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Mar 23, 2023 12 tweets 3 min read Read on X
In case you missed it, here's a promo for my next book w/@MayflyBooks,
No Love in War: A Story of Christian Nationalism.
It takes readers through 3 circles of Christian Dominionism, reading the wars religious supremacists wage against the world against their wars at home.
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From the introduction:
"For the uninitiated into Christian Reconstructionism and other arms of the Christian Dominionist movement in the United States and beyond, @julieingersoll accurately summarises the central goal of this cluster of political ideologies as ...
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'establishing the kingdom on earth to prepare for Christ’s return required Christians to transform the world/take dominion, a view that became an article of faith for the religious right, which popularized versions of post-millennialism as dominion or “kingdom now” theology.'
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Christian Dominionism runs across the theological spectrum, from the intellectually high-minded Calvinist Christian Reconstructionism still popular in orthodox branches of conservative Christianity to the more “Spirit-led” Charismatic and Pentecostal Kingdom Now and ...
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New Apostolic Reformation movements currently sweeping the world via such institutions as Brian Houston’s Hillsong Church. And more recently, Ruth Braunstein has recently devastatingly captured the pivotal role of the cultivation of a white evangelical myth of ...
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Christians-under-siege by a godless-pluralistic-culture in radicalising this wide range of (mostly white) evangelical Christians to a Dominionist mindset. This myth has been immensely effective in fostering communal commitment and extremist values and lifestyle, ...
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... writes Braunstein, and “despite public infighting, white evangelicals appear to be extremely unified and mobilized, and at the center of conservative power structures.” Yet, we must acknowledge that underneath this façade of cooperation is a pattern of exploitation, ...
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... enacted through violence, not just of Christian Dominionists’ perceived enemies but of the very base that they claim to serve.
It is the everyday stories of this hidden warfare that this book documents.
Where Christian Dominionists live by gluttony for power, ...
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... imagining themselves as soldiers in a war between the righteous and the evil ones, between believers and unbelievers, this book exposes the underbelly of such a narrative, ...
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... the perpetuation of intergenerational violence between aggressors and survivors and everyone in-between within Dominionists’ very own communities.

The histories written about the movements I have been involved in subtly or even overtly erase the voices of women,
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of the marginalised and of the violence done to us. I’ve read their accounts, and I know what is missing. I know what hides in the cracks. I know."

As part of my resistance to the exploitative capitalism of Christian Dominionism, this book will be fully #OpenAccess.

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Mar 23
Hitting kids is a lazy shortcut. It punches down (literally!) duty of care onto the very ones needing that care & patient guidance! The entire community is often complicit, not just parents/carers, since that community is often the ones judging carers when kids are ... being kids
So many times, SO MANY TIMES, my husband and I have had Christian friends criticise us in various ways for NOT hitting our kids, for NOT setting & enforcing expectations entirely unreasonable for our kids' stage/rate of development.
When my eldest was still WEEKS OLD, a Christian childhood friend TOLD ME OFF for smiling & encouraging him when putting him into his carseat. As a child, my son found it difficult to be strapped in anywhere, yet she said my care was "coddling". Babies should "do as they're told."
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Feb 15
Public Announcement of a Civil Lawsuit Filed against the OPC
Wednesday, February 14, 2024

The Orthodox Presbyterian Church has just been named in a civil lawsuit ..
... against certain individuals and churches who have been accused of enabling and covering up a situation in the mid-1980s involving the sexual abuse of a child. An investigation is underway.
God’s heart is for the vulnerable in our midst. We are deeply concerned about and take seriously any accusation of abusive behavior in our churches and any accusation of a failure to deal openly and thoroughly with that abuse.
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Sep 13, 2023
The 7-Mountains-Mandate is a significant movement within Christian Dominionism.
A pivotal date is in 1975, when Bill Bright (Campus Crusade), Loren Cunningham (YWAM) & Francis Schaeffer (L'Abri) claimed to have received an identical mandate directly & personally from God.
Allen Clifton writes,
Politicians/Religious Leaders that openly speak about receiving messages from God, basing campaigns on injecting religious beliefs into their policy making &:

Mountain 1: believe that this nation was founded on Christian principles (Government).
Mountain 2: Social policies which are crafted based on religious ideology that define what constitutes a marriage and when life is created (Family).
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Aug 3, 2023
Breaking: the state of Illimois has ruled in FAVOUR of Emily Hyland's claim that PCA pastor Dane Ortlund discriminated against her on the basis of her sex.
https://t.co/HhvMhaKINMhrc.illinois.gov/content/dam/so…
"Respondent made a finding of substantial evidence regarding Petitioner’s allegation of retaliatory discharge. The retaliation was in response to Petitioner filing a sex discrimination complaint with Employer. Prior to the meeting in which Petitioner was discharged,
Ortlund ...
had kept a running list of all the ways in which he disapproved of Petitioner’s behavior (which
he did not share with Petitioner at any point prior to her discharge) but did not keep any such list for his
male employees. And he had begun keeping track of the list explicitly..
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Jul 27, 2023
When it comes to a church's safeguarding policy, there is the formal, public documentation,
& there is the informal, often private, *highly impactful* discussion of safeguarding priorities & practice among church leaders.
These can be extremely contradictory.
Here's an example:
Public Documentation re: Safeguarding, the Scottish Free Church Continuing:

"The Free Church of Scotland (Continuing) recognises its responsibility before Almighty God to promote the wellbeing of all people"

https://t.co/quvCFJjaeAfreechurchcontinuing.org/wp-content/upl…
1. The Free Church of Scotland (Continuing) recognises its responsibility before Almighty God to promote the wellbeing of all people, and particularly those that come into contact with, and participate in, the Church’s various activities. The Church is committed to taking all practicable steps to promote and safeguard the wellbeing of each individual child or vulnerable adult or other, regardless of any distinctions.
Discussion among church leaders re: safeguarding, Scottish Free Church Continuing:

"The committee are mindful of the times in which the church finds herself. With increasing frequency state legislation is encroaching upon the spiritual independence and liberty of the church ...
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Jun 17, 2023
Postmil PCA pastor @pastoraldoleon, at a #PCAGA seminar:
"there is an effeminate Christ that many are holding to that is producing effeminate men ... this is why you see people in the PCA say [that] what people really need to know is the love of Christ"

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"we have this weird romantic fetish with a suffering Christ and a victimized Christ ... Jesus is the modern day man who can't rule over his wife, [but rather] simply be a partner who listens, loves & encourages."

"he is a lord over Sunday hour but not over all other places and spaces. And this is why we have men that
actually believe that the only place where masculinity [and male headship] matters is in the church, but - guess what - everywhere else in creation, female rule is okay"
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