And finally, a DTS MLK chapel, where we see the new liturgical tradition of perpetual groveling (I'm told this is an annual tradition, a Yom Kippur of sorts), because "under new management" no longer suffices.
Much of this week's #content came from tipsters. Thank you for pointing me to what you have discovered in your lived experience! I will continue to Do The Work of clipping them to start more conversations with you lovely people.
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To be clear, lament is biblical (James 4:8-10 comes to mind), but "no x without it" needs more justification. How many accounts of conversion/salvation in Acts do we see without it? And isn't "good news lament" a self-refuting phrase?
"God has not called us to treat the poor...people of a different race...in the same manner as we treat everyone else. He's called us to do much more...to actively seek them out, love them, listen to them, learn from them, lament w them, to serve them to an even greater degree."
Great Revoice find from @ShawnMathis1972: a Student Ministry Director at a PCA church says he and his straight roommate have decided to become a "household" and, should the one marry a woman, she will become part of their "family." Clips incoming: pastormathis.com/index.php/2021…
"We're totally committed to finding a way to live together and function as a household...if I get a job someplace and that means a change of location, that's a decision we make as a family. When he has a wife one day, she'll make those decisions with us."
"There's this fear of falling in love...it makes me scared that it'll be painful to watch him get married...he just, like, loves me so much as his friend and his brother."
This week in WPCs: we looked to the Jude 3 Project to define "decolonizing theology." Aside from European surnames and "white Jesus" images, it did not get specific about what is colonized in yte churches, mostly just complained about racism in progressive churches.
Then we tried to explain to Eshon Burgundy's wife to explain that "you have to say Biblical names as the Cypher version prints them or you're pagan" is actually cultural imperialism. She got so mad that they gave me my first YT copy strike.
Ibram Kendi, speaking in a Manhattan church, says "antiracists" fundamentally reject "savior theology" ("the Christian is to go out and save these individuals who are behaviorally deficient") and embrace liberation theology ("the Christian is to revolutionize society").
To fit this on Twitter, I had to make an edit that I'm not too happy about. Here's wider context:
This week in WPCs: We covered a new appropriation of Revelation 21 from a UCLA prof who explicitly says his stretchy interpretation comes from CRT's "community cultural wealth" concept:
Rapper Eshon Burgundy now says Christianity is pagan because it translates the Messiah's name from Hebrew to Greek. Plus other wild and unsubstantiated things.