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Amar D. Peterman

@amarpeterman.bsky.social
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🇮🇳 | अमर || Author / "Becoming Neighbors" || PhD Student / University of Chicago || Thinking about a common good || Love thy neighbor, saints. linktr.ee/amarpeterman

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Christian Century @christiancentury.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
“It would be far easier to remain aloof and simply read about our ‘neighbors’ in books and surveys or make assumptions about them based on their yard signs.” – @amarpeterman.bsky.social www.christiancentury.org/features/com...
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The common good is something we practice face-to-face
The incarnation pulls my attention away from ideology and toward my...
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Christian Century @christiancentury.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
“How do I love my neighbor across the street whose house is adorned with MAGA signs? Does that differ from how I love my neighbor with a multicolored Pride flag?” – @amarpeterman.bsky.social www.christiancentury.org/features/com...
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The common good is something we practice face-to-face
The incarnation pulls my attention away from ideology and toward my...
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Greg (A Podcast About Propagandhi/Classical Ideas) @gregsoden.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Episode 340 of Classical Ideas features my conversation with @amarpeterman.bsky.social! We discuss his brand new book "Becoming Neighbors: The Common Good Made Local" from @eerdmansbooks.bsky.social and his work with @sacredwrites.bsky.social! Listen: linktr.ee/classicalideas
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Will (Faithful Politics) @faithfulpolitics.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
This first episode of the year, it made perfect sense to start with a conversation we had with @amarpeterman.bsky.social about his new book, Becoming Neighbors: The Common Good Made Local—on faith, belonging, and practicing neighborliness locally. Watch: youtu.be/Vhn_BJXbelg
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Becoming Neighbors – The Common Good, Made Local with Amar Peterman
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Amar D. Peterman @amarpeterman.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
For the Bluesky crowd: my favorite books read in 2025:
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Amar D. Peterman @amarpeterman.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
“An entire mythology is stored within our language.” - Wittgenstein, Remarks on Frazer’s 'Golden Bough'
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Christian Century @christiancentury.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
“@drrachelwagner.bsky.social names two foundational influences behind this cowboy messiah ideology: Christian apocalypticism and American frontier mythology.” – @amarpeterman.bsky.social reviews Cowboy Apocalypse www.christiancentury.org/books/self-a... @nyupress.bsky.social
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The self-appointed cowboy messiah
Rachel Wagner traces the way frontier fantasies and apocalyptic faith fuel today’s gun-obsessed...
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Amar D. Peterman @amarpeterman.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Today is a great day to unlearn the kind of Christian "love" that only serves to justify hatred, exclusion, and othering.
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mitchell atencio (he·him·his) @mitchellatencio.com · 03/09/2025
I can't excerpt this entire article so I am imploring you to read it. @amarpeterman.bsky.social takes a complicated Q of how those on the left should respond to Trump's flip-flop on Epstein Files and flips it into a careful, thoughtful, analysis and explanation. I am floored by Amar's work.
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Is the Epstein Controversy an Apocalyptic Moment for the MAGA Movement?
Trump’s 180-degree turn on the Epstein files has not gone unnoticed by his base. Will it matter?
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Amar D. Peterman @amarpeterman.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
It was a joy to talk with Karen Swallow Prior about her latest book "You Have a Calling." Whether you're discerning your own vocation or wrestling with the pressures of productivity, Karen offers a rich, unhurried reflection on what it means to be called. amardpeterman.substack.com/p/you-have-a...
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you have a calling: a conversation with karen swallow prior
beauty, desire, platform culture, and the sacred dignity of everyday work
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Amar D. Peterman @amarpeterman.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Pre-orders for my first book, "Becoming Neighbors: The Common Good Made Local," are now available! At the heart of this book is a simple but critical question: How will we live? I believe the answer for Christians is clear: We live as neighbors. www.eerdmans.com/978080288412...
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Becoming Neighbors
The work of cultivating the common good starts in your own neighborhood.In Becoming Neighbors, Amar D. Peterman explores how the common good can be cultivate...
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Amar D. Peterman @amarpeterman.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
"May we learn that living things do not live just for us, that they live for themselves and for you, and that they love the sweetness of life as much as we do, and serve you, in their place, better than we do in ours." - Walter Rauschenbusch, _Prayers of the Social Awakening_
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Amar D. Peterman @amarpeterman.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
"If our most powerful elites are now essentially beyond the reach of accountability, as they increasingly seem to be, then why suppose that our polity qualifies as a democratic republic at all? It appears to function, rather, as a plutocracy." - Jeff Stout, _Blessed are the Organized_, xv.
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Amar D. Peterman @amarpeterman.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
I’ve had enough of “Christians” who claim to follow the teachings of Jesus…but would fail to recognize Jesus if he stood at the southern border, at the grocery store with an EBT card, or in the hospital waiting room without health insurance. amardpeterman.substack.com/p/how-to-cel...
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how to celebrate the 4th of july in 2025
a christian('s) response to the "big beautiful bill"
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Amar D. Peterman @amarpeterman.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
No matter what you believe politically or theologically about the LGBTQ+ community, the elimination of this lifeline should infuriate all of us. It is discrimination. It is fearmongering. It is homophobia. It is hate. It is polarized partisanship. It is death-dealing action.
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and yet, death
what defunding the suicide and crisis lifeline reminds us about maga america
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Hanna Reichel @hannareichel.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
It's official! "For Such a Time as This: An Emergency Devotional" is coming out late summer with @eerdmansbooks.bsky.social #EmergencyDevotional www.eerdmans.com/978080288592...
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For Such a Time as This
A devotional for ordinary Christians seeking to live faithfully in extraordinary times“This is not the first end of the world. Many worlds have ended.”In...
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Amar D. Peterman @amarpeterman.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
In response to the deeply disordered quest for control, Christian leaders must...choose the path of neighbor-love. This doesn’t mean that we abandon our society’s common life. Rather, we must reimagine what this common life might look like. -- My latest in @sojo.net: sojo.net/magazine/jun...
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Can Christians End Our Quest for Control?
For self-interested nations, the good road of Jesus can be a terrible way to run a society.
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Amar D. Peterman @amarpeterman.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
“When faith fades, the gun steps in.” Rachel Wagner _ Cowboy Apocalypse: Religion and the Myth of the Vigilante Messiah_
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Amar D. Peterman @amarpeterman.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
To live in constant prayer, to lead a contemplative life, is nothing else than to live in the actual presence of God. … To exist at all, to be a human being, to be this particular human being, is only possible because of this Presence. - Abhishiktananda, _Prayer_.
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Amar D. Peterman @amarpeterman.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
I would say, for the moment, that community, at least community larger than the immediate family, consists very largely of imaginative love for people we do not know or whom we know very slightly. - Marilynne Robinson
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Amar D. Peterman @amarpeterman.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
Truly such an incredible two days back in Green Bay — first, to meet @andyhermannfl.bsky.social and hear him talk football for 2 hours, and second, to see this city come alive in mid April for this once-in-a-lifetime event. #GoPackGo
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Amar D. Peterman @amarpeterman.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
What do we have that we have not received? All we have is given to us by God. Our breath, our bodies, our souls, our thoughts. All of reality—all we experience—teaches us our utter dependence on the Lord Jesus, not our autonomy from him. This dependence is not a curse.
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Amar D. Peterman @amarpeterman.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
Holy Saturday:
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Amar D. Peterman @amarpeterman.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
For the one who exploits, profits dishonestly, manipulates, fosters division, and prioritizes themselves over the whole, the cross reminds us that there is judgment. — sojo.net/articles/goo....
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Good Friday Does Not Glorify Suffering
Many churches I've attended did not know what to do with the gross injustice and violence of the cross.
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Amar D. Peterman @amarpeterman.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Holy Week: A tenuous, tenacious discipline of memory and hope. To follow Christ’s command—“Do this in remembrance of me”—is to take up this discipline in thought, word, and deed.
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Amar D. Peterman @amarpeterman.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Incredibly honored and excited to share that I’ll be heading to the University of Chicago this Fall to begin my PhD at the Divinity School! I’m thankful for the many folks who’ve supported me over the past decade of learning and who made this opportunity possible.
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Amar D. Peterman @amarpeterman.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
brb going to go drown in @boniverwi.bsky.social's SABLE, fABLE all weekend. see you monday.
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Amar D. Peterman @amarpeterman.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Not even half way through the first episode of the new #blackmirror season and everything hurts.
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Amar D. Peterman @amarpeterman.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
The practice of Lenten fasting stands in radical contrast to synthetic faith. Like the compost pile, fasting produces a living spiritual nourishment that is grown in the depths of our souls. amardpeterman.substack.com/p/fasting-an...
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fasting and the compost pile
becoming people of deep, lenten hope.
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Amar D. Peterman @amarpeterman.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
God does not brush by the ordinary aspects of our life. God treats the ordinary—the bread and wine, the birds and the lilies, the mustard seed and river water—as sacred. Link in thread.
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Amar D. Peterman @amarpeterman.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
I've long been looking forward to this read: Munther Isaac _Christ in the Rubble: Faith, the Bible, and the Genocide in Gaza_
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Amar D. Peterman @amarpeterman.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
In an us-versus-them culture, it is easy to picture ourselves on the right side of history. By simply not siding with “them,” we’ve done our duty as good citizens and neighbors. But democracy—and, dare I say, faith—call us to do so much more than this. amardpeterman.substack.com/p/good-trouble
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good trouble
what makes booker’s speech exceptional isn’t just the time he spent on the senate floor but the message repeated over and over again.
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Amar D. Peterman @amarpeterman.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Scenes from the 329 Hiawatha 🚅
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Amar D. Peterman @amarpeterman.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Jesus is able to remain grounded in chaotic moments when no one else can because he possesses a moral imagination that can perceive the bigger picture. amardpeterman.substack.com/p/moral-imag...
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moral imagination
a lenten reflection on the holy 'ought'
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Amar D. Peterman @amarpeterman.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Preaching for the first time in several years this evening. If you’re a praying kind of person, please pray for me, saints. 🙏🏾
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Amar D. Peterman @amarpeterman.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Incredible to see this one in print! It was an honor to contribute this essay to a book about one of my favorite TV shows. Thanks to Daniel Cameron for the opportunity to write!
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Amar D. Peterman @amarpeterman.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
The invitation is not to focus on our inadequacies but on God's gift of grace and love which transforms our hearts and minds. That gift is given to us again, here and now. Be encouraged. Amen. - Ann Siddall, in Lent to Easter liturgies: Year C
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Amar D. Peterman @amarpeterman.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
I got two more questions Can I use your ashtray? How then shall we function Any given Wednesday? You could paint with charcoal Every Tuesday's fatter If you ain't got love though Does it even matter? - "Mattering Ram," Penny and Sparrow open.spotify.com/playlist/7a1...
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LENTEN
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Amar D. Peterman @amarpeterman.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
The revolution that Kendrick televised is one of liberation and love told and celebrated through art. In both poetry and performance, K-Dot tells the story of a nation built and united by the struggle for freedom and invites us to sing and dance along. amardpeterman.substack.com/p/kendrick-t...
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kendrick, the poet.
"forty acres and a mule, this is bigger than the music"
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Amar D. Peterman @amarpeterman.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
“These days I am impatient with poetry that is not steeped in, marred and transfigured by, the world.“
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Amar D. Peterman @amarpeterman.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
Loved writing this one a few years ago:
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Amar D. Peterman @amarpeterman.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Amidst death and destruction, genocide and imperial expansion, deportation and the utter rejection of compassion, oligarchy and tyranny, Sieg Heil and the stench of death and dying, blow after blow; I ask: Where is God? amardpeterman.substack.com/p/where-is-g...
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where is god in a time like this?
for those who are overwhelmed, you're not alone.
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Amar D. Peterman @amarpeterman.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
“What do you think? Which of the three became a neighbor to the man attacked by robbers?” “The one who treated him kindly,” the religion scholar responded. Jesus said, “Go and do the same.” — Luke 10:36-37 (The Message)
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Amar D. Peterman @amarpeterman.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Why are Christians on my timeline more eager to cite lines of the Constitution that justify deporting undocumented immigrants than Bible verses instructing us to love and serve them?
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Amar D. Peterman @amarpeterman.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
This is why the language we use matters. When we dehumanize undocumented immigrants by reducing them to their legal status, it isn’t a far stretch to pass legislation that makes them criminals. The consequences are devastating. www.axios.com/2025/01/28/t...
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Trump administration confirms it calls all undocumented immigrants "criminals"
Suspected undocumented immigrants face civil not criminal penalties
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Amar D. Peterman @amarpeterman.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
What changed my mind about the Black Lives Matter movement was a personal reckoning with my own ethnicity and experience of racism in the United States. My 2022 piece in @sojo.net: sojo.net/articles/how...
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How I Changed My Mind About Black Lives Matter
I used to think conversations about race were part of a not-so-hidden liberal agenda. Thank God I changed.
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Amar D. Peterman @amarpeterman.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
“Slowly, we learn to accept that we don't need to dominate and displace others to feel safe. Nonviolence is our planetary future.” - Andrew DeCort, “Blessed Are the Others”
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Amar D. Peterman @amarpeterman.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Refering to human beings as “illegals” is inherently and horrifically dehumanizing.
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Amar D. Peterman @amarpeterman.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
Love thy neighbor, saints.
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Amar D. Peterman @amarpeterman.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
It is only Friday...but it feels as though an eternity has passed since Monday afternoon.
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