This week in WPCs: Some teaching from a PCA megachurch in Atlanta that has planted liberationist hotbeds like Ikon and Renovation (Lecrae's longtime church home)...
Most of these, again, were tips from followers. Thank you all for your help, and pray for your boy WPC to stay far from pride and not fall into malice toward anyone featured here.
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Max Lucado's daughter introduces herself, recalling how she "deconstructed purity culture"
"I used the work of...René Girard, who talks about Scapegoat Theory, and found the female body to be @ the center of that theory for evangelicals"
Historian Randall Balmer: "The *real* origins of the religious right are embedded in
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racism...If the foundation is racism, those timbers are rotten, and the movement itself is rotten, and it has to be addressed."
Moderator Lisa Sharon Harper: "Over the past decade I have become aware of the ways my faith was actually shaped in a political cauldron...in a framework that was literally designed for warfare...designed to have winners+losers...Either right or wrong, no in-between."
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.