Jeff Cavanaugh

A Buckeye in the Bluegrass State.

[Jeff Cavanaugh @jccavanaugh]

Texas friends, as I’ve been saying for a decade, when faced with a choice between a soullessly corrupt grifter and someone who shares almost none of your values, you can just not vote for either. It’s the principled thing to do.

[Jeff Cavanaugh @jccavanaugh]

@BaptistBlogger Could you just state your concerns plainly?

[Jeff Cavanaugh @jccavanaugh]

@dieworkwear In 2008 I was a StyFo kid working at Brooks Brothers and, at my store manager’s insistence, we attempted to fit a bodybuilder for a MTM suit. It was just as bad a disaster as you’d imagine.

[Jeff Cavanaugh @jccavanaugh]

@allhopeissean I’m not bike-lane unfriendly and I genuinely don’t understand the design. There are half-height curbs a bike lane’s width away from the sidewalk curb; a parking meter over on the sidewalk, and no parking spaces striped or indicated anywhere.

[Jeff Cavanaugh @jccavanaugh]

@zillowgonewild 3.375%, June 2020

[Jonah Goldberg @JonahDispatch]

Small reminder: if you took conservative positions on the Constitution, the economy, foreign policy, or basic morality and then radically changed them solely because a Republican was elected president who changed the party’s positions, you were never really a conservative, you were just a Republican.

[Jeff Cavanaugh @jccavanaugh]

This man graduated from @SBTS twice, including recently with a research degree, and understands Scripture worse than my 6yo.

[Michael Wear @MichaelRWear]

I've attended the National Prayer Breakfast for much of the past two decades. I staffed the President and worked on his speech there for four years. I wrote extensively about the breakfast in my first book. One purpose of the Breakfast in history has been to position presidents and political leaders in such a way that they are humbled--their remarks typically focused on ways they fell short, the nation's reliance on grace that politics and politicians can't provide, etc.

Not until this president has someone gone to the breakfast to make so much of himself, and so little of God. And he does it every year. These aren't policy disagreements. These aren't differences resulting from Church-State separation. This is Donald Trump going to a convening that has a central focus on the power of relationship with Jesus as the transformative force in the world, and he uses that opportunity to make light of prayer and suggest he'll go to heaven because he's earned his way in. He goes to a convening built on the premise that Jesus transcends all divides in society, including partisan ones, and says an entire group of people *who are specifically recruited and asked to be in the room and on the program* actually do not belong there. Like he did at a memorial service for one of his most prominent supporters, in previous years he's gone to the breakfast to directly contradict Jesus' teachings on loving your enemies.

During the Clinton years, the Clintons sat on the dais while Mother Teresa lovingly confronted him on the issue of abortion. Now, people sit at their own breakfast while this president mocks their deepest beliefs to their face. And he tells them they love it. He tells them they're lucky to have him.

[Jeff Cavanaugh @jccavanaugh]

When you flip-flop, you abandon your credibility and moral authority *in both positions*.

What you say can’t be trusted now, and you’re proving what you said then couldn’t be trusted, either.

[Jeff Cavanaugh @jccavanaugh]

2014 Mohler vs. 2026 Mohler

https://t.co/xPYXRbVC3b

[Albert Mohler @albertmohler]

"It's not so much that I think empathy is wrongly defined. It is the fact that I don't think empathy is a thing. I don't think it's real. It is a substitute for a real Christian morality."

From today's edition of The Briefing. You can listen here: https://t.co/Rk7A7M7lXc

[Jeff Cavanaugh @jccavanaugh]

@pastorclint IMO it’s unwise for the president of the SBC to be signal-boosting Presbyterian organizations in disguise, even to correct them.

[Jeff Cavanaugh @jccavanaugh]

@jrbergsten @CalumDouglas1 Capacitor, not condenser.

[Jeff Cavanaugh @jccavanaugh]

@unlimited_ls That sword is a plastic toy. I bought one for my 11yo.

[Jeff Cavanaugh @jccavanaugh]

@hunterbaker A lot was, of course, but he was a yards-after-contact monster. Look at that run vs. the Falcons!

[Jeff Cavanaugh @jccavanaugh]

@9Marks Great piece, I’ve been thinking this way for a few years. One Q: if a church has a practice of the congregation electing non-staff deacons, doesn’t it go against the grain of this argument to have church staff who are hired/fired without congregational assent? @JonathanLeeman

[Jeff Cavanaugh @jccavanaugh]

@GShaneMorris Yeah, halfway true. The other half of it was a lot of unbiblical modesty standards and shifting responsibility for men’s purity to women.

[Jeff Cavanaugh @jccavanaugh]

@sometimesalight Hannah shhh you’re gonna start a fight here

[Jeff Cavanaugh @jccavanaugh]

@sometimesalight As a lifelong Baptist who’s now in ACNA I don’t know whether I feel rebellious or what for agreeing with you wholeheartedly 🤣

[Jeff Cavanaugh @jccavanaugh]

@sometimesalight You’re not wrong, just singling CNs out here feels like an exercise in missing the point for lolz when there are real issues of serious concern for the global Anglican Communion.

https://t.co/CJsjYeqe9P

[Jeff Cavanaugh @jccavanaugh]

@sometimesalight I love a good historical swat down of a CN as much as anyone, but let’s not pretend that brothers and sisters for centuries and around the world today haven’t happily bowed to female sovereigns while believing in male-only clergy/episcopacy.