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I've now seen the complete raw footage where that frightened and bewildered young woman starts to cry, almost seeming unaware of the severity of her injuries, before she falls over.

All I can say is that I feel so infuriated beyond words by every pastor and ministry leader who aided and abetted the policies that led to Iryna Zarutska's death when they joined the trendy but false BLM narrative that our criminal justice system was "structurally racist" and needed significant reforms.

Well, those reforms were enacted. Cashless bail. Decriminalizing homelessness. Reducing the jail population. Anti-racism training for police and courts--all in the name of "racial equity."

These were the "reforms" you demanded when you marched with BLM and its associated organizations. These were the reforms you asked for when you told us to use the slogan "black lives matter." You got them. And you got your applause for taking part in lies.

Repent.
Yes. As the president of the largest Protestant denomination in the US, @jdgreear also counseled evangelicals to adopt the slogan "black lives matter" and said "I know that we need to take a deep look at our police systems and structures and ask what we’re missing. Where are we missing the mark? And I’ll say that we do that because black lives matter.”

He has said nothing about the death of Iryna Zarutska in his own state though it is a national story.
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@jdgreear And @JonathanLeeman, @plattdavid, and the @ERLC took part in protests that demanded criminal justice reforms to address alleged racism.

As I said. They got what they marched for. All over the country.

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Jul 3
So now that the progressive Baugh Foundation has granted Baylor nearly 3 quarters of a million dollars to promote LGBTQ inclusivity, it’s worth looking at why Baylor would take this step sure to anger MANY Christian families who send their kids to school there.

Fact is, they made themselves beholden to this Left Wing org long ago.

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First, in 1988 and again in 2013, the Foundation bankrolled Baylor’s John F. Baugh Center for Entrepreneurship and Free Enterprise. Nothing controversial there.

Then in 2021 they established the Eula Mae and John Baugh Chair in Physics at Baylor through a “significant estate gift.”

Again, fine but it goes to Baylor’s increasing reliance on the self-proclaimed progressives holding the purse strings.Image
And then we come to the real issue— the Baugh foundation has a mission to promote LGBTQ inclusion in the church. And we can see this mission being explored more fully in a Baylor program (paid for by the Baugh foundation) that flew under the radar in 2024.

That program’s purpose is to reform CONGREGATIONS specifically in regards to LGBTQ ideology. So they are teaching Christian students who want to go work in those congregations how to be LGBTQ inclusive.

By the way, you can read their full explanation for this program here. You will find no reference to scripture in it.

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Jun 13
EXCLUSIVE: I just spoke with a pro-life leader in Colorado who told me he met with a pastor who said his church isn't going to talk about abortion anymore because it's a divisive issue. He said he brought in a program from the @J29Coalition that taught him there's a better way.

I looked up the program, and it's another Russell Moore/ David French campaign to transform the politics of evangelicals.

Let's look at J29, a project of the left-wing funded @ourvaluesngoImage
So first off, who does J29 claim to be and what does it claim do? It says it's "theologically conservative" and wants to "disciple the American Evangelical church in kingdom-shaped politics."

And who are these supposed theological conservatives? Never Trumpers Moore and French, Democrat Justin Giboney, Democrat Curtis Chang, progressive-leaning Kaitlyn Schiess, (cohost of The Holy Post), and progressive-leaning theologian Scot McKnight, among others.

This fall they are doing special 3-month cohort of pastor training and they say their "focus is on those who self-identify as theologically conservative and evangelical."

So they're targeting conservative churches and pastors, the people who have reliably voted GOP for years largely due to issues like abortion and family values.Image
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So who funds J29? As it says on its website, it is funded by the Never Trump group, American Values Coalition, which Capital Research has called "just another front for the Left."

So who funds the American Values Coaltion?

One of it's donors is the Hewlett Foundation, the second largest private funder of Planned Parenthood in the country. No wonder the pastor learned he shouldn't talk about abortion from the pulpit from this group!Image
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Feb 7
Let's talk about the import of what @JoshDaws uncovered here. What he found is that @BillKristol's explicitly partisan, anti-Trump organization, Defending Democracy Together, gave $200k to Redeeming Babel, which developed @drmoore @DavidAFrench and @curtischangRB's church curriculum to help "reframe Christian political identity."

How did they go about executing this reframing among Christian voters during an election year?

Let's take a look...
At the start of an election year, @cccuorg encouraged its 185 member schools (and roughly 520,000 students), including @WheatonCollege @biolau and @Baylor, to use the After Party curriculum in their chapel services, discipleship groups, theology and pastoral classes, and in student book clubs. Many of these Christian schools offered chapel credit for attending After Party lectures.

Wheaton held an After Party event featuring Chang and Atlantic writer, @TimAlberta. Many other schools like Baylor and @ACUedu also welcomed The After Party to campus to speak to their students about politics.

Many large churches all across the country also hosted The After Party to speak to their congregations about how they should think about politics.Image
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Then there was Christian media's role.

Ray Ortlund, president of Renewal Ministries and a @TGC Emeritus Council member also participated in After Party events.

The ostensibly non-partisan @trinityforum was also a major booster.

But perhaps no outlet promoted the program as aggressively as @CTmagazine. This means that Russell Moore did not simply participate in The After Party as an independent project. He integrated it into his work as editor-in-chief of Christianity Today. (We'll discuss why that matters in a moment).

Now, I knew when I wrote my book, Shepherds for Sale, that The After Party was exclusively funded by secular left foundations. But I did not know then that Kristol's organization was one of them as they had not yet filed their 2023 taxes.

So who is Defending Democracy Together and why does it matter that they bankrolled nearly half of The After Party's funding?

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Jan 27
Please note the incredibly manipulative tactic of Matt Crawford, Pastor at a Southern Baptist Church in Cordova TN. He calls for unity and a unified church, and then injects incredibly divisive politics into his sermon during the gathered assembly.
Plus, he erroneously warns of “raids” in churches as a result of Trump’s immigration orders.

This is also misleading. The new order’s intention is to allow ICE to arrest specifically targeted criminals without first obtaining special approval.

I would certainly hope if the pastor of this church had an alleged rapist or terrorist in his building with the church members, he is charged with protect protecting, he would allow the authorities to arrest that person.

There is absolutely no evidence that the Trump administration plans to start indiscriminately raiding churches. This is rank scare-mongering.
Please also note that the pastor used his sermon to advocate for amnesty for those who broke the law and entered the country illegally. It is hardly surprising that @SenBrentTaylor got up and walked out.

It would be helpful if the Senator would address how pulpits are being abused in this manner.

I wrote an NYT bestselling book that goes deep into the issue and explains how left-wing power brokers like George Soros have helped by pulpits to do this.

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Jan 21
The media will now rely on its time-tested tactic of showing only one side of the immigration issue. This will particularly affect Christians who of course feel a call to show kindness and love to the suffering. But you need to understand how the one-sided approach works.

This is an email that @CTmagazine’s new executive news editor sent out shortly before Trump’s inauguration today.Image
Note that Olasky is ONLY asking for on-the-ground stories related to illegal immigrants who are being caught up in raids. He is not asking for stories of families or individuals who have been negatively impacted by immigration.

He says CT has reporters on the ground who will be “covering what happens to immigrants and refugees beginning on Jan. 20.” But there is no expressed interest in reaching out to people who may see the raids in their communities as a positive thing.
Also note the tenor of the kinds of stories Olasky is trawling for: “separation of parents and children, hurried flights out of the country, churches declaring themselves sanctuaries.”

Again, entirely one-sided, emotionally-loaded angles. There is no mention here of negative economic impacts on US citizens, for example.
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Sep 13, 2024
In light of @realDailyWire's first theatrical release, @MattWalshBlog's Am I Racist, it's worth remembering how much DiAngelo's poisonous ideology of CRT and antiracism infected even supposedly conservative evangelical institutions .

Azusa Pacific included White Fragility as a "resource" for becoming "engaged allyship and committed to deepening their anti-racist knowledge and work." (The link, which I cite in my book, Shepherds for Sale, is still live).

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Baylor's School of Social Work still has their antiracism statement up, complete with DiAngelo's work on the recommended reading list "to produce ethical social work practitioners committed to anti-oppressive practices."

socialwork.web.baylor.edu/about-us/glanc…

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The Christian campus ministry, Cru (formerly known as Campus Crusade for Christ) reportedly required training that included DiAngelo's book and racial struggle sessions. (After allegations went public that the training was creating a toxic climate, Cru took the training offline.)

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