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New policy. If you post/comment under an anonymous profile, I will not respond, and I'll also block you (unless I know your identity or have very good reason to believe you are legit). I welcome genuine engagement, but only with real people—enough with the insidious and cowardly lure of anonymity.
This season of the Traitors UK has been totally ruined for me by @Channel10AU‘s delay in uploading the episodes. By the time they make it available to watch, my social media feeds have been covered in major spoilers for a full day.
A little while ago I listened to a sample episode of this devotional podcast through my AirPods while on a crowded tram. Almost immediately, I found myself utterly absorbed by exactly what Trevin describes in this article: “an audio sanctuary that draws listeners into a sacred space that feels simple, yet otherworldly”. In the hustle and bustle of my morning commute I found myself gloriously swept up in a devotional moment quite unlike anything I’ve experienced before. The intentionality behind every aspect is extraordinary. And so undeniably God honouring. Subscribe now folks. You don’t want to miss this.
"The narrator is not just a wise and experienced pastor. In his functional context within the argument of this book, he is essentially divine. Omniscient. Authoritative.
Revelatory. And that matters. Because a narrator no one is allowed to question makes claims his characters—and his readers—aren’t invited to question."
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Pastors, for the literal love of God, I’m begging you: PLEASE stop comparing unmarried Christians to Adam in his aloneness. Because every time you do here is what you are *actually* demonstrating to them and everyone else:
1) that you don’t understand what it theologically meant that Adam was alone, why that wasn’t good in God’s sight and how he remedied that
2) that you don’t (care enough to) know actual real life single Christians. Not having a spouse does not mean we are “alone” like Adam was alone. Yes, many of us can struggle with loneliness (#spoileralert: so do a lot of married people), but loneliness ≠ aloneness. And, frankly, is it any wonder we struggle with loneliness when the pastoral leaders of our churches consistently talk about us as living relationally “alone” existences?
Please, PLEASE, stop and actually think carefully and deeply about what you are saying.
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And, yes, I find it wearying how these instances of irresponsible prooftexting from high profile female commentators provide abundant fodder for the theobros to break out their own “this is why women aren’t allowed to teach” foolishness. If nothing else, this whole thing is an example of why theological education is important for both women and men alike.
The X feed is not the pulpit. A self-styled social media commentator is not an appointed pastor, teacher or overseer. A podcast video clip is not the authoritative teaching of God’s word. Nonetheless, we all (myself included) ought to be very, very careful when exhorting one another about what Jesus “commands” us to do or not do if we are to be obedient to him. And we all ought to be very, very careful in how we wield Scripture as we do that. None of us gets a pass on those things.
Allie, it’s unclear to how your appreciation of a movie which provokes “suspense and moral complexity” aligns with your blanket assertion that Christian’s. Should not watch, read or listen to things that make them “scared” because the Bible repeatedly calls us “not to fear”. That was the language you repeatedly and specifically used in that clip you posted: not “paranoid” but “scared”. So no, you didn’t specifically warn against movies that are meant to stroke paranoia, anxiety and a nagging sense of dread.
It seems you are now wanting to clarify your earlier blanket assertion that watching/reading/listening to anything that would make you “scared” is to act against a “command” from Jesus. I’m glad for it. But to do so without acknowledging that your earlier prooftexting was not faithful to the actual theological meaning of the Bible’s exhortation for Jesus’s people not to fear is not just disappointing, it’s alarming. Your words hold influence and power over many people. You have a responsibility to exercise both of those carefully for the sake of others, especially when you are telling them that Jesus “commands” them to do or not do something.
And, yes, I find it wearying how these instances of irresponsible prooftexting from high profile female commentators provide abundant fodder for the theobros to break out their own “this is why women aren’t allowed to teach” foolishness. If nothing else, this whole thing is an example of why theological education is important for both women and men alike.
I don’t enjoy most horror movies. But this terrible proofreading of Scripture is itself horrible.
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My years of theological research on singleness have led me to many a conclusion. One of those is that there is nothing in the least “queer” about celibacy in the Christian life and community. Chaste singleness is a beautifully ordinary and theologically significant expression of gospel-transformed and informed obedience. It’s to be honoured as faithful. Not revered as exceptional.
Sign #2282 of the imminent demise of the world order: pairs of people nonchalantly and unapologetically taking up the whole width of the escalator. The end is nigh.