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At the United Methodist Church General Conference held in 2024, Dawn Wiggins Hare and Giovanni Arroyo gave "monitoring reports" on diversity, equity + inclusion (DEI) for the denomination's legislative proceedings. Here are the highlights of their work.
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SUPERCUT: At the General Conference of the United Methodist Church (UMC) on April 25, 2024, clergy and laity debated a procedural motion to delay a vote on mandatory land acknowledgments to allow more input from international conferences to craft the proposed rule.
It was a woke-for-all grievance fest.
In May 2022, the anonymous account "Philip Derrida" created an immortal thread of memes titled "Evangelical Counter Signal: The Threat Within." A counter-signal meme is a one-panel comic lampooning the self-defeating logic required to adopt left-wing political positions, especially for professed Christians. Now, these memes have become even more powerful thanks to AI-generated music from an app called Suno.
0:00 Intro
0:27 "The Threat Within (I Confess The Creeds)"
0:54 "Pro-Life And A Devout Christian"
2:17 "Egal Church History (The Schizophrenic Nuns)"
4:19 "They Not Going Liberal (Ugh!)"
4:50 "Republican Jesus"
6:10 "Just Because Of Penal Substitutionary Atonement"
7:29 "I'm A Pro-Lifer"
8:41 "Do The Reading"
9:50 "The List Keeps Growing"
11:47 "Actually Satanic"
13:48 "Trying To Be More Christlike"
15:28 "Nothing But Contempt"
17:24 "Semper Reformanda"
19:13 "Imago Dei"
20:10 "The Heckin Wholesome Christianity Song"
22:09 "Effeminacy"
24:10 "I'm A Centrist"
25:43 "The First Ones"
27:24 "Pick Your Poison"
27:50 "Hey Pastor (A Tiny Change)"
29:52 "Nothing But Contempt (Pop Punk Version)"
#aimusic #sunoai #christianity #memes #countersignal #wokepreacherclips
One of the classic counter signal memes, set to music thanks to Suno AI. Full album soon...
[Verse 1]
You should let in more refugees
Because Jesus said to be compassionate
In the Bible somewhere
In the Bible somewhere
[Chorus]
No, I’m not a Christian
And I have nothing but contempt
For your backwards religious beliefs
Nothing but contempt
[Verse 2]
So yeah, this argument wouldn’t work on me
But maybe if I use it on you
You’ll do what I want
You'll do what I want
[Chorus]
No, I’m not a Christian
And I have nothing but contempt
For your backwards religious beliefs
Nothing but contempt
(A "counter signal" meme is a one-panel comic with a rudimentary MS Paint drawing of a character defending a left-wing position, with the caption demonstrating how his argument is self-defeating. The meme is used to reply to anyone caught using the script to show how little they have personally thought through the issue)
A panel discussion at Baylor/Truett's "Racism In The World Church" 2024 conference was composed of pastors at affirming churches (at least 2 of 3 speakers).
Sean Palmer, an Enneagram guru and teaching pastor at Ecclesia Houston, proudly declared in a 2018 speech that his church has accepted transgender individuals and same-sex couples into membership.
Timothy Peoples is senior pastor of Wilshire Baptist Church, which advertises its affirming stance and is a member of the Association Of Welcoming + Affirming Baptists and participated in Dallas Pride last year.
(The third panel member, famed musician Jimi Calhoun, doesn't really counter-balance the other men's stances, as his "church," Bridging Austin, appears to just be him, his wife, and a friend who have streamed a handful of brief "online liturgies" and held "meetups" advertised as "Taizé Contemplative Services" in the past few months.)
At the end of their conversation, titled “Black Pastors In White Spaces,” Palmer alludes to the objection of authors like Neil Shenvi to critical social justice. He *agrees* that adopting critical theory in regards to race will inevitably lead to compromise on "a whole constellation of other issues and topics that I also have to treat similarly."
Introducing them is Greg Garrett, the Baylor professor who recently went viral for condemning author J.K. Rowling's rejection of transgender self-identification.
Sources: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgkeOx0WUlE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DpIV9pe7Bsc
https://www.facebook.com/centerpeaceinc/videos/1487664254750998
One of the classic counter signal memes, set to music thanks to Suno AI.
Lyrics:
Hey man, Jesus just gave us
Like, one commandment, bro
Which is to be vaguely nice to each other, man
As long as you're being vaguely nice
By the cultural standards of the current time period we live in
And completely ignoring the Bible
You're doing a heckin’ wholesome Christianity
(A "counter signal" meme is a one-panel comic with a rudimentary MS Paint drawing of a character defending a left-wing position, with the caption demonstrating how his argument is self-defeating. The meme is used to reply to anyone caught using the script to show how little they have personally thought through the issue)
Episcopalian Rev. Patrick Burke says a trans seminary student recruited him as backup for illegally distributing cross-sex hormones to kids in Indiana.
Also slips in a random lie: "Standing up for trans kids isn't safe, as evidenced by the tragic death of Nex Benedict."
This was a sermon for PALM SUNDAY in 2024.
We rightly warn of "Christless conservatism." But also beware a political conservatism that proclaims Christ and embraces liberal theology.
Andrew Klavan, for years, has affirmed same-sex monogamy. Now, he espouses some sort of inclusivist salvation by works apart from Christ.
-TRANSCRIPT-
Christ is the king, and one day every knee will bow and recognize it, because he's not just my king, he's king of the universe.
...
When you spit that phrase at Ben Shapiro, my friend Ben Shapiro, and I understand this. All of you who love Ben, and I love Ben, and Jordan Peterson, you all want to see them find Jesus, because you know what joy and freedom that gives you, and you certainly feel that it alters your relationship with God.
But when I think about this, to be honest with you, and I know some people will disagree with this, but life is not a game show where you guess the name of God and and you get to go to heaven. "Honk! Yes, the name is Jesus." I look at Ben's life and I think, if Ben were to embrace Jesus Christ, it would cause devastation to his family. To the people who love him. To the people who listen to him. To his position in the world. I just have this feeling that God has put this guy where he wants him to do what he wants him to do.
...
I feel the same way about Jordan. Jordan struggles with this stuff, and I feel like I have an inkling why he has to struggle with [it], but his struggle is inspiring to other people.
And I think God wants these boys where he's got them. And I, there's no thought in my mind that he is going to send these guys into battle and then turn his back on them when they come marching home. It's not a game show.
Christ is love. Christ is truth. Christ is the Logos of the moral order. You follow love, you follow truth, you follow the moral order, you will find yourself ultimately at Jesus Christ's door, I don't worry about Ben and Jordan Peterson one little bit.
And so when you spit "Christ the King" at them to insist that th..
Highlights from a sermon, titled "What If God Worships Me?" by Jermell Witherspoon, Common Good Church, Bellevue, WA
2nd speaker is Common Good's lead pastor, Royce Yuen. In 2020, he preached a message titled "-Isms: Heterosexism," which argued Christians need to "shift" their understanding of what the Bible says about queer affirmation.
Sources: Sources: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5qW3VoYBP8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zl1gzNfErMQ
Fani Willis, the District Attorney of Fulton County, Georgia, has been accused of hiring her then-boyfriend, Nathan Wade, as special prosecutor of the RICO case she was bringing against former President Donald Trump and 18 other co-defendants, despite Wade's lack of experience in prosecuting any felonies in his legal career.
A defendant's motion to dismiss the case alleged that Willis hired Wade to give him a bountiful stream of income, totaling more than half a million dollars so far, and that she financially benefited from his receipt of taxpayer dollars for the high-profile case.
After Willis testified in a hearing on the motion to dismiss, the case caught the attention of many American preachers. Here are their reactions.
Sources:
https://www.facebook.com/mark.whitaker.7311/videos/708024064651587
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ACsmP2H0ew
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6m2RRf6cAw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5xkY4wZsSg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=il1LKEaowLY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hb1Zxfei15Y
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PE2HvotcuKo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIv7WqiQvI0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tFgZBp9L3E
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILdeZbqSWo0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CaxL1uzW20E
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKx3sscDi4M
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5ARAWwQD3s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_quj0iACBQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_RYRmlZPpM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lj4oTm5zz4U
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01ET6pXOW5w
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJWNEMvbhro
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZRXZOeHY40
Fani Willis returns to church to accept an award and deliver a brief sermon on the weekend after her court testimony about whether her affair with married lawyer Nathan Wade brought a conflict of interest to her prosecution of former president Donald Trump.
Willis quoted Isaiah 54:17 to describe the motion to disqualify her, due to alleged financial impropriety and perjurous court filings. "The scripture they keep sending me is 'No weapon formed against you shall prosper.' I need y'all to hear me, though. They did not say the weapons will not form, and that's the part I didn't hear until recently."
Atlanta Berean Church, a Seventh-Day Adventist congregation, hosted Willis this Saturday for nearly 20 minutes of adulation, starting with lead pastor Dr. Sherwin Jack declaring: "She is one of us."
The church presented Willis with a "Black History Achievement Award," SDA founder Ellen G. White's "Conflict Of The Ages" book series, and "beautiful flowers are for you, the beautiful person that you are."
Finally, the church's leadership and several other Fulton County elected officials gathered around Fani in prayer, asking "that your power that's above any other power will reside not just around her but in her" and that "you'll open up the windows of Heaven and pour out a blessing that is so mighty and so bold and so brave and so precise that she could not help but to say, "My help cometh from the Lord.'"
Source video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmaRtraD2hw
The documentary “God And Country,” produced by Rob Reiner and directed by Dan Partland, alleges that politically active conservative Christians (all lumped together under the label “Christian Nationalism”) don’t understand True Christianity and have let politics subsume their faith.
Anthea Butler, a Professor at UPenn and the chair of its Religious Studies department, is one of the film's talking heads, touted by Reiner as a "devout Christian." But what he doesn't mention is Butler is not shy, in other settings, to share her complete disgust with all aspects of basic orthodox theology and the people who hold to it.
Sources:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kl5DD7LOLe0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTQKmR6a9fw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hbc-QwfXu8M
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWCOiUanvNA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kHhbnFwXEg
Rob Reiner, producer of the documentary "God And Country," says the film ends with a touching monologue from Rev. William Barber on how the church in America needs to come back to Jesus's teachings.
Yes, *this* William Barber.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTQKmR6a9fw
https://open.spotify.com/episode/3fA8neWtwLwgpE02mYlr1b
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2P5fJL5rryk
https://twitter.com/RevDrBarber/status/1277030245569355777
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7PeqxTKd9I
The documentary “God And Country,” produced by Rob Reiner and directed by Dan Partland, alleges that politically active conservative Christians (all lumped together under the label “Christian Nationalism”) don’t understand True Christianity and have let politics subsume their faith.
In the film's trailer, Sister Campbell declares, “Being a Christian is about the values of inclusion. Christian nationalism is certainly not based on the values of the gospel.” But what is her gospel? A review of Campbell’s writings and speeches will reveal her view of the gospel is a thoroughly 21st-century one, mostly indistinguishable from Unitarian Universalism, where mysticism, unchecked empathy + far-left politics all but erase the actual good news of Jesus Christ found in the scriptures.
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https://networklobby.org/20180613pride/
https://networklobby.org/pride20202306/
https://www.facebook.com/NetworkLobby/posts/pfbid02CawF84BRuwe5CzNKxB7Vj2UYGSEe6YPNsfy64DdHHB75QvBtqLSLMmC7633Ayy71l
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUeIs26JCi4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8z1IOWsMnU
https://onbeing.org/programs/simone-campbell-how-to-be-spiritually-bold/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DjE5IhGm5Y
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YhyE54UFkkY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ORuH10oJn4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMqUSXdPI7Y
https://stateofbelief.com/segments/whosoever-you-love-sister-simone-campbell/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Xt8kr_2IaQ
Curtis Chang of "Redeeming Babel" says pastor Charlie Dates was involved in creating his "After Party" politics curriculum for churches, along with David French and Russell Moore.
Yes, *that* Charlie Dates. One of the worst examples of "us-vs-them" political vitriol in American churches and a bootlicker to far-left Chicago Democrats.
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Preachers and religious pundits offer their takes on the resignation of former Harvard President Claudine Gay after researchers discovered dozens of instances of plagiarism in her academic writings.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQCNqvUEsY4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_M92HRT7iF4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IfgR_ic9_fQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDhEB4fG0eU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fDS6v-UHRg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rEKuOGOH4M
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhVs2lpNhvA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXE9PfTKCNk
Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) made an appearance Sunday, December 19, 2021 at the Los Angeles church "Macedonia LA." Senior Pastor Shane B. Scott introduced Waters as "our leader" before handing the pulpit over to her, where she shamed Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) for not supporting the "Build Back Better" bill and gave a point-by-point sales pitch for the legislation. Then, Waters gave Pastor Scott a $5,000 check on stage, where he attributed her gift to God repaying him for a donation to her re-election campaign.
Source video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5OsBmfxvhM
h/t Reformation Charlotte: https://reformationcharlotte.org/2021/12/17/church-hosts-drag-queen-prayer-time-for-children-on-sunday-morning/
"This is everybody's first time they've ever seen a drag queen? Well, hello. I am also a boy most of the time when I'm here, but today I [tosses hair] am beautiful today."
Rev. Dr. Arthur L. Brown, of Tabernacle Baptist Church in Harrisburg, PA, spreads misinformation (that all 3 U.S. coronavirus vaccines have been approved for children 5 and older), tells congregants to withhold Thanksgiving dinner and Christmas gifts until their grandkids receive an inoculation, and mocks healthcare workers who may lose their jobs due to a vaccine mandate, during this October 2021 worship service.
—TRANSCRIPT—
One of the things that I discovered is in my conversations that there are still a number of people who do not believe in the value of being vaccinated. Even in health care, folks who are treating others, who don't see the value of being vaccinated. But you know what? I just nod my head.
I listen, and I thank God for my good sense.
...
Get your vaccine. They've all been approved. Pfizer, Moderna, Johnson + Johnson, they've been approved for children over the age of five. And so make sure your grandkids and your kids are taking care of themselves. Let them know: if you want to come see and visit me, you need to handle your business. That's right.
If you want to come and get this birthday money I got for you, if you want to come and, eat this Thanksgiving meal I'm preparing for you, if you want to come and get these Christmas gifts I've been ordering for you, you need to take care of you. Amen. Amen. You hit 'em where it hurts. Yeah.
That's what the healthcare systems are doing. You don't get vaccinated, you don't have a job. Hit 'em where it hurts. Somehow, some folk in health care decided they had a change of mind when they realized that they might have to have a change of employment. All of a sudden now, "You know what? I think I'm gonna get that vaccine."
So listen. Sometimes we got to do we got to do to help folk to see the light.
Source video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHLcAYKev8I
Where to find WPC around the web: https://linktr.ee/wokepreacherclips
Rick Warren, pastor of Saddleback Church, lauds Francis Collins, then the Director of the National Institutes Of Health (NIH), during this November 2020 online chat for the HHS Partnership Center.
Source videos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lz-WMXld0rk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=je2FDmsrxiA
https://twitter.com/wef/status/1422150187749883905
Source articles: https://thenewamerican.com/rutgers-virus-expert-fauci-collins-untruthful-about-funding-gain-of-function-research-new-docs-disclose-more-grants-to-wuhan-lab/
https://www.nationalreview.com/news/pro-life-groups-call-for-removal-of-nih-chief-over-fetal-tissue-research/
https://freebeacon.com/policy/taxpayer-fund-aborted-babies-research/
Where to find WPC around the web: https://linktr.ee/wokepreacherclips
New York Governor Kathy Hochul spoke at New York City's Christian Cultural Center Sunday, September 26, and urged members of the audience to act as her "apostles" to New Yorkers "who aren't listening to God and what God wants" by declining coronavirus inoculations.
--TRANSCRIPT HIGHLIGHT--
We are not through this pandemic. I wished we were, but I prayed a lot to God during this time. And you know what? God did answer our prayers. He made the smartest men and women, the scientists, the doctors, the researchers, he made them come up with a vaccine. That is from God to us. And we must say, "Thank you, God. Thank you."
And I wear my vaccinated necklace all the time to to say "I'm vaccinated." All of you. Yes, I know you're vaccinated. You're the smart ones. But, you know, there's people out there who aren't listening to God and what God wants. You know this. You know who they are. I need you to be my apostles. I need you to go out and talk about it and say: "We owe this to each other."
We love each other. Jesus taught us to love one another. And how do you show that love but to care about each other enough to say, "Please get vaccinated, because I love you. I want you to live." I want our kids to be safe when they're in schools. I want you to be safe when you go to a doctor's office or a hospital and are treated by somebody. You don't want to get the virus from them. You're already sick, or you wouldn't be there.
We have to solve this, my friends. I need every one of you. I need you to let them know that this is how we can fight this pandemic, come back to normal, and then start talking about the real issues that we have to: fighting systemic racial injustice.
Source video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9pSH93P0Q0
Where to find WPC around the web: https://linktr.ee/wokepreacherclips
Theology at the intersection of woke and cringe.