#Baptist

Amy Washburn

AIWashburn

THREAD: 1) The 1st clause of the First Amendment to the Constitution, a/k/a “the establishment clause,” provides that “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion….” With it

Rachael Denhollander

R_Denhollander

Reminder: Lest we categorize how the scandal with Josh Duggar was handled in 2015, as a "Gothard problem", this is a reminder that one of the family's pastors was Ronnie

Mrs. Blackburn 💀🔥

MarianMorticia

Thready McThreaderson...So, one of the books that I fell in love with while I was coming out of paganism into the non-denominational "Baptist with a coffee shop" Protism was "Redeeming

Friendless Churches

friendschurches

For most of us, the skull and crossbones represents danger. Pirates or poison usually...So why do you find them all over churches?To unravel the symbol, we need to go to

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clbolt

Thread on Critical Theory/Critical Race Theory/Intersectionality (CRTI) since we don't already have enough of those.Two questions:1. Is CRTI a problem?2. Is CRTI a problem in the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC).Let's

Mitch

RealMitchDobbs

1/ You often hear @aldemocrats and @DougJonesHQ shorthand a part of @SenDougJones ’s bio this way: “Sen. Jones got justice for four little girls murdered during church by the Klan.”

TRINITY 🏳️‍🌈

AFRO999ANGEL

Malcolm X also known as El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz was born on May 19th 1925 in Omaha, Nebraska as Malcolm Little His father was a baptist speaker who was heavily influenced

Erica Wilkinson

EverywhereErica

I grew up poor. Like, trailer park next to the train tracks in Texas, free lunch, shoe-sole flopping, gang graffiti on my playground poor. But as a 8yo, I didn't

Jeffrey Sachs

JeffreyASachs

Yikes. Yeah, religious institutions/culture is a real blind spot for liberal centrist types. Not all, obviously (Friedersdorf is good), but most. Hence this, or Cathy Young’s assertion last month that

June

beloved_june

So @emlott and I were on a pastoral staff together for a couple of years. Something like 2010 to 2013 or so, I think. We had been seminary classmates before,

D.Johnston

DannyJohnston93

Going my walks, runs and cycles during lockdown one thing has pissed me off. Its the amount of football pitches that have just been left to waste and no teams

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sinsofscarecrow

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Nate

NateLabadorf

Love not Hate: A Recovering Fundamentalist Makes an ApologyA thread http://freshgroundtheology.com/2020/10/25/love-not-hate-a-recovering-fundamentalist-makes-an-apology/ My last post stirred some pushback from many people across a wide var

Ibram X. Kendi

DrIbram

Governor Brian Kemp’s decision to reopen Georgia is an act of war against all Georgians, especially Southwest Georgians who are predominantly Black. Some of us are fighting COVID-19. Kemp is

Tim Wise

timjacobwise

1/ I love when people like Ben Shapiro argue anti-discrimination law shouldn't have been applied to private businesses and the way to deal w/private sector racism is through market pressure...yet

Nicola

namenzie

Here's an idea: Instead of (solely) focusing on White megachurches defiantly holding mass gatherings, why not *also* contrast with perspectives of Black-led megachurches (like Oak Cliff Bible Fellowship, The Potter's