1/ When the Southern Poverty Law Center reported on our efforts to root out racism, some in the PCA were furious with us; but that Summer Tim Keller sought me out at General Assembly and publicly thanked me for the part I played. splcenter.org/fighting-hate/…

https://twitter.com/timkellernyc/status/1659314125577568262

2/ Three years later, when our daughter was offered a scholarship to be a year-round resident student at The School of American Ballet in NYC, one of the reasons we could say yes, sending our 13 year-old to live at the Lincoln Center, was the presence of Tim Keller and Redeemer.

1/ Niche Presbyterian 🧵:
After 35 yrs in the @PCAByFaith, and 35 yrs of reading a beautifully clear passage like Gal 3:28 through the lens of a difficult passage like 1 Tim 2:12, I finally learned to follow the wisdom of our Westminster Confession of Faith. 2/ “The infallible rule of interpretation of Scripture is the Scripture itself: and therefore, when there is a question about the true and full sense of any Scripture (which is not manifold, but one), it must be searched and known by other places that speak more clearly” (I.IX).

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This appears to be the #pcaga's new normal, what many in the PCA now appear to accept and support as the reasonable middle. Self-righteously positioning oneself in between the "two main culprits." And then identifying those culprits as:
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Culprit #1: “Sort of Wilsonite, jaded, red-pilled men, sort of more toward hyper-patriarchy, priests of their family. We have this side.”
Culprit #2: "And then we have the other side.”

1/ The pastor referenced here is a Presbyterian Church in America pastor. I know I will never be able to do enough to repent and make restitution for my 35+ years in the PCA and the part I played to grow and expand a system built on a foundation of racism and misogyny.

https://twitter.com/Nelba_MG/status/1641084000356769794

2/ But one thing I can do is pray for & appeal to the brothers and sisters of good faith still in that denomination.

💯% agree with @BrentNeas when he says, “The church is no place for men to try to obtain power for their own desires.” He misunderstands a few things, though:

https://twitter.com/BrentNeas/status/1633580205133504514

1. I’ve almost certainly spent as much if not more time considering the details (incl. documents, etc.) of this case as any man on the SJC as I have been tracking it and praying about it for close to 2.5 years.

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1/ As a former member of the Presbyterian Church in America’s Standing Judicial Commission (“Supreme Court”) and longtime pastor in the PCA, I need to speak out against the vile miscarriage of justice in the #pcaga ruling in the Dan Herron trial.

https://twitter.com/PCAByFaith/status/1631728686964654080

2/ I am not able (and never will be) to say all that needs to be said. I will be adding to this thread for the foreseeable future. But I want to say three things upfront:

Excommunicating an Effigy: A Ponderously Overlong Niche Twitter 🧵 With Receipts

(This time more competently formatted as an ACTUAL THREAD for your reading pleasure 🫤)

1/x Now that my former Presbytery, the Southern New England Presbytery (SNEP) of the Presbyterian Church in America (PCA) has excommunicated my effigy I have a few thoughts.

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