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30 Jan, 5 tweets, 1 min read
Silence can be consent or complicity; but silence can also be mourning past words, a voiceless sorrow and suffering, pain without any shape other than groaning.

It is extremely important in community to be able to discern one from the other.
There are silences that are wrong, sinful, evil; there are silences that are the most holy of things possible.
Some silence fuels injustice; some silence is truth in the face of injustice.
Silence can be indifference. Silence can also be profound empathy, a stunning solidarity.
Knowing when to speak; knowing when to keep silence - this is a spiritual practice. And it is wisdom.

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19 Jan
I know people are acting shocked by the 1776 commission report. But it reads like a Christian homeschooling textbook. Nothing new - same stuff that’s been taught for decades in conservative Christian circles.
And those dangerous ideas about history have long shaped conservative evangelicalism. Respected American historians have warned about this sort of propaganda in churches, Christian schools, and homeschooling since at least the mid-1980s.
Two or more generations of white evangelicals already believe what’s in the report. Entire denominations embrace that version of American history.
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10 Jan
Listening to the news about how the id'ed military in Wed's insurrection are mostly Air Force. And remembering this story from 15 years ago re: evangelical radicalization at the Air Force Academy in CO. (Rep Capps & I talked about this at the time.

ffrf.org/outreach/item/…
The students then would be senior officers now - perhaps even some retired.
Then-radicalized students would've spread thru the whole branch - training, teaching, leading others who did NOT go to the military academy.

I've always wondered about the influence of those days since.

(I've known plenty of great Air Force officers who are not like this btw)
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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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7 Jan
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…
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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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