Amar D. Peterman

Truly an honor to review this incredible book, @drrachelwagner.bsky.social!

The self-appointed cowboy messiah Rachel Wagner traces the way frontier fantasies and apocalyptic faith fuel today’s gun-obsessed...

“@drrachelwagner.bsky.social names two foundational influences behind this cowboy messiah ideology: Christian apocalypticism and American frontier mythology.”

– @amarpeterman.bsky.social reviews Cowboy Apocalypse

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@nyupress.bsky.social

Today is a great day to unlearn the kind of Christian "love" that only serves to justify hatred, exclusion, and othering.

I believe they're aiming for the fall issue! I'll be sure to post and tag you in it once I see it.

Is the Epstein Controversy an Apocalyptic Moment for the MAGA Movement? Trump’s 180-degree turn on the Epstein files has not gone unnoticed by his base. Will it matter?

I can't excerpt this entire article so I am imploring you to read it. @amarpeterman.bsky.social takes a complicated Q of how those on the left should respond to Trump's flip-flop on Epstein Files and flips it into a careful, thoughtful, analysis and explanation. I am floored by Amar's work.

Book review for the Christian Century!

you have a calling: a conversation with karen swallow prior beauty, desire, platform culture, and the sacred dignity of everyday work

It was a joy to talk with Karen Swallow Prior about her latest book "You Have a Calling."

Whether you're discerning your own vocation or wrestling with the pressures of productivity, Karen offers a rich, unhurried reflection on what it means to be called.

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Becoming Neighbors The work of cultivating the common good starts in your own neighborhood.In Becoming Neighbors, Amar D. Peterman explores how the common good can be cultivate...

Pre-orders for my first book, "Becoming Neighbors: The Common Good Made Local," are now available!

At the heart of this book is a simple but critical question: How will we live? I believe the answer for Christians is clear: We live as neighbors.

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"May we learn that living things do not live just for us, that they live for themselves and for you, and that they love the sweetness of life as much as we do, and serve you, in their place, better than we do in ours."

- Walter Rauschenbusch, _Prayers of the Social Awakening_

"If our most powerful elites are now essentially beyond the reach of accountability, as they increasingly seem to be, then why suppose that our polity qualifies as a democratic republic at all? It appears to function, rather, as a plutocracy."

- Jeff Stout, _Blessed are the Organized_, xv.

how to celebrate the 4th of july in 2025 a christian('s) response to the "big beautiful bill"

I’ve had enough of “Christians” who claim to follow the teachings of Jesus…but would fail to recognize Jesus if he stood at the southern border, at the grocery store with an EBT card, or in the hospital waiting room without health insurance.

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and yet, death what defunding the suicide and crisis lifeline reminds us about maga america

No matter what you believe politically or theologically about the LGBTQ+ community, the elimination of this lifeline should infuriate all of us.

It is discrimination.

It is fearmongering.

It is homophobia.

It is hate.

It is polarized partisanship.

It is death-dealing action.

For Such a Time as This A devotional for ordinary Christians seeking to live faithfully in extraordinary times“This is not the first end of the world. Many worlds have ended.”In...

It's official! "For Such a Time as This: An Emergency Devotional" is coming out late summer with @eerdmansbooks.bsky.social #EmergencyDevotional
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Can Christians End Our Quest for Control? For self-interested nations, the good road of Jesus can be a terrible way to run a society.

In response to the deeply disordered quest for control, Christian leaders must...choose the path of neighbor-love.

This doesn’t mean that we abandon our society’s common life. Rather, we must reimagine what this common life might look like.

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My latest in @sojo.net:

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“When faith fades, the gun steps in.”

Rachel Wagner _ Cowboy Apocalypse: Religion and the Myth of the Vigilante Messiah_

To live in constant prayer, to lead a contemplative life, is nothing else than to live in the actual presence of God.

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To exist at all, to be a human being, to be this particular human being, is only possible because of this Presence.

- Abhishiktananda, _Prayer_.

I would say, for the moment, that community, at least community larger than the immediate family, consists very largely of imaginative love for people we do not know or whom we know very slightly. - Marilynne Robinson

Truly such an incredible two days back in Green Bay — first, to meet @andyhermannfl.bsky.social and hear him talk football for 2 hours, and second, to see this city come alive in mid April for this once-in-a-lifetime event. #GoPackGo

We are made to belong with and to one another.

Christ receives only to give away,

he merits only to share.

What do we have that we have not received?

What do we have that we have not received?

All we have is given to us by God.

Our breath, our bodies, our souls, our thoughts.

All of reality—all we experience—teaches us our utter dependence on the Lord Jesus,

not our autonomy from him.

This dependence is not a curse.

Holy Saturday:

Good Friday Does Not Glorify Suffering Many churches I've attended did not know what to do with the gross injustice and violence of the cross.

For the one who exploits, profits dishonestly, manipulates, fosters division, and prioritizes themselves over the whole, the cross reminds us that there is judgment.

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“You cannot remember what you’ve been taught to forget” how much can we forget of christ before we can no longer re-member him?

It is a rejection of all the systems, powers, and people that teach us to forget.

It is a refusal to accept stories that begin with "secondly."

It is a call to re-member the true, living, and active Christ every day.

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Holy Week: A tenuous, tenacious discipline of memory and hope.

To follow Christ’s command—“Do this in remembrance of me”—is to take up this discipline in thought, word, and deed.

Thank you!!

Incredibly honored and excited to share that I’ll be heading to the University of Chicago this Fall to begin my PhD at the Divinity School!

I’m thankful for the many folks who’ve supported me over the past decade of learning and who made this opportunity possible.

brb going to go drown in @boniverwi.bsky.social's SABLE, fABLE all weekend.

see you monday.

Not even half way through the first episode of the new #blackmirror season and everything hurts.

fasting and the compost pile becoming people of deep, lenten hope.

The practice of Lenten fasting stands in radical contrast to synthetic faith.

Like the compost pile, fasting produces a living spiritual nourishment that is grown in the depths of our souls.

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the quiet grace of the ordinary on dishwashers and health influencers

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