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Fr. Joash P. Thomas
@joashpthomas.bsky.social
📜 Historian of St. Thomas Indian Christianity 💒 Priest & #1 Bestselling Liberation Theologian 🏫 Faculty @ststephensuniversity 📕 The Justice of Jesus ↓
So looking forward to this conversation Monday with @joashpthomas.bsky.social about race, justice, colonialism, and my new book from @oxfordup.bsky.social White Lies about racial myths. Please join us on Substack! open.substack.com/live-stream/...
LIVE SOON: White Lies: Dismantling Ten Cultural Myths About Race with Dr. Greg Garrett
Starting Aug 3 at 12:00 PM EDT
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Decolonizing faith and the Justice of Jesus
Fr. Joash Thomas on the God Squad pod
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I’m a Priest and Decolonial Scholar because until the Church decolonizes, we will continue to harm beloved neighbours in creation.
Them: “We don’t want millions of foreigners here!” Me: “Great! When are you returning back to Europe then?” Them: “What? No - we get to stay. We just don’t want people who aren’t like us here.” White supremacy is so stupid.
Burn down Empire’s Christianity and set the captives free from within its imaginations. And from its ashes, may an ancient, precolonial Christianity that looks, tastes and smells like Jesus arise!
My work in a nutshell as a missional priest: Make Christianity Christian Again.
As a Priest who is also a 5th generation Pentecostal, the work of decolonization is basically the work of exorcising the demons of the western church.
Anniversary Guest Spotlight S1E28 Rev. Joash P. Thomas (Saint Thomas Christian / Evangelical Anglican tradition) – The Justice of Jesus & Decolonizing Our Faith YouTube: youtu.be/PKU5oB1Q9sg?... FOLLOW @thesacredslope to be challenged @joashpthomas.bsky.social #christianity #deconstruction
“There is no people group that Christ has not already made himself known to. Or in other words, contrary to what we were taught in our evangelical upbringings, there are no people groups who are ‘unreached’ by the love of God.”
Decolonizing The Great Commission - Part 2
Q&R: A few thoughts on Christian Missionaries, Christian Universalism & Mother Teresa
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This week's lectionary Gospel text is "THE GREAT COMISSION" (echo echo echo). I think that we've used this to too often colonize our neighbors, and we need a different way to show neighbor love. Here's an old essay about one way out of this murky mire. theclutteredmouth.com/i-desire-mer...
I Desire Mercy, Not Mission Trips
in favor of solidarity
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A book I am reading by @joashpthomas.bsky.social has reinforced my concern that an explicit & concrete commitment to justice in multiple forms is necessary to avoid the trap of defining progressive Christianity as nice & vaguely centrist.
Nice to see Pope Leo taking my styling pointers.
MAGA evangelicals: “It’s a statue; not an idol!” Me (an Anglo-Catholic Priest): “Great! Now do Mother Mary and the Saints please.”
Loved having Fr. @joashpthomas.bsky.social join me & Aaron @lectionaryhome.bsky.social. So much to discuss! Paul in the Areopagus, the Lord’s action on behalf the oppressed, Peter’s encouragement to the suffering, Jesus the true vine, & @nijaykgupta.bsky.social excellent book Strange Religion
So fun to have @joashpthomas.bsky.social join me & Aaron @lectionaryhome.bsky.social this week. There was so much to discuss! Paul in the Areopagus, the Lord’s action on behalf the oppressed, Peter’s encouragement to the suffering, Jesus the true vine, & much more. Hope you can join us!
Looking forward to leading this class tomorrow! And you'd better believe I'm referencing @joashpthomas.bsky.social 😂
If you don’t condemn Trump’s golden statue as idolatry, don’t be calling yoga demonic. You have *zero* moral authority. Sincerely, An Indian Christian Priest in the West
If you aren’t following @joashpthomas.bsky.social you definitely need too. He is absolutely brilliant. I also love talking to other Indian Christian’s like Indian Anglicans. We have the best conversations. Also African Christians. We need more perspectives outside western Christianity 1/
It was such a delight to have Fr. @joashpthomas.bsky.social join me and Aaron @lectionaryhome.bsky.social for convo re: Easter 6: Paul in the Areopagus, the Lord’s action on behalf the oppressed, Peter’s encouragement to the suffering, and Jesus the true vine, & much more. Hope you can join us!
Western theology has nothing on eastern theology. This isn’t because to be western is to be inherently bad. It’s because eastern Christianity is closer in proximity to Jesus and the earliest Christians. And it’s because western Christianity has largely been shaped by Empire.
Truth. I’m not in love with my wife because I’m afraid she’ll divorce me.
Fr. Joash P. Thomas@joashpthomas.bsky.social · 4mo agoIf you follow Jesus because you’re afraid of hell more than you love Jesus, you’re not really following Jesus. And you end up creating hell for others on earth.
If you follow Jesus because you’re afraid of hell more than you love Jesus, you’re not really following Jesus. And you end up creating hell for others on earth.
NEW: Statement from Swalwell's senior staffers: "We stand with our former colleague and the other women that have come forward. We believe you should stand with them, too."
My book, The Justice of Jesus, has been out for over 6 months now and it is somehow still the #1 Bestseller in Liberation Theology on Amazon Canada. Truly astounded, friends! Thank you. 🙏🏽 Get your copy here: linktr.ee/joashpthomas
