#Evangelicals

One of the realities I find most frustrating in a switch from a Republican to a Democrat presidential administration is the speed at which Evangelicals drop all references to Romans
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The church's first calling is to preach the gospel and make disciples. Impacting the society's practices should be the fruit of a gospel-filled life. That's why William Wilberforce, David Livingstone
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Excuse me I'm going to do a tweet thread on how to recover from purity culture in evangelicalism without talking about sex at all, wish me luck.These are 5 ways
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This is what I mean when I compare DJT to the ants in our kitchen.https://twitter.com/RonBrownstein/status/1248277700239740929 He has these things he does, and they work out great for him a lot
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A friend and teacher of mine, a TEC priest and academic, in conversation recently called me "an Anglican theologian" (a lovely compliment indeed) as opposed to themself, who has primarily
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This may help ease your mind, if you need it...(full text below)https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2020/10/mailin_voting_will_not_prevent_a_trump_victory.html "Most people supporting President Trump in this election are confident
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The scandal the Religious Right has brought upon the Gospel of Jesus Christ by protecting such degeneracy breaks my heart.https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-falwell-relationship/ This is false. The reason the media is f
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I’m celibate. I follow historic Christian teaching on sexual ethics by default. Straight people who practice contraceptive sex don’t. A lot of ppl get angry when I make this observation.
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The current state of commercial tracking:Adobe is (re)selling data from another data broker, who tracked protesters in the US (https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/carolinehaskins1/protests-tech-company-spying) and claims to profile users o
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At the traditional Labor Day start of the presidential campaign, we are in the beginning of a coordinated media assault on Trump’s base. It seeks to dampen the enthusiasm of
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Why do many "Calvinistic" American evangelicals expect NT Wright sound like a theologian repeating dogmatic aphorisms from their non-Anglican tribe or their non-Anglican denomination? I really do not understand this.
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It's amazing how many "Christians" believe...Homosexuality is okayAbortions are okayAnything but sex is okayReally? Did the Holy Spirit tell you that? DID HE?Those who say such things spend little (if
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I stand by every criticism I’ve ever made about the Democratic Party. I disagree with a good chunk of that party’s platform, especially with regard to abortion.But many focus so
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That phrase - "...we’ve never known before" frustrates me deeply.Let me start here: Ray & I, as best I can tell from his tweets, see Christian faithfulness in 2020 in
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So much Falwell news to dissect and analyze. The jokes abound. But I want to take a minute to discuss how this scandal fits into evangelical discourse and American sex
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In a new piece for @RDispatches, I argue we should read fundamentalist fictions as a way to understand 'the scandal of the evangelical mind.’ Evangelical identity and knowledge circulate through
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