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Christa Brown

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Author of BAPTISTLAND | Exposing the truth about systemic abuse & coverups in the Southern Baptist Convention | retired appellate attorney | #ThisistheSBC #SBCtoo | christabrown.substack.com

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Christa Brown @christabrown.bsky.social · Dec 29

Hello! If you want to learn more about me, here's a start: www.vice.com/en/article/t... Then check out my memoir BAPTISTLAND, illuminating how faith can be twisted for domination & control. Fits with the times, eh? It's also about resistance & resilience. #Baptistland www.amazon.com/Baptistland-...

Baptistland: A Memoir of Abuse, Betrayal, and Transformation

Baptistland: A Memoir of Abuse, Betrayal, and Transformation [Brown, Christa] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Baptistland: A Memoir of Abuse, Betrayal, and Transformation

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I hope everyone sees how completely horrific it is that they are conflating armed masked men assaulting a residential building in the middle of the night with a religious revival.

My white evangelical brothers & sisters, aren't you horrified yet?

Tina Smith @smith.senate.gov · 6h

Weird how that didn’t make the cut.

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Christa Brown @christabrown.bsky.social · 3d

"This is a nation of Constitutional law, not martial law." - U.S. District Judge Karin Immergut, a Trump appointee

Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 3d

MORE: Immergut issued a stark warning that the efforts by Trump to make a bad-faith justification to call up the guard risked plunging the country into a form of unconstitutional military rule.

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MummyUnit of Beach Therapy @mommyunit.bsky.social · 4d

What a read and connects to where we find ourselves today.

Christa Brown @christabrown.bsky.social · 4d

“The SBC mirrors Goya’s Saturn Devouring His Son, consuming the innocent under terror of losing power… This is the banality of evil in evangelical America: violence so normalized, so bureaucratically managed, so Christianized, that it no longer shocks... "
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The Southern Baptist Betrayal: From Sexual Abuse to White Christian Nationalism

Gems from the Rick Dale series

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Christa Brown @christabrown.bsky.social · 4d

The Southern Baptist Betrayal: From Sexual Abuse to White Christian Nationalism

Gems from the Rick Dale series

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Christa Brown @christabrown.bsky.social · 5d

"I have this song, Land of Hope & Dreams...That's how many people around the world still see our country. Not as a land of fear, not as a land of divisiveness, not of government censorship, not of hatred...That's an America that's worth fighting for." - Bruce Springsteen

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Felicity Hannah @felicityhannah.bsky.social · 5d

This article manages to name her husband before it names… her.

Article reads:
Woman named as Archbishop of Canterbury in historic first

The 63-year-old archbishop-designate is married to Eamonn Mullally, with whom she has two children. Originally from Woking in Surrey, she was the UK's chief nursing officer from 1999 to 2004.

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Christa Brown @christabrown.bsky.social · 6d

"Nowadays, Caesar is Christian. Very Christian. Intimidatingly Christian." - @matthewdtaylor.bsky.social

This is such a powerful speech. (It was delivered at a seminary, but I refuse to think of it as a "sermon.") Have a listen. Thx to @rickpidcock.bsky.social!
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Podcast Episode · Highest Power: Church + State · 09/29/2025 · 35m

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Christa Brown @christabrown.bsky.social · 6d

Inspired by Jane Goodall, in graduate school, I observed vervet monkeys with binoculars & kept data on their behaviors & kinship structures. At first the task seemed impossible - they all looked alike. But quickly, I saw their individual personalities.

Jane was right.
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Jane Goodall, famed primatologist and conservationist, dies at 91

Her research on chimpanzees changed the understanding of our closest relative.

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Christa Brown @christabrown.bsky.social · 7d

Jane Goodall was a hero to so many of us... and always an inspiration. RIP.

derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 7d

Jane Goodall was my first childhood hero, as I loved animals as a kid and was inspired by her story. I still remember the National Geographic specials about her. RIP.

Jane Goodall reaches out and touches a small monkey.

Christa Brown @christabrown.bsky.social · 7d

"MAGA is just plain weird. Most supporters are firmly ensconced in the world of white evangelicalism, which is famously alienating to most everyone outside it. That fact is a primary reason why their numbers keep declining despite decades of aggressive proselytizing." ⬇️

Amanda Marcotte @amandamarcotte.bsky.social · 7d

That's part of why I wrote this. It's important to understand that MAGA is not "real" America.

On the contrary, the reason they're all so fucking bitter is they know most people aren't like them. And they resent that.

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MAGA can't expand its base — and Christian music tells us why

The songs from Charlie Kirk's memorial exposed a serious problem

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 8d

Exhibit A at The Hague just dropped

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8d

Hegseth: "We unleash overwhelming and punishing violence on the enemy. We also don't fight with stupid rules of engagement. We untie the hands of our warfighters to intimidate, demoralize, hunt, and kill the enemies of our country. No more politically correct and overbearing rules of engagement."

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Christa Brown @christabrown.bsky.social · 8d

Feeling grateful today for top military leaders -- serious people who take seriously their oath to support and defend the Constitution of the United States.

Christa Brown @christabrown.bsky.social · 10d

"At the heart of evangelical faith is ecstatic worship of a king & adherence to the word of his earthly representatives. Obeisance & obedience are built into this structure... Authoritarianism harmonizes here like a choir carol." - @swordsjew.bsky.social

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Christa Brown @christabrown.bsky.social · 11d

Evangelicals represent only about 2.5% of the population of Europe. So, their influence is greatly less. And European evangelicals don't want to be identified with the type of evangelicalism that's in the U.S.

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Christa Brown @christabrown.bsky.social · 12d

Yay! Congratulations! Can't wait to read it!

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Brian Stelter @brianstelter.bsky.social · 14d

Nearly 7 million views for ABC's official YouTube video of Kimmel's 28-minute monologue overnight. It is already the most-viewed Kimmel clip of the year on YouTube. www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1tj...

Jimmy Kimmel is Back!

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Christa Brown @christabrown.bsky.social · 15d

For every #ChurchToo survivor who has felt the bludgeon of "forgiveness" theology, this book is for you.

In NOT SO SORRY, Kaya Oakes talks of how "forgiveness" is often tied to the preservation of power & of the need for more nuanced models.
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On Forgiveness... and on Freeing Ourselves to Not Forgive

Not So Sorry: the book that #ChurchToo survivors need

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Christa Brown @christabrown.bsky.social · 16d

"As Bondi makes her daily decisions about whether to abuse her powers to please Trump, she has to begin with one big political assessment: Will Trump ultimately retain the power to reward and punish her?" - @davidfrum.bsky.social

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Trump Might Be Losing His Race Against Time

The president is gambling that he can consolidate authority before the public turns too sharply against him.

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Christa Brown @christabrown.bsky.social · 17d

Study estimates that 3.1 million children under age 5 will die during Trump’s 2nd term because of his cuts in humanitarian aid.

That amounts to 88 children dying each hour.

This is the terrible toll of Trump's most lethal policy as @nickkristof.bsky.social explains.
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Opinion | Trump’s Most Lethal Policy

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 18d

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Robert Picardo @robertpicardo.bsky.social · 18d

Many Americans will miss comedy, now that it has been canceled along with free speech. Hopefully we can vote these freedoms back before too long! In the meantime, here's a goodbye laugh from ⁦‪@colbertlateshow‬⁩

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Christa Brown @christabrown.bsky.social · 19d

"Trump administration retreats on combating human trafficking and child exploitation."

It's way more than the stonewalling on the Epstein Files.
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Revealed: Trump administration retreats on combating human trafficking and child exploitation

Experts say decades of progress are under threat; Trump officials say administration remains committed to fighting trafficking and sex abuse

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Christa Brown @christabrown.bsky.social · 20d

"They used government power, and sometimes through legal mechanisms, to essentially roll up all the country's media into a friendly propaganda arm of the regime." - @chrislhayes.bsky.social

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‘Chilling’: Hayes reacts to Jimmy Kimmel suspension following Trump FCC threats

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Christa Brown @christabrown.bsky.social · 20d

“If there is any fixed star in our constitutional constellation, it is that no official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion or other matters of opinion, or force citizens to confess by word or act their faith therein.” - Justice Robert Jackson

David French @davidfrenchjag.bsky.social · 20d

We've never seen a comprehensive attack on free speech like this in our lifetimes.

The assassin's attack on Charlie Kirk was also an attack on free speech.

Thea administration's crackdown on speech is egregious.

And more people support political violence. It's all so bad.

Opinion | The Dangers of the Charlie Kirk Aftermath

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Christa Brown @christabrown.bsky.social · 20d

"Those folks who already lived the microcosm version [of Christian patriarchy] can clue us into how that can be nationalized." - @sarahstankorb.bsky.social

A conversation on how evangelicalism's theologies of hierarchy & submission are a harmful model for our nation.
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Patriarchy and Power: Sarah Stankorb on Doug Wilson’s Theology of Authority

YouTube video by Faithful Politics Podcast

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