James R. Wood
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Assist. Professor @RedeemerUniv | Cohost of Civitas podcast @_Theopolis | Commonwealth fellow @DavenantInst | Former editor @firstthingsmag | PCA teaching elder
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A 🧵 of resources in which I develop and apply “ecclesiocentric postliberalism”:
Putting these here in one 🧵 for future reference. If anyone wants to know what *I* promote with "ecclesiocentrism postliberalism," start here:
1) My most recent and most basic:
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Please pray for this young man. He is stepping into a role for which it is almost impossible to prepare and which is littered with temptations. He has something important to offer. May the Lord keep other demons at bay.
Rich Men North of Richmond has been uploaded to all major streaming platforms and will show up there in a few days.
Im still in a state of shock at the outpouring of love I've seen in the comments, messages and emails. I'm working to respond to everyone as quickly as possible.
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Christ hears the cries of the unborn and will avenge them.
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Can you imagine the innumerable joys which await us when we are fully clothed with our resurrected bodies and behold our Lord with unveiled face, becoming like him as we see him as he is?
Amazing video of deaf people hearing for the first time🥰
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We are going to see more and more non-Christians even longing for a “Christian country” (Dawkins’ term here) as they increasingly stare down the nightmares of a post-Christian world.
Bizarre from Dawkins, who wrote a book called ‘The God Delusion’ claiming religion was a deeply malevolent, dividing force in the world.
Now he’s calling himself a ‘cultural Christian’? Find it odd to use religion to extend your secular political points.
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I will never ever ever vote for a candidate who makes abortion access a major piece of their campaign. Ever.
Simply evil.
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Also, I guess now is as good a time as any to announce that we are welcoming a little bambino to the Woodpile this fall! 👶
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Y'all aren't ready to hear this, but Augustine puts partial blame for the sack of Rome and the sufferings of Christians on Christians' failure to rebuke rampant vice and impiety in society.
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one of my favorite insights of 2022: caving on clear biblical moral teachings because your child's sin struggles is the real idolatry of the family
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Sex made them parents.
Law protected the voiceless.
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Orwell on post-Christian societies:
"For 200 years we had sawed and sawed and sawed at the branch we were sitting on. And in the end, much more suddenly than anyone had foreseen, our efforts were rewarded, and down we came. But unfortunately there had been a little mistake: ...
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My Christianity is not your costume
Our proclamation of Christ's lordship is not your political prop or cover for your contempt
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“Abortion is the Antichrist’s demonic parody of the Eucharist. That is why it uses the same holy words, ‘This is my body,’ with the blasphemously opposite meaning.” – Peter Kreeft
Abortion is the evil reverse-image of the gospel. Instead of saying, "I'll die for you", it says, "You die for me."
#RoeVWade
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Forget your priors about him. Take 6 minutes and consider this very Augustinian address.
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None of these are the main reason you should be pro-life.
Abortion is murder, the unjustified killing of a little image-bearer.
I’m not pro-life because I’m Republican. I’m pro-life because I had trouble having my children. I'm pro-life because my husband was adopted. I'm pro-life because I’m surrounded by blessings.
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“Conservatism, but it actually conserves good stuff.”
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Today Christianity is attacked not, as it was in fundamentalist/modernist period, for its "supernatural" teachings (eg, virgin birth, bodily resurrection, etc), but its teachings about "natural" realities (esp about sex/gender). We face a strange twisting of Nietzsche's attacks:
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“We are victims. Everything we do is justified.”
Think about this logic.
Oppose it everywhere.
Hamas Official Ghazi Hamad: We Will Repeat the October 7 Attack Time and Again Until Israel Is Annihilated; We Are Victims - Everything We Do Is Justified
#Hamas
#Gaza
#Palestinians
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You should be evangelizing the folks who are drawn to cultural Christianity, especially because of the obvious gospel in-roads. Not demonizing them because they might be also drawn to other positions you find unsavory.
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The proclamation that “Christ is Lord” is not a hindrance to evangelism; it is evangelism.
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15 years ago. From a family of many divorces. God is good. So is his gift of marriage.
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I just have very little patience for
pastors who for the past 3+ years swallowed establishment narratives and progressive talking points and pushed these through their pulpits and other platforms
denouncing the culture wars
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I became a Christian in college. A pagan hedonist frat boy finance bro who became quickly depressed with what the world had to offer and the person I was becoming through the endless pursuit of fleeting pleasures and selfish glory. I was, a la Augustine, dominated by my lusts.
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One might have been forgiven a few years ago, but now it should be obvious that Christians should not be promoting Francis Collins. It is not "faithful presence" just because you reach the highest eschelons and have a nice demeanor.
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"... The thing at the bottom was not a bed of roses after all; it was a cesspool full of barbed wire. ... It appears that amputation of the soul isn't just a simple surgical job, like having your appendix out. The wound has a tendency to go septic."
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Again, don’t put too much stock in high profile converts and quickly give them a big Christian platform.
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You live in a religious establishment.
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Most often, publicly dumping on your parents who attempted to raise you in the faith is not courageous and prophetic, but boring and boorish; and it broaches a 5th commandment violation.
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The hubbub around
@SlowToWrite
’s post is getting into real Minority Report territory. “Well, even if he didn’t abuse his child, his worldview makes it likely he would & thus we are justified in cynically overreading & seeking to hold him accountable for what we think he could do”
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I am excited to share about this development.
It is a profound honor to start a new podcast with a theological hero, mentor, and friend.
@PLeithart
and I will host political theological conversations once a month. Engaging a variety of contemporary scholars and important texts.
Announcement!
We are pleased to announce a new podcast from Theopolis Institute.
The Civitas Podcast
with: Peter Leithart and James Wood (
@jamesrwoodtheo1
)
Listen to the first episode below, and on all podcast platforms tomorrow.
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I would appreciate your prayers. One of our daughters has been in the hospital since late last night, and she will need to stay through tonight as well. She is getting better, but slowly. Pray also that Dad can carry the torch of costume prep and Halloween magic in Mom's stead.
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It’s been a year since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. Since then, 14 states have banned most abortions, leaving millions of women and girls with nowhere to turn for the care they need.
And yet, there are reasons to hope.
After Roe v. Wade was overturned, voters in…
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Dumping on cultural Christianity is a luxury opinion.
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Sinclair Ferguson: “At times we fall into the trap of being blackmailed by a world that says, ‘Unless I find your life attractive *on my own terms*, I will not respond to the message of the gospel.’ But if we yield at that point, we become prisoners to perpetual blackmail.”
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You are not loving your neighbor when you bless and affirm them in their sin. In fact, you are thereby hating them.
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Today I am grateful for leaders who can call out lying journalists:
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Affirming others in their sin is one of the most unloving and hateful things you can do to them.
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Very rare to see this level of tailoring nowadays, even on the wealthy. So let's talk about some of the reasons why it's great. 🧵
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Man, I love Christ’s church.
You need to be church-maxxing, friend.
My entire literary output (aside from winsome stuff, which is behind me) is attempting to expound these truths.
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Great example of the wisdom of both answering (at the end) and not answering (at the beginning a fool according to his (or her) folly (Prov 26:4-5).
Ridicule the ridiculous to expose destructive lies. This is loving.
Pro-choice activist tries to convince
@michaeljknowles
to say "pregnant people" instead of "mothers"
Michael: "I prefer to use precise language."
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If you view skipping church as a reward, might I suggest your Christianity has gone off the rails somewhere?
6. REWARD YOURSELF:
… set a 2-week goal. When you accomplish it, set a new one and reward yourself. A nice scotch, Padrón, or Sunday off church should do.
7. LET SOMEONE KNOW:
… if a friend is checking in on you, it will help to motivate and give you someone to complain to.
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It is effeminate for a man to lack control over his libido and abandon his children and their mother.
Dear white men.
You’re fucked.
You’re being replaced because none of you have children.
Even those of you bitching about the replacement online like little girls don’t find the gumption to fuck.
I see white men bragging about having 5 kids as if it’s an achievement. lol.…
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Stop giving big platforms to recent converts. It is not good for anyone (esp the convert).
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A few interesting points from this:
1) People aren't primarily leaving because they were hurt/burned by church
2) Contemporary American church doing well with highly educated and successful but not with working class
3) Dechurching happening disproportionately on the right
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Whatever retrieving masculinity means, it should entail shaming this mindset.
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"I'm just enforcing the policy" is how you get a society of men without chests and the banality of evil
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keep in mind when you hear about "the idolatry of the family"
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FYI: this is innocent.
We used to take this kind of intergroup ribbing in stride.
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This type of stuff should help you recalibrate what you think is “persuasive” to seculars.
Bill Maher calls out pro-life incrementalism & admits what we all know.
“That’s why I don’t understand the 15 week thing…so killing babies is okay in some states?”
“I can respect the absolutists position…they think it’s murder, AND it kind of is.”
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Not On the Road with Augustine
An exemplary Christian public theologian. Heir of Niebuhr and King.
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On my way to convocation, gang. Next time you see me, I will be a “Dr”.
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This is what the pilgrims always envisioned. For a brief moment, America achieved their dream. Can we RETVRN?
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There is something painfully exquisite in this picture that moves me every time I have seen it over the years. A glimpse of the wonder of providential typology that will elicit worship—in the presence of the personal figures—for eternity.
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Taking the key relationship in the Bible that richly depicts male friendship and twisting it to be *really* about sexual relations probably isn’t helping address the male loneliness crisis
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Well done.
Many mistook my partial critique of his thought for an attempted takedown. False. I have always sought to communicate the profound impact he had on me & my ongoing respect. No contemporary thinker more shaped my faith & ministry in those early years. He was a gift.
Timothy J. Keller, husband, father, grandfather, mentor, friend, pastor, and scholar died this morning at home. Dad waited until he was alone with Mom. She kissed him on the forehead and he breathed his last breath. We take comfort in some of his last words...
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I can tell you who looks sketchy nearby. I can tell you how close I need to be to catch up to my kids before they run in the street or get grabbed by someone. I know all the items in a 20 foot radius that can be used as a weapon. Now why would I know that? Because I’m a dad.
Question for men:
My mom, who has been married to my dad for over thirty years, just found out that my dad constantly scans for, assesses, and plans for possible threats
Menfolk, do all of you do this?
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This week has made me want to completely quit online life.
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History doesn’t watch; God does. Make sure to be on His side.
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Let there be life
At the exact moment of conception, when the sperm meets the egg there is a flash of light 1/2
📹Northwestern University
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Blasphemy laws
Michigan has passed a law to make misgendering and using the wrong pronouns a felony, with a $10,000 fine.
House Bill 4474 passed the Democrat-controlled House and would make it a hate crime to make someone trans or non-binary “feel terrorized, frightened, or threatened” with…
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these will never cease to move me
we cannot fathom the joys in store for us when we are fully clothed with our resurrected bodies and behold our Lord with unveiled face, becoming like him as we see him as he is
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Doctored up.
So grateful for these two.
On my way to convocation, gang. Next time you see me, I will be a “Dr”.
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Calvin: “There is no other means of entering into life unless she [ie, mother chuch] conceive us in the womb and give us birth, unless she nourish us at her breasts, and, in short, keep us under her charge and government, until divested of mortal flesh, we become like the angels”
Interviewer: “I’m not walking away from Jesus, but I’m done with the church” (context is Mark Driscoll harm)
John Piper: “IF YOU DO THAT, YOU’RE WALKING AWAY FROM JESUS!”
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hearing a friend was pressured by Christian leaders to take down very reasonable posts that skew slightly right (because they might hinder evangelism)--whereas stylistically similar posts that skew left would likely never receive such pressure--reminds me why I wrote those pieces
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Here is the deal:
Color me skeptical that folks
who are quick to call the authorities
on folks they don't know
because of some ambiguous comment on social media
actually care about justice
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This is a good confirmation of my point. No matter how nice you are, just holding to traditional Christian views on hot-button issues will get you slapped with the worst labels. Continue following the biblical commands and don’t be the bad things. But be ready to be called them.
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Pray for Kanye and any who go full reactionary (de)based brain. This is not the way, friends.
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Again, this is not an accurate representation of my arguments.
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Online battles have encouraged immaturity in men who could be godly leaders.
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Look how much joy this dude brings into the world.
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Wait, we are adding “regularly goes to therapy” as a pastoral qualification??
PRO TIP:
Don't attend a church where the Pastor:
— Has never gone to therapy
— Doesn't regularly go to therapy
— Speaks against you seeking therapy
Pastors need professional mental health care.
You do, too.
Belong somewhere that models good self-care.
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“Where did you say it was in the fridge? I don’t see it.”
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I agree. And civil magistrates celebrating sin at the highest level and stamping it upon the national identity is not good character.
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An (ever-new) ancient faith will do just fine.
@MuskUniversity
Too many people have lost faith in the future. A new philosophy is needed.
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Prog Christians who instinctively blame every tragedy on Christians to their right before they know sufficient details are culture warring Christians. They weaponize tragedies to score culture war points.
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I have been told that it is illiberal and authoritarian to establish/enshrine in public spaces/celebrate with public symbols a vision of the good that is not shared by all the people.
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A human life is magnificent.
The father filmed his daughter's photo every week until she turned 20. 📸
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It makes me sad that people take this seriously. You can disagree with Meg and KDY. The quick jump to white supremacy is unserious and unChristian.
Do you see these White Supremacists? Don't forget these moments. They are more evil than you could imagine. They defend the most horrendous periods of our nation, with demonic glee, period.
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Using power
to serve the common good
under divine authority
is good
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You notice your wife reading Augustine, what do you do?
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