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Bonhoeffer's Child

@bonhoefferchild.bsky.social
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A minister exploring the mass intersection of belief, politics, responsibility, and humanity. Gadfly. bonhoefferchild.substack.com

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Bonhoeffer's Child @bonhoefferchild.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Dear Christian voters: We’re not supposed to pick a side of the table … we’re supposed to flip the table over.
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Bonhoeffer's Child @bonhoefferchild.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
There is zero distance between Trump’s “Grab them by the p**sy” and the Cornell 7’s “Free p**sy.”
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Bonhoeffer's Child @bonhoefferchild.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Reminder: “Biblical literacy” is a bit of a canard. It usually means “if one doesn’t agree with my niche doctrine then one isn’t biblically literate.” The truth is that one can never parse scripture well if one does not understand Christ’s heart and mission.
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Bonhoeffer's Child @bonhoefferchild.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
That’s a perfect analogy.
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Bonhoeffer's Child @bonhoefferchild.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
2/ Christ doesn't ask us to have dominion over anyone or anything. He asks us instead to walk with people in the valley of their suffering as he does, share in their pain, walk/help them out of it, and point them to the Cross. /ENDS
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Bonhoeffer's Child @bonhoefferchild.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
1/ Food for Thought: If you're focusing on the 7 Mountains Mandate, ie, dominion over key areas of a society ... you're unable to focus on Golgotha or the empty tomb. A eye looking towards Caesar's throne is an eye that cannot focus on Christ.
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Bonhoeffer's Child @bonhoefferchild.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Goosestep elsewhere.
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Bonhoeffer's Child @bonhoefferchild.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
If you’re not able to read my op and understand the point … I would suggest asking a passing third grader to explain it.
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Bonhoeffer's Child @bonhoefferchild.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Yes.
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Bonhoeffer's Child @bonhoefferchild.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Where did I mention anything about that?
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Bonhoeffer's Child @bonhoefferchild.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
This is a good time to remind ourselves that a major driver of modern Christian Nationalism and/or new theological niches … is the narcissism of those involved. Self-love and a desire for importance pushes people into weird places. “I alone understand the truth. I will make others bow to it.”
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Bonhoeffer's Child @bonhoefferchild.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
This. I just paid 6.50 for cheap chuck.
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Bonhoeffer's Child @bonhoefferchild.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
This. The music is just ... meh. Glad he has integrity, but wish he had more talent. On the other hand, I can only play guitar ... and rather badly. so my opinion is worthless.
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Bonhoeffer's Child @bonhoefferchild.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Sigh.
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Bonhoeffer's Child @bonhoefferchild.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
A church that needs hundred of millions to grow … is a church which has to buy its witness. Yes, this is a subtweet.
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Bonhoeffer's Child @bonhoefferchild.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The intersection between Al Mohler and Live, Laugh, Love isn’t really found in analysis of doctrine or history … instead it is found at that place where Imago Dei and Imago Evangelicus collide. Link in graphic.
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Bonhoeffer's Child @bonhoefferchild.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Never have I felt as seen as I do when reading this post. Accurate, succinct, perfect.
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Bonhoeffer's Child @bonhoefferchild.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
You can't emulate Christ without loving those whom you want to disdain, hate, despise, or vilify. You can't love someone without having empathy for them. You can't fully empathize with someone without having the heart of Christ and seeing them as He does.
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Bonhoeffer's Child @bonhoefferchild.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
*you
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Bonhoeffer's Child @bonhoefferchild.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Good call and point. And yep, knew that's where you're were headed with GM. It really is interesting to consider how views on justice change based on the atonement theory one holds to. Far easier and more accurate to emulate Christ directly. Mercy first.
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Bonhoeffer's Child @bonhoefferchild.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Every time a Christian spouts blind hatred against Muslims over 9/11 (or any other reason) ... they are joining the terrorists on the plane. Christ-like praxis makes no room for blind hatred. Our words and deeds lay the road the Gospel walks upon. We should take care to protect the Gospel's voice.
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Bonhoeffer's Child @bonhoefferchild.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Wait for it. I have one dropping tomorrow, but the next one will likely be a longer review of the book.
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Bonhoeffer's Child @bonhoefferchild.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
The short version is that her article/book are fantasy and persecution complex and a total denial of the products of modern evangelicalism.
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Bonhoeffer's Child @bonhoefferchild.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
yes, I wrote about it on substack.
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Bonhoeffer's Child @bonhoefferchild.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
This is wildly fascinating.
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Bonhoeffer's Child @bonhoefferchild.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
PS: @wearenotenemies.bsky.social couldn't be on this episode due to unforeseen circumstances, and so Josiah filled in for him to hold the seat warm until next week.
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Bonhoeffer's Child @bonhoefferchild.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
2/ Links: Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s... Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/4I1K... Podbean: sacredshenanigans.podbean.com/e/september-... /ENDS
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Bonhoeffer's Child @bonhoefferchild.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
1/ New Episode! Bon talks with guest Josiah Hawthorn about the biggest stories of the past week from a Christian point of view. It's a kitchen sink episode with everything from Trump's 5,000 dollar bribe to Charlie Kirk and Proverbs 31.
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Bonhoeffer's Child @bonhoefferchild.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Lolol
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Bonhoeffer's Child @bonhoefferchild.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
This is true bravery and decency in action.
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Bonhoeffer's Child @bonhoefferchild.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Preach. Preach it twice on Sunday.
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Bonhoeffer's Child @bonhoefferchild.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
3/ The enemy we strive with most is not a religion, a country, or a person ... it is our desire to hang the worst parts of our human nature on the Cross and call them holy.
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Bonhoeffer's Child @bonhoefferchild.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
2/ Nor do they see them as people in need of the Gospel and worthy of friendship. Instead, they see them as enemies. The Gospel has no inherent enemies, and thus, neither do Christians.
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Bonhoeffer's Child @bonhoefferchild.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
1/ One of the most disturbing things about the “Islam/Muslims are evil” posts from Christians. today, on the anniversary of 9/11 is that it says that those believers don’t see Muslims as Imago Dei, infinitely valuable and loved by God.
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Bonhoeffer's Child @bonhoefferchild.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I can only speak for myself ... but the coming self-immolation of his campaign was clear from the beginning.
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Bonhoeffer's Child @bonhoefferchild.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I don’t know who needs to hear this but … the doctrinal narcissism displayed by arguments over atonement theories is nothing more than a sibling to Lucifer’s pride. A tradition, denomination, or sect that believe they alone hold the entirety of truth is far from the Cross.
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Bonhoeffer's Child @bonhoefferchild.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Wonderful.
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Bonhoeffer's Child @bonhoefferchild.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Peak comment.
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Bonhoeffer's Child @bonhoefferchild.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
I have to refrain now from making “kissing” disease jokes. But they’re coming.
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Bonhoeffer's Child @bonhoefferchild.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Didn’t Trump declare peace and victory 90 times already?
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Bonhoeffer's Child @bonhoefferchild.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
yep
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Bonhoeffer's Child @bonhoefferchild.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
10/ When we remove that equal autonomy, value, voice, etc … we remove the Image of God from them, wholly. A man willing to do that to a woman because of a self-serving heretical doctrine is a man who WILL abuse her in some way later. Often sexually, and certainly in other ways. /ENDS
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Bonhoeffer's Child @bonhoefferchild.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
9/ Eventually he will look at you as a tool, sexually and otherwise, rather than a person to fulfill and be mutually submitted to. This is why “role” doctrine pushed by Comp Theo is inherently abusive and antichrist. It removes the Imago Dei/personhood from women and makes them into mere tools.
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Bonhoeffer's Child @bonhoefferchild.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
8/ PS: Ladies, never marry a man that looks at you as his biblically ordained help-meet rather than his equal, made Imago Dei with the same autonomy, voice, and value that he has. If he mentions the word "roles" run as fast as you can. He does not respect you or your Imago Dei.
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Bonhoeffer's Child @bonhoefferchild.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
7/ We in the pulpit should never consider ourselves (unless trained for it academically) to speak to the specifics of sexual well-being and sexual health of a marriage. We point people to the Cross … not to their orgasms. And orgasms are not a metric for marriage health.
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Bonhoeffer's Child @bonhoefferchild.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
6/ The ONLY message about sex a pastor should give his congregants is this: May it be joyful, consensual, and fulfilling. If you ever need sexual advice for your marriage, find an actual therapist who specializes in it.
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Bonhoeffer's Child @bonhoefferchild.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
5/ We like to blame coverups on protecting theological camps or denominational entities. That is a cop-out. The reality is that like protects like. There is a specific pathology that goes with comp doctrine or “penis-holster” sermonizing about sex, and that pathology is as reliable as Polaris.
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Bonhoeffer's Child @bonhoefferchild.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
4/ I will be unsurprised if we find out, after his funeral, that Al Mohler was more than a little involved in the actual acts Patterson committed. There is likely a deeper reason Tom Ascol offered secretly to help sexual predator Sills rehab his reputation.
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Bonhoeffer's Child @bonhoefferchild.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
3/ It’s a sure bet we’ll one day we’ll see similar stories about Driscoll, Suave, Wilson, etc. I have no problem believing that (and I can only speak for myself) Driscoll, Webbon, Suave, Ascol, etc have had women/boys on the side, and in time we’ll likely hear abuse stories about Wilson. Inevitable.
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Bonhoeffer's Child @bonhoefferchild.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
2/ People who preach domination of women via abusive “help-meet” messages or blame women for men’s sexual failures (as he did) ALWAYS have a sexual/control issue.
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