Food banks and churches will not be able to cover a gap in SNAP funding, but you know who could? Walmart. Walmart could just make all groceries free for November.

Grateful for the last word in @hcrichardson.bsky.social's newsletter about #NoKings. As a social movement scholar, the protests were important for their size and for how many sites participated but also because they are part of a trajectory of participation of millions. A 🧵:

In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.

Do you follow the Lutheran Confessions blog? If not, would love to have you swing over and subscribe. I try to do my best work over here. Celebrating What We’ve Got: Culture Without the Nostalgia Trap open.substack.com/pub/clintsch...

This discussion between 2 Lutheran pastors, @clintschnekloth.substack.com and @angeladenker.bsky.social is enlightening. They talk a lot about Christian Nationalism and associated movements and show how progressive Christianity is different. clintschnekloth.substack.com/p/live-with-...

Talking Tolkien, AI, and biblical interpretation today at Lutheran Confessions, with special thanks to @clintschnekloth.substack.com substack.com/home/post/p-...

One of the real benefits of living through a midlife unraveling (what a lot of us experience in our 50s) in 2025 is that it's all entirely masked by the now unavoidable anxiety of living under rising authoritarianism and climate change. It's not me. It's f*cking everything.

"Justification isn’t only about individual forgiveness but about God reclaiming the whole cosmos. The disciple participates in that cosmic project, living in such a way that others taste freedom"

True surrender of the disciple is unbound, not a private affair, tends toward aid to the world, extends freedom everywhere. —Ernst Käsemann, On Being A Disciple of the Crucified Nazarene

I did not have Republicans becoming Communists with the Great Leader Trump on my bingo card.

Dickson Street, Fayetteville, Arkansas

A Simple Case For the Trinity open.substack.com/pub/clintsch...

I think we should have a vote to ban Southern Baptists.

Being in the United States without documentation is not a crime.

It’s a cult.

Supreme Court Refuses to Hear Oak Flat Religious Freedoms Plea open.substack.com/pub/clintsch...

The Peasants’ Reformation: Unlearning "Lutheran" History open.substack.com/pub/clintsch...

A Guidebook to Progressive Church: Chapter Five open.substack.com/pub/clintsch...

Progressive Christianity needs more than good politics. It needs worship, leadership, and theological grounding. Hear why from @schnekloth.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/f...

Great conversation over at the @futurechristianpod cast. Hope you enjoy it! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...

Nazi Germany was a fascist state that punished dissent severely. The U.S. allows dissent, protest, and whistleblowing. That means Americans have more freedom to resist or speak out—so more moral responsibility to actively oppose the genocide in Palestine, even if the complicity is more indirect.

Tolkien 2.0 I’m pleased to share that my essay “Tolkien 2.0” is a feature in this month’s The Christian Century. I hope you enjoy reading it as much as I enjoyed writing it. open.substack.com/pub/clintsch...

Why Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s Deportation Should Haunt American Christians This Holy Week open.substack.com/pub/clintsch...