I'm going to watch this. I might even comment on it.
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I get not wanting to call it R (for Radical) 2K but there's also a need to reckon with why that nomenclature has caught on and is so popular. I say this as someone who does not prefer it--I like E (for Escondido) 2K.

Mormons are not Christians. They worship different gods.

From their own sources: churchofjesuschrist.org/study/general-… It is a mystery to me why (other than seeking to deceive) the LDS would want to identify themselves with a movement they consider apostate.

Happy Windows 10 death day to those who celebrate. If you've been caught up in Microsoft's latest planned obsolescence scheme, before buying a new computer (bad), workaround hackery (worse), or running an unsupported system (worst), maybe try Linux.

Mint is a good distribution for beginners. linuxmint.com

You might be surprised to learn that many modern Reformed and Reformed-adjacent folks reject or at least seriously doubt @james_d_baird's premise #1, "Government must promote the public good." (a 🧵, 1/13)

https://twitter.com/RestlesPod/status/1973716763725734290

While this seems to be a fairly clear idea derived from texts like Romans 13 and has been maintained consistently in our confessional documents (even under American revisions), the modern two kingdoms paradigm casts doubt upon it. (2/13)

I tried to warn you about Peter Bell/Sons of Patriarchy.

I and others were trying to deal with Peter's deception through church channels in mid-2024 and I published my first article nearly a year ago.

onceforalldelivered.com/p/sons-of-char…

onceforalldelivered.com/p/from-such-tu… Peter ignored and deflected from the accusations at the time. He allowed and spread doxxing and defamation against those who told the truth.

Those who worked with Peter on SOP knew about his misdeeds and have essentially admitted to covering them up.

https://x.com/ref_andrew/status/1856006847229985125

I'm noticing over the last few days a lot of attempts from within the PCA to justify DeYoung's actions in the name of "decorum" and adherence to Robert's Rules. I'm not buying it. A 🧵. 1/12

https://twitter.com/FrankCapraJr/status/1937982416255389895

The thing with assembly decorum and Robert's, they are not good ends in themselves. This might sound semi-blasphemous from a Presbyterian, but hear me out... 2/12

Reconquista has been tried. With very limited exceptions, it has failed. Those limited exceptions are things like the SBC conservative resurgence and the LCMS Seminex controversy (which are largely over and the problems have returned). Maybe the CRCNA now, but it's a long road ahead and they weren't nearly as far gone as the RCA, PCUSA, etc.

How to (Not) Manage a Crisis: A brief follow-up on Peter Bell and Sons of Patriarchy (@patriarchysons), a 🧵

It's been a few days since I released my article "From Such Turn Away!" which is (hopefully) the culmination of my investigation into Bell and SOP. ICYMI: 1/onceforalldelivered.com/p/from-such-tu… The article itself has been viewed nearly 2K times. I tagged Peter on X when I initially posted it (and more times since, both from my personal and the @OFADpodcast account). I've also replied with it in Peter's threads. He is yet to acknowledge it or any of its contents. 2/

It is here that some of my former fellow Escondidans might jump in and say "But it's a Venn diagram! They overlap! VanDrunen's book even has it on the cover!" But while that overlap is claimed, the political is thought about/talked about in an almost exclusively negative way. 1/

https://twitter.com/PerfInjust/status/1880631656291143794

In this camp, the church is what matters, the political doesn't. So even if someone from the camp happens to be politically positioned and active, they're more or less expected to do so in a disinterested fashion, primarily preserving the American status quo. 2/

You will see a lot of Meredith Kline sympathizers mine quotes from historic Reformed sources about things like the Covenant of Works. Going back to the sources is certainly good, but if we're going to do that, we need to go all the way back.

https://twitter.com/ref_andrew/status/1871632647606477069

You certainly can find forms of republication in the tradition. However, it's not enough to say, "republication exists therefore Kline vindicated." One must look deeper, not only into the context of quotes but into doctrines that are prior to particular covenantal formulations.

@RaymondesseW @BurkhardtLance @WVPitt Ursinus, for one, did. @RaymondesseW @BurkhardtLance @WVPitt As did Turretin.

This is exactly how I stopped being a dispensationalist.

https://twitter.com/Stephen_Angliss/status/1869834172782784618

When I was in college I read the Bible for the first time from front-to-back. The cracks began to show as the things I had been told were not only in the Bible but central to biblical belief (pre-trib rapture being one particular standout example) just weren't in there.

So it seems Peter Bell is gearing up to release something Wednesday to prove he didn't misrepresent his licensure to churches. I don't see what exactly this accomplishes.

https://twitter.com/ref_andrew/status/1855705798485160354

1. The major misrepresentation was not that Bell was a licentiate, but that he was a pastor. This misrepresentation was published for over a year by GGG. We determined in our investigation that Bell no longer had valid licensure, but that was secondary.

We confirmed with the Presbytery of Southern California (OPC) that Bell was not licensed to preach or approved as a stated supply. One minister said they had plans to ask the PSC to take Bell under care (a step before licensure) but to our knowledge this never occurred. I confirmed with an elder at Oceanside URC that Bell was no longer licensed or a member there. This was doubly confirmed by friends who have access to the URCNA licensed exhorter list--Bell was not on it. Licensure expires, he either gave his up or didn't maintain it.

Reposting this today for those who might have missed it, and to comment on some new developments.

Sons of Charlatantry: On Peter Bell, host of the upcoming “Sons of Patriarchy”

(1/10)onceforalldelivered.com/p/sons-of-char… A trailer for SOP released today that names many contributors to the project. Among them are many egalitarians (like Du Mez and Barr), slanderers of the brethren (Moore), proponents of CRT (Anyabwile), and various confessional P&R ministers. (2/10)

For those who don't want to sit through a whole hour of me talking about the problems with ATS accreditation, let me give you some highlights. A 🧵(1/11)

https://twitter.com/ref_andrew/status/1816834921953927355

ATS lists diversity as its #1 core value. Before "Quality and Improvement" (#2), "Collegiality" (#3), and "Leadership" (#4). (2/11) ats.edu/About-ATS

Of course those who most benefit from accreditation will present the rosiest view of it, even invoking it as a marker of "true" education. (1/4) heidelblog.net/2024/07/educat… I did a deep dive about a year ago into the problems with ATS accreditation particularly: how it invites doctrinal compromise, how it prioritizes the interests of academia over the church, and how it furthers a DEI agenda. (2/4)

I'm going to do a living thread of various Reformed and Reformed-adjacent ministries that took federal COVID bailout money through the Paycheck Protection Plan.

Data is from here. 0/pandemicoversight.gov/ppp-simple-sea… I did a piece on Reformed seminaries doing this about a year ago. Rather than duplicate those efforts, here you go. 1/onceforalldelivered.com/publish/posts/…

I was going to write something up on this, but I have no idea when I'll have time, so here's a spreadsheet with some numbers on it.

I guess my questions are these: who ends up paying for this, and what are they paying for? This is where I got the data. studentaid.gov/data-center/st…

Since we're quoting Charles Hodge, let's quote some more Charles Hodge. (ST 3.343-344) Almost like he knew what was coming. (3.344-346)

I'm not sure this is the last speaker I would pick for a rural ministry conference but he'd definitely fall below the "if these are my options, I'm not having a rural ministry conference" threshold. Anyone within a 39 1/2 foot pole's reach of TGC probably isn't going to resonate with rural congregants, as TGC and related entities have been champions for the vision and goals of The City ™️, often at the expense of diverting attention and resources away from rural churches.