Andrew Thayer

A Lectionary Reflection for Third Sunday in Lent March 8, 2026: The Woman at the Well, Iran, and Armageddon There is an old saying for preachers, often attributed to the Swiss theologian Karl Barth, that to write a sermon one should have the Bible in one hand and the New York Times in the other.

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Please Don’t Give Up Chocolate for Lent First of all, HAPPY MARDI GRAS.

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Response to David Brooks Final NYT essay David Brooks’s farewell column reads like a diagnosis offered at the bedside of a country he still loves: America has lost faith—faith in institutions, in one another, in a shared moral order—and the ...

Thank you Mr. Brooks. Will miss your column.

Response to David Brooks Final NYT essay David Brooks’s farewell column reads like a diagnosis offered at the bedside of a country he still loves: America has lost faith—faith in institutions, in one another, in a shared moral order—and the ...

We have not stopped believing. We have learned to believe everywhere, but more thinly. The problem is not the disappearance of the sacred, but its fragmentation into smaller, rougher gods now circulating through politics and culture.

Thanksgiving: The Myth We Eat off the Floor

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Anybody know where the rapture on 23 Sept rumor started?

Rapture today? Hmmmmmm
The Rapture has a history although not really a biblical one. Read more : andrewthayer.substack.com

If heaven was the carrot, hell has always been the stick. Across centuries, preachers, poets, and pop culture have sketched it in lurid detail—The images are absurd, but they stick.
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“You can’t possibly support this argument—you’re a man of the cloth!” - the reaction in an adult ed class when I admitted how much I agreed with the New Atheists’ critiques of religion.

Essay series : THANK GOD I'M AN ATHEIST.
by The Rev. Dr. Andrew Thayer

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RESURRECTION, Part I
The latest: an answer to a 20 year-old question from deeply admired atheist provocateur Christopher Hitchens.
#Resurrection, #EasterHope, #TheologyMatters, #JesusAndJustice, #FaithAndDoubt, #FromDeathToLife
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Stealing it back! Helter Skelter, Phrenology, and Reclamation of the Good News.

New Substack Series: STEALING IT BACK!
What if the problem isn’t that people are walking away from God…but that what we call “faith” has been hijacked?
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#ReclaimingFaith #ChristianVocabulary #FaithAndJustice #TheologyMatters #SpiritualDeconstruction #SubstackWriters

The Wizard of Oz … a guy pulling levers behind a curtain?

To pull back the curtain on the ideas shaping how we think about law, justice, money... that's theology.
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#TheologyMatters #PublicTheology #RestorativeJustice #ChristianityAndCulture #FaithAndPolitics

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The Federalist said my Op-Ed in the New York Times made a "2000 year-old mistake" & that Donald Trump "displayed a better understanding of the resurrection." Read my reply tinyurl.com/PalmFed and consider subscribing/supporting #NewYorkTimes #Christianity #FaithAndPolitics #PublicTheology #Kingdom

If you liked the Palm Sunday Op-Ed in the New York Times…
…you’ll want to read the rest of the week.

#nytimes gave me one day to talk about Palm Sunday.

But #holyweek is a whole story.

Here is the whole week—#PalmSunday to #Easter.
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Pope Francis and The Trouble with Community After posting everyday for Holy Week I planned to rest today.

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Saturday of Holy Week Why did Jesus Die?

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Reflection for the Saturday of Holy Week.
HAPPY (Almost) EASTER EVERYONE!

Opinion | Palm Sunday Was a Protest, Not a Procession (Gift Article) Jesus’ procession was a parody of imperial power — a deliberate mockery of Roman spectacle and a prophetic enactment of a kingdom built not on violence but on justice.

Read my Holy Week Op-Ed in the NYT.