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Stephen @stephenwaldron.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I know we're not dealing with the brightest thinker here, but surely he doesn't actually believe that public executions will "remind people of the sanctity of human life"

Robert Jeffress on how capital punishment in a public execution can teach people about the sanctity of life.

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Stephen @stephenwaldron.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I found this piece of the review uniquely revealing. www.christiancentury.org/books/soluti...

Excerpt from review of In Defense of Evangelicalism on the book's neglect of doctrine.

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Stephen @stephenwaldron.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Every time this happens it's reported like "unforeseeable phenomenon of 'oversupply' causing market rate rents to fall" when this is an entirely predictable result of doing the thing that very few unaffordable cities bother to do.

Wall Street Journal promoting an article on falling market rate housing costs in Portland, Oregon.

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Stephen @stephenwaldron.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Ganz is onto something here. There's a reason that breakthroughs in mathematics have typically been achieved by young people while truly great work in the humanities usually doesn't happen until middle age.

Excerpt from John Ganz substack on AI and Aristotle on techne and phronesis

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Stephen @stephenwaldron.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

This church is sending out their livestream link like "Zoom to the living water"

Email subject that says "link to the living stream"

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Stephen @stephenwaldron.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

This is what Hegel calls thesis, antithesis, and synthesis.

Post by Anthony Bradley on African American writers being free to write about anything, ending with a comment recommending Thomas Sowell.

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Stephen @stephenwaldron.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Kind of wild detail here about a councilmember first asking for fewer "affordable" housing units in a building, then more, during the same meeting--presumably to sabotage the entire project. At some point, we just have to be like "we live in a city, not a tiny village or suburb."

Text on how a city councilmember asked for fewer "affordable" units then more at the same meeting.

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Stephen @stephenwaldron.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Fired for extramural speech, where is her academic freedom letter

Article entitled "professor who said Malays could fly sacked by Malaysian university"

Text from article about the fired professor

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Stephen @stephenwaldron.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

I was looking up a church ("Nfluence Church") that a TPUSA "faith leader" pastors, and apparently they have a pastor of "sex change regret" on staff.

Picture of a guy with the text "Nathan Rivers, Care & Support / Sex Change Regret"

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Stephen @stephenwaldron.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

We're really doing the "second time as farce" these days

Text on Hitler's obsession with the arts

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Stephen @stephenwaldron.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

And there's this wildly anti-Christian footnote toward the end.

Footnote saying "You will never be recognized as a man if you let others treat you poorly, make fun of you, etc."

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Stephen @stephenwaldron.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

I was giving this progressive defense of "masculinity" a chance, but now that I've gotten to the part that explicitly says that men should disregard what lesbians think of them... That's just misogyny. It's almost a definition of misogyny.

Text about masculinity saying that being a man consists in being "recognized" as a man by "other men and straight women."

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Stephen @stephenwaldron.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Reading through the program of this year's AAR (American Academy of Religion) conference and thinking that, 2 years later, this still has mostly not gotten through to a lot of academics. open.substack.com/pub/digressi...

Text on the obsolescence of many critiques of liberalism as of 2024

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Stephen @stephenwaldron.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

At the Reflecting "Pool," where a Freemason is arguing with Jehovah's Witnesses about medical ethics and a Muslim guy is praying. America...

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Stephen @stephenwaldron.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Beyond his small-minded racism, the fascinating thing about Joe Rigney's statement here is the way he invokes "Jesus" as a cultural mascot without any consideration of Jesus as ethical prophet and teacher.

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Stephen @stephenwaldron.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

The guy was a Georgia state senator, not a US senator, but Lance Wallnau's people know how to exaggerate a story!

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Stephen @stephenwaldron.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

This is simply not true, and people need to stop saying things like this (and push back when others do so). It's blatantly false and keeps us from accurately understanding and helpfully addressing a situation that really is bleak and challenging.

Screenshot of post saying "In a country like the United States of America in it's current state, your only options of major party candidates are 120% Nazi and 82% Nazi "

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Stephen @stephenwaldron.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

I'd love to meet a person who was in favor of Rededicate 250, then saw this post and was like "wow, actually it's not good after all."

Christian nightmares post that says "Rededicate 250 is a Christian nationalist political rally"

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Stephen @stephenwaldron.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

This comment on a local synagogue building residential towers in a dense, high-demand area has everything I "love": rabid NIMBYism *and* absurd overuse of "Christian nationalism."

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Stephen @stephenwaldron.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

Thinking of becoming a NIMBY, for this specifically

Article on John MacArthur's Master's University facing neighbor complaints about expansion

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Stephen @stephenwaldron.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Why we still need the humanities

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Stephen @stephenwaldron.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

This is something I also hope for, but I'm not sure that the main obstacle is a failure of theologians to "venture courageously," although most certainly could learn to accessibly communicate about things that people care about.

NYT editor calls for theologians to do more public theology

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Stephen @stephenwaldron.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Classic NIMBY post: pretending to be concerned about new housing causing gentrification that impacts Black residents, but ending with "Charles Murray has written extensively about this."

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Stephen @stephenwaldron.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Her spiritualized justifications are really disturbing: www.umnews.org/en/news/prob...

Pastor Stephanie Remington justifies her work for Jeffrey Epstein using comments about "God's unconditional love" and "how grace works."

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