Hey Kevin, I spent a year learning to be a Pastor at the Lutheran church your parents attended. They were lovely ppl + so proud of you.

I’m still a Pastor + live in Minneapolis. Our city’s newspaper invited me to write columns from my perspective as a Pastor. Don’t spread lies.

https://twitter.com/ksorbs/status/1838665903447199942

I’ve yet to hear the call to prayer here.

We are trying hard in this city to follow Jesus’ example. Love our neighbors, of all religions. Stop hatred + violence. Care for the stranger, esp immigrants fleeing war-torn countries. Live together in harmony. We’re working on it.

I'm doing a day-long course on #ChristianNationalism with a group of @ELCA clergy this wk at @gustavus - and we're going thru case studies of the ways they see this ideology at work in their churches + communities #thread (short) I wanted to post abt this bc this work is so incredibly vital + also so rare. These pastors + leaders are living + leading in really difficult circumstances. These are the human stories behind the headlines; the places where we actually have to live out the Gospel ...

Found myself on a flight + available downloaded podcast episodes of #MarsHill by @CTmagazine meant I finally listened to the bonus episodes … relevant again bc of the recent @AARWeb award to the podcast … a #thread on religion, politics, and white Evangelical hypocrisy … Again I would critique the lack of acknowledgment that conservative Evangelical theology itself is contributing to celebrity culture + narcissism of leading Evangelical pastors + influencers/conservative politicians, which is rightly called out by #MarHill podcast …

Why a new version of my 2019 book, Red State Christians: a #thread for #launchday

Link to new version: bookshop.org/books/red-stat… (also available on @amazon and @BNBuzz + an indy bookstore near you (my favorite!)) I spent 2018 traveling across America interviewing Christians in red states + counties to unpack Christian support for Trump in 2016.

Hillbilly Elegy by @JDVance1 had recently pubbed, and a certain sort of apologist narrative for white rural Americans was en vogue ...

This week's #rcl Gospel (Lk 13:10-17) is highly relevant to the American Church in an age of #ChristianNationalism.

What mattered to Jesus was not the righteousness of religious practice of Sabbath (or nationally sanctioned church) - but healing those in need + caring for them - Jesus envisions a faith that prioritizes the humanity of each person that comes before him. He sees their humanity + seeks to meet it with God's love.

He does not care about the establishment of religion. He would prefer separation of church + state ...