Brittany Duyka, MD

North Houston Neonatologist 🩺 Christian physician passionate about the intersection of faith and medicine ✝️. Wife and mother 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Opinions are my own.

[David Bearman @DavidBearman]

Still one of the greatest skits ever.

[Brittany Duyka, MD @bduykamd]

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[Tim Alberta @TimAlberta]

My conviction remains:

God did not ordain Donald Trump to rescue the American church, or revive the American church, or redeem the American church.

God ordained Donald Trump to test the American church. And the American church has failed.

[Russell Moore @drmoore]

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[Beth Moore @BethMooreLPM]

I share this post in earnest and (what may prove a naive) hope that a few people caught in the situation I’m about to describe will hear instead of rushing to the usual tropes, criticisms and caricatures. For what it’s worth, I offer this in good faith.

Between 2016 and 2022, I faced a test of the genuineness of my faith so large and consequential, I’m almost at a loss to think of the right adjectives to describe it. It might not have been so big to someone else but it involved so much of my Christian identity, it was all but existential. Well more than that. It was a dying.

It is this test that helps me understand why people who seem deeply devoted to the Lord Jesus and hold the scriptures in highest esteem also hold to a system, institution or leader no matter what they do and defend a side or individual to a degree that is baffling.

I can tell you why because I had to face every bit of it. Identity, community, camaraderie, what we’ve known and loved, what part of it we still love, the people we loved, the people we still love, reputation, what people will think, how you will be judged and condemned and thrown over to the other side who doesn’t want you either. And to whom you also do not align and would not belong. Friendships. How you will be misunderstood and misrepresented. How adrift and alone you will feel. How disliked.

And then there’s this and it would be a mistake to minimize it: your JOB. Your source of income. Your vocation.

This is the part of the crisis I most write these words to convey because I think they are most in play for many right now, whether in media, ministry or politics.

Let me try to put this in the words that were constantly resonant in my spirit in those years. And to this day.

Though you have no other place to go, Beth, and no place to fit and it not only MAY have financial repercussions but WILL have financial repercussions to the ministry and to your family and will also make them targets and none of it will ever look the same or be the same, will you choose what you believe to be right and put everything else in your vocational life at risk?

This is what is at risk for many people whose professional reputations and positions are tied up with leaders, institutions and political parties. Mine was, too. The cost is enormous and the options are often untenable. And so there we are.

Having to cast ourselves on the mercy of God. Not for a third way. But as THE ONLY WAY. The only truth. The only life.

I’ve made multiple errors in judgment. Jumped too quickly to condemn. Spoken wrongly. Remained silent wrongly and confusingly. I never get it completely together.

But what I will tell you is that I believe we are meant first and foremost to call out our own house, our own side, and our own identity group for its mind-boggling hypocrisy. These were my people. Evangelicals. Conservatives.

Claim what you will but I know who I am:

I am pro life from conception to casket.
I am pro small government.
I am pro godliness and the pursuit of a holy life.
I am pro marriage and family and pro-those God calls to remain single and sanctified and I’m deeply thankful for them.
I am pro traditional sexual ethics.
I am pro love of God and love of neighbor and the dignity of every person as an image bearer of Christ.
I am pro love all.
I am pro church. I believe in the community of the saints.
I am pro Bible study to the death and believe the aim of all discipleship is to know and love and follow and emulate Jesus Christ.
I am pro gospel. Dear God in heaven, I am pro gospel. I believe there is one name by whom we must be saved. Jesus.

What I am not is pro Trump.

Wasn’t pro Clinton. Wasn’t pro Biden. But those were not the candidates many in the world that I loved so much were cheering on.

I accept that Donald Trump is my president. I pray for him on a regular basis. I’m a law abiding citizen and pay my taxes. But I believe Trump fosters something in people that makes them lose their way.

[Russell Moore @drmoore]

Racist. Deranged. Humiliating to our country. The fact that we have decided to pretend to this is normal every day is a moral abomination. Have we any shame?

And every day an entire generation is being told it is “Christian” to support this. God have mercy on us.

[Brittany Duyka, MD @bduykamd]

@alisa_childers All of these things you posted does not excuse this. It’s not a zero sum game. Or as my mama said “2 wrongs don’t make a right”. Christians can and should vehemently stand against this post and it does not disqualify them from believing any of those points you made

[Kaashif Ahmad, MD, MSc ❤️‍🔥 @kaashif_ahmad]

“The care I provided in the delivery room to ensure that this baby survived: 1.94 RVUs (code 99464). The bundle of services my obstetrical colleagues provided for this mother, including her 15 prenatal appointments, her labor, her vaginal delivery, and her postpartum care: 36.58 RVUs (code 59400). Elsewhere in the hospital, if my physician colleagues perform 30 minutes of hair removal by electrolysis: 264.87 RVUs (code 17380).”

[Zach W. Lambert @ZachWLambert]

@Bdubs1776 Jesus Christ is God, he rose again on the third day, and he told us that the way we treat the hungry, thirsty, immigrant, poor, sick, and imprisoned is the way we treat him.

[Brittany Duyka, MD @bduykamd]

@howertonjosh To be clear, I can understand why a Christian must overlook these faults, just as I understand why to some these can’t be overlooked. However as a pastor speaking in the pulpit, they must be careful to not align with a political leader and only align themselves with Jesus.

[Brittany Duyka, MD @bduykamd]

@howertonjosh Unfortunately, the other party supports at best a womanizer and promiscuous adulterer and at worst a convicted rapist (depending on what you choose to believe), hateful rhetoric towards immigrants, and demonization of opponents. A pastor has to be above reproach.

[Brittany Duyka, MD @bduykamd]

@EdKrassen Yes

[Brittany Duyka, MD @bduykamd]

@realJennaEllis @GovRonDeSantis @realDonaldTrump Trump was never pro-life anytime before he ran for president. He said what he had to in 2016 to get the white evangelical base. He got that now he’s showing his true colors. There were more pro-life choices on the ticket in primary but he already tied up the evangelical vote.

[Brittany Duyka, MD @bduykamd]

@MikeCosper @madeleinekearns

[Brittany Duyka, MD @bduykamd]

@conservmillen That’s why I tried to get people to vote for Haley in the primary. I’m frustrated but not surprised as he has never been prolife. He is an excellent conman though.

[Brittany Duyka, MD @bduykamd]

@DelaKram75 I think that this is a good time to point out that women not working outside the home is a post ww2 phenomenon not a biblical command

[Brittany Duyka, MD @bduykamd]

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[Brittany Duyka, MD @bduykamd]

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