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Author: Practices of Love (Brazos) + Field Guide to Christian Disagreement | Scholar-in-Residence in Neo-Calvinism @fullerseminary | Endorsed Ordinand

Pittsburgh, PA
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Welp—more shenanigans from the Administrative Commission (AC) of the Presbytery of the Alleghenies (PoA) of the Evangelical Presbyterian Church ( @EPChurch ). On an almost monthly basis, the AC of the PoA sends an “update” to our congregation about what’s going on in our very own
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Some of you are asking why I’m posting about the @epchurch and the #epc2024ga . I’ll be brief . . .ish. In April 2023, I went before Session at my church to seek to become a candidate for ordination. I was unanimously approved. On May 1, 2023, my application to become a
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@DrSampler Please send a link or screenshot of Dionysus at his last supper.
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@MikeCosper Or. Maybe you’ve been on Mars Hill for too long? Negative World is real.
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Our church was told by our Presbytery that we had to cease communication with @PLeithart and disinvite him as a symposium speaker until they could conduct a theological investigation into his teaching. We also could not associate with @_Theopolis . Here is their report. And
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“Follow your heart.” ~ Most (Christian) Therapists “Let no one follow his heart. Be guided by the fear of God and observe the Rule in all your actions.” ~ Saint Benedict
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I'm not that great at math, buuuuuut: The Bible + Abraham Kuyper + Westminster Larger Catechism + a phenomenology of dinner discussions + a theology of homemaking + a philosophy of "the public" + family worship practices + the virtue and vice tradition + @MichaelRWear 's
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@FeserEdward Catherine of Siena is definitely in my top-three mystic list. Her symbols, allegories, types, and cultural references are 💰
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I’ve been reading through Abraham Kuyper’s Pro Rege trilogy while having @aaron_renn 's triad of positive, neutral, and negative worlds in the back of my mind. I've read a bit of Kuyper, but Pro Rege is new to me. I think a case could be made that Abraham Kuyper’s Lectures on
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@lwahlgrensmith @DrSampler I’m quite familiar with Dionysus—thanks for checking, though. But you don’t have to obfuscate the obvious. Not even Dionysus would do that. Wine and all.
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@ChoppedCheezeNY @DrSampler Body postures are key. Ask Leonardo.
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@William_E_Wolfe What’s the difference between tolerance and long-suffering? Asking for a Christian.
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Last year I attended a @_Theopolis seminar & had the opportunity to meet @PLeithart & @brianpmoats . Such kind, inspiring, & admirable guys. They introduced me to the hymn “Behold, A Host, Arrayed in White.” I haven’t … can’t … stop singing it. Every morning & evening.
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The Lord loves marriage and gave His blessing upon it, not only prior to the fall, but He also repeated this after the fall (Genesis 3:16; 9:1).
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@FeserEdward Fake-Christians in a nutshell: 1. I like the NT better than the OT (Marcionism). 2. The Ten Commandments are old (Antinomianism). 3. They’re all the same, aren’t they? (Modalism). etc.
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11 years ago today, @matthewkaemingk and I walked across a stage at @fullerseminary and were called “doctors of the church.” (My hair game is still erratic, for the curious.)
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@TheAlanNoble I go off Twitter for a decade and you still haven’t written a book on it. C’mon, Alan. It’s simple: “Your Hair Is Not Your Own” “The Burden and Gift of Dome Coverage” “Disruptive Shedding” etc.
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@CrankyFed The difference between descriptive and prescriptive. Pretty basic stuff. Apparently some authors don’t like prefixes.
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Doomscrolling is bad. Hopescrolling is good. Just ask @fullerseminary , @matthewkaemingk , @shadihamid , @robertcovolo , et @jess_joustra , e.g.
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@colinsmo To tie up loose ends, somebody should probably send him a copy of the Bible, Anthony Steinbock’s Moral Emotions, and anything by @ShannonVallor .
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@DrJamesEglinton There's gotta be a Marcion cat joke in there somewhere.
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The minuscule or minute movements of the Pharisee, according to Abraham Kuyper: He tells others he thinks about God a lot and hardly anything else. He tries to appear pious as soon as a certain person comes around. He says a prayer but his concentration is on his appearance.
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@jamesrwoodtheo1 A few of my Orthodox friends refer to Jesus as “my Master.” I bet that dude wouldn’t like that.
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Had to come up with a summer schedule for the kids because they need s t r u c t u r e and I need to remain sane.
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@amber_bowen Where in the heezell is Either/Or? I’m biased, but that is one of the best pieces in P&L.
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@jacobhtyler I guess full beard, blue eyes, and wedding ring seems “suss” to some.
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@PerfInjust Biblical Law is Natural Law (as defined by Biblical Law). Every Rushhomie should know this.
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The Kuyperian Catechism [**non-existent**]: What is sanctification? Sanctification is when Christ prepares His Church for Himself, until He presents us--clothing us in the ornamental robes of our holiness--to Himself in all glory as a bride without a spot or blemish, and
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Family life is not like the life of the barracks, the monastery, or the boarding school. Here we do not find an adding together of component parts, but we find a unity that both arises from the duality of man & woman and sanctifies that union. When people simply live together
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“He did not redeem us from Satan‘s power in order that we each might go free to be our own master, but so that we might pass from the service of Satan into the service of Christ. The service to Christ is not a burden to us, but our joy and privilege, and we truly experience it as
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“In no part of our body are we so weak as in the tongue.” ~ Thomas Aquinas 🗣️ "In no part of our body are we so weak as in the thumbs." ~ Kyle David Bennett 🤳
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7 months
Reading queue: @MichaelRWear , Butterfield, Childers & Barnett, @aaron_renn , @PLeithart , & Trueman! 🚀
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“Whoever finds what they are looking for here below lowers them self [sic] beneath their true calling as a human being. They have no fellowship with God’s holy angels, but merely with the foxes, birds, and animals of the forest.”
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@TheAlanNoble Your book is not your own, Alan.
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Lawn mowing ear candy
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@lwahlgrensmith @DrSampler It’s in the tweet ™
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@PLeithart One of my favorite Iines from one of Kierkegaard's pseudonyms: Is that not what philosophers are for--to make supernatural things ordinary and banal?
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@matthewkaemingk Reminds me of Seerveld's remark that philosophy acts as a janitor for the other disciplines. I like that image.
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Yeh butt a simanary edjukation kood teech u how 2 spel. 😃
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Canon Press
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Canon*+
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In a few weeks, I’ll be chatting with @PhilReinders and the Habitus Community () about my @brazospress book, Practices of Love (). Looking forward to doing this again—last time was a lot of fun!
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The books my 15yo daughter wants to read this summer:
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@jamesrwoodtheo1 Dude—WANT. @PLeithart —where, when, how?
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Practices of Love was too ethereal and ephemeral for my taste, despite the personal anecdotes. This one is too near to my heart. I'm not going to die without things changing on this front.
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Almost done with the intro to my disagreement book. I like it. A lot. Deeply personal, pastoral, professing-al.
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Unbelievers who live among us owe so much of the good they enjoy to the Christian morality that has taking root in the family. ~ Abraham Kuyper
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@TheAlanNoble This is just your way of saying philosophy trumps theology as the queen of the sciences. I see you, Alan.
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@jamesrwoodtheo1 Thanks! I did not recognize that cover!
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“There is nothing in the home life regarding which there is no will of God. God created nothing and called nothing into being, and gave an ordinance concerning it. An ordinance for the use of every power, for the spending of each day, for maintaining the purity of every relation.
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@jamesrwoodtheo1 @PLeithart @_Theopolis Yep. Five months after our leadership team visited Theopolis. Sigh.
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Which reminds me: @matthewkaemingk , @TheAlanNoble , & @MichaelRWear —when are we doing a vidcast on spiritual formation, beard oil (or hair gel/wax), and Christian citizenship?
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The only thing I’m anxious about in this age is this beard.
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"I believe that politics is causing spiritual harm in the lives of Americans largely because Americans are going to politics to get their spiritual and emotional needs met."
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Get this: it advises parents to teach children to not only pray for their magistrates and rulers, but for the children (!) of magistrates and rulers. Just think about the longterm public and political implications of that: children praying for children, and. children learning
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“Avoiding marriage and preventing the birth of children only became imaginable after sin’s entrance into the world.” ~ Abraham Kuyper
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Young adults today are struggling to find purpose—and this, @christineemba writes, is evident in the fertility crisis: “Absent a clear sense of meaning, the perceived challenges of having children outweigh any subsidy the government might offer.”
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I’m starting to think this paedo-baptism, paedo-communion, family catechesis, Christian education stuff really works. 🤔
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My two boys (9 & 6) are running around the yard engaged in an imaginary battle (with baseball bats as swords) yelling “Pro Rege.”
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If you can’t get the image out of your head, check this out! It’s called “Morning Matins.” Join us sometime!
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@TheAlanNoble I’m all for it. Just don’t disrupt Larry Norman and @greg_thornbury in the process.
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@TaylorAlanEaton I do. Et inter alia, I read it for the sheer pleasure of all the titles they ascribe to Christ. It’s brilliant.
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Done! Favorite lines and "quotables" forthcoming.
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It’s the first day of Easter break and I have breakfast, lunch, happy hour, dinner, dessert, and nightcap appointments with @MichaelRWear . It’s going to be a wonderful day!
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“Jesus’ kingship has been suppressed in the life of the nations. Even within the church’s walls, the songs of praise have diminished in tenor and tone. The stream of godly life has undeniably receded in its banks everywhere. And lest believers exalt themselves in pride
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@TheAlanNoble I feel like a Noble Bennett tour might actually be kinda awesome. As long as I can talk about *balding* without expertise in *baldness*
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A week or two ago, I read John Wilson's "Things I Hate." I've been chewing on that with respect to research, knowledge, and thinking, and I've come up with my own list. Here are the ten mind movements I hate in research, knowledge, and thinking. Reductionism in any body of
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It’s the first day of Easter break and I have breakfast, lunch, happy hour, dinner, dessert, and nightcap appointments with @MichaelRWear . It’s going to be a wonderful day!
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@TheAlanNoble I am democracy
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@pauljpastor You should see my copy of Merleau-Ponty’s Phenomenology of Perception (which I will nevvver sell—my son deserves it.).
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7 months
I have been asked by the Journal of Spiritual Formation & Soul Care ( @biolau ) to contribute a piece for a symposium on @MichaelRWear 's recently released book, The Spirit of our Politics: Spiritual Formation and the Renovation of Public Life ( @Zondervan ). Congrats, Michael!
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@jamesrwoodtheo1 Forgive my ignorance, but what is this? That's a handful of aesthetic delight! 😍
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Witsius on the importance of knowing the doctrine of the Trinity: “We cannot venture to assure any adult of salvation without the knowledge of the Trinity. When the Trinity is not known the necessary consequence is that the principal foundations of our faith and comfort are
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It’s gonna be a biiiigggg week at @EPChurch ’s #epc2024ga . 🫣
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Our church was told by our Presbytery that we had to cease communication with @PLeithart and disinvite him as a symposium speaker until they could conduct a theological investigation into his teaching. We also could not associate with @_Theopolis . Here is their report. And
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@PLeithart Somebody's phenomenologizing early in the morning! Love it. Great insight.
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You might be a Reformed theologian if you type “Kuyper” and your phone autocorrects to “Kyle.” ⏲️
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Kyle Claunch
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You might be a Reformed theologian if you type “Da Vinci” and your iPhone autocorrects to “Bavinck.”
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How about a bald advocate?
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@kdavidbennett You can be a bald ally
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Every evening when you go to sleep, you let yourself go, and there is some One else who takes you up in the arms of His compassion. It is He alone, Who at the entrance of night takes you from yourself, during the long hours of night to protect and to refresh you, and in the
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Neo-Calvinists. A generous new scholarship for doctoral students in Reformed public theology. Please share with those interested in pursuing a PhD.
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@LMSacasas I haven’t finished it yet, but Heidegger’s What Is Called Thinking?—particularly his etymological linkage of thinking and thanking—has been haunting me lately. Table - thanking - thinking—there’s something there.
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@IanGehris How did mosquitoes spend their evenings before legs and arms showed up?
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We gonna festive so hard this summer. 🥤🍽️⛪️📚
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Festivity is our "Amen" to the Creator's "It is good."
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@TheAlanNoble Ah. Can’t wait to read it!
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Hey, @canonpress , if you ever need a proofreader for emails, I gotchu.
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After Calvin, the Reformed tradition traded the telos (uni mystica) for the modus (ordo salutis). I say it’s high time we get back to Reformation and evaluate the purpose of salvation.
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@scottrswain @TheAlanNoble But if the forms *have to* collapse on the floor: Aristotle.
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"Political parties ought to serve as vehicles for mediating differences, first, within a party, and then between the parties themselves. Instead, we have an allowed parties to become brands and sources of identity."
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@jamesrwoodtheo1 Craig Boyd at St. Louis. Good dude. Fine-combed Thomist (ethics, primarily). Great translator. Absolutely fun and funny to engage. Provocative, ecumenically. Happy to make an introduction.
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3. From the start, the Christian faith is a sacrifice: a sacrifice of all freedom, all pride, all self-confidence of the spirit; at the same time, enslavement and self-mastery, self-mutilation.
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Newest addition to the fam.
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@TheAlanNoble Recliners and wooden tray tables. Prophets take note: The Millennium started post-1999.
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@trumpetchad @douglaswils @NateDevlin76 I’d rock one of those bad boys.
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These are my fave @MichaelRWear zingers from The Spirit of Our Politics:
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@jamesrwoodtheo1 So you’re saying he wasn’t Asian?
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The family is the most precious jewel, the noblest work of art, the pinnacle of creation in paradise. There is nothing in creation that surpasses the family in terms of its value and significance. ~ Abraham Kuyper (1880)
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His virgin birth, prolific miracle-making, and starry advent means He controls nature and life. His teachings, sermons, and reinterpretation of Scripture means He controls history and truth. His suffering on the cross, atonement, and resurrection means He controls the devil
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Pro Rege is my favorite Kuyper. Hands down.
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This is going to be something to behold.
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Matthew Kaemingk
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Neo-Calvinists. Our academic conference in Brazil is now open for registration. Please help share the call for papers far and wide. 🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷 Hosting with: @DrJamesEglinton @georgeharinck @duarteednardo @mackenzie1870 @neo_calvinism @UtrechtTU
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A pointed question: Does your nation rest on metaphysical presuppositions or fundamental beliefs? Does it deny God as Almighty or reject His honor in His glory and majesty?
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@joe_rigney @BakerAcademic To be fair, they don't have a fairly tale imprint yet.
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I often think of the “touch points” public theologians and cultural theologians aspire to have with “the world” and the hopes that they have to reach what Karl Rahner called “anonymous Christians”—or what an evangelical might call, “an anticipated convert.” That “touch point” is
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@cleartruthmedia I often quip to my kids and congregants, “there’s niceness and kindness, and only one of them is a fruit of the spirit.”
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@_Theopolis @jamesrwoodtheo1 @PLeithart "Theopolis Institute teaches men and women to lead cultural renewal by ruining lives in the church . . . "
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@HBThomists Do you guys drinks scotch, bourbon, or rye?
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@breeadail @Olympics Grateful @BishopBarron was quick(er) to the draw.
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Kyle David Bennett
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Ayyyee. Sequence game on point. 🫰🏻
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Michael Hansen
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Me RN
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@IVMiles @joe_rigney @TheAlanNoble Both are incredibly principled and insightful. Found both very helpful.
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