Mike Weaver

I'm excited to be embarking on two new positions within the Christian Study Center movement. Read more here: mikeweaver.substack.com/p/campus-is-ho…

Here's a great essay by Meghan Sullivan that I just discovered: comment.org/what-is-the-un…

David Watson: What do evangelicals and progressive Christians have in common? open.substack.com/pub/davidfwats…

@cabocynde @EricLDaugh @DataRepublican No they do not. That is a lie. Falsehood. Complete falsehood.

@EricLDaugh @DataRepublican What!?! They currently allow boys and girls to shower and sleep together?

🚨 BREAKING: SecWar Pete Hegseth reveals that after IMMENSE pressure, Scouting America — formerly the Boy Scouts — has CAVED to demands they go back to separating males and females in showers, tents and intimate spaces They're also OVERTURNING woke, DEI policies BOOM! This is COMMON SENSE. "Scouting America will modify its policy to make clear that membership will be based solely on biological sex at birth and not gender identity." "Scouting will also make clear that biological boys and girls will not be allowed to occupy or share intimate spaces together. Toilets, showers, tents, anywhere like that." "Scouting America will honor those who serve by waiving the registration fees for children of active duty, guard, and reserve families. Should have happened a long time ago." "Scouting America will introduce a new military service merit badge." "Scouting America's leadership committed to, in that room right over there, will hopefully result in a rededication to the foundational ideals that have defined Scouting for generations. Duty to God and country, leadership, character, and service." "This agreement is new, and the Department's support for Scouting America is contingent on them making substantial progress toward reaching these and many other positive changes in the next six months."

@MikeCosper I agree. But could the NFL have thrown a bone to English speakers so that they could understand the message of the music?

Alternative take: America has always been a melting pot, and once in a while throwing a bone to our spanish speaking neighbors is a kind and loving thing to do, and Christians ought to celebrate it because they appreciate all those neighbors do for them.

Our athletes have the right to express their opinions, and that is what makes our country great. We can also choose whether to tune in to watch the Olympics. I hope our athletes truly appreciate what freedoms they have, and use them responsibly.

If athletes want to express concern about what is going on in the USA, I say FINE. Because: Chinese athletes cannot criticize their government. North Korean athletes cannot criticize their government. Iranian athletes cannot criticize their government.

I share this post in earnest and (what may prove a naive) hope that a few people caught in the situation I’m about to describe will hear instead of rushing to the usual tropes, criticisms and caricatures. For what it’s worth, I offer this in good faith. Between 2016 and 2022, I faced a test of the genuineness of my faith so large and consequential, I’m almost at a loss to think of the right adjectives to describe it. It might not have been so big to someone else but it involved so much of my Christian identity, it was all but existential. Well more than that. It was a dying. It is this test that helps me understand why people who seem deeply devoted to the Lord Jesus and hold the scriptures in highest esteem also hold to a system, institution or leader no matter what they do and defend a side or individual to a degree that is baffling. I can tell you why because I had to face every bit of it. Identity, community, camaraderie, what we’ve known and loved, what part of it we still love, the people we loved, the people we still love, reputation, what people will think, how you will be judged and condemned and thrown over to the other side who doesn’t want you either. And to whom you also do not align and would not belong. Friendships. How you will be misunderstood and misrepresented. How adrift and alone you will feel. How disliked. And then there’s this and it would be a mistake to minimize it: your JOB. Your source of income. Your vocation. This is the part of the crisis I most write these words to convey because I think they are most in play for many right now, whether in media, ministry or politics. Let me try to put this in the words that were constantly resonant in my spirit in those years. And to this day. Though you have no other place to go, Beth, and no place to fit and it not only MAY have financial repercussions but WILL have financial repercussions to the ministry and to your family and will also make them targets and none of it will ever look the same or be the same, will you choose what you believe to be right and put everything else in your vocational life at risk? This is what is at risk for many people whose professional reputations and positions are tied up with leaders, institutions and political parties. Mine was, too. The cost is enormous and the options are often untenable. And so there we are. Having to cast ourselves on the mercy of God. Not for a third way. But as THE ONLY WAY. The only truth. The only life. I’ve made multiple errors in judgment. Jumped too quickly to condemn. Spoken wrongly. Remained silent wrongly and confusingly. I never get it completely together. But what I will tell you is that I believe we are meant first and foremost to call out our own house, our own side, and our own identity group for its mind-boggling hypocrisy. These were my people. Evangelicals. Conservatives. Claim what you will but I know who I am: I am pro life from conception to casket. I am pro small government. I am pro godliness and the pursuit of a holy life. I am pro marriage and family and pro-those God calls to remain single and sanctified and I’m deeply thankful for them. I am pro traditional sexual ethics. I am pro love of God and love of neighbor and the dignity of every person as an image bearer of Christ. I am pro love all. I am pro church. I believe in the community of the saints. I am pro Bible study to the death and believe the aim of all discipleship is to know and love and follow and emulate Jesus Christ. I am pro gospel. Dear God in heaven, I am pro gospel. I believe there is one name by whom we must be saved. Jesus. What I am not is pro Trump. Wasn’t pro Clinton. Wasn’t pro Biden. But those were not the candidates many in the world that I loved so much were cheering on. I accept that Donald Trump is my president. I pray for him on a regular basis. I’m a law abiding citizen and pay my taxes. But I believe Trump fosters something in people that makes them lose their way.

Every time I think I have something to say about our political moment, Peter Wehner beats me to it. Thank you, Peter! theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/02/…

@DavidDecosimo I very nearly accepted an offer of admission to BU-STH for a PhD in evangelism back in 2011. I felt a tangible "block" from the Spirit, and decided instead to move into a student affairs position at a major university. I have never regretted that decision.

Since 2015, the year they hired me, Boston University School of Theology has made sixteen tenure track faculty hires. In over a decade, I am the only white American male they have hired. compactmag.com/article/the-lo…

When sparks fly in the college classroom open.substack.com/pub/mikeweaver…

When sparks fly in the college classroom open.substack.com/pub/mikeweaver…

@joyjmoore @nseminary Congrats Joy! What a great opportunity! Hope you see San Diego.

So I get on a plane to San Diego and announcements are made! So excited to join the incredible team @nseminary ! Join us in prayer and watch with us to see what God is doing among us!

At The Free Press, it’s okay to be liberal or conservative or politically nonbinary. What all of us share is a belief that there is not an “enemy within” among our fellow Americans. We do not believe anyone in this country is “garbage.” thefp.com/p/the-free-pre…

Three metaphors from Jesus for his disciples' presence, and therefore influence, in the world: yeast, salt, light. Yeast = invisible, tasteless Salt = invisible but taste-able Light = visible and inescapable We need all three, in every cultural context.

@erichoke Amen.

@ShaneClaiborne Sorry, Shane, the Supreme Court did not criminalize homelessness. The cities that manage their own affairs have made street-living illegal, and SCOTUS gives them back the power to enforce their own laws. Your witness would be better if it were grounded in truth.

In a matter of days, the Supreme Court criminalized homelessness and granted immunity for those who commit crimes in the White House. It reminds me of the words of brother Bryan Stevenson: “The system treats you better if you are rich & guilty than if you are poor & innocent.”

@kkdumez Which one is running the country today?

Trying to wrap my head around the difference between this Biden and last night’s Biden.

@rmnetwork Lord have mercy. This is paganism.