Jesus-follower, copastor of Columbus Community Church of the Nazarene, reader, writer, techie, Hufflepuff, 5w4. Author of "The Invitation".
Columbus, WI
Joined March 2009
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Chris Baker retweeted
If your pastor doesn’t talk about the new taylor swift album this Sunday then you need to find a new church.
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I wonder how it feels to be a Haitian kid showing up to school in Springfield, OH today. Rumors are not victimless.
Chris Baker retweeted
While we debate the Olympic boxing situation, I can't help but think of how Imane Khelif is doing.
Our ill-informed outrage cycles are not victimless crimes.
#Olympics2024Paris
Chris Baker retweeted
Right now you can be a person who tries to help calm things down or a person who tries to make things worse.
We all have agency here.
Chris Baker retweeted
“you’re not really pro-life unless you’re pro-death” perfectly sums up the pro-life movement
Chris Baker retweeted
This is why so many of us no longer trust the institutions (political and religious) and leaders/public figures who shaped us as kids. We remember the 90s and we remember what you said.
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“No one should bomb children” is only
controversial within a Christianity that has completely bowed its knees to empire.
Chris Baker retweeted
Don’t lose track of the Sermon on the Mount. Just don’t lose track of it. Don’t let it start sounding unfamiliar to what you mean by Christianity and how you try to conduct your life.
Come back.
Chris Baker retweeted
Notice how it’s always the few Bible passages on human sexuality that are demanded to influence national laws but never the +2,000 passages talking about wealth, debt cancellation, establishing a generous economy, and redistribution of wealth for the sake of the poor.
Chris Baker retweeted
How to be a better pastor in 3 simple steps.
Don’t be afraid to ask for help.
Don’t be afraid to admit when your wrong.
Don’t be afraid to say, “I don’t know.”
Chris Baker retweeted
In 1784 Wesley removed “to obey” from the wedding vowels.
In 1786 John Wesley preached that the idea that “women are only to be seen but not heard’” makes women think “they were only designed for agreeable playthings!” And “it is the deepest unkindness; it is horrid cruelty;”
Chris Baker retweeted
We need to become the kind of church where, if an adult man says that they find a 12-year-old’s developing body to be a stumbling block--
we stop handing the 12-year-old a sweater, and we start freaking out at the adult man.
Chris Baker retweeted
@PostliberalTho1 , thank you for this monster quote:
"Liberalism and socialism, individualism and collectivism, are, therefore, two sides of the same coin—a coin brought into being by replacing structures of solidarity with structures of self-interest."
