A New Book on Religious Liberty

In Andrew Walker’s new book, religious liberty is presented less as a political doctrine than as a description of reality itself. https://t.co/ql2o5wETJ2

— Public Discourse (@PublicDiscourse) May 23, 2021

Their Denominations Deserve to Die Out

ok, this got more attention than I expected. I'll (non-systematically) tweet some thoughts this week, but though I'm a priest, I don't tweet all that much about this. Why?
(a thread)
a) I don't love talking about it a lot (I'll say a lot more on this later). https://t.co/I4UReEdL3m

— Tish Harrison Warren (@Tish_H_Warren) May 10, 2021

The Chosen, Mass Culture Phenomenon

The Chosen’s YouTube channel has one million subscribers. Its Season Two Premiere on YouTube had over 2.3 million views, as of April 19. https://t.co/w9a1NgYEjf

— Catholic News Agency (@cnalive) April 19, 2021

Poster Girl for Churchianity

Some big personal news: We are moving back to the Austin area this month. I'm from Austin, and we feel led back home.
I will be serving at Resurrection, a church I hold very dear. We will miss Pittsburgh & community here deeply but are expectant of what's to come. https://t.co/n5lBMyZXw9

— Tish Harrison Warren (@Tish_H_Warren) February 9, 2021

No Thanks

World Council of Churches (WCC) interim general secretary is inviting the global ecumenical family and friends to join the WCC for a livestreamed public prayer service on 25 January#orthodox_timeshttps://t.co/g47cpyL6fU

— Orthodox Times (@orthodox_times) January 15, 2021

Fr. Innocent Green

The Glory That is (Female-Led) Churchianity

A clip from the HBO documentary Transhood?

If this doesn't radicalize you, I don't know what will pic.twitter.com/YpWKInUWiS

— Pax Christus (@paxchristus0) November 22, 2020

Finding Common Ground?

We might be closer to finding common ground than we realize. We can know only through a conversation in search of our common hopes and fears. https://t.co/6D4gkHJFUE pic.twitter.com/3LtazVmJXs

— David Korten (@dkorten) November 12, 2020

David Korten relies on the writing of Paul Chappell. While families and communities are important goods for the individual, they are not sustained apart from norms about individual behavior, and it is here that the disagreement between Reds and Blues. What can Korten do about that? Nothing, except to repeat some tired liberal beliefs.

Our political discourse is hobbled by the linear "left-right" axis of affiliation. Blake Pagenkopf, author of "The Structure of Political Positions," joins Chuck on this episode of The Strong Towns Podcast to bring a new dimension into frame. https://t.co/UPPGlGyjLZ

— Strong Towns (@StrongTowns) November 10, 2020

Related:

“Conservative religious critiques of liberalism are not novel. They are not fascistic departures from the American heritage, or foreign arguments brought over with Catholic migrants. They are part of a longstanding American tradition.”https://t.co/waYFOHc82t

— Matthew Schmitz (@matthewschmitz) November 12, 2020

How Many Protestant Denominations Have Already Substituted Liberalism and Feminism for the Gospel?

Reformation Day can be a reminder that our God is a God who speaks, a God who offers his Word as a bridge to his world. https://t.co/fZuzdoa4YC

— First Things (@firstthingsmag) November 1, 2020

The Stuttgart Declaration of Guilt

The beginning of German ethnomasochism?

German church commemorates 1945 declaration that “opened the door” to reconciliation with former enemies https://t.co/WynKOuu1bV #WCC

— Marianne Ejdersten (@MarianneEjder) October 19, 2020

Ioan Sauca - Interim General Secretery




As the director of the Bossey Institute, Ioan Sauca is dressed like an abbot or something. Why? Especially when the WCC and the institute have embraced feminism:

"Bossey student Quantisha Mason gives a blessing at the end of thanksgiving prayer in the Bossey chapel. All photos: Albin Hillert/WCC"

Churches need to confront the world’s divisions, says WCC interim general secretary https://t.co/tD9VEsU8U3 #WCC

— Marianne Ejdersten (@MarianneEjder) October 19, 2020

Hm. Anabaptists...

We've seen all this before: In 1534, a violent gang of radical Anabaptists seized control of Münster and announced they were building Heaven on earth. My look at some parallels to the current American scene, today in @EpochTimes:https://t.co/nTnbasXIDh

— Joseph Bottum (@JosephBottum) September 25, 2020

Did you catch @albertmohler's interview with Joseph Bottum on this topic?https://t.co/SruGyz6ocK

— ⋊ sternfels ⋉ (@cfbearden) September 25, 2020

Just earlier this week we got a civic nationalists who believes in American exceptionalism comparing the Woke to Apostolic Christians who purged classical civilization.

How the Baptists Came to Dominate the South

People don’t realize it, but once upon a time the Methodist, Presbyterian, and Baptist Churches were all about equal-sized in the American South. During the latter half of the 19th Century, the Baptists took off and, eventually, came to dominate. How? https://t.co/iqMfscPpZG

— Orthodox Reflections (@OrthodoxReflec1) September 10, 2020

The New Social Gospel

Christians should know that neither colorblindness nor identity idolatry will shed light in this dark moment.

We’ll remain in the darkness of racial division until we acknowledge the imago dei in everyone and more fully make amends for the consequences of American racism.

— The AND Campaign (@AndCampaign) September 9, 2020

Social Gospel Christianity

Great piece: "A movement is springing up that places witness to Christ directly into the full context of life in a way that contemporary people, with their natural and newly awakened strong social conscience, look for and long for." https://t.co/v6jWoBtnM6

— Andrew Zimmerman (@Zimmerman1n) August 17, 2020

VanDrunen's "Conservative Liberalism"

James Clark reviews David VanDrunen’s *Politics after Christendom* (@ZonderAcademic) and considers the prospects for natural law arguments: https://t.co/UqZzeBVo3i pic.twitter.com/679cWpFrey

— Front Porch Republic (@FrontPorchRepub) July 27, 2020

FPR

Zondervan: Politics after Christendom by David VanDrunen

podcast

Interview with Joseph Bottum

VIDEO | America amid Spiritual Anxiety: A Conversation with @JosephBottum – via @markdtooley https://t.co/rDLVRloEMW

— Providence (@ProvMagazine) June 20, 2020

An Anxious Age: The Post-Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of America by Joseph Bottum

Is This Really the Problem with American Evangelical Christians?

In his new book, "When Did We Start Forgetting God?: The Root of the Evangelical Crisis and Hope for the Future," Mark Galli pleads with evangelicals to refocus on the Greatest and First Commandment: to love God with one’s heart, mind, soul, and strength. https://t.co/4X7VtdrHJz

— Public Discourse (@PublicDiscourse) June 13, 2020

Public Discourse

Sure

We're in a "civil war."

Choose your side.

— Denise McAllister (@McAllisterDen) June 11, 2020

but female leadership isn't the solution.

Evangelicals Have a Bigger Problem Than Their Trump Support

It's their own form of Christianity that is the problem, and talk about "holiness" being the priority is useless if Evangelicals don't know how it is to be achieved. How many Evangelicals are deracinated civic nationalists who have accepted liberalism and capitalism as foundational values? How many of them have already capitulated to feminism?

Rod Dreher: The Coming Christian Reckoning

Dreher writes:

It’s not just the Evangelical church. All the churches — and that also means conservative churches and liberal churches — who have substituted and continue to substitute chasing issues for cultivating holiness, and the practices of holiness, are going to fall. You cannot vote, or demonstrate, or emote your way out of this Reckoning.

Christians who haven’t been making plans for the aftermath had better get started.

There will be a Reckoning, but Dreher's solution that is the Benedict Option is inadequate. Even the focus on personal holiness is not enough, as holiness is a conformity to the commandments of God. Dreher will never criticize feminism fully.

Bruderhof Selling the Nationalist Myth

Maritain seems to have bought into it as well.

"America has failed that expectation over and over, even to this very day. But this is the national promise and possibility against which it must be corrected and toward which it must always strive.

— Plough Publishing (@PloughBooks) June 1, 2020

“What the world expects from America is that she keep alive, in human history, a fraternal recognition of the dignity of man,” Maritain said. https://t.co/CUDTFxIFoH

— Plough Publishing (@PloughBooks) June 1, 2020

As Anabaptists, shouldn't they know better? Or are they Anabaptist SJWs?