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Daniel Kleven Profile picture
Daniel Kleven
@danieleleven32
I am yours, for a true, not a spurious Christianity,
Jul 22, 2023 • 6 tweets • 4 min read
Not going to lie, I did not expect to see @chuckswindoll open up his book on Elijah with a tribute to Confederate general Robert E. Lee, and a reference to the "fine volume"
on Lee by neo-confederate J. Steven Wilkins:

https://t.co/f1AqzuaJMZarchive.org/details/elijah…


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Image And in that book on Robert E. Lee, apparently J. Steven Wilkins plagiarized multiple books:

https://t.co/ipkWaMWnNFtomandrodna.com/notonthepalous…
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Jul 19, 2023 • 11 tweets • 8 min read
You did not have to be in a bubble to be exposed to Bill Gothard

Mainstream evangelical publishers promoted him too (remember the little Lifechange Books?)

The advertising section in C. J. Mahaney's best-seller, alongside Randy Alcorn, John Piper, more

https://t.co/o8SNKIIPmzarchive.org/details/crossc…


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Image If you picked Joni Eareckson Tada's daily devotional back in 1998, on the second day--January 2--you'd get some Bill Gothard, and a reference to __Institute in Basic Live Principles__

https://t.co/hm0A6nSCoTarchive.org/details/morepr…


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Jun 27, 2023 • 12 tweets • 4 min read
The Vision Forum Family Catalog, 1998–2008

an incredible artifact of an industry promoting quiverfull / patriarchy / stay-at-home-daughter / neo-confederacy / homeschooling / providential American history / warfare

https://t.co/cqfMuQDihxyumpu.com/en/document/re…
I think that's Voddie Baucham
Jun 15, 2023 • 22 tweets • 8 min read
Matt Denzer's claim here has pushed me to grapple with some questions about “Third Party Assessments,” Pellucid Consulting, and @wademullen

?s like, “Why do some people implicitly trust a 3rd party assessment, while others call it misleading and ‘malpractice’?”

1/🧵 For example, @johnhsather says: “...The choice of @wademullen doing the assessment was a great choice.

Wade is highly respected by people/orgs like @chuckdegroat @netgrace_org @DianeLangberg @BozT and other well known Christian & professional counselors.” Image
Jun 15, 2023 • 5 tweets • 4 min read
Whoa

"Slave cases are still cited as good law across the U.S...

thousands of cases involving enslaved people that lawyers and judges continue to cite as good precedent"

@rachel_treisman @NPR on @JustinLSimard @MSULawthe @CitingSlavery Project

npr.org/2023/06/14/118… Image For example, the "insane delusion rule"

--still considered grounds for contesting a will, and cited in 70+ cases across the country--

originated when John Townshend tried to free his enslaved workers after his death, but his family challenged it as an "insane delusion" Image
Jun 14, 2023 • 8 tweets • 7 min read
You know how when you take a wrong turn, you need to go back and take the other turn?

I've decided I'm doing that with Critical Race Theory--I'm going back to before all the CRT hysteria and alarmism, back before the Anti-CRT Industry® took off, back before the book bans

1/🧵 Image Back to 2016, when @drjjwilliams @TheWitnessBCC could say:

"evangelicals should be quick to listen and slow to speak on race when they do not understand the issues.

White supremacy and racism are complicated issues... such as...critical race theory..."

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Jun 9, 2023 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
I think @TGC is a great example of why you need to be *anti-racist* not just "pro-diversity"

If you asked anyone at TGC "how do you feel about white-supremacy and neo-confederacy?" I bet you get clear denunciations

But, oops--here's some resources by a neo-confederate

1/🧵 Oops--here's a TGC council member speaking at "Confederate Memorial Day":

Apr 5, 2023 • 14 tweets • 6 min read
In other news, remember that time (1986) when J. I. Packer -- one of the highly esteemed heroes of conservative reformed evangelicalism -- acknowledged that he could be called a "Christian feminist"?

books.google.com/books?id=AyTXa… "I brought to the colloquium an ecclesiology of a type that has been commoner in holiness and pentecostal circles than among the Anglican and Reformed people who are, so to speak, my home base."

J. I. Packer
Apr 5, 2023 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
re: Joe Rigney's resignation from Bethlehem College & Seminary

Bethlehem owes the Takatas an apology

Here's part of their motion brought before the church in 2020

One elder called it a "grenade" framing the Takatas as enemies trying to destroy Bethlehem by asking for this Am I glad that Bethlehem has taken a step away from Christian Nationalism?

yes.

But for my overall perception of the institution(s) to change, much much more than this is needed, namely

confession and repair (aka "repentance").

We'll see!
Apr 4, 2023 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
I just today learned of W. E. B. Du Bois's correspondence with Albert Einstein.

The result was a cover-page feature in the February 1932 issue of @thecrisismag and the article:

"To American Negroes" by Albert Einstein

archive.org/details/sim_cr… Nearly 20 years later Einstein stood with Du Bois when he was indicted by the FBI as a "foreign agent" -- the case was dropped

Apr 3, 2023 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
__Philosophy Born of Struggle: Anthology of Afro-American Philosophy From 1917__, (1983) edited by Leonard Harris

bookfinder.com/search/?ac=sl&… ImageImage "Let me give you a word of the philosophy of reform. The whole history of the progress of human liberty shows that all concessions yet made to her august claims have been born of earnest struggle."

Frederick Douglass (1857)

(see blackpast.org/african-americ… via @BlackPastOnline) Image
Jan 15, 2023 • 8 tweets • 4 min read
Chattanooga

Galveston

Jacksonville

Atlanta

In city after city, Black pastors, including Francis Grimké, openly protested Dwight L. Moody's segregated "revival" tour of the South in 1886

For their efforts, they were labeled "extremists" and "cranks"

biblioskolex.wordpress.com/2023/01/15/the… In the 2nd city on the tour, the ministers in Chattanooga held a meeting and published their "Resolutions" in the paper:

"the white brethren have designated us as unfit to attend public services in common with other races ... we feel aggrieved by the discrimination"
Jan 10, 2023 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
Dwight L. Moody went out of his way to make peace with Confederates, praising Robert E. Lee and Thomas Jackson.

At the same time, he ignored Black pastors protesting his segregated "revivals"

Frederick Douglass and Francis Grimké were two who spoke out:

biblioskolex.wordpress.com/2023/01/10/cas… Moody was a celebrity, the most famous preacher in America.

When he praised Jackson and Lee as "not only great military men, but men of the highest Christian character” it was national news, published as far as Salt Lake City, and Devils Lake, North Dakota
Dec 17, 2022 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
Francis Grimké: "Evangelism"

"The men and women who come into the church (I am speaking now particularly of the white people) have no more intention of doing what Jesus wants them to do than of butting their heads against a stone wall."

books.google.com/books?id=8--0A… "There is an evangelism that is genuine--an evangelism that means accepting Jesus Christ in reality and not in pretense--an evangelism that carries along with it brotherhood, that so presents Jesus Christ that men see, and see plainly, what is involved in accepting Him."

FJG
Nov 26, 2022 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
I generally appreciate @JohnFea1. I follow The Current, and enjoy The Way of Improvement podcast. I appreciate his critiques of Trumpism and "court evangelicals"

But he has his own kind of "anti-woke" streak that shows up in instances like this commentary on @JoashPThomas

1/ Normally in response to cries of "presentism" when someone critiques a slaveholder in the past, I respond like this:

But John *is* well acquainted with these centuries and the anti-slavery movements in the US, and yet persists in dismissive "presentism"

Nov 25, 2022 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
"Regardless of the sparsity of resources in some periods, church historians must identify those Christian communities that have lived and believed in redemptive suffering

James Melvin Washington "Craven Images: The Eiconics of Race in the Crisis of American Church Historiography "Perhaps we may expect some comprehensive historical interpretation of the nature and destiny of American Christianity written by an Ameri­can Black historian of the Church, reaching for basic cate­gories of interpretation to the experience of re­demptive suffering"

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Nov 24, 2022 • 12 tweets • 5 min read
OTD: November 24, 1918

Francis J. Grimké delivers "Victory for the Allies and the United States a Ground of Rejoicing, of Thanksgiving"

--one of the most powerful sermons I've ever read:

books.google.com/books?id=8--0A… Image Carter G. Woodson agreed -- of hundreds of Grimké sermons he could have picked from, Woodson chose this one to represent Francis Grimké in his 700+ page _Negro Orators and Their Orations_ (1925):

books.google.com/books?id=yJNDA… Image
Nov 23, 2022 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
There are Presbyterian seminaries still using Slaveholder Theologians in their promotional literature in 2022

@GPTSeminary featuring James Henley Thornwell ImageImage Read for yourself what Thornwell believed about "The Bible Doctrine of Slavery"

or his role in the founding of "The Presbyterian Church in the Confederate States of America"

books.google.com/books?id=lqtZA… Image
Oct 1, 2022 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
It's not that Garris and Schlebusch just happened to have "written for the same website."

Garris *founded* the site, and invited Schlebusch to contribute.

Now that he knows, Garris could easily stop partnering with a kinist by removing AS's posts from *his own website* Garris claims he was "unaware" of Schlebush's kinism until recently.

Well, he's had since March of this year to do something about it and has chosen not to:

Oct 1, 2022 • 6 tweets • 4 min read
Apparently there are pockets in the PCA (Presbyterian Church in America) that are okay partnering with kinists

(kinism = "a white nationalist interpretation of Christianity that claims that the Bible prohibits miscegenation and racial integration")

knowingscripture.com/about A couple of graduates of @ReformTheoSem, published authors at @desiringGod, PCA pastors, and ...

a kinist
Aug 9, 2022 • 24 tweets • 11 min read
Douglas Wilson "acknowledges that portraits of Lee and Confederate flags have adorned office and school walls at times"

How a town in Idaho grappled with Neo-Confederacy, a story told in newspaper articles

🧵/ Image 1. Oct 10, 2003, the Moscow-Pullman Daily News features an article titled “Slavery Revisited”

It was about Douglas Wilson’s upcoming “history conference” held at the University of Idaho, and his booklet “Southern Slavery as it Was”

https://t.co/eiywfFZG6Dnews.google.com/newspapers?id=…
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