Benjamin Brandenburg

historian of religion and international history / asst prof at montreat college / writing evangelical empire / fan of twitter breaks

[Benjamin Brandenburg @BenBrandenburg]

@ColMoeDavis @natebargatze Democrats will never win office in western North Carolina without some critical empathy of relatively moderate evangelicals like Nateland and the Cathy family. Do better.

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@Franklin_Graham @NFL @TPUSA I am old enough to remember when Kid Rock's sexual ethic was viewed by @BGEA as 🤦.

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@AndrewTWalker Dude, please just have a conversation with Esau McCaulley or Mark Noll, or John Piper, already. You are not within the evangelical frame. Don't be the MAGA Christianity caricature. Be serious.

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@AndrewTWalker @EricTeetsel All Buc-ee's Beavers know that Manifest Destiny is bad news for the Beaver population.

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@IVMiles This is fun and true. But then so is Christian
Democracy or Catholic Social Teaching. I imagine more Christians would claim Kuyper or Maritain than Rushdoony. Checks notes, ok, maybe they wouldn't know who those folks are.

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@BillyGraham Please, for the love of the Imago Dei, Human Decency, and the Respect for the Dead, change this handle to BGEA or something that does not cosplay AI Billy. Thanks.

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@DavidAFrench The only line an Evangelical Internationalist can take is to argue that this action meets just war theory requirements. What you give us is Nixonian realism.

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@DrTurleyTalks Does it make a difference if Collins is the most important explicitly Evangelical scientist since Newton?

[Frank Luntz @FrankLuntz]

This is a great write-up by North Carolina’s @RepChuckEdwards debunking misinformation around Hurricane Helene.

Highlights include:

1. Nobody can control the weather.
2. FEMA is not blocking donations.
3. Victims aren’t receiving only $750 in assistance.

[Evan Fisher @EFisherWX]

I am extremely encouraged by what I’ve seen around Black Mountain today.

The resources that have come in over the past couple days are staggering. Power is on in the heart of town. Cell service is much improved.

Mail was even being delivered in some places.

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Pray for Black Mountain and Western Carolina. Massive Devastation all around. The flooding reached our front door and stopped just shy. 🙏

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"May God Bless you all, and may God bless those who seek peace."

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Old Man Biden is delivering a lovely funeral oration for the postwar order at the UN. It's not perfect, but it's worth protecting.

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@andrewtwalker Funny that. These NYTs pieces are all counterintuitive and even conservative in the most playful of ways.

Do the work.

[U.S. Helsinki Commission @HelsinkiComm]

🇺🇦 Putin claims that Ukraine is oppressing Christians, when in reality Russia tortures, kidnaps & kills clergy and destroys churches.

Don’t fall for Putin’s lies.
#PutinIsaWarCriminal

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@samuelmoyn 828

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@JoelWBerry It's so cool to see Christians mock people who explain Augustinian Just War theory to the masses.

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@RoyCooperNC Run Roy, Run!

[Tennessee Lookout || tnlookout.bsky.social @TNLookout]

The best way to reduce child abuse fatalities is to reduce poverty
Commentary from @rwexleralexva in response to @anitawadhwani story earlier this month detailing a 30% increase in 2023 in the suspected abuse and neglect deaths of Tennessee children

https://t.co/QFx3Nljqv2