2 years

The doctor is in!

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30 days

Evangelicals have been catechized to become single-issue and single-party voters. The single party has now trashed the single issue. The cognitive dissonance will break a lot of folks.

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9 months

Honest question: are there any modern theologians promoting just war theory who don’t come from wealthy, powerful nations with interventionist proclivities?

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5 months

I love how he’s just winging it. Just off the ol’ dome. “How could we do it? What about every year, Congress puts on a passion play at the White House. Or maybe the Vice President has to go to a constitutionally approved seminary to get an MDiv”

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Christian nationalist Doug Wilson says there are various way for the US to officially establish itself as a Christian nation. For instance, "the Apostle’s Creed could be incorporated into the Constitution."

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2 years

Prayers up! I defend my dissertation today at 3 PM!

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2 years

@AlsoACarpenter Hey, here he is promoting white supremacist theology in 1980.

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1 year

Listen, I’ve got to admit it’s a bit sus that inerrancy never got trotted out by the powers that be in defense of anti-war stances, labor reforms, poor relief, or the abolition of wealth in churches.

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Kristin Du Mez

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OK, let's do this again. Butterfield: "Du Mez wants you to believe that politics is the primary reason conservatives embrace biblical inerrancy...not because we believe this honors God..." No, Du Mez draws on hist studies demonstrating how "inerrancy" was selectively applied.1/

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Isolate yourself from the broader Christian movement, from historical context, from other forms of knowledge, this is what you get. Stream of consciousness. Ideas. Just one guy's ideas. 🧵

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Empathy, Feminism, and the Church | Joseph Rigney

Women's Ordination is Indeed a Watershed Issue

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1 year

Call me crazy but I’d say wealth is to our culture what wealth was to the rich young ruler.

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Josh Howerton

1 year

"Sexuality is to our culture what wealth was to the Rich Young Ruler." –– @jrvassar

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6 months

The “feminization” of American religion is a myth. Women have been the heart of American Christianity from the get-go.

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Brad Wilcox

6 months

It’s happening. A majority of those confirmed, received & baptized tonight at STA/ @CatholicHoos were… Men. Definitely seeing more & more signs that the feminization of American religion may be over.

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Complementarians: Egalitarianism wants to erase gender differences! They want women to be just like men! Au contraire, good sires. It’s precisely *because* women are different from men that the church needs them in places of authority. “If the whole body were an eye” &c.

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1 year

@storyofndblake Hebrews says Moses was faithful as a servant of the house, Jesus was faithful as a son. Echoes the language of prophets as servants and Messiah as son in the parable of the tenants. Seems like there's a pretty consistent argument for Christ's unique authority.

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“The Scriptures are shallow enough for a babe to come and drink without fear of drowning and deep enough for a theologians to swim in without ever touching the bottom” -infamous translator of scripture into the vulgar tongue, St. Jerome

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Solomon Svehla

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The Word is not a book; the Word is the Christ who incarnates in all things—including the tradition’s canon of scripture.

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1 year

Today we left our home of 6 years. Our first home. Where we celebrated first publications, job promotions, job resignations (😏). Where we quarantined. Where we had kids. Where we said goodbye to kids. A lot of joy and sadness in this home.

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1 year

i will never get over how lazy of a country music word salad zac brown’s chicken fried is Fried chicken Jeans Touching babies? Beer Radio music Our troops

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2 years

I love course evals. Where else can you get--side by side-- - "He changed my life and the way I read the Bible" and - "He only seeks to please the world and doesn't realize the privilege of teaching the Word of God--not exaltation of God at all"

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“To kill a man is not to defend a doctrine. It is to kill a man.” - Sebastian Castellio, 1554

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2 years

Hey kid. Thanks for making me a dad.

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2 years

Tom, if you have excess, that doesn’t belong to you. It belongs to those who need it. Christian teaching is that it’s you who are stealing if you keep if for yourself in a time of need.

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Tom Ascol @tomascol

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So is @ksp saying that now that Roe v Wade is overturned we should steal from people & redistribute what is stolen to pregnant moms? Am I understanding this correctly? Is this what they mean about “saying the quiet part out loud?”

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1 year

Hear me out: the Beaker of the House

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2 years

Okay, since @aimeebyrdPYW decided to put this in front of my eyes, I'm going to offer some running commentary because it reveals a lot of the common holes in this type of argumentation. I've got time today. Prepare for a long 🧵

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8 months

@ExaminingMoscow So the parent designed by God to stay at home and train up the children in...checks notes...holiness and ethical living is terminally hampered by her own biological inability to uphold ethical boundaries. Makes complete sense.

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2 years

Hey, @JPokluda , it’s not too late to come back from these statements. You have an immense influence on many of my students who I care for deeply. I ask you to steward that influence well by humbling yourself in this moment. Wacoans don’t need heroes, just sensitive shepherds.

@bethallisonbarr

Beth Allison Barr, PhD

@bethallisonbarr

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I understand being attacked on social media. I understand not feeling like I deserved that attack. I understand how terrible that can make you feel. I also understand realizing I am wrong and publicly apologizing for it. I do not understand sensually describing....

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@kkdumez @LucySRAusten It’s almost as if thoughtful and nuanced critique, as well as openness to learn, are highly valuable currency in academic discourse.

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2 years

When someone says “only 700 cases in the whole SBC?” Just keep in mind, the vast majority of sexual abuse cases, especially among minors, aren’t identified, and even fewer are reported.

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11 months

@joe_rigney “Are sheep ever complicit in their own theft and slaughter?” is not a question a shepherd asks, Joe.

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2 months

Unpopular opinion (and don’t mean to be a Debra Downer), but I thought this was a bit uncouth on Walt’s part. Vance will cook himself just fine without this kind of middle school stuff from the platform.

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Secular Talk🎙

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Republicans are reaching levels of cooked we haven’t seen since FDR

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2 months

Incredible.

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1 year

The way most US churches operate, the family dynamic comes outside Sunday morning, not during (or maybe during if you have Sunday school). And the “family” aspect comes from unconditional love, shared identity and a crisis care network, not from punctuality.

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8 months

In the end, this is a silly article--not because its subject matter is trivial, but in part because it lacks the very substance which its author argues is necessary for leaders to exemplify: logic, fact-based approaches, and prizing intellect over emotion.

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2 years

On Eph. 5 & Josh Butler: After reading the free bits offered by @TGC I'm v convinced that 1 of the big issues w/ Butler's thesis is what @LauraRbnsn pointed out: He misreads Eph 5 as being about *sex*, not about marriage. He says the "great mystery" is man & wife have sex 1/4

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7 months

I honestly think so so many people confuse the founding of the nation with the founding of Massachusetts Bay Colony.

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Joe Rigney

7 months

One of the strongest arguments for voting for Trump is what this article lays out— an administration filled with people who believe “that the country was founded as a Christian nation and that Christian values should be prioritized throughout government and public life,” that

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2 years

Hey-o!

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2 months

All the accounts denouncing Imane Khelif as a "man punching a woman" would do well to 1) stop, 2) read the actual reporting on her career, and 3) not make women athletes' bodies fodder for culture wars.

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2 years

The only real ways to encourage your pastor during the preaching event: 1. very slowly mouth “YOURE DOING GREAT” with raised eyebrows and two enthusiastic thumbs up any time they look in your direction 2. Meet them in the lobby with a small bouquet to congratulate them

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6 months

Just read from a seminary prof where he says God rescued him from theological liberalism in his 20s. His “liberalism” consisted of 1) liking Stanley Hauerwas, 2) liking pacifism, and 3) not liking penal substitution. …that’s where we’re at in the polarization of theo education

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8 months

Joe Rigney spends this piece praising men for cold rationalism and fact-based decision making and lambasting women leaders as emotionally captive. It's ironic that he cites no data. He runs on pure vibes.

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1 year

🧵An observation: The "seeker-sensitive" missional strategies of a previous generation have become the out-of-touch traditions of the church to Gen Z. Fog, lights, band, huge auditoriums, media, are in many cases only attractive to young people who have grown up in the faith.

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2 years

Welp, here she is.

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You want to model biblical manhood and womanhood? Step one: “when I became a man, I put away childish things…” 1 Cor 13 Many never get past this first step.

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2 months

This is just cut-and-dry bad form from @megbasham .

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Neil Shenvi

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I just finished the Introduction of @megbasham 's Shepherd's for Sale. My review will focus more on broader themes than on factual issues, but I spot-checked some of the endnotes for material I recognized. I'll post the results below without commentary. 1/

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@mbird12 “The Bible is not impressive by pagan standards” Bart Ehrman 🤝 Augustine

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2 years

The official announcement. I’m very eager to jump in with this excellent faculty and staff (I don’t know the students yet, but I have it on good authority they’re quite lovely as well 😁)

@spst1958

Saint Paul School of Theology

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Saint Paul School of Theology is pleased to announce that Dr. Jacob Randolph has accepted the position of Assistant Professor of History of Christianity. Read more at #spst

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Something I've figured out as a professor. We treat higher ed like a certification program. Show up, take the test, get the paper. But college is actually more like a gym membership. You're not actually paying for education. You're paying for *access* to education.

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2 years

Today I put images in and finished the bibliography for my dissertation. Defense is in 2 weeks. It's getting close!

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2 years

I'm very pleased to share that I've been awarded the 2022 Julian Gwyn Prize in Baptist and Anabaptist History and Thought! You can read "'Tough and Tender'" here:

@Acadia_CBAS

Acadia Centre for Baptist and Anabaptist Studies

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Jacob Randolph has been named the 2022 Julian Gwyn Prize winner for his work entitled, “Tough and Tender’: Theology and Masculinity in the 1991 Baptist Hymnal.” Read more about his work: /jacob-randolph-wins-essay-prize/

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@thescottbarber Nah, you'd think so, but that's booby trap. This is the hammer of a carpenter

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Jake

7 months

Very excited to announce that I've signed a contract with Amsterdam University Press to publish my book! It's tentatively titled _Medieval Chivalry and the Making of Anabaptist Identity, 1525-1560_. Excited to share this work with y'all in the near future!

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2 years

@bethallisonbarr I'm VERY flexible when it comes to worship practices, but a 45 minute sermon and communion pushed to the margin is worth raising a finger over.

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@kkdumez Powerful statement. "Our community has taught young women and men...how to make a Gospel-centered, compassionate home within themselves where they can welcome others as Christ..."

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2 years

One of my favorite Luther quotes on the nativity. It illustrates one of his great strengths as a theologian: the man was laser-focused on the immanence and condescension of God in the incarnation.

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@kkdumez Quite a shift over the last few years from “I hope these studies help us evangelicals stop, rethink, and rebuild more faithfully” to “Pay them no mind. Just keep doing you.”

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Framed and ready for the office!

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In the interest of historical veracity, I must inform everyone that Luther and Calvin would be puzzled too by complementarian claims that women are equally intelligent and gifted to men.

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Nobody prepared me for the unexpected weeping that will occasionally burst upon me while reading the gospels as an adult. Inconvenient while trying to make Christmas Eve pancakes.

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🧵🧵This will get pushback, but I think it's a strong assessment. The SBC's institutional focus has become in-group purity and a renewed suspicion of cultural differences and outside sources of knowledge. Everyone's mind has been on the Law Amendment, but remember...

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Sam Rainer

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The SBC's decline corresponds with the shift towards fundamentalism and away from evangelicalism. What was a big-tent conservative group is becoming a narrow fundamentalist group. I do not anticipate the SBC changing course any time soon. Thus, declines will continue. #SBC24

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This kind of data is important not only for accurate interpretation, but application as well! But since we don't have the same class structure in 21st c US, we skip over all that to the parts that seemingly match up with our experience: childhood and male/female distinctions.

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You shouldn't be able to read the New Testament's emphasis on being born again or craving spiritual milk like newborns and avoid thinking about God's motherhood. We do, but we shouldn't get away with it.

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TIMOTHY NOOOOOOOOOOO

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Timothy Keller (1950-2023)

1 year

If you see Jesus losing the infinite love of the Father out of His infinite love for you, it will infinitely melt the hardness of your heart.

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2 years

One thing I think premodern Christians got right that we get wrong is that they measured a Christian hero giving more weight to ethics and piety than intellectual prowess. The theological genius of early and medieval saints arose from a life well lived.

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2 years

Me just hanging out after a pandemic, a dissertation, and 3 kids

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1 year

@LauraRbnsn Can we just allow that advocates will disagree, sometimes pretty strongly, on strategy without calling their integrity into question every single time? There’s a threshold, sure, but good Lord let’s give people some space to navigate the complex landscape

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2 years

Can’t express how excited I am about this.

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2 years

I will never get tired of this video.

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1 year

If you personally know of folks who are struggling to be present, that’s a private pastoral conversation to learn, not berate. If people not showing up is endemic in your church, maybe the rest of the church isn’t as familiar as the people being paid to be there on time?

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Jake

2 years

Very saddened to hear of Ron Sider’s passing. He was an instrumental advocate for non-violence and economic justice in white evangelical spaces, and his voice will be missed.

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2 years

In the process of Christianizing Germanic tribes, church leaders would repurpose the old pagan holy sites, sanctifying their use for the worship of the triune God. If you ask me, this is just embracing tradition. 🤷🏻‍♂️

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Culture Critic

2 years

Americans really convert old Pizza Huts into churches and wonder why church attendance is declining.

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Jake

2 years

In household codes, "children obey your parents" seems natural enough to us. No problem there. But we miss that "children" here included adult children who were expected to obey the paterfamilias and contribute to the well-being of the family.

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2 years

Are the limits in our imagination for what “being in Christian community” means informed by capitalism? Anecdotally, I think most evangelical small group members would be more open to share a deep-seated sin than to ask for help with debt and, if true, that’s revelatory.

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1 year

@ZacharyCWagner In much of medieval Christian reflection the opposite of manliness isn’t femininity but childishness. I think that’s instructive in the interaction I’ve seen today.

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2 years

@thescottbarber This is one of the problems with Josh’s stream. It’s a world populated with only superheroes and supervillains—no citizens. Every pastor a Paul and every dissenter a Judaizer.

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@kkdumez Didn’t take Jeff to be a big John Lewis guy but yes by all means read more John Lewis!

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2 years

@JJ_Denhollander @DennyBurk It's not lost on me that a man's pleasure is inherently bound up in potentially procreative sex. It's not optional. But imagine a world where 15-20% of men experienced dysorgasmia or regularly unpleasant sexual encounters--I imagine that "perhaps" would disappear pretty quickly.

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