Colton Bernasol
@crbernasol.bsky.social
PhD Student at Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary
Managing Editor for The Bias Magazine, with @smashmammon.bsky.social
Writing at: https://crbernasol.wordpress.com/
Managing Editor for The Bias Magazine, with @smashmammon.bsky.social
Writing at: https://crbernasol.wordpress.com/
Pinned
“At a recent action in front of the Philippine consulate calling for the release of a migrant, theologian Primo Racimo declared that raising one’s fists and stomping one’s feet is as much prayer as the prayer often hidden away from public places.”
– @crbernasol.bsky.social
– @crbernasol.bsky.social
Pentecostalism for the people
Progressive politics can flow naturally from a life of prayer. I learned this from my Latine Pentecostal...
www.christiancentury.org
New essay out with @christiancentury.bsky.social on prayer, protest, and my dissatisfaction with much of how prayer is framed in relationship to politics these days.
Reposted by Colton Bernasol
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December 2, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Give a gift to ICS on Giving Tuesday! Your support means so much to our team and to the global church as we continue our work. We’re grateful for any and all donations; you truly make a difference!
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#GivingTuesday
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REMINDER: Submit to ISSUE 1: THE RADICAL HOPE by December 19! bit.ly/ICSHOPE
November 26, 2025 at 4:34 PM
REMINDER: Submit to ISSUE 1: THE RADICAL HOPE by December 19! bit.ly/ICSHOPE
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CALL FOR ART, ESSAYS, CREATIVE WRITING, + MORE!
ICS is excited to announce our very first digital and print magazine. Submit to ISSUE 1: THE RADICAL HOPE by December 19 ➡️ bit.ly/ICSHOPE
#ChristianSocialism #Art #CallForArtists #CallForSubmissions #OpenCall #Writers #Poets #TheBias #Hope
ICS is excited to announce our very first digital and print magazine. Submit to ISSUE 1: THE RADICAL HOPE by December 19 ➡️ bit.ly/ICSHOPE
#ChristianSocialism #Art #CallForArtists #CallForSubmissions #OpenCall #Writers #Poets #TheBias #Hope
November 1, 2025 at 3:45 PM
CALL FOR ART, ESSAYS, CREATIVE WRITING, + MORE!
ICS is excited to announce our very first digital and print magazine. Submit to ISSUE 1: THE RADICAL HOPE by December 19 ➡️ bit.ly/ICSHOPE
#ChristianSocialism #Art #CallForArtists #CallForSubmissions #OpenCall #Writers #Poets #TheBias #Hope
ICS is excited to announce our very first digital and print magazine. Submit to ISSUE 1: THE RADICAL HOPE by December 19 ➡️ bit.ly/ICSHOPE
#ChristianSocialism #Art #CallForArtists #CallForSubmissions #OpenCall #Writers #Poets #TheBias #Hope
Skateboarding is beautiful and watching this was a near-religious experience.
Poeticcollective - Aleksi "Aatsi" Suovaara : WANDER
YouTube video by Poeticcollective
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October 23, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Skateboarding is beautiful and watching this was a near-religious experience.
New essay out with @christiancentury.bsky.social on prayer, protest, and my dissatisfaction with much of how prayer is framed in relationship to politics these days.
“At a recent action in front of the Philippine consulate calling for the release of a migrant, theologian Primo Racimo declared that raising one’s fists and stomping one’s feet is as much prayer as the prayer often hidden away from public places.”
– @crbernasol.bsky.social
– @crbernasol.bsky.social
Pentecostalism for the people
Progressive politics can flow naturally from a life of prayer. I learned this from my Latine Pentecostal...
www.christiancentury.org
October 2, 2025 at 3:22 PM
New essay out with @christiancentury.bsky.social on prayer, protest, and my dissatisfaction with much of how prayer is framed in relationship to politics these days.
Reposted by Colton Bernasol
For-profit immigrant camps. Sanctuary churches under threat. Deportations without trial. Rev. Dr. Michael Woolf makes the case: now is the time for people of faith to resist.
📖 Now live! Read in The Bias Magazine, a premier voice of the Christian left: christiansocialism.com/2025/09/06/t...
📖 Now live! Read in The Bias Magazine, a premier voice of the Christian left: christiansocialism.com/2025/09/06/t...
The Moral Case for the Sanctuary Movement - Institute for Christian Socialism
Rev. Dr. Michael Woolf confronts Trump’s deportation regime by embracing the sanctuary movement as a faithful stand against state violence and moral injury.
christiansocialism.com
September 8, 2025 at 7:18 PM
For-profit immigrant camps. Sanctuary churches under threat. Deportations without trial. Rev. Dr. Michael Woolf makes the case: now is the time for people of faith to resist.
📖 Now live! Read in The Bias Magazine, a premier voice of the Christian left: christiansocialism.com/2025/09/06/t...
📖 Now live! Read in The Bias Magazine, a premier voice of the Christian left: christiansocialism.com/2025/09/06/t...
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September 12, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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All this, centuries before Marx. What might their example say to us about community and economics today? #ChristianSocialism #TheBias
September 5, 2025 at 8:00 PM
All this, centuries before Marx. What might their example say to us about community and economics today? #ChristianSocialism #TheBias
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“Mass mobilization seriously undermines the status quo. Perhaps this is why Trump called in the National Guard and Marines in California, despite objections from local government.”
– @crbernasol.bsky.social
www.christiancentury.org/features/reh...
– @crbernasol.bsky.social
www.christiancentury.org/features/reh...
Rehearsing for the revolution
The No Kings protests made their politics real to everyone who watched—including the...
www.christiancentury.org
August 7, 2025 at 2:32 PM
“Mass mobilization seriously undermines the status quo. Perhaps this is why Trump called in the National Guard and Marines in California, despite objections from local government.”
– @crbernasol.bsky.social
www.christiancentury.org/features/reh...
– @crbernasol.bsky.social
www.christiancentury.org/features/reh...
New essay out with @christiancentury.bsky.social, in which I write about No Kings, John Berger (my fav), mass mobilization, and the need for other organizing practices (credit to my activist friend-comrades for teaching me their ways).
www.christiancentury.org/features/reh...
www.christiancentury.org/features/reh...
Rehearsing for the revolution
The No Kings protests made their politics real to everyone who watched—including the...
www.christiancentury.org
August 7, 2025 at 1:40 PM
New essay out with @christiancentury.bsky.social, in which I write about No Kings, John Berger (my fav), mass mobilization, and the need for other organizing practices (credit to my activist friend-comrades for teaching me their ways).
www.christiancentury.org/features/reh...
www.christiancentury.org/features/reh...
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Submit to The Bias today!
July 11, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Submit to The Bias today!
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if you preorder now and send me a jpg of the receipt + your email address (dm is fine), you will get:
--a short piece of writing every Friday for the next month or so
--an invite to a everybody-vs.-Phil-at-Book-Trivial-Pursuit event on Friday, Aug 1 from 7-8:30 (yes this is real)
--a short piece of writing every Friday for the next month or so
--an invite to a everybody-vs.-Phil-at-Book-Trivial-Pursuit event on Friday, Aug 1 from 7-8:30 (yes this is real)
Preorder now: www.eerdmans.com/978080288405....
Why Christians Should Be Leftists
by Phil Christman
Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
229 Pages, 5.00 x 8.00 in
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9780802884053
Publication Date: September 16, 2025
Why Christians Should Be Leftists
by Phil Christman
Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
229 Pages, 5.00 x 8.00 in
HARDCOVER
9780802884053
Publication Date: September 16, 2025
July 9, 2025 at 10:35 PM
if you preorder now and send me a jpg of the receipt + your email address (dm is fine), you will get:
--a short piece of writing every Friday for the next month or so
--an invite to a everybody-vs.-Phil-at-Book-Trivial-Pursuit event on Friday, Aug 1 from 7-8:30 (yes this is real)
--a short piece of writing every Friday for the next month or so
--an invite to a everybody-vs.-Phil-at-Book-Trivial-Pursuit event on Friday, Aug 1 from 7-8:30 (yes this is real)
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My interview on liberal socialism with @smashmammon.bsky.social
christiansocialism.com/2025/07/02/l...
christiansocialism.com/2025/07/02/l...
Liberal Socialism Is a Philosophy of Hope - Institute for Christian Socialism
An Interview with Matthew McManus on his most recent book and the virtues of the liberal socialist tradition.
christiansocialism.com
July 2, 2025 at 2:00 PM
My interview on liberal socialism with @smashmammon.bsky.social
christiansocialism.com/2025/07/02/l...
christiansocialism.com/2025/07/02/l...
A bit late on sharing this here. But I wrote a piece on framing liberation in terms of struggle, and I was deeply inspired by the Theology of Struggle movement from the Philippines in thinking along these lines.
Grateful to @christiancentury.bsky.social for letting me write about it.
Grateful to @christiancentury.bsky.social for letting me write about it.
When the language of liberation is not enough
I read Edicio De La Torre and other Filipino thinkers for wisdom on the long-term nature of fighting for change.
www.christiancentury.org
June 22, 2025 at 8:32 PM
A bit late on sharing this here. But I wrote a piece on framing liberation in terms of struggle, and I was deeply inspired by the Theology of Struggle movement from the Philippines in thinking along these lines.
Grateful to @christiancentury.bsky.social for letting me write about it.
Grateful to @christiancentury.bsky.social for letting me write about it.
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“A seminary for the people would imagine its work, and the cultivation of its students’ scholarly and pastoral vocations, in terms of what it owes to the public in which it is situated.”
– @crbernasol.bsky.social
www.christiancentury.org/features/tru...
– @crbernasol.bsky.social
www.christiancentury.org/features/tru...
Trump’s agenda hasn’t attacked religious schools and seminaries—yet
Liberation theologian Ignacio Ellacuría didn’t leave us a blueprint for resistance, but he speaks to times like...
www.christiancentury.org
April 18, 2025 at 1:45 PM
“A seminary for the people would imagine its work, and the cultivation of its students’ scholarly and pastoral vocations, in terms of what it owes to the public in which it is situated.”
– @crbernasol.bsky.social
www.christiancentury.org/features/tru...
– @crbernasol.bsky.social
www.christiancentury.org/features/tru...
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Rather than justice, David True and Tom James call for the revolutionary politics of love and desire as the grounds for transformative, radical, change. Read more here: christiansocialism.com/2025/02/25/a...
February 25, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Rather than justice, David True and Tom James call for the revolutionary politics of love and desire as the grounds for transformative, radical, change. Read more here: christiansocialism.com/2025/02/25/a...
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Gary Dorrien’s new memoir is a meditative and unhurried account of the people, ideas, and history that influenced a life of deep scholarship and witness charged with the convictions that Christianity at its best activates a life of radical political commitment. christiansocialism.com/2025/01/27/t...
January 27, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Gary Dorrien’s new memoir is a meditative and unhurried account of the people, ideas, and history that influenced a life of deep scholarship and witness charged with the convictions that Christianity at its best activates a life of radical political commitment. christiansocialism.com/2025/01/27/t...
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A humble appeal to theologians and Christian media: Christians around the world are organizing for debt justice during the Jubilee Year. They'll do it with or without the help of theologians and journalists, but it's a unique opportunity to show how valuable these fields are for Christian action.
January 13, 2025 at 8:01 PM
A humble appeal to theologians and Christian media: Christians around the world are organizing for debt justice during the Jubilee Year. They'll do it with or without the help of theologians and journalists, but it's a unique opportunity to show how valuable these fields are for Christian action.
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If you’re in Chicago on Thursday, Jan 9, join me @pilsencommbooks.bsky.social at 7pm for a book talk + conversation with Rev. Dr. Christophe Ringer + Rev. Jason Lydon on the religion of criminalization + the religion of abolition.
Books + posters will be available.
Let your Chicago people know!
Books + posters will be available.
Let your Chicago people know!
December 30, 2024 at 4:04 PM
If you’re in Chicago on Thursday, Jan 9, join me @pilsencommbooks.bsky.social at 7pm for a book talk + conversation with Rev. Dr. Christophe Ringer + Rev. Jason Lydon on the religion of criminalization + the religion of abolition.
Books + posters will be available.
Let your Chicago people know!
Books + posters will be available.
Let your Chicago people know!
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Woody Guthrie’s New Years Resolutions from 1943.
December 31, 2024 at 5:56 PM
Woody Guthrie’s New Years Resolutions from 1943.
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For more than 2,000 years, the idea of “selling your soul” has generated a moral shock in the Western world. Only by recognizing the history of “selling your soul” can we understand why an anti-religious thinker like Marx would end up quoting from Genesis www.christiansocialism.com/2024/12/16/h...
December 17, 2024 at 9:22 PM
For more than 2,000 years, the idea of “selling your soul” has generated a moral shock in the Western world. Only by recognizing the history of “selling your soul” can we understand why an anti-religious thinker like Marx would end up quoting from Genesis www.christiansocialism.com/2024/12/16/h...
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December 10, 2024 at 12:48 PM
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Rudy Macaj looks at the religious influences shaping the Democratic Farm Labor Party and progressive politics in the Midwest. www.christiansocialism.com/2024/12/03/t...
December 4, 2024 at 7:29 PM
Rudy Macaj looks at the religious influences shaping the Democratic Farm Labor Party and progressive politics in the Midwest. www.christiansocialism.com/2024/12/03/t...
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Rewatched #itsawonderfullife last night and thought again about this piece I wrote for @smashmammon.bsky.social many years back, still the essay of mine that makes me happiest:
www.christiansocialism.com/2020/12/23/i...
www.christiansocialism.com/2020/12/23/i...
The Christian Socialism of It’s a Wonderful Life – Institute for Christian Socialism
Whatever power money holds in Bedford Falls, it's nothing compared to God’s ability to remake the town on a whim. And God uses that ability, not to show George Bailey the value of banking pursuits, bu...
www.christiansocialism.com
November 29, 2024 at 3:55 PM
Rewatched #itsawonderfullife last night and thought again about this piece I wrote for @smashmammon.bsky.social many years back, still the essay of mine that makes me happiest:
www.christiansocialism.com/2020/12/23/i...
www.christiansocialism.com/2020/12/23/i...
"... in so far as socialism in this sense means the satisfaction of material need and social justice in a material democracy, socialism is the symbol of the liberation of men from the vicious circle of poverty." - J. Moltmann, The Crucified God (1973)
November 27, 2024 at 4:58 AM
"... in so far as socialism in this sense means the satisfaction of material need and social justice in a material democracy, socialism is the symbol of the liberation of men from the vicious circle of poverty." - J. Moltmann, The Crucified God (1973)