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Religion & Public life • Leadership Team @irfsecretariat • Board chair, @oneamericamvmt

[Hunter Baker @hunterbaker]

Starve a conflict entrepreneur. Feed an earnest and respectful engager.

[Matt Hawkins ن @mthawk]

@EWErickson Do you remember the @WSJ columns from way back about the ‘Row Effect’? I wonder how that theory holds up now. I think by @jamestaranto originally.

[Matt Hawkins ن @mthawk]

@dandarling Wow! Imma look up that PCSK9 edit! 😮

[Matt Hawkins ن @mthawk]

Congratulations @dandarling !

[Daniel Darling @dandarling]

Today, my book Biblical Wisdom for Everyday Life is available: https://t.co/VpTwoeRdz0

[Matt Hawkins ن @mthawk]

Recent romanticism about a mythical “Protestant” American nation forgets (ignores?) how bad life was in the colonies for {checks notes} Protestants. A couple good reminders via @markdtooley & @lukestamps.

See also: any history book about early America. Recommend @ThomasSKidd.

[@markdtooley @markdtooley]

In old Virginia before Jefferson/Madison Statute for Religious Freedom, nonconformist churches like this Presbyterian one in Winchester were expected to build outside town limits. I think they also couldn’t have steeples.

[Matthew Millsap @mattmillsap]

Article XVII (“Religious Liberty”) is the least-edited article across all editions of the BF&M over the past 101 years.

Why might that be?

[Matt Hawkins ن @mthawk]

Fellow #Prolife #Republicans. If you haven’t already, y’all need to start asking what we’ve received from the #GOP since #Dobbs, in 2022.

[Meg Kinnard @MegKinnardAP]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Supreme Court restores access to abortion pill mifepristone through telehealth, mail and pharmacies.

[Matt Smethurst @MattSmethurst]

This is the most detailed MRI scan of an unborn baby.

At just 20 weeks, she is moving, turning her head, kicking—even standing. Her beating heart is also visible.

Human life is a miracle.

[Arsen Ostrovsky @Ostrov_A]

This is one of the most jaw-dropping, chilling interviews I have seen. Watch this Rabbi from London, respond to question about the terror stabbing in Golders Green!

[Matt Hawkins ن @mthawk]

Amen. There are 3 avenues to a “#Christian America”:

1) Invitation (#evangelism, church planting).

2) Negotiation (38 of 50 States ratify amendment revising 1A & Article 6).

3) Revolution (force & violence).

1 & 2 affirm the #Constitution. Otherwise, something else is afoot.

[@markdtooley @markdtooley]

All the loud online voices demanding a Christian America should instead support church planting.

[@markdtooley @markdtooley]

Christian Nationalist confessional state advocates insist Founders idealized rickety shambolic Unitarian leaning New England state churches. But 1st Amendment, Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom (drafted by future 3rd & 4th presidents) & 2nd Great Awakening ensured doom of state churches. For that matter, English Civil War & Glorious Revolution foreshadowed disestablishment, as did Reformation itself.

[Justin Giboney @JustinEGiboney]

One of my biggest concerns is that Christians are being so radicalized with political and racial animosity that we’ll have no desire to be peacemakers moving forward.

Algorithms are feeding us nonstop propaganda about how great we are and how awful our political opponents are.

[Matt Hawkins ن @mthawk]

@EWErickson @adamwren Sooo embarrassing.

[cinesthetic. @TheCinesthetic]

Name a movie you've seen more than 7 times with just a GIF

[Hunter Baker @hunterbaker]

I don't understand why any Christian cares about preserving a majority for a particular race. That's not a category for us. If it is, then something else is under the hood of the vehicle, but not Christianity.

[Matt Hawkins ن @mthawk]

@dandarling @ADFLegal @firstliberty_ @FedSoc

[Daniel Darling @dandarling]

Thanks to the tireless work of our friends at places like @ADFLegal @firstliberty_ , others and @FedSoc for prioritizing originalist judges, the church is more free. We should be grateful for the conservative legal movement.

[Matt Hawkins ن @mthawk]

I’ll add one more. 🤓 The then CLC (now @erlc) hosted not one, but I think two, seminars at The White House during the Johnson admin. LBJ gave remarks during at least one of them.

Not a worship service of course, so some difference in kind. Nevertheless, plenty precedent-ed.

[Daniel Darling @dandarling]

Thomas Jefferson attended church services held by Baptist John Leland on Capitol Hill. Richard Nixon held church services in the White House. I’m begging people to read history before writing

[Daniel Darling @dandarling]

I’m praying for my friend @evanlenow as he takes this important role. Evan’s ethics textbook is one I assign for my classes. A former @SWBTS faculty member who was well loved.

[Sean Nelson @Sean_ADFIntl]

I'm not kidding here.

The Finnish Supreme Court found that Paivi's publishing her pamphlet on an internet site was fine until November 2019. But after that, it was a crime.

How?

Because prosecutors announced they were investigating the pamphlet.

Which apparently should have put Paivi "on notice" that the statements "could be" considered insulting.

So when she reposted links to the pamphlet to defend herself, she now could be said to have the requisite intent to commit a hate crime. The Court said she should have removed the offending lines before republishing ... even though she hadn't been convicted of anything, or even had charges brought against her.

So if she hadn't defended herself, she'd be innocent, but because she did, she became guilty?

Upside-down world. Orwellian.