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7 Jan, 4 tweets, 1 min read
Josh Hawley is a traitor.
Romney looks like he wants to slap him.
From Hawley's hometown newspaper, "Sen Josh Hawley has blood on his hands." kansascity.com/opinion/editor…
Romney is slapping Hawley. And man, it ain't pretty.

And the other senators are applauding him.

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7 Jan
I was on the phone (yeah, real phone call) with a friend today. We were talking about the pandemic, both moaning that we didn't know what day it is.

I laughed. "I don't even know what hour it is! I feel lost in time."

He told me he also was experiencing "temporal dislocation."
Temporal dislocation.

Lost in time.

We all feel like we're not only lost in time, but that we've lost time.

Weeks, months, a year of our lives.
It occurred to me that this state of being "lost" in time is part of the pandemic petrie dish of social discontent.

We need to feel our time is meaningful, that we contribute to something that makes a difference.
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29 Dec 20
If Mitch McConnell passes the $2000 emergency aid assistance, y'all know that it has nothing to do with compassion or helping us. It will be a calculated political payment to purchase two Senate seats in Georgia.
...and if and when they pass it, their first act in the new GOP-controlled senate will be to defund any and every social program that Biden proposes or wants to strengthen. Because "budget deficit" and "fiscal responsibility."
Basically, they are setting up a Sophie's Choice scenario - $2000 now to get thru this part of the pandemic in trade for health care and social security later.
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28 Dec 20
I don't know where the theology comments originate today. But I just wrote an entire book ("Freeing Jesus" comes out in March) in a genre I call "memoir-theology" (not "theological memoir") and make the claim that theology emerges from the lives of all God's people.
This is also the point of a foreword I wrote for @LaytonEWilliams' wonderful book, Holy Disunity (some screenshots below):
This foreword became the inspiration for me thinking about Jesus -- and the framework is that of my own book. A Christology of real life.
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28 Dec 20
The top 5 most popular posts at the cottage from 2020! A surprising round-up of faith, culture, and politics.

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#5: The Price of Power

When Trump promised his Christian followers “power,” I questioned both the sort of power he wanted and the kind of power Christianity can and should exercise.

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#4 The Importance of "And"

With Kamala Harris's nomination as the Democratic VP candidate, I ruminated on the small conjunction, “and,” exploring the radical social message of inclusion of the early Christian community from a forgotten ancient creed.

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17 Dec 20
What is the matter with seminary education? I just had to explain to a really smart student who Charlotte von Kirschbaum was -- no one ever told him about Karl Barth's live-in secretary/mistress who basically co-authored (without credit of course) the "Church Dogmatics."
She was Barth's student. He moved her into house to "help" his wife and assist with his writing.
Christianity Today calls it Barth's "steadfast adultery."

Ugh.
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23 Nov 20
Thanksgiving and Christmas are so beautiful - my favorite time of the year. Not only do I love the celebrations but I love the rich spiritual and theological dimensions that attend them.
That we have a holiday to recall gifts, generosity, and gratitude - a day that spiritually "fits" with many traditions, including religious and secular ones - is lovely.

Less than 20 countries have a day set aside for Thanksgiving. And we're one of them!
Gratitude is such an important spiritual practice, a fundamental human practice really. It is truly something we share no matter how or if we believe in God.

And for Christians, it is an often unnoticed but important theological theme across the entire New Testament.
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