Chris Thiessen

Scholar of theology, arts, and popular music @fullerseminary | words at @christiancent, @consequence, @bandcamp, @ew, @djbooth

[Chris Thiessen @cthiessen95]

I wrote this.

We need to create more space for singing, dancing, watching films, and telling stories together. In the face of death—whether personal or societal—such acts of perceived superfluity may be some of the only morally serious options we have.

https://t.co/z3ALs2QEWt

[Chris Thiessen @cthiessen95]

@artwithinpod I accidentally bought ScreenX ticket for Sinners last year and thought it was just insanely gimmicky. Never again

[Chris Remke @ccremke]

"Nashvegas" used to be a sardonic joke. Now, it’s a reality threatening Nashville's soul, aided and abetted by our Council's Planning and Zoning Committee and their puppets at the Planning Commission. They are full-bore focused on making room for Vegas at the expense of NashNatives.

People look at the zoning disasters and ask, "Are they really this blind and incompetent?" The truth is, they want you to think it's a huge "miss." That's why they look into the news cameras, totally "astonished" by the massive tax bills and displacement destroying our neighborhoods.

Don't buy the fake surprise. They built the machine, they pulled the lever, and now they are playing dumb.
The mechanics are working exactly as designed: more density - more inflation - more gentrification of NashNatives and BizNatives.

https://t.co/KUn3I1sze7

https://t.co/RCJeNCkW3Q

#NashPol #PropertyTax #NashvilleHousing

[Georgia Coley @artwithinpod]

I love Nashville (and so much else about this place) with a fiery passion but days like today make me deeply embarrassed to say that I live in the state of Tennessee

[Chris Thiessen @cthiessen95]

@artwithinpod It’s top 3.

[Chris Thiessen @cthiessen95]

I had the pleasure of responding to Bad Bunny’s gospel this week!

“Our resistance against oppression need not suck the vibrancy out of life. Joy and lament can exist alongside each other. Perhaps they must.”

https://t.co/JkWdlr4bmS

[Dan McClellan @maklelan]

Because contemporary American Evangelicalism is primarily a right wing authoritarian social club & the costly signaling & credibility enhancing displays that are the currency in that club have far more to do with the culture wars & apologetics than with learning about Jesus.

[Chris Thiessen @cthiessen95]

@philvischer @MyDumbAlias @gplawhorn Im curious, do you see these comments (implying by the deletion that you did in fact find Bad Bunny et al to be degenerate) as different from the dehumanizing racism you condemned just days ago from the president?

[Chris Thiessen @cthiessen95]

@Jaclynkathleen_ @NESpower Looks like the third picture is here

[Chris Thiessen @cthiessen95]

@tealibrarian @NashSevereWx Same over in the Brick Church area. Nothing falling for at least 30 min

[David Dark's Coordinated Campaign (of Love) @DavidDark]

“[@tylerthecreator's] Don’t Tap the Glass is, at heart, a call to live into such love–embodied in our movements, our relationships, and our willingness to risk looking foolish together as we dance to and from God." @cthiessen95 https://t.co/WCEUrXBRp2

[Chris Thiessen @cthiessen95]

Wrote about Superman https://t.co/LuEJ0rmu0V

[Chris Thiessen @cthiessen95]

@perpetua Wow, this has not been my experience at all

[Chris Thiessen @cthiessen95]

@CineMasai_ @hearingthingsco Been waiting to read this until I saw the movie tonight. Goddamn. Thank you for writing.

[Chris Thiessen @cthiessen95]

@tinyengines Hey! 👋

[Chris Thiessen @cthiessen95]

@DavidDark The irony of calling anyone else smug and self-assured.

[Chris Thiessen @cthiessen95]

@TheAlanNoble Honest questions: have any progressive leaders shown themselves to be this vengeful and reckless in their policies?

Are progressive leaders anti-Christian?

Shouldn’t we first address the attack on Harvard, a school that does support Christian scholarship, as an evil in itself?

[✍🏼 roxana | ✊🏼 zivar | ⚒️ hadadi @roxana_hadadi]

thinking "we have to protect our mother" about the earth after going on a vanity space flight funded by a billionaire whose company is destroying said planet is just so funny, she's got jokes

[Chris Thiessen @cthiessen95]

@brannonmc @DavidDark But how do you get yourself to create the massive body of work when your imposter syndrome keeps you from feeling capable of trying? 🤔

[Walter Kirn @walterkirn]

People who think art is a consumable that can be produced by machines forget that it is, in fact, an act of communication across time and space between mortal beings. It creates a relationship between them whose liveliness and dynamism probably has to do with the receiver consciously and unconsciously retracing the making of the piece and judging, based on abiding human commonalities, the motives and conditions of the creator. None of these factors come in to play with synthetic, machine-made art. That it feels compelling at all at this stage -- that it seems to bear traces of "personality" -- stems from our memory of real encounters with the works from which it derives and which it imitates.