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Clint (progressive pastor in the South)
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I guess I shouldn’t be surprised that liberals would be taken in by a neo-Luddite who knows how to write, but why Paul Kingsnorth is getting a pass while being a transphobic POS is beyond me.
November 17, 2025 at 11:48 PM
One working definition of a nation in decline would be when the branches of government can’t decide whether it’s legal to starve their own people.
November 8, 2025 at 4:00 AM
Live with Lamont Wells, Executive Director of the Network of ELCA Colleges and Universities (NECU)
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Live with Lamont Wells, Executive Director of the Network of ELCA Colleges and Universities (NECU)
A recording from Clint Schnekloth's live video
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October 31, 2025 at 1:02 AM
October 23, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Food banks and churches will not be able to cover a gap in SNAP funding, but you know who could?

Walmart. Walmart could just make all groceries free for November.
October 23, 2025 at 2:57 AM
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Grateful for the last word in @hcrichardson.bsky.social's newsletter about #NoKings. As a social movement scholar, the protests were important for their size and for how many sites participated but also because they are part of a trajectory of participation of millions. A 🧵:
October 20, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.
Not a shitpost: #NoKings is feel-good performative activism for comfortable mostly upper and upper middle class white folks and that’s good, actually. Millions of people in the streets protesting a fascist regime is good. It is good for the normie baseline to be massive displays of public dissent.
October 19, 2025 at 1:44 AM
Do you follow the Lutheran Confessions blog? If not, would love to have you swing over and subscribe. I try to do my best work over here.

Celebrating What We’ve Got: Culture Without the Nostalgia Trap
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Celebrating What We’ve Got: Culture Without the Nostalgia Trap
I’ve been thinking more and more about what it is we actually mean when we talk about a culture.
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October 14, 2025 at 12:07 AM
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This discussion between 2 Lutheran pastors, @clintschnekloth.substack.com and @angeladenker.bsky.social is enlightening. They talk a lot about Christian Nationalism and associated movements and show how progressive Christianity is different.
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Live with Clint Schnekloth
A recording from Clint Schnekloth's live video
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September 26, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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Talking Tolkien, AI, and biblical interpretation today at Lutheran Confessions, with special thanks to @clintschnekloth.substack.com

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Live with Clint Schnekloth
A recording from Clint Schnekloth's live video
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October 2, 2025 at 10:06 PM
One of the real benefits of living through a midlife unraveling (what a lot of us experience in our 50s) in 2025 is that it's all entirely masked by the now unavoidable anxiety of living under rising authoritarianism and climate change.

It's not me. It's f*cking everything.
September 10, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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"Justification isn’t only about individual forgiveness but about God reclaiming the whole cosmos. The disciple participates in that cosmic project, living in such a way that others taste freedom"
August 28, 2025 at 9:52 PM
True surrender of the disciple is unbound, not a private affair, tends toward aid to the world, extends freedom everywhere. —Ernst Käsemann, On Being A Disciple of the Crucified Nazarene
August 28, 2025 at 2:30 AM
I did not have Republicans becoming Communists with the Great Leader Trump on my bingo card.
August 24, 2025 at 1:19 PM