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Fani Willis returns to church to accept an award and deliver a brief sermon on the weekend after her court testimony about whether her affair with married lawyer Nathan Wade brought a conflict of interest to her prosecution of former president Donald Trump. Willis quoted Isaiah 54:17 to describe the motion to disqualify her, due to alleged financial impropriety and perjurous court filings. "The scripture they keep sending me is 'No weapon formed against you shall prosper.' I need y'all to hear me, though. They did not say the weapons will not form, and that's the part I didn't hear until recently." Atlanta Berean Church, a Seventh-Day Adventist congregation, hosted Willis this Saturday for nearly 20 minutes of adulation, starting with lead pastor Dr. Sherwin Jack declaring: "She is one of us." The church presented Willis with a "Black History Achievement Award," SDA founder Ellen G. White's "Conflict Of The Ages" book series, and "beautiful flowers are for you, the beautiful person that you are." Finally, the church's leadership and several other Fulton County elected officials gathered around Fani in prayer, asking "that your power that's above any other power will reside not just around her but in her" and that "you'll open up the windows of Heaven and pour out a blessing that is so mighty and so bold and so brave and so precise that she could not help but to say, "My help cometh from the Lord.'" Source video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmaRtraD2hw

Rob Reiner, producer of the documentary "God And Country," says the film ends with a touching monologue from Rev. William Barber on how the church in America needs to come back to Jesus's teachings. Yes, *this* William Barber. Source links: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTQKmR6a9fw https://open.spotify.com/episode/3fA8neWtwLwgpE02mYlr1b https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2P5fJL5rryk https://twitter.com/RevDrBarber/status/1277030245569355777 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7PeqxTKd9I

The documentary “God And Country,” produced by Rob Reiner and directed by Dan Partland, alleges that politically active conservative Christians (all lumped together under the label “Christian Nationalism”) don’t understand True Christianity and have let politics subsume their faith. In the film's trailer, Sister Campbell declares, “Being a Christian is about the values of inclusion. Christian nationalism is certainly not based on the values of the gospel.” But what is her gospel? A review of Campbell’s writings and speeches will reveal her view of the gospel is a thoroughly 21st-century one, mostly indistinguishable from Unitarian Universalism, where mysticism, unchecked empathy + far-left politics all but erase the actual good news of Jesus Christ found in the scriptures. Source links: https://networklobby.org/20180613pride/ https://networklobby.org/pride20202306/ https://www.facebook.com/NetworkLobby/posts/pfbid02CawF84BRuwe5CzNKxB7Vj2UYGSEe6YPNsfy64DdHHB75QvBtqLSLMmC7633Ayy71l https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUeIs26JCi4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8z1IOWsMnU https://onbeing.org/programs/simone-campbell-how-to-be-spiritually-bold/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DjE5IhGm5Y https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YhyE54UFkkY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ORuH10oJn4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMqUSXdPI7Y https://stateofbelief.com/segments/whosoever-you-love-sister-simone-campbell/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Xt8kr_2IaQ

Preachers and religious pundits offer their takes on the resignation of former Harvard President Claudine Gay after researchers discovered dozens of instances of plagiarism in her academic writings. Source videos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HqOFuVGNqqA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14kK0Ah-CZQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4QAYTigmEU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQCNqvUEsY4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_M92HRT7iF4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IfgR_ic9_fQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDhEB4fG0eU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fDS6v-UHRg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rEKuOGOH4M https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhVs2lpNhvA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXE9PfTKCNk

Kelly Rosati, a National Association Of Evangelicals board member, calls pro-life Christians' opposition to state-run welfare "useless," "un-scriptural," and "madness." Rosati, an alumnus of Focus On The Family and former member of the March For Life's board of national directors, is speaking at the NAE's "Flourish" conference in October of last year. "I just want to plant a flag and say: Let us be people that never advocate for abortion restrictions without an accompanying paid family leave support." Earlier in the talk, Rosati appears to imply you are guilty of "negligent killing" of children across the world if you aren't donating to World Vision and they happen to die of starvation. At the conclusion of her speech, Rosati claims the pro-aborts are sometimes telling the truth about women being denied treatment because of abortion bans (even though the laws on the books specifically exempt ectopic pregnancy, D+C on miscarriages, etc.). Source video can be found here: https://www.nae.org/flourish-22-video-archive/

Kenny Hart, lead pastor at The Gathering Harlem, recounts the story of an adoption agency that rejected a family as too white to adopt a black child, visualizing their alleged inadequate cultural diversity with white and black marbles going into a jar. Instead of lamenting that believers were blocked from caring for an orphan, he affirms the agency's declaration that the family was "not fit to raise a black child." This clip is from a Zoom discussion Hart held with Aaron Brockett of Traders Point Christian Church, a multi-site megachurch in the Indianapolis area. —TRANSCRIPT HIGHLIGHTS— Jesus has three Son of Man statements in the gospel accounts. Only three. Three self-descriptions of what his ministry focus was. The first one's the Son of Man came to seek and save that which is lost. We know that one. We love that one. The second one is the Son of Man came to to serve and not be served. We know and love that one. But the third one is the one we never talk about: The Son of Man came eating and drinking. Think about that for a second. Jesus defined his ministry around his dinner table. What does our dinner table look like? And let's be honest, right? Just reading the gospels, we know that Jesus' dinner table has some questionable company around it. Jesus has some Pharisees, [inaudible] and prostitutes at his dinner table. And so Jesus has everyone of all race, class and gender at his dinner table and everyone of all socioeconomic backgrounds and everyone of all criminals and non-criminals and Jews and non-Jews and religious and non-religious. Why does our dinner table look so segregated? think I think that's a powerful question for the white church to wrestle with. ... A friend of mine, Asian friend, told me a story about a white family who wanted to adopt a black child, and the adoption agency actually had just created a new policy where they said, Hey, if you're adopting a child of another race, there's an assessment you have to go through to get approved in order to do that. So they passed every other assessment, great family, great Christian family, everything else they passed. But now they got to this assessment on ethnic culture and race. And so when they got there, the person from the adoption agency asked them a couple of questions. They said, "What was the skin color of the last three songs of the artists of the last three songs you listened to?" And they had white and black marbles on the table in a jar, and they said, "Just put the skin color into a jar." And so they put the marble in. Then they say, "What was the skin color of the author of the last three books you've read?" And then they put that in. "What was the skin color of the last five people you ate with?" And they put it in. And then at the end of that conversation, assessment, they said, "Look at the jar," and when the family looked at the jar, what they saw was there wasn't one black marble in it. It was all white and what they said was: "You're a great family, but you are not fit to raise a black child. Until you diversify your relationships, there is no way you can understand what this child who does not look like you will go through in this world." To me, we change the world when we change our relationships. And so I'll just read to you what a pastor friend texted me this week...He says, "Hey Kenny, I spent the week praying, lamenting and grieving another week of news of horrific, demonic attack on African-American men. I'm so sorry. Yesterday as I was praying and thinking, I was thinking about how every family of color has to have The Talk with their children to prepare their kids for this foolish systemic oppression." He said, "It struck me that it's time for white families to have our own version of The Talk. Explain to our children how the systems have been set up in our favor, how the oppression of others has benefited them and how they have a role to play in ending injustice for their friends." That, to me, is how we change the world: repentance and relationships, and then I think the last step, AB, is we think about redistribution. It's back to the question of who's flourishing because we have power...The gospel does not make us colorblind, it makes us love bound. We're bound by love to love one another across those lines that divide. And so how are we willing to redistribute some of the power that we have. Think about how we vote. Source video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M13MtEFs_AI

Chicago pastor Charlie Dates, a Gospel Coalition contributor, gives a hero's welcome to "Mayor Auntie," Lori Lightfoot, welcoming her to speak from the pulpit during Sunday worship. This is the service where Pastor James Meeks officially passed the torch to Dates and made him lead pastor over Salem Baptist Church Of Chicago. While much of the speech is honoring Meeks for his civic work, Lightfoot volunteers to preach from Deuteronomy 31, calling Dates the "Joshua" to Meeks' "Moses." At the end of the address, Pastor Meeks (a Moody Bible Institute Trustee) embraces Lightfoot's "wife" Amy Eshleman, who then leads his own wife off the stage arm-in-arm. Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_oxVlLZ2tM

Another year where Jesus' family fleeing to Egypt and the Magnificat get blown up and exploited for all sorts of nonsense. This year, people really ran with the genealogies! Source videos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=devz0lARjOs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=br-5noN0nFM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7iVMObSCkI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2TblUgXjR4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9nuMrwjVtc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBGxZuXjjK4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqa7n_Q4HUg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qutvwX2ewYE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUOL7NT8AlU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XONvFMTgPLs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zI8jBXmlF4c https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4EWeftq2oo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tM2hBY0Tia0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nEWEUvug4cI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6y0RiORKhA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAHBzoHOABI

John Onwuchekwa, pastor at Atlanta's Cornerstone Church, says "there's a brick wall in the way" of inter-ethnic Christian unity during an interview with TBN in Africa's "Chim's Talk." --TRANSCRIPT-- JOHN ONWUCHEKWA: Ten years after slavery, black people find themselves in a worse economic condition than they were prior to. In the United States, one of the easiest ways to build wealth and to provide for your family long-term is through owning homes. The United States came up with this group called the Federal Housing Administration, and their aim was "Let's help folks that can't afford homes to own homes." The problem was 60 years ago, 80 years ago, there were discriminatory practices against black and brown families. So if I was white, I could own a home. If I was black, I couldn't own a home, and then if I did own a home, I owned it in a community that they wouldn't invest in. So as the years go on and on and on, the gap gets bigger and bigger and bigger. And that's why I'm saying we have to own it. it wasn't just about the hard work of the people. The government stepped in and helped white people when they didn't help black people, and now years later, they're saying we should live in a colorblind world and not provide special help to people on the basis of their skin. The problem was they've already disadvantaged a community. HOST: John, one would have expected that this is one issue that the church in the United States of America can easily be united around. Why is this such a divisive issue among true Christ followers in the USA? ONWUCHEKWA: So one of the things that makes it hard is we're having two different conversations, right? So if you listen to a predominantly white population, they're going to talk about and constantly use the words "racial reconciliation." "Why can't we get along," "why can't we be unified." If you listen to the way that black and brown people talk about it, we don't talk about reconciliation, we talk about "racial injustice." "There is a problem that has to be fixed." So you have one group over here that talks about unity, unity, unity, and what we're saying is, you don't get unity by talking about unity. That is to confuse the end goal with the pathway. Unity is a byproduct, right? The way to get unity is to address the things that are standing in the way of our unity, right? So it's like there's a brick wall of injustice built up in between the races, and you have one side saying, "Why can't we just hug?" And the other side saying, "I would love to hug, but there's a brick wall in the way. Let's work together to tear down the brick wall, and then we can hug." Source video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjXs4EkRaag Watch the latest Woke Preacher Clips on Twitter: https://twitter.com/WokePreacherTV

A supercut of preachers giving their takes on the outcome of the 2022 midterm elections, particularly the repeat defeat of "Star Trek" cameo star Stacey Abrams, and shamelessly politicking for Raphael Warnock, an obviously heterodox Reverend Doctor. Sources: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzXHgGuDKFg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7h3mMD4IKY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6YIqvhrfg0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dn_s3___60 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPSl6Ff51jg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=onvAKJDBj-M https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PwRFXti0Fc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTFDNCX7xMs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGDNGPnb6Nw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hb7pkz4k-nA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLzUwS-HqRQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2Crl_FQL9A https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luuXpbjzb7c https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYPjqLADUf4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpiDuANAg_o https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1610DqkMqO0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQZnHgVipjQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONkD1Xik1eI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t98pywsTpUM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lZRCi0jGr8

At the 2018 MLK50 conference hosted by the ERLC, pastor Eric Mason engaged in some race essentialism by calling certain black men "not qualified" for leadership in multi-ethnic churches because they are "black on the outside but Angloid on the inside." Angloid is a derogatory term for white people, in the same style as "mongoloid." I've seen this clip discussed in various places but it hasn't been isolated for easy reference. —TRANSCRIPT HIGHLIGHT— Let me tell you right now, multiplicities of negroes ain't feeling evangelicalism. But one of the things I've been, God's been working on me in my heart, is that the root of bitterness sprouting up will defile many. And if I allow myself to stew in my frustration towards whites, Jesus won't be my center. My hatred will. But on the other hand, whites have to do this. Assume in Jesus' mighty name that because there is an offense, that you need to press into that particular offense and begin to educate yourself on beginning to develop the opportunity to not have reductionistic ways in which you try to cause racial reconciliation. Like through hiring non-qualified African-Americans to be the multi-ethnic engineers in your local churches. And you know they're not qualified because blacks haven't hired them. And it works against unity when you hire somebody that we not feeling, and you're wondering why multi-ethnicity isn't happening at your church. It's because you have a person that's black on the outside but Angloid on the inside. Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9Mv5NJkjJE

Highlights from an appearance of Sen. Raphael Warnock at The dReam Center, an Atlanta-area church, before his 2022 runoff election vs. Republican Herschel Walker. Pastor William Murphy prays and sings over "God's man" Warnock, and dozens of pastors from around the country take the stage to join the nearly 35-minute voter turnout interlude in the middle of dReam Center's Sunday worship service. Source video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N23hVq925_0

Esther Loewen, a former 7th-Day Adventist pastor who went transgender, describes the "ritual of transition" that he created to publicly declare and confirm his new identity. Along with the proclamation of a new name, Loewen was anointed with oil mixed with "ashes of loss" and "glitter of affirmation." Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OrUQH-0iEMc

Pastor Timothy McDonald III of Atlanta, Georgia's First Iconium Baptist Church reacts to the results of the 2022 midterm elections during a November 13 sermon titled "It Ain't Over Yet." McDonald encourages his congregation to vote for Sen. Raphael Warnock in a runoff election with Herschel Walker, clearly framing this position as God's will for the country and for his own kingdom.

Dr. Jamal H. Bryant of the Atlanta-are megachurch "New Birth" says the Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v. Wade is part of "something satanic afoot in Washington, DC," mere moments before calling up several parents to anoint their toddlers. Not going to link to the source video since these children's names and images are not redacted in it. —TRANSCRIPT HIGHLIGHTS— This week, America turned back the hands of time and declared a war on women in this nation. I wanted us to stand resolvely [sic] to say to this nation that if America was authentically pro-life, then they would immediately abolish the death penalty. If they were really pro-life, then they would put more money into Head Start programs. If they were pro-life, they would seek to cure the opiate addiction in this nation. If they were pro-life they would make sure that teachers feel safe in their schools. If they were pro-life, there would be stiff, stricter measures about gun control in this nation. If it was, pro-life we would not have to deal with food insecurity. But I stand with now the living matriarch of the movement, Maxine Waters, who said they have declared war on 32 million women in this nation. And one thing about a woman, when she is focused, she is not gonna stop until she gets what she needs. ... New Birth stands with the amazing women of this church, of this community, and of this country. That women have the right to have authority over their body, and it should not be legislated by men in Washington, DC. I want all of us all over this room, would you do me a favor? Would you celebrate the women around you who are competent enough to make decisions about their bodies, decisions about their life, and decisions about their future? We're praying steadfastly, because what we are seeing is racism rearing its head again uh with this measure that has just taken place. Black baby infant mortality is going to rise by 30 percent, and hence we cover the lives of our mothers of our pregnant mothers and our unborn babies...Today we stand in the gap for mothers and for emerging mothers. ... The weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but they are mighty unto God for the pulling down of strongholds. There is something satanic afoot in Washington, DC. ... So today, proudly, we dedicate babies in our church. They're coming at this time because we believe the children are the future. But we also believe that mothers have the right to elect where it is that they are in the season and the stages of their life, and they should not be criminalized for making decisions that will best suit them for where it is that they are. ... [Speakingto a toddler in her father's arms] As we're living in a world that is declaring war on women, we declare that God is going to make you fit for the battle, that there'll be no obstacle you will not be able to overcome. I anoint your hands, even in this moment, that God will give you the strength to take hold of whatever it is that you go after. I anoint your feet by the power of the Holy Spirit, that you will have dominion in the earth just as you do in heaven. And all the people of God said "Amen." Sisters, make some noise, even now.

Romans 12:2 ("Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind") is now a pro-drag queen Bible verse, apparently. Isaac Simmons, aka "Penny Cost," joined Allendale United Methodist Church in St. Petersburg, Florida about a week ago, and early in the service, senior pastor Andy Oliver asked all children in attendance to come up to the stage, where he asked Simmons several questions about himself and his aspirations to ministry. Oliver concluded their time with the children by saying Rom 12:2 "means that what I think today may have to change tomorrow." Simmons has previously said he just wants to take power and hijack Christianity for his own purposes in a slam poem titled "The Bible Is Nothing." Its conclusion read: "The Bible is nothing God must be nothing Religion must be nothing It is all nothing, until Until we wield it into something" With that already known about Simmons, all that can be said about his guest appearance here is 2 John 11: "Anyone who welcomes them shares in their wicked work." Source: https://vimeo.com/753557419

Clip from Vice President Kamala Harris' Remarks at the National Baptist Convention's 142nd Annual Session in Houston, Texas, on September 8, 2022. Remarks on legally killing babies begin at 2:09. —TRANSCRIPT— Today we live in unsettled times. The ideals we thought were long established, such as overseas the sovereignty of democratic nations. Here in our own country, the powerful transfer of power in a way that is peaceful. The freedom of voters. Voters. To decide elections. The freedom of women to make decisions about their own future. Even what constitutes the truth. These ideals now hang in the balance. And in this moment, then, we count on the strength and the conviction of our faith leaders to help lead us forward. As we see gun violence threatening the safety of our communities and the sanctity of our houses of worship, our faith leaders have been among the leaders who demand a ban on assault weapons so that our children do not have to fear their lives as they sit at their desk or kneel in the pew. As new laws in our country are making it more difficult for people to vote, including in this state right here, faith leaders are taking action. Registering voters and driving souls to the polls. Because like generations before, we all know the freedom to vote should be sacred. And our democracy must be defended. As extremists work to take away the freedom of women to make decisions about their own bodies, faith leaders are taking a stand, knowing one does not have to abandon their faith or deeply-held religious beliefs to agree that a woman should have the ability to make decisions about her own body and not have her government tell her what to do. And she will choose in consultation with her pastor or a priest or a doctor and her loved ones. But the government should not be making that decision. In this moment, let us heed the words of 1 Corinthians [16:13-14]: "Be on your guard. Stand firm in the faith. Be courageous [it actually says "act like men" in the Greek]. Be strong. And do everything in love." Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmAffazzXN8

Stacey Abrams delivers an unhinged, conspiracy-mongering abortion rant at a Georgia AME church on July 30, 2022, one month after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. —TRANSCRIPT— We live in a state that right now has decided to take cruelty to a new level. I am the daughter of two pastors. I have a strong moral core. I was trained to read and understand the Bible, and I will tell you this. There is nothing about the decision to eliminate access to abortion care that is grounded in anything other than cruelty and meanness and danger in the state of Georgia. Nothing! [Applause] Abortion care is a medical issue. It is a medical decision. And in the state of Georgia, it is a dangerous one. Brian Kemp, and yes, I'm going to call his name, is a hard-right religious extremist who has decided that he knows better than any woman about her body and has decided to make women second-class citizens in the state of Georgia in the year of our Lord 2022. [Applause] But let's be clear about what this law does. A six-week ban means you either failed biology or you failed morality, because it is before most women know they're pregnant. And as I just told you, 82 counties don't have an OB/GYN, which means by the time you get an appointment and find transportation and get in to see someone, it is already too late to get the help that you need in most of Georgia. It is because of that that women who are at risk for miscarriage or for ectopic pregnancies or for preeclampsia will be denied medical care until their lives are in danger. This is not hyperbole. In the state of Texas, who has the exact same law, they've already investigated women for miscarriages, because under the law and under science, that's technically called a spontaneous abortion. And so the law will say, "Well, no, you can't be criminalized for an abortion." Well, how are you going to know the difference unless you investigate women at one of the most traumatic moments in their lives? Under this law, an ectopic pregnancy may be forced to rupture before you can get medical care. And again, this isn't hyperbole. It just happened in Texas, where a doctor told a woman she had to be hemorrhaging before he could provide service. And those are the very same laws that we have in the state of Georgia, only we have fewer doctors and fewer nurses and fewer hospitals and fewer opportunities. It is now lethal to be a woman in the state of Georgia, but if a man is that wrong, it's going to take a woman to make it right. That's why I intend to be the next governor of the great state of Georgia. [Applause] Source video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4jYKY7Bqzs

Krisin Kobes Du Mez, professor at Calvin University and author of "Jesus And John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted A Faith And Fractured A Nation," derides conservative Christians' response to the possibility of Roe v. Wade being overturned and pines for the good old days when evangelicals weren't such hardliners about abortion, during a May 2022 interview with PBS. --TRANSCRIPT-- MICHEL MARTIN: A draft copy of a Supreme Court opinion which would overturn Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court decision legalizing abortion nationwide under certain circumstances, is now at hand. There is a hyper-conservative Supreme Court majority which seems poised to do that, seems willing to do that, seems intentional about doing that. But what effect do you think it will have, more broadly, about this movement? KRISTIN DU MEZ: Oh, it's, if anything, in the short term, I think it will further radicalize the evangelical movement. I'm already seeing, already last night on social media, talk from evangelicals, a kind of gleeful celebration and chiding any evangelicals who raised questions about Donald Trump. "See? The ends did justify the means. We got exactly what we wanted." And this kind of ruthless display of power, whether it's through Trump in his person or whether it's through Supreme Court appointments, whether it's through subverting democratic norms, all of this pays off, because we got what we wanted. And so I see that in the short term. The longer term is a little bit more difficult to discern, because the truth is, many Christian women and, in fact, evangelical women do procure abortions. And throughout Christian history and throughout evangelical history, you can see that pre-Roe v. Wade and actually, late '70s and early '80s, there was more, um, uh, there were mixed views on abortion in conservative evangelical communities. Very few evangelicals would celebrate abortion. They certainly weren't in the shout your abortion camp, but there was much more nuance. And so in 1968, Christianity Today had a special issue on abortion, and the the gist of it was: it's really complicated. And it's not a good thing, but it is sometimes a necessary thing in the cape of race [sic], rape, in the cape [sic] of incest, in the case of, uh, for the health of the mother, even. And the Southern Baptist Convention, up until 1976, endorsed the pro-choice platform. So there is a history of seeing abortion as a complex moral issue and sometimes the lesser of two evils. With the politicization of abortion by the late 1970s, the rise of the Moral Majority, folks like Jerry Falwell and Paul Weyrich helped make abortion kind of the primary mobilizing issue for the Christian right, and so from that point on, this complicated moral territory receded. And I certainly grew up in an evangelical culture where life began at conception, there was no debate. And pro-life is the Christian response, anti-abortion is the only acceptable view. But that kind of hard line on abortion is of relatively recent origin. Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whV8heFHXoQ

Charismatic wokeness! On the day of Ketanji Brown Jackson's confirmation, YouTube prophet Jennifer LeClaire calls all black women forward to be prophesied over and slain in the spirit. "Black women have had a hard time. Black women, have you had a hard time? A hard time. The Lord showed me that today a glass ceiling was broken over you." "I thank you, Lord, today as I lay my hands on these women, that you will deliver them from any curse, any rejection, and any reproach that has been laid upon them by people who don't look like them, sound like them. And I repent on behalf f the white race, the Caucasians, those who enslaved your forefathers, your ancestors, not all that long ago." Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9cuxLJt9VRI

Is this Christian Nationalism? Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) takes the pulpit of A.R. Bernard's New York City megachurch, the Christian Cultural Center, on Easter Sunday and praises the confirmation of Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, saying of her and other judicial appointments that "the stone has been rolled away from the tomb." This comparison is 100% blaspheming the resurrection of Christ, but Bernard and his congregation have nothing but love for Sen. Schumer before and after this speech. Source video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6-QxqdBPJ8

The Gospel Coalition's "Gospel Bound" podcast is mainstreaming the term "whiteness" via an interview with Mere Orthodoxy editor Jake Meador. Jake says he's using the concept, pulled from Willie James Jennings and featuring prominently in his new book, to separate the fights over "racial justice and LGBT+ causes." Meador and host Collin Hansen fail to mention Jennings is unreservedly queer-affirming. —PARTIAL TRANSCRIPT— JAKE MEADOR: One of the big problems we have right now rhetorically for Christians in the U.S. is that racial justice and LGBT+ causes get lumped together as being the same fight. But actually, if whiteness is this kind of centering of the self and indifference to neighbor and difference to place indifference to anything outside of your kind of inner authentic self, well, the place where that idea is being used today is to defend same-sex marriage, abortion, all of these socially progressive causes. And so I look at that and, like, the underlying logic of the colonialists that was so deeply racist seems to me extremely similar to the underlying logic of social progressives today. COLLIN HANSEN: And you have that actual colonialism still going on today with money involved from Christian denominations to political groups when it comes to African Christians on sexual issues, right? MEADOR: Well, there was an absolutely delightful op-ed, it was maybe 15 years ago, but I remember seeing it in college and just getting a kick out of it. I think it was a Ugandan cleric in the Anglican church was in London for a gathering of the global Anglican communion, and he wrote an editorial for a local conservative paper in London accusing all of the Church Of England and Episcopalians of colonialism because they were trying to tell all of the conservative African Anglicans what they need to believe and teach about sexuality and gender. And this, I think it was a bishop, was like, “No, we're not doing the colonialist thing again. We're over that. Stop.” HANSEN: Yeah, yeah. That's what I mean. That's an interesting observation there. Source video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Usoz0FzESF0

Pastor A. Byron Coleman III of Oklahoma City's Fifth Street Baptist Church expresses amazement during his worship service on April 10, 2022 (Palm Sunday) that black Christians are not universally giving a standing ovation for the confirmation of Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson. —TRANSCRIPT— It was a historic occasion to watch the confirmation of the first African-American woman Supreme Court Justice, Ketanji Brown Jackson. I must be living in some alternative universe, because if the first African-American woman to sit on the Supreme Court was confirmed yesterday, then every African-American should be standing up applauding in churches all over the world. Maybe it's just me, but I believe that that requires our utmost celebration. Because something that has never happened finally happened in this country. It doesn't mean that we don't still have more rivers to cross, but can we at least face five seconds and give God glory, that something that has never happened... Okay, let me go ahead do it. I know I used her story in my introduction a few weeks ago, but please allow me to bask in this moment and glean some more biblical truths from this historic occasion. Some people will simply miss this moment, as is obvious. Some people will simply go by this moment and not even think twice about it. Some churches won't even mention it during their liturgies, during service this morning. But that won't be the case here at Fifth Street Baptist Church, where we are unapologetically Christian and unashamedly black. Where we believe our theology informs our sociology. Where we refuse to dishonor the ancestors and not pay homage to them for their tears and their toughness, their pains and their prayers that got us to where we are today. It is a travesty! If you cannot celebrate today something that our ancestors died for, something that our ancestors cried for, something that the ancestors shed blood for. If you can't celebrate, Negro, you have lost your ever-loving mind. I said it. [blows raspberry] Source video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oq4p3SdCLRQ

A supercut of "churches" marking the 2022 International Transgender Day Of Visibility and demon-seething about laws prohibiting the grooming of so-called "trans kids." Source videos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bgl8NS4IrWI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRfiopGP5hU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKJtm1Z3bMM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ze1eHmkNXiU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5R-Sp3-w824 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysomU8TiYHk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TiDTOO5_1to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hh2EceYpc10 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDougBg2rgY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufwHZnZ2NaY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xt-iKozgfoA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRmMv1SZ-wY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zq3tUTc27eQ

Rev. S. Raschaad Hoggard, Associate Minister of New York City megachurch Abyssinian Baptist Church, calls his congregation to applaud the "triumphal entry" of Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson on Palm Sunday, April 10, 2022, just days after the U.S. Senate confirmed Jackson's nomination. —TRANSCRIPT— Palm Sunday is about a humble king who rides his way into a city to die for his enemies. A leader who enters a city to serve and not dominate. A carpenter from Nazareth who builds tables of inclusion. So we should all have the courage, as we seek to go to God in prayer, to be more like Jesus. To get off our high horses and be like Jesus. but this morning when we pray for one another and the names on this list, we also have to give God thanks and praise this morning for another triumphal entry. This week, can we thank God for the triumphal entry of Ketanji Brown Jackson? [Applause] Oh, we can do a little bit better than that. [Applause] We're grateful to God for her triumphal entry, and we're grateful for the shoulders she stands on. I can't help but think about Constance Baker Motley on this morning and the road she paved for her. So we're glad to be in the service, and we thank God for an opportunity to reflect on how we can be more like Jesus. More like this carpenter. More like this leader. More like our king. Let us bow our heads in prayer. Source video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUKHlCMZ8Ls