Fani Willis returned to church to accept an award and deliver a brief sermon on her court hearing.

"The scripture they keep sending me is 'No weapon formed against you shall prosper'...They did not say the weapons will not form, and that's the part I didn't hear until recently." Atlanta Berean Church, a Seventh-Day Adventist congregation, hosted Willis this Saturday for nearly 20 minutes of adulation, starting with lead pastor Dr. Sherwin Jack declaring, "She is one of us" (1:26).

Kelly Rosati, a National Association Of Evangelicals board member, calls pro-life Christians' opposition to state-run welfare "useless," "un-scriptural," and "madness." Here's wider context: Rosati, an alumnus of Focus On The Family and former member of the March For Life's board of national directors, is speaking at the NAE's "Flourish" conference in October of last year. (1/2)

Has the Gospel Coalition embraced Federal Vision theology?

"What is the basis of our regeneration at the Judgment? It is not our confession. It is actually our living."

(see full thread for wider context) Speaker is Darryl Williamson of Living Faith Bible Fellowship in Tamba Bay, FL, during a "Good-Faith Debate" published this March.

"How do we advance both a reconciliation and justice vision in the church?...I think it begins with...us getting the gospel right." (1/2)

This is how subversive churches will twist Genesis 1:27 to sow gender confusion in children: THREAD 🧵 "When God creates day + night, what's between day + night? Sunset + sunrise are between day + night, so there's dusk and there's dawn and there's twilight. I feel pretty safe saying that I think God created sunset."

"Do you know if there's anything between dry land + water?"

Found some professors from Fuller and UCLA defending, whitewashing + advocating Critical Race Theory, by name, at an event held by the church of a pastor regularly featured on the YouVersion Bible app's devotionals.

No, this isn't from June 2020. It's May 2023. The speaker is Jeff Liou, who co-authored "Christianity and Critical Race Theory: A Faithful and Constructive Conversation" with Robert Chao Romero, who I've clipped several times before. Here, the two authors call anti-CRT Christians liars and "a**holes."

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Turns out this is a former Calvin prof, but that wasn't widely known (or visible on her various online profiles). But it seems like she decided to leave rather than Calvin taking ANY action on her cutting a pro-transing kids video.

https://twitter.com/WokePreacherTV/status/1665692943825371137

kyrie eleison

https://twitter.com/WokePreacherTV/status/1666144013278117890

Can these 3 perspectives on transgenderism be "integrated" somehow? Wheaton prof Mark Yarhouse says yes.

Today in "nuancing ourselves to death"... 🧵 I'm clipping from a talk Yarhouse recently gave to the social justice-focused Anglican Diocese known as C4SO (Churches For The Sake Of Others). It's some of the most nuanced nuance I've ever encountered. So I recommend watching the whole thing if you can

Thread 🧵 of churches outrageously outraged by Justin Pearson/Jones' expulsion in Tennessee

This pastor says his church is Pearson's "spiritual home" and urges congregants to call their county commissioners to get him reinstated

Source: https://t.co/FRU8RdhJYZ (tbh I think churches should show this kind of solidarity with their people, but it tells you a lot when a church claims an obvious "Protect Trans Kids" neopagan like Pearson as their people)

Expelled TN lawmaker Justin Pearson's sermon at a Memphis Unitarian Universalist church began with a prayer to "Mother God" and an invitation for dead ancestors to speak through him Later, an applause line on "healthcare" for "transgender children"

Cursed moments from this year's Interfaith "Transgender Day Of Visibility" vigil at All Saint's Church Pasadena

First, some congregational singing: Mike Kinman, famous for his creepy retelling/pantomime of Bathsheba's roof bath, tries to queer Irenaeus: "What God dreams for all of us is to come 𝐹𝒰𝐿𝐿𝒴 𝒜𝐿𝐼𝒱𝐸."

Today in "You Will Never Be Woke Enough":

"If the [United Church Of Christ] was really as open and affirming as it claims to be, then there would be trans people of color in every UCC church. But that would also require the UCC to reckon with its white supremacy culture." Speaker is James Admans, a "Digital Minister" at NYC's Fort Washington Collegiate Church who performs in drag under the name "Marge Erin Johnson."

UCC is about as prog as you can go before you formally ditch any claim to Christian identity. Imagine thinking that's not enough...

UPDATE: The Revoice guy who formed a "household" with his straight roommate says the roomie now has a GF and if he gets married, they'll all probably share a duplex rather than a single-family home.

"I don't really want to live with kids." Wider context: Art Pereira, Revoice's Director Of Community Care, doesn't like to put labels on his relationship to housemate Nick: "He's my family. It's my household. We usually say 'Committed Friendship' when we're trying to explain it. Definitely not just roommates."

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If you think "woke is over," as in race essentialism and thinly-veiled liberation theology, you're sorely mistaken. It feels like the evangelical publishing guild is getting ready for another wave, actually...

https://twitter.com/WokePreacherTV/status/1638653434881802240

...I mean, if you need a sign, how much clearer could you get than this recent conference at the "unapologetically Christian" Baylor University with Beth Moore serving up a reheated Robin DiAngelo TEDx Talk 3 years past its expiration date?

https://twitter.com/WokePreacherTV/status/1638888333458677762

Beth Moore: Telling black Americans that they are not as oppressed as their ancestors is "like saying to a wife that her husband's porn addiction is an improvement over his physical adultery, so you have nothing to complain about anymore." Wider context: From Baylor's Racism In The White Church conference last month. Gave basically a June 2020 sermon 3 years late, unaware of how little it adds to the convo.

e.g. "You don't have to be a skinhead to be a white supremacist. I know that's gonna be a shock to somebody"

"When Jesus is making sense of his own vocation + ministry...he pulls on the Psalms, the Exodus narrative + Isaiah, just like the black church...Black Christians read [past tense] the Bible + discerned God's purposes better, such that liberation is on every page."

Esau McCaulley Here's wider context: from Baylor's "Racism In The White Church" conference

"The social location of the black people as an oppressed underclass actually put them situationally closer to the nation of Israel. So it made them...more apt to see what was intended in [scripture]."

Rep. Hillary Scholten, a member of the Christian Reformed Church, defends legal abortion at Calvin University. She argues that criminalizing the practice would violate the 1st Amendment and "would require a consensus on what scripture says about exactly where life begins." Here's wider context. The event date isn't clear but sometime this January, she appeared at Calvin, a school that is part of her CRCNA denomination, for a discussion moderated by politics prof Micah Watson. (1/2)

Rick Warren says he changed his mind on women elders a few years ago, not based on culture or anecdotes or outside pressure, but based on the Bible.

Here are his 3 prooftexts for ordaining women. Do you find this argument convincing? Here's wider context on the component clips in this edit. First, we see Rick say he has read over 200 books on the Great Commission and church history since the pandemic started.

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PCA teaching elder's wife preaches out of state, declares her political enemies anathema. V progressive!

https://twitter.com/WokePreacherTV/status/1630282677457768449

Checked out some the vigils that happened right after Club Q, and now that we know "Christian Nationalism" had all of ZIP to do with the shooting, let's mark down who jumped to conclusion without evidence and who fails to retract:

https://twitter.com/WokePreacherTV/status/1630198913494859782

"Don't let people bait you into the justice versus social justice debate...When we hear these linguistic and semantic games, it's flat-out trickery, dare I say witchcraft. It is what the workers of iniquity do to avoid repenting."

Christina Edmondson Is this...good-faith debate 🦋?

Some Christian teachers who have discussed "justice vs. social justice" include @VoddieBaucham. Is he a worker of iniquity (in this sermon, Edmondson just read from Matthew 7:21-23 and is calling back to it) and a sorcerer?

THREAD🧵: What were the beliefs of Howard Thurman, the spiritual mentor of MLK Jr?

Thurman was not merely a liberal / liberation theologian but also a mystic, universalist + panentheist. And yet, I see him cited frequently in "justice" preaching by purported Christians. This will be a living thread with audio supplied from The Howard Thurman Digital Archive maintained by Emory University. Lecture titles will be given on the video thumbnails. thurman.pitts.emory.edu/home

Started listening through the Church Of England synod to check the quality of the "affirm same-sex romance" arguments. Very first one from this AM's stream:

"What we have here is something that doesn't really add up. It doesn't make sense. And what I'm saying is that's okay." Progs Stop Believing They'll Be The First Ones To Successfully Defy The Law Of Non-Contradiction Challenge (Impossible)