Prof @AntheaButler on the MOVE Bombing, Penn Museum, Morton Cranium Collection and Racist Polygenesis Belief

Thread by @AntheaButler: So, yea, let me talk about how this story, connects to this other story of yesterday about the Penn Museum so you can see the broader picture at play here about race and... — Read on threadreaderapp.com/thread/1385021750451265538.html

White Supremacist Ideas Have Historical Roots In U.S. Christianity : NPR

White Supremacist Ideas Have Historical Roots In U.S. Christianity : NPR — Read on http://www.npr.org/2020/07/01/883115867/white-supremacist-ideas-have-historical-roots-in-u-s-christianity

Resource Share: Racism Results from Protestant Heresies | @mako_nagasawa

Resource share: Systemic Racism results from Protestant heresies. European Protestants wanted to make quick money in a legal gray zone in the colonies. Slavery was illegal in England, legal in the colonies. Seizing land was illegal in England, but legal in the colonies...— Mako Nagasawa (@mako_nagasawa) June 23, 2020 ...on the basis of "being more …

Thread by @mboorstein: The Episcopal bishop of DC – who oversees the DC church Trump just stopped at – tells the @washingtonpost she is “outraged” and that neither…

Thread by @mboorstein: The Episcopal bishop of DC – who oversees the DC church Trump just stopped at – tells the @washingtonpost she is "outd that neither she nor the rector was asked or told… “that they would be clearing with tear gas so they could use… — Read on threadreaderapp.com/thread/1267607428293636096.html

Thread by @NyashaJunior on Resources for Knowing the Differences & Similarities between Amish, Mennonite, and Quaker Faith Traditions

Thread by @NyashaJunior: Digital Quaker Collection esr.earlham.edu/dqc/index.html @ESRQuaker #AmRel Plowshares Digital Archive for Peace Studies palni.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collec… @earlham1847 #AmRel Mennonites, Amish, and the Pennsylvania Dutch Language anab… — Read on threadreaderapp.com/thread/1266736819242139650.html

Bart Ehrman on why everything you’ve been told about heaven and hell is wrong

(RNS) — Best known for his popular books debunking the central assumptions of Christian Scriptures, the New Testament scholar continues this quest in his latest book, ‘Heaven and Hell: A History of the Afterlife.’ — Read on religionnews.com/2020/03/26/bart-ehrman-on-why-everything-youve-been-told-about-heaven-and-hell-is-wrong/

Meghan Henning: Does Hell Exist? – Pete Enns

Meghan Henning is on the podcast answering the question: Does hell exist? She clues us into how ancient people would have approached this question — Read on peteenns.com/meghan-henning-does-hell-exist/

5 Major Reasons I Still Believe Jesus

I accept the gospels, not b/c of their inerrancy, but b/c of their having been received/approved by a community as accurate to their accounts, which accounts undermined the Roman Empire & 2nd Temple Judaism. I believe it just as I believe indigenous history v. USA’s version. — Lamb's Harbinger (aka @OtterFella) (@LambsHarbinger) October 24, 2019 …

How St. Augustine Invented Sex | The New Yorker

He rescued Adam and Eve from obscurity, devised the doctrine of original sin—and the rest is sexual history. — Read on http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/06/19/how-st-augustine-invented-sex

Why ALL Universalism is Heresy

All universalism is heresy. That is, it is anti-Christ in its various assertions, which is to say Universalism (in any of its forms) works systematically opposite of worshipping Jesus as THE active judge of the cosmos. Reducing Jesus' statements about His role as universal Judge to Jesus' acting as a combination of time dispensor and …