Sometimes you step into the arena knowing you can’t win, but that the struggle is still worth the effort. Thank you for consistently walking through the tunnel into the fray! We love you.
How I wish I could sit in one of your classes because not only do I so deeply agree with this article, but I have recognized and seen with my own eyes much of what you have described in this article. You are bringing clarity and light into and onto this dark cloud of WCN today. A much needed light that will continue for decades! There is so much here that I'll need to reread this again-not unlike J&JW.
My dad and his wife watch Flashpoint regularly, and on my last visit the commentators were mocking this film, denigrating it as not being done by true Christians, etc. My dad, both my parents really, are the ones who most need to see these kinds of things, but they are being told that to watch it is to participate in the weakening of their own faith and of our country. It’s very discouraging.
Was totally unaware of the Brian Zhand "Postcards From Babylon" video that is available on YouTube until your recommendation. My wife and I watched it tonight, and were so very much encouraged. Your contribution within the presentation was invaluable and so informative. Man, I wept at the end when Dan Dietrich sang "The Hymn For the 81%". Thanks so much for putting us onto this!
This makes me want to read what Chrissy Stroop wrote because of the word interrogating. " Stroop calls out Moore and French in particular for being allowed “the cheap grace to distance themselves from their Christian nationalist coreligionists without interrogating the authoritarian aspects of their own theology.”
Thank you for engaging publicly in this imporatnt issue threatening democracy. Looking forward to viewing the "Postcards from Babylon" video. I appreciate your endorsement of the recent books by David Gushee and Robby Jones concerning Christian Nationalism.
Thank you to historians like you, who are serving as our contemporary prophets, especially when pastors forget to also be prophetic! It is a tough road, but as a retired 80 year-old pastor/prophet, I have no regrets!
Your openness to introspection and self-critique is part of what makes you such a capable voice of leadership in these times (take that Andrew Walker!). Stroop is surely right about us all sharing some complicity. If following Jesus is fundamentally about being invited into the family of YHWH, then maybe our attempts to name and describe the properties of that are in and of themselves presumptuous. But I do still think the words of Luke 7:22-23 are staring unflinchingly from their pages at all of us, including Stroop.
Sometimes you step into the arena knowing you can’t win, but that the struggle is still worth the effort. Thank you for consistently walking through the tunnel into the fray! We love you.
Thank you for all your hard work.
How I wish I could sit in one of your classes because not only do I so deeply agree with this article, but I have recognized and seen with my own eyes much of what you have described in this article. You are bringing clarity and light into and onto this dark cloud of WCN today. A much needed light that will continue for decades! There is so much here that I'll need to reread this again-not unlike J&JW.
My dad and his wife watch Flashpoint regularly, and on my last visit the commentators were mocking this film, denigrating it as not being done by true Christians, etc. My dad, both my parents really, are the ones who most need to see these kinds of things, but they are being told that to watch it is to participate in the weakening of their own faith and of our country. It’s very discouraging.
Was totally unaware of the Brian Zhand "Postcards From Babylon" video that is available on YouTube until your recommendation. My wife and I watched it tonight, and were so very much encouraged. Your contribution within the presentation was invaluable and so informative. Man, I wept at the end when Dan Dietrich sang "The Hymn For the 81%". Thanks so much for putting us onto this!
This makes me want to read what Chrissy Stroop wrote because of the word interrogating. " Stroop calls out Moore and French in particular for being allowed “the cheap grace to distance themselves from their Christian nationalist coreligionists without interrogating the authoritarian aspects of their own theology.”
Thank you for engaging publicly in this imporatnt issue threatening democracy. Looking forward to viewing the "Postcards from Babylon" video. I appreciate your endorsement of the recent books by David Gushee and Robby Jones concerning Christian Nationalism.
Thank you to historians like you, who are serving as our contemporary prophets, especially when pastors forget to also be prophetic! It is a tough road, but as a retired 80 year-old pastor/prophet, I have no regrets!
Your openness to introspection and self-critique is part of what makes you such a capable voice of leadership in these times (take that Andrew Walker!). Stroop is surely right about us all sharing some complicity. If following Jesus is fundamentally about being invited into the family of YHWH, then maybe our attempts to name and describe the properties of that are in and of themselves presumptuous. But I do still think the words of Luke 7:22-23 are staring unflinchingly from their pages at all of us, including Stroop.
This looks to be real good! Will be able to read this evening...