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@KSPrior I wasn’t sure if I needed to keep my paid subscription, but now I definitely will!

Very honored to be on the team.

@KatelynBeaty I am in my 20s still, but my mom told me that it is not that painful or worth dreading.

No matter how “right” your doctrinal convictions, one of the clearest metrics of your spiritual maturity is how you treat people you disagree with.

@EmilyMcgowin Congratulations Dr. McGowin! grateful to have benefited from your brilliant, formative teaching and thrilled for this milestone in your career!

@TheAlanNoble Espousing such beliefs and intentions anywhere-but especially in our highest levels of government with the ability to enact them-is truly disgusting. I pray that the Lord turns the hearts of those entrenched in this hate towards compassion for their neighbors.

This is evil.

@sometimesalight I worry that many of the people with the most power seem convinced by this fantasy that severing partnerships results in a pure benefit for us. It just ignores the complex realities of our world, and I fear the tangible consequences of sweeping changes due to this mentality!

Getting sense that some of you have the economic theory of a prepper, survivalist compound rather than a functional, flourishing homestead. Folks, there’s no such thing as self-sufficiency. Good will btwn neighbors is a survival skill & anti-social behavior leads to scarcity.

I truly hope and pray that President @realDonaldTrump will come to know Jesus. I pray that President Trump will turn to Jesus in faith, repent of his sin, ask for forgiveness, and lead with compassion and mercy upon the most vulnerable, extend care to the poor, and protect the sojourner in our midst. I pray that President Trump will come to know the love and grace of Christ Jesus that will put God first in all that he does as president and beyond.

@Tonypittenger @garonnevik perhaps you could visit @UVA in December some year to find some kindred spirits! I attended the glorious, packed (600+ capacity concert hall) Messiah sing-in last month and think any Messiah enthusiast needs to experience that or something like it!

@garonnevik I feel your pain. I’ve met every person on the planet interested in Handel’s Messiah (all 4 of them) none of them live in the People’s Republic of Western Washington.

Yesterday I was at the library with my kids, and I sheepishly asked the librarian if they could order my Katie Luther biography to have available, Librarian: "we can order it in from another library so you can read it." Me: "I don't need to read it. It's just I'm one of your local authors, and it'd be cool to have my book available here. You guys ordered my last book without me asking, multiple copies even that are almost always checked out, and I just thought you'd like to know I wrote another book. This is a children's one." Librarian: "Do you know the name of the book you're requesting?" Me: "Well, yes, I wrote it. Hahahaha." Librarian: "And you don't want to check it out or anything you just...want it here." "That's correct. I know you put little stickers on the ones for Minnesota authors. Local author." I had to talk with 3 different librarians, explaining that I was the author and the response was along the lines of "sure you are..." or "and...?" Anyway. Glamorous author life over here. The current status is: they wrote it down and will think about it.

@jpowellmcnutt totally impressed by the spectacular set of contributors! so many brilliant folks there-looking forward to using this resource @DukeDivinity next year!

The book contributes to the field of early modern Bible history by drawing together topics relating to cannon discernment, the material culture of Bibles and their printing, the biblical exegetes and their hermeneutics, the doctrine of scripture as articulated by the Reformers, and interpretive questions that emerged at the time in the reading of the text. It’s a one-stop-shop for your questions about the Bibles of the Reformation. We hope it will be an illuminating resources for students and scholars!

I’m thankful to see this long awaited work that I co-edited with Herman Selderhuis and foreword by Bruce Gordon come into the world after many years. Congratulations to over 50 contributors on this achievement! @OUPAcademic

Don’t forget that “Jesus is still on the throne” means both: a good and just God is still in charge, and his promises can be trusted and those promises include judgement against all evil, abuse, and sin. We shouldn’t say it flippantly, but we should proclaim it.

Today, people I love and respect will vote for Trump & people I love and respect will vote for Kamala Harris. I may disagree with the conclusions of those supporting Trump but I will still call them friends. 🇺🇸

@inthe306 @mbird12 @MadisonPierce Maybe they could also discuss the history of Christian women brewing beer that @bethallisonbarr presents in her book by inviting her as a guest! it could highlight the many ways women “run the race with perseverance” in the church😁

@mbird12 @MadisonPierce “Shebrews” Sounds like a beer making podcast for the ladies

I'm not saying I'm a marketing genius, but I'd like to see @MadisonPierce and Amy Peeler do a 20 ep. podcast on Hebrews and they should totally call it "Shebrews."

@_rebecca_la @emilykmay That song is so beautiful! I think I may have to add it to my hypothetical wedding playlist. My first song will hopefully be something from Broadway, if I get married (and I consider the Anastasia movie Broadway-adjacent)

@emilykmay I've always adored the At the Beginning song from Anastasia. Probably convinced myself it'd be mine. My mom thought my father/daughter dance song would be Butterfly Kisses. Hasn't happened yet. Probably won't. 🤷‍♀️

i was one of those little girls who thought about their wedding day incessantly from a VERY young age and by age 9 i was convinced my first dance song would be, "cowboy take me away."

definitely a sign of strength in this polarized moment to welcome diverse perspectives!👏🏻🇺🇸 Leadership at this tense time means transcending divisiveness, and I admire that @DNC chose to invite speakers who disagree on some issues but share a commitment to the common good.

Corrie Ten Boom was a “childless cat lady.” She did not put her “own” nation first over that of the alien and stranger. I wish our country to have as many of her as possible.

One of the biggest obstacles to Christian witness in the US is not a “worldly secularism” as we often think of it, but a “Christian secularism” which is shaped by the flag, the gun, and the dollar, tragically in the name of Jesus.

yes @BethMooreLPM - always a voice of clarity and truth! We need more of that in the public square.

highly disconcerting to watch the petty insults, Trump’s incessant lies, and Biden’s worrying condition that dominated this debate between the two people vying for the U.S. presidency. We need change that brings reasonable, hardworking Americans into leadership!

I’m angry & disgusted to hear of Robert Morris’ sexual abuse of a child & heartbroken for Cindy Clemishire. To sexually use a 12 yr old child, then continue it for yrs, is not merely an “inappropriate relationship.” It’s a crime. Sexual child abuse is an evil punishable by law. One can’t just confess when caught & move on with no consequences. For the integrity of Christ’s Body, God insists “Expel the wicked person out of your church!” 1 Cor. 5:13 Perpetrators are to be publicly fired, not allowed to resign. Child abuse STILL enrages Jesus: “If anyone offends one of these little ones, it would be better for him to have a millstone hung around his neck and drowned in the sea. “ Matt.18:6. Until the Church realizes the soul-destroying trauma of sexual abuse, the pattern will continue. Kay still remembers the horror of being molested in church as a little girl. Prov. 31:8

@KaitlynSchiess You can find out by looking it up on Google Trends!

I really love how many people have probably googled “Nicene Creed” in the last couple days