@Kaegler

see I’m just a simple Bible preacher — the Word says “release for captives” I say “God will release the captives,” the Word says “set the oppressed free,” I say “God sets the oppressed free”!!! if that’s “gobbedygook,” then those boys aren’t reading their Bibles

Ever read Gerhard Forde? His text "Loser Takes All: The Victory Christ" has a similar take.

"some legal experts have called it a crime to summarily execute civilians" says today's New York Times, continuing their long tradition of whitewashing fascism

Absolute all-timer sentence in today's @nytimes.com

Never seen that before.

1/ There is nothing that demonstrates Christian Nationalism-driven American Evangelicalism as clearly as a man with a Cross on his back ... with a wheel underneath it to make the load easier to carry.

But your child will insist on hearing that song most bath times. Your child's other parent will also be requested to sing it, and will be utterly bewildered. And it is entirely possible that your child's sense of music all together will have this floating around somewhere within.

While remembering it, you will (by compulsion) start belting out "Wash my hair back and forth," alternating between an impression of Jimmy Fallon impersonating Neil Young, and an impression of Bruce Springsteen at his most gravelly.
Your child will have no idea who Jimmy, Neil, Bruce, or Willow are

In that sketch, Jimmy Fallon pretends to be Neil Young circa 1980, who alongside with Bruce Springsteen (also dressed as though he were in the year 1980) covered "Whip My Hair" by Willow Smith.

Parenting is weird because one day, while dealing with frankly unreasonable degrees of sleep-deprivation, and giving your child a bath, you will remember a 2010 Jimmy Fallon sketch completely unbidden.

The Kimmel suspension is a much bigger deal than you know.

It's really about a growing alliance between Trump and the companies that own America's local TV stations - like Nexstar - to turn local TV into Trump propaganda.

1/ Let me tell you the short story. It's chilling.

Kimmel was suspended for offending the president, after coordination between the FCC commissioner and a huge media company.

This thread underscores an important, overlooked part of all this: To get his job back, he's been told he must make a contribution to a Christian nationalist organization.

Early 00s, New Jersey. Libertarian history teacher boasted about registering D to vote in the primaries for the weakest candidate. Republican chemistry teacher asked Muslim students if they put burning World Trade Centers on their Christmas trees.

a man wearing glasses and a black shirt with a netflix logo ALT: a man wearing glasses and a black shirt with a netflix logo

TFW you are notified that Trump's tariffs are making you pay an extra 160 dollars for a cassock you ordered months ago.

Interaction documented by Harry Aronson, in "Minnesbilder"

A theology student in Lund, circa 1950, just walking to a cathedral, doing nothing in particular

Gustaf Wingren: *nearly crashes into them while leaving said cathedral* "Barth is the most important theological thinker of our day - who thinks wrongly."

Theology student: *confusion and terror*

What actually happens is the market collapses thanks to BSE, calf prices crater, and you’re left owing money after you factor in the price of feed. Ask me how I know.

Too bad the GOP effectively criminalized studying how information moves online and news orgs laid off and demonized all the reporters who covered the burgeoning online accelerationist performative death cults. All of that work was somehow "censorship" that needed to be stopped. Now we're here.

Tooley's the guy that, if you reconstructed the public timeline of events, was previously removed from his position after he (almost definitely) threatened his ex-wife with a weapon, then the police immediately searched his house and found an unregistered weapon in his bedside table.

newspaper article about glinner. Headline is "I was treated like a terrorist for my tweets, says Linehan"

When I was announced as the lead in a Doctor Who spinoff in 2023 Graham Linehan tweeted about me for TWO DAYS, tagging the BBC and others to say that I am pro-child abuse and they shouldn't work with me.

Unpopular take: the thing I miss most about growing up in North Jersey is the blue laws.

U.S. Customs and Bor... @ • Follow •• 1d • Good morning and happy Monday. Here's your reminder to start your week with coffee, not cuffs.

The messaging from this administration has the same vibe as a cross set ablaze in someone’s front yard. It’s about communicating menace and instilling terror, the opposite of what the government of a free and democratic society should be doing.

Shout out to model train enthusiasts. Y’all found a good thing and kept it, and share it. I admire that.

Wanna know what would be great? A fall Sam Adam’s variety pack without the pumpkin beer.

Unpack that question?

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more evidence of crypto doing the thing it was designed to do: corrupt and destroy the world's democracies

https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2025/08/15/czech-police-arrest-donor-in-billion-dollar-bitcoin-scandal-report

#czechrepublic #czpol #eupol #crime #crypto #cryptocurrency #moneylaundering

"Well it's not a theology that the council for liturgy will tell you, but have you really thought about the role of the epiclesis in Holy Communion? What does it say about us theologically? Is the promise not enough?"

I'm grateful for those nudges.
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I've never read much of his work, to be honest - a handful of articles during a Lutheran Polity course, and a winking "be careful" nudge from a few professors as though they were telling me about the legend of Darth Plagueis.
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