1. This disgust toward refugees is the opposite of how the God of the Bible feels about refugees. 2. This derogatory language leads to violence against refugees. 3. This is also his policy.
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For Americans who fear Muslims:
"very few Muslim Americans – just 1% – say that suicide bombing and other forms of violence against civilian targets are often justified to defend Islam from its enemies."
"7% say that all their close friends are Muslims."
When people immigrate to the United States, they tend to personally get to know a Christian.
My points above are that it is: biblically and morally wrong to denigrate refugees or radically reduce helping them. They tend to assimilate & not be violent when they immigrate. And they have a much higher likelihood of becoming Christians. There is no reason to oppose refugees.
The refugees welcomed—that Trump has reduced from 110,000 per year to 15,000—include many Christians.
So, yes, I am angry when Franklin Graham gives $400,000 to Donald Trump under the auspices of helping persecuted Christians.
Minnesota has/had a lot of refugees AND there needs to be better support for the states and cities with a lot of refugees because welcoming these refugees is right and it is good for the US.
Story about refugee from Cambodia to Minnesota who is now a CBS Minnesota news cameraman.
"Leadership" is often an incoherent field of study. Often it's anecdotal. "Here's what I did to ... win the game ... make a lot of money ... win the war ... win an election."
But below I sketch a few conceptual foundations of Leadership and note their practical value. 👇
Properly, Leadership is a subdiscipline of Ethics (how to live well), which is a subdiscipline of Philosophy.
Within Christianity, Leadership is also properly a subdiscipline of Ethics (how to live well with the presupposition God has spoken in Scripture and in Jesus Christ), which is a subdiscipline of Theology.
Number of independent members of the board at Samaritan's Purse. 9 of 16 in 2020. They lost 3 independent members and added another family member since the previous year in 2019.
- 79% of Americans are comfortable with a female pastor, but only 39% of evangelicals.
- 72.8% of evangelicals are fine with a woman preaching on Sunday morning.
- 3% of evangelical congregations and 30% of mainline congregations have a female senior pastor.
See sources below.
According to a 2016 Barna survey,
79% of Americans would be comfortable with a female priest or pastor. barna.com/research/ameri…
But only 39% of evangelicals would be.
Only 13.5% of U.S. congregations in 2018-2019 had a female as the head or senior clergyperson.
Or slicing the data differently, only 7.4% of U.S. attendees attend a congregation with a female as the head or senior clergyperson.
Thread of comments on books from 2019-2021 on women and Christianity. They are all worth reading.
Books on: famous women leaders, practical support for women, biblical description, history of masculine militarism, bad sex in Christian marriages, and the history of patriarchy.
The Preacher's Wife: The Precarious Power of Evangelical Women Celebrities
October 1, 2019
by Kate Bowler @KatecBowler
History of prominent women leaders in American Christianity.
Better Together: How Women and Men Can Heal the Divide and Work Together to Transform the Future
February 11, 2020
by Danielle Strickland @djstrickland
These pieces are revealing. For them, Christianity is using any means necessary to rally people to make America more like 1980's white Christianity. It is not humbly reading the Bible together so as to learn how to act like Jesus.
They did in their youth read the Bible and became convinced about what it was saying to American culture. And now they are in a position of power to rally people to that. But did we stop reading the Bible afresh? Is Christian political coercion of non-Christians the right goal?
Is not the political witness of Christians primarily one of example, of love, of integrity, and sharing of the hope that there is a God who is bringing a kingdom of love? Yes, advocate in the public sphere for the common good. Be salt and light. But still act like Jesus!