MAY: World Vision's "racial justice" course that I covered from the beginning of my work outed itself this month. Not only did Soong-Chan Rah reveal he was laundering the ideas of critical theorists, the course itself was cool with pagan syncretism
JUNE: A Zoom struggle session for the ages with staff from Calvin University and Kuyper College
JULY: I started mixing up my YouTube process to better avoid copyright complaints and also because I was noticing more and more the need to fact-check people within the videos themselves. This was one of the first WPCs in the new format:
AUGUST: Do NOT believe the hype about this guy. Every single time I finish one of his talks, I walk away with a shallower understanding of the Bible, not deeper.
OCTOBER: The inevitable end of "David raped Bathsheba" discourse is "Samuel violated her in the telling, as well" and "the Imago Dei means you are infinitely good"
NOVEMBER: You know it's ethno-narcissism when you feel the need to insert Donatus, an indefensible heretic, and some lady who claimed to be possessed by a saint who was equal to YHWH, into your theological "genealogy"
In which Phil Vischer defines "the MeToo movement" as a "conservative theological priority" (0:59-0:52 + 1:33-1:50)
Been a while since I've touched Holy Post content. I can only dip in + out every so often or else the smugness overcomes me.
This was a delightfully salty episode where Skye + Phil grouse about wolves losing and shepherds winning in 2021. 😘
"[The Reformers] tended to define the gospel in juxtaposition to the Roman Catholic ideas, not necessarily on an objective reading of the NT...We are always redefining it based on what heresy at the moment we're fighting against."
All this time and I've never done a foot washing clip!
"I want a young black man up here, because he represents some things...This young man doesn't just represent black America. This young man represents all minorities for this moment."
Dennis Rouse, Victory Church, Atlanta
The washee is never named
This is from 2017, before the Kendi-DiAngelo explosion
"We all know about the Holocaust, but for some reason, [the trans-Atlantic slave trade] has never been really advertised too much, because my race, we don't want to feel guilty.
And I'm not saying you should feel guilty, because you didn't do that, but your race did."
P Sprinkle: "If...the whole world's 💉 tomorrow, does that mean COVID would pretty much fizzle out really shortly?"
MS: "Yeah. It's got nowhere to go. There is always the slight danger that it could go into an animal reservoir..."
If you are still comparing the current COVID shots to smallpox and polio vaccines instead of a flu shot in November 2021, you are bearing false witness against the 💉 hesitant. Full stop.
The actual assumption here is that variants are ONLY created in people who haven't gotten the shot
Highlights from the Jonathan Merritt sermon endorsed by his father. Mark 13 isn't about the judgment of God, it's about recognizing "nothing lasts forever."
"The grass withers, the flowers fade," and then we <snip> the part about the word of the Lord remaining forever.
Jesus foretelling the destruction of the temple = "Hating change won't delay or deter it. The future is always breaking into the present, and it never calls ahead to ask permission. So we need to learn to love the worlds in which we live and, when the time comes, to let them go."
Edits Mark 13:4 to reinforce his "don't fear change" theme: "Tell us, when will these things happen, and what will be the sign that things are about to change?"
No English translation says "about to change," it's "be fulfilled" or "be accomplished," i.e. God's plans completed
"We were under a really tight timeline, and to turn it around in advance of the 2020 election, that was kind of our mandatory deadline."
Kristin Kobes du Mez, re: J+JW 🤔
It's almost as if Shenvi and Leeman are correct that the politics are driving the theology and not the other way around 🧐 web.archive.org/web/2021112214…