For all that has been, thanks. For all that will be, yes.

The highlight of my Christmas was getting to host the venerable monks at my church on Christmas day. #walkforpeace #opelika #christmas

It’s Lane Kiffin day…again.

Auburn University hosting a TPUSA rally and a Bruce Hornsby concert on consecutive nights is kind of wild.

“As a general rule, I would say that human beings never behave more badly toward one another than when they believe they are protecting God.” Barbara Brown Taylor

Evil draws power from attention. Don’t give it more power.

“To be an atheist is quite an achievement because you have to know the God you’re denying.” - Stanley Hauerwas

Does Nick Saban want to come out of retirement?

G A M E D A Y G A M E D A Y G A M E D A Y G A M E D A YG A M E D A Y !!!

Hear me out: You don’t have to be goaded into pitting prayer against action or action against prayer. But prayer without works of justice, mercy, and faithful love is empty.

Forrest Frank is youth summer camp Christianity. Cory Asbury is AA meeting Christianity.

Jesus never told his followers to blend in. He said: You are the salt of the earth. You are the light of the world. 🧵

notes on the mount 🧵

*chef’s kiss*

Let the record show the that I was a proponent and frequent user of the em dash long before Chat GPT came around.

2000s: College dropouts become tech billionaires and make us wonder, “Why do we even need college?” 2020s: Tech billionaires talk about anything other than computers and make us say, “Oh that’s why.”

I’ve been a fan on Walton Goggins since The Shield. #SNL

THE PICK IS IN

When David Brooks is calling for an uprising, you know things have gotten weird.

Mostly Southern Baptists and Christian Nationalists of various stripes. They’d much prefer to operate in a theological landscape in which they can pretend Hauerwas doesn’t exist.

By the end of his term, Cybertrucks will have more rights than women. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

"Above all, trust in the slow work of God. Give our Lord the benefit of believing that his hand is leading you, and accept the anxiety of feeling yourself in suspense and incomplete." Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

This Wofford fan can attest: that was an awesome basketball game. Stressful. But awesome.

😂😂😂

Adrien Brody…read the room, dude.

Reporter: Stanley, you’re a Christian ethicist – what makes Christian ethics Christian? Stanley Hauerwas: Jesus. 😆

Can someone explain to me the overlap/intersection of Zionist MAGA and antisemite MAGA? I can’t make it make sense.

My current personality.

Zero people need to hear my take on the Kendrick half time show. Fortunately for me, not a single person who watched it thought, “Gee…I wonder what Patrick has to say about this.”

they can take over the entire country but they can never actually be cool and it will eat at them forever

"By the end of the second century, Roman officials were not particularly aware of the nuances of Christian teaching, but they did know what the word 'bishop' meant—it meant someone who kept on agitating about the needs of the poor." — N.T. Wright

Idea for a TV show. Hear me out! Mystery Science Theater 3000 but instead of B movies, they are forced to listen to Joel Osteen sermons.

Who among us hasn’t been caught making a gesture that could be confused as a Nazi salute? Sarcasm aside, I have no patience for the normalization of this kind of behavior.

“I don’t want to be a pinball. I want to be a plant.” - Elizabeth Oldfield

This was all just a game, right? This was a stupid ploy by TikTok’s owners to curry favor with Trump, right?

Finally getting around to watching Conclave. Immediate thought: The costume budget is $$$. Vestments are expensive y’all.

Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our rapid unscheduled disassembly. - The Hail Mary (probably)

“From lightning and tempest; from plague, pestilence, and famine; from battle and murder, and from rapid unscheduled disassembly, Good Lord deliver us.” - The Book of Common Prayer (probably)

Question for academics: I just discovered the work of Hartmut Rosa. Can someone point me to a digestible summary/interpretation of his work?

We’ve reached the entitlement stage of pre-heating our dog’s bed with a heating pad.

Miracle of miracles is that we are a welcoming/affirming congregation in a red part of a deeply red state. Nothing makes sense. But it’s beautiful.

Our little 1.5yr old church launched 2 services today. I was pretty pessimistic: Folks are still on break, college students aren’t back, people are out of town. We had record attendance (for a normal Sunday - not Easter/Christmas). I don’t know what’s happening anymore. But maybe that’s okay.

Dr. Richard Hays died yesterday, he was one of the most prolific New Testament scholars of the age. I relish in the knowledge that what he once proclaimed as a great mystery is now plain sight for him. I am praying for those who loved him most. Rest well, and rise in glory.

Is there a Bluesky version of Weird Christian Twitter? *asking for a friend*

The Mystery of the Incarnation: Time is not a straight line through to the present. Time is more like a helix wrapped around Jesus.

The Mystery of the Incarnation: The child born to Mary is also the protagonist in Mary’s own scriptures.

The Mystery of the Incarnation: To quote Charles Wesley, Jesus is the *heaven-born* prince of peace.

The Mystery of the Incarnation: Mary’s boy and Pilate’s victim is the second person of the Trinity.

The dust up over Carter's evangelical faith shows there’s not a single, "authorized" story of US evangelical Christianity; instead there’s a constant struggle to claim a label, give it content and justify yourself and your group as the “real” evangelicals against the heretics & the damned

Never forget.. Jimmy Carter left the Southern Bapitsts because of their stance on women