David W. Congdon
@dwcongdon.com
Senior Editor, University Press of Kansas | Lecturer, KU | Who Is a New Christian? (Cambridge, 2024) | Bylines: Christian Century, Sojourners, Presby Outlook, Revealer
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David W. Congdon
@dwcongdon.com
· Nov 19
Who gets to define Christianity?
David Congdon links postliberal theology to the exclusionary politics of the Christian...
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My book was reviewed in Christian Century today, and I think it's a very well-done and fair analysis of my project.
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The whiskey, chocolate, books, and coffee I got for Christmas are all great, but you know you’ve reached middle age when the most thrilling gift you received is a bidet.
December 26, 2025 at 8:32 PM
The whiskey, chocolate, books, and coffee I got for Christmas are all great, but you know you’ve reached middle age when the most thrilling gift you received is a bidet.
Two years in a row I’ve had one of the top 10 most read opinion pieces at @presoutlook.bsky.social! This year it was my piece on how Christian orthodoxy sustains Christian nationalism.
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Our most-read opinions of 2025
From Christian nationalism to mission upheaval and political witness, these were the most-read Presbyterian Outlook opinion essays of 2025.
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December 26, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Two years in a row I’ve had one of the top 10 most read opinion pieces at @presoutlook.bsky.social! This year it was my piece on how Christian orthodoxy sustains Christian nationalism.
pres-outlook.org/2025/12/our-...
pres-outlook.org/2025/12/our-...
I have to see this movie.
Actress Amanda Seyfried spoke to RNS about her gritty portrayal of the Shakers founder in “The Testament of Ann Lee.”
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Amanda Seyfried sees 'The Testament of Ann Lee' as a search for divine safety
(RNS) — The actress's portrayal of the Shaker movement founder has earned her a Golden Globe nomination.
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December 26, 2025 at 2:48 PM
I have to see this movie.
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Either this marks the start of higher education’s total unraveling, or it is the jolt we need to end a nightmare that feels disturbingly similar to Red Scare hysteria.
Texas A&M University will not reinstate a lecturer who was fired after a video of her teaching about gender identity in a children’s literature class went viral, despite a faculty appeals panel unanimously concluding that her dismissal was not justified.
Texas A&M won’t reinstate fired lecturer despite findings
A vice chancellor upheld the firing of Melissa McCoul, seen in a viral video being confronted by a student on her gender identity teachings, saying the termination was done with “good cause.”
www.texastribune.org
December 26, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Either this marks the start of higher education’s total unraveling, or it is the jolt we need to end a nightmare that feels disturbingly similar to Red Scare hysteria.
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At least 11 congressmen from 1865-1871 were arguably not citizens under Trump's interpretation of 14th A, our research finds. Yet no one challenged their eligibility to serve. Why not? Obviously, b/c no one who drafted or ratified the 14th A shared Trump's view.
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The Dog That Didn't Bark: Eligibility To Serve In Congress And The Original Understanding Of The Citizenship Clause
President Donald J. Trump's 2025 Executive Order restricting birthright citizenship has prompted new interest in the interpretation of the Fourteenth Amendment'
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December 11, 2025 at 7:23 PM
At least 11 congressmen from 1865-1871 were arguably not citizens under Trump's interpretation of 14th A, our research finds. Yet no one challenged their eligibility to serve. Why not? Obviously, b/c no one who drafted or ratified the 14th A shared Trump's view.
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Sister in law made me the coolest ornament ever!
December 25, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Sister in law made me the coolest ornament ever!
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My son’s present to me was getting my books stocked in Barnes and Noble 🥹
December 25, 2025 at 1:52 PM
My son’s present to me was getting my books stocked in Barnes and Noble 🥹
I need to see this movie asap.
THE BOOK OF CLARENCE is perhaps the most satisfying Jesus film I've ever seen, and I think it's hard to understand it if you're watching is as a Christian
December 25, 2025 at 3:02 PM
I need to see this movie asap.
If I were a famous author this is the kind of quiet chaos I would create.
Back when James Ellroy still lived in Los Angeles, he would go into all the bookstores in our mutual neighborhood and obsessively scribble messages in every copy of his books that he could find on the shelves. Sometimes he just wrote “BLOOD”; other times he was more…effusive.
December 24, 2025 at 10:17 PM
If I were a famous author this is the kind of quiet chaos I would create.
I’m afraid my Wario is Sohrab Ahmari. How appropriate to have one of the arch-postliberals as my nemesis.
As someone whose Wario is Stephen Miller, I agree.
2025 was a very strange year to be a person whose Wario is Bari Weiss.
December 24, 2025 at 10:13 PM
I’m afraid my Wario is Sohrab Ahmari. How appropriate to have one of the arch-postliberals as my nemesis.
My early Christmas gift is a box of KU Library books. Must have really confused the librarian to pack up books on Fuller missiologist Donald McGavran and Nietzschean German philosopher Ludwig Klages.
December 24, 2025 at 10:07 PM
My early Christmas gift is a box of KU Library books. Must have really confused the librarian to pack up books on Fuller missiologist Donald McGavran and Nietzschean German philosopher Ludwig Klages.
I fully believe these could be legitimate files, but I also wonder if the DOJ is generating fake files to poison the well and cast doubt on real documents. Trump has already accused some documents of being AI generated. This could all be a disinformation campaign.
The Justice Department said it found over a million more pages of Jeffrey Epstein documents, extending the time it will take for a full release. A law passed by Congress gave the department a deadline of last Friday to release the files. nyti.ms/49rG0QL
A Million More Epstein Documents Have Been Found, Justice Dept. Says
Democratic lawmakers, who had criticized the Justice Department’s release of the material, accused the Trump administration of violating the law mandating the release of the files.
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December 24, 2025 at 9:20 PM
I fully believe these could be legitimate files, but I also wonder if the DOJ is generating fake files to poison the well and cast doubt on real documents. Trump has already accused some documents of being AI generated. This could all be a disinformation campaign.
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He was despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief.
December 23, 2025 at 11:49 PM
He was despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief.
Excellent piece by Steven Millies on the recent drama around Dolan’s replacement. His op-ed places the whole affair in a nuanced historical context.
OPINION: Dec. 15 began a most unusual week for the U.S. Catholic Church.
Why the news leak about New York's change in archbishops should trouble Catholics
(RNS) — We must end the sense among Catholics that one ‘side’ is winning or losing.
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December 24, 2025 at 12:12 AM
Excellent piece by Steven Millies on the recent drama around Dolan’s replacement. His op-ed places the whole affair in a nuanced historical context.
Wheaton theology professor Daniel J. Treier has died from lung cancer at the age of 53.
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An Office with a View
Daniel Treier's Promotion to Glory
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December 23, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Wheaton theology professor Daniel J. Treier has died from lung cancer at the age of 53.
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Pure class warfare. Also seems like a quick way to force people into violence.
December 23, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Pure class warfare. Also seems like a quick way to force people into violence.
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“I’m not saying you have to be a Christian to be an American. I’m saying something simpler and truer," JD Vance said in a speech at AmericaFest on Sunday. “Christianity is America’s creed.”
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JD Vance, playing unifier, declares the US 'a Christian nation'
(RNS) — Call it inclusion, Christian nationalist style.
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December 23, 2025 at 5:01 PM
“I’m not saying you have to be a Christian to be an American. I’m saying something simpler and truer," JD Vance said in a speech at AmericaFest on Sunday. “Christianity is America’s creed.”
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This month's Beyond the Algorithm column over at the NYT is an annual tradition: we always devote December to movies that came out this year, are on the streamers right now, and are well worth a look over the holiday break. Gift link, no paywall: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/m...
‘Sorry, Baby,’ ‘Lurker’ and the Year’s Great Under-the-Radar Streaming Films
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December 21, 2025 at 2:58 PM
This month's Beyond the Algorithm column over at the NYT is an annual tradition: we always devote December to movies that came out this year, are on the streamers right now, and are well worth a look over the holiday break. Gift link, no paywall: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/m...
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*multiple sources go on the record with TV’s most respected news show about a government kidnapping/torture program*
BARI: Can’t run it ‘til Stephen Miller calls me back.
*one parent tells Bari about something that may have happened at Chapin*
BARI: We do not need to hear Chapin’s side.
BARI: Can’t run it ‘til Stephen Miller calls me back.
*one parent tells Bari about something that may have happened at Chapin*
BARI: We do not need to hear Chapin’s side.
When Bari Weiss wrote about the national crisis of “woke private schools,” all of her sources were anonymous students, parents, and teachers who agreed with her premise—and she ran the story without getting a school on the record, for “context.”
December 22, 2025 at 9:47 PM
*multiple sources go on the record with TV’s most respected news show about a government kidnapping/torture program*
BARI: Can’t run it ‘til Stephen Miller calls me back.
*one parent tells Bari about something that may have happened at Chapin*
BARI: We do not need to hear Chapin’s side.
BARI: Can’t run it ‘til Stephen Miller calls me back.
*one parent tells Bari about something that may have happened at Chapin*
BARI: We do not need to hear Chapin’s side.
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bari weiss saw this and decided that she had to hide it from the american public
Guards began beating him. Beat him until he bled. Knocked his face into the wall, broke all his teeth. No access to outdoors, no contact with relatives.
Now describing US knowledge of CECOT's torture practices, followed by footage of Trump praising those practices.
Now describing US knowledge of CECOT's torture practices, followed by footage of Trump praising those practices.
December 22, 2025 at 10:53 PM
bari weiss saw this and decided that she had to hide it from the american public
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!! Here’s a link to full video of the 60 Minutes segment that Bari Weiss killed last minute, via @jasonparis.bsky.social:
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(It was uploaded to the Global TV app in Canada, seemingly by accident, and has now been taken down)
is.gd/paU8Ko
(It was uploaded to the Global TV app in Canada, seemingly by accident, and has now been taken down)
December 22, 2025 at 10:39 PM
!! Here’s a link to full video of the 60 Minutes segment that Bari Weiss killed last minute, via @jasonparis.bsky.social:
is.gd/paU8Ko
(It was uploaded to the Global TV app in Canada, seemingly by accident, and has now been taken down)
is.gd/paU8Ko
(It was uploaded to the Global TV app in Canada, seemingly by accident, and has now been taken down)
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NEW: Organ tuners have been leaving temperature and humidity records in little-known books for decades. 🎹
They reveal how temperatures inside churches have changed over time due to climate change and increased heating.
A new scoop for The Reengineer!
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They reveal how temperatures inside churches have changed over time due to climate change and increased heating.
A new scoop for The Reengineer!
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Church organ tuning records mirror our warming climate
The records appear to reflect climate change, as well as the increased heating of churches in winter
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December 22, 2025 at 12:13 PM
NEW: Organ tuners have been leaving temperature and humidity records in little-known books for decades. 🎹
They reveal how temperatures inside churches have changed over time due to climate change and increased heating.
A new scoop for The Reengineer!
www.thereengineer.pro/p/church-org...
They reveal how temperatures inside churches have changed over time due to climate change and increased heating.
A new scoop for The Reengineer!
www.thereengineer.pro/p/church-org...
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looking for a last minute gift at williams sonoma
December 22, 2025 at 9:13 PM
looking for a last minute gift at williams sonoma
Governor Laura Kelly: “Kansas is not a flyover state. Kansas is a touchdown state!”
December 22, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Governor Laura Kelly: “Kansas is not a flyover state. Kansas is a touchdown state!”
Wolf Parade—and really everything done by Spencer Krug and Dan Boeckner—is one of my favorite bands of all time and I still regularly listen to Apologies, a true 10/10 album.
Important news for the Bluesky userbase (37-year-olds who went to the free Prospect Park shows every summer): Wolf Parade has the No. 1 song on Spotify right now because it's in the gay hockey movie.
December 22, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Wolf Parade—and really everything done by Spencer Krug and Dan Boeckner—is one of my favorite bands of all time and I still regularly listen to Apologies, a true 10/10 album.