My latest for The Christian Century. Church nerds let's talk 🤓📓

The Haley Joel/AI/ghosts setup SHEESH🔥🔥🔥🔥Kendrick is NOT playing and is not dumbing himself down to win this thing.

With the 42nd Annual Parker Lecture & Awards Ceremony just around the corner, we're looking back at some of our favorite remarks from the past 30+ years of this special event. Revisit Rev. Julian DeShazier's (Rev. Julian DeShazier | J.Kwest) stirring 2019 Parker Lecture here: buff.ly/3wCPXKG

"This is the faith life of many millennials. We might be in the church, but if we can find community at brunch, we might go there instead! We rock with Jesus, and we know Jesus wouldn’t rock with how the church acts sometimes."—Rev. Julian DeShazier | J.Kwest, theChristianCentury christiancentury.org/voices/religio…

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Reggie Jackson just kept it 1000 and kudos to FOX Sports: MLB for not censoring him. America needed that.

My daughters deserve a safer world, and this kind of boldness is gonna move us toward that. I appreciate this so much. It's gonna free some ppl. Keep going.

The whole "he's def winning now" after getting shot. I feel ya...please still vote, k?

The theory that history is nothing but the biographies of great men is not only false, it's dangerous. My latest for theChristianCentury -- christiancentury.org/voices/great-m…

This would be a unique opportunity for the Democrats to say "trust our system, don't worry about who's on top"...can us voters even think like that? Voting for a way of doing things, not a face 🤔

Congrats to Rev. Julian DeShazier | J.Kwest for winning the award of merit for short-form personal reflection at the 2023 AssociatedChurchPre§ awards. Here is his winning piece, an essay about a high school graduation ceremony inside a jail. christiancentury.org/voices/when-ri…

“We have to stop looking for greatness or trying to be that for others. We have to stop trying to be the next or the first.” – Rev. Julian DeShazier | J.Kwest christiancentury.org/voices/great-m…

“If we need for young people to act as adults, then we really haven’t done anything besides create a space for them to be more like us. And if they have to do all the work to get comfortable inside of our spaces, that’s not equity either.” – Rev. Julian DeShazier | J.Kwest christiancentury.org/voices/why-chu…

The lady just said "boarding integrity"...when did a Southwest flight become a case study for all that's wrong with humans right now???

“It is a broken institution, this empire, and as a Black man I have come to trust its brokenness almost like clockwork. So for me, placing even a sliver of my spirit into this realm is a fool’s game—or worse, idolatry.” – Rev. Julian DeShazier | J.Kwest christiancentury.org/voices/after-e…