Daniel Strand

President and Editor-in-Chief @AmReformer

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My latest at @AmReformer

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America is spiritually Reformed less in doctrine but more in ethos. The sense of being the “almost chosen people” in Lincoln’s words, who was raised a Reformed Baptist and attended a Presbyterian church, is deep in our bones.

[Matthew Schmitz @matthewschmitz]

Ross is right about the vibrancy of evangelicalism. But a distinction needs to be made. The strongest currents of Protestantism in the US are Wesleyan, not Calvinist, Pentecostal rather than Presbyterian. When intellectual Protestants wax triumphant about an “evangelical century,” they are celebrating the success of a form of Christianity that differs in significant ways from their own.

I was raised in a non-denominational evangelical church. When I became “young, restless, and Reformed,” my parents were alarmed. They asked the pastor how to handle my evident defection from the faith. Whatever I believed, they thought, it wasn’t true Christianity.

Intellectual Protestants—the kind who attend Anglican churches or imbibe high-proof Calvinist texts—represent traditions of belief that have helped shape this country. But in terms of sociology and doctrine, they are alienated from the most vigorous contemporary expressions of American Christianity.

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American Moment is filling the Trump administration with the new right, and looking to play the long game.

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Bought a $3 coffee and the terminal recommended I tip a dollar. What are we doing here? You poured me a cup of coffee and I’m supposed to tip 33%?

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Something about a brand new cello. Glorious

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This is to say: the recent spate of works denouncing so-called Christian nationalism among evangelicals have it precisely backwards.

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Thesis: evangelicals are interested in morality, not politics. Power is a dirty word. Compromise is bad. That is the lifeblood of politics but they generally find it all distasteful and immoral.

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Nothing brings me more joy than seeing my children succeed and thrive. Watching young men mature into responsible and capable adults is truly a blessing and we need to talk about it much more. I love it.

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This a very American impulse. Reinhold Niebuhr deftly analyzes the phenomenon in the Social Gospelers and mainline social reform movements that tended towards a highly moralistic account of politics that ignored human nature and history. Still relevant.

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Thesis: evangelicals are interested in morality, not politics. Power is a dirty word. Compromise is bad. That is the lifeblood of politics but they generally find it all distasteful and immoral.

[Daniel Strand @DDFStrand]

Thesis: evangelicals are interested in morality, not politics. Power is a dirty word. Compromise is bad. That is the lifeblood of politics but they generally find it all distasteful and immoral.

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@BMcGrewvy I mean, most people knew he was gay, so not really surprising.

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Instant Karma is going to get you

[Breaking911 @Breaking911]

BREAKING: Virginia Democratic state Sen. Louise Lucas, 82, has been indicted on federal drug trafficking, money laundering, fraud and firearms charges. Prosecutors accuse her of helping run a marijuana distribution operation with family members and using her position to protect it and profit from it. Lucas was a leading advocate for legalizing marijuana in Virginia.

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@HansFiene Were you there?

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Here’s the thing: if you do biblical studies you will, no doubt, use scholarship by non-Christians, atheists, and theological liberals who are heretics. Some of the best scholarship comes from the unredeemed. That’s a fact. But nobody is making a stink about it. No one.

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If you are interested in the truth, you must willing to learn it from any source, even one that you find offensive. Augustine said Christians should not limit themselves to learning from only
Christians. Nietzsche, Schmitt, Foucault, Marx should all be read and discussed

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@HansFiene Oh, so when someone is officially “a scholar” then they receive special authority? Pray, do tell.

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So all the outrage over Thiel is fake and contrived. Anyone can go to American Reformer and see that we have published recent articles very critical of IVF and gay marriage. It’s cheap guilt by association and transparently petty.

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Redemption does not ensure intellectual brilliance. Many of holiest people I know are the least intellectual. That’s the beauty of the gospel. But God distributes intellectual capability how He wills.

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@matthew_loftus Read recent articles in American Reformer on surrogacy and gay marriage and you will have your answer.

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Couldn’t happen to a worse person

[Will Chamberlain @willchamberlain]

BREAKING: the federal search warrant against Ilhan Omar names her as "Ilhan Nur Said Elmi, a/k/a Ilhan Abdullahi Omar," indicating that DOJ believes she is present in the United States under a false identity!

Revealed in a scheduling order today from DDC