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Joey Cochran

@jtcochran

9 years

Having a reformed doctrine is great. Having a reformed heart is better.

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Joey Cochran

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3 years

Controversial and unpopular idea. Stop pointing guns at humans filled with the breath of life and made in God’s image and likeness.

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Joey Cochran

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3 years

Honestly, I think we have a literacy crisis and some of it is related to a dismissal of the importance of the humanities. The church needs deep readers and thinkers teaching and leading in the church.

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Joey Cochran

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2 years

Jesus never concealed sin to protect power. Think on that for a bit.

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Joey Cochran

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3 years

I turned 39 today. Also, I successfully defended my dissertation today.

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Joey Cochran

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3 years

I had lunch with the current Sr. Pastor of my church home in Texas, and he asked to meet with me because he’s watched my social and he’s seen how it resonated with so many who had departed from his church in the past decade.

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Joey Cochran

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2 years

Well, it happened. Today the lay director of my Church’s Adult Sunday School passed along an outstanding throwback article from Philip Jenkins about evangelicalism and recommended I check out the website, the Anxious Bench. Reader, I am the editor of the Anxious Bench.

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Joey Cochran

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2 years

It’s so interesting that the evangelicals who enchanted me at youth conferences in the early 2000s are now the ones I am disenchanted with in the 2020s.

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Joey Cochran

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2 years

Today I want to celebrate one courageous woman. My wife. Kendall is 4’ 10”. The first time she was pregnant, her OB said that her pregnancy might be “at risk.” When she came to term, the OBs concern proved to be correct. He pelvis was too narrow to give natural birth.

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Joey Cochran

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3 years

We need Evangelical Christians speaking to Evangelical Christians like Jeremiah or Amos spoke to Israel and Judah.

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Joey Cochran

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2 years

“What’s really interesting about The Benedict Option is that nobody did it.” – Kaitlyn Schiess

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Joey Cochran

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2 years

Being more masculine does not make you more Christian.

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Joey Cochran

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2 years

I’m like the only person in the world that saw a seal.

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Joey Cochran

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3 years

Why are you still a Christian?

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Joey Cochran

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2 years

Why is muscular Christianity on the rise again for male pastors? Why are they perpetuating a fear of the notion of effeminancy? The entire ethos they have created reminds me more of middle school bullying and male insecurity rather than any form of Christian leadership.

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Joey Cochran

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3 years

I’m convinced that podcasts that do book talks and solid book reviews are important, but they are not replacements for engaging sources with deep reading.

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Joey Cochran

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2 years

As a historian who has read much about the tragic private lives of great evangelical figures in history, I have, as a result, become much less ambitious. No achievement is worth the cost of a healthy family.

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Joey Cochran

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3 years

You call it deconstruction. I call it reformation.

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Joey Cochran

@jtcochran

1 year

Well, there it is.

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1 year

If you don’t think women can preach, you’re worshipping patriarchy, not God

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Joey Cochran

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2 years

Yesterday, one called for me being fired from my job because I am sympathetic. Because I listen. Because I think women’s bodies matter. That man is a puny coward in comparison to my wife.

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Joey Cochran

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1 year

Hi! Scholar of Jonathan Edwards here. This is not a quote of Jonathan Edwards…a 🧵

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Joey Cochran

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3 years

The kind of deep reading that is required for most of these subjects is slow reading that causes you to pause and reflect as you read. Sometimes I take notes and write reviews for future research and to be better prepared to talk about sources in the future.

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Joey Cochran

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3 years

Over the last decade, in both the academic and ministerial world, I hear repeatedly that people don’t actually read. They just teach and minister acting conversant with the sources without deeply engaging them.

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Joey Cochran

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3 years

It’s critical to distinguish the idea that the Bible is inspired by God from the idea that someone’s interpretation of the Bible is inspired by God.

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Joey Cochran

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3 years

It’s the issue of literacy, not the ability to read but the desire and willingness to read. He mentioned he probably wouldn’t read the books. He’d just read about them or hit them by reading introduction and conclusion.

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Joey Cochran

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3 years

Jonathan Edwards thought women could preach. There I said it. That’s the tweet. I can produce evidence.

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Joey Cochran

@jtcochran

1 year

Today’s TGC article about marriage & sex is what happens when hundreds of people in a niche theological network read 17th century English Puritans for decades.

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Joey Cochran

@jtcochran

3 years

I encouraged him to read The Making of Biblical Womanhood ( @bethallisonbarr ) and Jesus and John Wayne ( @kkdumez ). But here is what really got me about the conversation and a long term problem in the church and the academy…

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Joey Cochran

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3 years

Today I told my three daughters: “Being hot is the wrong goal, so please don’t listen to cheesy pastors or Christian thought leaders and their odd variety of purity culture.”

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Joey Cochran

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3 years

You cannot critique a work you have not read. Sorry. I don’t make the rules.

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Joey Cochran

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3 years

Find a church that loves you back.

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Joey Cochran

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2 years

Our family is PRO-LIFE in a way that most pundit right-wing Christians cannot even fathom. They have not made hard decision, knowing a human lives, family members are on the line.

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Joey Cochran

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3 years

He wanted to legitimately understand and hear the arguments on a more expanded role of women in the church and the current critiques of evangelicals.

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Joey Cochran

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3 years

Come, thou long expected Jesus, born to set thy people free; from our fears and sins release us, let us find our rest in thee. – Charles Wesley

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Joey Cochran

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2 years

So I made a choice about my body to protect the safety of my wife’s body. I love her, and I love my 4 healthy, smart, and amazing children.

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Joey Cochran

@jtcochran

3 years

LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR by wearing a mask LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR by getting vaccinated LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR by sheltering refugees LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR by speaking against racism LOVE. YOUR. NEIGHBOR.

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Joey Cochran

@jtcochran

1 year

In light of the recent review of Women and Gender at TGC, I’d like to commend @albpeeler and her work to you. She is an outstanding scholar and sister. I’ve watched her up close shepherd, with civil convictions, friends and colleagues.

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Joey Cochran

@jtcochran

3 years

The doctrine of inerrancy states that the Scriptures are without error in their original writing. It does not say that you are without error in your original reading.

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Joey Cochran

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2 years

7 common tropes of budding evangelical conservative theologians. 1: I found Bavinck 2: John Webster everything 3: Do you know TIS? 4: Aquinas is actually good 5: The superiority of Pre-Critical Exegesis 6: Post Reformed Reformed Dogmatics 7. But Oliver Crisp says…

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Joey Cochran

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11 months

Some Professional News Earlier today, I accepted a full-time appointment for the position of Visiting Assistant Professor of History at @WheatonCollege for the 2023/24 academic year.

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Joey Cochran

@jtcochran

3 years

Often times I meet people who say they have a book in their library, but they have not read it.

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Joey Cochran

@jtcochran

3 years

We visited a third church today. The minister made a reference to Jonathan Edwards. I looked at my family and all five were giving me a very knowing look, even my 3 yr old. She leaned over to me and said: “You know a lot about him.” It was really funny.

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Joey Cochran

@jtcochran

1 year

Here. I fixed it for you all: “To pretend to praise Christ while living lives that mock Him is like joining those who taunted Him at the crucifixion and shouted Hail, King of the Jews” (George Marsden, Jonathan Edwards: A Life, 297).

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Joey Cochran

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4 years

Grateful today that a bully did not come into the world at Advent.

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Joey Cochran

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3 years

Pray for the women reshaping evangelicalism.

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Joey Cochran

@jtcochran

1 year

Never forget: cc @wthrockmorton @kkdumez

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Joey Cochran

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4 years

Without saying your age, what's the first major news story that you remember from childhood? 1. Challenger Explosion 2. Rescue of baby Jessica 3. Berlin Wall

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Joey Cochran

@jtcochran

2 years

When brothers like @JoashPThomas , @tweetraychang , or @KyleJamesHoward address the problematic history of white slaveholding evangelicals, who centered the life of theology & Christian history around themselves, & then they receive pushback from white people for this, take note.

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Joey Cochran

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3 years

Let’s not forget that your theology has a history.

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Joey Cochran

@jtcochran

3 years

When a PCA pastor emeritus becomes a Canon for the ANCA, while inviting a prominent SBC leader to be a theologian in residence at the PCA church he founded, you are getting a glorious glimpse of what “broadly evangelical” means and why it is “beautiful orthodoxy.”

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Joey Cochran

@jtcochran

2 years

When Kendall became pregnant with our 2nd born, the OB made sure Kendall knew her rights and the risks of having a 2nd c-section. Homeschool Christian moms at our church shamed her for scheduling a 2nd c-section in a hospital because it was not natural birthing in a home.

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Joey Cochran

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10 months

When men target @ksprior , @kkdumez , @bethallisonbarr , and @BethMooreLPM (and allies like @drmoore ), it’s never been about what they’ve said. It’s about WHO said it. That’s how misogyny works.

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Joey Cochran

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5 months

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Joey Cochran

@jtcochran

2 years

As soon as both were born, the surgeon walked up to me and said, sir, if you want this mother for your babies, you have to schedule your own procedure now.

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Joey Cochran

@jtcochran

24 days

Grateful for the many women who have served our country!

US National Archives

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Women Veterans Day is observed on June 12 in the United States, a date chosen to mark the anniversary of the Women's Armed Services Integration Act. #WomenVeteransDay #RepresentedInTheArchives

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Joey Cochran

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1 year

All four of my kids are in public schools. They will have been taught by hundreds of specialists by the time they finish their public high school career. So far all of my children’s elementary and middle school teachers have had graduate degrees in their field of study.

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Joey Cochran

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2 years

Kendall was in labor for over 36 hr with Chloe. At that point, they performed an emergency C-Section. Chloe was delivered with her umbilical cord wrapped around her neck at 2AM on 10/18. Mom and baby were safe. I observed the surgery at the Baylor’s teaching hospital in Dallas.

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Joey Cochran

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1 year

What can we learn from this? First, it’s important to rightly attribute ideas to the correct person and not make negligent mis-attributions, especially if your theology (like that of the TheoBros) depends upon manly authority. Missteps like this undermine your trustworthiness.

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Joey Cochran

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2 years

My daughter, Adalie, loves Girl Scouts, and she’s excited to sell Girl Scout Cookies again this year. But she’s immunocompromised, so for her safety and health, we won’t be going door to door this year. Would you help Adalie meet her goal?

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Joey Cochran

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7 months

Once you see this you can’t unsee it. Josh Howerton chooses to problematize progressive Christians with a generalization fallacy rather than forming a cogent biblical and theological argument.

Josh Howerton

@howertonjosh

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Once you see this you can’t unsee it: In general, Progressive Christians don't want to engage the Biblical arguments of theological conservatives (bc they know that's a losing battle). So, to "skip over" dealing with the Bible, they just try to problematize the Bible teachers.

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Joey Cochran

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2 years

The surgery took twice as long as expected and there were complications. But the skilled surgeon successfully delivered Asher at 10AM on 6/17. We just celebrated his 11th birthday.

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Joey Cochran

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2 years

@BethMooreLPM @RevDuv I got this, Beth. Aaron, please apply more bacon grease that you drained into a mason jar after your last use and placed in the refrigerator. You’re welcome.

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Joey Cochran

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3 years

You can be gospel-centered and not male-centered.

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Joey Cochran

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1 year

If you cannot responsibly make a quote attribution, how can we trust you with interpreting and preaching God’s Word faithfully on Sunday?

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Joey Cochran

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2 years

Adalie was rightly named with the Hebrew name “God is Just” because we knew mom and babies lives were in the hands of a just God. She was safely born at 9AM on 6/28. She turns 9 this next week.

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Joey Cochran

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2 years

BUT KENDALL VALUES ALL HUMAN LIFE. SHE DECIDED TO TAKE THE RISK WITH HER OWN BODY.

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Joey Cochran

@jtcochran

2 years

Her OB was supportive of keeping the baby, even with the risks. St Francis in Tulsa was not a teaching hospital, so I could not be with her in surgery. This made her very anxious.

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Joey Cochran

@jtcochran

1 year

Today has been a tough day in our home. We made the difficult decision to lay Lenny to rest. He has been a part of our home for 13 yrs. We rescued him when we lived in Tulsa in 2010. He was 3 yrs old then. This is one of my favorite pictures of him. Many tears today in our home.

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Joey Cochran

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1 year

I just want to take a moment to recognize and thank public school teachers and administrators in the U.S. I believe you’re underpaid and under appreciated. I’m grateful for you and want to work to change those conditions for you.

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Joey Cochran

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3 years

There seems to be far too few things we can all come together on, but do you all think we can agree that breakfast for dinner is always an outstanding decision?

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Joey Cochran

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6 months

@courtneyellis We have a daughter who loves hers that she got for Christmas a few years ago. She has devoted a lot of her allowance to photos for it.

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Joey Cochran

@jtcochran

3 years

I once sat at the feet of the fundamentalist tribal group of TGC, CBMW, 9Marks. As I studied this social construct, I saw more of a market-gospel driven by marketing a theology of patriarchy through celebrity pastors, conferences, and publications from particular pub. houses.

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Joey Cochran

@jtcochran

2 months

Some More News. Today I signed a publishing agreement with @BrazosPress for the tentatively title work, Brand Evangelicals, which is a brand history of evangelicalism.

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Joey Cochran

@jtcochran

2 years

Again, Kendall was expecting our 3rd child. Her body has already endured quite a bit of trauma from the first two surgeries. Her OB stressed how dangerous this 3rd delivery was going to be, how difficult it is cut through the scar tissue, the danger of hemorrhaging.

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Joey Cochran

@jtcochran

3 years

Evangelical Historiography: Kristin Du Mez, Darren Dochuk, Mark Noll

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Joey Cochran

@jtcochran

1 year

I am, perhaps, most astonished that this tweet has received 55K+ views, 525+ likes, 150+ retweets, and no one…NO ONE…thought of authenticating the quote.

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Joey Cochran

@jtcochran

3 years

A friend recently let me know he lost his full-time faculty position at his university. He reported the university re-offered him his same full-time load but as adjunct at adjunct pay. What a dismal way to treat a person.

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Joey Cochran

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2 years

Her OB was terrified for her. She stressed the danger of the situation. Her OB brought Kendall’s pregnancy to the Head of teaching at Loyola, who took on the case. There are not many women who have had 4 successful c-sections. Everyone understood why Kendall chose life for Clara.

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Joey Cochran

@jtcochran

2 years

I don’t fanboy much, but when I do, it’s about @KSPrior .

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Joey Cochran

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4 years

“Wear your mask.” – The Mandalorian

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Joey Cochran

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3 months

“Like a maniac shooting flaming arrows of death is one who deceives their neighbor and says, ‘I was only joking!’” (Proverbs 26:18–19).

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Joey Cochran

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2 years

I stood in the surgery and observed. It was a long surgery with numerous complications. The surgeon was steady, skilled, and successful of preserving the life of mom and baby.

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Joey Cochran

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5 years

Just got told that since I RT’d @JonathanMerritt , I am not a regenerate Christian. This is the kind of hate my supposed Christian brothers possess.

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Joey Cochran

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3 years

@lesmissy1 An anti-intellectual disposition sums up how to partition fundamentalists out of the evangelical collective.

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Joey Cochran

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2 years

Anyone who dismisses the violence David committed against Bathsheba does violence to Scripture.

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Joey Cochran

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3 years

When does a joke become a dad joke? When it’s apparent.

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Joey Cochran

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3 years

Martin Luther’s personal experience informed the passionate activism and outstanding scholarship that reformed people’s perspective. Did I say Martin Luther? My bad. I meant Beth Allison Barr. And that tweet should read the same way regardless of the gender of the subject.

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Joey Cochran

@jtcochran

1 year

William Perkins in the Art of Prophesy said, “In preparation there must be careful private study.” Sadly, too many care about building a platform rather than taking care to study diligently.

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Joey Cochran

@jtcochran

2 years

We thought God was done blessing us with children. We had moved to Chicagoland. I was a couple years into my PhD at TEDS and pastoral vocation at Calvary Memorial when Kendall discovered she was with child for a 4th time.

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Joey Cochran

@jtcochran

3 years

I am thrilled to share that I will be teaching 2 courses this spring in the . @WheatonCollege history department. If you’re in Chicagoland & interested in studying either a survey of Colonial America or a seminar on New England witch-hunts, reach out to me. I’ll get you info.

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Joey Cochran

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1 year

I then had the good sense to google the first phrase: “To pretend to praise Christ.” What did I find? I discovered that this is actually a quote from George Marsden’s 2003, Yale biography of Edwards. If you have a copy, you’ll find the quote in the middle of page 297.

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Joey Cochran

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2 months

Some News: After six semesters at Wheaton College, today I administered my last final to students and had an exit interview with my department chair.

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Joey Cochran

@jtcochran

3 years

Tonight was my final lecture as an adjunct at Trinity Christian College. As the students exited class today, one student exclaimed: “This is my favorite class I’ve had.” A couple others agreed. I love teaching.

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Joey Cochran

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1 year

I think this tweet gets at something that I am seeing all over Twitter right now. Everyday common digital citizens (Christian or other) are interpreting the SBC convention’s actions this week as an organized, democratized oppression of women in the name of religion.

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@fairlyspiritual

1 year

I can’t imagine yearly traveling to a tourist destination to sit in a conference room to watch people being abused in real time.

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Joey Cochran

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4 years

Well, unfortunately I can’t claim I finished my dissertation before the New Year, but I ought to have a first, full draft by Monday.

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Joey Cochran

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3 years

I am thrilled to return to @WheatonCollege this spring, and chuffed about my course load. It will be nice to be on campus and experience its life all day M/W/F. I’m grateful for Wheaton’s legacy in liberal arts education and glad to contribute to it.

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Joey Cochran

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3 years

As I graduate with my PhD from @TEDS today, I am encouraged as ever by the power of God’s Word, the counsel of his Spirit, and his work in the Church today. “Let us hold unswervingly to the hope we profess, for he who promised is faithful.” – Heb 10:23

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Joey Cochran

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4 years

A long time ago, I listened to Tim Keller when he said not to publish before 40, but it wasn’t until today that I really strongly considered not bothering to listen to influencers under the age of 40. It’s really not a bad idea. [I’m under 40 (barely), so maybe ignore this.]

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Joey Cochran

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1 year

To learn the methods, practices, and develop the skill of careful research and critical thought, come study with me at @WheatonCollege .

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