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@elderjds
Mar 6, 2019 • 3 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
Remember that you are dust #AshWednesday reminds us that death is real and that as surely as we have been born, we shall die. We are weak, frail, and fleeting. Our only significance comes from the fact that we are made in God's image
I believe in the work of justice, of practicing Shalom, of seeking the common good --- all are expressions of Christianity. But all are fleeting. The eternal is now and continues after death. #AshWednesday
I want to live so that I may live again, to please my Creator, to love my neighbor. But I am weak, full of failings, doubts within and pressures without. #AshWednesday is a good reminder for me and for us all

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Sep 24, 2020
If you reflexively defend the actions of the state over against the citizen, you are not a conservative nor a liberal. You are an authoritarian who loves power when it is displayed against those you deem unworthy of protection
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Unworthy perhaps because of their physical location (the womb), or their affiliations, or their class, sex, ethnicity, or "race". #ProLife #BreonnaTaylor
True liberalism defends freedom of conscience & acts that flow from conscience in both the private & public domain. It defends religious liberty even when it disagrees with the religion
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Sep 23, 2020
Such a system must be condemned in Christian terms in the strongest possible way. It must be condemned under any system that purports to be just. It must be condemned because it is not "balanced scales".
It is to be condemned for it privileges the strong (armed state agents) over the weak (innocent sleeping citizen). It is to be condemned for it distorts the very meaning of the word "justice."
The words "a good shot" should never be uttered by anyone who claims Christ, for every taking of a life is an assault against the image of God. Even when such taking might possibly be necessary (it was not), it is never "good".
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Sep 6, 2020
Racism has never been simply "the sin of partiality". That's garbage 🗑. It has always and ever been about a self reinforcing social system constructed to justify the oppression of Black people specifically & non-Whites more generally. So stop the nonsensical trite theologising
"It was not simply that Europeans held to an amplified ethnocentrism... but it was within the framework of Eurowestern Christian civilisation that the racialist ideology of White Supremacy emerged."
"In the United States, the archetypical White Christian civilisation, Blacks, who comprised nearly 20% of the population at the nation's founding, were overwhelmingly held in bondage."
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Sep 3, 2020
This advice is good so far as it goes; pastor's shouldn't tweet dangerous mental health advise. However, pastors are frequently one of the first persons to be engaged by someone with mental health issues & a good pastor will want to serve their parishioners well.
Mental health issues are NOT like hypertension; they are more complex & multifaceted. What the pastor needs are tools to know (discern) when it is a mental health issue in addition to being a pastoral care issue. Then they will be equipped to make the proper referrals.
Yet the same must be true on the other side. Mental health practitioners must not also overstep their bounds as well. Sin, repentance, & faith are relevant concerns regardless of a person's mental health. Someone may need both to take a prescribed medication AND repent of sin
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Aug 17, 2020
Some things Christians should do is 1) avoid making sweeping judgmental statements about the motives of people who differ politically from you. Just because someone supports Trump, or Biden, is a Republican or Democrat does NOT mean they don't value human life
2) Speak charitably of those we disagree with politically, always seeking to discern what is praiseworthy, instead of highlighting, amplifying, and vilifying those defects which politicians of differing political views share
3) Avoid bearing false witness by repeating or declaring things about which one does not have first hand evidence, or statements about the conditions of someone's faith or heart. You have NO idea what God is doing in someone
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Aug 10, 2020
If you don't understand the horrors experienced by Russia in the 20th century (and before) you can never understand their mentality & policy considerations.
Russia lost probably the equivalent of the whole of its current population (around 170 million) in single 50 year time span due to wars, revolutions, civil war, purges, famines, another war.
All due to either 1) invasions from the West or 2) ideologies imported from the West (Marxism). Assuming the Russian Empire had stayed intact in some modified form without those calamities it would probably have 1/2 billion people or more
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