Ben Hedlund 🦬

Rom. 1:16. Baptized (LCMS). Son. Brother to 4. Church Organist. Worker. Wisconsinite. American. Single,30 #TeamSmallCatechism

[Ben Hedlund 🦬 @BenHedlund]

@AHalboth @RevJimPierce @lutheranpeasant Yes, a Lutheran pastor like David Ramirez might hold it to be a good thing insofar as CN means a situation where Christianity is the privileged (not necessarily “only allowed”) religion, and that privilege is enshrined in law, custom, and society in general.

[Ben Hedlund 🦬 @BenHedlund]

We don’t need a Christian theocracy. I think most decent people advocating Christian nationalism aren’t pushing for that. But I think at the very least we should be able to vociferously and publicly acknowledge this moral or epistemological truth in our nation, and uphold it.

[Paul Anleitner @PaulAnleitner]

Here’s an uncomfortable truth about the Epstein accusations:

We only find them morally reprehensible because of Christianity.

Before the spread of Christianity, “civilized” Greek and Roman elites openly flaunted underage s*x slaves. This was normal.

Emperor Hadrian built an entire city in honor of his favorite boy.

We’ve heard for decades that Christianity is a barrier to moral progress, but if you undercut the moral foundations of Christianity from the West, culture reverts back to pagan norms.

[Matt Walsh @MattWalshBlog]

Admittedly I’m a layman. I don’t understand how the technology works. But the thing I find most shocking and frankly terrifying about AI, at its current stage of development, is its ability to apparently understand. You can, right now, feed AI a legal contract and it will read the whole thing and spit out a detailed lawyerly analysis in 30 seconds. Even more startling, you can feed it a whole film script and it will read the entire thing and give you creative feedback, even picking up on subtext and themes and individual character beats, and do it all in a minute. It doesn’t even seem possible, but that’s what it can do. That’s the unsettling thing. And the even more unsettling thing is that I don’t think anyone really fully understands exactly how the thing is able to understand.

[Steve 🇺🇸 @SteveLovesAmmo]

It’s kinda funny how you hear teachers talking about arming themselves to fight against ICE…

But they refuse to arm themselves to stop school shooters.

That’s it. That’s the post.

[Ben Hedlund 🦬 @BenHedlund]

@nosoup4knowles This is kind of a cheap tactic. This clip is from when everyone was okay with her. Did you or anyone correct her mispronouncing words when she was on our side? Why is it now so important to point them out now that she’s an enemy?

[Coach Noah Revoy | Arms Dealer For The Soul 🏴‍☠️ @NoahRevoy]

Abuse is an over used word.

Saying that someone was “abusive” in a relationship has become one of the most manipulative accusations in common use, precisely because it no longer specifies anything concrete.

The word now covers an enormous range of behavior, from ordinary disagreement, to emotional negligence, from an accidental bump to serious physical violence.

When a word can mean everything, it communicates nothing.

Because of this, its use often shuts down understanding rather than creating it. The listener is left to imagine the worst, while the speaker avoids the harder work of describing what actually happened.

A more honest and productive approach is to remove the word “abuse” from the conversation entirely and state the specific behavior that caused harm.

What was said. What was done. What pattern occurred. What boundary was crossed. Only then can responsibility, repair, or judgment be meaningfully addressed.

People struggle to do this because specificity requires clarity, memory, and accountability. Vague moral language requires none of those.

[Ben Hedlund 🦬 @BenHedlund]

@piratechristian All of that Scripture denying aside, it is always weird and disturbing when one sees Christians, even Charlie Kirk at times, answering questions like “What religion was Jesus?” with “Jewish.”
Or when they make statements such as “Christianity is based on Judaism.”

[Ben Hedlund 🦬 @BenHedlund]

@RevFisk I can tell that’s a bald eagle. 🦅 🇺🇸

[@PastorMcKinley @PastorMcKinley]

I just learned that the Lutheran Basketball Association of America tournament (a national tournament for Lutheran schools) is holding their 2026 tournament the weekend of Palm Sunday.

Yes, you read that right: Palm Sunday.

This is shameful.

[Ben Hedlund 🦬 @BenHedlund]

@lutheranpeasant At the same time, I’ve seen conservative Catholics make a big deal about Mary’s “yes,” or even about Mary’s “fiat” (same word in Vulgate as God’s “let there be” at Creation).
Are Lutherans wrong to try to distinguish between Mary’s faith and Mary’s supposed consent/“yes”?

[Mollie @MZHemingway]

https://t.co/3VRcMlxcFS

[Ben Hedlund 🦬 @BenHedlund]

@redeemed_zoomer LOTR movies did just fine without sexual innuendos.

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@lutheranpeasant Is it fitting to compare this to Psalm 50 & 51, where the question is raised whether God is pleased with great things we do for him, when the sacrifices of God are thanksgiving and a contrite heart, i.e., penitent faith?
Or is Micah 6:8 more of a 3rd use of the Law statement?

[Ben Hedlund 🦬 @BenHedlund]

@lutheranpeasant I don’t have a text for you summing and sympathizing with Radical Lutheranism. However, if I’ve heard from Radical Lutherans, they seem pretty wild about Luther’s 1518 Heidelberg Disputation and not quite as crazy about Luther’s Large Catechism.

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@piratechristian What’s your response to him bringing up the passage in the new Large Catechism essay that speaks almost dismissively about several types of sexual deviancy? Being charitable to him in the spirit of the 8th commandment, that’s probably the basis of his exaggerated statement.

[Ben Hedlund 🦬 @BenHedlund]

@TurnipMerchant I’m not sure I’m going to take seriously some random X account to speak generally on the LCMS pastorate when it’s doing so anonymously & dismissively and painting in the worst possible light.
This is just seething, Ryan.
What’s a pious, edifying action? Do you even pray for MH?

[Ben Hedlund 🦬 @BenHedlund]

@DrJordanBCooper @razorfist I’m halfway through listening on Apple. Very interesting stuff so far, sir. Haven’t heard of several of these men. As you were describing Musaeus, I thought, “He kind of sounds like @DrJordanBCooper.”

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@becomelutheran What’s the bad podcast? The only reason why I care is if they are LCMS affiliated. So that we can be aware of who these people are and can act accordingly.

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@TurnipMerchant Who’s your alternative for synod president?