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.

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

Sojourners@sojo.net · last mo.

"Both viewers of Willow and churchgoers can affirm the central theme offered by the show as articulated by Elora and Kit: 'Love is the most powerful force in the universe.'" sojo.net/articles/opi...

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!

“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

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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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!

Brian Kaylor@briankaylor.bsky.social · last mo.

My report from the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship general assembly in Florida, with great speakers like @ynpierce.bsky.social, Howard-John Wesley, @amandatylerbjc.bsky.social, @revdrmichaelwoolf.bsky.social, @skyeperryman.bsky.social, & Bacardi Jackson: publicwitness.wordandway.org/p/cooperativ...

My report from the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship general assembly in Florida, with great speakers like @ynpierce.bsky.social, Howard-John Wesley, @amandatylerbjc.bsky.social, @revdrmichaelwoolf.bsky.social, @skyeperryman.bsky.social, & Bacardi Jackson: publicwitness.wordandway.org/p/cooperativ...

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.

publicwitness.wordandway.org

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!

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

Everyone should take a look at this documentary about sanctuary by Theo Rigby. It's really good, and I was so happy to be asked to write a review of it for @sojo.net 👇👇👇👇

The Most Honest Appraisal of the Sanctuary Movement I’ve Ever Seen

‘Si Pudiera Quedarme/If I Could Stay’ is unlike most media around sanctuary, highlighting those receiving care as opposed to lionizing white activists who offer it.

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Everyone should take a look at this documentary about sanctuary by Theo Rigby. It's really good, and I was so happy to be asked to write a review of it for @sojo.net 👇👇👇👇

The Most Honest Appraisal of the Sanctuary Movement I’ve Ever Seen

‘Si Pudiera Quedarme/If I Could Stay’ is unlike most media around sanctuary, highlighting those receiving care as opposed to lionizing white activists who offer it.

sojo.net

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

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.

Rev. Dr. Michael Woolf@revdrmichaelwoolf.bsky.social · 2mo ago

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...

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...

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.

prri.org

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.

Rev. Dr. Michael Woolf@revdrmichaelwoolf.bsky.social · 2mo ago

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...

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...

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.

prri.org

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.

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!

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!

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.

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?

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.

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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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...

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.

sojo.net

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?

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.

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.

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.

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...

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.

sojo.net

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.

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.

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.

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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