@JemarTisby @stewartdantec is a prominent, passionate voice chronicling the phenomenon. @RevJacquiLewis is tangibly 'Blackening' White spirituality on our shores. And, of course, theologians with @UniteThePoor stand at the forefront of actionable political efforts circumventing the Blackout.
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Three tweets from Danté Stewart in a thread beginning here:
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Danté Stewart (Stew) Recovered pictured passage; not a claim to the full source. Passage boundary: First pictured body; top header is cropped. Linked thread beginning retained as supplied route, not a newly verified exact ID for this particular pictured post. Source: Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. Let’s be clear: evangelicals are not the center of the Christian faith. When we confuse evangelicalism, it’s theology, and traditions with “the” church we uphold the lie that to be close to them is to be close to God and to follow their way is to follow Jesus. Retained uncertainty: ["Known gap S020: all three selected-original bodies recovered and visually checked. Original it's usages retained as pictured; no grammatical repair presented as verbatim."]
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Danté Stewart (Stew) Recovered pictured passage; not a claim to the full source. Passage boundary: Second pictured post, displayed10/24/21; handle truncated. No exact second-post ID inferred. Source: archive.nickroutledge.org/post/1559045030551044098 Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. Religion reporters and writers, stop centering evangelicals as if they’re the only Christians because the way it’s looking is that there’s an addiction to evangelicalism and it’s relationship to whiteness, sexism, homophobia, and theological arrogance. Retained uncertainty: ["Known gap S020: all three selected-original bodies recovered and visually checked. Original it's usages retained as pictured; no grammatical repair presented as verbatim."]
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Danté Stewart (Stew) Recovered pictured passage; not a claim to the full source. Passage boundary: Third pictured post, displayed10/24/21; no unrestricted thread expansion or invented ID. Source: archive.nickroutledge.org/post/1559045030551044098 Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. So much of talk about American public is still very much the embodiment of white supremacy—many believe that white people matter more and deserve the most time, attention, hopes, and energy. Retained uncertainty: ["Known gap S020: all three selected-original bodies recovered and visually checked. Original it's usages retained as pictured; no grammatical repair presented as verbatim."]
Open original document@moshik_temkin 2/ The attention span is, of course, the salient currency of the Web Era. Enough has already been spoken about the economic logic of feeding it outrage. White, which is to say ‘dominative’ religion, but the conjoined twin pillar of the supremacist Spectacle, in this regard.
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