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2 Jul, 13 tweets, 6 min read
We recommended a lot of books during yesterday’s discussion, so here’s a list (as far as I can remember!). First off, @agordonreed’s fabulous new book On Juneteenth.
bookshop.org/books/on-junet…
Also @JemarTisby’s Color of Compromise, which played a key role in starting conversations in white evangelical circles. bookshop.org/books/the-colo…
And @AntheaButler’s White Evangelical Racism. bookshop.org/books/white-ev…
Of course @robertpjones’s White Too Long, which releases in paperback in a little over a week. bookshop.org/books/white-to…
Also @esaumccaulley’s Reading While Black, which I think will prove to have an enduring influence. bookshop.org/contributors/e…
And @stewartdantec’s forthcoming Shouting in the Fire. Just wait and see what it does. penguinrandomhouse.com/books/672938/s…
For a perceptive ethnographic look at white Christian nationalism, see @LaurenRKerby’s Saving History. bookshop.org/books/saving-h…
Also see the brand new The Bible Told Them So, by @Profkins. bookshop.org/books/the-bibl…
And Carolyn Dupont’s Mississippi Praying. bookshop.org/books/mississi…
And also @timothybtyson’s incredibly good Blood Done Sign My Name

bookshop.org/books/blood-do…
And of course @ndrewwhitehead and @socofthesacred’s foundational Taking America Back for God. bookshop.org/books/taking-a…
That’s just a start. (I added a couple to the mix here that deserved a new ruin.) Happy reading.
Oh and on a more hopeful note, also @DerwinLGray

amazon.com/Building-Multi…

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3 Jul
Tis the weekend for Jesus and John Wayne everything. I’m getting tagged in a lot of pics, so maybe let’s collect them in a thread. Starting here:
Here’s my contribution, from tonight’s walk in small town America.
And this:
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1 Jul
Back in 1983, George Marsden, Nathan Hatch, and Mark Noll warned conservative evangelicals against embracing the myth of Christian America. To do so weakend their public witness & paradoxically contributed to the secularization of Am society. 1/7
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Misperceptions of the past are stumbling blocks to effective Christian witness. "Positive Christian action does not grow out of distortions or half-truths," they contended. "Such errors lead rather to false militance, to unrealistic standards for American public life today... 2/
...and to romanticized visions about the heights from which we have fallen." Perhaps more perniciously, a mythical view of "Christian America" discouraged "a biblical analysis of our position today." 3/7
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1 Jul
Als ehemaliger Austauschstudent nach Deutschland liebe ich das sehr. Vielen Dank @DietzThorsten.
"Warum schlugen diese Bücher so hohe Wellen? Für viele waren die Erfahrungen der Trump-Ära ein Augenöffner...
Dieses Mal gelang es der männlichen Elite des US-Evangelikalismus nicht, sämtliche kritischen Stimmen einfach auszugrenzen als liberal, bibelkritisch etc."
Du Mez und Barr sind keine Außenstehenden. Sie stammen aus dem Evangelikalismus und fühlen sich ihm zugehörig.
Sie bestreiten in keiner Weise, dass es sich bei vielen evangelikalen Gemeinden um fürsorgliche, liebevolle Orte handelt, an denen man die Liebe Gottes und geschwisterliche Gemeinschaft findet.
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30 Jun
Really looking forward to reading this new @Profkins book:
"What goes on so often today in white evangelical circles is a misunderstanding. There’s a belief that when it came to the civil rights movement, those white Christians just kind of missed it...
...and unfortunately, this wasn’t a time where we applied biblical ethics to a social situation that was occurring around us...[T] wasn't the story...The story was that these white evs had a different hermeneutical lens that they were using to read Scripture.
[After the Civil Rts Act] ...they're no longer able to openly say, 'Listen, God's a segregationist"...[but] they don't stop believing....they continue to believe that segregation is right...but the way they talk about it changes."
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9 Jun
Stopped by to chat with these two boys, ages 14 & 12. They told me how they’re homeschooled & part of a church w/ a brave pastor who isn’t afraid to be political, how they want to defend Trump and the Constitution, how the election was stolen…
…how they know because of “evidence” from Newsmax, Fox News, and Mike Lindell, and how their parents drop them off on street corners a couple times a week while they run errands.
Posted with permission; they were eager to have their names and photos posted on social media. I explained why I wouldn’t and why I’d use only this photo from a distance. They were very earnest and polite.
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7 Jun
“What I came to see after a closer examination of this history is, time & again, religious leaders—conservative evangelical leaders—actively stoked that fear...in the hearts of believers, in order--ultimately, I concluded--to consolidate their own power. Image
“& that we needed to flip that script, that evangelical militancy wasn't necessarily…the response to fear, even though these fears were genuine. Ev militancy…came first & then required the continual stoking of fear in hearts of followers…to justify & sustain that militancy."
“It's very easy for any of us to justify the pursuit of power in order to do what we think is good and right and true, and I think it's very hard for us to be self-critical and to interrogate...what we're doing in God's name, in particular.
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