jr. forasteros (he/him)
@jrforasteros.com
Author, pastor and podcaster in Dallas, TX. Games master for Game Nights with JR. Find me at the Haven Collective. Contributing editor at Sojourners. Bylines: Tor.com and Think Christian. Listen at #Fascinating podcast and Don't Split Up!
#Dallas friends, I'm thrilled to join my friends at the Sachse Muslim Society to discuss the legacy of Abraham. I hope you can make a plan to join us in a couple of weeks on July 29. PLEASE RSVP so the SMS can be sure they have adequate room.
July 15, 2025 at 10:57 PM
#Dallas friends, I'm thrilled to join my friends at the Sachse Muslim Society to discuss the legacy of Abraham. I hope you can make a plan to join us in a couple of weeks on July 29. PLEASE RSVP so the SMS can be sure they have adequate room.
The first tool fascism employs to create and consolidate its powerbase is the Mythic Past. In this essay, I explore why it works and why it's so dangerous.
Plus: the biblical authors were also myth-makers, and why what they did is essentially different.
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Plus: the biblical authors were also myth-makers, and why what they did is essentially different.
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July 9, 2025 at 4:21 PM
The first tool fascism employs to create and consolidate its powerbase is the Mythic Past. In this essay, I explore why it works and why it's so dangerous.
Plus: the biblical authors were also myth-makers, and why what they did is essentially different.
open.substack.com/pub/jrforast...
Plus: the biblical authors were also myth-makers, and why what they did is essentially different.
open.substack.com/pub/jrforast...
Today's 15-min Revelation brief explored a church who used their privilege to opt out of resisting authoritarian politics. Sound familiar?
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July 2, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Today's 15-min Revelation brief explored a church who used their privilege to opt out of resisting authoritarian politics. Sound familiar?
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Did I write way too much about how Remmick embodies the dangers of whiteness? Yes I did. Did I put a KILLER joke in the footnotes? YOU BETTER BELIEVE IT!
(happy to discuss but you have to read and engage the article!)
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(happy to discuss but you have to read and engage the article!)
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May 13, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Did I write way too much about how Remmick embodies the dangers of whiteness? Yes I did. Did I put a KILLER joke in the footnotes? YOU BETTER BELIEVE IT!
(happy to discuss but you have to read and engage the article!)
open.substack.com/pub/jrforast...
(happy to discuss but you have to read and engage the article!)
open.substack.com/pub/jrforast...
After far too long, I have finished my series on churches and our transgender siblings. This final post has a lot of practical ideas for how churches can center our trans siblings. Would love to hear more ideas!
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open.substack.com/pub/jrforast...
May 6, 2025 at 8:21 PM
After far too long, I have finished my series on churches and our transgender siblings. This final post has a lot of practical ideas for how churches can center our trans siblings. Would love to hear more ideas!
open.substack.com/pub/jrforast...
open.substack.com/pub/jrforast...
Join a book club with some rad new friends. May-July picks are here. Women turning into dragons, a dissection of fascism and a satire on rape culture. What's not to love? Sign up: bit.ly/DOFBookClub
April 30, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Join a book club with some rad new friends. May-July picks are here. Women turning into dragons, a dissection of fascism and a satire on rape culture. What's not to love? Sign up: bit.ly/DOFBookClub
More Peru pictures! Have you heard of the floating islands of Lake Titicaca? They’re home to the Uru people. Their story is one of ingenuity, persistence and beauty. Read about my experience with them in my newsletter:
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March 17, 2025 at 4:24 PM
More Peru pictures! Have you heard of the floating islands of Lake Titicaca? They’re home to the Uru people. Their story is one of ingenuity, persistence and beauty. Read about my experience with them in my newsletter:
open.substack.com/pub/jrforast...
open.substack.com/pub/jrforast...
Wanna see my vacation slideshow? This article is about the engineering marvel that is Machu Picchu, one of the Wonders of the World!
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March 10, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Wanna see my vacation slideshow? This article is about the engineering marvel that is Machu Picchu, one of the Wonders of the World!
open.substack.com/pub/jrforast...
open.substack.com/pub/jrforast...
The latest season of #LoveIsBlind featured a convo about racism btw two white contestants that illustrated our a desire to not be PERCEIVED as racist that's much stronger than our desire to do the WORK to be anti-racist.
I'd love your thoughts:
jrforasteros.substack.com/p/love-isnt-...
I'd love your thoughts:
jrforasteros.substack.com/p/love-isnt-...
March 3, 2025 at 1:03 PM
The latest season of #LoveIsBlind featured a convo about racism btw two white contestants that illustrated our a desire to not be PERCEIVED as racist that's much stronger than our desire to do the WORK to be anti-racist.
I'd love your thoughts:
jrforasteros.substack.com/p/love-isnt-...
I'd love your thoughts:
jrforasteros.substack.com/p/love-isnt-...
I loved @joshruben.bsky.social incredible new Slasher/Rom-Com HEART EYES. I wrote about why it's such a delightful mashup: it combines the superficially opposite genres to reveal a deeper similarity (that he then goes on to critique). My take here:
jrforasteros.substack.com/p/heart-eyes...
jrforasteros.substack.com/p/heart-eyes...
February 27, 2025 at 3:32 PM
I loved @joshruben.bsky.social incredible new Slasher/Rom-Com HEART EYES. I wrote about why it's such a delightful mashup: it combines the superficially opposite genres to reveal a deeper similarity (that he then goes on to critique). My take here:
jrforasteros.substack.com/p/heart-eyes...
jrforasteros.substack.com/p/heart-eyes...
February 25, 2025 at 3:52 AM
Until we recognize that God is Trans, we cannot know Jesus. My latest essay draws on James Cone’s Black Liberation theology and monster theory to explore what is required of us in this moment:
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February 24, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Until we recognize that God is Trans, we cannot know Jesus. My latest essay draws on James Cone’s Black Liberation theology and monster theory to explore what is required of us in this moment:
open.substack.com/pub/jrforast...
open.substack.com/pub/jrforast...
PARTHENOPE
C+
"You young people all want answers. But none of you have learned how to ask questions." -- Marotta
C+
"You young people all want answers. But none of you have learned how to ask questions." -- Marotta
February 24, 2025 at 6:10 AM
PARTHENOPE
C+
"You young people all want answers. But none of you have learned how to ask questions." -- Marotta
C+
"You young people all want answers. But none of you have learned how to ask questions." -- Marotta
This cartoon by Kevin Necessary ignores that the Nazis in Germany studied the *US Jim Crow laws* in order to design their "Final Solution".
Let's put away the lie that fascists in the US are something new. We've beat 'em before and we'll beat 'em again.
www.history.com/news/how-the...
Let's put away the lie that fascists in the US are something new. We've beat 'em before and we'll beat 'em again.
www.history.com/news/how-the...
February 23, 2025 at 11:02 PM
This cartoon by Kevin Necessary ignores that the Nazis in Germany studied the *US Jim Crow laws* in order to design their "Final Solution".
Let's put away the lie that fascists in the US are something new. We've beat 'em before and we'll beat 'em again.
www.history.com/news/how-the...
Let's put away the lie that fascists in the US are something new. We've beat 'em before and we'll beat 'em again.
www.history.com/news/how-the...
Of course God loves queer people. God is queer. Churches have a particular obligation to stand with queer people because queer people bear God’s image.
I explore what it means to say God is queer and why it's an essential confession for God's people.
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I explore what it means to say God is queer and why it's an essential confession for God's people.
open.substack.com/pub/jrforast...
February 17, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Of course God loves queer people. God is queer. Churches have a particular obligation to stand with queer people because queer people bear God’s image.
I explore what it means to say God is queer and why it's an essential confession for God's people.
open.substack.com/pub/jrforast...
I explore what it means to say God is queer and why it's an essential confession for God's people.
open.substack.com/pub/jrforast...
CAPTAIN AMERICA: BRAVE NEW WORLD
B-
A movie about an over-qualified Black man who has to save the world from a white man who would rather run for President than go to therapy. Apropos of nothing.
He works twice as hard
And no serum handicap...
He's the Captain now.
#ReviewHaiku #ReviewGram
B-
A movie about an over-qualified Black man who has to save the world from a white man who would rather run for President than go to therapy. Apropos of nothing.
He works twice as hard
And no serum handicap...
He's the Captain now.
#ReviewHaiku #ReviewGram
February 15, 2025 at 1:37 AM
CAPTAIN AMERICA: BRAVE NEW WORLD
B-
A movie about an over-qualified Black man who has to save the world from a white man who would rather run for President than go to therapy. Apropos of nothing.
He works twice as hard
And no serum handicap...
He's the Captain now.
#ReviewHaiku #ReviewGram
B-
A movie about an over-qualified Black man who has to save the world from a white man who would rather run for President than go to therapy. Apropos of nothing.
He works twice as hard
And no serum handicap...
He's the Captain now.
#ReviewHaiku #ReviewGram
February 14, 2025 at 5:04 PM
The rhetoric GOP is using to discriminate against Trans people should sound familiar...I explore how anti-Trans language is just old-timey racist tactics barely updated at all to convince the rest of us to hate our Trans siblings.
open.substack.com/pub/jrforast...
open.substack.com/pub/jrforast...
February 12, 2025 at 3:14 PM
The rhetoric GOP is using to discriminate against Trans people should sound familiar...I explore how anti-Trans language is just old-timey racist tactics barely updated at all to convince the rest of us to hate our Trans siblings.
open.substack.com/pub/jrforast...
open.substack.com/pub/jrforast...
That anti-Trans executive order deployed rhetoric that's been used against Black people. It was racist and wicked when we used it against Black folks. It's transphobic and wicked today when we use it against Trans people.
My latest newsletter article dives in:
open.substack.com/pub/jrforast...
My latest newsletter article dives in:
open.substack.com/pub/jrforast...
February 10, 2025 at 5:13 PM
That anti-Trans executive order deployed rhetoric that's been used against Black people. It was racist and wicked when we used it against Black folks. It's transphobic and wicked today when we use it against Trans people.
My latest newsletter article dives in:
open.substack.com/pub/jrforast...
My latest newsletter article dives in:
open.substack.com/pub/jrforast...
HEART EYES
B+
What's Slasher to do
When Final Girl gets Meet-Cute
He's in the wrong film!?
#ReviewHaiku #ReviewGram
B+
What's Slasher to do
When Final Girl gets Meet-Cute
He's in the wrong film!?
#ReviewHaiku #ReviewGram
February 7, 2025 at 10:10 PM
HEART EYES
B+
What's Slasher to do
When Final Girl gets Meet-Cute
He's in the wrong film!?
#ReviewHaiku #ReviewGram
B+
What's Slasher to do
When Final Girl gets Meet-Cute
He's in the wrong film!?
#ReviewHaiku #ReviewGram
Gladiator II (now streaming) is not good. But there was one scene that rang uncomfortably true: when the emperor appointed a monkey to be consul, and the Senate applauded.
What does that scene tell us about American democracy? #CabinetConfirmations
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What does that scene tell us about American democracy? #CabinetConfirmations
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February 7, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Gladiator II (now streaming) is not good. But there was one scene that rang uncomfortably true: when the emperor appointed a monkey to be consul, and the Senate applauded.
What does that scene tell us about American democracy? #CabinetConfirmations
open.substack.com/pub/jrforast...
What does that scene tell us about American democracy? #CabinetConfirmations
open.substack.com/pub/jrforast...
Trump's Executive Order targeting transgender Americans is an existential danger for all of us. I'm exploring it in my latest series of newsletter articles. First up: why the State has such a vested interest in defining marriage according to a false sexual binary
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open.substack.com/pub/jrforast...
February 5, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Trump's Executive Order targeting transgender Americans is an existential danger for all of us. I'm exploring it in my latest series of newsletter articles. First up: why the State has such a vested interest in defining marriage according to a false sexual binary
open.substack.com/pub/jrforast...
open.substack.com/pub/jrforast...
Hey #Dallas people: come out to the Boozy Bird in Carrollton tonight for a #BoardGames night! Starts at 6pm. They've got some great specials for us, too!
gamenightsjr.com/events/games...
gamenightsjr.com/events/games...
February 3, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Hey #Dallas people: come out to the Boozy Bird in Carrollton tonight for a #BoardGames night! Starts at 6pm. They've got some great specials for us, too!
gamenightsjr.com/events/games...
gamenightsjr.com/events/games...
COMPANION
A
What's intelligence?
Don't confuse it with Truth, Beep.
Why so afraid, Boop?
#ReviewHaiku #ReviewGram
A
What's intelligence?
Don't confuse it with Truth, Beep.
Why so afraid, Boop?
#ReviewHaiku #ReviewGram
January 30, 2025 at 4:20 AM
COMPANION
A
What's intelligence?
Don't confuse it with Truth, Beep.
Why so afraid, Boop?
#ReviewHaiku #ReviewGram
A
What's intelligence?
Don't confuse it with Truth, Beep.
Why so afraid, Boop?
#ReviewHaiku #ReviewGram