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9 Jan, 6 tweets, 2 min read
"Not all White Evangelicals..."

"White supremacy is a fringe ideology in Evangelicalism..."

"White supremacy isn't an issue anymore..."

faithfullymagazine.com/church-leaders…
These seem to be the common responses to @Tish_H_Warren's great article on @CTmagazine.

christianitytoday.com/ct/2021/januar…
But the facts speak for themselves. White supremacy and White nationalism still find refuge in White Evangelical and Reformed Christian spaces. They cozy up with the inner workings of some of our favorite denominations, nonprofits, and ministries.
The best way forward is not to deflect and find excuses, even pious sounding excuses (e.g "well, they aren't real Christians!). The right response is lament, confession, repentance, and where necessary, restitution and resolution to make right.
Corporate introspection is necessary to see both the intentional and unintentional ways that have made these ideologies find refuge within our midst. We need to listen to the voices of those who have left our spaces or who feel uncomfortable in our spaces because of our silence.
It's taking seriously Jesus' words that if a sister or brother has something against you while you are worshipping, you must first go and make what is right before you can go back to worshipping God aright. (Matt 5:23-24)

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11 Jan
Back in 2017 after the White nationalist/supremacist event in Charlottesville, I wrote an article for @WhiteHorseInn explaining how the Bible speaks clearly against racism, ethnic superiority, and nationalism. The comments and articles written in response to it were appalling.
This wasn't the first time we had received comments like this, but the vitriol was palpable this time. Donors of the ministry were threatening to stop their support. I learned that Reformed pastors were spreading gossip that the ministry was becoming "liberal" and full of "social
justice warrior" content to convince those they have influence over to stop their support. A local pastor and seminary professor posted multiple articles as well as a live radio broadcast that was at least in part a response to my article and others by Christians of color.
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10 Jan
Not just the Young, Restless, and Reformed, but also those of us who were a part of the Confessional, Curmudgeonly, and Reformed movement who were taught that good theology only came from 16th-17th century Europeans. Let me tell you about the "Confessionally Reformed hip-hop" ...
In the circles I was in, people made ministries off of dunking on the Young, Restless, and Reformed movement and went heresy hunting on anyone that didn't fit their view of "truly Reformed" theology.
It was basically the Make the 16th Century Great Again movement that tried to make the end-all be-all of theology the magisterial Reformation.
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25 Dec 20
No need to debate if Jesus was a refugee. Sing about it instead.

Lonely travelers from the stable
Out beneath the hard blue sky
Journeying, wandering, hoping, praying
For the safety of their child
While our mother Rachel’s weeping
Fills the streets of Bethlehem.
Kyrie eleison
Warned by angels moved to save him
Who was born our kind to save
Joseph leads his holy family
Far from Herod and harm’s way
Mary shielding and consoling
Jesus Christ the Son of God.
Kyrie eleison.
Fleeing from the land of promise
They in Egypt find a home
Strange the workings of God’s mercy
House of bondage now God’s throne
But for sons who all were murdered
Sorrow breaks the House of Bread.
Kyrie eleison.
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24 Dec 20
Systemic sin and social justice in Leviticus:

"Do not use dishonest standards when measuring length, weight, or quantity. Use honest scales and honest weights, an honest ephah, and an honest hin. I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of Egypt." Leviticus 19:35-36
Calvin argues that dishonest weights and scales "involve the grossest violation of public justice" (social justice). Not only that, but he argues that "...if the laws of buying and selling are corrupted, human society is in a manner dissolved" because of its systemic impact.
God condemns such "trickeries... by which our neighbors are defrauded" and that "He sets Himself against all evil and illicit arts of gain."

People who read the Bible generations ago had no problem talking about "public justice"/"social justice" and systemic sin.
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10 Dec 20
In his commentary on Daniel 9:6, Calvin specifically touches on systemic sin - the idea that sin can be embedded within the systems, institutions, and patterns that have been set by predecessors. The idea of systemic sin is entirely consonant with Calvin's understanding of
individual guilt.

"...others shelter themselves in the crowd of offenders. 'What could I do? I am but a man; I have only followed the example of the many.' ...Here, then, [Daniel] implicates kings, princes, and fathers in the same guilt; as if he had said, all are to be
condemned without exception before God. This again must be diligently noticed. For we see how the common people think everything permitted to them which is approved by their kings and counselors... Respecting the "fathers," we see how frivolous is the excuse of those who use
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9 Dec 20
"Aimee, trust the process. Let the church courts handle this.”

I heard variations of that same argument over and over again during the spiritual abuse in the OPC I experienced.

The system is broken and is insufficient to handle spiritual abuse from their root.
Here are 5 signs that you may be experiencing spiritual abuse:

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Thoughts about breaking the cycle of spiritual abuse.

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