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Rev. Dr. Michael Woolf @revdrmichaelwoolf.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

If you're a mainline Protestant who is interested in protecting free and fair elections this November, I helped put together this webinar that is tomorrow at 1pm Central Time. I'd be super grateful if you registered or shared, as protecting our democracy from a faith-based lens is so important!

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National Clergy Call to Protect the Vote - Mainline Protestant Stream

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Rev. Dr. Michael Woolf @revdrmichaelwoolf.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

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National Clergy Call to Protect the Vote - Mainline Protestant Stream

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Rev. Dr. Michael Woolf @revdrmichaelwoolf.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

In an age of AI, we have a lot of choices to make as the church. Whatever the future of work looks like, we should be wary of any economy that no longer has room for people like Jesus, the workingman of Nazareth.

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Christian Century @christiancentury.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

“For generations of Christians engaged in the social gospel movement aimed at ameliorating poverty, the fact that Jesus was also a laborer was an important connection between God and humanity.” – @revdrmichaelwoolf.bsky.social www.christiancentury.org/online-colum...

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The workingman of Nazareth

As AI unsettles the future of work, Jesus’ identity as a tekton deserves a second...

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Christian Century @christiancentury.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

“If worshipping a God who identifies with the vulnerable makes us more likely to support horrific treatment of immigrants, then something has gone wrong. It seems obvious to me that racial identity is more important in these spaces than the Gospel.” – @revdrmichaelwoolf.bsky.social

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Why do Christians support internment camps?

The answer seems to be about race, according to new...

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Rev. Dr. Michael Woolf @revdrmichaelwoolf.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Here's my write-up about @prri.org's polling data that shows a HUGE number of white Christians in favor of internment camps for undocumented immigrants. We have so much work to do!

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Sojourners @sojo.net · 19/08/2026

"As Christians, we ought to be explicit about how our theology offers a different take on omniscience that drastically diverges from how authoritarians understand it," writes @revdrmichaelwoolf.bsky.social sojo.net/articles/opi...

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Omniscience Does Not Belong to the State

The point of government surveillance is to discourage Christians from following our consciences.

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Rev. Dr. Michael Woolf @revdrmichaelwoolf.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Sainthood now for Dolly Parton!

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Rev. Dr. Michael Woolf @revdrmichaelwoolf.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Gave an interview this morning for Connect w/ @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social at MSNOW about how the highest form of patriotism is working to redeem your country when it’s going down the path of evil. youtu.be/5lKHypz4DtA?...

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When protest becomes ‘TERRORISM’:The Trump admin's escalating war on dissent

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Connect with Jacob Soboroff @connectwithjacob.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

As dissent and protests spread, the Trump admin turns to terrorism statutes and online surveillance to target critics. But @revdrmichaelwoolf.bsky.social says it's more dangerous to do nothing. "The highest form of patriotism is to want to redeem your country."

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When protest becomes ‘TERRORISM’:The Trump admin's escalating war on dissent

The Trump administration is increasingly using the federal criminal code, surveillance tech, and terrorism statutes to target dissent. Soboroff looks at what happens to a democracy when people become ...

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Rev. Dr. Michael Woolf @revdrmichaelwoolf.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Trump came after my city's reparations program, but what he doesn't understand is that the work of reparations is not an attack on America’s ideals; it is an attempt to take those ideals seriously. Thanks to @sojo.net for publishing my thoughts.

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My Church Supported Our City’s Reparations Program. Trump Wants to End It

The DOJ is attacking the religious freedom of faith communities like mine who are proud supporters of Evanston’s reparations program.

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Rev. Dr. Michael Woolf @revdrmichaelwoolf.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Hey, cool to see this review of mine popping up on @sojo.net for Pride Month!

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Rev. Dr. Michael Woolf @revdrmichaelwoolf.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

I was grateful to join the Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty and the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship last week talking about the need for faith based resistance to fascism. It was a great experience! Thanks to @amandatylerbjc.bsky.social for all the work she and BJC are doing!

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Word&Way @wordandway.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

“There’s something for everybody to do. And I think it’s really important this time as we struggle with fascism ... that we do our best and to live out our faith in the world and find some way to bring our values into the public square as Christians.” - @revdrmichaelwoolf.bsky.social

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Cooperative Baptists Challenge Christian Nationalism, Advocate for Loving Neighbors

Earlier this month, the Southern Baptist Convention met in Orlando, Florida, and again voted against women in ministry.

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Rev. Dr. Michael Woolf @revdrmichaelwoolf.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

It was a great event, and I was delighted to be able to speak. @briankaylor.bsky.social also spoke, and, as usual, he was amazing and insightful!

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Rev. Dr. Michael Woolf @revdrmichaelwoolf.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

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Rev. Dr. Michael Woolf @revdrmichaelwoolf.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Our 70 year old copper cross at @lakestreetchurch.bsky.social is coming down for restoration. Literally a once-in-a-lifetime event!

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Rev. Dr. Michael Woolf @revdrmichaelwoolf.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Our 70 year old copper cross at @lakestreetchurch.bsky.social is coming down for restoration. Literally a once-in-a-lifetime event!

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Rev. Dr. Michael Woolf @revdrmichaelwoolf.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

And I give my life to these institutions. So, it is personal. The fact that people go to church, hear the message and somehow think it's compatible with concentration camps is beyond disheartening, but it means pastors have to connect it explicitly, even if its unpopular.

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Rev. Dr. Michael Woolf @revdrmichaelwoolf.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Today, I'm thinking about the fact that 50% of mainline Protestants polled by PRRI were OK with undocumented people being sent to internment camps until they can be deported. What a failure of discipleship. It's a shocking number. So much work to do in churches. prri.org/research/the...

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The New Immigration Crackdown: Where Americans Stand

A new PRRI report considers how receptive Americans are to the second Trump administration’s handling of immigration and their support for several different immigration-related policies.

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The New Immigration Crackdown: Where Americans Stand

A new PRRI report considers how receptive Americans are to the second Trump administration’s handling of immigration and their support for several different immigration-related policies.

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Rev. Dr. Michael Woolf @revdrmichaelwoolf.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Excited to host a coalition of Mainline Protestants today at the church I pastor. We are strategizing for defense of democracy and will be working to resist detention centers/ concentration camps and keep new ones from being built from a faith-based lens.

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Rev. Dr. Michael Woolf @revdrmichaelwoolf.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Let me solve this problem for you. Enforce the law. If ICE comes to a courthouse in violation of Illinois law, arrest them. Let it play out in courts. Who cares if you lose eventually - you still deprive the ICE agents of the ability to terrorize our communities. Have a backbone!

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Rev. Dr. Michael Woolf @revdrmichaelwoolf.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Another D Governor who doesn’t get it. They are on hunger strike in there - it is a torture facility. What would you do if there was a concentration camp nearby? Evidently, you would chastise protesters and send in state police to rough them up. How about doing everything you can to arrest ICE?

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Rev. Dr. Michael Woolf @revdrmichaelwoolf.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Do I sense critique of the ABCUSA in this article by @baptistnews.com? Maybe I'm too hopeful. Certainly Baptist distinctives can be used to create a better world, but the American Baptist Churches has had zero social witness for years, and if you haven't called out this admin by now, you won't ever.

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America is imperiled, but Baptists can save it – Baptist News Global

moments in the life of nation when silence becomes a decision. There are moments in the life of church when caution becomes cowardice.

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Rev. Dr. Michael Woolf @revdrmichaelwoolf.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

My article for @sojo.net is live about 5 things Christians can do to support Muslims after the Islamic Center of San Diego shooting. For a deeper dive, you can also check out my book, Confronting Islamophobia in the Church. sojo.net/articles/opi...

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5 Ways Christians Can Support Their Muslim Neighbors

We must build networks of solidarity now. We cannot wait for the next shocking act of violence to occur.

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Rev. Dr. Michael Woolf @revdrmichaelwoolf.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

If I learned anything this past decade, it’s that there are no rules. No one made a rule that you can’t name a building after yourself while you’re president because we thought common decency would prevail. We need all the rules, because courts can’t enforce things there aren’t rules for.

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Rev. Dr. Michael Woolf @revdrmichaelwoolf.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

This is what Trump and his cronies are spending their time doing - markups of Trump’s face on a $250 bill. Despite the fact that it’s illegal to have someone living on our money - we are not a monarchy, after all. The level of corruption, greed, and self dealing is unlike anything we’ve ever seen.

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5 Ways Christians Can Support Their Muslim Neighbors

We must build networks of solidarity now. We cannot wait for the next shocking act of violence to occur.

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Rev. Dr. Michael Woolf @revdrmichaelwoolf.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

He was also the first person to really articulate a politics of consumption. He knew (and told everyone) you can't put sugar in your tea and not be complicit with the horrors of slavery he witnessed in Barbados. Kicked out of his religious community, he never stopped telling the truth.

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Rev. Dr. Michael Woolf @revdrmichaelwoolf.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Don't let anyone ever tell you that "they were men of their times." That's bull. Case in point - Benjamin Lay, the first Quaker to call out slavery in dramatic fashion in the early 18th century, when all the magnates of Philadelphia were pious slaveholders. Tear down their statues and put his up.

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The "Quaker Comet" Was the Greatest Abolitionist You've Never Heard Of

Overlooked by historians, Benjamin Lay was one of the nation's first radicals to argue for an end to slavery

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Rev. Dr. Michael Woolf @revdrmichaelwoolf.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

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The "Quaker Comet" Was the Greatest Abolitionist You've Never Heard Of

Overlooked by historians, Benjamin Lay was one of the nation's first radicals to argue for an end to slavery

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RNS @rns.org · 28/05/2026

(RNS) — ‘It was uncomfortable at times, but nobody stormed out,’ said Shariq Ghani, executive director of the Houston multifaith group Bridges. ‘They listened, they shook hands, they hugged, they cried.’

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To combat polarization, a Houston interfaith group embraces riskier dialogue

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Rev. Dr. Michael Woolf @revdrmichaelwoolf.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Say their names! Amin Abdullah, Mansour Kaziha and Nader Awad are heroes and martyrs who died protecting kids from anti-Muslim violence. They are a bright light. People aren’t made for this evil. They were made for goodness.

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Rev. Dr. Michael Woolf @revdrmichaelwoolf.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

My wife @annapiela.bsky.social and I wrote a new book that comes out in January - Confronting Islamophobia in the Church. Invite us to your church, book group, or podcast, please! If you could help us spread the word and even preorder the book, we'd be grateful. www.judsonpress.com/Products/J32...

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Rev. Dr. Michael Woolf @revdrmichaelwoolf.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Our hearts are grieved by the vicious attack on the Islamic Center of San Diego. @annapiela.bsky.social and I wrote a statement for our action network Challenging Islamophobia Together Chicagoland. My Muslim siblings, you are not alone. We stand in solidarity. Christians, we’ve got work to do.

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Rev. Dr. Michael Woolf @revdrmichaelwoolf.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

This Sunday was Pentecost, and it shows us a God who revels in diversity, including religious difference. We need that Pentecost power now more than ever to fight against the forces of hate that we saw in the shooting at the Islamic Center of San Diego. The church must say something.

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Rev. Dr. Michael Woolf @revdrmichaelwoolf.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

I see the word “tragedy” being used to describe the shooting at the Islamic Center of San Diego, and it is without a doubt, a tragedy. But we know the source of this tragedy is from the highest power in our country, where this administration actively foments Islamophobia and anti-Muslim hate.

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