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Just a Christian black sociologist trying to make his way in the world. I block any criticizing me with an obvious fake name. Cowards do not get to complain.

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George Yancey
2 years
Who is the person that represents us Christians who do not want to be represented by angry right-wing or angry left-wing Christian leaders? I need to follow that person.
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George Yancey
2 years
How you treat the people you like and want to defend tells me nothing about your Christian faith. How you treat those you do not like and think are a problem tells me so much more about your Christian faith.
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George Yancey
3 months
To my Christian brothers and sisters - If you think we will be saved by the results of the coming election or destroyed by the results of the coming election then your ultimate faith is not in Christ. It is in partisan politics.
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George Yancey
2 years
To those who suggest me, I do not have the platform to effectively push back toxic left and right Christian Twitter. I do what I can but we need more voices and more prominent individuals. I suspect most Christians are as tired of the fighting as I am. Where are those voices!!
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George Yancey
2 years
This is a horrifying example of what can happen when antiracism programs go amuck. Fortunately, most of them are not this bad. But I fear this is a natural consequence of the philosophy of antiracism.
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George Yancey
3 months
I am not voting for Harris but if you are going to vote for Trump do not bring up Harris's sexual past. You lose the right to do that and support someone with the morals of Trump.
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George Yancey
1 month
Make no mistake about it. If you vote for Trump because he is slightly more pro-life than Harris then he has your vote at a very cheap cost. Future GOP candidates will just get as close to the Democrat candidate on abortion issues as possible. This ensure two pro-choice parties
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George Yancey
1 month
It amazes me that there are still Christians defending Trump when he says he will support abortion until birth in Florida. The same ones who attacked me when I refused to support Trump in 2016, 2020, and today. Those Christians need never question my pro-life credentials again.
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George Yancey
2 months
I do not personally know Basham. But I am friends with J.D. I believe him and trust his honestly.
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J.D. Greear
2 months
An Open Response to Megan Basham’s Shepherds for Sale
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George Yancey
1 month
If you are pro-life, like I am, you have horrible choices, that were set into motion when prolifers supported Trump in 2016. You either vote to ratify a prochoice Republican party or you vote for a Democrat party that will try to throw prolife protestors and those who expose
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George Yancey
2 years
I have written about 15 books. I am raising 3 boys. When I tell people I have written books some are in awe of that fact. When i tell people I am raising children nobody is in awe. But writing books is much easier in every way (time, energy, being creative) than raising boys.
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George Yancey
1 month
If you want to send Trump a message remember that we still have a pro-life party you can vote for. @AmSolidarity
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Lila Rose
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My personal message to the Trump campaign on abortion:
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George Yancey
2 months
I am back on X after a social media fast. I fasted for two reasons. First, I just need it from time to time. But second, I lost my youngest brother a couple of weeks ago. One thing that has taught me is to appreciate people while they are here. Be kind to each other everyone!
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George Yancey
3 months
Trump crapping on pro-lifers as soon as he felt he did not need them is one of the most obvious predictions someone could have made. And I did in 2016. I am sorry that this prediction has come true.
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George Yancey
4 months
Somehow, I just do not think that the biggest problem the SBC has is some church calling a women ministering to the kids "pastor." Call me crazy.
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Southern Baptists told their leaders to publish a list of abusive pastors. Two years later-- not one name has been added to the database.
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George Yancey
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Every day I am watching Christians on the right and the left throw away their Christian witness so that they can take a shot at their political outgroup. It is quite depressing.
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George Yancey
5 months
Okay I have read one @jdgreear is liberal too many. People who post such are silly and do not deserve any intellectual respect. I have done academic work on progressive Christians. They would not accept Greear. Some Christians need to move on from this nonsense.
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George Yancey
1 year
There is a phenomenon I have noticed by certain Christians on the left and the right. I noted certain individuals who were about 5-10 years ago were pretty reasonable. They were on the right or the left but they had some nuances in their approaches.
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George Yancey
2 months
Must be fun to be @NeilShenvi The left - You cannot talk about CRT because you are a chemist. The right - You cannot talk about Shepard for Sale because JD Greear's is your pastor Seems like everyone wants you to shut up when you speak words they do not like.
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George Yancey
1 year
If this was only about scripture then there would be churches being disfellowshipped because they have greedy or argumentative or non-gentile leaders. Yet that does not happen. This is more about culture than complete fidelity to scripture.
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George Yancey
5 months
I am amused that some progressives are not merely satisfied that people like me will not vote for Trump but insist that we have to vote for Biden. You have to earn my vote. You do not just get it by default. And today's Democratic party has not earned my vote.
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George Yancey
5 months
@igarglewithfire That verse is not about okaying rape but more about an attitude both husband and wife should have about giving to each other.
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George Yancey
1 year
Once you understand that support of complementarianism is tied to defense of social identity, then the angry rhetoric makes more sense. I am not saying that there are no theological concerns in this debate But this is more about social identity than some are willing to admit.
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George Yancey
2 years
If your Christian activism leads you to hate and dehumanize others then it is no longer Christian activism. It is something else. It is a strategy to win at all costs. And I refuse to accept that as a Christian response.
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George Yancey
2 years
@carmenjoyimes Agreed. There are multiple voices on the left and the right. We need multiple voices for those of us who are tired of their bickering.
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George Yancey
1 year
Unless your name is Karen, I will not be calling you Karen. I find the use of Karen as an insult to be dehumanizing and I will not participate in that type of dehumanization. I am amazed that so many people are willing to do that.
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George Yancey
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abortion clinics that sell body parts into jail. Or you can go third party which I think is the best option to show that your vote cannot be taken for granted. @AmSolidarity
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George Yancey
3 years
Yessssss! The mask mandate has been taken off on Baylor's campus. I can teach and see my students' faces. And they can understand me better. Happy days are here again!!!!!!!!!
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George Yancey
2 years
Today we can celebrate both fathers and Juneteenth. Both are worth celebration. Happy Fathers Day!!!!! Happy Juneteenth!!!!!
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George Yancey
2 years
I would say that Biden had his "deplorable" moment but in some ways this is worse. Clinton did it at a partisan fundraiser. Biden did it with a military backdrop before the entire nation. Just as I would condemn Trump for doing this I also condemn Biden's dehumanization.
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George Yancey
1 month
I think all those prolifers who threw Haley under the bus in their headlong rush to support Trump in the primary are having a serious case of buyer's remose right now. Hey if you feel like Lila come to the @AmSolidarity The water is fine and you get to keep your self-respect.
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Lila Rose
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Trump/Vance have recently said: Trump would VETO a national ban on abortion. They support “access to” abortion pills (60% of all abortions). They think it’s California’s “right” to permit abortion up until birth, but if states like Arizona ban most abortions they “go too far.”
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George Yancey
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When people say that a vote for ASP is a vote for Trump/Harris it is like they are saying that because you are Christian/black/professor that you are obligated to vote with me. And my pushback is no I am not. We each get a vote. Use yours as you see fit and I will do the same.
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George Yancey
4 years
What "wins" social media arguments. 1) snappy and nasty insults 2) putting another person's argument in the worst possible light 3) Getting your friends to gang up on your side 4) Get your opponent mad while you keep your cool
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George Yancey
6 months
I remember being told that to vote for the Democrat meant an endorsement of all of the policies pushed by the Democrats. So do Christians voting for Trump must now endorse his attitudes on abortion?
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George Yancey
4 months
@CrenshawPhD Of all the problems Christians face in the U.S., some created by us and others not, pearl-clutching about women in seminary is the ultimate tilting at windmills move.
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George Yancey
6 months
I remember when I was told that I had to vote for Trump since I was pro-life. Guess nobody will tell me that anymore.
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Trump: leave it to the states Also Trump: Arizona shouldn’t ban abortion. He’s pro-choice.
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George Yancey
1 year
I am not saying that having no compassion for a victim of racist violence makes a person a racist. The person may just be a jerk. But in my mind, it does remove consideration of that person to be considered a Christian leader.
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George Yancey
2 years
I think that @NeilShenvi is doing more to expose the fallacy of CN to conservative Christians than all of the books attacking CN. That is because he has shown that he cares about conservative Christians in the past and thus they are more open to listening to him.
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George Yancey
2 years
I think we Christians need to think more about the Samaritans. The Jews hated the Samaritans so much that they refused to have dealings with them. So when you think of Samaritans you should think of the groups you hate so much that you refuse to deal with them.
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George Yancey
2 years
I have been disappointed at the state of Christian entertainment. But I have found "The Chosen." Not only solid Christian entertainment but I cannot remember the last time a TV series was this good. The writing, acting, score Everything!!! I cannot recommend it highly enough.
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George Yancey
4 months
If the fundamentalists get what they want on women then they will go right to another issue to club people with. Note how now one has to be pure on IVF which I will never be in their eyes. My first son was born that way. Anyone care to tell him he is a sin or should not exists?
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George Yancey
1 year
Once again I reminded my class last night that my class is not a safe space. You may be exposed to arguments that piss you off. And that is fine. I will say things that piss me off too. If I am not going to spare myself, I am certainly not going to spare my students.
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George Yancey
1 year
When it comes to political activism White evangelicals are in the middle of the pack. The most active per-capita are atheists, Jews, and agnostics. But who do we write reams of books and talk about all the time as being too politically active? White evangelicals.
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Ryan Burge 📊
1 year
No group in the United States is more politically active than atheists. They engaged in 1.55 political acts in 2020, out of a possible 6. For comparison, white evangelicals reported engagement in .88 acts. The least engaged are Black Protestants and non-white Catholics.
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George Yancey
2 years
We can find solutions that can reduce, but not eliminate such tragedies. I fear that we are so polarized that we are more concerned about winning political points than finding answers. This is one of the many problems we cannot solve because we refuse to work together.
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George Yancey
2 years
It was the messengers who insisted on transparency. The old guard on the EC fought against it every step of the way. In the voice of those messengers there is hope for a future for the SBC. But it is clear that this future only begins when the old guard is removed from power.
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George Yancey
6 months
If you are dismayed with Trump's placating of abortion and looking for a solid place for your pro-life vote in November may I suggest:
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George Yancey
1 year
@RichardHanania I hate to say this but this is brilliant. And there is social psychology that shows if you get people to say something that is obviously not true like having the lights off is good, then they will believe many other things you say. Underestimate this man at your own peril.
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George Yancey
8 months
Wow. This is what it means to teach critical thinking. Excellent job teacher!!!
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This is utterly brilliant. A student accuses @jk_rowling of being transphobic. This teacher skilfully dissects the claim and challenges it by asking questions. He teaches not what to think, but how to think critically. Watch until the end. You see the epiphany in real-time.
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George Yancey
1 year
I like to think of it this way. Those who are my fellow Christians are my brothers and sisters in Christ. Those who are not Christians are my neighbors. Neither has to do anything for my love. They are all image bearers.
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George Yancey
1 year
I posted on this a little while ago. White Evangelicals get the bad press for being politicized but they are actually one of the least political groups in the country on a per-capita basis.
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Ryan Burge 📊
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For all the talk about how conservative Christians are the most involved in the political process, let me share some data. Atheists engage in many political activities at 2x the rate of white evangelicals. 🧵 with graphs!
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George Yancey
2 years
I know this is probably just a waste of time but why don't we wait to see what comes out of the raid before deciding whether it is justified or not? Nobody commenting tonight knows what they are talking about unless they are part of the raid.
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George Yancey
1 year
If you are on the left and you do not like what you see, well unless you spoke out against the boycotts from the left you have no moral ground to stand on. You can claim superiority of your cause but not of methodology. You are getting what you have sown.
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George Yancey
1 year
If the only thing you put on social media is how bad these people are or how awful this person is then even if I agree with you I do not want to hang out with you. Life is too short to be around bitterness all the time.
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George Yancey
1 year
So the #SBC23 will occur this week. I have a unique insider/outsider perspective. I was disciplined by the Southern Baptists as a young Christian. I left them. Then recently joined a Sothern Baptist Church. Now that church has left the SBC
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George Yancey
8 days
As the topic of the Billy Graham rule has come up I might as well add in my 2cents. Yes, I have my version of the BG rule. It goes like this. A nonfamily woman will not be in the room alone with me with the door closed.
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George Yancey
2 years
Happy MLK day everyone. As a Christian, I do not worship any person. I honor King but do not worship him. That means that I look at the ideals he promoted even if he falls short, as we all do, of living out his beliefs perfectly.
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George Yancey
1 year
As Christians, we must be especially on guard to not fall into the trap of demonizing others. Everyone out there is an image bearer. That includes the MAGA hat wearer. That includes the drag queen. That includes whatever Samaritan is in your life.
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George Yancey
2 years
But this assumes that POC will not use their newfound power to abuse majority group members. As you read that article you can see the folly of such an assumption, We racial minorities are not worse than whites. But when we have power we misuse it too.
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George Yancey
1 year
By the way if you’re on the left, one of the reasons why the right gained this power is the overreach of the left. Some of the demands were more about power than justice. Yes the right is overreaching but they learned some of those lessons from the left.
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George Yancey
5 months
I wonder if some of my Christian friends would post the way they do if they remembered that the people we talk about are image-bearers. In other words, if you would not talk to Christ in that way, neither should you talk that way to those you disagree with in that way.
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George Yancey
4 years
Plenty of research shows how to do to create unity. Collaborative mutual conversation is critical . Constructing rules to force one group to kowtow to the other is not. So why in this time of racial polarization are we doing the latter rather than the former?
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George Yancey
4 months
Since my analysis of fundamentalism in the SBC has labeled me “Big Eva” I will double down on that analysis. Name-calling is not an adequate substitute for rational discourse and I certainly will not allow it to deter me.
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George Yancey
1 month
I have pounded the prolife argument for Trump lately and there is a reason for that. It touches a cord in me. In 2016 I announced myself as a NeverTrumper. I got a lot of blowback from a lot of prolifers who said I did not care if babies died.
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George Yancey
2 years
You can read the article to get more details and nuance but that is a fair description of what has happened. As an aside I tell my students first day of class that my class is not a safe space. If they do not like hearing ideas they disagree then they need another course.
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George Yancey
1 year
For example, one scripture used is 1 Timothy 3:2 about the elder being the husband of one wife. But 1 Timothy 3:3 goes on to state qualifications of gentleness, not argumentative or greedy for money. Why focus on only the sex of the leader?
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George Yancey
2 years
@FreeBlckThought Seriously cry me a river. I will take on all the criticism he gets if I get the tens of millions of dollars of support he gets to research his ideas. Give me that and I will find something that actually works and bring people together. And I will debate those ideas, unlike Kendi.
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George Yancey
1 year
It would not bother me too much if that is the reaction from companies. Given my concern about the polarization in our society, I would value a reduction in our toxic debates and the companies not participating in them may help.
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George Yancey
11 months
Here is what is scary about the “letter to American people” nonsense. Right after October 7 there were those who defended the actions of Hamas. They said something to the effect of “This is what we mean by decolonization.
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George Yancey
2 years
Two ideas have been debated in our society lately, and I think they have more in common than people think. They are the debates over critical race theory and Christian nationalism. I think a crucial idea that links these debates is concept creep.
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George Yancey
2 years
This is why people do not understand me. I do not throw in with the crowd calling America a white supremacist society but I still believe in structural racism. Go figure. Life is nuanced.
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Truth Over Tribe
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Are there still structural racism issues today or is that something of the past? Watch this clip with @profyancey and @KeithSimon_ .
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George Yancey
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Those of you who tell me to vote blue no matter who, I gotta tell ya that the Democrats routinely scare me more than Republicans.
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Mike Solana
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I understand she’s not actually smart enough to understand what she’s asking for here, but threatening social media platforms with the DOJ in order to silence “hate and misinformation” (as defined by her) is horrifying dictator shit
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George Yancey
2 years
What gives? I thought conservatives hate government interference in local school decisions. This feeds the argument that conservatives do not want to talk about the reality of slavery and Jim Crow. Please do better.
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George Yancey
2 years
@DerwinLGray Have you checked out the American Solidarity Party?
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George Yancey
2 years
One thing you are not going to see me say is calling someone "Karen" unless that is her real name. If I complain about racial stereotyping and dehumanizing then why would I do it myself? Others are free to do what they want but using Karen as a derogatory slur is not for me.
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George Yancey
2 years
It is not even close. Maybe we need to be more in awe of people who raise good kids than those who write books.
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George Yancey
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I do not care about left and right. I care about right and wrong.
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George Yancey
2 years
When people insist on nuance when discussing ideas they like but engage in broad stereotypes when discussing perspectives of those they do not like you are seeing clear evidence of confirmation bias. Work to not be that person.
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George Yancey
2 years
This is a big reason why I have adopted collaborative conversations as the way forward. We need to talk to each other in ways where we can build on each other’s ideas rather than shut each other down. We must focus on empathy rather than combat.
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George Yancey
2 years
To my Christian brothers and sisters - How we react to the elections says something about our faith. If the party we want has a great night and we think we are saved then that say something about where we put our faith.
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George Yancey
5 months
I noticed that in light of what UMC did yesterday a lot of people were saying that if a denomination becomes egalitarian then is must become affirming. AOG, Pentecostals, Salvation Army, and Free Methodist, to start with, would like a word.
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George Yancey
1 year
Well, those are my comments. I am obviously not attending this year (no gumbo for me) but will watch from afar. I wish the best for the SBC because even if I am not now part of them they are brothers and sisters in Christ. When one of us hurt we all do.
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George Yancey
3 years
What you believe about human rights is not shown by what rights you allow for your friends. It is shown by what rights you allow for your foes.
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George Yancey
4 months
Honestly, this can be a turning point in X. If the porn stays to only those who want it then that is tolerable. But if porn starts showing up on my feed that may convince me, and many others, to leave X and let it be a source of filth.
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George Yancey
2 years
As a Christian, I subscribe to the notion of human depravity rather than human perfectibility. That notion would predict that if you abuse a group of people over a long period of time and then give them power that this will not produce justice.
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George Yancey
2 months
A lot of comments on social media about the emergence of Evangelicals for Harris and French’s pronouncement that he will vote for Harris. Some Christians feel betrayed. As a NeverTrumper who is NOT voting for Harris, I have a few thoughts about this.
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George Yancey
5 months
Seems I poked the bear with my defense of Greear. It really is not about defending him. I think that identity politics, on the left and the right is ruining the church. I have spoken about the problems on the left but the identity politics on the right is a problem as well.
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George Yancey
5 months
So I am doubling down on my defense of @jdgreear after reading some of the reaction to it. If Greear is guilty of anything it is not condemning abortion or homosexuality with the animosity some on the Christian right want him to do.
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George Yancey
1 year
I am discovering that I really do not like terms such as Big Eva and Theobros. They seem to reduce image bearers to basic stereotypes. Becomes easier to have distain with negative caricatures rather than deal with the complexity of individuals with all their nuances.
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George Yancey
2 months
There may be a book to be written outlining the way progressives have influenced evangelicals. But it cannot be as sloppily written as Shepherds for Sale. As someone who has written on Christianophobia, I know that to critique progressives you better have done the research right.
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George Yancey
2 years
So I have been criticized for being “too nice to whites.” Not to my face of course but some people say that behind my back. My response is “whatever.”
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George Yancey
1 year
Well, this pride month is turning out to be different from any other pride month I have seen. I normally do not comment on sexuality issues. I find it difficult to have a rational dialog with such an issue. So this thread is not a comment about the rights of sexual minorities.
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George Yancey
1 year
Pandora’s box is open. There is no going back now that the right has tasted boycott victory. It was not a good situation when the left could make unreasonable demands on businesses. But now having this problem be bipartisan makes it worse.
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George Yancey
2 years
A lot of things people say are Christian nationalism are not really Christian nationalism. But this is.
@McBrideLawNYC
Joseph D. McBride, Esq.
2 years
President Trump will be arrested during Lent—a time of suffering and purification for the followers of Jesus Christ. As Christ was crucified, and then rose again on the 3rd day, so too will @realDonaldTrump . Violence is never the answer. Winning the election is. Vote for Trump!
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George Yancey
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Okay I opened this IVF door so let me tell my story. I had to talk to my wife first because it is her story as well and I needed her permission. So yes. I have three boys and the first one was born due to IVF.
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George Yancey
2 years
I have been accused of being too nice to whites. But I do not care especially after reading something like this. The way forward is together and bring everyone on board. We must do the things that bring community and stop doing the things that polarize us.
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George Yancey
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I briefly commented earlier on the SBC. As I think about it I want to offer a more comprehensive perspective. But before I do allow me to offer a little context about myself. As a new Christian, I was disciplined by Southern Baptists at a BSU.
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George Yancey
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@jmj_evie @AmSolidarity Voting to enshrine a pro-choice position in the Republican party is worst than any wasted vote.
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George Yancey
2 years
As a conservative Christian, I know that I hate it when progressives tell me that to not vote for them is to vote against my own self-interest. I know that they are arguing that their political agenda is better for me financially than Republicans.
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George Yancey
3 years
People will violate their stated values to hold on to power when they define their opponents as evil instead of merely being wrong.
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