@danielrbenn

Professor @JohnBrownUniv @CFFlourishing || Contributor @CTmagazine @TheDispatch @CCPublicLife @OurValuesNGO @NeighborlyFaith || Habakkuk 3:17-18 || #RipCity

 Northwest Arkansas
danielbennett.substack.com/
Joined October 2010
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I am excited to announce the @BenSasse Award from the Center for Faith and Flourishing (@CFFlourishing). The award promotes research from @JohnBrownUniv students on citizenship, religious and economic freedom, the marketplace of ideas, and more. Stay tuned...
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“About to be” Brother, we’ve been there since OK State.
Stewart Mandel
@slmandelOct 24
Yep. Illinois takes a 21-10 lead on Oregon with 2:29 left on a ridiculous TD catch. About to be Defcon 1 in Eugene.
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Matt Smethurst
@MattSmethurstOct 24
October is the best month of the year.
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🗣️ STOP THE COUNT @trailblazers #RipCity
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I can only conclude that local news networks are desperate for content this time of year…
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Progression of a campaign signage battle at a key intersection in my small town. Local politics is the best.
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There's a segment of the right, including Very Online Christians, who claim conservative Christians like me need to "get on board" with Vance 2028. Maybe we're hesitant not because Orange Man Bad, but because Vance may turn out to be an awful candidate?
Jane Coaston 🏔️
@janecoastonOct 22
Replying to @janecoaston
it's a little amusing that for all of his tough talk JD does not want to discuss the substance of the ad at all xitter.cf/factpostnews/status/21…
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Daniel Darling
@dandarlingOct 22
Yes. Every Christian should steward their citizenship wisely. I believe every Christian should vote. But the vote doesn’t begin in November every two years. It begins earlier. In primaries. In showing up and choosing the best candidate who matches character and policy. In local elections. In the things you choose to speak out about and those things you choose to be silent about. If your only framework for politics is two weeks in November, you are not that engaged. You are disengaged.
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it's a little amusing that for all of his tough talk JD does not want to discuss the substance of the ad at all xitter.cf/factpostnews/status/21…
FactPost
@factpostnewsOct 22
Vance: I saw the Vivek Ramaswamy ad. Look, man, these situations are always tough
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82-0 until we're not
Portland Trail Blazers
@trailblazersOct 22
Game summary: wasn't close.
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I was on the stage with them for one of their debates. Eric began his remarks with “Jane, you ignorant slut.” Hard to forget something like that!
Eric Metaxas
@ericmetaxasOct 21
That Mr. French has debated me twice is "pure fiction." Also, he has lifted humorlessness into an art form, bringing a level of dedication to it that is genuinely impressive. Sad!
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Eric Metaxas and David French participated in two public debates in 2020 about whether Christians should vote for Donald Trump one at the Q Summit and another at John Brown University. youtube.com/watch?v=CuYk4-… thewayofimprovement.blog/2020/04/25/tra… christianpost.com/news/christian…
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Ramesh Ponnuru
@RameshPonnuruOct 21
Reading some of the coverage of Justice Kagan's interview at Catholic University yesterday, which I attended, and it seems to me to exaggerate how tough she was towared her conservative colleagues. 1/6
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Janet Mefferd@Janet_MefferdOct 20
Well, look who went to hear Peter Thiel talk about the Antichrist! There we see William Wolfe, Andrew Isker, Joshua Haymes … and is that Joshua Abbotoy, as well?
Phil Williams
@PhilNvestigatesOct 20
Another interesting night of people watching outside the last Anti-Christ lecture by tech billionaire Peter Thiel, including some of the biggest names from Tennessee's world of Christian nationalism. 1/2
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Michael Wear
@MichaelRWearOct 20
There is a reason they didn't simply ask the question: "Is empathy good for society or bad for society?" I'm so tired of these dumb, manipulative questions that do more to obscure reality than to clarify it.
Bob Smietana@bobsmietanaOct 20
White evangelicals are the most likely to see empathy as dangerous
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Can’t wait for Rob Manfred to somehow screw all this up!
Nathaniel Rakich@baseballotOct 16
The 2026 World Series champion will either be a team that has never won it or the team with the longest current drought (78 years). So great.
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Shadi Hamid
@shadihamidOct 14
"The solution to some of American democracy’s biggest problems might be something old and controversial: more religion." This is a fantastic @voxdotcom review of our book. It engages with our arguments in such a thoughtful, nuanced way. Give it a read. vox.com/politics/505675/can-…

Maybe secular liberals can’t save democracy

The solution to some of American democracy’s biggest problems might be something old and controversial: more religion.

vox.com
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Shadi Hamid
@shadihamidOct 14
To the extent that religious people fall short of what their own religions teach them about living with uncertainty, that would suggest a defect not in religion itself but in the inevitable frailty of ordinary humans.
Shadi Hamid
@shadihamidOct 14
Replying to @shadihamid
For some Christian and Muslim readers, our admonitions to "chill" might not be enough. Religion teaches us that politics is a site of imperfection and partial victories (and defeats). But accepting this fact is easier said than done.
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Shadi Hamid
@shadihamidOct 14
"Matthew Kaemingk and Shadi Hamid want to make religion in the United States great again." Thoughtful review of our new book by @danielrbenn in @mereorthodoxy that also raises some potential weaknesses in our argument. mereorthodoxy.com/we-need-mo…

We Need More Religion in Public Life, Not Less

Kaemingk and Hamid believe our democratic order may be revived just yet, starting with more religion, not less.

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thucksgiving@TylerHuckabeeOct 13
“closet”
ScreenPulse@TheScreenPulseOct 13
First look at the closet in Greta Gerwig’s ‘NARNIA: THE MAGICIAN’S NEPHEW.’
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Nadya Williams@NadyaWilliams81Oct 13
Today @mereorthodoxy, so grateful for @danielrbenn's insightful review of @matthewkaemingk and @shadihamid's new and very needed book. mereorthodoxy.com/we-need-mo…

We Need More Religion in Public Life, Not Less

Kaemingk and Hamid believe our democratic order may be revived just yet, starting with more religion, not less.

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Tim Schultz@Tim1APOct 13
Christian Nationalism is real, but there is 100x more demand than supply. Progressives use it to attack ordinary social conservatism and raise $. The very online post-liberal right use it to "prove" they have popular support for their repellent and idiotic program.
Michael Wear
@MichaelRWearOct 13
Replying to @jessesmithsoc
@jessesmithsoc has been doing vital, lonely (I imagine) work on this for years. I'm grateful for his rigor, and for the way he's helped to contribute to my understanding of these dynamics.
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