worst since…2009

oh my clearer and clearer to me that there needs to be an accessible alternative to this widespread approach (bible as one grand narrative, genesis 12 and exodus 19 as key texts allegedly indicating israel’s “mandate” vis-a-vis the nations, etc)

yeah, this explicitly does not happen in Trump admins. They view anything like this as weakness, if they actually got forced to take it down, the background noise was intense.

Those folks asked us to disbelieve what was plainly in front of our noses and treated recognizing reality as unsophisticated.

Fuller Seminary has recently announced THREE endowed chair positions: 1. Chair of Faith & Public Life, 2. Homer L. Goddard Chair in Transformational Church Ministry, 3. Lip-Bu Tan Chair for the Future Church. Know a qualified candidate? Please share! workforcenow.adp.com/mascsr/defau...

Seven Ways of Looking at the Transfiguration Struggling with Transfiguration Sunday? Sarah Hinlicky Wilson offers seven fresh angles on this mysterious event, weaving theology, exegesis, and preaching insight. #Repost #TransfigurationSunday

Pour one out for every professional political pundit, writer, consultant whatever that has spent the last decade trying to pretend that the Trump phenomenon was about trade or opiates and not a big chunk of white america losing its mind over having a black president bsky.app/profile/kyle...

I don't say this often but: I'm so proud to be a climate and environment reporter. We cover an issue that is vitally important to humanity and the natural world. 14 of my climate colleagues at the Post were laid off today and I'm devastated. www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/washington...

10 YEARS AGO NOBODY CLAPPED

Can the people who find Barth’s so-called critique of “religion” compelling, explain how they plan on responding to TRC call to action #60? Because I can’t reconcile these things at all.

Yesterday, five-year-old Liam and his dad Adrian were released from Dilley detention center. I picked them up last night and escorted them back to Minnesota this morning. Liam is now home. With his hat and his backpack.

tuesday

Yes the Hillsong stream went the megachurch direction, the Driscoll stream and YRR went CN, and emerging church got folded into TEC or Buddhism.

Texas A&M ends its women's & gender studies program while hundreds of syllabi remain flagged and censored under top-down review policies. “I have never seen anything like this.” — Dr. Leonard Bright, @tamu-aaup.bsky.social President @texasaft.org @texasaaup.bsky.social @cwa-tseu.bsky.social

this is definitely a first—an article in a missiology journal that engages substantively with the “paul within judaism” school—also written by a student of mine, kyle frohock! doi.org/10.1177/0091...

“Perkins School of Theology at Southern Methodist University (SMU) and Memphis Theological Seminary (MTS) have entered into a formal teach-out agreement, effective January 31, 2026. Through this agreement, currently enrolled MTS students will be able to complete their degree programs at Perkins”

This is the biggest sign that they’re still concerned about public opinion since the start of Trump 2.0. It should be a real wake up call for people who think they the administration thinks they can steal elections, or who doom that there’s no way to stop Trump.

Breaking WSJ: Border Patrol Commander Gregory Bovino will imminently leave Minnesota along with some of his agents, according to administration officials familiar with the matter. www.wsj.com/livecoverage...

is this christology 🦋

It makes them so angry that Christianity is, at its core, “slave morality”

This was just me making this comparison yesterday, but today the Korean news is calling Minnesota "America's Gwangju" and have human rights lawyers explaining how America is now living through the dictatorship Korea once had.

“The World Communion of Reformed Churches invites member churches and partners to join a National Faith Call to Action following the tragic killing of Alex Jeffrey Pretti in Minnesota by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)”

a nurse who worked for the VA govsalaries.com/pretti-alex-...

Reforming toward hope: Why universalism belongs in the Reformed tradition Can a Reformed Christian affirm universalism? Drawing on Calvin, Barth and Scripture, Lucus Levy Keppel argues that God’s grace ultimately reconciles all.

Have a larger story on this coming, but I’ve been embedded with this group, and this story from yesterday is part of what they’ve been doing in the city: religionnews.com/2026/01/22/h...

BREAKING: San Francisco Giants star Jung Hoo Lee has been detained by CBP at LAX. Pelosi's office says she is working to secure his release. www.sfchronicle.com/sports/giant...

It’s sort of astonishing how much better I feel if I use my unstructured time to read a physical book or magazine that I can hold in my hands instead of doing any of the things on my phone that I think of as, like, purely fun or relatively calming

Trump is a megalomaniacal, criminal madman, he is the singular force that is destroying the entire world order and the whole American system, and rather than acknowledging him as a crisis, our institutions are still, STILL determined to relentlessly normalize him

that's right. we need to reinvent liberal internationalism. we're ten years behind the curve on the authoritarian internationale here

It’s come to this: “Catholic members of the US armed forces could in good conscience consider disobeying orders to attack Greenland if such orders were issued, according to Archbishop Timothy Broglio, the bishop responsible for the pastoral care of US military personnel.”

fwiw i think his obsession with the nobel prize is entirely about obama getting it (setting aside whether or not obama ought to have received it)

Danish Parliament Deputy Speaker Lars-Christian Brask: "If I could come with some advice, it would be for the Senate & House to start to take control of political power in America because with this erratic & mad behaviour, you have to ask the question, is the President capable of running the US?"

He’s out of his mind, a narcissistic megalomaniac in an all-consuming spiral of self-pity and selfishness, but the truly insane people are the thousands of powerful men around him who won’t say so and continue to dance around him like this is normal, rational behavior.

I guess I have a substack now. Really resisted this for the longest time, but I need a more effective place to respond to critics and explain my ideas. open.substack.com/pub/dwcongdon

He's doing the same pattern he did with Canada- swan around making blithe military threats, freak out when the other party threatens him with serious shit, retreat to his tariff hugbox, then get his tariffs swiss-cheesed because special interests all twist his arm.

LOL he’s afraid of doing an invasion now. And he’s tantruming with more tariffs.

More than 200,000 Danish citizens have signed a petition to buy California as a response to Trump’s attempt to take Greenland. They say they will provide Californians with “rule of law, universal health care, fact-based politics, and a lifetime supply of Danish pastries.”

Why the PC(USA) needs the Church Growth Network Amid PC(USA) decline, a new church growth network reframes growth as faithful, sustainable mission rooted in vitality, not gimmicks, writes Josh Erickson.

Choctaw Nation opposes possibility of ICE detention center in Southern Oklahoma | KOSU www.kosu.org/news/2026-01... #Oklahoma #Choctaw

US higher education was a crown jewel, generating knowledge, wealth, prestige, and power unrivaled by anyone. And the US is throwing it away, because Americans elected a govt ideologically opposed to truth, science, merit, and racial/gender equality, preferring to weaken the country to reduce that.

President threatens to deploy the Insurrection Act against Minnesota.

"ICE agents suck and should be prosecuted, and ICE should have its funding cut" is now the majority sensible moderate centrist popularist abundance third way blah blah blah position. Anyone who says otherwise—as many 'data-driven' 'liberal' pundits still do—is really just MAGA without the hat.

There is a fundamental theological reorientation occurring among younger Mainliners especially, imo, not unlike the mass shift away from premillennialism after WWI. It's not conservatism or liberalism; completely different axis.

Some countries that have prosecuted or threatened to prosecute central bankers for the purpose of political intimidation or punishment for monetary policy decisions: Argentina, Russia, Turkey, Venezuela and Zimbabwe.

It's all CONTENT and I'm tired of all the CONTENT

Judicatories should reflect more on this dynamic.

“Reclaiming academic publishing as a public good requires a return to not-for-profit models & sustainable open-access systems. Quality, accessibility & integrity need to be put ahead of profit. Change is needed to protect the purpose of academic research: to advance knowledge in the public interest”

Some good news, if you need it: The city council of Franklin NC has voted to return an important Cherokee mound to the EBCI. "Noquisiyi ("star place") is part of a series of earthen mounds.. the heart of the Cherokee civilization" wlos.com/news/local/t...

The UK, Canada and Australia are considering banning X. And yet, the progressive movement and Democratic Party still haven’t figured out how to boycott it.

Week 1. We invaded Venezuela. We killed the ACA subsidies. We destroyed the Kennedy Center. We murdered a woman in cold blood over deportations. We threatened Greenland, now we are offering them $100,000 per person to allow us to take over their country. First 7 days. Can we survive a year of this?