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Sojourner’s Article Promotes Kink, Polyamory, Non-Monogamy, And Casual Sex

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Lest anyone was unsure just exactly how liberal and wicked Sojourners had become, the magazine and now website which was founded by theologian Jim Wallis and offers daily commentary and reporting from a progressive perspective, we’ve been given a pretty good idea.

While typically seen simply as a website/ movement that is economically leftist and socially centrist, talking about poverty, climate change, and student loan forgiveness from an evangelicalism perspective, Sojourners, or Sojo, is in actuality a cauldron of moral relativism and satanism. It is rife with op-eds from hellbound pagans embracing the wickedness of the culture while promulgating every sort of aberrant teaching unless the sun, particularly when it comes to LGBTQ issues, abortion, and sexual moral relativism.

Case in point: a recent article by Jennifer Martin. According to her bio:

“Jennifer C. Martin is a dirtbag Christian and a polyamorous writer living in Richmond, Va., with two of her three partners and two children. When she’s not trolling on social media, she enjoys baking, yoga, and gaming. She graduated from Lee University in 2009 and is now a member of the United Church of Christ.

Martin writes a book review of Washington Post columnist Christine Emba’s Rethinking Sex: A Provocation, where Emba argues that the trivializing of sex and a consent-only approach to it has been damaging to society, and instead it ought to be joyous, celebratory, and have certain boundaries. Emba is a former nondenominational evangelical who later converted to Catholicism, and argues that for sex to be healthy, it ought to affirm gender roles, reject casual sex, keep the kink to a bare minimum, if at all, be monogamous, and that there must be limitations on it.

SoJo author Martin basically rejects all of that. She disputes the notion that healthy sex has really any boundaries at all, writing “I don’t think we need limitations in order to have good sex” and “we ultimately differ on what constitutes healthy sex.” This is because Martin has given herself over to every form of wicked depravity, along with their cuckolded, effeminate husband/ partners. She writes in her review:

“My sex education consisted of crass comparisons of my virginity to a “wrapped present” for my future spouse that would be forever lost if I chose to unwrap it, a pledge to stay chaste until marriage, and of course, a True Love Waits ring. While today’s schools may teach a still-inadequate sex education that focuses merely on safe sex and maybe consent, mine never did.

Today, I identify as a polyamorous Christian — or a Christian who happens to have multiple partners, including two who live with me and my children. To arrive here, I have had to re-examine the intersection of sex and faith and what it means to have ethical sex. I was raised in a fundamentalist Christian home and was expected to maintain my purity until marriage. I got engaged at 19, married at 20, and had two children by age 25. My attempts to live out traditional sexual ethics led me to oppress parts of me that often fell in love with other people, or parts of me that were attracted to other genders. Ultimately, my husband and I found love outside our marriage while still maintaining love inside our marriage. We did this while also maintaining our deeply held faith.

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” For people who have been raised in a liberal, feminist, educated environment where they were made to feel as if having sex was no big deal and that casual sex was an expected part of dating, and later found all of this quite lacking, Emba’s book might be extraordinarily refreshing.

….(But) Emba’s book offers no examples of healthy open relationships, nor examples of people who actually enjoy what Emba refers to as “problematic” kinks, despite the fact that we do exist.…The way we think about sex certainly needs to change, but I don’t believe that it will change for the better if we take Emba’s advice to completely reject sexual liberation and continue to ignore our own sexual desires around non-monogamy, kink, same-sex couplings, or casual sex when there are people who are engaged in them in a consensual and healthy manner every single day.

The fact that Sojourners is promoting this rejection of monogamy and promotion of casual sex and kink shows how far they’ve come, and how far they’re likely to continue to fall.

h/t Juicy Ecumenism

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Planned Parenthood Logo on Clergy Clothes? A Collection of Lutheran Pastrixes Praising Abortions

The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) is one of the evilest denominations in America. Pro-homosexuality and pro-choice, it’s populated by spiritually decrepit senior citizens and virtue twerking LGBTQ twenty-somethings, with a ratio of congregants actually saved within the denomination likely sitting a little under 2%. You can only submit to a satanic pastor for so long without getting a little demonic yourself.

It’s no surprise then that ELCA clergy would come out strongly about the latest move to overturn Roe v Wade, with a collective of pastrixes expressing their outrage and triggeredness at the news. Here are just a few, from Exposing the ELCA:

Elle Dowd. Her biography is too great not to post in full. From her website:

“She/they” is a ‘bi-furious’ recent graduate of the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago, a current PhD student at the Chicago Theological Seminary, and the campus pastor of South Loop Campus Ministry.

Elle has pieces of their heart in Sierra Leone, where their two children were born, and in St. Louis where they learned from the radical, queer, Black leadership during the Ferguson Uprising.

She was formerly a co-conspirator with the movement to #decolonizeLutheranism and currently serves as a board member of the Euro-Descent Lutheran Association for Racial Justice, does community organizing in her city as a board member of SOUL, serves on the Clergy Advocacy Board for Planned Parenthood, writes regularly as part of the vision team for the Disrupt Worship Project, and facilitates workshops in both secular conferences and Christian spaces.

In 2021 they published a book with Broadleaf, Baptized in Teargas, about their conversion from a white moderate to an abolitionist is available

In HER case, SHE has on a Planned Parenthood tippet, creating some wild imagery.

Next up is Pastrix Diana Edis of St. Paul’s Lutheran, Prince Rupert. She’s been sharing crude messages all weekend, tweaked by the SCOTUS decision and intending to make her views know.

Pastrix Emily Scott of St. Mark’s Lutheran, Baltimore is keeping things simple, sharing her fears that this is the first step into a dystopian society where men own women’s bodies and the government will imprison them and force them to become baby machines.

Lastly we have Carmine A. Pernini. He’s the is the Coordinator at Union County Interfaith Coordinating Council – UCICC and ‘Pastor’ at Zion Lutheran Church, Rahway NJ. A brief perusal of his social media shows that his entire identity is wrapped up in the rainbow.

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“If Abortions Aren’t Safe Then You Aren’t Either.” Vandals Firebomb Pro-Life HQ

The headquarters of a pro-life organization was set on fire yesterday morning, with criminals throwing a Molotov cocktail through a window and setting fire to another part of the building, scrawling “If abortions aren’t safe then you aren’t either” on the walls and leaving behind an A1312 symbol, which stands for All Cops Are Bastards. Despite the symbol behind left behind, no group has openly taken credit for it.

In a statement issued by Julaine Appling, president of Wisconsin Family Action, she condemned the violence used against them, as well as the propensity of Governor Tony Evers to look away when violence erupts across his state, such as happened recently in Kenosha. She says far from discouraging them, it will instead stiffen their resolve.

…this attack fails to frighten us, and instead steels the resolve of law-abiding, common-sense, every-day folks to stand up and push back. We know today it is Wisconsin Family Action getting Molotov cocktails tossed through broken windows and fires ignited, but tomorrow it could be anyone in our state or another state who is attacked because we disagree with a policy or action, give voice to the voiceless, or stand up for what’s right.“

Americans see through the hypocrisy of the left. The violence needs to stop and stop now. It’s not the answer to any question or any problem. Just because the liberals don’t get their way, doesn’t give them license to threaten bodily harm or to burn and destroy.”

…We will repair our offices, remain on the job, and build an even stronger grassroots effort. We will not back down. We will not stop doing what we are doing. Too much is at stake

The move comes in light of a few other protest in churches across the country Sunday morning

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Lifeway Eats Itself from Within as Golden Goose Continues to Create Women Pastors

Christine Caine is one of Lifeway’s most prized possession. She’s the golden goose-one of the famed ‘Lifeway Women’ who have her own landing page, where the publishing arm of the Southern Baptist Convention promotes her relentlessly, along with a gaggle of other women. In fact, the ratio of women authors to men is so great, that we’ve had to seriously ask Does Lifeway Only Carry Women Authors?

This is nothing surprising from Lifeway, given that they’re by and large a bunch of progressives. How else do you explain why Lifeway Employee Political Contributions Favor Democrats 4:1? Or refusing to carry Voddie Baucham’s anti CRT, best-selling Fault Lines book? or how LifeWay’s Spring 2022 Curriculum Written By Non-SBC Pastor Who Denies BFAM, Has 5 Pastrixes on Staff. Forever and always, this purveyor of spiritual strychnine is always seeking a way to defy and undermine the SBC and their beliefs, and Caine is special in how hard she goes at it.

Caine is the charismatic, egalitarian, one-time leader from Hillsong who preaches the word/faith prosperity gospel. Caine holds to the notion that Jesus died on the cross to give you possessions, wealth, and health, and that it is there for the taking if you have enough faith and confess it positively. It’s no surprise then that she cut her teeth on Hillsong, the Brian Houston-led boondoggle that has the reputation for being among the most immature, Scripturally ignorant, and carnal people in the history of the world to ever call themselves Christians. 

She also leads Propel Women, a network designed to empower women to become preachers and pastors, and they just graduated a bunch of them yesterday, ready to unleash upon the world prospective pastrixes who have cut their teeth on Caine’s own teaching. She shared on Twitter:

Given that 10% of the biggest SBC churches already have women pastors, they’ll likely have far more job opportunities than previously imagined. Retweeting the picture and in fact featured in the picture is none other than Ed Stetzer, the former Executive Director of Nashville-based LifeWay Research. To quote JD Hall:

Stetzer is a guy who has projected himself as a church planting specialist, even though he’s never once successfully planted a church (he’s done so unsuccessfully on multiple occasions). He has projected himself as an expert on culture, which might be his only accomplishment, but only because his devotion to momentary fads is his shtick. Every time we see him on stage giving advice on the church’s decline it reminds of what a hypothetical absurdity it would be to see a whore have a day job of selling antibiotics out of her trunk to clear up all the venereal diseases she passed around during her night-job. In short, he is the problem in the church, but makes a living selling the latest evangelical elixirs.”

While Lifeway has been a lost cause for a long time, it’s nice to see a bit of clarity now and then in order to assess how badly the rot has set in within the organization, to what degree they’ll partner and promote folk so bent on undermining the Baptist Faith and Message 2000 and their own denomination.

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Phil Johnson Destroys Andy Stanley on Twitter

Pastor Andy Stanley of Northpoint Church, no stranger to taking the occasional peckish potshot at those he disagrees with, ran up against the wall that is Phil Johnson of Grace Community Church after taking exception to the complementarian position.

Responding to claims by Virgil Walker, the Executive Director of Operations for G3 Ministries and co-host of the always-excellent ‘Just Thinking Podcast, that women pastors aren’t real pastors but rather mere feminists who ignore the scriptures, Stanley chimed in that Walker’s assertions were “rude and incorrect, leading Johnson to make the following astute observation:

If someone stands up every Sunday and tells stories and makes remarks that constantly attack the authority and sufficiency of Scripture, he’s not a pastor, either.

Fact check: true. What Phil is referring to here is a 2006 interview Stanley did with Leadership Journal, where the corporate Pastor made the following comments:

Leadership: What is distinctly spiritual about the kind of leadership you do?

Andy Stanley: There’s nothing distinctly spiritual. I think a big problem in the church has been the dichotomy between spirituality and leadership. One of the criticisms I get is “Your church is so corporate.” I read blogs all the time. Bloggers complain, “The pastor’s like a CEO.” And I say, “OK, you’re right. Now, why is that a bad model?

Leadership: Should we stop talking about pastors as “shepherds”?

Andy Stanley: Absolutely. That word needs to go away. Jesus talked about shepherds because there was one over there in a pasture he could point to. But to bring in that imagery today and say, “Pastor, you’re the shepherd of the flock,” no. I’ve never seen a flock. I’ve never spent five minutes with a shepherd. It was culturally relevant in the time of Jesus, but it’s not culturally relevant any more.

Nothing works in our culture with that model except this sense of the gentle, pastoral care. Obviously that is a facet of church ministry, but that’s not leadership.

In the aftermath, Stanley didn’t have much to say- sending out a couple more feeble tweets on peripheral issues, then he was done.

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Sadly for Stanley, things have not gotten any better since that 2006 interview came out.

For a brief reminder of the various theological controversies surrounding Stanley, he made waves for encouraging Christians to essentially throw out the Old Testament, arguing that believers should “unhitch” themselves from portions of Old Testament scripture. He went on the warpath against doctrine in general, claiming that “unity is more important than theology.”

Stanley argued that Jesus’ birth and the events surrounding the nativity don’t really matter, thus casting doubt upon his supernatural birth by saying “If somebody can predict their own death and then their own resurrection, I’m not all that concerned about how they got into the world” and “Christianity doesn’t hinge on the truth or even the stories around the Birth of Jesus.”’

Stanley has been on a roll since the pandemic hit, telling members that the “foundation of our faith is not the whole bible,” that the Lord does not require them to meet for church, that George Floyd was “this generation’s Samson,” and told his congregation to “sleep late and skip church” during Father’s Day.

Stanley continues to be in our spotlight due to his theologically bankrupt behavior. Recently, he claimed, “here’s an uncomfortable fact: white people fear black men” and went on a woke Critical Race Theory tirade by arguing “it’s not enough to be ‘not racist,’ you must be ‘anti-racist,” before telling them that they’re all racists in their hearts. This was a few months after he lamented the fact that churches were fighting the government to stay open and have their church services, saying he was embarrassed by it. 

Oh, and most recently Andy Stanley said that It doesn’t matter if the Bible is true, so long as it’s ‘mostly reliable’

Women pastors are basically spiritual lesbians. They’re trans-pastors. Ie: not real pastors, but some garbled, cobbled together monstrosity, possessing approximations of biblical appendages and authority, but never the real thing. They can get their whole undiscerning congregation to call them pastors- to use their preferred spiritual pronouns, but in the eyes of God and men, no amount of seminary training can overcome the created order and the clear words of scripture on the matter, no matter how they look.

This is something Stanley would know, if he were a real pastor.

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“Well S***”. Tim Keller-Endorsed ‘Christian Talk Show Host’ Blasts SCOTUS decision, Demands Abortion

Months after Tim Keller argued that talk-show host Stephen Colbert is a believer who has shown the world a “brilliant example of how to be a Christian in the public square” and who has been a ‘witness’ for his faith in a “form the culture can handle,” the Liberal Roman Catholic went on a tear against the Supreme Courts pending decision to overrule Roe and Casey, blasting the judges for destroying a half-century of protections for reproductive rights.

“I’m going to talk about another group of out of touch people and crazy outfits pretending that it’s 1895: The Supreme Court.”

Colbert mocks the idea that abortion is not deeply rooted in the nation’s history and traditions, saying “Nothing says ‘looking toward the future’ like adhering to the earliest days of common law. That’s why I believe that life begins at white land-owning male and why horses who read should be arrested for witch mischief.”

He further chastises the notion that the issue of abortion should be returned to the people’s elected representatives, calling the elected representatives crazy and out of touch, and that Roe was an “important precedent that has been repeatedly reaffirmed.” He exclaims:

“Alito was joined in the decision by no one who would surprise you, Clarence Thomas, Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, and Amy Coney Barrett. So congratulations, ladies, decisions about what you can do with your body are now being made by four old dudes and a woman who thinks The Handmaid’s Tale is a rom-com.

Normally we’d ask Keller if he is so theologically bankrupt that he’s pointing to a liberal Roman Catholic, one whom the world loves because he has the exact same perspective they do on every sort of unbiblical sexual ethic, as someone whose example and whose nuance and whimsy is to be lauded and followed. But this time we have a simpler one:

Is this the ‘brilliant example of how to be a Christian in the public square’ you were referring to?

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Louisiana Brings Bill Foward Classifying Abortion as Homicide+ Criminalizing IVF and Some Birth Control

Saying that they “cannot wait for the Supreme Court”, Lousiana lawmakers have advanced a historic bill that would not only criminalize abortion, but classify it as a homicide. Further, it would criminalize In-vitro Fertilization (IVF) and abortifacient birth control.

Louisiana State Representative Danny McCormick introduced the bill, HB813 or the “Abolition of Abortion in
Louisiana Act of 2022″ in March, and a committee voted 7-2 to approve it. It now moves to the state’s full House of Representatives for consideration. According to Free the States:

“It amends the Louisiana homicide codes to define “unborn child” as “an individual human being from fertilization until birth,” and “person” as “a human being from the moment of fertilization.” These redefinitions would classify abortion as homicide by including preborn children among those protected by the laws against murder.

The bill then establishes that this classification of abortion as murder shall be enforced by the State regardless of any federal violation of the right to life: “Any federal statute, regulation, treaty, executive order, or court ruling that purports to supersede, stay, or overrule this Section shall be in violation of the United States Constitution and the Constitution of Louisiana and is therefore void.”

HB813 also deals with Louisiana State judges which violate the right to life by establishing that they are subject to impeachment: “Pursuant to the powers granted to the Legislature by Article X, Part III, of the Constitution of Louisiana, any judge of this state who purports to enjoin, stay, overrule, or void any provision of this Section shall be subject to impeachment or removal.”

Rep. McCormick said of his bill:

“If more than 15 states can defy the federal government over marijuana, we can do it to save the lives of innocent babies. We cannot wait on the Supreme Court to confirm that innocent babies have the right to life in Louisiana.”

This is historic, in that it is the first true abolition bill to pass committee in any state in the nation so far.

The next step toward abortion being abolished in LA is the bill being heard and passed on the House floor.

Accordingly, please call and email LA House Speaker Clay Schexnayder and Speaker Pro Tem Tanner Magee respectfully requesting that they hear and vote in favor of the HB813, the Abolition of Abortion in Louisiana Act.

Clay Schexnayder:
(225) 473-6016
schexnayderc@legis.la.gov

Tanner Magee
(985) 858-2970
mageet@legis.la.gov

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Another Hillsong Affiliated Church has Left the Fold

A month after 9 out of 16 Hillsong churches in the United States announced they were either cutting ties with the global church or disassociating from them, representing a third of the megacorp’s US locations and 10% of their worldwide locations to close in the last year, another church has joined the fray, with Grace City Church in Lakeland, Florida announcing they were distancing themselves from the toxic brand.

Though not one of the official churches within the network, they were strongly associated with the Australian mothership, which acted as their spiritual covering and who they would go to if their own pastor found himself in deep sin. This loss represents another blow after 6 congregations within the Nevada network, along with Dallas, Kansas City, and Atlanta permanently closed their doors, with only the East and West coast locations remaining.

Pastor Andrew Gard said it wasn’t the Hillsong documentary that informed his decision, according to The Ledger, though it did have an impact, but rather the misdeeds of former Hillsong founder and Global Senior Pastor Brian Houston who was fired after it revealed that he was embroiled in his own sex scandals, with at least two instances that we know about.

One of these involved sending a staff member flirtatious messages about a decade ago. “It was along the line of, ‘If I was with you, I’d like to kiss and cuddle you,’ words of that nature.” The second one was more recent, and it involved a visibly intoxicated Houston spending almost an hour in a woman’s hotel room alone with her, after a Hillsong conference at Qudos Bank Arena in 2019, with Dooley explaining that Houston violated Hillsong Pastor’s Code of Conduct.

Gard explains:

(The documentary) It impacted us in that these are people I love. Carl Lentz was and is a friend. So it’s devastating, it’s heartbreaking. We feel bad for everyone that is involved…(but) For us, it wasn’t really about the documentary. It was about the news that came out about Pastor Brian.” 

…We’re heartbroken and sad like everybody. I don’t think it’s reflective of not just our church but churches in general. I think there’s a lot of amazing people doing a lot of amazing work.

…Decisions have consequences, and we understand that. Character matters in what we do, and rightfully so. Our church for the last few years has operated in a way that’s above reproach and above board.”

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Op-Ed: The Silence from Pastors Over the Death of Roe v. Wade is Stunning- Where is the Joy?

The Supreme Court being poised to overturn Roe v Wade is a big deal. For the last 50 years over 60,000,000 babies have been butchered in the womb, little souls who have been poisoned, gassed or dismembered into a slurry of brain, blood, and bone, all being sanctioned and lauded by the state. This widespread, systematic slaughter dwarfs the holocaust that occurred in Nazi Germany, claiming 10 times the victims and lasting 10 times as long.

It’s on the verge of death, and one of the most unsettling things about it is the silence and lack of enthusiasm from so many pastors and Christian leaders.

Notice how so many ‘Christian’ leaders or influencers are either not commenting about the death of Roe v Wade, or if they do, it is only from the peripheries? There is no sense of unrestrained shouting and weeping with joy and gratitude- “this is awesome, praise God!”- but rather only a series of snipey comments saying things like “Now that they’ve overturned this, Republicans need to start actually caring about the lives of the mother by providing them maternity leave” or “This is a win, but now they need to turn their eyes to the black and POC community with real aid.”

Sure, but my God– can you at least be happy about this? Can you at least tweet once that this is fantastic, without your depressive, snarky commentary? Can any degree of triumph, exultation, or jubilation ring forth? Can these pastors let us know that they actually care without sounding mildly irritated that this went down?

When we say that these #BigEva critics make opaque references to the death of Roe v Wade, here’s a great example. This is all they have to say about it. No previous tweets about it. No ebullient celebration. No outward grins. Just more scolding, tut-tutting, and “well akshually……..”

That’s when they say anything at all. But what of when they don’t? Granted, just because a man or woman doesn’t say something on Twitter, it doesn’t mean that they don’t care. But we spent 10 minutes doing some quick research to see what some of the bigger names in evangelicalism are saying about the megaton event.

The vast majority on this list have been tweeting out regularly since this happened, and never once mentioned it.

Many more could be added, but this is just a quick and dirty compendium of folk off the top of our heads who like to tweet, but apparently just not about this.

Joel Osteen. Steven Furtick. Craig Groeschel. Mark Patterson. Andy Stanley. Louis Giglio. Ed Young Jr. Tony Evans. Priscilla Shirer. Lisa Bevere. Joyce Meyer. Rick Warren. Paul Tripp. Jentezen Franklin. Max Lucado. Victoria Osteen. Paula White. Brian Houston. Judah Smith. Levi Lusko. Greg Laurie. John Hagee. Rod Parsely . TD Jakes. Kari Jobe. Carey Nieuwhof. Robert Morris, Thabiti Anyabwile, etc.

We checked most of their Facebook and Instagram pages and did not find anything about it either. It’s all silence.

A good example of this is Thabiti. A day after the announcement, he offered a 20-tweet thread recounting his trip to hear Nikole Hannah-Jones discussing ‘The 1619 Project’ live, but has remained absolutely silent on the ruling.

This sort of makes sense. Most of them never talked about abortion ever from the pulpit, so why should we expect them to mention this gigantic step in seeing its demise? Yet when we look at how many of them had comments about other big cultural events like the death of George Floyd, it is evident where their heart lies.

This list doesn’t include the progressive xtians either, the ones who frequently find themselves on @wokePreachertv. Many of them are complaining about this or wishing that it never happened, bemoaning that white evangelicalism voted for Trump and therefore are complicit in him appointing the judges that are seeking to put an end to this, which will just end up somehow hurting women and black folk.

There is no joy. No appreciation. No recognition of what is about to happen. There is only silence, snark, and a distinct impression that this doesn’t factor into their faith life at all.




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TGC Author Says that the USA is too ‘Exhausted’ to Handle Overturning Roe v. Wade + Deletes Tweet

The Gospel Coalition author Duke Kwon, the woke-as-a-joke lead pastor of Grace Meridian Hill church, posted and then deleted a tweet after pushback, claiming that the nation is too fractured and exhausted to handle overturning Roe v Wade right now.

It’s not an out-of-character take for the PCA pastor. He’s the same guy who employs a gay rights activist as his personal pastoral assistant at his Church.

Last year he compared Zacchaeus’ robbery and reconciliation in Luke 19 to black folk getting reparations in the 21st century, describing how Christians must “introduce the language of repair (reparations) in all of our conversations about race.”

Kwon has even written a book on why white people (and Asians and Hispanics) must give people a whack ton of money in order to be properly reconciled with their black neighbors, and in fact, that true reconciliation can never happen and race relations can never be healed without a sacrificial monetary compensation.

Rather than being overjoyed at the overturning of Roe v Wade and expressing some sort of happy, elated sentiment, Kwon tweeted out:

6 hours later, after receiving substantial feedback, he deleted the tweet and wrote:

It’s been nearly three days since then, and apparently he never found the time or energy, as he’s written other tweets, but has not said another word about this.