Pastor. Professor. Author. Graduate Instructor, Sociology @UF https://xitter.cf/t.co/4GNAQRsok4
Ocala, FL
Joined March 2013
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More than 40 years ago, I arrived in Chicago in search of an idea. I was a young man looking for purpose, who believed deeply in America, was inspired by the Civil Rights Movement, and wanted to be a part of something larger. The America I believed in was one where everyone has opportunity, everyone is seen, everyone belongs—because that was an America that had a place for me, too.
Hey @isaiahrmartin thank you for pressing @LydiaMoynihan to substantiate the false claim about Obama being “the most divisive president ever” on CNN. You left her speechless and exposed her total lack of critical thinking skills. She only parrots MAGA talking points with no 1/
Up next: Chicago!
I’m heading to the Northern Illinois United Methodist Annual Conference to stir up a little holy mischief and encourage leaders to imagine new ways of joining God’s mission in the world.
If you’re in the area, I’d love to connect with you.
Because I love Jesus, I want my Muslim, Hindu, Jewish, Buddhist, Jain, agnostic, and atheist neighbors to be safe, treated with dignity, and have equal rights under the law.
“The Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion.”
Treaty of Tripoli, ratified unanimously by the Senate and signed by John Adams.
Good social science is rarely like lightning you catch in a bottle. It is more like a slow sunrise. The light of truth gradually spreads across the surface of the phenomenon, revealing contours, patterns, & connections that were always there but difficult to see in the dark.
🧵 “Unus homo, nullus homo” - “one man, none man.”
Are we witnessing the slow death of a distorted Western Christianity built around the isolated individual: solitary, privatized, disembodied, and detached from real community?
I have to say thanks to @CNN for #newsnight with @abbydphillip watching @adammocklerr humiliate @ScottJenningsKY to the point he wants to get violent is simply delightful.
Christian Nationalist congregations are bringing that full “we are under persecution but God spared our messiah” energy today. The cognitive dissonance is astonishing.
This is blatant idolatry and blasphemous to the Christian faith.
If you’ve been an adherent of the MAGA sect, this is your chance to get out while there’s still time.
This is a Biblical reflection on idolatry: substack.com/@reverendwild1/…
This is an analysis of MAGA: umcdiscipleship.org/articles…
This is an analysis of Christian Nationalism: open.substack.com/pub/passio…
Dear MAGA friends. If a family member, co-worker, friend, started to threaten to commit mass murder on their social media, wouldn't you intervene? No matter their real intent, even if they were exaggerating? How can you continue to support Trump after this? Genuinely curious...
3 of my students, Ava, Natalie, & Claire, share how much the course has meant to them. One said “everyone should take it” because it opens your perspective on life. Another says it “changed the way I see the world every day.” 
So heartbreaking.
alligator.org/article/2026/0…
Hey @PresMannyDiazJr since you stated regarding sociology, “While that field was very scientific, at one point, it has moved away from that.”
Can you clarify your timeline? When exactly did sociology stop being scientific?
And what empirical evidence supports that claim?
Just before FX National Gathering last month, my wife Jill was diagnosed with a cancerous tumor in her lung. We’ve been carrying this with a small circle of prayer warriors since then.
Now, we’re widening that circle. If you pray, we would deeply appreciate your prayers for Jill
“A self does not amount to much, but no self is an island; each exists in a fabric of relations that is now more complex and mobile than ever before.”
Jean-François Lyotard, The Postmodern Condition, 1980, 15.
Why am I this many years old just now discovering Lyotard?
Writing books is a labor of love. You have to enjoy the blood, sweat, & tears no matter how readership responds.
But how sweet it is when people seem to resonate with your work. Distortions has been holding strong at #1 in multiple categories all week.
amazon.com/Distortions-Recog…
