“Rightful mockery, holy sarcasm, and righteous satire” are the perfect ways to describe the kind of fun we are having with Kyle J. Howard, the cartoon Twitterer who gets attention by claiming trauma around every corner and leveling false accusations at anyone not towing the CRT line. Sometimes you just have to laugh at it. And before you respond with accusations of not being gracious, loving, or respectful ask yourself how respectful we should be with a lying accuser of the brethren?
Enjoy!
On this episode of Polemics Report for May 20th, 2021 (after a little fun with Kyle J. Howard), JD and David talk about trying to take God seriously without taking theology seriously, then JD reveals his hurt over those who were behind Pulpit & Pen in exposing CRT in evangelicalism (and snakes like Russell Moore) who are now crediting themselves with leading the charge and still refusing to say the name JD Hall. Following this, JD answers patron questions, discussing the Arminian gospel, politics in the pulpit, and historic premillennialism.
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World Vision’s online course designed to equip churches and pastors to understand “racial justice” is a hotbed of Critical Race Theory, unbiblical syncretism, and radical progressivism, infecting the organization and resulting in the wokefication of World Vision and a denial of some core tenets of the Christian Faith.
Discovered through their monthly “May We Be One: Pastors pursuing Racial Justice” course, this is part two in a five-part series exposing the extent that CRT has compromised the mission of the famed NGO (See Part one for more information on these courses).
In this case, Dr. Soong-Chan Rah, Professor at North Park Theological Seminary and one of the primary moderators for World Vision, explains the CRT concept of “white male gaze” and the ways it is designed to frame black people as a threat, resulting in the propensity of White Christians to “act instinctively to preserve that narrative of white superiority” and “act naturally, instinctively, to preserve…the narrative of white superiority.”
Whose perspective determines the perspective of society? Willie Jennings [of Yale Divinity School] talks about the four quadrants of relationships, a four-part relationship, between the white male, the black male, the white female, and the black female. And that interrelationship between these four oftentimes is determined by the gaze or perspective of the white male.
In other words, how the white male views the others determines how the rest of society views the other. So, for example, when the white male gazes upon the black male, how is that black male perceived? The black male is perceived in such a way that the rest of society views the black male in the same way. So, when the white male sees the black male, that black male is a threat.In fact, if you think about the six o’clock news and what leads every single news report on the six o’clock local news, what is the most scary, threatening person in our society according to the six o’clock news? It is the unidentified black male…
…Now that threat of the black male is translated in a lot of different ways, and one of the ways is translated is the gaze issue again, the perspective, when the black male looks at the white female, that is oftentimes conceived as a very real threat.
Narratives are like a good actor in a good TV show or in a movie. So there are good actors who use something called method acting. In method acting, what they do is they embody the character so deeply that they reflexively and improvisationally, impulsively act out of that character. So, for example, if Robert De Niro is playing a mobster in a movie shoot, and you run into him at a Starbucks, don’t talk to him, because he’s so into that character, he’ll respond to you like he’s an actual mobster.
So that embodied character, getting so deeply into that character that your instinct, your reflex, what you improvise, comes out of that character, that’s what narratives do. And so these narratives have been played out over and over again. The unidentified black male. The superiority of white culture over other culture. The demeaning of other cultures and the elevating of this culture.
When that narrative gets played out over and over again, we end up embedding that character into our imagination, our value system, our worldview, and we act improvisationally, instinctively, reflectively, reflexively, out of that character.
One of the questions we want to grapple with as we go through this material is what are the ways that we act instinctively to preserve that narrative of white superiority, white primacy? What are the ways we act naturally, instinctively, to preserve or act into that narrative of white superiority?”
h/t to @wokepreachertv for the clip and most of the transcript. Everyone should follow him on Twitter, Gab, and YouTube.
(Denny Burk) Mike Bird and Devi Abraham recently interviewed authors Kristin DuMez, Beth Allison Barr, and Aimee Byrd (see video below). All three of these authors have written books condemning complementarianism. Both DuMez and Barr are convinced egalitarians. While I have never heard Byrd own that label, she has said in her book that she is not a complementarian. In any case, it’s difficult to detect any daylight between Byrd’s position and that of the two egalitarians in this interview. They all three are very much opposed to complementarian theology, which is denigrated as abusive patriarchy in this interview.
One thing that they all three seem to agree on is the need for women to take on more teaching and leadership positions over men in churches. On this point, there was one revealing moment at the end of the interview that I think complementarians would do well to take note of. Devi Abraham asks the authors what one thing needs to change in evangelical churches, and Beth Allison Barr answers first with this:
You know, I would like for women to be able to teach Sunday School… In order for women to be accepted in leadership roles, we’ve got to put them in leadership roles… Lots of men have this story that their minds actually weren’t changed by what they read. Their minds were changed by hearing women. And hearing women teach and realizing they could be edified, that they could grow spiritually from hearing a woman.
So I would really like for more evangelical churches to put women in adult leadership roles… So I’m not expecting pastorate immediately. Everything takes time. But just put them in more spaces where they actually can use these gifts. Don’t confine them only to women’s ministry and to children’s ministry and to the dream team in the kitchen. Put them out in leadership roles… Let women teach the Bible. Let them teach actual theology and good stuff. And let’s see them do it… If I could change one thing, I would put more women in adult Sunday School and teaching places in churches.
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Editor’s Note. This article was written by Denny Burk and published at DennyBurk.com. Title changed by Protestia.
On this episode of Polemics Report for May 13th, 2021, JD weighs in on an author at SBC Voices calling for a truce between complementarians and churches with lady pastors and conservatives in Cru exposing the woke disaster in the organization. In the patron-only portion, David discusses pushback on the last podcast’s title, plays a little bit of the upcoming music video, and JD answers patron questions concerning deacons and new Calvinism.
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For Southern Baptist leaders embracing Critical Race Theory and Standpoint Epistemology, this is the kind of slander, embarrassment, childishness, and downright racism that you are encouraging.
In a tweet “celebrating” completing his Masters in Theology (proving they’ll give these degrees to anyone willing to pay for them), the always-twamatized Kyle J. Howard claimed he couldn’t walk the grounds of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary – much less receive his degree in person – because of, well, twauma. This is the same school he claimed employs a professor who told him so-called “black theology” was inferior.
The self-proclaimed battle rapper, former Crip, and drug dealer (who now apparently and inexplicably gets call “Rev” down on “da block”) claimed that the rise of Donald Trump and the “ongoing deaths” of unarmed black people led to an outbreak of overt racism on the campus of the Southern Baptist Seminary and caused him to feel unsafe even being there:
The twauma counselor, “theologian,” and “soul care provider” found support from the usual cabal of CRT-promoting grifters like ex-SBC pastor Dwight McKissic, who revealed how his subjective feelings revealed no racism at SWBTS (that is, no “experiences” his feelings decided were racist), but that KJH’s feelings were legit (and how it was regrettable Critical Race Theory wasn’t wholly supported at Southwestern):
And then there was “rapper who also happens to be Christian” Lecrae, who likened the Christians at SBTS to Egyptians enslaving the Israelites, and Moses to a pathologically lying and laughably embarrassing twauma queen:
The fact that Kyle J. Howard earned a Master’s Degree from a Southern Baptist school is proof positive that credentials mean almost nothing in terms of a person’s ability to minister, understand scripture, or you know, be an actual grown-up in society. A person so willing to lie about their past (and present) and who is so scared of their own shadow that they can’t set foot on a college campus has absolutely no business attempting to minister to anyone else.
By the way, there is still $3500 available to anyone presenting actual evidence of KJH’s gang-banging ways.
Cranking up his sarcasm to a level 10, Rev. Dr. Matthew Myer Boulton, the (now former) President of Christian Theological Seminary- a small progressive ‘Christian’ seminary in Indianapolis that boasts around 140 students and whose new President prides himself on teaching ‘Queer theology- preached a chapel message back in 2015, before much of Critical Race Theory had become popularized, explaining that the bible is bursting with white privilege ‘starting at page one.”
It would be nice, you know, you go back to the concordance and you look up “white privilege,” where is that in the Bible? “White privilege.” And it would be great, wouldn’t it? It’s really a shame that the Bible says nothing about white privilege at all and we have to kind of improvise, because the Bible just doesn’t provide us any help.
If only there was a narrative, I mean, this is maybe too much to ask, but if only there was a narrative close to the beginning of the Bible that was really all about race and slavery and liberation. If only there was a story like that toward the beginning of the Bible. And maybe it wasn’t just there. Maybe it was all throughout. Maybe the psalmist picks it up. Maybe Jesus picks it up. Maybe Paul picks it up. Maybe this is all through, I mean, wouldn’t that be, and then we could have something to work with…
If only we had the Son of God come down from heaven to the Temple Mount, of course, because that’s where the Son of God would show up is at the temple. Not some little backwater and some little ethnic kind of slum. I mean, that would be helpful if Jesus would show up, if the Son of God would show up in the slum as a little baby boy. If only we had a passage where Jesus was saying the essence of being, the essence of inheriting eternal life, the essence of following what, he was a Jew, he was always a Jew, he loves Judaism. The essence of being a Jew is to follow this other guy, this non-Jew.
If only we had a passage like that where the insider-outsider dynamic, which is of course at the heart of racism, this clannish thinking of us and them. If only Jesus wasn’t constantly working against that kind of us-and-them mentality. If only we had an apostle, an apostle who made his name in persecution and then had a tremendous change in his life and he actually becomes what he was persecuting. If only we had that kind of story.
And then maybe, oh yeah, maybe his whole theme of all of his writing was thinking about the outsider and the nations. And then if only we could have wrapped the whole thing up in the book of Revelation with an image of a tree whose leaves were for the healing of the nations. Then we would have something to work with.
White privilege is in the Bible, as it turns out, starting on page one and ending at the ends. Because the human condition is to think in these us-and-them terms, is to think clannishly, is to have implicit biases, is to mess up the Garden and contaminate it. And yet the human call and the human true identity is to be in the image of the one who wants a beautiful and radiant and diverse and lovely and joyful garden for all. For the healing of the nations and for the joy of the nations, freedom is coming.
h/t to @wokepreachertv for the video and transcript
Capstone Report) Will SEBTS tolerate the conservative signs on public rights-of-way or will they remove the signs?
A conservative Southern Baptist at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary (SEBTS) placed several signs protesting the use of Critical Race Theory and Intersectionality by Southern Baptist institutions like SEBTS. The signs placed on public rights-of-way read ANALYTICAL TOOLS stylized with a Soviet letter resembling N (a Cyrillic И ) and the hammer and sickle for both Os in tools.
A Twitter user took credit for the conservative protest against Racial Identity Politics. He said he placed “several” signs around campus. In a tweet he said, “A campaign sign is the language of the unheard.”
The signs were specifically targeted at SEBTS in order to “force a discussion internally on campus.” The conservative activist wanted to send a message to the few remaining conservative students at SEBTS. The activist wanted anyone doubting the Leftist narrative to know that they “aren’t alone.”
Pressure Gage tweeted, “I wonder how long it will take @SEBTS @CollegeSE to remove political expression in a public right of way. They love illegal and violent protests. Will they allow a lawful one? I know the college and the seminary are two of the most heavy-handed SJW institutions available, but if the signs are still there, blink once. If they’re gone, blink twice.”
Again, the conservative asked….
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A ‘Christian’ Hip Hop artist (CHH) has shared with the world how he hopes that convicted killer Derek Chauvin gets raped in prison – a take he then tried to distance himself from after receiving blowback from his fans.
Derek Minor, an artist and producer who has been a mainstay of the Christian Hip-Hop scene for a decade, was previously signed to Lecrae’s Reach Records. While no longer there as an independent artist, he still collaborates with members of Reach Records on a regular basis.
In fact. Minor was featured on a recent Reach Records 116 Clique release just a few months ago, joining Lecrae on the album Sin Vergüenza. This makes sense, as they share similar levels of wokeness and abandonment of biblical fidelity.
Of course, “don’t drop the soap” is a clear and incontrovertible reference to the notion that if someone in prison drops their bar of soap while they take a shower, when they go to pick it up it will expose them to be anally raped, with the perpetrator having convenient access to their orifices.
When pressed by his fans on why he would advocate for this – with sexual assault in prison being a very real, very terrifying prospect for anyone unfortunate enough to go – he backtracked, claiming to be meaning just the opposite.
He did doublespeak.
In response to calling Chauvin a “hoe,” Minor was likewise unrepentant.
In a post hours later, Minor lamented the death of Makiyah Bryant, saying, “Black people don’t even get an hour to mourn. She was 15.”
He likens her situation to the death of George Floyd, leading us to wonder whether he likewise “doesn’t want” the officer involved to be imprisoned where he might “drop the soap.” Thankfully there is clear body camera footage showing Mikiyah with a knife in her hand about to stab another teenager, getting shot because of it. That likely will not matter to Minor and other activists, who see everything through the prism of racism to the point of making evidence and logic irrelevant.
Sadly, these kinds of attitudes are nothing new within the Christian Hip-Hop community, who have by and charge succumbed to the rhetoric of Black Lives Matter and where the winds of strange doctrine and progressive ideologies are running unchecked, burning through artist after artist with no respite in sight.
Minor is just further proof of that.
Russell Moore, the head of the Ethics and Religious and Liberty Commission (ERLC) who recently took a personal hit when he was torched by the SBC’s Executive Committee for the way he runs his organization, summarized by the phrase, “The direction of the ERLC is a significant source of division and creates a very real challenge to reversing CP [Cooperative Program] decline,” continued his trend of sowing discord and division with a tweet about the Derek Chauvin guilty verdict.
Because Moore is a progressive and a Democrat he can’t help but bring race into it, even though the trial itself did not touch on it or make that a factor in the death of George Floyd.
In fact, by all accounts, there was absolutely nothing racist about the entire encounter, which would not stop him from noting in a later post that Floyd is a “symbol of the quest for racial justice in this country,” and that because Chauvin was found guilty, we can “work together for a new era of racial justice.” And yet we ask: what was racial about this justice?
We haven’t forgotten about this statement Moore and the who’s-who of SBC leaders signed back in 2020:
Furthermore, don’t believe Moore will make it a habit of celebrating our judicial system as ERLC head or supporting various jury decisions. He only celebrates certain kinds of decisions. He would never dare being caught speaking on cases like the Michael Brown or George Zimmerman case and declaring that “justice was rendered.”
You think the cowardly Moore, author of the laughably ironic The Courage to Stand would say that justice was rendered if Chauvin’s conviction is overturned on appeal – an act that ought to happen based on his lack of fair trial?
Not a chance.
