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Daniel Silliman
@danielsilliman.bsky.social
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News editor at Christianity Today. Historian who wrote a religious bio of Richard Nixon. Raising chickens, bees, and cats in Appalachia.
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Daniel Silliman @danielsilliman.bsky.social · Apr 5
“Let the transient things be the ground on which my soul praises you, God creator of all.” —Augustine, *Confessions*
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Daniel Silliman @danielsilliman.bsky.social · 1d
Schaeffer does stick out, with his goatee and breeches lol
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Daniel Silliman @danielsilliman.bsky.social · 1d
From the archives, the evangelical "Mount Rushmore," per 1970s @christianitytoday.com
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Daniel Silliman @danielsilliman.bsky.social · 2d
The “church of the future” turns 50.

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As Willow Creek turns 50, the onetime 'church of the future' redefines success
(RNS) — In the mid-1970s, a group of high schoolers and their former youth pastor started a church in a movie theater and named it Willow Creek. American religion hasn’t been the same since. The churc...
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kate shellnutt @kateshellnutt.bsky.social · 3d
Great read: @danielsilliman.bsky.social goes from gas station memories to the nearby casino to examine how gambling has become a form of alternative spirituality for Americans.

"To me, at least, all this gambling sounds like wild, misdirected prayer."

www.christianitytoday.com/2025/09/gamb...
The Secret Prayers of Gamblers - Christianity Today
Locating the spiritual longing hiding in America’s obsession with betting.
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Harvest Prude @harvestprude.bsky.social · 9d
a remarkably thoughtful piece by my colleague @danielsilliman.bsky.social on the spirituality of (yes, really, folks!) gambling

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The Secret Prayers of Gamblers - Christianity Today
Locating the spiritual longing hiding in America’s obsession with betting.
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Daniel Silliman @danielsilliman.bsky.social · 9d
Classic cover from the @christianitytoday.com archives
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Daniel Silliman @danielsilliman.bsky.social · 11d
If you want to know more about how this impacted Nixon, I wrote a book about his troubled, tumultuous spiritual journey www.amazon.com/One-Lost-Sou...
One Lost Soul: Richard Nixon’s Search for Salvation (Library of Religious Biography (LRB))
Amazon.com: One Lost Soul: Richard Nixon’s Search for Salvation (Library of Religious Biography (LRB)): 9780802878199: Silliman, Daniel: Books
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Daniel Silliman @danielsilliman.bsky.social · 11d
Last year I looked at why Huffman was different than the other ministers around Nixon. You can read that (unlocked) here: www.christianitytoday.com/2024/07/rich...
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Daniel Silliman @danielsilliman.bsky.social · 11d
Huffman died last week at 85. I wrote about his life here: www.christianitytoday.com/2025/09/obit...
Died: John Huffman, Pastor Who Told Richard Nixon to Confess - Christianity Today
The Presbyterian minister and CT board member committed to serve the Lord and “let the chips fall where they may.”
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Daniel Silliman @danielsilliman.bsky.social · 11d
I first discovered John Huffman, the one minister around Nixon who told the president he should publicly confess to Watergate, in the digital archives of old newspapers.

Only later did I realize he was connected to @christianitytoday.com, was still alive, and I would one day write his obit.
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Daniel Silliman @danielsilliman.bsky.social · 13d
Today in the life of my Appalachian church, we remembered the hurricane that hit a year ago, prayed for a family whose daughter has died, for a family whose daughter is having emergency brain surgery, and for a minister who has returned home to a country at war.

Also, Scripture, singing, a potluck.
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Daniel Silliman @danielsilliman.bsky.social · 18d
Popular Trinitarian beliefs not adding up, per the latest Lifeway study.
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Daniel Silliman @danielsilliman.bsky.social · 19d
Story: anabaptistworld.org/mosaic-confe...
Mosaic Conference board recommends leaving Mennonite Church USA | Anabaptist World
A Mosaic release said the conference and MC USA “have been unable to reconcile significant differences around polity and intercultural practices.”
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Daniel Silliman @danielsilliman.bsky.social · 19d
A sixth conference is looking at leaving the Mennonite Church USA, the progressive anabaptist denomination that formed in 2002
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Daniel Silliman @danielsilliman.bsky.social · 19d
In a 2020 survey, 45 percent of US pastors said their security team included church members with firearms. www.christianitytoday.com/2020/01/half...
Half of US Churches Now Enlist Armed Security - Christianity Today
Survey: Evangelical, Pentecostal, and Baptist churches are most likely to have church volunteers carry guns.
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Daniel Silliman @danielsilliman.bsky.social · 19d
Florida considers a bill to allow church volunteers to serve as armed security. www.tallahassee.com/story/news/l...
Florida bill would allow armed volunteers to protect churches, synagogues, mosques
A Senate bill would provide an exemption from licensure requirements for certain volunteers who provide armed security for places of worship.
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Daniel Silliman @danielsilliman.bsky.social · 25d
From America's next poet laureate:
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Daniel Silliman @danielsilliman.bsky.social · 27d
“As far as you yourself are concerned, love.” — Augustine, sermon on 1 John
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Daniel Silliman @danielsilliman.bsky.social · 29d
www.christianitytoday.com/2025/09/lecr...
An Exhortation to the Exhausted Black Christian - Christianity Today
Many Black Christians left evangelicalism after 2020. I almost joined them—until God showed me justice in his Word.
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Daniel Silliman @danielsilliman.bsky.social · 29d
Lecrae's prayer for the church:
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Daniel Silliman @danielsilliman.bsky.social · 29d
Bible reading this morning like "tag yourself"
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Daniel Silliman @danielsilliman.bsky.social · Sep 11
How Charlie Kirk became Charlie Kirk: www.christianitytoday.com/2025/09/died...
Died: Charlie Kirk, Activist Who Championed ‘MAGA Doctrine’ - Christianity Today
With a confrontational style honed for college campuses and social media, the Turning Point USA founder sought to renew America.
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Daniel Silliman @danielsilliman.bsky.social · Sep 10
More here, from my bimonthly roundup of Christian news from around the world: www.christianitytoday.com/2025/09/papu...
Papua New Guinea Adds the Trinity to Its Constitution - Christianity Today
And other news from Christians around the world.
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Daniel Silliman @danielsilliman.bsky.social · Sep 10
The US Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that the average hourly wage for American clergy is $30.64.

For comparison, marriage and family therapists earn $33.04 and roofers earn $26.85.
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Daniel Silliman @danielsilliman.bsky.social · Sep 8
Fascinating look at the woman named as one of three recipients of Paul's letter to Philemon margmowczko.com/apphia/
Apphia: Philemon's Wife or Another Phoebe? - Marg Mowczko
Apphia, a woman, is greeted by Paul in his letter to Philemon. What was her role or position at Colossae? Was she Philemon's wife?
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