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Creating better Christian conversations since 1896. We produce an award-winning magazine, podcast, website, & more. Editor-in-Chief: @BrianKaylor
Jefferson City, MO
Joined February 2012
Al-Taybeh is home to the 5th-century Church of St. George, still in use by the indigenous Palestinian Christian community. Recently, Israeli settlers attempted to set it ablaze. For our latest Voices piece, @xabueid writes powerfully about what it means.
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Unless the international community acts decisively and swiftly, Al-Taybeh risks being overrun by Israeli settlers, its lands confiscated, and its people forcibly displaced.
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US Department of Homeland Security co-opted Isaiah 6 to justify using militarized force to hunt immigrants. Such a grotesque twisting of Scripture.
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Our news roundup is here early for the holiday weekend! It features insights from @robertpjones, @angela_denker, @AmandaTylerBJC, @DrewStrait, @mcasey1, @mboorstein, @fiona_ndre, @emlybelz, and more.
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We’re wrapping up the week a bit early to grill some hot dogs and watch some fireworks.
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Nice to see coverage of anti-slavery doc by Northern (now American) Baptist ministers: https://t.co/T5KA3GJ2Vx Of course, American Baptists aren't just historical. They're meeting this week in Omaha. Hope media will cover it. Not all Baptists are Southern:
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Southern Baptists make up less than half of all Baptists in the United States. But you’d never guess that from media coverage. Last month, Baptist leaders from dozens of nations gathered in...
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Today’s issue of A Public Witness features a guest essay from @DrewStrait centered on four creative proposals to disrupt Christian Nationalism within a distinctively Christian vernacular.
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Below is a guest essay from Drew Strait, an associate professor of New Testament and Christian origins at Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary in Indiana and author of Strange Worship.
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Our latest book review from @drbobcornwall covers the retelling of American religious history found in Thomas A. Tweed’s “Religion in the Lands That Became America: A New History” from @yalepress.
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In this new book, Thomas A. Tweed offers a sweeping retelling of American religious history that shows how religion has enhanced and hindered human flourishing from the Ice Age to the Information Age.
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The co-founder of the Prayers for Peace Alliance makes the case that Johnnie Moore, the recently appointed chairman of the embattled Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, is getting away with using the Gospel to justify genocide.
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The co-founder of the Prayers for Peace Alliance makes the case that Johnnie Moore, the recently appointed chairman of the embattled Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, is getting away with using the...
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It was great to join Pete & Jared on "the only other God-ordained podcast on the Internet." Appreciate the chance to talk "for normal people" about #ChristianNationalism & 'Baptizing America' https://t.co/0koyNy1yIP
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Beau Underwood and Brian Kaylor explore how mainline Protestants have contributed to Christian nationalism in the United States.
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Grateful for the voice of @BrianKaylor: "Even in a time of wars and rumors of wars, may we hold up the prophetic dream of an end to war. And may we also stand up against those who do violence to Scripture in order to justify violence against people." https://t.co/lUadVjerUW
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On Thursday (June 12), Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu went to the Western Wall to place a note between the stones.
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“It’s up to us and our churches and in our conversations to roundly reject violence in all forms as being against the gospel, as against anything that Jesus ever stood for,” explained @AmandaTylerBJC of @BJContheHill.
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“An unhealed past is why we find ourselves mired in an uncertain and unstable present.
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“The tendency that I wanted to guard against is this tendency that I see over and over again in White Christian spaces. It’s this tendency to want to immediately distance ourselves from that which we would consider abhorrent or problematic.” @angela_denker
https://t.co/LkMKnrKnlM
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“An unhealed past is why we find ourselves mired in an uncertain and unstable present.
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“It’s not an exaggeration to say that in all of America, we have testimony that we’re living among a crime scene,” said @robertpjones of @PRRIpoll. “We have these things all around us, and we have to kind of figure out a way to reckon.”
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“An unhealed past is why we find ourselves mired in an uncertain and unstable present.
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Today’s issue of A Public Witness takes you inside the recent @cbfinfo annual gathering to consider how Christians can speak truthfully about the past and speak truth to power today.
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“An unhealed past is why we find ourselves mired in an uncertain and unstable present.
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My report on the incredible speakers at the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship general assembly:
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“An unhealed past is why we find ourselves mired in an uncertain and unstable present.
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Our roundup features insights from @karavoght, @BJContheHill, @kathsstewart, @CTJillNelson, @CheyannaMarie97, and more! (8/8)
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Here’s the weekly roundup from A Public Witness. In addition to a consideration of a biblical passage that declares “no kings” and a look at a problematic use of the Bible to justify war that are...
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For our newsletter’s Quick Take this week, @BrianKaylor addresses the trend of Christian Nationalists getting upset that some Christians are caring for immigrants. (7/x)
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Here’s the weekly roundup from A Public Witness. In addition to a consideration of a biblical passage that declares “no kings” and a look at a problematic use of the Bible to justify war that are...
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Some top stories on our site this week include: -@bobsmietana on the Minnesota shooting and Christ for the Nations Institute -@ConversationUS on a small denomination gaining power -@Ben_Finley on rebuilding one of the nation’s oldest Black churches (6/x)
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Here’s the weekly roundup from A Public Witness. In addition to a consideration of a biblical passage that declares “no kings” and a look at a problematic use of the Bible to justify war that are...
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Our book review from @drbobcornwall this week covered a 1960s summer of social upheaval explored in the novel “Green Street in Black and White: A Chicago Story” by Dave Larsen from @ReadtheSpirit & @FrontEdgePub. (5/x)
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In the novel “Green Street in Black and White: A Chicago Story,” Dave Larsen takes us back to a 1960s summer of social upheaval, when youthful mischief collided with the weight of adult fears.
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