Joy EA Qualls, PhD

This whole thread is important.

Jennifer Lyell, SBC abuse survivor and former Lifeway executive, has died (RNS) — Lyell was once one of the highest-ranking women in the Southern Baptist Convention, but her life fell apart after she reported alleged abuse by a former SBC seminary professor.

BREAKING: Jennifer Lyell, a former Lifeway executive, author and publisher, died this week after a series of strokes. Her career was cut short after she accused her mentor, a former SBC leader, of abuse.

Opinion | America Is No Longer a Stable Country

It’s too early to declare a constitutional crisis, and debating the label we attach to any new event can distract us from focusing on the event itself. But each day brings us fresh evidence of a deeply troubling trend: America is no longer a stable country, and it is growing less stable by the day.

No matter where we land re women preaching, we have to stop repeating the lie that it started as a result of second-wave feminism.

The Elder and the Lady: A look at the language of 2 John - Marg Mowczko In this post I look at the words the author of 2 John uses to identify the people he is writing to, including the chosen, or elect, lady.

Two New Testament letters are addressed to two (individual) women.
I've written about one of these female recipients here:
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And the other here:
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“How happy is the one who does not walk in the advice of the wicked or stand in the pathway with sinners or sit in the company of mockers! ”
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White evangelicals continue to stand out in their support for Trump Most White evangelicals (72%) say they approve of how Trump is doing as president. Other religious groups are more divided or disapprove.

White evangelicals' approval of Trump's handling of presidency so far: 72 percent
Compared to overall white Christian approval: 51 percent
Black Protestants: 10 percent
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Secret Deals, Foreign Investments, Presidential Policy Changes: The Rise of Trump’s Crypto Firm World Liberty Financial has eviscerated the boundary between private enterprise and government policy in ways without precedent in modern American history.

President Trump is now not only a major crypto dealer; he is also the industry’s top policy maker.

Trump-family-owned World Liberty has erased centuries-old presidential norms, eviscerating the boundary between private enterprise and government policy

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/29/u...

‘Becoming the Pastor’s Wife: How Marriage Replaced Ordination as a Woman’s Path to Ministry’ In this excerpt, Beth Allison Barr follows a mother and daughter who both participated in ministry, but only one worked formally as a pastor.

In this excerpt from Faith & Leadership, @bethallisonbarr.bsky.social follows a mother and daughter who both participated in ministry, but only one worked formally as a pastor.

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No one revived the political fortunes of the Liberal Party in Canada more than one Donald J. Trump.

We were told for years that our great fear is government overreach to our deeply held beliefs. Well the enemy is at the gate taking the first shots. It is every thing we were told would happen but it is not who…But it is here. We cannot pretend.

Lori Vallow Daybell convicted in Arizona of conspiring to kill her estranged husband in 2019 An Arizona jury has found Lori Vallow Daybell guilty of conspiring to murder her estranged husband. That means the mother with doomsday religious beliefs faces another life sentence after she was already convicted in Idaho in the killings of her two youngest children and a romantic rival.

BREAKING: Arizona jury finds Lori Vallow Daybell guilty of conspiring to murder her estranged husband.

Okay, I can't get over this. The Department of Justice put a FAKE QUOTE from the Supreme Court in a response to discovery, like no one would notice?
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WSJ: The S&P 500’s performance since Inauguration Day is now the worst for any president up to this point in data going back to 1928, according to Bespoke Investment Group.

The White House is covering up its spending decisions We’re suing to force the executive branch to disclose how it’s spending taxpayer dollars

Transparency about how taxpayer money is spent has been a longstanding, bipartisan concern—and the WH is required by law to post relevant info about it on a public website. So, why is the admin refusing to follow the law? We sued to find out. www.ifyoucankeepit.org/p/the-white-...

This administration is filled with womanizing/cheating, sexual abusing, alcohol and drug abusers/addicts, and more. There should be no surprise that it is chaos, cruelty, and constant lies. They are unqualified to lead. Character is destiny. America will pay a heavy price for these choices.

He is risen!

Second, it is plain as day that the Supreme Court simply did not trust the Trump administration’s claims that it would not deport migrants over the weekend without due process. If the court did believe these representations, it would not have acted in such a rapid and dramatic fashion; it could have waited for the lower courts to sort through the matter, confident no one would face irreparable harm in the meantime. The majority’s decision to wade in straightaway points to a skepticism that the Justice Department was telling the truth. It’s damning, too, that the majority did not even wait for DOJ to file a brief with the court before acting. The only plausible explanation for the court’s order is that a majority feared the government would whisk away the migrants to El Salvador if it did not intervene immediately. That fear is well-grounded, since we now have substantial evidence that the government lied to a federal judge last month to thwart a court order stopping deportation flights.

The only plausible reason for the Supreme Court to rush out its order at 1 a.m. is that a majority of justices refused to trust the Trump administration's promise that it wouldn't secretly deport migrants without due process.

That alone marks a hugely consequential shift.
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When I was a Senate staffer I took an oath to protect and defend the Constitution. I am loyal to no political figure or party. My first allegiance is to Christ Jesus. That oath included so help me God. And so help me God, that is what I will continue to do. #NoKingsDay

Get Out by Good Friday, Feds Say to Afghan Christians The Department of Homeland Security has revoked immigration status of some Afghans who fled to the U.S.

“As an American, I would hope that the U.S. would be the last place that someone who’s fled religious persecution is afraid for their life.”

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Holy Tuesday.
#WomenofHolyWeek

FEMA will stop 100% cost-share in Helene recovery • NC Newsline "I am extremely disappointed and urge the President to reconsider FEMA’s bad decision, even for 90 days," Gov. Josh Stein said.

Trump, who (falsely) claimed during his election campaign that Biden wasn't doing ENOUGH to assist with NC's hurricane recovery....wait for it....just revoked Biden's Dec 2024 hurricane clean-up reimbursement agreement.

#ncpol

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What is “humanism” Alan Jacobs explains: The word “humanist” has several meanings, but they tend to fall within two broad camps. (There are other, more specialized, meanings, but we won’t deal with them here.) The fi…

"The second [definition] sees humanism as a project – moral, intellectual, artistic – to restore, improve, and perhaps even perfect the human species. To usher us into our true and noble inheritance." thewayofimprovement.blog/2025/04/15/w...

Will Christian Schools Speak Out for Their International Students? When the Biden administration issued a rule in 2021 prohibiting institutions of higher education from discriminating on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity in housing, some Christian sc...

While the Trump administration claims it’s taking actions to protect Christians, students at Christian schools are being targeted for deportation.

Today, I had two female students separately tell me that my course empowered them to find their theological voices, and that seems like a serious W to me.

If the U.S. government is going to take the position that, once removed from the United States, folks can’t be brought back, then it sure seems to me that federal courts should be reflexively and categorically barring *all* removals until they’re 100 percent certain that the removals are lawful.

Trump is also saying that the once the US has rounded up individuals, with minimal or zero due process, on whatever pretext they choose, they can send them out of the US to face torture, death, life imprisonment, slave labor or other fates that are unconstitutional or illegal in the US.

As many of you know, I don’t think limiting screen time and social media is a good enough strategy for helping kids. It can be part, but it’s not going to prevent your kids from exposure.

Today we went through a Charlie Kirk video frame by frame and discussed the following: