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RT @JayMallow3: This whole 🧵but really this.

RT @j_rhett: Marissa captures the narrow and selective moral handwringing of Magnoliagate so well in this thread.

RT @hedden4heaven: Excellent, helpful.

Expanded on these thoughts in a long form post here today.

RT @ArlieColes: ACNA clergy friends: I am curious to hear if this understanding is the one that has been impressed upon you.

An important 🧵@The_ACNA.

Decided to expand this into long form thoughts. Find me there under the same handle.

*exvangelicals*.

Loved this conversation with Sunita Theiss & @kkramermcginnis discussing neurodiversity in faith communities & families.

RT @MBurtwrites: Religious ppl have always gotten mad about Jesus eating w/those they perceived to be sinners & tax collectors. Tainted by….

Only times Jesus got indignant *w/His disciples* was when they hindered ppl from getting access to Him. @chipgaines & @joannagaines decided not to gatekeep *in the marketplace* . Christian rage demanding they recant reveals why some will never set foot in a church again. /end.

I guess it’s unsurprising that religious ppl today would be mad about the Body of Christ rubbing shoulders w/a family that has two gay dads. IDK what the end game there is, though— increasingly narrowing communities that only grant access to the “right” kind of sinners? 8/.

Religious ppl have always gotten mad about Jesus eating w/those they perceived to be sinners & tax collectors. Tainted by association. He is never punitive enough for our liking. Unmerciful servants delighting in grace when we receive it & big mad when it’s shown to others. 7/.

Hatred & contempt never showed anyone the Good News of God’s love. Calling hatred “love” doesn’t make it so. Whatever you think of ppl’s sexual choices, they are *people*, in this case including two children whose perhaps first & only taste of Christianity will be contempt. 6/.

I will believe Christians care about children & families when we stop minimizing the evil that has been done in God’s name. When we listen to survivors & evangelicals & all whose faith we’ve shipwrecked. 5/.

What business is it of ours to judge those outside the church?. All this while we have neglected to respond to ppl *within the church* who have preyed on most vulnerable. I will take your concerns about sexual immorality seriously when you flip tables over predatory pastors. 4/

They were able to see that it was a TV show not a church. & that ppl who aren’t Christians are uninterested in pietism or moral beliefs of Christianity. It’s never been our task to isolate, exclude & erase ppl b/c we perceive immoral, greedy or idolatrous. specks in their eye 3/

I’ve not seen discussion of how this forms idolatrous souls to expect luxury when so many go without food & clothing. Disappointed fans seem capable of overlooking that as well as the fact that many unmarried couples on the show were cohabitating. 2/.

Saw a post where @DennyBurk incidentally dehumanizes two children in his ire at Chip & Joanna. Moralistic litmus tests are revealing. I’ve never seen Christian concern re: normalization of consumption, discontentment & greed on display in home reno shows. 🧵.

RT @monkofjustice: As I have noted before, it's almost like those in purple want authority without responsibility! 😵.