Thread by @C_Stroop

1. I'm excited to announce The Exvangelical Community: Paths, Projects, Prospects, a panel discussion featuring myself, @KEBrightbill, @WheelerWorkshop, Akiko Ross, and @julieingersoll, and emceed by @brchastain in conjunction with @exvangelicalpod!

gofundme.com/exvangelical-c…

2. If you are in the Tampa Bay Area, please join us on September 8, 2018, at 10:00 a.m. for a discussion of diverse experiences within evangelicalism and what we can do to build community and advocate our interests going ahead, offline as well as on. Here's more about the event:

3. We deliberately put together a panel of people from different generations and backgrounds. I'll be talking about my Christian school experience and deconstruction, as well as about leveraging social media. @KEBrightbill will talk about her homeschool experience and policy work

4. @WheelerWorkshop is a journalist who will talk about his experience going through evangelical undergraduate education and becoming a professor at an evangelical university, where he was driven out due to a repressive administration. Some of his story:

religiondispatches.org/special-report…

5. Akiko Ross will talk about her decades of experience as a woman and a person of color very involved in Southern Baptist churches as teacher and group leader. Evangelical Trump support was the last straw for her, and now she's a Christ follower without a denominational home.

6. If you don't yet know the work of Dr. @julieingersoll by now, get on the ball! A professor of religious studies at the University of North Florida, Julie's Building God's Kingdom is required reading for those wanting to understand the Christian Right.

amazon.com/Building-Gods-…

7. With your financial support, we will be able to make this event freely open to the public--the room we have at St. Petersburg College's Clearwater campus holds up to 100--without having to ask for donations at the event. We're immensely grateful for any help!

8. We will also make this panel, and the open discussion with the audience afterword, available to all as a special episode of @exvangelicalpod! Thus even those who can't make it can be a part of this event, learn from it, and think about the issues we'll be raising.

9. We organizers would like to thank Tampa Bay local and former evangelical pastor @centerfluid for providing a lunch after the event at his cost. He will soon be opening a new restaurant, The Ball Joint, in Apollo Beach, FL! Check it out!

iwantballs.com

10. Whether or not you are able to give to help fund this event--please do not do so if you cannot afford to--RTing, quote tweeting, and/or sharing the link to the GoFundMe to your followers would be an immense help. Thanks!

gofundme.com/exvangelical-c…

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Addendum: Akiko Ross says it’s okay to use her Twitter handle going forward; she’s @Lily_Warrior. She’s really cool; give her a follow!

CC: @TB_Times @RawStory @damemagazine