I was honored to preach at @candlertheology.bsky.social's chapel last week. My sermon was "Render Unto Caesar: Preaching the Gospel in an Era of Christian Power." There may have been some subtext. Watch here: www.youtube.com/embed/Xdk3k3... Read here: matthewdtaylor.substack.com/p/render-unt...

A reflection on the Kirk memorial service: "Chris Tomlin’s Worshipwashing of Charlie Kirk" publicwitness.wordandway.org/p/chris-toml...

Battle doomscrolling by posting 5 small pleasures in life: 1. A good cup of tea 2. A quiet afternoon reading 3. Camping with the family 4. Playing Starfinder 5. Coffee with friends

Excited to read Better Ways to Read the Bible by @zachwlambert.bsky.social. Can’t wait for it to get here! If you can still preorder a copy, you should!

Just listened to @sheilagregoire.bsky.social on @sonsofpatriarchy.bsky.social and it was phenomenal! All well said and I look forward to hearing more in the future. Some of those stats were really eye opening. Guess it’s time to buy some more books. I’m going to need a proper library soon.

Does it bother anyone else that the “all lives matter” people are also the “kill them all and let God sort them out” people? I’m exhausted from convincing the people near me that genocide is a bad thing, regardless of who is carrying it out. (I’ll let you decide which genocide I’m taking about.)

Iranian Christians fleeing persecution for their faith in Iran find persecution in the United States. www.christianitytoday.com/2025/06/ice-...

Made s’mores with the kids using the toaster oven. Because it’s too dang hot outside to make them outside over a fire. Best part? The kids loved it. 10/10 recommend. Make sure to not put the graham cracker in the toaster oven, they get soft.

One of the oldest forms of religious hypocrisy is people using God to justify the kind of actions against others that they themselves would cry out to God in agony if those same actions were carried out against them.

“War does not solve problems; on the contrary, it amplifies them and inflicts deep wounds on the history of peoples, which take generations to heal. No armed victory can compensate for the pain of mothers, the fear of children, or stolen futures.” Pope Leo XIV www.vatican.va/content/leo-...

Worth remembering that Trump moved the US Embassy to Jerusalem. To his evangelical base, he's fulfilling end times prophecies before their eyes. What is happening right now is nothing less then God's work, and they believe that they are the recipients of the long-awaited promise of Jesus' return.

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Jon Stewart asks: How many gun deaths is too many for the GOP?

One of them is literally LAUGHING about Israeli drones killing Iranians. There is nothing funny about death and war, whatever the justness of any particular cause.

What’s the cover that got you started in RPGs? Here’s mine:

Christ is risen. The tomb is empty. Death doesn’t get the last word. Love wins.

i miss the early internet. people were like “you gotta see this dude. this cat sure is long.” and they were right. it was really long. it never shoulda gotten any more complicated than that.

Y’all know how dope it would be if Democrats were actually the “radical leftists” MAGA kept trying to paint them as instead of the Diet Republicans they really are? Imagine an opposition party that wasn’t centrist, so that centrists & moderates weren’t actually conservatives.

Good morning, beloved. Double check your group chats. Spread love, not war plans. Today is a great day to overcome evil with good.

I decided to start a #thread 🧵 of stories about legal residents and tourists being (illegally) arrested, detained and/or deported by the Trump regime. I'll only post stories from serious sources, as rumors and conspiracies are really not needed in this authoritarian moment.

Good morning, beloved. Justice is often delayed. But, if we are to know peace, it is still worth pressing toward. Today is a great day to overcome evil with good.

This is what I wish appeared under every worship songwriter's bio: "Ludvig M. Lindeman (1812-1887) was a Norwegian composer and organist. Born in Trondheim, he studied theology in Oslo." The "studied theology" part. That's what I want to help make possible for all CWM artists. Also: this hymn!

This is absolutely a good measure to use before posting or saying anything to or about others. Love it (especially the tongue in cheek).

Good morning, beloved. Love is more than a feeling. It is the commitment to wholeness. It is action. Today is a great day to overcome evil with good.

Thesis: Christians in leadership at business / church / nonprofit organizations do the weirdest things that betray their personal values because of their disembodied, gnostic, western, colonizer-inherited, and Empire-shaped theology. To decolonize is to reclaim our humanity.

Tonight’s execution in Texas has been cancelled! We should always celebrate when a murder gets interrupted, even temporarily. It is time to stop killing to try to show that killing is wrong. Killing is the problem, not the solution.

Yeah I really need y'all to understand that the people currently in power fully know that you can weaponize the values & biases built into "AI" & other technologies, that they fully intend to do so, & that any carping about "bias against conservatives" is a deliberate inversion of their aims & deeds

the prophecy is fulfilled

NEW from me: In a rarity, a group of evangelical Christian organizations held a public vigil on Capitol Hill today in opposition to sweeping cuts to USAID by the Trump administration and urging Congress to reinstate programs canceled by Sec. Rubio and Elon Musk. religionnews.com/2025/03/11/e...

Imagine cheering on people in power who are actively targeting and harming the hungry, the poor, the sick, the elderly, the veteran, the disabled, the different, and the stranger and still somehow expecting people to believe you follow Jesus.

Good morning, beloved. Humility will change the world. You are not better than anybody. But ain’t nobody better than you. Today is a great day to overcome evil with good.

While attending to a requisite measure of awareness and an appropriate passion for justice, be careful that the politics of this passing age do not poison your soul.

Fascism is here. The list of words Trump is banning from government is the most stunning document of our time. Click the image below to see how many words Trump and Musk have canceled as part of their new Reich. 🔗: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

HAVING ALOT OF MONEY ... changes the way you see the world, the way you engage people. Always be giving out of your abundance in Jesus' name.

Good morning, beloved. Today wasn’t promised. That makes it a gift. It’s a great day to overcome evil with good.

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Theology 101: When facing a person bound by spiritual deception, you must recognize that there is no combination of words you can say to unlock an imprisoned heart. Only the Spirit of God holds that ineffable key. Pray and fast, then listen and speak.

They want to keep it quiet, so you know what to do.

I spoke with a pastor recently who told me of receiving a letter from departing members telling how they had found “a Republican church that honors Trump.” What a strange time we’re passing through.

It’s sad that many of us need to be reminded of this but when you don’t stand up to a bully because he’s not bullying you, you are 100% complicit by enabling his bullying.

Good morning, beloved. The past can be a pathway or a prison. It all depends on how you collaborate with it. Today is a great day to overcome evil with good.

Theology 101: Reminder—misquoting words, taking them out of context, and twisting them toward unintended meanings—these things are literally diabolical. (Genesis 3:1; Matthew 4:5–6)

Good morning, beloved. In a world with increasingly limited options, liberation is—in part—the ability to choose your own adventure. Today is a great day to overcome evil with good.