To the person whom you've quoted: "You and I seem to have a different definition of 'facts.'" 😢

As another commenter has already noted, this article doesn't really focus on the Moscow, Idaho crowd. But, if it had, perhaps the PCA is getting a "free pass" because of the distance with Moscow prompted by the dispute over credentials at what is now Trinity Presbyterian Church in Alabama. 🤔

Luke 4:14-30 comes to mind. Are we not to take verse 18 (re: proclaiming freedom for prisoners, etc.) seriously? No warden would ever hire Jesus as a prison guard!

At my former church, a pastor embraced the line that "social justice" and "critical race theory" were "anti-God ideals." Ergo, then ending social programs, justice (e.g., blanket pardons for those who attacked police on 1/6/2021), and anything you perceive as "CRT" must somehow be "pro-God"?? 😢

Well, I guess my posting my outrage did the trick. I just saw the news that the US won't be slapping tariffs on Colombian imports after all! So, why couldn't this saber-rattling over tariffs have been done quietly via diplomatic channels? Why the public announcement if there was hope for a "deal"?

The reactions after the British parliament passed the Townshend Acts in 1767 should serve as a lesson to what can happen when you impose new duties on caffeinated beverages!

Americans will put up with a lot, but only so long as the authorities don't tax our sources of caffeine. ☕️ 2/2

Are these either/or questions, or can we answer "both"? 🤔

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Doesn't know ... yet.

Putting "most godly" on one's website might be a little much. Then again, I remember reading somewhere that, in the 17th century, the term "Puritan" was considered pejorative and that the low-church Calvinist crowd in England simply preferred to call themselves "the godly." So, there is precedent. 😳

😢 Reminds me of something that bugged me when I was in the process of leaving a church. My pastor would often say, "We're doing _____. No one else is doing this." When I began looking at other churches, I began to see just how wrong he was. Might there be something in the evangelical water here?

So, there are organizations on campus that also blend these 3 elements, but they either don't blend them as seamlessly or as intentionally as the advertised ministry? 🤔

Weird.

E.g., a pastor tried to explain that "CRT" wasn't consistent with a "bibical worldview" because CRT divided the world into "oppressors" and "oppressed," which weren't biblical concepts. I texted him a picture of my NIV concordance's entries for those two words. My text was met with crickets. 2/2

Yep. My former church's response on Jan. 6, 2021 was that the day's events provided an opportunity to talk about the "sin nature" driving everything "on both sides" in our country. 😢💔 But, the criticisms I heard of "liberals" didn't exactly hold water. 1/2

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When I spoke up, I was asked why I didn't spend as much time speaking up against liberalism (theological or political) as I did asking why the heck our church's pastoral prayers were starting to sound like Fox commentators. But, my church at the time was at no risk of succumbing to "liberalism"! 2/2

Wait. Have the PCA and CREC made nice to each other now? (Something about ministerial credentials and Auburn Avenue?) But, seriously, I think I was in a similar place to where it sounds like you and your husband were in 2020-2021, albeit in a different denomination. So, I hear you. 1/2