mdsimants

Husband, Father, Teacher, Doctoral student, Theologian (Wesleyan/Global/Liberation), Methodist, Traveler, Coffee Drinker. I tweet only on my own behalf.

[mdsimants @mdsimants]

A 🧵 of complete 📚 I’ve finished in 2024:

[P.R. Neider🐦‍🔥 @Methodist_Prime]

People often flatten Wesley’s soteriology into a debate about human free will. That misses the architecture entirely. The via salutis in Wesley is a Trinitarian drama, Father, Son, and Spirit each doing something irreplaceable.

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@JoshuaBarzon UMC or Anglican

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@Protestia I don’t understand where the “closing eyes to worship or pray” came from in the first place.

[Tim Amor @TimAAmor]

The homily is not being "political" when it points out political, social, & economic sins.

It is simply the word of God becoming incarnate in our reality, which often reflects not God's reign but sin.

-St. Oscar Romero

[Tim Amor @TimAAmor]

“It is absolutely forbidden to repay evil with evil.”

~Tertullian 🐢 ❤️

[mdsimants @mdsimants]

@JoshuaBarzon Absolutely not

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@ShaneRaynor @jb_61820 I’ve published on it.

Wesley held a clear view of this throughout his life. Perfection=loving god and loving neighbor.

Can that lead to aimlessness? Yes. Sin, according to Basil, is misuse of power. Loving God and loving neighbor means we’re rightly using power.

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@jb_61820 @ShaneRaynor Wesley’s view of Christian perfection was simple. Love God and love neighbor.

[mdsimants @mdsimants]

@ShaneRaynor Wesley’s definition of Christian perfection? Lots. But I’m also Methodist.

[Tim Amor @TimAAmor]

“Only without the sword can the Christian wage war: the Lord has abolished the sword.”

~Tertullian

[mdsimants @mdsimants]

There are moments when resistance becomes necessary.
But the Christian tradition also insists that the way we resist matters.
https://t.co/2ds1UHbN0m

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God’s response to empire is not to build a better empire, but to show a different way of being human.

[Tim Amor @TimAAmor]

“When we refuse to see the image of God in others, we prepare our hearts for violence.

Racism & genocide begin not with weapons, but with a failure to love.”

~Henri Nouwen

[mdsimants @mdsimants]

Presence is not neutral.

You can move into a neighborhood, stay for years, and still never be changed by it.

That’s not incarnation.

That’s control with proximity.

https://t.co/fCe0VgGO8G

[Tim Amor @TimAAmor]

Our love for our neighbour, especially the neighbour who is very different from us, is proof of our love for God.

Our theology, no matter how good, becomes irrelevant & idolatrous when it's not used in service of loving God & neighbour.

~@richvillodas

[Ryan Burge 📊 @ryanburge]

If you attend a church that averages 80 people on Sunday, that's higher than the median.

If your church has 300 folks show up, that's 4x higher than the median.

The average church is small, folks.

70 people is the median.

[Derek Vreeland @DerekVreeland]

“The Bible speaks with one voice of God coming to live with humans. Of God coming to be at home with us humans…The overarching story assumed in the New Testament is not about humans going to be with God, but about God coming to be with humans.” - N.T. Wright

[The Connexionalist 🚀🛰🇺🇦 🐆 🤿 @PattMattrick]

There was a legitimate move of the Holy Spirit on the Artemis II mission.

You may not like that…but it happened.

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

Let us reject the logic of violence and war, and embrace peace founded on love and justice—an unarmed peace, not based on fear, threats or weapons. This peace is disarming, because it is capable of resolving conflicts, opening hearts, and generating trust, empathy, and hope. I strongly reiterate: The world thirsts for #Peace! Enough of war and all the pain it causes through death, destruction, and exile! #ApostolicJourney #Cameroon

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@PattMattrick The whole “theologians weren’t there” turn is wild.