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Ahistoricism, False Prophecy, and Islamophobia: How Pastor Philip Anthony Mitchell Weaponizes Biblical Ignorance

Medium Facebook Instagram Goodreads The Oxford Dictionary defines “ahistoric” as an adjective meaning the quality of disregarding, lacking concern for, or being uninfluenced by history, historical context, or traditional development. Google further categorizes how ahistoricity is utilized in different modes of thought: Literature/Philosophy: Interpreting a text without regard for its…

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Violence begets violence. One day, the men and women who enforce imperial cruelty will come seeking salvation, weighed down by guilt. The Church must prepare for the inevitable repentance of ICE and Border Patrol agents—and we cannot offer cheap grace. This is the challenge of the traditores for our time.

Select Scriptures to Remember This Halloween Season

Medium Facebook Instagram Goodreads Spooky Times Call For Calm Minds Halloween is upon us and with it the religious angst that so often dominates conservative evangelical circles. And because this day comes with many historical, contextual, and cultural aspects which can be celebrated without fake blood, false teeth, witch broomsticks, and zombie brains, we must not deny the fact that some…

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Holding God at Knifepoint: When the Father of Lights Withholds

Medium Facebook Instagram Goodreads Tumblr The Terrifying and Necessary Theology of the God Who Gives and Takes Away “Every generous act of giving, with every perfect gift, is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change.” James 1:17 NRSVue Kierkegaard has taught me that God is immutable. No. I’ve known this truth my whole life.…

Anxious Piety: The Sad Legacy of Fundamentalist Evangelicalism

Medium Facebook Instagram Goodreads Tumblr A Religion of Fear One of the greatest challenges in life is attaching your existence to a faith that demands constant obedience. This mode of viewing the world can be deeply taxing on the soul. It’s worth noting the layered impacts it can have on the human psyche, which may also affect the physical state of the adherent through psychosomatic…

The Impossibility of Pacifism in Light of These Horrors

Medium Facebook Instagram Goodreads Tumblr Black Power Is Nat Turner “Black power is Nat Turner, Denmark Vesey, or Gabriel Prosser planning a slave revolt. It is slaves poisoning masters, and Frederick Douglass delivering an abolitionist address. This is the history that black theology must take seriously before it can begin to speak about God and black humanity. Like black power, black…

About Last Sunday: Souls In Exile

Medium Facebook Instagram Goodreads Tumblr The Purpose of “About Last Sunday” Occasionally, I reassess Sunday’s sermon message to determine if my capacity for learning and understanding is still present the following day or two. I began this process as a way to remember the outpouring of God’s word received on Sunday, which is often forgotten about by Monday morning. The human mind works…

The Cyclical Nature of Violence in American Immigration History Explained

Medium Facebook Instagram Goodreads Tumblr Paroxysm French philosopher René Girard’s Violence and the Sacred and other works are required and recommended reading for anyone struggling with the cyclical nature of human violence in general. In this difficult-to-follow book, Girard guides us through his Mimetic Theory, which provides an interesting origin story or theory of human paroxysm…

When False Prophets Come Calling

Medium Facebook Instagram Goodreads Tumblr The Navigators The Bible has a rich history of prophetic utterances. Jewish scholars list a section of the Old Testament, or rather, to them, the Tanakh, the Jewish Canon, as the Nevi’im, a compilation of writings by prophets. This section is broken into two categories: major prophets (Isaiah, Jeremiah, etc.) and minor prophets (Amos, Zechariah,…

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My Thoughts on Netflix’s Viral Show: Adolescence (Spoilers)

Medium Facebook Instagram Goodreads Tumblr Adolescence Netflix’s new hit show Adolescence plays a vital role in reintroducing why it is essential to know what your children are watching, streaming, entertaining, and discussing with their social circles. The narrative of helicopter parents has resurfaced as well, namely, how some parents become totalitarian overlords controlling every facet…

About Last Sunday: Managing The Wilderness of Weariness

Medium Facebook Instagram Goodreads Tumblr The Message This Sunday, minister Rohan of Freedom Life Church imparted to the church proper what can be considered a message for the age. A delegation of words that have historically sustained the body of believers in times of great sorrow, emotional drain, and social upheaval. The existential question arises and the existential dread consumes…

Of Fasting, Prayer, and Demons: Resisting Superstition by Focusing On Christ

Medium Facebook Instagram Goodreads Tumblr The Passage “‘Why do we fast and you don’t look our way? Why do we humble ourselves and you don’t even notice?’ Well, here’s why: The bottom line on your ‘fast days’ is profit. You drive your employees much too hard. You fast, but at the same time you bicker and fight. You fast, but you swing a mean fist. The kind of fasting you do won’t get your…

Black People, History Will Not Save Us. Read The Room.

Medium Facebook Instagram Goodreads Tumblr I’m writing from a place of temporary defeat. Discouraged by discouraging headlines. Weakened by the lack of empathy from fellow believers. A sense of dejectedness has crept into my mind. The human heart is corrupt and its capacity for empathy has been nearly if not completely exhausted as a select few people in power catapult society into an abyss…

What Has The Church To Do With Cain?

Medium Facebook Instagram Goodreads Tumblr The Passage “1 Now the man knew his wife Eve, and she conceived and bore Cain, saying, “I have produced a man with the help of the Lord.” 2 Next she bore his brother Abel. Now Abel was a keeper of sheep, and Cain a tiller of the ground. 3 In the course of time Cain brought to the Lord an offering of the fruit of the ground, 4 and Abel for his part…

About Last Sunday: We Believe In Doctrine & Demonstration

Medium Facebook Instagram Goodreads Tumblr The Message A thunderous message about God’s call for obedience in the face of indomitable odds was uttered at Freedom Life Church this Sunday. Minister Samuels transmitted what can now, in retrospect, be understood as a brief and efficacious sermon on the sovereignty of God in the face of a deadly storm that promised to sift the life of Christ’s…

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