Aaron Canen

@NeverReformed @WesleyLHuff Temptation is not sin.

@WesleyLHuff The issue is 2 fold: 1) The elders affirmed knowing about this (with the excuse it didn’t rise to disqualification). That’s poor, unbiblical leadership. 2) SSA is sin - not just acting on it. Sam has made some worrisome comments on this.

So apparently I’m embroiled in some sort of controversy. Let me set a few things strait: 1. I don’t know Sam Allberry personally. We've met in-person a total of once — back in January while I was in Nashville when I did the Shawn Ryan Podcast, where I ran into and took a picture with Sam. When I saw the news initially about his removal from leadership I took that picture down. I had already started to see people commenting that by keeping it up I was implicating myself in his sin. I do not think they were correct. But ironically, said comments were then replaced with ones telling me that by taking it down… I was hiding something and implicating myself in his sin. Damned if you do, damned if you don’t. 2. I believe the language in the current public statements to be potentially unhelpfully vague. From my (brief though not uninformed) understanding of the details of the situation, what Sam did that disqualified him from leadership was not due to sexual or even a romantic impropriety, but what could best be described as a sinful emotional attachment. This is not to justify it or say that it wasn't disqualifying (I think it probably was). But the lack of clarity has left room for those who desire to gossip, defame, and sinfully speculate online to run wild — which they have. 3. I am genuinely saddened with the internet’s desire to tear down and jump to harsh judgements regarding another Christian’s failing. When someone falls into sin, those who are spiritually mature should work toward their restoration, approaching them with a spirit of gentleness (Gal. 6:1-2). The motivation for restoration carries spiritual weight. Bringing someone back who has wandered from truth saves their soul from death and covers a multitude of sins (James 5:19–20). This isn’t merely about correcting behaviour, it’s about spiritual rescue. The desire to gossip and breed quarrels, which is so obviously warned against in scripture (Proverbs 17:19; 26:17; 2 Timothy 2:14, 23-24; Titus 3:9-11; James 4:1-2) is, to say the least, lamentable and disappointing to see. 4. Sam Allberry is being labelled as “Side B,” this is genuinely confusing to me. To quote Sam in his own words: “Same sex attraction is not a good thing. It is... a consequence of the fall. ...This kind of attraction is not something God designed for us, and it contradicts his design” (Is God Anti Gay, 63). Sam has expressed in multiple places throughout his written work and public talks that he holds to the biblical position of marriage, that homosexual relationships are sinful, and that identifying as a “gay Christian” is incompatible with scripture. To be clear, I don't agree with Sam on all the nuances of how he discusses the issue. But I can only conclude that this attempt to make him into an LBGT advocate comes from either shear ignorance of his public work or some sort of internet-level frothing of the mouth to jump on whoever “we don’t like this week.” But exhort one another every day, as long as it is called “today,” that none of you may be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin. - Heb 3:13.

@BMcGrewvy Listening to him on Douthat's pod recently was painful.

Bart Ehrman: Clearly, there never was such a shooting. The accounts contradict each other all up and down the line!

@realJennaEllis What if both things are true?

I genuinely believe this guy is a heretic and a nutcase.

@War_Monitoring @sentdefender Bot

@sentdefender This is huge. A 40-day mourning period shows just how pivotal Khamenei was to Iran, and his reported death from a strike on his compound is bound to send shockwaves through the country and the region.

The Iranian Cabinet has declared 40 days of public mourning following the death of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, as a result of an Israeli strike this morning on his personal compound in Tehran, according to Iran’s state-run Tasnim News Agency.

@RonDodson @EWErickson Why do you think he disagrees with this?

@EWErickson Erick, the stranger must be treated with the same expectations as a citizen, if THIS is your rubric. That means they are expected to follow all the civil & moral laws. This is an outstanding idea, one that Piper evidently disagrees with.

Today, some on the Right are getting triggered by the very word of God. They read their political biases into a pastor quoting God’s Holy and inerrant word. It is a damning indictment on those offended and the idols they worship.

@JackJuju1 @GuntherEagleman I thought you were making a good point for a second, but you arrived at the entirely wrong conclusion.

@GuntherEagleman When’s the last time a liberal judge went against their party on a major decision? NEVER! Notice the difference? Conservatives shooting themselves in the foot yet again…

Gorsuch and Barrett sided with the Left. Both disappointments!

@ConceptualJames @threadreaderapp unroll

Post-post-postscript: Essentially nobody in the cult except maybe the people at the very top know they're in a cult, not just the Outer School. If you told them, they wouldn't believe it (demoralized). For many profound psychological and social reasons, they cannot recognize it.

A little thread about cult organization to help you understand why so many Woke people are definitely in a cult but don't necessarily know it, and also why they can perpetuate the cult without ever having studied its doctrine directly.

@dcpl What is wrong with you?

Universe, take the worries we carried today, quiet the overthinking, hold what feels heavy so we can rest; we release what didn’t go right, forgive what we didn’t finish, and wake up tomorrow to a clean page. Goodnight 🌙

@jpodhoretz You liked the Scuttlebutt song...

I don’t want to hear a bad word about Bad Bunny. This is fantastic.

@AiG Why do you post things like this? It's so weird.

Extraterrestrial life is an evolutionary concept.

@JeremyDBoreing Oh, I'm very excited for this. Looking forward to it!

Well, I guess I’m back. Making friends like always.

@ThePowellBrosMR Well, you spelled "loses" correctly one time here at least.

When a culture looses its love for high fantasy storytelling, it looses its imagination and loses the next generation.

@DZRishmawy @CCamosy That comma, brother...

@CCamosy Almost every new movement in this area is functionally aimed at making children, an optional consumer add-on to an adult’s experience of life

Honest question: what are the chances that concern over abuse and neglect of children can offer a meaningful challenge to the cultural dominance of reproductive autonomy?

@trad_poet I do hope the pacing slows down now that the Taliesin storyline is over. A good intro nonetheless.

@AaronCanen Ok watched them, and yeah pretty good.

Have you seen The Pendragon Cycle first episodes? Is it worth paying for the DailyWire+ app to watch this? I have not read the books and probably will never get round to it—the list is already longer than the life I have left…

@TheoWarsPodcast @evanr2249 @elimcgowan So maybe delete this?

@evanr2249 @elimcgowan Yea I saw that

I thought there was a chance of this being justified and here it a

@lymanstoneky Thanks, Obama.

Truly one of the most central questions for fertility decline is: Why did young people start becoming way more marriage-pessimistic around 2010-2015?

@MattWalshBlog You might want to take a note out of @benshapiro's book and take the Sabbath off Twitter!

This is retarded. ICE agents are simply enforcing the laws of the land. They aren’t even rounding up “normal” illegal aliens. They’re almost exclusively targeting violent criminals, gangsters, and sex offenders. Leftists are out in the street breaking about ten different laws in an attempt to interfere with law enforcement, all in the name of defending violent criminal aliens who shouldn’t be in this country in the first place. And you put the blame on ICE? They’re the ones who are “out of control”? Fucking insane. Total nonsense. Embarrassing.

@Scout62966908 @DEADLINE They really should have partnered with someone with the same vision as @JonHaidt for our kids. I liked the idea, but Chip Chilla was frenetic/overstimulating. The best show was definitely Mabel Maclay.

@DEADLINE I think basically giving up on Bentkey will eventually be seen as a very poor decision by Daily Wire- it was a great idea, produced some solid, quality content, and then just fizzled.

Jeremy Boreing Gives First Interview Since The Daily Wire Exit, Talks Ben Shapiro, Candace Owens, 'The Pendragon Cycle' & Hollywood's Right Turn deadline.com/2026/01/daily-…

@redeemed_zoomer I want Wendy's though.

Oh, do you own a Mom and Pop restaurant that was founded in 1900? I'll make sure to plant 10 fast food restaurants on the same street so it'll die out! This is what it's like when "church planters" plant churches in places that have historic dying churches