Matthew Kaemingk
@matthewkaemingk
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Author, Professor | Theology, Ethics, Politics | Books: Work & Worship, Muslim Immigration, Reformed Public Theology https://t.co/NRcCjeWoE1 Podcast #ZealotsPod
Joined May 2015
Twitter is the result of a vast Calvinistic conspiracy to prove total depravity.
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Al Sharpton and Shadi Hamid discuss the inherent goodness of America and its ability to self-correct.
In this part of the segment with @TheRevAl, I talk about American democracy's ability to self-correct and renew itself. We get the government — and the foreign policy — we deserve. That part is up to us. https://t.co/cGQx6NQ3bb
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In my book, I argue that Americans are suffering from oikophobia — a little known word that means "the fear or hatred of home or one’s own society." https://t.co/zg2uxV39Mo
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Theologians can be (profoundly) unaware of and ungrateful for the gifts of modernity. You can see it in their analysis of economics, politics, the arts, medicine, technology, and more. Thanksgiving is a good time to reflect on this thread.
In 1924, Calvin Coolidge's 16-year-old son played tennis on the White House grounds without wearing socks. He got a blister, and a week later was dead from infection. This is nearly unthinkable today — a result of astounding progress humankind has made over the past century.
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I really appreciated @publicroad's response to this question about why they don't use the term Christian Nationalism in their coverage at the @nytimes. As I said at a conference at Notre Dame recently - I don't know what the term actually means. https://t.co/z8x6AJPKHH
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Total moral bankruptcy.
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Secularism requires too much faith. Faith statement: the rise of secularism over the past 30 years is giving birth to a new form of American politics that is increasingly rational, peaceful, and productive. Just get rid of that thing "religion." I just don't have the faith.
Excellent news! Religion is dropping steadily in its importance to Americans. Maybe soon the impact of religious kookism will evaporate entirely and all these Christian wack-jobs will stop imposing their nutty ideas on everyone else.
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@shadihamid shadi hamid, welcome to postliberalism
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Compare: the subject’s neutral half-lidded gaze, filled with bored detachment and a hint of disdain vs the interviewer’s simpering smile and wheedling tone, evoking an unctuous toady hiding a knife behind his back It’s a total aesthetic victory
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Warm congrats @shadihamid !!
Today is the day! Thrilled to share this with everyone. THE CASE FOR AMERICAN POWER is officially out from @simonschuster. This book is the culmination of my own writing and thinking over 15 years. Please consider getting a copy! If you're skeptical of the premise, read on 🧵
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The world needs honest and courageous entrepreneurs and communicators who care for the common good. We sometimes hear the saying: “Business is business!” In reality, it is not so. No one is absorbed by an organization to the point of becoming a mere cog or a simple function. Nor
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The fight on the right is between -Devoted American Protestant Christian conservatism -European right-wing neopaganism that holds up a cross like a magical totem
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Too many Jonahs want to watch it all burn. Many want to light the match. Jonahs miss the urban scandal of the gospel. We must work for Nineveh's flourishing, plead for Sodom's restoration, pray for Babylon's healing. For, in the peace of Rome, we find our own.
Yahweh tells Jonah to preach in Nineveh, because the city's "wickedness has ascended ('alah) before me" (Jon 1:2), a stench like an inverted ascension offering. The description echoes the angel's assessment of Sodom: ("the outcry of Sodom and Gomorrah is indeed great," Gen
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apropos of nothing Here is Kevin Vanhoozer's take on Reading While Black in his most recent book Mere christian hermeneutics (pg 328)
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Mark your calendars. An excellent gathering of Christian thought leaders on civic renewal. @MichaelRWear 's team always curates an excellent discussion.
Announcing our 2026 Summit - Civic Renewal for America’s Next 250! Join us in Washington, D.C., October 5–6, 2026, for the Center for Christianity and Public Life’s annual gathering, For the Good of the Public. As our nation approaches its 250th anniversary, we’ll explore how
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Whenever I hear people say "we need more Christians in mainstream academia," I think sure, that would be great. But we've also got to reckon with some unpleasant facts🧵
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A massive federal government is increasingly fun when you're in power and a horror when you're not.
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A lot of things become clear in hindsight, but legalized sports gambling was clearly a terrible idea from the beginning. Not only will it continue to compromise professional sports, but it will continue to wreak havoc on families through financial crisis and domestic violence.
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I think about this quote constantly. "If you dislike the religious right, wait till you meet the post-religious right." @DouthatNYT
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I know I can’t call *everything* Pelagian, but some things really do be Pelagian
We are moving closer to God’s presence through technology
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