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@osucowboytc.bsky.social
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Former missionary, former pastor, deeply wounded by both for very different reasons. I just want the church to try to look like Jesus.

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TC @osucowboytc.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
Hey @josiahhawthorne.bsky.social, we're gonna need a Christian Bluesky map.
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TC @osucowboytc.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
Christians spending their energy grasping for power instead of loving their neighbors won't result in a society influenced by the love of Christ. At best it will result in a society that reluctantly acquiesces to forced cultural practices.
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TC @osucowboytc.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Wanna make America great? Proceed in humility. Listen. Consider others as more important than yourself. Love others as yourself. Treat others as you want to be treated.
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TC @osucowboytc.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Use a GIF to show me where you’re from.
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a man in a cowboy outfit is walking in a dirt field .
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TC @osucowboytc.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
I'm a diehard @cowboyfb.bsky.social fan. But this year has been so disheartening, I barely even care to watch. Something has to change.
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TC @osucowboytc.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
First time smoking a turkey. 🤤
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TC @osucowboytc.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
I just saw an ad for reusable toilet paper.
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a woman says and like why and like don t
ALT: a woman says and like why and like don t
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TC @osucowboytc.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Christian Nationalists use "Christ is King" to announce a reign of terror against non-Christian Nationalists. Christians use "Christ is King" as an invitation to all people into the merciful reign of a loving God.
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Prop @prophiphop.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Happy, "completely made up story to lie about our relationship to the native Americans in hopes to heal the rift caused by the civil war but damn these Greens and Mac and cheese are SLAPPIN" day. Happy cognitive dissonance day.
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Adam Sharp @adamcsharp.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
A word for turkey (the bird) in Turkey (the country) is hindi. A word for turkey (the bird) in Hindi (the language) is tarki.
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TC @osucowboytc.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
🧵Romans 1 spells out a way that God gives people over to their carnal desires. Fundamentalists love to point to that passage to condemn people (while ignoring Romans 2). 1/
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BozLaw @bozlaw.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
People in positions of spiritual authority who abuse will continue abusing as long as they are idolized and affirmed by infatuated followers. #bozlaw
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TC @osucowboytc.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Course-correction without attempts towards restitution and reconciliation is not full repentance. You can't just leave a wake of destruction in your path and then say you've changed so it should all somehow be ok now.
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TC @osucowboytc.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
It seems like Trump's picks for leaders of health-related fields are people who would be likely to allow him to experiment with injecting bleach or shining bright lights at people to fight contagious diseases.
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Sam Won 원영삼 @samobiwon77.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
@danielwalbert.bsky.social glad you're here, Dan!
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TC @osucowboytc.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Growing up in a cultural Christian environment means you have to deconstruct the tendency to depend on the culture to make you righteous and understand that only Jesus can do that.
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TC @osucowboytc.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
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Susie Dent @susiedentwords.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Word of the day is ‘sequaciousness’ (16th century): the slavish and reckless following of another person in matters of thought or opinion.
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Amy Mantravadi @amymantravadi.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
It’s release day for BROKEN BONDS: A NOVEL OF THE REFORMATION!!!! 🎉🥳 📖 The story of LUTHER, ERASMUS, MELANCHTHON clinging to faith in a chaotic world. 🔥 Want to win a signed copy? 🏆 LIKE AND REPOST to be entered in the drawing. Purchase here: shop.1517.org/products/978...
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TC @osucowboytc.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Many evangelicals can't identify what is wrong with hardcore Christian Nationalism because they were raised with the more palatable version being the norm in their churches.
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Sarah Murray @smmurray.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
This. Our responsibility is to not become bitter and hardened. To keep a soft heart able to hear confession and acknowledge repentance and offer forgiveness if it is asked of us. But I can’t forgive what they won’t own and repent of.
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TC @osucowboytc.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Periodic reminder: The biblical standard for forgiveness is confession and repentance. Even God works on this standard. Asking victims to forgive when there is no repentance is unbiblical.
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TC @osucowboytc.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
I fully support tariffs on illicit drugs.
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Gretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcculloch.com · 26/11/2024
Today in "linguists are NOT KIDDING when we say that your capacity for language involves being able to understand sentences that have never been said before"
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TC @osucowboytc.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Non-negotiables I have for a pastor that make it really hard to find a church in the Bible Belt: 1) Humility (the real kind, not the faux kind) 2) Gospel preaching (not just as an add-on or altar call) 3) No Christian Nationalism (including any kind of Americana or civil religion in the pulpit)
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TC @osucowboytc.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Something English-only speakers likely don't consider: Spelling bees aren't a thing for all languages because some languages have very consistent and transparent systems of writing.
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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
I suspect that some annoyed pundits are insistent in claiming Bluesky is a progressive bubble not because, as they believe, it’s hyper-partisan, but because for them, subconsciously, the remarkably civil tone of the platform feels coded as progressive. And that says quite a lot about their outlook.
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TC @osucowboytc.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Post a movie from the year you were born.
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a young boy wearing glasses and a hat looks surprised in a group of children
ALT: a young boy wearing glasses and a hat looks surprised in a group of children
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TC @osucowboytc.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Jesus' contemporaries found Jesus' empathy toward sinners to be pretty toxic. Let the reader understand.
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Chenchen Zhang 🤦🏻‍♀️ @chenchenzhang.net · 23/11/2024
wow the name of bluesky comes from mandarin Chinese :)
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TC @osucowboytc.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Optimist: The cup is half full. Pessimist: The cup is half empty. Insurance adjuster: What happened to the cup? What brand is the cup? When did you buy the cup?
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TC @osucowboytc.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Jesus called Simon the Zealot away from nationalism and Matthew the tax collector away from imperialism.
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TC @osucowboytc.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
From 2016 to 2020, we heard a lot of people say that they just wanted to live in "precedented times" again. It's looking like 2024-2028 may lead to more of those desires.
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Johnna Harris @johnnarae.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
The biggest switch for me in my journey through spiritual wilderness was when I realized beauty was in the grey and we have permission to not have all the answers.
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TC @osucowboytc.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
It's ironic that the people who talk most about wanting a"Christian nation" want to exclude many who are actually a part of THE "holy nation" (1 Pet 2:9) just because they were born at different geographic coordinates.
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TC @osucowboytc.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
"Is it wrong for Christians to have their own nation?" No. In fact, Jesus already created that. It is wrong for us to remove ourselves from the world. Jesus specifically prayed that we wouldn't.
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Li Wei 李嵬 @professorliwei.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
“Bilingualism is perceived as a talent for white students and as a deficit for students of color.” #EAL @iancushing.bsky.social
demystifyinglanguage.fordham.edu
Language is Not the Problem, Racism is the Problem – Demystifying Language Project
Students of color are always being told that they need to change the way they speak. But what if, instead, educators changed the way they listen?
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TC @osucowboytc.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Post a picture you took (no description) to bring some zen to the timeline.
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TC @osucowboytc.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
The resume of a Christian leader should speak at least as much to his/her integrity as it does to professional competencies and accomplishments. Probably more.
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TC @osucowboytc.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
A pointed rebuke of authoritarian Christian Nationalism from Ancient Chinese philosopher, Lao-tzu: “以道佐人主者,不以兵强天下,其事好还。”(道德经第三十章) "He who serves a ruler of men in harmony with Tao (truth) will not subdue the Empire by force of arms. Such a course is wont to bring retribution in its train."
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TC @osucowboytc.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Something I'm growing much more aware of is that white evangelicals seem, by and large, to view themselves as superior to those who aren't white evangelicals. It seems to be part of the DNA.
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TC @osucowboytc.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
It's clear that Trump is trolling the American people. The problem is, he's doing it not with social media posts, but with Cabinet posts.
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Sharon Hodde Miller @sharonhmiller.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
It’s no coincidence that Jesus’s primary metaphors for ministry were not soldiers, hunters, or builders, But shepherds, farmers, and fisherman. The humility. The unpredictability. The chaos. The waiting. None of it means we failed. This is just what faithfulness looks like.
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Johnna Harris @johnnarae.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Bringing our board member Eric Isaac’s newly minted & published definition of spiritual abuse to all my fave blueskies
Spiritual abuse is its own umbrella category of abuse Any form of abuse can fall under the category if God or the sacred is presented as complicit or used to justify abuse by power holders This unique abuse can create unique trauma Entire faith communities can be built on abusive manipulations
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TC @osucowboytc.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
RE: BlueSky Echo Chamber I am scrolling through my feed. I have people from across the spectrum, both political and theological. The difference? My feed is devoid of hateful people who won't engage in good faith. I'm ok with that kind of echo chamber. Because it's really just civil discourse.
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TC @osucowboytc.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
One of the most beautiful things about being a missionary is that our team all knew we were strangers and aliens. There was no facade of power or privilege and no confusion about trying to fit into society. And that meant we needed unity. Amidst a thousand differences, we needed each other.
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Sam Won 원영삼 @samobiwon77.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
I believe the Torah/the Decalogue are foundational to Jesus' teachings (eg, Sermon on the Mount). The Decalogue elegantly captures the essence of the Law. But I don't want them forcibly displayed in public. The Decalogue is not a talisman. To honor Jesus is to live by them for the good of others.
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TC @osucowboytc.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Coming back to my emails and voicemails after a week off PTO makes me think I need another week of PTO. 😵‍💫
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TC @osucowboytc.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Sounds like some war crimes are about to be committed without there even being a war. Cool cool.
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TC @osucowboytc.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
The thing about loving your neighbor is you don't even need to understand the original Greek or Hebrew to know what that means.
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