Melissa Porter (she/her)

Pursuing education in liberating theology. Learning theology of love and inclusion.

[Melissa Porter (she/her) @MelPorts]

@TylerHuckabee Hi this might be me! I've loved Switchfoot forever, have since deconstructed (though still attending seminary), stopped listening to all CCM/worship, but Switchfoot is a staple. Their music means a ton to me and they still feel like a safe and familiar place. Seeing them in Nov!

[Melissa Porter (she/her) @MelPorts]

Human Overboard has been a beautiful and sacred album for me by @rhettmc since it came out.
What I didn't expect was to do an entire project revolving around the song Fruit for my seminary class on grief and loss.

Grief around religious experience and faith is a wild journey.

[Rick Warren @RickWarren]

State conventions are wisely shielding their churches from the new Inquisition, so they were only asked for numbers, not names. Added together, at least 1,928 SBC churches have women pastors quietly serving on staff. Most are in larger, growing churches. About half are ordained.

[Rick Warren @RickWarren]

The SBC allows churches to disagree on interpreting 6 essential doctrines of our salvation in Christ

You just don't dare call a female staff (who's done 100s of funerals & pastoral care for 26 yrs) a pastor

That gets you kicked out.

Strange what matters most to some Baptists

[Julie Roys @reachjulieroys]

A study finds that 4 megachurches—@Hillsong @ElevationChurch @PassionCity & @BethelMusic—essentially have a monopoly on what evangelical churches sing

@WorshipResearch contributors discuss how churches & worship ldrs can navigate current music landscape
https://t.co/IH70tp5ZJZ

[Melissa Porter (she/her) @MelPorts]

@shaunstvn @LauraRbnsn Shaun, I’m dying. A friend of mine quoted this thread so I started reading the thread and responses and read yours. Then I was like “this sounds like Shaun from seminary”…and then I realized…it IS Shaun from seminary 😂😂 Looks like we exist in the same Twitter-sphere! 😂

[Beth Moore @BethMooreLPM]

My guess is you already knew that. But sometimes we need it in writing. Sacred writing. Holy Ghost writing. Living, breathing shiny wet ink & in no obscure tongue. Like, plainly. Obviously. In elementary terms, no exegesis or assembly required.

Feel lost? Like you don’t belong?

[Beth Moore @BethMooreLPM]

YOU BELONG.

YOU
BELONG
TO
CHRIST.

No person, system, institution or incarceration on earth can take away your belonging. No angel in glory, no power of darkness. YOU can’t even take your belongingness away. It can’t be cancelled or shamed from you or voted off from you.

[Melissa Porter (she/her) @MelPorts]

This is incredible. I’m writing a sermon on Psalm 23 and this really ties into my lament of how we care for our people. This is gorgeous.

[Melissa Porter (she/her) @MelPorts]

Really great article here. Also food for thought as I’m literally sermon prepping right now on Ps 23 for this weekend (my first time back to preaching since 2018).

[Melissa Porter (she/her) @MelPorts]

@madamspeaker This fills me with a level of rage that I cannot put into words.

[Melissa Porter (she/her) @MelPorts]

@annalisemporter isn’t exaggerating. I got many a phone call of her driving out to try to catch video of this with every rainstorm 😂

Now I understand why!

[Annalise (she/her) @annalisemporter]

Incredible #nmwater footage, thanks for sharing!

I tried multiple times to catch a moment like this, in a dry stretch after a rainstorm or release, in central NM but never was able to. Love to see it.

[Melissa Porter (she/her) @MelPorts]

For Uvalde and the borderless chorus, by @SarahBessey https://t.co/5YkYYCXcRg

[Melissa Porter (she/her) @MelPorts]

@annalisemporter I need you to participate. Also which brewery?

[Leah Payne @drleahpayne]

Dr. Melissa Archer analyzing how Pentecostals depict #thejezebelspirit in books, song, sermons, and film. #sps #sps2022 #jezebel

[Dara Coleby Delgado, PhD @DaraDelgado]

There is no Jezebel spirit in this text…[Rev 2:18-29] however, there is bad exegesis and equally bad theologies.

{The final word by @cb_johns}