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Matthew Millsap

@mattmillsap

3 months

There were true pro-life alternatives in the Republican primaries in both 2024 and 2016. Sow the wind, reap the whirlwind.

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Matthew Millsap

@mattmillsap

8 months

Likewise, the church should not resort to the civil power to carry on its work. The gospel of Christ contemplates spiritual means alone for the pursuit of its ends. The state has no right to impose penalties for religious opinions of any kind.

Colin J. Smothers

@colinsmo

8 months

All Christians are under obligation to seek to make the will of Christ supreme in our own lives and in human society. Every Christian should seek to bring industry, government, and society as a whole under the sway of the principles of righteousness, truth, and brotherly love.

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Matthew Millsap

@mattmillsap

2 months

I don't know what you call a Baptist who accommodates state religion. But I do know what you can no longer call him: a Baptist.

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Matthew Millsap

@mattmillsap

6 months

Incorporating the Apostle’s Creed into the U.S. Constitution is a great example of something the historic Baptist position on church and state would never permit.

Right Wing Watch

@RightWingWatch

6 months

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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Matthew Millsap

@mattmillsap

9 months

Of the relatively few great American novels of the 21st century, one isn’t actually a novel—it’s a video game, and that game is “Kentucky Route Zero.”

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Matthew Millsap

@mattmillsap

5 months

104 years ago today, on May 16, 1920, the Southern Baptist statesman and pastor of FBC Dallas, George W. Truett, standing on the east steps of the U.S. Capitol, delivered what would become one of the most famous addresses in Baptist history: “Baptists and Religious Liberty.” 🧵

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Matthew Millsap

@mattmillsap

8 months

As this conference meets this weekend, just a reminder to my fellow Southern Baptists: A Christian state (the goal of self-identified Christian Nationalists) is incompatible with the “Baptist Faith and Message” and has been for nearly a century.

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Matthew Millsap

@mattmillsap

4 months

In adopting Resolution 2 moments ago, Southern Baptists reaffirmed their longstanding commitment to religious liberty and, in so doing, sent an emphatic message to all actors who would attempt to permeate Southern Baptist churches with support for state religion: “No.” #SBC24

Matthew Millsap

@mattmillsap

5 months

I’m pleased to see that Southern Baptists will have the opportunity to consider adopting at the upcoming annual meeting the resolution that @MusingsOnChrist , @dandarling , and I submitted on defending religious liberty.

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Matthew Millsap

@mattmillsap

7 months

On May 16, 1920, the Southern Baptist statesman and pastor of First Baptist Dallas, George W. Truett, delivered an address entitled, “Baptists and Religious Liberty,” on the steps of the U.S. Capitol. The following thread is a selection of quotations from this address:

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Matthew Millsap

@mattmillsap

7 months

Baptists flirting with the idea of abandoning or altering the Baptist distinctive of religious liberty in an effort to “save America”

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Matthew Millsap

@mattmillsap

2 months

Christian Nationalists: “America needs federal blasphemy laws!” Christian Nationalists as of last night: “Abortion is a states’ rights issue!”

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Matthew Millsap

@mattmillsap

7 months

It’s now been a week since I made a tweet that simply consisted of a quote from Article XVII of the “Baptist Faith and Message.” It’s had over 117K views. I’d call that a win. The more exposure to the BF&M, the more likely Southern Baptists will recognize it when they see it.

Matthew Millsap

@mattmillsap

8 months

Likewise, the church should not resort to the civil power to carry on its work. The gospel of Christ contemplates spiritual means alone for the pursuit of its ends. The state has no right to impose penalties for religious opinions of any kind.

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Matthew Millsap

@mattmillsap

8 months

Additionally, a free church in a free state is the Christian ideal, and this implies the right of free and unhindered access to God on the part of all men, and the right to form and propagate opinions in the sphere of religion without interference by the civil power.

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Matthew Millsap

@mattmillsap

7 months

Four questions you should ask every Southern Baptist who self-identifies as a Christian Nationalist: 1. Should women have the right to vote in government elections? 2. Should women be seated as messengers to the annual meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention?

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Matthew Millsap

@mattmillsap

5 months

“We’re in the negative world now, so Christians should jettison the U.S. Constitution” is *exactly* the position that some individuals are attempting to influence the Southern Baptist Convention to adopt.

Dr Jordan B. Cooper

@DrJordanBCooper

5 months

And there it is.

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Matthew Millsap

@mattmillsap

1 month

Correct. We are not the same. You’re not a Baptist.

Dale Partridge

@dalepartridge

1 month

You want religious freedom. I want to outlaw the building of mosques, Hindu statues, and temples to false gods. We are not the same.

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Matthew Millsap

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1 month

A Southern Baptist ethics professor ( @andrewtwalk ) took issue with Matt Walsh's deception in his new documentary. Another Southern Baptist professor ( @DennyBurk ) expanded on the issue in an article. And--no surprise--the dissident right came out swinging (see comments).

Denny Burk

@DennyBurk

1 month

Is “owning the libs” a justification for lying? - Matt Walsh’s tactics in making his film raise real questions

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Matthew Millsap

@mattmillsap

14 days

Don’t stop here, Nate. You and the @AmReformer crew keep going and show everyone how opposed to democracy you actually are.

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Matthew Millsap

@mattmillsap

2 months

Today the dissident right learned that fewer evangelicals are aligned with them than they thought, and interestingly, it was an asinine analysis of Winston Churchill that did it. I don’t know what color “pill” that is, but regardless, that’s gotta be a tough one to swallow.

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Matthew Millsap

@mattmillsap

5 months

I’m pleased to see that Southern Baptists will have the opportunity to consider adopting at the upcoming annual meeting the resolution that @MusingsOnChrist , @dandarling , and I submitted on defending religious liberty.

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Matthew Millsap

@mattmillsap

1 month

@TheAlanNoble Alan, what you speak of requires nuance, and that simply is not allowed in Christian Outrage™️.

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Matthew Millsap

@mattmillsap

1 month

@blakecallens Everyone should pay very, very close attention to the list of whom Holden tagged in his post.

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Matthew Millsap

@mattmillsap

4 months

Religious liberty can be (and is) threatened by both those on the left and those on the right. Baptists remain steadfast in their opposition to threats to religious liberty from all sides.

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Matthew Millsap

@mattmillsap

2 months

Muslims are busy trying to covert the gaming community to Islam while Christians are still scolding young men for playing video games. You tell me: To whom do you think young men are going to listen?

Anthony Bradley

@drantbradley

2 months

Send this clip to your pastor. Sneako has close to 1M followers. He was raised Christian, recently converted to Islam. Islam is heavily evangelizing the gaming community online(Twitch, Discord, etc.). Their target: dismantle the basics of the Nicene Creed.

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Matthew Millsap

@mattmillsap

6 months

Baptists in America don’t want to be ruled by a Christian Caesar any more than they want Baptist organizations founded and funded by Presbyterians. Let the reader understand.

Timon Cline

@tlloydcline

6 months

Actually the opposite is true: constitutional limits are irrelevant w/o virtuous citizenry, & constitutional limits become tools of compounded degeneracy. every founder said this, bizarre to get that wrong. Also. the more degeneracy the more likely a Caesar will emerge.

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Matthew Millsap

@mattmillsap

6 months

What was the first doctrinal statement ever adopted by the Southern Baptist Convention? It was the “Pronouncement on Christian Union and Denominational Efficiency” in 1914. What does this statement say regarding the Southern Baptist position on religious liberty?

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Matthew Millsap

@mattmillsap

5 months

106 years ago today, on May 15, 1918, the SBC amended its constitution to allow female messengers to the annual meeting, two full years before the ratification of the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which granted women the right to vote. 🧵

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Matthew Millsap

@mattmillsap

4 months

I’m going to go out on a limb, Megan, and say that if you’re calling a “nonsensical view” what Southern Baptists overwhelmingly reaffirmed via resolution as a Baptist distinctive buttressed by centuries of Baptist thought and belief, you aren’t a Baptist in any meaningful sense.

Megan Basham

@megbasham

4 months

The government is giving one religion preference right now. The paganism that manifests in the sexual rites we saw all last month, that claims as its sacrifice the confused minds and mangled bodies of children. Government always preferences one set of moral beliefs over another.

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Matthew Millsap

@mattmillsap

8 months

Southern Baptists have centuries of Baptist thought on religious liberty, a statement of faith, decades of resolutions on religious liberty, and Southern Baptist publications that show where we stand on church and state. The onus is on you to prove CN is compatible.

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Matthew Millsap

@mattmillsap

7 months

Today is a great day to be reminded that “Article XVII” of the BF&M clearly precludes the state religion of Christian Nationalism and that Southern Baptists saw fit to ensure this in their confession of faith 99 years ago. Still there today; still what Southern Baptists believe.

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Matthew Millsap

@mattmillsap

6 months

Watch this short clip in full and be reminded that Christian Nationalism is a fundamentally unserious movement.

Right Wing Watch

@RightWingWatch

6 months

Christian nationalist pastor Joel Webbon says Americans are "degenerates" and therefore the Constitution doesn't work anymore, so this nation needs a Caesar-like dictator who "Constitution be dammed, just rules with an iron fist."

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Matthew Millsap

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8 months

The context of the authorship of the BF&M precludes a Christian state. The BF&M itself precludes a Christian state. A litany of subsequent SBC resolutions on religious liberty preclude a Christian state.

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Matthew Millsap

@mattmillsap

4 months

Whether the person arguing to disenfranchise women is Doug Wilson, your crazy Uncle Frank, or the church member always posting conspiracy theory videos on Facebook, what unites them is a shared fantasy of something that will never happen in the U.S.

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Matthew Millsap

@mattmillsap

7 months

3. Should women serve on committees in the Southern Baptist Convention? 4. Should women serve as the chairpersons of committees in the Southern Baptist Convention?

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Matthew Millsap

@mattmillsap

5 months

At a time when some Southern Baptists are flirting with the idea of abandoning or softening the Baptist distinctive of religious liberty and at a time when outside actors are attempting to influence the SBC in the above direction, may we remember Truett’s historic address.

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Matthew Millsap

@mattmillsap

2 months

Brothers and sisters, let us all be reminded that the only “conquering” done within Christianity is done by the Lord Jesus Christ, and in this age until his return, he does so through the conviction of the Holy Spirit on the hearts of individuals.

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Matthew Millsap

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3 months

I've said this before, and it bears repeating: Given the likely irreversible fertility rate decline in the United States, ensuring future GDP growth will require *more* immigrants, not fewer. Conservatives should be for an increase in legal immigration.

Immigration Has Boosted Labor Force Participation, Helping Growth and Hastening Rate Cuts

One factor boosting the case for an early Fed rate cut is the rise in the labor force participation rate—a rise driven by immigration.

www.cfr.org

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Matthew Millsap

@mattmillsap

3 months

There aren’t any Baptists who advocate for blasphemy laws.

Jimmy Johnson

@jimmyinchrist37

3 months

Baptists, those for blasphemy laws, what would you like the state to count as blasphemy? More specifically: - Would consubstantiation and transubstantiation count? - Would kenotic Christology count? - Would infant baptism count? - If mocking the Last Supper qualifies, would

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Matthew Millsap

@mattmillsap

8 months

I appreciate this reminder from brother Ascol regarding Balthasar Hubmaier's execution on March 10, 1528. All Baptists would do well to remember that it was state religion which led both to Hubmaier's statement that truth is "unkillable" and to his execution.

Tom Ascol @tomascol

@tomascol

8 months

On this day in 1548 Balthasar Hubmaier was burned to death in Austria for his faith. “Die Wahrheit ist untödlich!”

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Matthew Millsap

@mattmillsap

3 months

. . . is something Baptists have rightly rejected.

Joe Rigney

@joe_rigney

3 months

Mere Christendom

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Matthew Millsap

@mattmillsap

1 month

The saddest part is that no one had to be in this position. After four years, the GOP inexplicably decided that the best option they had would be to rerun a man literally every person with power in the party knows cannot and will not be managed.

Andrew T. Walker

@andrewtwalk

1 month

What strikes me as continually bizarre and predictable at this point is how many deliberate steps Donald Trump is taking to lose the election: no message discipline, demoralizing key constituencies, and surrounding himself with people like Laura Loomer. If he wants to win, it's

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Matthew Millsap

@mattmillsap

5 months

Baptists do not worship the U.S. Constitution. Baptists have vigorously opposed—and always will vigorously oppose—establishing Christianity as state religion. The First Amendment protects American citizens from such establishment, hence our consistent support.

Aaron M. Renn 🇺🇸

@aaron_renn

5 months

I too support the First Amendment, but it's worth noting that this Constitution worship is a major flavor of how Baptists do "Christian nationalism" while denying that's what they are up to. There's nothing in the Bible about what form of govt we should have. 1A is not 10C.

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Matthew Millsap

@mattmillsap

8 months

Contrary to William's unsubstantiated declaration, the "Baptist Faith and Message" (BF&M) leaves no room for a Christian state, as per the intent of its primary author, the Baptist statesman-theologian, E. Y. Mullins. *thread*

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Matthew Millsap

@mattmillsap

1 month

As a reminder, there are some who view Southern Baptists primarily as a voting bloc for American politics rather than primarily as theologically like-minded believers who have partnered together to take the gospel to the ends of the earth and to train men and women for ministry.

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Matthew Millsap

@mattmillsap

8 months

@William_E_Wolfe In that tweet and the one immediately following, I simply quoted Article XVII of the “Baptist Faith and Message,” William. So if anyone is out of step with Baptist identity here, it’s you. Have a blessed day.

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Matthew Millsap

@mattmillsap

8 months

I don’t really have the time or the desire to go back and forth on here, so please allow me to respond collectively, @William_E_Wolfe @PerfInjust @NateAFischer @jchasedavis @jrwhitehead et al. The bottom line is this:

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Matthew Millsap

@mattmillsap

5 months

Southern Baptists understand George W. Truett just fine.

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Matthew Millsap

@mattmillsap

8 months

If your desire is to convince Southern Baptists to become actual Christian Nationalists, then begin by demonstrating that the “Statement on Christian Nationalism and the Gospel,” in every respect, coheres with, and is not contrary to, Article XVII of the BF&M.

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Matthew Millsap

@mattmillsap

4 months

The people of the Southern Baptist Convention generally have a good understanding of what is or isn’t Baptist. At times, they even choose to adopt resolutions to remind everyone of such: If that’s “gatekeeping,” good on them for keeping the SBC Baptist.

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Matthew Millsap

@mattmillsap

5 months

Not only do Baptists in America believe we are governed by the U.S. Constitution, but we also have consistently championed the First Amendment from its ratification to the present day.

Matthew Millsap

@mattmillsap

5 months

“We’re in the negative world now, so Christians should jettison the U.S. Constitution” is *exactly* the position that some individuals are attempting to influence the Southern Baptist Convention to adopt.

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Matthew Millsap

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5 months

The only way “Christ or chaos” coheres is if what you mean by it is the gospel of Christ transforming lives and these lives transforming culture. If you mean the imposition of Christianity on conscience by way of state religion, you end up with temporary behaviorial changes.

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Matthew Millsap

@mattmillsap

2 months

Is this an op-ed from @nytimes or from @AmReformer ?

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Matthew Millsap

@mattmillsap

3 months

I hate to break it to everyone, but if you were to poll self-identified evangelicals at any point in the past two decades and ask, “Have you read [insert book title here]?” the overwhelming answer is “No.”

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Matthew Millsap

@mattmillsap

5 months

George W. Truett with the Southern Baptist view of the toleration for which Rigney advocates:

Joe Rigney

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5 months

The irony here is that folks like me would happily live under the American religious and political settlement of the Founding era, and Jacob would vehemently oppose a recovery of that settlement. I’d gladly have - a George Washington (the American Christian Prince) - A variety

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Matthew Millsap

@mattmillsap

20 days

TFW you realize you and your friends won’t be changing the minds of 12.9 million Southern Baptists regarding the meaning of Article XVII of their nearly century-old confession of faith

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Matthew Millsap

@mattmillsap

3 months

In the same way that Baptists understand the goal of religious liberty is not secular pluralism, Baptists understand that the answer to secular pluralism is not state-established religion.

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Matthew Millsap

@mattmillsap

1 month

It’s pretty telling when I say “outside actors want to seize control of the Southern Baptist Convention and turn it into a Christian Nationalist voting bloc” that American Reformer personnel and friends on their payroll feel the need to counter-signal it.

Joshua Abbotoy 🇺🇸

@Byzness

1 month

It’s pretty telling when I say “civil society” regimevangelicals hear “voting bloc.” That, in a nutshell, is a huge part of the problem.

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Matthew Millsap

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16 days

Perhaps if the most vocal proponents of CN were to make an effort to distance themselves from the Muscovites, Nazis, anonycowards, kinists, and “based” bois, it might be taken more seriously. Just a thought.

Joshua Abbotoy 🇺🇸

@Byzness

16 days

Fascinating article. I’m struck by the contrast between how Catholics academics talk respectfully about their radical movement (Integralism) in contrast to how evangelicals talk about CN (which in many ways is less radical than Integralism).

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Matthew Millsap

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3 months

This is false. What it should say is, “When the Baptist Faith & Message calls for the will of Christ to be made supreme in human institutions, achieved within the context that church and state should be separate, the ERLC promotes scholars who rightly understand this balance.”

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Matthew Millsap

@mattmillsap

2 months

One of the side effects of the Internet is that it made it easy for truly crazy people to find each other and build communities. One of the side effects of social media is that it made it easy for those in said communities to broadcast their truly crazy ideas.

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Matthew Millsap

@mattmillsap

28 days

For some reason, the algorithm has started pushing me random clips from “The West Wing,” and I’m here for it.

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Matthew Millsap

@mattmillsap

7 months

What do female pastors and Christian Nationalists have in common? Both are incompatible with the Southern Baptist confession of faith, the “Baptist Faith and Message.”

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Matthew Millsap

@mattmillsap

6 months

Baptists are no more in support of baptizing infants than they are in support of establishing Christianity as the official religion of any nation.

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Matthew Millsap

@mattmillsap

3 months

Looking forward to teaching "Christian Political Thought" at Spurgeon College this fall (part of my regular course rotation). While, of course, we do explore some Baptist political theology,

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Matthew Millsap

@mattmillsap

2 months

For my fellow Kansas Citians who love art, beginning on September 21, the Nelson-Atkins will be showcasing in a special exhibition the work of the famed Edo-period Japanese artist, Hokusai, on loan from the MFA Boston. Likely his most famous work, “Under the Wave off Kanagawa”:

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Matthew Millsap

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4 months

There actually never was a question about what Southern Baptists understood Article XVII of the Baptist Faith and Message to mean. But since some pretended as though there were, they received the answer from Southern Baptists yesterday. Definitively.

Matthew Millsap

@mattmillsap

4 months

In adopting Resolution 2 moments ago, Southern Baptists reaffirmed their longstanding commitment to religious liberty and, in so doing, sent an emphatic message to all actors who would attempt to permeate Southern Baptist churches with support for state religion: “No.” #SBC24

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Matthew Millsap

@mattmillsap

4 months

The chances of even a fully Trump-appointed SCOTUS ever touching a constitutional challenge to the 19th Amendment are infinitesimal. Here we see that the highly-online far-right and highly-online far-left both live in a state of perpetual delusion.

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Matthew Millsap

@mattmillsap

2 months

For those yesterday who simply wanted to pretend that sustained GDP growth in America somehow isn’t a necessary precondition for the flourishing of their nationalist ideals, I really don’t know what to tell you.

Matthew Millsap

@mattmillsap

3 months

I've said this before, and it bears repeating: Given the likely irreversible fertility rate decline in the United States, ensuring future GDP growth will require *more* immigrants, not fewer. Conservatives should be for an increase in legal immigration.

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Matthew Millsap

@mattmillsap

5 months

In May 1919, messengers to the Southern Baptist Convention authorized the formation of a committee “to prepare greetings of this Convention of Southern Baptists to the people of ‘like precious faith with us’ scattered abroad in all nations.” 🧵

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Matthew Millsap

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4 months

The fact that, over the course of the SBC’s 179-year existence, Southern Baptists have produced more than 100 resolutions on religious liberty should tell you how often this Baptist distinctive is challenged and thus why we must continually reaffirm it.

Matthew Millsap

@mattmillsap

4 months

In adopting Resolution 2 moments ago, Southern Baptists reaffirmed their longstanding commitment to religious liberty and, in so doing, sent an emphatic message to all actors who would attempt to permeate Southern Baptist churches with support for state religion: “No.” #SBC24

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Matthew Millsap

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7 months

“Every state church on the earth is a spiritual tyranny. And just as long as there is left upon this earth any state church, in any land, the task of Baptists will that long remain unfinished.”

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Matthew Millsap

@mattmillsap

8 months

Today is a good day for everyone to reread the Danbury Baptist Association’s letter to President Thomas Jefferson.

Founders Online: To Thomas Jefferson from the Danbury Baptist Association, [aft …

founders.archives.gov

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Matthew Millsap

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Matthew Millsap

@mattmillsap

8 months

There is no room in the BF&M for a Christian state. The consensus of Southern Baptists--built on the work of Mullins who, in turn, built on centuries of Baptist thought--has been clear for 99 years, and subsequent resolution after resolution on religious liberty attests to it.

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Matthew Millsap

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4 months

Praying alongside my fellow Southern Baptists for God’s will to be done through our business today and tomorrow. #SBC24

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