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What Do Woke Churches Look Like?

I’ve been reading a book called No Reason to Hide by Erwin Lutzer; it’s a call for Christians to stand firm in a world which is becoming increasingly hostile to Christianity. One of the chapters is about woke churches. Trying to define “woke” is not as easy as it might first appear, as definitions vary according to the source. Going back to the early 1960s, it meant conscious and aware, or well-informed and up-to-date. In 2017, it came to mean “alert to racial or social discrimination and injustice,” according to the Oxford dictionary. Previous to that, following the deaths of Trayvon Martin and Michael Brown in 2013 and 2014, the word “woke” came to be associated with the Black Lives Matter movement and before long the LGBTQ community as well.

Lutzer writes about a church that has an all-white staff but a very diverse congregation. Following the Charlottesville riot in 2017, the staff began to warn against Christian nationalism, which I think is wise. However, following the death of George Floyd in 2020, the leadership began to publicly pray for “Black Lives Matter,” but then also “Hispanic Lives Matter” and “Asian Lives Matter.” No mention was made that “White Lives Matter,” even when white people were murdered. As the riots continued over the next few years, the pastor bought into the nonsensical narrative that the demonstrations were “mostly peaceful.” You may be familiar with the instance of CNN national correspondent Omar Jimenez reporting from Kenosha, WI, in August 2020, standing in front of a raging fire with this graphic on the screen: “FIERY BUT MOSTLY PEACEFUL PROTESTS AFTER POLICE SHOOTING.” This was very widely mocked in much of the media, but perhaps the pastor had been misinformed. However, when a man who was part of the church brought it to his attention, the pastor called him “selfish.” Sermons in this church became focused on social justice, encouraging the congregation to become “involved in the fight for racial and economic equity.” This man further wrote, “No longer did we hear that Christ can redeem sin and evil. We were not asked to share the gospel with our lost neighbors. Rather, we were told that we whites were to be blamed for all the rage that was happening around us. The unity we once knew has given way to blaming some and excusing others.”

Thankfully, my city has been spared the rioting that has happened elsewhere over the past decade or so. However, some churches here have “gone woke.” One of them had been trending for a while in the direction of being supportive of people in the LGBTQ community. However, when I read their “social justice” statements about racism, gender equality, and LGBTQ+ (among others), I understood why about two-thirds of the congregation recently left and formed their own, more-conservative church.

Another church in my city is part of a denomination that has been “open and affirming” in welcoming and including people in the LGBTQ community. They have also taken perverse pride in having had the first openly lesbian pastor in that denomination. During the COVID lockdowns, they took it a step further, at least publicly, with a large mural of an LGBTQ rainbow flag on one side of their church; they also had a large Black Lives Matter sign on their property. You may think by this point that I am against Black Lives Matter; I am, but only in the sense of the very corrupt organization, which is finally under investigation by the DOJ for gross financial mismanagement and alleged embezzlement by some in its leadership. In addition, as I have written about in another post, Black Lives Matter has had as one of its goals to “disrupt the Western-prescribed nuclear family structure.” Perhaps most supporters of BLM have not known about this mismanagement and the aforementioned goal. Regardless, the truth is that all lives matter, not just black ones!

A third church that has been moving in the woke direction for many years is one that my family and I used to be a part of. The leadership used to preach about the sin of homosexuality about once a year; however, when a new pastor (now gone) took over several years ago, things began to change. I have a close friend who used to serve in the college ministry. One night, a student asked what the Bible says about homosexuality; my friend told her, focusing on Romans 1. Another leader overheard all of this and told my friend, “You hate gays.” This was in spite of the fact that my friend was responding to the student’s question! Regarding the new pastor: the only thing I heard him say about homosexuality, at least from the pulpit, was that the second half of Romans 1 was not even about that. While it is true that not all of verses 18-32 of that chapter are about homosexuality, verses 24-27 very clearly are, so his statement was very misleading, at best. My friend told me that he had talked to the pastor about this, saying we shouldn’t assume that young people today (like that college student) know what the Bible says about homosexuality; the pastor’s response was that if he preached about that sin, half the congregation would leave. Well, since then, even though he didn’t preach about it, more than half the congregation has left. I think a lot of the pastor’s reluctance had to do with the fact that there are some lesbians in the congregation; he also has a lesbian relative. Interestingly, I recently ran into another pastor who had been over the senior adults of that church; he very recently retired but said that he had been nudged out. He said that the church had “gone woke.”

Thankfully, there is new hope for my former church; the head pastor I wrote about in the previous paragraph stepped down last year, and they are in the process of “vetting” a new pastoral candidate. Based on his responses to a series of questions, including some specific ones related to human sexuality, I believe he can lead the church in the right direction.

At my church, there are three brothers who give our pastor a “break” by taking turns preaching on the last Sunday of the month. One of them recently preached on 1 Corinthians 5; in this chapter, the Apostle Paul sharply rebukes the Corinthians for being proud of a man in their midst who was sleeping with his stepmother! As an application of Paul’s teaching to contemporary American society, this brother wanted to preach about homosexuality, but he decided to talk to the pastor first. The pastor’s response to this brother’s intention was “Oh, good! That is especially important for our teens to hear!” When I heard this, I thought of the pastor who stepped down from my previous church last year and what his response would have been in that situation!

As Christians, I believe we need to be attuned to matters of social justice; however, we need to first be focused on the Gospel. If we’re not, we will inevitably water it down to the point where we may even hear this absurdity at the end of a prayer: “Amen and awoman.” This was spoken by Congressman Emanuel Cleaver at the close of an opening prayer for the new Congress in January of 2021. More than one pundit quipped that at restaurants, we may need to have a menu and a “womanu.” I would also quip that we should have a menu and a “womenu” to be grammatically consistent! Admittedly, this did not happen at a church, but Cleaver is an ordained minister.

On a more serious note, I love these words from Lutzer: “We must distinguish between accepting a person and approving of their conduct. Every human being is created in the image of God and deserves to be treated with dignity and respect, but not every human being deserves approval for their conduct and lifestyle. We can be welcoming even when we cannot be affirming.” Amen to that! As Ephesians 4:15 tells us, we need to be “speaking the truth in love” and to leave the results to the Lord. I think it is clear that God’s people want to hear His Word clearly spoken and explained; when church leaders do this, people will come–and stay–to hear it.

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What Do Woke Churches Look Like?

I’ve been reading a book called No Reason to Hide by Erwin Lutzer; it’s a call for Christians to stand firm in a world which is becoming increasingly hostile to Christianity. One of the chapters is about woke churches. Trying to define “woke” is not as easy as it might first appear, as definitions vary according to the source. Going back to the early 1960s, it meant conscious and aware, or well-informed and up-to-date. In 2017, it came to mean “alert to racial or social discrimination and injustice,” according to the Oxford dictionary. Previous to that, following the deaths of Trayvon Martin and Michael Brown in 2013 and 2014, the word “woke” came to be associated with the Black Lives Matter movement and before long the LGBTQ community as well.

Lutzer writes about a church that has an all-white staff but a very diverse congregation. Following the Charlottesville riot in 2017, the staff began to warn against Christian nationalism, which I think is wise. However, following the death of George Floyd in 2020, the leadership began to publicly pray for “Black Lives Matter,” but then also “Hispanic Lives Matter” and “Asian Lives Matter.” No mention was made that “White Lives Matter,” even when white people were murdered. As the riots continued over the next few years, the pastor bought into the nonsensical narrative that the demonstrations were “mostly peaceful.” You may be familiar with the instance of CNN national correspondent Omar Jimenez reporting from Kenosha, WI, in August 2020, standing in front of a raging fire with this graphic on the screen: “FIERY BUT MOSTLY PEACEFUL PROTESTS AFTER POLICE SHOOTING.” This was very widely mocked in much of the media, but perhaps the pastor had been misinformed. However, when a man who was part of the church brought it to his attention, the pastor called him “selfish.” Sermons in this church became focused on social justice, encouraging the congregation to become “involved in the fight for racial and economic equity.” This man further wrote, “No longer did we hear that Christ can redeem sin and evil. We were not asked to share the gospel with our lost neighbors. Rather, we were told that we whites were to be blamed for all the rage that was happening around us. The unity we once knew has given way to blaming some and excusing others.”

Thankfully, my city has been spared the rioting that has happened elsewhere over the past decade or so. However, some churches here have “gone woke.” One of them had been trending for a while in the direction of being supportive of people in the LGBTQ community. However, when I read their “social justice” statements about racism, gender equality, and LGBTQ+ (among others), I understood why about two-thirds of the congregation recently left and formed their own, more-conservative church.

Another church in my city is part of a denomination that has been “open and affirming” in welcoming and including people in the LGBTQ community. They have also taken perverse pride in having had the first openly lesbian pastor in that denomination. During the COVID lockdowns, they took it a step further, at least publicly, with a large mural of an LGBTQ rainbow flag on one side of their church; they also had a large Black Lives Matter sign on their property. You may think by this point that I am against Black Lives Matter; I am, but only in the sense of the very corrupt organization, which is finally under investigation by the DOJ for gross financial mismanagement and alleged embezzlement by some in its leadership. In addition, as I have written about in another post, Black Lives Matter has had as one of its goals to “disrupt the Western-prescribed nuclear family structure.” Perhaps most supporters of BLM have not known about this mismanagement and the aforementioned goal. Regardless, the truth is that all lives matter, not just black ones!

A third church that has been moving in the woke direction for many years is one that my family and I used to be a part of. The leadership used to preach about the sin of homosexuality about once a year; however, when a new pastor (now gone) took over several years ago, things began to change. I have a close friend who used to serve in the college ministry. One night, a student asked what the Bible says about homosexuality; my friend told her, focusing on Romans 1. Another leader overheard all of this and told my friend, “You hate gays.” This was in spite of the fact that my friend was responding to the student’s question! Regarding the new pastor: the only thing I heard him say about homosexuality, at least from the pulpit, was that the second half of Romans 1 was not even about that. While it is true that not all of verses 18-32 of that chapter are about homosexuality, verses 24-27 very clearly are, so his statement was very misleading, at best. My friend told me that he had talked to the pastor about this, saying we shouldn’t assume that young people today (like that college student) know what the Bible says about homosexuality; the pastor’s response was that if he preached about that sin, half the congregation would leave. Well, since then, even though he didn’t preach about it, more than half the congregation has left. I think a lot of the pastor’s reluctance had to do with the fact that there are some lesbians in the congregation; he also has a lesbian relative. Interestingly, I recently ran into another pastor who had been over the senior adults of that church; he very recently retired but said that he had been nudged out. He said that the church had “gone woke.”

Thankfully, there is new hope for my former church; the head pastor I wrote about in the previous paragraph stepped down last year, and they are in the process of “vetting” a new pastoral candidate. Based on his responses to a series of questions, including some specific ones related to human sexuality, I believe he can lead the church in the right direction.

At my church, there are three brothers who give our pastor a “break” by taking turns preaching on the last Sunday of the month. One of them recently preached on 1 Corinthians 5; in this chapter, the Apostle Paul sharply rebukes the Corinthians for being proud of a man in their midst who was sleeping with his stepmother! As an application of Paul’s teaching to contemporary American society, this brother wanted to preach about homosexuality, but he decided to talk to the pastor first. The pastor’s response to this brother’s intention was “Oh, good! That is especially important for our teens to hear!” When I heard this, I thought of the pastor who stepped down from my previous church last year and what his response would have been in that situation!

As Christians, I believe we need to be attuned to matters of social justice; however, we need to first be focused on the Gospel. If we’re not, we will inevitably water it down to the point where we may even hear this absurdity at the end of a prayer: “Amen and awoman.” This was spoken by Congressman Emanuel Cleaver at the close of an opening prayer for the new Congress in January of 2021. More than one pundit quipped that at restaurants, we may need to have a menu and a “womanu.” I would also quip that we should have a menu and a “womenu” to be grammatically consistent! Admittedly, this did not happen at a church, but Cleaver is an ordained minister.

On a more serious note, I love these words from Lutzer: “We must distinguish between accepting a person and approving of their conduct. Every human being is created in the image of God and deserves to be treated with dignity and respect, but not every human being deserves approval for their conduct and lifestyle. We can be welcoming even when we cannot be affirming.” Amen to that! As Ephesians 4:15 tells us, we need to be “speaking the truth in love” and to leave the results to the Lord. I think it is clear that God’s people want to hear His Word clearly spoken and explained; when church leaders do this, people will come–and stay–to hear it.

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What Do Woke Churches Look Like?

I’ve been reading a book called No Reason to Hide by Erwin Lutzer; it’s a call for Christians to stand firm in a world which is becoming increasingly hostile to Christianity. One of the chapters is about woke churches. Trying to define “woke” is not as easy as it might first appear, as definitions vary according to the source. Going back to the early 1960s, it meant conscious and aware, or well-informed and up-to-date. In 2017, it came to mean “alert to racial or social discrimination and injustice,” according to the Oxford dictionary. Previous to that, following the deaths of Trayvon Martin and Michael Brown in 2013 and 2014, the word “woke” came to be associated with the Black Lives Matter movement and before long the LGBTQ community as well.

Lutzer writes about a church that has an all-white staff but a very diverse congregation. Following the Charlottesville riot in 2017, the staff began to warn against Christian nationalism, which I think is wise. However, following the death of George Floyd in 2020, the leadership began to publicly pray for “Black Lives Matter,” but then also “Hispanic Lives Matter” and “Asian Lives Matter.” No mention was made that “White Lives Matter,” even when white people were murdered. As the riots continued over the next few years, the pastor bought into the nonsensical narrative that the demonstrations were “mostly peaceful.” You may be familiar with the instance of CNN national correspondent Omar Jimenez reporting from Kenosha, WI, in August 2020, standing in front of a raging fire with this graphic on the screen: “FIERY BUT MOSTLY PEACEFUL PROTESTS AFTER POLICE SHOOTING.” This was very widely mocked in much of the media, but perhaps the pastor had been misinformed. However, when a man who was part of the church brought it to his attention, the pastor called him “selfish.” Sermons in this church became focused on social justice, encouraging the congregation to become “involved in the fight for racial and economic equity.” This man further wrote, “No longer did we hear that Christ can redeem sin and evil. We were not asked to share the gospel with our lost neighbors. Rather, we were told that we whites were to be blamed for all the rage that was happening around us. The unity we once knew has given way to blaming some and excusing others.”

Thankfully, my city has been spared the rioting that has happened elsewhere over the past decade or so. However, some churches here have “gone woke.” One of them had been trending for a while in the direction of being supportive of people in the LGBTQ community. However, when I read their “social justice” statements about racism, gender equality, and LGBTQ+ (among others), I understood why about two-thirds of the congregation recently left and formed their own, more-conservative church.

Another church in my city is part of a denomination that has been “open and affirming” in welcoming and including people in the LGBTQ community. They have also taken perverse pride in having had the first openly lesbian pastor in that denomination. During the COVID lockdowns, they took it a step further, at least publicly, with a large mural of an LGBTQ rainbow flag on one side of their church; they also had a large Black Lives Matter sign on their property. You may think by this point that I am against Black Lives Matter; I am, but only in the sense of the very corrupt organization, which is finally under investigation by the DOJ for gross financial mismanagement and alleged embezzlement by some in its leadership. In addition, as I have written about in another post, Black Lives Matter has had as one of its goals to “disrupt the Western-prescribed nuclear family structure.” Perhaps most supporters of BLM have not known about this mismanagement and the aforementioned goal. Regardless, the truth is that all lives matter, not just black ones!

A third church that has been moving in the woke direction for many years is one that my family and I used to be a part of. The leadership used to preach about the sin of homosexuality about once a year; however, when a new pastor (now gone) took over several years ago, things began to change. I have a close friend who used to serve in the college ministry. One night, a student asked what the Bible says about homosexuality; my friend told her, focusing on Romans 1. Another leader overheard all of this and told my friend, “You hate gays.” This was in spite of the fact that my friend was responding to the student’s question! Regarding the new pastor: the only thing I heard him say about homosexuality, at least from the pulpit, was that the second half of Romans 1 was not even about that. While it is true that not all of verses 18-32 of that chapter are about homosexuality, verses 24-27 very clearly are, so his statement was very misleading, at best. My friend told me that he had talked to the pastor about this, saying we shouldn’t assume that young people today (like that college student) know what the Bible says about homosexuality; the pastor’s response was that if he preached about that sin, half the congregation would leave. Well, since then, even though he didn’t preach about it, more than half the congregation has left. I think a lot of the pastor’s reluctance had to do with the fact that there are some lesbians in the congregation; he also has a lesbian relative. Interestingly, I recently ran into another pastor who had been over the senior adults of that church; he very recently retired but said that he had been nudged out. He said that the church had “gone woke.”

Thankfully, there is new hope for my former church; the head pastor I wrote about in the previous paragraph stepped down last year, and they are in the process of “vetting” a new pastoral candidate. Based on his responses to a series of questions, including some specific ones related to human sexuality, I believe he can lead the church in the right direction.

At my church, there are three brothers who give our pastor a “break” by taking turns preaching on the last Sunday of the month. One of them recently preached on 1 Corinthians 5; in this chapter, the Apostle Paul sharply rebukes the Corinthians for being proud of a man in their midst who was sleeping with his stepmother! As an application of Paul’s teaching to contemporary American society, this brother wanted to preach about homosexuality, but he decided to talk to the pastor first. The pastor’s response to this brother’s intention was “Oh, good! That is especially important for our teens to hear!” When I heard this, I thought of the pastor who stepped down from my previous church last year and what his response would have been in that situation!

As Christians, I believe we need to be attuned to matters of social justice; however, we need to first be focused on the Gospel. If we’re not, we will inevitably water it down to the point where we may even hear this absurdity at the end of a prayer: “Amen and awoman.” This was spoken by Congressman Emanuel Cleaver at the close of an opening prayer for the new Congress in January of 2021. More than one pundit quipped that at restaurants, we may need to have a menu and a “womanu.” I would also quip that we should have a menu and a “womenu” to be grammatically consistent! Admittedly, this did not happen at a church, but Cleaver is an ordained minister.

On a more serious note, I love these words from Lutzer: “We must distinguish between accepting a person and approving of their conduct. Every human being is created in the image of God and deserves to be treated with dignity and respect, but not every human being deserves approval for their conduct and lifestyle. We can be welcoming even when we cannot be affirming.” Amen to that! As Ephesians 4:15 tells us, we need to be “speaking the truth in love” and to leave the results to the Lord. I think it is clear that God’s people want to hear His Word clearly spoken and explained; when church leaders do this, people will come–and stay–to hear it.

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What Do Woke Churches Look Like?

I’ve been reading a book called No Reason to Hide by Erwin Lutzer; it’s a call for Christians to stand firm in a world which is becoming increasingly hostile to Christianity. One of the chapters is about woke churches. Trying to define “woke” is not as easy as it might first appear, as definitions vary according to the source. Going back to the early 1960s, it meant conscious and aware, or well-informed and up-to-date. In 2017, it came to mean “alert to racial or social discrimination and injustice,” according to the Oxford dictionary. Previous to that, following the deaths of Trayvon Martin and Michael Brown in 2013 and 2014, the word “woke” came to be associated with the Black Lives Matter movement and before long the LGBTQ community as well.

Lutzer writes about a church that has an all-white staff but a very diverse congregation. Following the Charlottesville riot in 2017, the staff began to warn against Christian nationalism, which I think is wise. However, following the death of George Floyd in 2020, the leadership began to publicly pray for “Black Lives Matter,” but then also “Hispanic Lives Matter” and “Asian Lives Matter.” No mention was made that “White Lives Matter,” even when white people were murdered. As the riots continued over the next few years, the pastor bought into the nonsensical narrative that the demonstrations were “mostly peaceful.” You may be familiar with the instance of CNN national correspondent Omar Jimenez reporting from Kenosha, WI, in August 2020, standing in front of a raging fire with this graphic on the screen: “FIERY BUT MOSTLY PEACEFUL PROTESTS AFTER POLICE SHOOTING.” This was very widely mocked in much of the media, but perhaps the pastor had been misinformed. However, when a man who was part of the church brought it to his attention, the pastor called him “selfish.” Sermons in this church became focused on social justice, encouraging the congregation to become “involved in the fight for racial and economic equity.” This man further wrote, “No longer did we hear that Christ can redeem sin and evil. We were not asked to share the gospel with our lost neighbors. Rather, we were told that we whites were to be blamed for all the rage that was happening around us. The unity we once knew has given way to blaming some and excusing others.”

Thankfully, my city has been spared the rioting that has happened elsewhere over the past decade or so. However, some churches here have “gone woke.” One of them had been trending for a while in the direction of being supportive of people in the LGBTQ community. However, when I read their “social justice” statements about racism, gender equality, and LGBTQ+ (among others), I understood why about two-thirds of the congregation recently left and formed their own, more-conservative church.

Another church in my city is part of a denomination that has been “open and affirming” in welcoming and including people in the LGBTQ community. They have also taken perverse pride in having had the first openly lesbian pastor in that denomination. During the COVID lockdowns, they took it a step further, at least publicly, with a large mural of an LGBTQ rainbow flag on one side of their church; they also had a large Black Lives Matter sign on their property. You may think by this point that I am against Black Lives Matter; I am, but only in the sense of the very corrupt organization, which is finally under investigation by the DOJ for gross financial mismanagement and alleged embezzlement by some in its leadership. In addition, as I have written about in another post, Black Lives Matter has had as one of its goals to “disrupt the Western-prescribed nuclear family structure.” Perhaps most supporters of BLM have not known about this mismanagement and the aforementioned goal. Regardless, the truth is that all lives matter, not just black ones!

A third church that has been moving in the woke direction for many years is one that my family and I used to be a part of. The leadership used to preach about the sin of homosexuality about once a year; however, when a new pastor (now gone) took over several years ago, things began to change. I have a close friend who used to serve in the college ministry. One night, a student asked what the Bible says about homosexuality; my friend told her, focusing on Romans 1. Another leader overheard all of this and told my friend, “You hate gays.” This was in spite of the fact that my friend was responding to the student’s question! Regarding the new pastor: the only thing I heard him say about homosexuality, at least from the pulpit, was that the second half of Romans 1 was not even about that. While it is true that not all of verses 18-32 of that chapter are about homosexuality, verses 24-27 very clearly are, so his statement was very misleading, at best. My friend told me that he had talked to the pastor about this, saying we shouldn’t assume that young people today (like that college student) know what the Bible says about homosexuality; the pastor’s response was that if he preached about that sin, half the congregation would leave. Well, since then, even though he didn’t preach about it, more than half the congregation has left. I think a lot of the pastor’s reluctance had to do with the fact that there are some lesbians in the congregation; he also has a lesbian relative. Interestingly, I recently ran into another pastor who had been over the senior adults of that church; he very recently retired but said that he had been nudged out. He said that the church had “gone woke.”

Thankfully, there is new hope for my former church; the head pastor I wrote about in the previous paragraph stepped down last year, and they are in the process of “vetting” a new pastoral candidate. Based on his responses to a series of questions, including some specific ones related to human sexuality, I believe he can lead the church in the right direction.

At my church, there are three brothers who give our pastor a “break” by taking turns preaching on the last Sunday of the month. One of them recently preached on 1 Corinthians 5; in this chapter, the Apostle Paul sharply rebukes the Corinthians for being proud of a man in their midst who was sleeping with his stepmother! As an application of Paul’s teaching to contemporary American society, this brother wanted to preach about homosexuality, but he decided to talk to the pastor first. The pastor’s response to this brother’s intention was “Oh, good! That is especially important for our teens to hear!” When I heard this, I thought of the pastor who stepped down from my previous church last year and what his response would have been in that situation!

As Christians, I believe we need to be attuned to matters of social justice; however, we need to first be focused on the Gospel. If we’re not, we will inevitably water it down to the point where we may even hear this absurdity at the end of a prayer: “Amen and awoman.” This was spoken by Congressman Emanuel Cleaver at the close of an opening prayer for the new Congress in January of 2021. More than one pundit quipped that at restaurants, we may need to have a menu and a “womanu.” I would also quip that we should have a menu and a “womenu” to be grammatically consistent! Admittedly, this did not happen at a church, but Cleaver is an ordained minister.

On a more serious note, I love these words from Lutzer: “We must distinguish between accepting a person and approving of their conduct. Every human being is created in the image of God and deserves to be treated with dignity and respect, but not every human being deserves approval for their conduct and lifestyle. We can be welcoming even when we cannot be affirming.” Amen to that! As Ephesians 4:15 tells us, we need to be “speaking the truth in love” and to leave the results to the Lord. I think it is clear that God’s people want to hear His Word clearly spoken and explained; when church leaders do this, people will come–and stay–to hear it.

Rate this:

What Do Woke Churches Look Like?

I’ve been reading a book called No Reason to Hide by Erwin Lutzer; it’s a call for Christians to stand firm in a world which is becoming increasingly hostile to Christianity. One of the chapters is about woke churches. Trying to define “woke” is not as easy as it might first appear, as definitions vary according to the source. Going back to the early 1960s, it meant conscious and aware, or well-informed and up-to-date. In 2017, it came to mean “alert to racial or social discrimination and injustice,” according to the Oxford dictionary. Previous to that, following the deaths of Trayvon Martin and Michael Brown in 2013 and 2014, the word “woke” came to be associated with the Black Lives Matter movement and before long the LGBTQ community as well.

Lutzer writes about a church that has an all-white staff but a very diverse congregation. Following the Charlottesville riot in 2017, the staff began to warn against Christian nationalism, which I think is wise. However, following the death of George Floyd in 2020, the leadership began to publicly pray for “Black Lives Matter,” but then also “Hispanic Lives Matter” and “Asian Lives Matter.” No mention was made that “White Lives Matter,” even when white people were murdered. As the riots continued over the next few years, the pastor bought into the nonsensical narrative that the demonstrations were “mostly peaceful.” You may be familiar with the instance of CNN national correspondent Omar Jimenez reporting from Kenosha, WI, in August 2020, standing in front of a raging fire with this graphic on the screen: “FIERY BUT MOSTLY PEACEFUL PROTESTS AFTER POLICE SHOOTING.” This was very widely mocked in much of the media, but perhaps the pastor had been misinformed. However, when a man who was part of the church brought it to his attention, the pastor called him “selfish.” Sermons in this church became focused on social justice, encouraging the congregation to become “involved in the fight for racial and economic equity.” This man further wrote, “No longer did we hear that Christ can redeem sin and evil. We were not asked to share the gospel with our lost neighbors. Rather, we were told that we whites were to be blamed for all the rage that was happening around us. The unity we once knew has given way to blaming some and excusing others.”

Thankfully, my city has been spared the rioting that has happened elsewhere over the past decade or so. However, some churches here have “gone woke.” One of them had been trending for a while in the direction of being supportive of people in the LGBTQ community. However, when I read their “social justice” statements about racism, gender equality, and LGBTQ+ (among others), I understood why about two-thirds of the congregation recently left and formed their own, more-conservative church.

Another church in my city is part of a denomination that has been “open and affirming” in welcoming and including people in the LGBTQ community. They have also taken perverse pride in having had the first openly lesbian pastor in that denomination. During the COVID lockdowns, they took it a step further, at least publicly, with a large mural of an LGBTQ rainbow flag on one side of their church; they also had a large Black Lives Matter sign on their property. You may think by this point that I am against Black Lives Matter; I am, but only in the sense of the very corrupt organization, which is finally under investigation by the DOJ for gross financial mismanagement and alleged embezzlement by some in its leadership. In addition, as I have written about in another post, Black Lives Matter has had as one of its goals to “disrupt the Western-prescribed nuclear family structure.” Perhaps most supporters of BLM have not known about this mismanagement and the aforementioned goal. Regardless, the truth is that all lives matter, not just black ones!

A third church that has been moving in the woke direction for many years is one that my family and I used to be a part of. The leadership used to preach about the sin of homosexuality about once a year; however, when a new pastor (now gone) took over several years ago, things began to change. I have a close friend who used to serve in the college ministry. One night, a student asked what the Bible says about homosexuality; my friend told her, focusing on Romans 1. Another leader overheard all of this and told my friend, “You hate gays.” This was in spite of the fact that my friend was responding to the student’s question! Regarding the new pastor: the only thing I heard him say about homosexuality, at least from the pulpit, was that the second half of Romans 1 was not even about that. While it is true that not all of verses 18-32 of that chapter are about homosexuality, verses 24-27 very clearly are, so his statement was very misleading, at best. My friend told me that he had talked to the pastor about this, saying we shouldn’t assume that young people today (like that college student) know what the Bible says about homosexuality; the pastor’s response was that if he preached about that sin, half the congregation would leave. Well, since then, even though he didn’t preach about it, more than half the congregation has left. I think a lot of the pastor’s reluctance had to do with the fact that there are some lesbians in the congregation; he also has a lesbian relative. Interestingly, I recently ran into another pastor who had been over the senior adults of that church; he very recently retired but said that he had been nudged out. He said that the church had “gone woke.”

Thankfully, there is new hope for my former church; the head pastor I wrote about in the previous paragraph stepped down last year, and they are in the process of “vetting” a new pastoral candidate. Based on his responses to a series of questions, including some specific ones related to human sexuality, I believe he can lead the church in the right direction.

At my church, there are three brothers who give our pastor a “break” by taking turns preaching on the last Sunday of the month. One of them recently preached on 1 Corinthians 5; in this chapter, the Apostle Paul sharply rebukes the Corinthians for being proud of a man in their midst who was sleeping with his stepmother! As an application of Paul’s teaching to contemporary American society, this brother wanted to preach about homosexuality, but he decided to talk to the pastor first. The pastor’s response to this brother’s intention was “Oh, good! That is especially important for our teens to hear!” When I heard this, I thought of the pastor who stepped down from my previous church last year and what his response would have been in that situation!

As Christians, I believe we need to be attuned to matters of social justice; however, we need to first be focused on the Gospel. If we’re not, we will inevitably water it down to the point where we may even hear this absurdity at the end of a prayer: “Amen and awoman.” This was spoken by Congressman Emanuel Cleaver at the close of an opening prayer for the new Congress in January of 2021. More than one pundit quipped that at restaurants, we may need to have a menu and a “womanu.” I would also quip that we should have a menu and a “womenu” to be grammatically consistent! Admittedly, this did not happen at a church, but Cleaver is an ordained minister.

On a more serious note, I love these words from Lutzer: “We must distinguish between accepting a person and approving of their conduct. Every human being is created in the image of God and deserves to be treated with dignity and respect, but not every human being deserves approval for their conduct and lifestyle. We can be welcoming even when we cannot be affirming.” Amen to that! As Ephesians 4:15 tells us, we need to be “speaking the truth in love” and to leave the results to the Lord. I think it is clear that God’s people want to hear His Word clearly spoken and explained; when church leaders do this, people will come–and stay–to hear it.

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https://www.europesays.com/africa/225030/ South Africa President Cyril Ramaphosa faces calls to resign over ‘Farmgate’ court ruling #Africa #CivilConflict #Crime #demonstrations #LawEnforcement #riots

Iran-US war latest: Trump says war will be ‘over quickly’ as Israel hits Beirut for first time since ceasefire

Israel says it is investigating photo of soldier holding up cigarette to Virgin Mary statue A picture of…
#NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #America #CivilConflict #Demonstrations #riots #SocialMedia #TopPicture #UnitedStatesofAmerica
https://www.newsbeep.com/us/628297/

Iran-US war latest: Trump says war will be ‘over quickly’ as Israel hits Beirut for first time since ceasefire

Israel says it is investigating photo of soldier holding up cigarette to Virgin Mary statue A picture of…
#NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #America #CivilConflict #Demonstrations #riots #SocialMedia #TopPicture #UnitedStatesofAmerica
https://www.newsbeep.com/us/628297/

“Israeli Paper Admits That The Mossad Astroturfed The January Riots In Iran”

by The Dissident on Substack

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“The Israeli paper Ynet put the final nail in the coffin of the CIA/Mossad narrative in Iran, admitting that the Israeli Mossad laid the groundwork for the violent riots that preceded the Israeli/American war, and which were presented in the mainstream media as organic peaceful protests”

https://open.substack.com/pub/the307/p/israeli-paper-admits-that-the-mossad

#Press #SocialMedia #Iran #War #Trump #Israel #OperationEpsteinFury #OperationEpicMistake #RegimeChange #WarCrimes #CrimesAgainstHumanity #Hormuz #Empire #Collapse #US #Mossad #CIA #Astroturf #Riots

Live updates as UK raises terror threat to severe after Golders Green stabbing

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#UnitedKingdom #UK #Europe #EU #CivilConflict #demonstrations #GreatBritain #riots
https://www.europesays.com/2957303/

Alexandria do like a good riot

https://piefed.social/c/historymemes/p/2022462/alexandria-do-like-a-good-riot

Alexandria do like a good riot

https://piefed.social/c/roughromanmemes/p/2022461/alexandria-do-like-a-good-riot

https://www.europesays.com/videos/16802/ Mother-of-five apologises for her role in the Middlesbrough riots in 2024 | ITV News Tyne Tees #2024 #A1 #baby #BishopAuckland #CountyDurham #crash #DurhamUniversity #funeral #GreenParty #itv #ItvNews #ITVNewsInFull #LocalElections #Middlesbrough #planets #riots #skeleton #Southport #space #StaceyVint #teesside #ZackPolanski

SPORTS RIOT SPORTS RIOT

https://piefed.social/c/historymemes/p/1995946/sports-riot-sports-riot

SPORTS RIOT SPORTS RIOT

https://piefed.social/c/historymemes/p/1995946/sports-riot-sports-riot

SPORTS RIOT SPORTS RIOT

https://piefed.social/c/historymemes/p/1995946/sports-riot-sports-riot

SPORTS RIOT SPORTS RIOT

https://piefed.social/c/historymemes/p/1995946/sports-riot-sports-riot

SPORTS RIOT SPORTS RIOT

https://piefed.social/c/historymemes/p/1995946/sports-riot-sports-riot

Palestinian killed in West Bank as violence surges during Iran war

TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — A Palestinian man was killed on Saturday, according t…
#NewsBeep #News #Headlines #2024-2025MideastWars #2024-2026Mideastwars #AliMajedHamadneh #BenjaminNetanyahu #BezalelSmotrich #Evacuations #FathiHamdan #Generalnews #Iran #iranwar #Israel #Israelgovernment #MIDEASTWARS #Militaryanddefense #Palestinianterritoriesgovernment #Riots #Warandunrest #WestBank #World #Worldnews
https://www.newsbeep.com/480068/

On The Guilt And Duty Of The Average Person

It’s important to find a balance between activism and having realistic expectations.

Even if we threw ourselves into The Cause(tm) 100%, there’s no guarantee of change. For many people, that’s disheartening. If they sold all their worldly possessions, worked 16 hours a day 7 days a week in the most radical ways they could imagine, the world still might not change because of them. But I prefer the mirror view - you don’t have to be a martyr and an ascetic to support revolution. Every revolution in history was made possible by a much larger cadre than just the key figures and (now nameless) instigators.

Don’t ever give up an opportunity for low-risk high-reward activism, nor for activity which can make a large difference but consumes very little of your limited resources. Yet also understand that the world isn’t your’s to fix. Focus on playing your part.

Vote, especially if you have mail-in voting. That’s dirt-cheap cost in time and energy. Harm reduction is… as we’re seeing today, worth literal millions of lives. Protest? Certainly, whenever the opportunity arises. One more voice in the crowd is one more voice it’s harder to drown out. Activism? Absolutely. Donating your time multiplies the efforts of everyone else. Throw a brick in your local riot? Fuck yeah. A riot is the language of the unheard, and if the powers that be won’t listen, a few bricks can make them nervous and wake them up for ’negotiations’. Talk about a strike with your union? Golden fuckin’ language. Few things are as strong as workers’ solidarity.

… but at the same time, understand that the burden is not wholly on you. If you missed a midterm election or made a bad choice in a presidential election, you don’t have to crucify yourself forever for it. If you know that voter suppression is going to be fucking gruesome at your polling place and you have a family to take care of, make the risk calculation for the specific election you’re in, and act according to your best judgement.

If you’re two payments late on rent and your boss has threatened you with dismissal if you miss another day, one more voice in the protest is generally not going to be the difference between life and death for The Revolution(tm). If you’re juggling multiple jobs or just barely staying away from putting a gun in your mouth and pulling the trigger as-is, the nice local party organizer who says you’d make a great part-time member of the team will understand if you can’t help at this juncture of your life.

If you’re out of jail on parole and know that getting caught means you’ll be behind bars for a disproportionately long time compared to your contribution, you don’t have to be one of the rioters. If the worst should come to pass and literal Pinkertons start fucking knocking on your door and plausibly threatening your spouse and kids for your strike, picking the lives of your loved ones over ideology is not something that reasonable people will condemn you, personally, for.

(Conversely, if you skip a vote because you really wanted ice cream; or a protest because a new game came out that day; or refuse an activist role you’re suited for because it might cut into your masturbation time; or condemn a riot because ‘violence bad 🥺’; or refuse a strike because it might interfere with your yearly productivity bonus… fucking take a step back and consider what a small cost it is to be a tolerably moral human fucking being)

Above all, it is not your burden on a personal, private level. You have a moral duty to do what you reasonably can, but it is not morally necessary for everyone to demand demand miracles or martyrdom of themselves. We are not fascists; everyone is not educated to be a hero. Miracleworkers and martyrs are needed, make no mistake. But to pursue that specific path is something one must decide for themselves. And often neither are actually given the choice - it just happens.

You don’t have to even be the first brick thrown or the name on the plaque when they put up a statue to the original strike’s proposers, though if you see the opportunity, it would be really swell. But be ready and proactive in doing your part.

On The Guilt And Duty Of The Average Person

It’s important to find a balance between activism and having realistic expectations.

Even if we threw ourselves into The Cause(tm) 100%, there’s no guarantee of change. For many people, that’s disheartening. If they sold all their worldly possessions, worked 16 hours a day 7 days a week in the most radical ways they could imagine, the world still might not change because of them. But I prefer the mirror view - you don’t have to be a martyr and an ascetic to support revolution. Every revolution in history was made possible by a much larger cadre than just the key figures and (now nameless) instigators.

Don’t ever give up an opportunity for low-risk high-reward activism, nor for activity which can make a large difference but consumes very little of your limited resources. Yet also understand that the world isn’t your’s to fix. Focus on playing your part.

Vote, especially if you have mail-in voting. That’s dirt-cheap cost in time and energy. Harm reduction is… as we’re seeing today, worth literal millions of lives. Protest? Certainly, whenever the opportunity arises. One more voice in the crowd is one more voice it’s harder to drown out. Activism? Absolutely. Donating your time multiplies the efforts of everyone else. Throw a brick in your local riot? Fuck yeah. A riot is the language of the unheard, and if the powers that be won’t listen, a few bricks can make them nervous and wake them up for ’negotiations’. Talk about a strike with your union? Golden fuckin’ language. Few things are as strong as workers’ solidarity.

… but at the same time, understand that the burden is not wholly on you. If you missed a midterm election or made a bad choice in a presidential election, you don’t have to crucify yourself forever for it. If you know that voter suppression is going to be fucking gruesome at your polling place and you have a family to take care of, make the risk calculation for the specific election you’re in, and act according to your best judgement.

If you’re two payments late on rent and your boss has threatened you with dismissal if you miss another day, one more voice in the protest is generally not going to be the difference between life and death for The Revolution(tm). If you’re juggling multiple jobs or just barely staying away from putting a gun in your mouth and pulling the trigger as-is, the nice local party organizer who says you’d make a great part-time member of the team will understand if you can’t help at this juncture of your life.

If you’re out of jail on parole and know that getting caught means you’ll be behind bars for a disproportionately long time compared to your contribution, you don’t have to be one of the rioters. If the worst should come to pass and literal Pinkertons start fucking knocking on your door and plausibly threatening your spouse and kids for your strike, picking the lives of your loved ones over ideology is not something that reasonable people will condemn you, personally, for.

(Conversely, if you skip a vote because you really wanted ice cream; or a protest because a new game came out that day; or refuse an activist role you’re suited for because it might cut into your masturbation time; or condemn a riot because ‘violence bad 🥺’; or refuse a strike because it might interfere with your yearly productivity bonus… fucking take a step back and consider what a small cost it is to be a tolerably moral human fucking being)

Above all, it is not your burden on a personal, private level. You have a moral duty to do what you reasonably can, but it is not morally necessary for everyone to demand demand miracles or martyrdom of themselves. We are not fascists; everyone is not educated to be a hero. Miracleworkers and martyrs are needed, make no mistake. But to pursue that specific path is something one must decide for themselves. And often neither are actually given the choice - it just happens.

You don’t have to even be the first brick thrown or the name on the plaque when they put up a statue to the original strike’s proposers, though if you see the opportunity, it would be really swell. But be ready and proactive in doing your part.

On The Guilt And Duty Of The Average Person

It’s important to find a balance between activism and having realistic expectations.

Even if we threw ourselves into The Cause(tm) 100%, there’s no guarantee of change. For many people, that’s disheartening. If they sold all their worldly possessions, worked 16 hours a day 7 days a week in the most radical ways they could imagine, the world still might not change because of them. But I prefer the mirror view - you don’t have to be a martyr and an ascetic to support revolution. Every revolution in history was made possible by a much larger cadre than just the key figures and (now nameless) instigators.

Don’t ever give up an opportunity for low-risk high-reward activism, nor for activity which can make a large difference but consumes very little of your limited resources. Yet also understand that the world isn’t your’s to fix. Focus on playing your part.

Vote, especially if you have mail-in voting. That’s dirt-cheap cost in time and energy. Harm reduction is… as we’re seeing today, worth literal millions of lives. Protest? Certainly, whenever the opportunity arises. One more voice in the crowd is one more voice it’s harder to drown out. Activism? Absolutely. Donating your time multiplies the efforts of everyone else. Throw a brick in your local riot? Fuck yeah. A riot is the language of the unheard, and if the powers that be won’t listen, a few bricks can make them nervous and wake them up for ’negotiations’. Talk about a strike with your union? Golden fuckin’ language. Few things are as strong as workers’ solidarity.

… but at the same time, understand that the burden is not wholly on you. If you missed a midterm election or made a bad choice in a presidential election, you don’t have to crucify yourself forever for it. If you know that voter suppression is going to be fucking gruesome at your polling place and you have a family to take care of, make the risk calculation for the specific election you’re in, and act according to your best judgement.

If you’re two payments late on rent and your boss has threatened you with dismissal if you miss another day, one more voice in the protest is generally not going to be the difference between life and death for The Revolution(tm). If you’re juggling multiple jobs or just barely staying away from putting a gun in your mouth and pulling the trigger as-is, the nice local party organizer who says you’d make a great part-time member of the team will understand if you can’t help at this juncture of your life.

If you’re out of jail on parole and know that getting caught means you’ll be behind bars for a disproportionately long time compared to your contribution, you don’t have to be one of the rioters. If the worst should come to pass and literal Pinkertons start fucking knocking on your door and plausibly threatening your spouse and kids for your strike, picking the lives of your loved ones over ideology is not something that reasonable people will condemn you, personally, for.

(Conversely, if you skip a vote because you really wanted ice cream; or a protest because a new game came out that day; or refuse an activist role you’re suited for because it might cut into your masturbation time; or condemn a riot because ‘violence bad 🥺’; or refuse a strike because it might interfere with your yearly productivity bonus… fucking take a step back and consider what a small cost it is to be a tolerably moral human fucking being)

Above all, it is not your burden on a personal, private level. You have a moral duty to do what you reasonably can, but it is not morally necessary for everyone to demand demand miracles or martyrdom of themselves. We are not fascists; everyone is not educated to be a hero. Miracleworkers and martyrs are needed, make no mistake. But to pursue that specific path is something one must decide for themselves. And often neither are actually given the choice - it just happens.

You don’t have to even be the first brick thrown or the name on the plaque when they put up a statue to the original strike’s proposers, though if you see the opportunity, it would be really swell. But be ready and proactive in doing your part.

Sir Ian McKellen quoting Shakespeare. Words for the modern day on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXq58BbhCO4

Sir Thomas More is a play written circa 1592 in collaboration between Henry Chettle, Anthony Munday, William Shakespeare, and others. It is about the riots against an influx of immigrants in 1517.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_More
#speech #literature #strangers #riots #aliens #EthnoNationalism #hate #violence #zeitgeist

#Trump #DonaldTrump #politics #UnitedStates #USA #Minneapolis #AlexPretti #America #Insurrection #American #Protests #Nazi #USpol #MinneapolisProtests #January6 #Jan6 #Riots #CapitolBuilding #Capitol #News #Shooting #ICE #President #Maga #Republican #Dictatorship #RenéeNicoleGood And if he invokes the insurrection act in Minneapolis, people should start protesting in other cities, and keep on protesting until Trump’s fascist administration falls.

https://news.sky.com/story/minneapolis-latest-trump-immigration-protests-ice-alex-pretti-obama-insurrection-act-13498447

Situation in Iran is deteriorating rapidly

The hardline fraction of #IRGC is using the extreme violence by the rioters during the 5 days of #riots to take over and crush the reformist groups inside the country as well as any voices of resistance against the regime

It is like a rapid repeat of that 1981 coup by Khomeinin/Behesti against the first president of #IRI, Bani Sadr that led to a bloody civil war & over 100k deaths.

It is a depressing moment to witness another disaster erupt in #Iran.

#Trump #DonaldTrump #Iran #Protest #IranProtest #Protests #America #USA #UnitedStates #Oil #president #Iranian #Riots #antiGovernmentProtest #USPol #ReneeNicoleGood #Freedom #politics
Strange isn’t it? Trump’s willing to strike Iran in order to help rioting Iranian protestors, but defends the death of an American protestor shot dead in the street. Call me cynical, but I’m not sure philanthropy has a lot to do with it. Like Venezuela, Iran is oil rich and a regime change might work in his favour.

#Trump #DonaldTrump #Iran #Protest #IranProtest #Protests #America #USA #UnitedStates #Oil #president #Iranian #Riots #antiGovernmentProtest #USPol #ReneeNicoleGood #Freedom #politics
Strange isn’t it? Trump’s willing to strike Iran in order to help rioting Iranian protestors, but defends the death of an American protestor shot dead in the street. Call me cynical, but I’m not sure philanthropy has a lot to do with it. Like Venezuela, Iran is oil rich and a regime change might work in his favour.

#Trump #DonaldTrump #Iran #Protest #IranProtest #Protests #America #USA #UnitedStates #Oil #president #Iranian #Riots #antiGovernmentProtest #USPol #ReneeNicoleGood #Freedom #politics
Strange isn’t it? Trump’s willing to strike Iran in order to help rioting Iranian protestors, but defends the death of an American protestor shot dead in the street. Call me cynical, but I’m not sure philanthropy has a lot to do with it. Like Venezuela, Iran is oil rich and a regime change might work in his favour.

#Trump #DonaldTrump #Iran #Protest #IranProtest #Protests #America #USA #UnitedStates #Oil #president #Iranian #Riots #antiGovernmentProtest #USPol #ReneeNicoleGood #Freedom #politics
Strange isn’t it? Trump’s willing to strike Iran in order to help rioting Iranian protestors, but defends the death of an American protestor shot dead in the street. Call me cynical, but I’m not sure philanthropy has a lot to do with it. Like Venezuela, Iran is oil rich and a regime change might work in his favour.

#Trump #DonaldTrump #Iran #Protest #IranProtest #Protests #America #USA #UnitedStates #Oil #president #Iranian #Riots #antiGovernmentProtest #USPol #ReneeNicoleGood #Freedom #politics
Strange isn’t it? Trump’s willing to strike Iran in order to help rioting Iranian protestors, but defends the death of an American protestor shot dead in the street. Call me cynical, but I’m not sure philanthropy has a lot to do with it. Like Venezuela, Iran is oil rich and a regime change might work in his favour.

#jacobchansley #USPol #Politics #JacobAngeliChansley #QAnon #Shaman #QAnonShaman #Capitol #Capitolriots #Riots #Jan6 #Jan6th #Maga #Trump #USA #America #UnitedStates #TheUnitedStates #DonaldTrump #Republican
This is wrong on so many levels, but judging by the stupidity of people you’re probably looking at a future president…

https://news.sky.com/story/qanon-shaman-turns-against-donald-trump-and-says-he-will-run-for-arizona-governor-13491408

Colonel Ebrahimi, Commander of the Iranian Special Forces Unit (NUPO):

🔸 All cities where protesters caused chaos have been cleared by our personnel and forces;

🔸 Security for the people in the cities has been established.

🔸 The unrest that the Zionist regime intended to create has been successfully neutralized.

#Iran #Protests #Riots #RegimeChange #Politics #IRI #IranProtests

The ethnic cleansing unit

It's been 20 years since the Cronulla Riots. So what have we learned? >>
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10-26/20-years-on-from-the-cronulla-riots/105686104
#CronullaRiots #NSW #beaches #riots #EthnicCleansing #violence #conflict #xenophobia #SettlerSociety #monoculture #culture #FarRight #SpeechPractices #LTI #LinguaTertiiImperii

The ethnic cleansing unit

It's been 20 years since the Cronulla Riots. So what have we learned? >>
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10-26/20-years-on-from-the-cronulla-riots/105686104
#CronullaRiots #NSW #beaches #riots #EthnicCleansing #violence #conflict #xenophobia #SettlerSociety #monoculture #culture #FarRight #SpeechPractices #LTI #LinguaTertiiImperii

The ethnic cleansing unit

It's been 20 years since the Cronulla Riots. So what have we learned? >>
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10-26/20-years-on-from-the-cronulla-riots/105686104
#CronullaRiots #NSW #beaches #riots #EthnicCleansing #violence #conflict #xenophobia #SettlerSociety #monoculture #culture #FarRight #SpeechPractices #LTI #LinguaTertiiImperii

The ethnic cleansing unit

It's been 20 years since the Cronulla Riots. So what have we learned? >>
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10-26/20-years-on-from-the-cronulla-riots/105686104
#CronullaRiots #NSW #beaches #riots #EthnicCleansing #violence #conflict #xenophobia #SettlerSociety #monoculture #culture #FarRight #SpeechPractices #LTI #LinguaTertiiImperii

The ethnic cleansing unit

It's been 20 years since the Cronulla Riots. So what have we learned? >>
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10-26/20-years-on-from-the-cronulla-riots/105686104
#CronullaRiots #NSW #beaches #riots #EthnicCleansing #violence #conflict #xenophobia #SettlerSociety #monoculture #culture #FarRight #SpeechPractices #LTI #LinguaTertiiImperii

Stronsay’s Kelp Riots

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://theorkneynews.scot/2025/11/01/stronsays-kelp-riots/

"Ghost Town" is a song by the British #twotone band #theSpecials, released on 12 June 1981. The song spent three weeks at number one and 11 weeks in total in the top 40 of the #UKSinglesChart. Evoking themes of #urbanDecay, #deindustrialisation, #unemployment and #violence in #innerCities, the song is remembered for being a hit at the same time as #riots were occurring in British cities.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_V1yiR9YZec

https://www.fogolf.com/1069214/donald-trump-heads-to-the-ryder-cup-embraced-by-a-golf-world-that-once-shunned-him-2/ Donald Trump heads to the Ryder Cup, embraced by a golf world that once shunned him #125919162 #2021UnitedStatesCapitolRiot #article #Donald #DonaldTrump #DonaldTrumpGolf #DonaldTrumpGolfing #GeneralNews #Golf #Politics #Riots #RyderCup #sports #trump #TrumpGolf #TrumpGolfing #U.S.News #WorldNews

जामा मस्जिद दंगा मामले में 13 साल बाद फैसला, कोर्ट ने 16 आरोपियों को किया बरी।

https://aliyesha.com/sub/articles/news/display/nd_jama_masjid_riot_case_verdict

#newdelhi #delhi #india #news #press #JamaMasjidRiot #JamaMasjid #CriminalCase #LawAndOrder
#PublicSafety #IndiaLegalNews
#HumanRightsJustice #riots

Enjoy tracker free reading with us. #privacy #privacymatters

And there it is.

As documented on video, the counterprotesters were under harassment, assault, and pelting with eggs, fireworks, and other brickbats while on their way to the hotel *on foot*, and while protesting there, justifying removing them by vehicle.

https://www.essexlive.news/news/essex-news/nigel-farage-makes-apology-after-10372291

#misinformation #propaganda #politics #farRight #Farage #riots #Epping #Essex #UK

🇬🇧🧑‍💻⛽️🔥 Close to the anniversary of the Southport misinformation spread and riots episode, I wrote about attempts made over the past year, by people in the same ecosystem, to gaslight and conspiracise a "vindication vibe" out of their utter humiliation, and the need for an "information battle station".

📑 https://sohandsouza.substack.com/p/simmering-narratives-and-southport

#Southport #UK #riots #misinfo #disinfo #infoDisorder #conspiracism #factCheck #OSINT #SOCMINT #farRight #polarization

🇬🇧🗞🔥🧑‍🏫 The Media Innovation Studio's "Lessons from Southport" launch webinar, including my presentation on misinfo patterns fueling the riots, has been published.
▶️ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGyE2THmPWc&t=1763s

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Anti-immigrant riots in Northern Ireland expose rifts.

Riots broke out in Northern Ireland in mid-June following an alleged sexual assault by two Romanian-speaking youths – signalling xenophobia in an area already divided by religion and class.

Residents are searching for both reasons and answers.

https://mediafaro.org/article/20250701-anti-immigrant-riots-in-northern-ireland-expose-rifts?mf_channel=mastodon&action=forward

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Painting on paper, 20 x 30 cm: Ambiguous impulses for your mental cinema!
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🇬🇧🗞🔥🕵️ I wrote a guest post at Common Ground, about six character profiles involved in misinformation and manipulation patterns surrounding the UK Southport-spinoff summer riots of 2024, and ideas for systemic-level changes to help expose and foil their activity going forward.
📃 https://lexiekirkconnellkawana.substack.com/p/how-platform-design-amplified-misinformation

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THU JUN/19: 🇬🇧🗞🔥🧑‍🏫 Approaching the first anniversary of the misinformation-amplified Southport-spinoff UK riots, I'll be joining the Media Innovation Studio's report launch webinar event "Crisis, Trust & the Media: What We Learned from Southport" to present on my investigations of the misinformation spread, and on how such information disorder is facilitated and incentivised by tech design.
🔗 https://events.teams.microsoft.com/event/c7131c1d-629b-4a60-a612-5ee0fbcff088@ebf69982-036b-4cc4-b202-7aeb194c5065

#Southport #UK #riots #misinfo #infoDisorder #platforms #tech #media #socialMedia