https://www.patheos.com/blogs/slacktivist/2023/06/30/amos-and-acts/

More from Fred Clark, a.k.a. #Slacktivist, over at #Patheos.

TL;DR (quote):
"At the simplest level, this is the lesson #MisterRogers taught us: That you are precious and special and infinitely loved. And that so is everyone else."

Slightly longer version:
*cracks knuckles, opens #Bible* "'So anyway, in the book of Amos..."

#Christianity #ChristianCulture

https://www.npr.org/2023/06/25/1183227484/jon-ward-evangelical-religion-donald-trump-book

Rachel Martin (of #NPR) interviews Jon Ward, journalist and the author of "Testimony: Inside the #Evangelical Movement That Failed a Generation"

#Exvangelical #ChristianCulture #USPol

2/

patheos.com/blogs/slacktivist/2023/04/11/the-satanic-panic-never-ended-contd/

Also leaving this #Slacktivist post here. (I've posted it here once before, but it bears repeating.)

The short version: The Satanic Panic of the 80's and 90's never ended. It's just under a different, more #QAnon shaped name for the new millennium.

#Patheos #ChristianCulture #USPol #USPolitics

https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/south-dakota-state-rep-joe-donnell-claims-mount-rushmore-is-a-demonic-portal-spreading-communism-across-the-nation/

"South Dakota State Rep. Joe Donnell Claims Mount Rushmore Is a Demonic Portal Spreading Communism Across the Nation"

(Please-be-at-peak-Onion please-be-at-peak-Onion please-be-at-peak-Onion please-be-at-peak-Onion please-be-at-peak-Onion please-be-)

Seriously, I can't take any more of these articles that seem like they should be straight out of #TheOnion.

#Conservatives #ChristianCulture #USPol

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/slacktivist/2021/11/12/living-together-in-two-separate-worlds/

More from #FredClark, a.k.a. #Slacktivist (this one dates from 2021):

Quote(s):
"George Marsden, contending with the difficulty of defining a perpetually contended category like 'evangelical,' once joked that an #Evangelical is anyone who likes Billy Graham. In the current usage, [...] #ProgressiveChristian refers to anyone who does *not* like Franklin Graham."

#Patheos #ChristianCulture #USPol

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/slacktivist/2023/05/15/fred-is-a-biblical-name/

Some lunchtime reading from Fred Clark (a.k.a., #Slacktivist).

Quote(s):
"Paul Davidson looks at the many biblical stories involving these 'teraphim' — none of which helps us have any clear idea of what exactly they were or how they were used or why. [...]

If you want to see white fundamentalist Christians scurry into furious action, say something like, 'Just because that’s in the Bible doesn’t mean it’s important.' "

#TheBible #Patheos #ChristianCulture

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/slacktivist/2023/04/11/the-satanic-panic-never-ended-contd/

More from Fred Clark, a.k.a. #Slacktivist.

Quote(s):
"Melvin Quinney, now 74, was convicted in 1991 for a crime that never occurred. [...]

The problem with all of the reporting on Quinney’s exoneration is that it treats the mass hysteria of the Satanic Panic as a closed chapter of the past.

But it never ended. It’s PizzaGate and #QAnon and the 'groomer' panic about drag queens and #Transphobia."

#Patheos #ChristianCulture #USPol #USPolitics

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/slacktivist/2023/03/14/and-it-leaves-me-reeling/

Some lunch time reading from Fred Clark at #Patheos.

Quote(s):

"McGillicuddy is an #Atheist now, but she grew up Pentecostal and she remembers the experience of revival [...].

I understood revival the same way when I was younger. [...] It turned out that same exhilarating[...] inspiration could also be found, for example, via the 'heart-stopping, pants-dropping, house-rocking, earth-quaking, booty-shaking, love-making, legendary E-Street Band.' "

#ChristianCulture

https://www.vice.com/en/article/88x4a5/florida-trans-kidnapping-law

Meanwhile, in #Florida...

Florida Senator (and Christ Follower™) Clay Yarborough
wants to legalize kidnapping #Trans kids and transporting them across state lines in order to "protect" them from gender-affirming care.

#TransRights #LGBTQ #FloridaMan #USPol #USPolitics #Republicans #ChristianCulture

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/slacktivist/2023/03/05/the-world-was-so-big-and-i-was-so-small/

More from Fred Clark, a.k.a., #Slacktivist, over at #Patheos.

Quotes(s):
"Aaron Renn’s 'Three Worlds of Evangelicalism' continues to be [...] treated as history or sociology or theology instead of what it obviously actually is: a mid-life crisis memoir.

"Gene Veith [...] is completely unconcerned with the fact that these three ['worlds'] just happen to have occurred within Renn’s adult lifetime and to correspond to the stages of it."

#ChristianCulture #Evangelicals

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Follow-up reading. (#ChristianCulture)

"So that, I suppose, is the secret to effective evangelism. [...] Dedicate your ministry to justice for the oppressed and liberation for the enslaved, stand with them no matter what and keep at it until The Powers That Be burn your church down and want you dead.

Is [William] Knibb’s approach a ready-made model for evangelism, revival and church growth? [...]

It’s hard to say, because so very few churches [...] are interested in trying it."

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/slacktivist/2023/02/28/then/

More from Fred Clark (a.k.a., #Slacktivist) over at #patheos.

Quote(s):

"God cares infinitely more about justice and injustice than about any amount of prayer and worship.

That, in a nutshell, is Isaiah’s critique of religion: Seek justice or else it’s all just a waste of time that infuriates God. [...]

'Set the oppressed free … break every yoke' and then the revival you seek will come. [...]

Seek justice. And then."

#ChristianCulture #Bible

@parkermolloy

https://wng.org/opinions/are-evangelical-leaders-as-courageous-as-j-k-rowling-1677156614

That awkward moment when the Onion predicts real life. (Fred Clark on #Patheos brought me here.)

#ChristianCulture #Evangelicals #LGBTQ #TransRights #TransRightsAreHumanRights

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/slacktivist/2023/02/07/enhanced-clobber-texting-methods/

Today's #Slacktivist topic: Clobber texts, the #Bible, and tortur- uh, Enhanced Interrogation™.

Quote(s):

"[...] Some time around 2003 white Christians here in America began 'debating' torture.

[...] Alas, none of the hundreds of commandments in the books of Moses include an explicit prohibition on torture. (It may be that people newly freed from scourging bondage in Egypt didn’t need to be reminded that it was bad.)"

#Patheos #ChristianCulture #Politics

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/slacktivist/2022/12/31/12-31-flashback-zealish/

Some lunch break reading...

Quote(s):
"There’s no way to distinguish fairly between people who are genuinely fired up about #Jesus and people who are performatively On Fire For Jesus™, but a culture that promotes zeal as a value in and of itself creates a lot of pressure to put your piety on display for others."
- Morgan Guyton, "The #Evangelical Zeal for Zeal"

#Slacktivist #Patheos #ChristianCulture

(Oh, and Trademark (™) symbol is mine (but not really 😁 )).

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/slacktivist/2022/12/20/12-20-flashback-livin-easy-lovin-free/

Quoted for truth:
"Their conscience will also be telling them that this seems not just awkward or intimidating, but wrong.

'Be bold and courageous for God,' the youth minister will tell them, but they’re not balking out of fear, they’re hesitating out of guilt.

That will, in turn, provoke another crisis of conscience as they wonder what’s wrong with them that makes them feel like right is wrong."

#Slacktivist #Patheos #ChristianCulture

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/slacktivist/2022/12/13/12-13-flashback-the-maga-pope/

The quote mines:
"Johnson fashioned an identity as a modern-day American patriot. Pro-gun, pro-God, pro-life. [...]

But behind this persona [...] is a web of lies and deception. A mysterious fire. Attempted arson and false testimony. Alleged molestation in his church.

In [his] wake lies a trail of police records and court files, shattered lives and a flagrant disregard for truth."

#Patheos #Slacktivist #ChristianCulture

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/slacktivist/2022/12/01/12-1-flashback-cizik-culture/

#Slacktivist #Patheos #ProgressiveChristian

Your regularly-scheduled discussion about how #ChristianCulture is just that, a culture.

Also, from the quote mine:

"Relatively few people are in a position to talk about #abortion as a theological and biblical question without having to worry about the consequences, meaning where their views would locate them in political, social, and even economic struggles.”