Seth Slay

Pastor, father, husband. I like to tweet about the church and things I think are funny. Sometimes my opinions get me in trouble.

[Seth Slay @slayseth]

The content in this video is some of the most toxic theology I’ve ever heard.

[Seth Slay @slayseth]

@FunAuntPam You are on fire lately, Pan.

[Lura Groen @lura_groen]

Both peer-reviewed sociological research and the lived experience of Black people show that white people without conscious racism often act in the same ways as those who are overtly racist. It is only the stories we tell ourselves about why that are different.

[Seth Slay @slayseth]

@LLPH Ohh same. Seems to go against what Jesus taught if we care about ourselves more than our neighbor!

[Seth Slay @slayseth]

Question to Christians who feel like God is using the pandemic (and everything it’s brought up) to open your eyes to the injustice around you:

How has your faith changed and what are you doing with the tension that comes with possibly “outgrowing” the tradition you grew up in?

[Seth Slay @slayseth]

And one more caveat: I’d love to hear all sides of this conversation, because I think this is an important moment in the life of the Church, but it’s also incredibly divisive. This is not meant to be an exercise in confirmation bias. I want to learn and need help processing.

[Seth Slay @slayseth]

Also, please don’t hastily label me a heretic for asking a damn question. It’s an honest question, and I can’t help but think I’m not alone in asking it.

[Seth Slay @slayseth]

“It’s weird being a person.”
- Elliott, age 7.

Yes, son. It is.

[Shane Claiborne @ShaneClaiborne]

The gravity of the Gospel pulls us towards the suffering of the world rather than away from it.

Jesus moved into the very neighborhoods that many people try to move out of.

Jesus left all the comfort of Heaven to join the struggle here on earth.

[Carlos Whittaker @loswhit]

Make clinical trials, data, and peer reviewed studies great again.

[Shane Claiborne @ShaneClaiborne]

Trump may bless the suburbs. But Jesus blessed the poor... No Christian can defend this anti-Christian rhetoric. The Gospel of Jesus sounds nothing like the “gospel” of Trump.

[Seth Slay @slayseth]

This is America.

[Seth Slay @slayseth]

@KyleJamesHoward I had this exact same thought. He’s definitely being strategic with what he’s posting to downplay the whole reason he was “cancelled” in the first place.

[Seth Slay @slayseth]

Police brutality deniers: for every answer of “they shouldn’t have broken the law,” or “they shouldn’t have resisted arrest,” ask yourself this:

“Did they deserve to die for it?”

The answer is undoubtedly “NO.”

At least recognize that as a problem.

[Seth Slay @slayseth]

One of the things I think the modern church gets wrong is the idea of rejecting “culture” for the sake of being “in the world but not of it.” How are we supposed to have any kind of witness if we know nothing about culture? Be holy in the world as you are wholly in the world.

[Sean Isaac Palmer (Taylor’s Version) @seanpalmer]

If you can support a candidate and not endorse “everything he does,” I can support an organization and not support everything they do. Just playing by your rules, folks!

[Seth Slay @slayseth]

Did people just forget that the whole idiom is “a few bad apples SPOIL THE WHOLE BUNCH”

[Shane Claiborne @ShaneClaiborne]

Michael Che points out the irony...
white folks tell black folks to "get over it."
Slavery was 400 years ago.
Segregation ended a generation ago.
The last police shooting was a couple of weeks ago...
But when it comes to 9/11... we all say "Never forget."
https://t.co/kpwVElfs5Q

[Seth Slay @slayseth]

@slay5 Oh wow, so I guess racism was cured because of a disproportionate amount of black colleges springing up! Let’s go erect a couple of statues of people who think black people are subhuman so make up for lost time.