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Thomas McKenzie
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Thomas McKenzie
@thomasmckenzie
Soy un peregrino. I love my family, my friends, and my church. I’m a pastor and I wrote The Anglican Way. Y'all get vaccinated!
Nashville, TN, USA Katılım Nisan 2007
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First day of sabbatical. Driving with my kid to New Mexico. Charlie’s senior year at St John’s College, Santa Fe campus. Today’s goal? Shamrock, Texas.
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It's a lot easier to judge people when you don't know them.
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@topshelfphotos I am. I’ll be leaving from England for Saint Jean on Sept 11. 🥳
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@thomasmckenzie I heard someone in a service I watched a few weeks ago say you are going to walk the Camino. I was in Santiago de Compostela, summer of 2019. It was so inspiring to see the joy of the peregrinos when they completed their long journey. I hope you love it! Buen Camino!
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Today is my last day of work before my sabbatical begins. I’m excited about my upcoming travels, but I know I’ll miss my community. I feel sadness and some anxiety as I prepare for this morning’s Eucharists.
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@thomasmckenzie I don’t disagree. There’s a difference between “making a law” and strongly advocating and articulating a position. Easier for me to do perhaps than for you as a minister.
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Pastors and “religious exemptions,” a thread.
Several years ago I was approached by a family in our church. This is a family that no longer attends, but I still love very much and am in close contact with. They told me that their eldest child was about to start in a new school.
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@thomasmckenzie Very well said, Thomas. Thank you.
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@timrwebb63 Yes. I tell the school that I disagreed with them, but it was a sincerely held belief. Let the school decide what to do with that information.
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@thomasmckenzie I will play devil's advocate.
Would this interaction be different if you had a family that believed the Earth is flat and wished to opt out of Geography lessons. Extreme example I know.
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@preston_shipp @DavidDark @RNS What reorientation is God calling for from us pro-vax, pro-mask people? How do WE need to change in order to bring about reconciliation and a healthier nation? That's the question we should be asking, removing the logs in our own eyes.
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Helpful thread. I hope @RNS & other news outlets inquire so we can know which pastors in which church organizations are providing parishioners paperwork with which to terrorize others & morally degrade their own children. Thank you for your witness, @thomasmckenzie.
Thomas McKenzie@thomasmckenzie
Pastors and “religious exemptions,” a thread. Several years ago I was approached by a family in our church. This is a family that no longer attends, but I still love very much and am in close contact with. They told me that their eldest child was about to start in a new school.
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Maybe the biggest problem Americans have is our self-righteousness.
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@thomasmckenzie @DavidDark @LivedTheology I’m not a Bonhoeffer scholar. But I have been reading him for over 30 years, which I suspect is worth something. I don’t mean to misappropriate his metaphor. We are approaching 700,000 dead in America alone. The moral weight cannot be dismissed.
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@davidvassar I think it's a good way to love your neighbor, and I have often said so; but making new laws based on old laws is the way of the Pharisee.
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@thomasmckenzie Does Jesus’ words enlighten the 10 commandments? I also can’t see how a pastor can’t say that getting vaccine and masking is indeed in line with Jesus’ command to love your neighbor as yourself.
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We have to challenge them, not agree with them, but respect and love them all the same. Our oneness is in Christ, not social or political controversy.
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I think that’s where we are now. For a Christian pastor to say that our faith excepts people from masks or vaccines is a violation of the Third Commandment. It’s a misuse of the Name of God. And, we might have people in our congregation who disagree.
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*nods* I don’t think confronting an unhinged person is shaming them. I think it’s baseline moral seriousness among adults. I don’t propose that @GovBillLee & pastors who write letters requesting a religious exemption for abusive congregants are behaving wickedly. I know they are.
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@aimeechor @DavidDark Propositional love: wearing masks is generally loving, therefore i demand you wear a mask and shame you if you don’t. Relational love: I love these specific people so I’m going to wear a mask, and lovingly encourage others to do the same.
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