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13 Jan, 6 tweets, 3 min read
Y’all I am driving right now but have I got a good story for you when I get home
OKAY so I was in a Zoom meeting when my old landlord from the tornado house called me, which I immediately assumed was a butt dial because we haven’t lived there since March and he is a middle aged dad
But he left me a voicemail that was like “hey a package of books was delivered to the old house for you and someone opened it and went through it and left it there but I grabbed it for you so if you want to come pick it up let me know”
So two things. Number one, someone opened my advanced reader copies and decided they literally weren’t worth stealing and number two, MY BOOK IS HERE!!!!! #ChurchToo #ChurchTooBook
I promise my book is worth both stealing and buying. :) You can pre-order here: amazon.com/ChurchToo-Puri…

#ChurchToo #ChurchTooBook
Still just very excited about this. ☺️ #ChurchTooBook

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12 Jan
What's fascinating/horrifying/important to note is how the evangelical Christianity of my youth not only encourages but requires its adherents to do just this. Beyond just the standard and obvious "the heart is deceitful," "beat your body" etc. shit, the distrust piece is key.
We were taught that the world calls what is good, evil and what is evil, good. We were taught people don't know what's best for themselves without the gospel, and that it was our job to show them. We were taught that outsiders' desires were the product of their sinful humanity.
So if an outsider group—LGBTQ folks, for example—says "OUCH" when we step on their toes with the gospel, that's because their minds & hearts haven't been renewed by the Holy Spirit. An "OUCH" from someone is absolutely not a reason to stop doing what you're doing in this context.
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20 Oct 20
If I’ve said it once I’ve said it a thousand times. The sun is setting on the days where you could get away with the evil these people have perpetrated with a slap on the wrist and an office switch. #ChurchToo #MoodyToo
For clarity Moody Bible Institute announced this in their weekly President's Chapel this morning, which is available for viewing (at least currently) here: facebook.com/watch/?v=98169… I'm going to watch the relevant parts and tweet quotes in case it gets taken down. #ChurchToo
This chapel service will be about "one of the challenges we're currently facing," says Moody's president of ~1.5 years, Mark Jobe. Jobe says he will address this with a "shepherd's heart and a dad's heart." #ChurchToo
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17 Oct 20
I CANNOT BELIEVE THIS IS REAL DEAR GOD
Okay I'm supposed to be writing a paper right now so I have time
Number one. There is no scientific consensus on "when life begins" because the question of "when life begins" is primarily a spiritual/theological question, not a scientific one. Really all depends on what we mean by "life," the various beliefs on the existence of a "soul," etc.
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9 Oct 19
All this Ellen talk has got me thinking about the other day when I was being interviewed by someone who was coming from a more conservative theological viewpoint and they asked me what it would take for me to be in community with people I disagreed with theologically.
And I said to them listen, I am constantly in community with people I disagree with theologically. In both directions. I’m close friends with atheists and I’m close friends with people who take the whole fucking nicene creed extremely seriously.
Where I run into problems with people is when it gets to matters of human dignity and civil rights. My life is not a theological issue. My personhood is not a theological issue that exists to be agreed or disagreed with. I reject the premise of questions that start there.
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16 Jul 19
Okay #BachelorNation. My name is Emily Joy, I'm a lesbian with an unhealthy obsession with this show, I have a degree in philosophical theology & apologetics from Moody Bible Institute, and if you're wondering what the fuck is going on I'm here to break it down. #TheBachelorette
In last night's episode @AlabamaHannah referenced the biblical story of the woman caught in adultery & the words of Jesus when he said, "let he who is without sin cast the first stone." The story she's referring to can be found here in the gospel of John: biblegateway.com/passage/?searc…
Now a couple interesting things to note: 1) unlike a lot of other Jesus stories, this one is found *only* in the gospel of John & not the others, and 2) there is good scholarly consensus that this bit of John was added later and was not a part of the original text of the gospel.
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15 Mar 19
So I see that thanks to some high profile shares another article about p*rnography is making its way around the #ChurchToo tag and I just want to take a moment and state that for the most part, right now, I am deeply unconcerned about the “role” of p*rn.
First off, people, mostly men, with power have been grooming, abusing and assaulting people with less power since long before the invention of internet p*rnography and second off, p*rn tends to function as something of a scapegoat for conservative Christians. #churchtoo
If the problem is p*rn, then the problem can’t possibly be our homophobic, white supremacist complementarian theology, you see. The problem is always “out there” and not “in here.” #churchtoo
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