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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"
"That will not attract real men. It will attract effeminate men & many women ...
we had Rosaria [Butterfield] come to our church & talk to the women & she says most of the songs I hear in
church remind me of the songs that would be in a lesbian disco club just w/different words"
"It's led to men who cannot defend or contend but only nurture and care ... I can't tell you how many times I've been in Presbytery [or] GA & I hear men talk about their feelings"
"I find interesting [that] so many people want to hear the [Doug Wilson] Moscow world talk ...
we don't talk about ... about the kingship of Christ & the crown of Christ ... we're about the means of Grace .. we've been presenting a view of Christ that is making many very soft"
Dominionism [with its emphasis on Christian supremacy) is alive and well in the PCA and in NAPARC more widely and in American evangelicalism more widely.
It manifests in extreme homophobia, sexism and other forms of prejudice leading to violence.
And oh look, here is this same dominionist PCA pastor collaborating with pastor Mark Jones, former member of online hate group #GenevanCommons.

Here's where it went down, involving some names I'm very familiar with, with links beyond the PCA to the OPC

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Jun 13
I have Surfside's statement to their congregation about this elder assaulting Kappie R & then firing Kristen Haan for standing with Kappie. I've seen many such bullshit statements. It's part of my work to analyse them. I'm still so horrified seeing this one. More to come.
Surfside: "We must lean in
to some hard things."
Also Surfside: "We are certain that some of you will want to know more ... There are certain
things about these situations that must remain in confidence and we are hopeful that you will
understand."
Surfside: "we came to the
difficult decision that [Kristen] would no longer remain on the staff ... the working relationship that I had with Kristen became untenable ... Kristen was very, um, emphatic that we should have come to the congregation. "
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Jun 12
In 2002, 40 schools in the United Kingdom, spearheaded by the Christian Fellowship School in Liverpool launched an appeal to a high court ruling rejecting their right "to smack pupils with parents' consent."
Their argument?
Corporal punishment "is part of a religious doctrine protected by the European convention on human rights."
In other words, hitting children is core Christian doctrine.
theguardian.com/education/2002…
"They said their schools were set up specifically to provide a Christian education based on Biblical observance and this meant the use of corporal punishment on a limited basis as part of their beliefs."

In 2005, their appeal was rejected.
theguardian.com/education/2005…
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Jun 12
"We believe America can be turned around & once again function as a Christian nation as it did in its earlier years. We believe that wherever the pastors of any city in the world join together in unity to make Christ Lord of every sphere of life, &, with Spirit led strategy, ...
... mobilize their people into a unified spiritual army; that city can and will become “a city set upon a hill” and be “a place where righteousness dwells.”

A Manifesto for the Christian Church, The Coalition on Revival,
Inc., July 4, 1986
"It is widely understood that when God tells Adam and Eve to ‘have dominion’ and ‘fill the earth’ he is
directing them to build a God-honouring civilisation .... Reach the city to reach the culture. Protestant (evangelical) Christians are the least urban religious group and ...
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Jun 9
I'm so interested in how Keller affirms the complementarian view yet does this almost exclusively using implicature.
"I am not open to somebody saying there isn't anything he's forbidding or that was not a transcultural statement ...
... In light of the way [Paul] ties it to the creation & the fall, it's very difficult to see how anybody could get over that and I've heard people try to do it and I just think they're pretty unconvincing."
So many vague pronouns:

"WHAT is Paul forbidding?"
"IT's two things"
"IT's pretty close to one thing"
"THAT's two THINGS or one"
"Paul is forbidding SOMETHING here"

THEN

"[Paul] ties IT to the creation & the fall"
"It's very difficult to see how anybody could get over THAT"
Read 5 tweets
Jun 5
Why might you be interested in reading my next book, No Love in War (out next week)?
Because you have experience or interest in:
- high control communities
- Christian schools/home-schooling
- the spread of religious extremism
- white male supremacy
- violence against women
- Christian Dominionism (Christian Reconstructionism, Latter Rain, NAR, 7 Mountains Mandate)
- Christian higher education
- Patriarchal Presbyterianism in the USA (including the RPCUS, OPC, PCA)
- Neo-Confederacy
- the Anti-Abortion Movement (esp GA Right to Life)
- Cults
- Purity culture
- Untold stories of women in Christian Reconstructionism (including Arda Rushdoony)
- Corporal punishment & other forms of violence against children
- Coercive control, sexual assault and harassment, stalking
- the music of Judy Rogers
- Quiverfull movement
Read 6 tweets
May 11
One of the sponsors of this conference was ofc Rushdoony's Chalcedon Foundation, nexus of Christian Reconstructionism.
Here's a quote from my childhood pastor Joe Morecraft, a "personal friend of the Chalcedon Foundation & its founder ... for many, many years":
"If ministers do not on Sunday pray imprecatory Psalms against those in political power who are particularly aggressive in their anti-Christian assault on the church, the family, God's moral order for human life, they're being unfaithful to their divine calling."
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