cavitae
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The end goal is no more non-affirming churches.
— Jenna DeWitt
he/him
The end goal is no more non-affirming churches.
— Jenna DeWitt
he/him
“As amongst those who are regenerate there are different degrees of holiness and righteousness, one, it may be, far exceeding another, yet there is between them no difference of state and condition, they are all equally regenerate.”
John Owen on the Holy Spirit, III.1
John Owen on the Holy Spirit, III.1
February 7, 2026 at 3:41 PM
“As amongst those who are regenerate there are different degrees of holiness and righteousness, one, it may be, far exceeding another, yet there is between them no difference of state and condition, they are all equally regenerate.”
John Owen on the Holy Spirit, III.1
John Owen on the Holy Spirit, III.1
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damn neither of us Spartacus
February 3, 2026 at 2:32 AM
damn neither of us Spartacus
Need this so bad
Woke 2 will end Pelagianism ✊
January 31, 2026 at 10:50 PM
Need this so bad
H. Richard Niebuhr this is about you
I am decreasingly interested in theology that reduces Christianity to aesthetic preference in service of some generic inner experience of divine love, oneness, etc. Christianity has an aesthetic dimension, but if it’s only that then I still need a fundamental value system to interpret my experience.
January 29, 2026 at 1:48 AM
H. Richard Niebuhr this is about you
this is one of the most spiritually true things i have ever read
fascists can’t really grasp the power of minimal techno
January 27, 2026 at 5:00 AM
this is one of the most spiritually true things i have ever read
The classic playbook
1) Soothes the father who is the actual sexual threat but cannot admit it
2) Justifies higher control
3) Does not achieve its ostensible purpose in the first place, ensuring both 1 and 2 can escalate.
Fascism is this same violence-generation machine plugged into politics.
1) Soothes the father who is the actual sexual threat but cannot admit it
2) Justifies higher control
3) Does not achieve its ostensible purpose in the first place, ensuring both 1 and 2 can escalate.
Fascism is this same violence-generation machine plugged into politics.
Like you'll see a guy who'll freak out and rant about all the violence he'll do to anyone who sexually threatens his daughter, but then draws a blank when asked what he is doing to keep her safe that does not involve a gun and someone to use it on.
January 26, 2026 at 7:34 AM
The classic playbook
1) Soothes the father who is the actual sexual threat but cannot admit it
2) Justifies higher control
3) Does not achieve its ostensible purpose in the first place, ensuring both 1 and 2 can escalate.
Fascism is this same violence-generation machine plugged into politics.
1) Soothes the father who is the actual sexual threat but cannot admit it
2) Justifies higher control
3) Does not achieve its ostensible purpose in the first place, ensuring both 1 and 2 can escalate.
Fascism is this same violence-generation machine plugged into politics.
There’s a theological anti-fascist connection here but I can’t describe it yet
January 25, 2026 at 8:55 PM
There’s a theological anti-fascist connection here but I can’t describe it yet
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Disappointed by the 2XKO console launch. Major performance issues and screen tearing during matches. IMO this is not a state fit to show at a major like Frosty.
Game is fun though, just hope they get it fixed before the next big offline tournament.
#2XKO
Game is fun though, just hope they get it fixed before the next big offline tournament.
#2XKO
January 22, 2026 at 11:31 PM
Disappointed by the 2XKO console launch. Major performance issues and screen tearing during matches. IMO this is not a state fit to show at a major like Frosty.
Game is fun though, just hope they get it fixed before the next big offline tournament.
#2XKO
Game is fun though, just hope they get it fixed before the next big offline tournament.
#2XKO
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BREAKING: we have a statement from someone alleged to be one of the protesters who interrupted the SBC church service:
![From Isaiah 1
Stop bringing meaningless offerings!
Your incense is detestable to me.
New Moons, Sabbaths and convocations—
I cannot bear your worthless assemblies.
14
Your New Moon feasts and your appointed festivals
I hate with all my being.
They have become a burden to me;
I am weary of bearing them.
15
When you spread out your hands in prayer,
I hide my eyes from you;
even when you offer many prayers,
I am not listening.
Your hands are full of blood!
16
Wash and make yourselves clean.
Take your evil deeds out of my sight;
stop doing wrong.
17
Learn to do right; seek justice.
Defend the oppressed.[a]
Take up the cause of the fatherless;
plead the case of the widow.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:xscgjalwch462y4go5fbf32c/bafkreibqbscb67taccqjyq2xau47w56vqxt5pizsszfv43k3akuyezkfqu@jpeg)
January 21, 2026 at 12:01 AM
BREAKING: we have a statement from someone alleged to be one of the protesters who interrupted the SBC church service:
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I am decreasingly interested in theology that reduces Christianity to aesthetic preference in service of some generic inner experience of divine love, oneness, etc. Christianity has an aesthetic dimension, but if it’s only that then I still need a fundamental value system to interpret my experience.
January 14, 2026 at 6:24 PM
I am decreasingly interested in theology that reduces Christianity to aesthetic preference in service of some generic inner experience of divine love, oneness, etc. Christianity has an aesthetic dimension, but if it’s only that then I still need a fundamental value system to interpret my experience.
You brood of vipers! How can you speak good things when you are evil? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks. The good person brings good things out of a good treasure, and the evil person brings evil things out of an evil treasure.
— Matt 12:34-35
— Matt 12:34-35
January 14, 2026 at 2:55 PM
You brood of vipers! How can you speak good things when you are evil? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks. The good person brings good things out of a good treasure, and the evil person brings evil things out of an evil treasure.
— Matt 12:34-35
— Matt 12:34-35
Why was I not dismayed? Because I do not fear any of the terrors that can happen in this life. What are those terrors? Death? It is not a terror, for by it we are speedily ushered into the undisturbed harbor of Heaven.
“Be not afraid.”
January 13, 2026 at 5:12 AM
Why was I not dismayed? Because I do not fear any of the terrors that can happen in this life. What are those terrors? Death? It is not a terror, for by it we are speedily ushered into the undisturbed harbor of Heaven.
Went and saw Brahms’ 4th symphony today. @poetinbabylon.bsky.social I think I feel about Brahms the same way you feel about Mahler; never quite been able to pick up what this guy is putting down.
January 11, 2026 at 11:45 PM
Went and saw Brahms’ 4th symphony today. @poetinbabylon.bsky.social I think I feel about Brahms the same way you feel about Mahler; never quite been able to pick up what this guy is putting down.
Its priests have done violence to my teaching and have profaned my holy things; they have made no distinction between the holy and the common, neither have they taught the difference between the unclean and the clean, and they have disregarded my Sabbaths, so that I am profaned among them.
Ez 22:26
Ez 22:26
all this to say, I’m realizing that I feel pissed about how all these “Big Voices” of American Christianity these past few decades are, in fact, lit. just schlubs who said “I think I should preach” with little or no systems of affirmation, calling, discernment, or vetting
& they preach nonsense!
& they preach nonsense!
January 11, 2026 at 3:38 PM
Its priests have done violence to my teaching and have profaned my holy things; they have made no distinction between the holy and the common, neither have they taught the difference between the unclean and the clean, and they have disregarded my Sabbaths, so that I am profaned among them.
Ez 22:26
Ez 22:26
Also, Isaiah 6:1 has got to be one of the most beautiful opening sentences of any chapter in literature.
January 10, 2026 at 4:22 AM
Also, Isaiah 6:1 has got to be one of the most beautiful opening sentences of any chapter in literature.
Within Proto-Isaiah, chapter 21 has always felt to me uniquely nightmarish, compared to the objectively more violent but more straightforward oracles such as chapter 13. I find myself returning to it often in my reading.
January 9, 2026 at 6:28 PM
Within Proto-Isaiah, chapter 21 has always felt to me uniquely nightmarish, compared to the objectively more violent but more straightforward oracles such as chapter 13. I find myself returning to it often in my reading.
Yes it does, because fascist voters are shrieking, shrill men who seek to dominate the people in their own lives.
I am begging people to understand that the reason people vote for evil is because they are evil. Now, being evil doesn’t mean you’re subhuman, but it does mean you need to repent.
I am begging people to understand that the reason people vote for evil is because they are evil. Now, being evil doesn’t mean you’re subhuman, but it does mean you need to repent.
im genuinely curious if this resonates with voters. this naked appeal to imperialism from a shrieking, shrill man
MILLER: The US is using its military to secure our interests unapologetically in our hemisphere. We're a superpower. It's absurd we'd allow a nation in our backyard to become a supplier of resources to our adversaries
TAPPER: Sovereign countries shouldn't be able to do what they want?
M: *yells*
TAPPER: Sovereign countries shouldn't be able to do what they want?
M: *yells*
January 6, 2026 at 3:27 AM
Yes it does, because fascist voters are shrieking, shrill men who seek to dominate the people in their own lives.
I am begging people to understand that the reason people vote for evil is because they are evil. Now, being evil doesn’t mean you’re subhuman, but it does mean you need to repent.
I am begging people to understand that the reason people vote for evil is because they are evil. Now, being evil doesn’t mean you’re subhuman, but it does mean you need to repent.
This one is really sticking with me. My belief in religious freedom is deep, but the truth is that these deranged nationalist and non-affirming churches need to be eliminated, like it or not.
I honestly think the courage that Jenna describes here will be the defining trait of 21st century theology.
I honestly think the courage that Jenna describes here will be the defining trait of 21st century theology.
The last essay of 2025 was a post clarifying that liberation and tolerance might be at odds sometimes. We must have the courage to name that we have no interest in preserving nonaffirming churches/orgs beyond helping them become affirming or close well. invisiblecakesociety.com/2025/11/27/t...
The point of all this
I want to be absolutely clear: The end goal is no more nonaffirming churches. Not a “diversity of thought” that’s just rewriting purity codes. Not a “range of opinions” with a variety of ways to ex…
invisiblecakesociety.com
January 6, 2026 at 2:59 AM
This one is really sticking with me. My belief in religious freedom is deep, but the truth is that these deranged nationalist and non-affirming churches need to be eliminated, like it or not.
I honestly think the courage that Jenna describes here will be the defining trait of 21st century theology.
I honestly think the courage that Jenna describes here will be the defining trait of 21st century theology.
type of take that would genuinely have a 5th century alexandrian bishop writing a treatise whose title starts with “Contra”
I think Mamdani really hit a nerve with the reactionaries this time. Absolute crack pipe take to say that the sacraments of the Church are individualistic. Not a single one of the sacraments is individualistic. Hell is full of individuals though.
January 4, 2026 at 3:36 PM
type of take that would genuinely have a 5th century alexandrian bishop writing a treatise whose title starts with “Contra”
“What managerial expertise requires for its vindication is a justified conception of social science as providing a stock of law-like generalizations with strong predictive power...the salient fact about those sciences is the absence of the discovery of any law-like generalizations whatsoever.”
an annoying thing about realists insisting they're the no-nonsense reality-based group is that few of their predictions have been based in reality
January 3, 2026 at 11:28 PM
“What managerial expertise requires for its vindication is a justified conception of social science as providing a stock of law-like generalizations with strong predictive power...the salient fact about those sciences is the absence of the discovery of any law-like generalizations whatsoever.”
Homemade burger buns 2026 edition
January 1, 2026 at 10:00 PM
Homemade burger buns 2026 edition
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The last essay of 2025 was a post clarifying that liberation and tolerance might be at odds sometimes. We must have the courage to name that we have no interest in preserving nonaffirming churches/orgs beyond helping them become affirming or close well. invisiblecakesociety.com/2025/11/27/t...
The point of all this
I want to be absolutely clear: The end goal is no more nonaffirming churches. Not a “diversity of thought” that’s just rewriting purity codes. Not a “range of opinions” with a variety of ways to ex…
invisiblecakesociety.com
January 1, 2026 at 7:25 PM
The last essay of 2025 was a post clarifying that liberation and tolerance might be at odds sometimes. We must have the courage to name that we have no interest in preserving nonaffirming churches/orgs beyond helping them become affirming or close well. invisiblecakesociety.com/2025/11/27/t...
Real Calvinism Has Never Been Tried
December 31, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Real Calvinism Has Never Been Tried