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For by grace you have been saved through faith, and this not of yourselves, it is the gift of God; not of works, so that no one may boast. (Eph 2:8-9)

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@TrevorSheatz May God multiply grace to you and your family and may He be glorified in your testimony.

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@akoratana @matei_zaharia @pbailis @rauchg @zoink @drewhouston 100x

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Couldn't agree more. It's been so hard breaking past the small group cliques that have formed over the years at my church.

[Jayson York @jaysonyork]

Unpopular pastoral opinion:

Losing the midweek gathering of the church and replacing it with “small groups” in homes on various nights has been a net negative for the fortification and mission of the church.

There are positives, there are negatives. Overall, it’s been an L.

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@Matt_Pinner 67

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@SpursReporter I think the NBA is trying to set up a new rivalry.

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@libsoftiktok @CocaCola Be less white
#blackface
🤡

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@JoelWBerry Same here.

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@MdBreathe @SecKennedy @POTUS The only doctor worth trusting is the doctor that understands their own fallibility and the impact it could have in their patients' lives.

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@plotweaver @TrumpDailyPosts Wrong. Words have meaning... IN CONTEXT.

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@NeilShenvi 4. We should criticize what requires criticism.

Truth is the goal, not balancing sides.

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@SteveDeaceShow The entire cast is "meh".

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@NeilShenvi @SlowToWrite @ZubyMusic Cameroonian Jollof is better.

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The comments under this post (the fact that is even a thing) is the perfect illustration of everything wrong in America. I hate to say it, but good living has made us SOFT.

[Kristi Noem @KristiNoem]

We love animals, but tough decisions like this happen all the time on a farm. Sadly, we just had to put down 3 horses a few weeks ago that had been in our family for 25 years.

If you want more real, honest, and politically INcorrect stories that’ll have the media gasping, preorder “No Going Back”: https://t.co/TDCUjjMhJZ

[News24 🇿🇦 @News24]

University of Free State mathematics professor Abdon Atangana hopes his selection as one of the world’s top scientists will help to change the perception of foreigners in South Africa. | @pejames

https://t.co/cV7v5EiLa8

[Djé @darkcontinent]

This...
And same goes for the Candace Owens, Daily wire debacle

[Lisa Elizabeth @Lisaelizabeth]

For the record, two things can be true at the same time. It’s possible for Crowder to suck and be toxic and a bad husband. It’s also possible for Hillary to be vindictive and extort him. I don’t know why everyone is picking a side. I’m sure that there are good and bad aspects of both of them. We weren’t in the relationship and will never actually know. Why are we fighting with each other?

[Djé @darkcontinent]

James 1:19 - 20
Know this, my beloved brothers: let every person be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger; for the anger of man does not produce the righteousness of God.

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This right here.

[Timothy J. Martin 🦆 @foxes_on_fire]

Let's stop calling everything an idol.

I have no doubt that good intentions lie behind the "idols of the heart" language, but even that passage refers to literal demonic gods. Bathing ourselves in psychologized introspection will not sanctify us.

[Djé @darkcontinent]

I've personally heard almost every last one of these while hiking.

[2026 NBA CHAMPION 🧡💙 @bannedyoangel]

I’m wheezing laughing

[Djé @darkcontinent]

When I asked why, she said: "Because the cold doesn't bother her anyway".

#DaddysGirl

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Excellent breakdown of the issue regarding S. Wolfe and Kinism. I highly recommend this thread.

[Cody Libolt @CodyLibolt]

Not Kinism, But Kin to It

I noticed that at the G3 pre-conference Dr. Owen Strachan (intentionally? accidentally?) implied that Stephen Wolfe’s views on culture are a form of kinism.

Here are my observations.

I have criticized Stephen Wolfe in the past, but I want to represent him accurately.

I believe Stephen Wolfe would deny that he is a kinist.

The ideas within kinism themselves are likely not all that well defined, so it is possible that the word could have problems.

The term is new, and neither the Oxford English Dictionary nor Merriam-Webster have an entry for it.

Wikipedia identifies it as follows:

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Kinism is a white nationalist interpretation of Christianity.

The ideology is a "movement of anti-immigrant, 'Southern heritage' separatists who splintered off from Christian Reconstructionism to advocate that God's intended order is 'loving one's kind' by separating people along 'tribal and ethnic' lines to live in large, extended-family groups.

The Kinist ideology emerged in either the 1990s or the early 2000s.

Some kinists were associated with the Neo-Confederate League of the South; one of its members stated that:

"The non-white immigration invasion is the 'Final Solution' to the 'white' problem of the South, White race genocide. We believe the Kinism statement proposes a biblical solution for all races. If whites die out, the South will no longer exist."

The works of Robert Lewis Dabney and Rousas John Rushdoony play a large role in the ideology of many kinists.

Joel LeFevre, successor to Samuel T. Francis as editor of The Citizens Informer, the publication of the white nationalist Council of Conservative Citizens, endorsed kinism and said “Very simply, without some level of discrimination, no nation… can permanently exist at all."

Kinists claim that natural law prohibits miscegenation and racial integration.

The Anti-Defamation League notes that "Despite having an explicit, racially centric set of beliefs, Kinists often deny the claim that they are racists."

The movement is loosely organized and as a result, it does not have a single leader; as of 2003, there were various kinist activists in the United States, many of them had an Internet presence which consisted of websites and blogs.

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The Southern Poverty Law Center has called kinism "a new strain of racial separatism that wants America to be broken up into racial mini-states."[8]

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If you are familiar with Stephen Wolfe’s book “The Case for Christian Nationalism,” and with his comments on Twitter over the years, it is not hard to see why someone would find a resemblance between kinism and some of Wolfe’s claims.

Wolfe has expressed agreement with many of the above kinist concerns.

Perhaps the easiest way to show a distinction between the views would be to look at the question of racial intermarriage.

If kinism does claim that natural law prohibits miscegenation and racial integration, then we can ask whether Stephen Wolfe believes the same.

As far as I know, Wolfe has never stated such a belief, and he has tended to deny the usefulness of race itself as a category.

Wolfe speaks of “ethne” (or ethnic groups or nations), terms which refer to groups of people that have a significant shared history. The key issue for Wolfe is not genetic lines or skin color, but shared experience and culture.

From what I gather, Stephen Wolfe’s vision is that people of a distinct culture *generally* should not marry people of some different culture.

He seems to believe that individual cultures (or perhaps subcultures) ought to be preserved over time. And he seems to believe that intermarriage between cultures (perhaps subcultures) is somewhat undesirable.

His argument to stay separate and not intermarry is due not merely to differences of religion (although that would be a good reason), and not merely to differences of morality between the groups (though this would also be a good reason), but specifically to differences of culture—even when there is no prominent moral or religious difference between the two cultures.

This is not a mainstream view in America today, but it is not kinism.

It has similarities with kinism. I would be curious to know Wolfe’s precise opinions about kinism, if he has developed any.

If kinism prohibits racial intermarriage, does Stephen Wolfe disagree? And how strongly? Does he offer exceptions when a person is willing to be adopted into a new cultural group and take on its traditions? (He seems to have argued that way in the past.)

It is not easy to understand the differences in practice that would come about from Wolfe’s vision versus that of the kinists. But perhaps Wolfe is willing to allow more exceptions and to hold a more lax understanding of the general aims found within kinism.

While we cannot know the exact boundaries of Stephen Wolfe’s thinking (it is possible that he himself does not know them), I would draw your attention to a different kind of boundary—the boundaries of personal association.

Stephen Wolfe has a history of associating with people who are known to be white identitarians, anti-black bigots, etc. Many of his fans on Twitter fall into some of these categories.

Wolfe promoted a book by his longtime podcast co-host, Thomas Achord, in which we can find arguments that western civilization is decaying due to a supposed reduction of IQ as people immigrate to the west from non-western countries.

The section in the book (to be fair, it is an anthology representing wide-ranging opinions) specifically claims that:

“Immigration, diversity, and other factors will reduce the IQ of White countries,” and “will cause the collapse of Western civilization as we know it.”

These are ideas that Stephen Wolfe would be willing to associate with, at least to a degree.

What are Stephen Wolfe’s boundaries? I don’t know. But I want to understand the man and treat him fairly.

I also want to make firm statements about where I disagree with him. This is important, because a generation of young Christian men are thinking about these topics and looking for information.

It is not hard to imagine how the increasingly insane Leftist movement taking over our education system will create a counter-reaction in which many young men become more open to accepting a white identitarian ideology.

I’m willing to accept that what Stephen Wolfe teaches is not exactly kinism. It is some kind of “nationalism” — with the “nation” of his choice likely being one mostly white, theologically Reformed Christian subculture that presently exists or that could exist in the future.

Stephen Wolfe has stated:

“I agree in part with the ‘critical’ methodology of the left, but come to different conclusions and valuations.”

A generous understanding would suggest Wolfe is willing to accept that he is part of a subculture that has distinct interests and that competes within our broader society for power. Call this subculture “white and Christian” if you insist, or call it “people who have lived in a certain place for a certain amount of time.” Wolfe doesn’t seem to care how you describe it.

I would describe Wolfe’s view as a form of Cultural Collectivism. And I would propose that kinism is a different form of Cultural Collectivism. For that reason, Wolfe’s view is kin to kinism.

Wolfe’s view is also likely kin to other forms of collectivism, such as communitarianism. Traditionalist conservatism tends in that direction, rejecting “free-market fundamentalism” and instead using government regulation in an effort to preserve a traditional way of life for a specific community.

A key idea in all these variants of collectivism is the assertion that the group has a moral obligation to preserve itself.

Notice, the view is not that each member has a moral obligation to other members to help them survive or thrive as individuals. Rather, the view is that every member has a collective moral obligation to preserve the collective *as* a collective.

You can find this theme in the writings of many today in the New Right and in Traditionalist Conservatism. (See Yoram Hazony for examples. It is not surprising that Wolfe’s book has Hazony’s endorsement right on the cover.)

I find Wolfe’s collectivist framing to social theory to be incorrect. This framing gives me more concern even than his brow-raising assertions about intermarriage.

On the question of marriage, I believe it is okay morally to wish to marry someone of your own culture, and this is normal an unremarkable.

It is also okay to wish for your children to do the same. But is it okay to require this of your children? Or to require it of other people within your culture? How much is it really your business?

How much is anyone else’s life really your business? That is the question that separates variants of collectivism from strict individualism (the social theory to which I ascribe).

It is concerning to hear someone changing a permissible wish into an expectation or moral requirement.

It is more concerning when that person places himself in a position to teach the church about a Christian worldview.

Building an online platform this while associating with racial bigots brings in another set of concerns.

It is difficult to evaluate Stephen Wolfe’s intentions. Perhaps his project aims at bringing alternative conservative views more into the mainstream.

If I had to choose between including Stephen Wolfe in the realm of socially acceptable discourse or including subversive “moderates” like Russell Moore, I would not be able to make the choice quickly.

But if someone offered me a state of affairs in which both Wolfe and Moore are widely considered harmful to the church, that is the state I would choose.

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