Please remember that @MarshaBlackburn, who DHS says is encouraging domestic terrorism, would not stop attacking Col Alexander Vindman for testifying about Trump’s extortion of Zelensky.
@Tish_H_Warren I urge you to reconsider this op-ed. Millions of disabled & high-risk ppl are not safe attending in-person church. The message from your huge platform is the church doesn’t care whether we can attend or whether we live or die. nytimes.com/2022/01/30/opi…
2. The message from the church at large in America is that disabled & immune-compromised ppl are an annoyance the church should be protected from. It’s been that way since an Assoc of Christian Schools Int’l atty told Congress the ADA would HARM churches. books.google.com/books?id=gyduZ…
3. @Tish_H_Warren your op-ed telling churches to drop the most accessible part of worship for folks like me during this endless pandemic shows that even though I’ve been in church my whole life, taught Sunday school, gone on mission trips, etc., I am not worth considering.
This popped back up in my mentions this morning, & I am grateful any time I’m reminded that @DavidDark asked this question. Howard Thurman has an illuminating word. 🧵
2. I’ve wondered for a while how the conversation between Jesus and a woman known to us not by her name, but by her ethnicity, could help 21st century readers of Jesus better understand the structure within which he lived, moved, & had his being.
3. I didn’t realize how much of myself I was imposing upon the person of Jesus (white, American, woman, Gen X, etc) until I read Thurman’s “Jesus & the Disinherited”. If you haven’t read it, you are missing out on a deeply explored theology.
NOTE: When Reformed theobros speak of “Expressive Individualism”, what they’re talking about is a politically bastardized version of a term coined by Robert Bellah before 1996. They are willfully hijacking it to collectively shape their postmodern theology reach for profit.
Taylor, Trueman, et al use it as a cudgel to attack CRT & LGBTQ folks. When Trueman came to speak at our PCA community back in May, “parents’ LGBTQ concerns about their kids” was the back door entry for a nationalist monologue that attacked the 1619 Project, Dr. Tisby, & CRT. 2/
I found it interesting that they’re so keen on hijacking Robert Bellah’s term from Habits of the Heart. Bellah wrote later that Expressive Individualism in US is different from identity development w/in more socialist-leaning democracies. (not unlike the one Trueman is from) 3/
1. “Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People’s Ears: A West African Tale” A 1976 Caldecott Medal winner by Verna Aardema, illustrated by Leo & Diane Dillon. Moms for Liberty’s complaint? “This is dark material for Kindergarten.”
2. “Sea Horse: The Shyest Fish in the Sea”, by Chris Butterworth, illustrated by John Lawrence. @sljournal calls it “An accomplished entree to early science topics.” MFL complains it’s too sexy & “only male fish get pregnant”. Also there’s “bending, squeezing, & pushing” (???)
I have thought about @GovBillLee’s foot-washing event all weekend. It’s important to get the details accurate, because we need to be specific about the toxicity of this stunt. (Of course it’s a 🧵)
1. The obvious place to start is the fact that nobody is masked—not the Gov or 1st Lady, not volunteers or school staff, not the kids.
The calculated defiance of this cannot be overstated, esp w/ a @usedgov investigation, multiple class action lawsuits, & sky-high Covid rates.
2. How did Lee arrive at this caricature of Scripture? Jesus washed the feet of some men...his *disciples*, already in relationship w/ him.
What does this have to do w/ the Governor touching public school kids? What does it imply about consent? biblegateway.com/passage/?searc…
Ohmagosh and then he circled back after I blocked him so he could get the last word! What a sad strange little man!
This is maybe the most encouraging thing I’ve seen in a while. If Conceptual James circled back to a relative nobody like me in the middle of his *abundant* tweets *a whole damn day later*, he’s got more time than work.