Jason Stroup

So many people have lost their fear of the Lord. When we mock, relentlessly judge & make jokes about people who are suffering so we can maintain our political take, we’ve forgotten there’s a God in the heavens who hears. Humility is recognizing we are all just one disaster from losing everything.

The fruit of Christian Nationalism and the Southern Baptist Convention. Using Jesus name to get power at any cost. Covering up sexual abuse is in the DNA.

“This is not just classic patriarchy, but a reaction to its breakdown, doubling down on its worst aspects—raw power and domination without love… in the manosphere even actual love and sex become secondary to the act of power.” - This is REALLY good! www.liberalcurrents.com/the-crisis-o...

“Dear brother Kevin, for your own sake, for women’s sake, for men’s sake, for the Lord’s sake, please take off the spectacles and look again.” terranwilliams.com/review-of-ke...

Also ones who want the literal “whole world” when talking about the flood but not in John 3:16

I wish this was the baseline and not revolutionary.

If primary impacts of your Christianity are -to keep women from teaching about Jesus -keeping people from pointing out racism -making queer folks avoid Jesus because of church hate -making immigrants afraid Is this actually just a political strategy to win elections?

I was forced to concede this gradually in 2016 with the election and then abruptly in 2021 after watching fellow Christian’s react to a sexual assault allegation in my professional circle. I resigned and was challenged by people in my church for it. To this day I have no regrets of my choice.

So much of contemporary American biblical exegesis is devoted to giving oneself permission to be an @$$hole.

The mother of Pete Hegseth, President-elect Trump’s pick for secretary of defense, wrote him an email in 2018 saying he had routinely mistreated women for years and displayed a lack of character. She said on Friday that she regretted the email and had apologized to him.

I think this accounts succinctly for the conspicuous rage-in-victory of so many Trumpistas. What they want, though they’ll never admit it, is the respect of civilized people, which they fuzzily imagined they could extract by main force.

An interesting way to help people visualize what a ruin used to be.

In Chicago for The Rest Is History live show!

If someone is determined to dominate women using the Bible, there is no amount of exegesis or logic that’s going to change his mind.

I think the concept of curated blocklists may be the greatest innovation I have seen yet on Bluesky

They want to go back to an America before the civil rights movement "ruined everything." They want to kick out legal immigrants even if they became U.S. citizens decades ago. And they want to put women back where they think they belong. www.newschannel5.com/news/newscha...

The Matt Gaetz situation is exactly the kind of thing @kkdumez.bsky.social was warning us about in this doc… 😞 #ForOurDaughters

Okay, so here's the thing. In the historical tradition, and in the global scene, evangelicalism is a diverse movement, and I'm not speaking about the whole field (which continues to shape my theology). But in American evangelicalism right now, in the way you will primarily see

Just realized they are currently exhibiting The Great Wave at the Chicago Art Institute!