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The public square and Christian voices
I am grateful for solid Christian thinkers and communicators who stand in the public square to bring solid comment to our current cultural messes.
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Walk deeper than ever before
Russell Moore writes: The nonstop news cycle and drama won’t be some unforeseen circumstance. It’s what the American people voted for. The theory that people would want to “turn the page” on all that, offered by Vice President Kamala Harris, proved false. Turns out most people liked the drama just fine. So here we go.
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The dangers of chants and quick slogans
The activism and chants of antisemitism and anti-Muslim are dangerous. We need to pay attention. Christians, though, ought to be especially attentive to what’s happening to a society that increasingly seems, on the horseshoe extremes of the populist right and the activist left, to be driven toward the pull of the channeled rage of the mob. — Russell Moore More…
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Church hurt… where do we go?
Just as the last post I shared a podcast on someone wrestling with their faith/theology/public belief, etc., and had areas I that resonated with me, this podcast is much the same.
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The way home
I am wrapping up Russell Moore’s book, Losing Our Religion and if there are two places I would copy and keep near me at all times, it would be the section where he talked about the need to make peace with homelessness and the conclusion to the book. Moore is a Southern Baptist to the core, so YES the conclusion…
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Laying out “Christian Nationalism”
“Christian nationalism is not a politically enthusiastic version of Christianity, nor is it a religiously informed patriotism. Christian nationalism is a prosperity gospel for nation-states, a liberation theology for white people.” (Russell Moore, Losing Our Religion, p. 117, emphasis added)
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Tribalism and Truth
We have been Balkanizing the U.S. for quite some time. We truly want to hang out only with “our folks” no matter the place on the political spectrum. I miss the days before social media. Truly.
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Defining Christian Nationalism
This is me saying something about “Christian Nationalism” again. And I will keep doing so. Russell Moore in THIS INTERVIEW sums up why we need to keep raising the flag on this one: Your book delves into Christian nationalism as a component of the evangelical movement. How would you define Christian nationalism? And how has it affected evangelicalism in the…
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Learning what is CORE
“After the disruptions of the past few years, though, the primary critique of evangelical Christianity — from the outside world as well as from those of us who’ve found ourselves accidental exiles within the church — is not that evangelical Christianity believers and practices all these things, but that we don’t.” (Losing Our Religion, p. 20)
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