Revjdelia
@revjdelia.bsky.social
I'm a California pastor and historian of American Christianity. Sometimes I don't recognize my faith tribe or my nation, but that hasn't made me give up on Jesus. Author of A Place at the Table (Oxford 2008).
This is what we’re called to resist. We will resist it with love. We’ll resist it gently when we can. But we’ll never sit down for the dismantling and perversion of what means to follow Jesus. Not without speaking up. #Jesus #Christ #Christian #Nationalism #MAGA #America
October 10, 2025 at 9:45 PM
This is what we’re called to resist. We will resist it with love. We’ll resist it gently when we can. But we’ll never sit down for the dismantling and perversion of what means to follow Jesus. Not without speaking up. #Jesus #Christ #Christian #Nationalism #MAGA #America
Just let this headline sink in.
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/09... #America #Constitution #Trump #Kimmel #BillofRights #FirstAmendment
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/09... #America #Constitution #Trump #Kimmel #BillofRights #FirstAmendment
Trump Administration Live Updates: President Says Broadcasters Risk Losing Licenses When Hosts Criticize Him
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September 18, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Just let this headline sink in.
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/09... #America #Constitution #Trump #Kimmel #BillofRights #FirstAmendment
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/09... #America #Constitution #Trump #Kimmel #BillofRights #FirstAmendment
No one is immune from mental illness.
No one. #Trump #Netanyahu #America #Stupid
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/w...
No one. #Trump #Netanyahu #America #Stupid
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Trump Calls Netanyahu a ‘War Hero’ and Adds: ‘I Guess I Am, Too’
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August 20, 2025 at 7:02 PM
No one is immune from mental illness.
No one. #Trump #Netanyahu #America #Stupid
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/w...
No one. #Trump #Netanyahu #America #Stupid
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/w...
Read this piece by Kristin Kobes DuMez. #evangelicalism #Christianity #DougWilson #Hegseth #Trump open.substack.com/.../p/confro...
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August 16, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Read this piece by Kristin Kobes DuMez. #evangelicalism #Christianity #DougWilson #Hegseth #Trump open.substack.com/.../p/confro...
What banana republic nonsense is in the news today. Using the army to fight cartels? It's like no one reads Tom Clancy anymore. Silencing local officials because they won't bend the knee? I saw that on TV. Selling access for cash? Maybe pop culture has been warning us about #Trump all along.
August 8, 2025 at 5:07 PM
What banana republic nonsense is in the news today. Using the army to fight cartels? It's like no one reads Tom Clancy anymore. Silencing local officials because they won't bend the knee? I saw that on TV. Selling access for cash? Maybe pop culture has been warning us about #Trump all along.
Since when does abusing and trafficking children get you transferred to a prison for non-violent offenders? I mean, aren't sexual abuse and trafficking of children violent crimes? #Trump #Epstein #Maxwell #America www.nytimes.com/2025/08/01/u...
Ghislaine Maxwell Moved to Minimum-Security Women’s Prison in Texas
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August 1, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Since when does abusing and trafficking children get you transferred to a prison for non-violent offenders? I mean, aren't sexual abuse and trafficking of children violent crimes? #Trump #Epstein #Maxwell #America www.nytimes.com/2025/08/01/u...
I was glad to meet Munther Isaac at the Christ at the Checkpoint Conference in #Bethlehem in 2014. His words remain challenging, provocative, and deeply rooted in real Christian teachings. #Jesus #Christ #Christian #Israel #Palestine
June 27, 2025 at 12:04 PM
I was glad to meet Munther Isaac at the Christ at the Checkpoint Conference in #Bethlehem in 2014. His words remain challenging, provocative, and deeply rooted in real Christian teachings. #Jesus #Christ #Christian #Israel #Palestine
The Christian faith in the actual Bible isn’t just different to what we see from American so-called evangelicalism, it’s opposed to it. #Christian #Bible #Faith #evangelical #Jesus #America
June 13, 2025 at 3:19 PM
The Christian faith in the actual Bible isn’t just different to what we see from American so-called evangelicalism, it’s opposed to it. #Christian #Bible #Faith #evangelical #Jesus #America
The great William Sloane Coffin, Presbyterian pastor, chaplain of Yale University, and committed peace activist, reminding us where our true allegiance lies. #Patriotism #Christian #Jesus #Presbyterian
June 6, 2025 at 6:03 PM
The great William Sloane Coffin, Presbyterian pastor, chaplain of Yale University, and committed peace activist, reminding us where our true allegiance lies. #Patriotism #Christian #Jesus #Presbyterian
My uncle Pasquale D'Elia was killed in action in May 1944, on the final day of the battle for Cisterna di Latina. He had come to the US from Italy in 1940 and was called up after finishing high school. He died fighting for his adopted country about 300 miles from where he was born. #MemorialDay
May 26, 2025 at 6:12 PM
My uncle Pasquale D'Elia was killed in action in May 1944, on the final day of the battle for Cisterna di Latina. He had come to the US from Italy in 1940 and was called up after finishing high school. He died fighting for his adopted country about 300 miles from where he was born. #MemorialDay
My Uncle Pasquale D’Elia, killed aged 20 at Anzio in 1944. Born in Italy, he died 300 miles from his hometown. I’m flying my flag because no White Nationalist whackjob gets to decide for me what it means to be patriotic. My immigrant family gave blood for America. #memorialday #immigrant #wwii
May 24, 2025 at 3:22 PM
My Uncle Pasquale D’Elia, killed aged 20 at Anzio in 1944. Born in Italy, he died 300 miles from his hometown. I’m flying my flag because no White Nationalist whackjob gets to decide for me what it means to be patriotic. My immigrant family gave blood for America. #memorialday #immigrant #wwii
This Sunday I'll begin a series of message for Lent, titled "What We Won't Give Up," using words from this list as inspiration. #Jesus #Lent #Trump #DEI #Christian #God www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
The Words Federal Agencies Are Discouraged From Using Under Trump
Federal agencies have issued guidance to employees on hundreds of terms to limit or avoid using. An analysis of government websites shows many of the same words being removed.
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March 7, 2025 at 11:57 PM
This Sunday I'll begin a series of message for Lent, titled "What We Won't Give Up," using words from this list as inspiration. #Jesus #Lent #Trump #DEI #Christian #God www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Required reading, especially if your high school history is a little fuzzy. #America #Ukraine #Zelensky #Zelenskyy #Trump
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Winston Churchill on Appeasement
In honor and in defense of the people of Ukraine
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March 1, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Required reading, especially if your high school history is a little fuzzy. #America #Ukraine #Zelensky #Zelenskyy #Trump
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"We renounce secret and shameful ways. We don’t tinker with the message of the #gospel of #Jesus #Christ, and we don’t sit back and watch when others do. We do not lose heart. We don’t faint. We don’t lie about who Jesus is and isn’t.”
From Sunday's message on 2 Corinthians 4:1-6
From Sunday's message on 2 Corinthians 4:1-6
February 24, 2025 at 3:16 PM
The world is watching, mostly with shocked disappointment, at what the loudest “Christian” voices are saying and doing. Time to offer a different and more authentic vision for what it means to follow Jesus. #Christian #Jesus #Trump #Vance #ICE
February 19, 2025 at 6:57 PM
The world is watching, mostly with shocked disappointment, at what the loudest “Christian” voices are saying and doing. Time to offer a different and more authentic vision for what it means to follow Jesus. #Christian #Jesus #Trump #Vance #ICE
This at the heart my message for tomorrow, the first in a series called #Jesus and #Power. #Faith #Patriotism #Christian fpcslo.org
February 8, 2025 at 7:16 PM
This at the heart my message for tomorrow, the first in a series called #Jesus and #Power. #Faith #Patriotism #Christian fpcslo.org
What's next? The Sudetenland? Czechoslovakia? Poland? Here we effing go again. #Gaza #Trump #Fascism #HistoryRepeats
February 5, 2025 at 1:47 AM
What's next? The Sudetenland? Czechoslovakia? Poland? Here we effing go again. #Gaza #Trump #Fascism #HistoryRepeats
The only real “ordered love” is Christ’s order to love: God, neighbors, enemies…everyone. Anything else isn’t just erroneous teaching, it’s heresy. #Love #Jesus #God #Christ
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Theologians push back on JD Vance’s view of ‘ordered love’
Vice President JD Vance is getting schooled by theologians over his inverted theology expressed in a Jan. 29 interview on Fox News. What Vance said: “There's this old school — and I think it’s a very ...
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February 4, 2025 at 10:30 PM
The only real “ordered love” is Christ’s order to love: God, neighbors, enemies…everyone. Anything else isn’t just erroneous teaching, it’s heresy. #Love #Jesus #God #Christ
baptistnews.com/article/theo...
baptistnews.com/article/theo...
Just reflecting on a short piece I wrote in November of 2016, just after the election. All of it, even more so, today. #America #Trump #Democrats #Biden #Harris #GOP
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Today We Have a Headcount
(I’m giving myself room for one angry lament today.) Today we have a headcount. As many of us—most of us, in fact—have been shocked over the last 18 months at the petulant incivility of Donald Trum…
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January 28, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Just reflecting on a short piece I wrote in November of 2016, just after the election. All of it, even more so, today. #America #Trump #Democrats #Biden #Harris #GOP
faithfortherestofus.org/2016/11/09/t...
faithfortherestofus.org/2016/11/09/t...