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12 Apr, 4 tweets, 1 min read
Tell me you grew up in the 70s without telling me you grew up in the 70s.
My doctor smoked in his office.
I was a member.

For a few weeks, I was a god among men. Image
On car trips, I sat in the trunk facing backwards without a seatbelt.

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15 Apr
AN OPEN LETTER TO PASTOR JD GREEAR @jdgreear AND THE SOUTHERN BAPTIST CHURCH @SBCExecComm, REGARDING LGBTQ YOUTH,

For more than twenty years I’ve been a pastor to students.
It has been the greatest joy of my life to be allowed into the trenches of young people’s lives: to have access to their stories and share proximity to their pain.
I’ve sat with and listened to thousands of LGBTQ young people, and I’ve had a front row seat to the violence the Church has manufactured and to the depression, self-harm, and isolation it breeds.
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2 Apr
Name something that was better when you were younger?
Concerts.

Pre-cell phones. There's simply no comparison. If you were there, you know...
My eyes.

Thought the TV was blurry.
Went to the eye doctor.
Turns out it was me. 😂
51 years and this just happened.
Today I learned my face is wrinkled, my windows are filthy, and 4K is amazing! Image
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2 Apr
I'd like to see more moderate/progressive Christians be louder in demanding human rights. I think we need a sustained ferocity that actively confronts the way the Religious Right dehumanizes/damages people. I think Jesus would be really pissed off right now and we should be, too.
I don't expect all people of my faith tradition to be as confrontational as I might be, but I feel like we're largely abandoning our calling to be light in dark places and to fight injustice. Conservatives are unapologetic in their hatred. We need to be in our opposition to it.
I grieve that we are still largely relinquishing the faith conversation to the wall-builders and vote-suppressors because we're trying to be nice instead of Christlike. You can love and still passionately upend tables. You can love and still explicitly name bigotry. Jesus did.
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22 Feb
What song is this guy singing?
OMG, this thread already. 🤣
"Girls just wanna have fu-un."
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6 Feb
I know my approach may be too confrontational or blunt for some professed Christians but I think people are forth fighting for.
I believe what we're seeing right now from organized Christianity is a flat-out disgrace and I'm not alright with it.
I don't think Jesus would be.
I think if more people of faith who've been horrified over the past 4 years had spoken with forceful clarity the sickness may not have be normalized in the Church in the way it has. Many "nice" Christians stayed out of the trenches of specificity and that has grieved me terribly.
A pastor once said to me before I spoke at his church, "I so appreciate what you say and how you say it because I can't."
I said, "Well, you could—you might just end up out here with a jerk like with me."
I don't believe in hatred but I believe in ferocity on behalf of humanity.
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18 Jan
White friends, we cannot celebrate Martin Luther King's Jr's life without fully grieving.

We can't do it without lamenting Steve Bannon and Stephen Miller and Sebastian Gorka and Jeff Sessions and Mitch McConnell.

johnpavlovitz.com/2018/01/15/he-…

#MartinLutherKing
We can't do it while defending the expulsion of immigrants and the denial of refugees.
We can't do it while waving Confederate flags and worshiping monuments to slavery's dehumanizing legacy.
We can't do it without mourning the young black men who still die without cause during traffic stops and officers who face no accountability when they murder them.
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