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11 May, 4 tweets, 1 min read
In 2012, I wrote about belief depending on belonging in faith communities -

‘Belonging Is Stronger Than Facts’: The Age of Misinformation nytimes.com/2021/05/07/wor…
My upcoming Festival of Homiletics keynote is about this very thing. (Recorded last week - wish I’d had this article then!)
My work looks at this relationship from a positive direction (the possibility of unity and community) rather than partisanship.
A couple people have asked - the book I wrote on this subject is CHRISTIANITY AFTER RELIGION.

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11 May
Watching some clergy attacking Pelagianism reminded me how Sen Josh Hawley blamed "our present crisis" on Pelagius (CT magazine, 6/4/19).

It is unnerving seeing people in my own denomination (Episcopal Church) echoing Josh Hawley.
And I'm not convinced either the critics or Hawley understand Pelagius.
It unnerves me because I recognize the theological road where a certain kind of radical Augustinian position and exclusionary politics become intertwined.

I once traveled that road. It nearly undid me - took me to the most self-abusive and hurtful places of my entire life.
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10 May
Saw Confederate Memorial Day trending. Remembered when I used to work at a VA Episcopal church (20 yrs ago) & the rector and I would hide all the paintings, memorabilia from RE Lee/Civil War in closets & the basement each year on this date. And then "forget" where we'd put them.
Some random church member would go on a hunt and find them and put all the stuff back.

And, the next year, we'd do the same thing all over again.
We'd "accidentally" take the memorial flowers delivered to the church to the hospital and shut-ins. Oops! We just didn't realized they were supposed to honor Confederate veterans!
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1 Mar
Archbishop of Nigeria: "ACNA was formed by GAFCON, as a safe haven for faithful Christians who reject the apostasy & rebellion in TEC."

Couldn't really be clearer. ACNA's whole reason for being is anti-LGBTQ. It isn't just a church "struggling," it is their raison d'être.
It is one thing to be part of a denomination trying to come to terms with tradition, the Bible, polity, and justice for LGBTQ persons (like the UMC) and a different thing to be a clergy person ordained into a denomination founded explicitly to oppress an entire group of people.
Can you imagine WILLINGLY vowing to obey a bishop in a denominational body who says "The deadly ‘virus’ of homosexuality has infiltrated ACNA. This is likened to a Yeast that should be urgently and radically expunged and excised lest it affects the whole dough.”
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17 Feb
Years ago, a minister told me a story of a funeral:

The widow sat in the front row, crying, surrounded by wailing friends. At the point in the liturgy for the sermon, the priest came down and stood at the open coffin.

He laid his hand on the dead man, and said....
"There are some people who, when anyone sees them, say, 'What a good man! What a wonderful man! He makes me so happy!'"

The widow and her wailing friends, responded, "Yes, father; yes, father."
He paused. And said, "Yes, some people make everyone happy."

He looked down. Paused again. And then said, with his hand patting the dead man,

"This was not one of those people."
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30 Jan
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.
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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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