Chris Anthony

Child of God. Husband of @SusanAnthony_ Father of 4 amazing people. Journalist. University of Birmingham theology PhD.

[Chris Anthony @1WayPublishing]

This video from the @DavidFish7 et al (which is part of a much longer treatment) raises serious questions about the @tptbible -

https://t.co/uZ2BhbIbhz

[Chris Anthony @1WayPublishing]

The unattributed use of pre-existing sources, often verbatim, is shockingly common in certain Pentecostal and charismatic cases.

What's worse is when such examples are combined with an apparent testimony of supernatural divine revelation.

PSA: When it comes to Christian publishing, if you didn't say it, source it.

[Chris Anthony @1WayPublishing]

@Meldougherty77 I know right?

https://t.co/Q5C0SGba48

[Chris Anthony @1WayPublishing]

Lots of talk about the (correct) decision to put LDS outside the Christian category. But why are JWs and Christian Science still there?

And how come you have AoG, Church of God AND nondescript pentecostal?

[Chris Anthony @1WayPublishing]

Lots of talk about the (correct) decision to put LDS outside the Christian category. But why are JWs and Christian Science still there?

And how come you have AoG, Church of God AND nondescript pentecostal?

[Sean Parnell @SeanParnellASW]

The Office of the Secretary of War is announcing a significant change to the Department’s categorization of religious affiliation. In a long overdue move, we reduced the list from over 200 unmanageable categories to 31. With this move, we are returning to the original intent of collecting this data - to allow our chaplains and religious support personnel to provide the best spiritual care to our warfighters.

This decrease in religious affiliation codes is not designed to make any claims on the legitimacy of any faith or religious belief, nor is it intended to provide a list of “officially approved” religions. Rather, it is designed to allow chaplains to quickly look at the religious composition of their units and determine how they structure resources to best provide for warfighters of all faith groups.

The Department of War places a high value on the First Amendment and the free exercise of religion. Chaplains play an instrumental role in providing spiritual care and facilitating the Warfighters' ability to freely exercise their religion of choice, or no religion at all. With this new change, we believe we can provide the best data to support our chaplains in that effort.

[Chris Anthony @1WayPublishing]

In the case of @BrianWSimmons and @tptbible, that approach has its own difficulties and complications.

[Chris Anthony @1WayPublishing]

This video from the @DavidFish7 et al (which is part of a much longer treatment) raises serious questions about the @tptbible -

https://t.co/uZ2BhbIbhz

[Chris Anthony @1WayPublishing]

The unattributed use of pre-existing sources, often verbatim, is shockingly common in certain Pentecostal and charismatic cases.

What's worse is when such examples are combined with an apparent testimony of supernatural divine revelation.

PSA: When it comes to Christian publishing, if you didn't say it, source it.

[Chris Anthony @1WayPublishing]

The question is, what do we do with is? In the case of my research on Hagin and Word of Faith, I suggest reading the unattributed sources and their sources above their unauthorized popularizers.

[Chris Anthony @1WayPublishing]

The unattributed use of pre-existing sources, often verbatim, is shockingly common in certain Pentecostal and charismatic cases.

What's worse is when such examples are combined with an apparent testimony of supernatural divine revelation.

PSA: When it comes to Christian publishing, if you didn't say it, source it.

[Chris Anthony @1WayPublishing]

Just to point out, critical evaluation of "The Passion" is by no means a new subject.

See also:

https://t.co/JoDky9oS1K

[Andrew Wilson @AJWTheology]

What's wrong with The Passion "Translation"? Well: at least seven things. https://t.co/3kb9Wpg7BW cc @mbird12

[Chris Anthony @1WayPublishing]

Amazing how many are unqualified, self-identified experts and yet can't tolerate actual experts identifying their qualifications.

I am all for engagement & critical evaluation, but a little humility goes a long way!

"My dear brothers and sisters...be quick to listen, slow to speak & slow to become angry" (James 1:19)

[Danielle (Dani) Treweek @danitreweek]

Many of the comments on this post explain why I spent four years of my life researching and writing a PhD on a theology of singleness. And why I published that PhD as a book. And why I wrote a popular level book on the same topic. And why I founded a resourcing ministry focused on it. And why I travel all over the country and the world speaking with Christians, church leaders and church communities about it. And why, four days ago, I sat weeping with a married woman I just met as she shared with me that a decade ago one of her closest friends had been taught to so despair of her ongoing and unchosen singleness that she drove her car into a tree and was killed immediately, even as none of her friends knew the grief she had been carrying until they discovered her journals while they were packing up her house days after her funeral.

Those comments are the why to all of it.

[SpurgeonBooks @SpurgeonBooks]

“It is never a bad time to pray. No distress should prevent us.”

— Charles Spurgeon

[Chris Anthony @1WayPublishing]

15/ See: Prosperity Gospel? The Theological Structure of Word of Faith, Palgrave Macmillan (2025) - https://t.co/sLr88skvR9
And “British Roots of Word of Faith” https://t.co/W50kR0n5iC

[Chris Anthony @1WayPublishing]

1/ Word of Faith is often criticised for ignoring suffering. That criticism has merit due to too simplistic handling of suffering. But WoF does have its own take on #theodicy. It's just underdeveloped, especially in relation to the movement’s emphasis on victory. #THREAD

[Chris Anthony @1WayPublishing]

14/ My take: WoF has more to say about where suffering comes from than about what God does through it. Scriptures such as 2 Corinthians 12 are too often opposed rather than engaged. Similarly, the reality that suffering and miracles go hand-in-hand in the book of Acts is neglected. That gap needs to be closed.