“Why do you boast, you tyrant, that you can do evil; Whereas the goodness of God endures all the day long?” Psalm 52.1-2

“The German churches learned too late…it is not enough to resist with confession, we must confess with resistance” — Rev. William Sloane Coffin

“After Golgotha [the first commandment] means standing before the choice between gospel and religious ideology disguising itself as Christian.” — Ernst Käsemann

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Where people, especially Christians…try to exercise a divine right [to rule] instead of simply believing in the coming of God’s kingdom and praying for it, there they are enslaved to a titanism whose only result can be all kinds of greater and smaller monstrosities. Karl Barth

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“Babylon” is the Bible’s way of naming empire and its systems of domination. The Bablyons of every age attempt to define what is real by force and violence. Which is why, in the Kingdom of Jesus, peacemaking is inseparable from truth-telling.

The former “disreality” thesis is pulled from Jered’s new book I am reviewing right now. Look at his feed to learn more, if interested.

We live in disreality, a state of existence at the intersection of colliding realities. This isn’t something we chart our way out of through fact alone. It means giving attention to the primal stories that color our world.

An algorithmic reality consigns all of us to the abyss of ignorance and violence.

This disreality zeitgeist—a collision of realities—is not sustainable. We aren’t just slinging facts back and forth; we’re feeling the force of corrupting primal stories that totalize and radicalize. harpercollins.com/products/reali…

Christ must be greater than our Christianity. Ernst Käsemann

We don’t build the kingdom of God. • we announce it. • we seek it. • we receive it. • we bear witness to it. • “we build for it” (N.T. Wright) God builds it.

The ideal subject of totalitarian rule isn’t the convinced Nazi or Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact & fiction (i.e., the reality of experience) and the distinction between true and false (i.e., the standards of thought) no longer exist. Hannah Arendt

One of the lessons I discuss in "On Tyranny": Listen for dangerous words.

Thus says the Lord: Do justice and righteousness, and deliver from the hand of the oppressor him who has been robbed. And do no wrong or violence to the alien, the fatherless, and the widow, nor shed innocent blood in this place. Jeremiah 22.3

There isn’t a single period in the history of American evangelicalism to right now where conspiracy theory isn’t doing some sort of theological and political work with devastating consequences Reality in Ruins, coming March 2026 harpercollins.com/products/reali…