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Jul 27, 2024 • 11 tweets • 3 min read
A good time for a thread on the American socio-legal hegemony of Christian ethics & laws well into the 20th century.

"Christianity is part and parcel of the common law [of the USA]" 🇺🇸

🔥🔥 Image From SCOTUS judges Kent and Story in early America onward, Christianity was assumed as "part and parcel of the common law" in America. Image
Jun 3, 2024 • 20 tweets • 7 min read
You don't have to sit on your hands this groomer June.

A thread of useful ideas...🧵

1st: Listen to me & @jonharris1989 June 11, 1PM EST
@ Conversations that Matter on Youtube

Talking about my book: Is the Church Pro-Gay?
Amazon: tinyurl.com/3bncsbf3
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Jun 1, 2024 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
1st post in June on #QueeringChurches: Russel Moore who...
Sympathized w/ g@ys.
Ok w/ g2y wedding reception
Denies lusting after gay sex is a sin

A thread..🧵

More: Is the Church Pro-Gay?

Amazon:
Audible: tinyurl.com/3bncsbf3
tinyurl.com/y2ft5dnu
"And many of them feel deeply alienated in American culture and they believe that [gay marriage] will somehow restore that. And so we need to understand that and know that."

christianpost.com/news/russell-m…
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May 20, 2024 • 20 tweets • 7 min read
Triggering the libs? self-defense? and other questions while digging for unstated assumptions in the latest article critiquing various Christian public engagements.

A thread...🧵 Image Can a priest (pastor) be faithful to God by protecting his own life so that the parishioners may get good feeding in the future? Why is the priest dying in the pulpit more noble than Paul sneaking over the wall to avoid assassination plots? Image
Apr 30, 2024 • 14 tweets • 5 min read
Some thoughts & question arising from an article about abuse from the Orthodox Presbyterian Church magazine for officers.

A thread...🧵
opc.org/os.html?articl…
Image The article lists some books on the subject. But it got me thinking: although a pressing and important issue, often people forget to start with the basic: what is abuse?

Not knowing its definition, it is hard to agree that it should be something we should not disagree on. Image
Apr 22, 2024 • 11 tweets • 3 min read
Lacking natural affection is one way to understand this politician's rhetoric & actions toward another nation.

This is a sin per Rom. 1:31 & 2 Tim. 3:3 (KJV): "w/out natural affection."

A thread...🧵 Astorge = "w/out natural affection."
It comes from "Storge" = "natural affection."
This is an English word straight from the Greek.

CS Lewis talks about it in his Four Loves:
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Apr 18, 2024 • 10 tweets • 5 min read
Furries are a hotbed of sexu@l deviancy, part of the queer world that is courted by churches in ignorance.

A thread...

More: Is the Church Pro-Gay?
Amazon:
B&N Nook:
Audible: tinyurl.com/3bncsbf3
tinyurl.com/46bbh9w9
tinyurl.com/y2ft5dnu
It's growing, sold as innocent costume play (cosplay). It's not. Image
Dec 13, 2023 • 15 tweets • 6 min read
🔥🧵 Liam Goligher's scandal-ridden Tenth Presbyterian Church (PCA) had training on sex-abuse scandals in 2018.

Former GRACE sex-abuse speaker, Dr. Diane Langberg, lectured on "The Church as a Refuge Conference":

thread... tenth.org/multi_author/d…

Image Formerly a board member of GRACE, she promoted their brand of help and expertise on all matters of sexual abuse, trauma and grooming.
archive.is/9GBHU
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Dec 11, 2023 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
We stopped going downtown Denver a few years ago. The city of my childhood is gone, and no one is held accountable while church leaders somehow think it won't affect their churches. I'd take the bus (RTD) by myself to visit the Denver library as a teen in the 80s. I could walk the 16th street mall without a care in the world. Image
Dec 5, 2023 • 11 tweets • 4 min read
The Tenth Presbyterian (PCA) sex scandal is an explosion of real-life lessons for churches today--if we would but sit and listen.

A thread 🧵 related to my book:
Is the Church Pro-Gay?
(Pre-order: )

A slow drip..
1/n.. tinyurl.com/3bncsbf3
I'll just go page by page:

Lesson 1: We need to wait longer to better know people before they become ordained.

"regularly attending Tenth..2015 or 2016. Bruce became a member of the church in 2017....2019, Bruce became ordained..." Image
Nov 29, 2023 • 10 tweets • 4 min read
White Horse Inn: "it's a great sermon."

Martin Luther King: "I find it very difficult and almost impossible to believe in a hell of a fiery furnace and all of that."

A thread on selective reading of MLK's sermon, "Man's Sin & God's Grace"


Image Presumably, WHI liked the emphasis on 'sin' in that sermon. Yet what kind of sin is MLK talking about if hell & eternal justice are denied?

kinginstitute.stanford.edu/king-papers/do…
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Nov 27, 2023 • 7 tweets • 4 min read
Are people retconning Martin Luther King, Jr.'s theological past?

A recent White Horse Inn podcast suggested that King was "wrestling" with liberalism and his supposed conservative upbringing (37").

A thread for those who don't know Jr.'s teachings.

whitehorseinn.org/resource-libra…
Image "King’s family put him on a social gospel path, one that had already been cleared by his grandfather, A. D. Williams, and father, King, Sr. Williams..."
kinginstitute.stanford.edu/social-gospel
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Oct 13, 2023 • 9 tweets • 3 min read
There is a decided lack of interest in publicizing the full truth of the Covenant school massacre, early six months later.

An informative thread...🧵

#ReleaseCovenantManifesto

tennesseestar.com/justice/tennes…
Image "Several organizations — including Star News Digital Media, parent company of The Star, the Tennessee Firearms Association, and The Tennessean newspaper..." have brought this to court. No other organization or persons are pushing for the truth of this horrid event. Image
Oct 5, 2023 • 99 tweets • 34 min read
#ImmigrationIsComplex People ask for more facts.

Here is the slow drip thread... 🔥🧵

(in no particular order)

1/n... Image buzzfeednews.com/article/jessic…
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Oct 5, 2023 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
The amount of confusion in Christian circles on this issue is astounding; it shows how much applied moral theology is missing in even the best churches.

A short thread...🧵 Applying God's law and love to situations involves knowing the details. And it also means using the right rules of biblical application and love.

1. Know the details:
twitter.com/i/events/10529…
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Sep 14, 2023 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
Ex-PCA gay pastor, Greg Johnson, felt sorry for his would-be molester: "And yet now as I look at him, I have nothing but compassion...Was there something about me at that age [of nine]...?"

Short thread on the future of gay-friendly churches...🧵 Image The year he came out as gay in the PCA, Johnson explained:

"the tall cousin in the middle with his, you know, shirt button unbuttoned down to his belly button in the flagrant display of masculinity was the one who that next year tried to abuse me, unsuccessfully..." Image
Aug 16, 2023 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
Dr. Robert Gagnon, touted as a bulwark against the lavender mafia, excuses gay urges b/c...

<check notes>

men have polyamorous urges too.

A short 🧵thread...

video here:
https://t.co/1MLwcCtoNE

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Image He was "banned" for being too truthful yet still missed the biblical mark. Same-sex urges, attractions, inclinations, etc. are sin. Full. Stop.
capstonereport.com/2021/01/29/con…
Aug 9, 2023 • 13 tweets • 5 min read
In the early 2000s, a PCA church ended up with two possible gay grooming problems not revealed until the last few years.

The next thread on grooming in churches....🧵

This thread on allegations against CCM singer, Chris Rice...

https://t.co/DA9wTlpWDS
Image "..nominated for 10 Dove Awards and took home the award for Male Vocalist of the Year during the 1999 Dove’s. He has also released 10 albums, including his latest release in 2019, “Untitled Hymn: A Collection of Hymns.”

churchleaders.com/news/427898-po…
Aug 7, 2023 • 11 tweets • 4 min read
While people focused on gay pastor Greg Johnson, two homosexuals were exposed grooming and groping in a PCA church.

A thread on gay grooming in churches...🧵

First thread: Brad Waller...
christianpost.com/news/grace-chu… Brad Waller, former PCA minister, was stripped of his office, admitting to messaging the feet of boys and young men for personal sexual gratification.

https://t.co/lVUh3MuTBOchristianpost.com/news/grace-chu…
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Jul 19, 2023 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
Calvin and spitting in the faces of villains.

A short thread...🧵 Image In his sermon on Deut. 7:1ff. about the utter destruction of the seven nations in Canaan, he takes head on the question of God's justice and mercy.

We should make a reasonable effort to help the wicked "out of the ditch" of their sin. Image
Jul 12, 2023 • 10 tweets • 4 min read
A GoFundMe was set up for Nashville Massacre victim, Mark Hill's burial. He was a custodian for Covenant.

Also, another victim had a Gofundme while one well-known father at Covenant will "leave no stone unturned" suppressing the manifesto.

A thread on related news...🧵 Thus, reporting on Covenant families paying for the burial of the murderess of their children caught my attention last Saturday.

https://t.co/YXkER7hHxJ