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Rachel Held Evans (1981-2019) Profile picture
@rachelheldevans
Jun 3, 2018 • 4 tweets • 1 min read Twitter logo Read on Twitter
Three things. 1. If you’re using the Bible to try and control your children with shame and fear, you’re doing it wrong (both parenting and biblical interpretation)...
2. Jesus is the ultimate “Anointed One” who responded to rebellion with “Father, forgive them.” Then he quashed that rebellion not through violent revenge but through his own death & resurrection. Either Jesus is the final word on this, or his work is insufficient. #Theology101
3. The argument “do not challenge God’s anointed” is often invoked to protect unqualified, abusive, or authoritarian pastors/leaders. Don’t fall for it.
Also worth noting that all Christians are anointed ones. (Little Christs.) Also: Pentecost, the priesthood of all believers, the anointing oils of healing & confirmation, etc.

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Oct 7, 2018
Since it’s come up lately: In my experience, it can be helpful to highlight similarities in the argumentation/justification used to prop up systems of oppression, but not so helpful to compare the nature of that oppression. For example...
..I think it can be useful to highlight how some of the same passages of Scripture (NT household codes) that are used to support patriarchy were also use to support slavery. But I would very be wary of comparing the oppression of American chattel slavery with complementarianism.
*be very wary* (although “very be wary” is a fun thing we could start saying).
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Sep 2, 2018
1/3 So this is something that has changed for me recently and I honestly don’t know what to do with it...
2/3 I feel like I have more in common, in terms of values and worldview, with people of other faiths who seek justice and oppose this administration’s racism, misogyny, and corruption, than with those conservative evangelicals who have embraced Trumpism...
3/3 I’m not saying this is good or bad (and I’m not challenging Michael, just using his tweet as a conversation-starter), it’s just a reality I live in now, and I’m wondering if others feel the same.
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Aug 10, 2018
Unpopular Opinion (at least on Twitter): Sometimes people say the “wrong” thing in an attempt to connect and there should be grace for that.
Okay, context: Yesterday at the park, a lady was chatting with me about the baby and she asked some questions & made some comments (about childbirth & babies) that would undoubtedly get criticized and mocked here if I shared them...
...But it was obvious to me that she was just a woman alone on a walking track who wanted to connect with another woman and her cute baby. I could get all offended or I could welcome her interest. I guess I just see so much policing of conversations these days....
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Aug 9, 2018
Thread: Been thinking about this tweet and the conversation that follows, and it’s led to some internal recalibrating regarding how I employ claims of a “consistent pro-life ethic.” Because I’m not consistent...
...Most of is aren’t. Because life ethics are actually way more complicated and uncertain than many of us want to admit. Does being “consistently pro-life” mean I have to be a pacifist? Does it mean I’m a hypocrite if I’m not an organ donor? Must I protest against IVF?
There was a Christianity Today piece a few weeks ago arguing in support of evangelicals as “inconsistently pro-life.” It was roundly mocked by progressive Christians, but I found myself agreeing with some of what the author said about...
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Aug 5, 2018
I don’t think it’s overdramatic to call for prayer & support for members of the press. Imitating Putin, the President of the United States is doubling-down on the “enemy of the people” language, overtly declaring war on the free press. This is dangerous & frightening. Resist.
Yes, the abuse of migrant children, the threats to healthcare and civil rights, and the rampant corruption are perhaps more serious than this fight with the media, but we’ll never know the truth about those things without a free press. That’s why he’s aiming at them.
In Russia, journalists who report the truth about Putin often wind up dead. It is not hyperbolic to say that with his recent rhetoric, the president wants to turn our country in the same direction.
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Aug 2, 2018
Imagine for a moment if the president said “Christians are the enemy of the people.” Imagine if he lied and said millions of Christians are voting illegally and “raping women at rates you wouldn’t believe.” Imagine if he banned Christians from serving in the military...
...Imagine if he pressured the NFL to fire Christian players who prayed before the game and at a rally yelled “drag those sons of bitches off the field!” Imagine if he said at a rally, “If you see a Christian, punch him in the face. I’ll pay the medical bills”...
...Imagine if his administration so obviously discriminated against Christians, its new travel restrictions were known as The Christian Ban. Imagine if he said Christians came from “shithole countries”....
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