Renewing America

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The Voice of Public Theology

Ted Peters

Shameless Republicans and spineless Democrats have abandoned America to the monster of fascism, a monster with an insatiable appetite for devouring what has long been precious to us: a national consensus on justice, fairness, dignity, equality, and kindness. The fascist monster is normalizing governmental corruption, cruelty to immigrants, retribution against critics, police intimidation, destruction of science, and callousness to human suffering while building a new prison system for yet-to-be-decided enemies of the state.

Protestors point jittery fingers at the monster and broadcast its dangers. Yet we know that merely slaying the monster alone would not in itself achieve what we yearn for, namely, a renewed America committed to the common good and to the flourishing of every person. This perilous moment calls for an alternative, a vision of a renewed America that opens the gate and paves the road toward the fulfillment of our most noble aspirations.

On the website, TedsTimelyTake, as well as this Patheos column, along with the Substack “Voice of Public Theology” column, I plan to offer both my own thoughts and those of persons whom I believe can provide the hammer and nails to construct the guiding vision of a renewed America.

Column Posts on Compassion Deficit Syndrome

Resentment vs Compassion. Part 1: From Resentment to Ressentiment

Resentment vs Compassion Part 2: From Ressentiment to Reparations

Resentment vs Compassion Part 3: Russian Christian Nationalism

Resentment vs Compassion Part 4: American Christian Nationalism

Resentment vs Compassion. Part 5:” Ressentiment in the White ‘n’ Woke Unhappy Consciousness

Resentment vs Compassion. Part 6: Ressentiment with Compassion

Resentment vs Compassion Part 7: Christian Nationalism’s Decline Narrative

Resentment vs Compassion Part 8: The Unhappy Consciousness Narrative

Resentment vs Compassion Part 9: To Slay the Christian Nationalist Dragon

Resentment vs Compassion Part 10: Don’t trust your pastor

Resentment vs Compassion Part 11: Christian Nationalism vs Anti-Christian Nationalism

Resentment vs Compassion Part 12:. A More Compassionate America? Trump Tyranny.

Resentment vs Compassion Part 13: Christian Nationalism versus the Vermin Curse

Resentment vs Compassion Part 14. Does Anti-White Christian Nationalism Scapegoat Evangelicals?

Resentment vs Compassion Part 15. Evangelicals Against Christian Nationalism

Column Posts on the Way the Winds are Blowing

Are the winds of America’s next war blowing?

OPA, “We Belong, Not to Ourselves, But to Christ”

Substack PT 3257. Ted Peters: We belong, not to ourselves, but to Christ 2

Substack PT 3258. Has the Rolling Coup D’etat begun?

Substack Pt 3259. Washington’s Coming Techno-Monarchy

Substack PT 3260. Plundering Social Security

Substack PT 3261. Wounded Child No Surviving Family

Substack PT 3262. DOGE Fires Holy Spirit

Substack PT 3263. Persecuting Christians in America?

Patheos PT 3264. Do Scapegoats Purify America?

Substack PT 3266 Stupidity Exceeded by Perfidy

Substack PT 3267. Hate and Lies about Hate

Substack PT 3268 Duane Larson: “We Belong, Not to Ourselves, But to Christ” 3

Substack PT 3269 Duane Larson: “We Belong, Not to Ourselves, But to Christ” 4

Substack PT 3270 Duane Larson: “We Belong, Not to Ourselves, But to Christ” 5

Substack PT 3271 Larry Ball: We Belong 6, Presbyterians Debate Christian Nationalism

Substack PT 3272 Brenda Denzler: We Belong 7, Response to Duane Larson

Substack PT 3273 Duane Larson, We belong 8, Response to Ball and Denzler

Substack PT 3274 Ted Peters: We belong 9: Lutherans Doing Public Theology

Substack PT 3275 Jennifer Hockenbery, “We Belong, Not to Ourselves, But to Christ” 10

Substack PT 3276 Fritz Lampe, We Belong 11: Christian Nationalism as a Cultural Phenomenon

Substack PT 3277 Fritz Lampe, We Belong 12: Contextual Frameworks of Christian Nationalism

Substack PT 3278 Fritz Lampe, We Belong 13: Christian Nationalism Unpacked

Substack PT 3279 Fritz Lampe, We Belong 14: Engaging Christian Nationalism

Substack PT 3280 Ted Peters, We Belong 15: Religious Liberty vs Christian Nationalism

Substack PT 3281 Paul Chung, We Belong 16: Justification and Justice

Patheos PT 3282 Corruption and Cruelty without Conscience

Substack PT 3283 Antisemitism and Scapegoat Confuzzlement

Substack PT 3285. Prophetic Preaching to America in Crisis

Substack PT 3286. White House Fascism and Moral Injury: If you feel badly, you’re not yet broken

Substack PT 3288. Tim Scott and America’s Moral Future: Let’s Make America Truly Moral Again (MATMA)

Professor Harlan Stelmach’s Collection of Resources

Read this! Harlan Stelmach: Harlan Stelmach, “An Open Letter of Solidarity and Concern”

Statements from Ecumenical Seminaries

President of Union Theological Seminary

Old Professors Association, “We Belong, Not to Ourselves, But to Christ”

Statements on Immigration

 The Ash Wednesday Ecumenical Declaration, Church World Service

Church of the Brethren sign “Ash Wednesday Ecumenical Declaration: Defending Refugé

Episcopal Church signs Church World Service ecumenical declaration in support of immigrants

Letter from Episcopal Church Leaders on Trump Administration immigration executive orders

Catholic bishops issue joint statement: Immigration is ‘a moral concern’ affecting dignity and human rights

Analysis of Trump Day 1 Executive Orders: Unconstitutional, Illegal and Cruel, National Immigration Law Center

Statement on Diversity

 Brite Divinity School

Statements on War

Declaration on the “Russian World (Russkii mir) Teaching on the Russian invasion of Ukraine

Statement on 3^rd anniversary of Russian invasion of Ukraine,  World Council of Churches

Statement on Gaza—American Studies Association Executive Committee

Episcopal Peace Fellowship condemns Trump proposal to take over the Gaza Strip

Statement on Antisemitism

 Jerusalem Declaration on Antisemitism

Statements on Economic Injustice

 Making the World Safe for Bribery, Christianity Today

The Peoples Union USA

Solidarity Statement: PSI Stands with US Unions Under Attack, Public Services International

Statements on Religious Freedom

 A Record of Bigotry and Hate: Donald Trump’s Long History of Anti-Muslim Animus, Muslim Advocates. 

Church Teaching on Religious Freedom, United States Conference of Catholic Bishops

Statements on Israel and Palestine

 Bishops’ statement on Israel and Palestine, Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts

Israel/Palestine Mission Network issues statement on the Stated Clerk’s MLK Day call

Statements on Individual Courage

 PC (USA) advocacy committee issues statement supporting Bishop Budde

Why I Signed the Jerusalem Declaration on Antisemitism, Barry Trachtenberg, The Rubin Presidential Chair of Jewish History at Wake Forest University

Statement from Evangelicals

A Call to Revival, Confession of Evangelical Conviction

Statement from the Academic Community

 Letter from the Executive Director of the American Academy of Religion

Renewing America Resources

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Meet Ted Peters. For Patheos, Ted Peters posts articles and notices in the field of Public Theology. He is a Lutheran pastor and emeritus professor at the Graduate Theological Union. His single volume systematic theology, God—The World’s Future, is now in the 3^rd edition. He has also authored God as Trinity plus Sin: Radical Evil in Soul and Society as well as Sin Boldly: Justifying Faith for Fragile and Broken Souls. In 2023 he published. The Voice of Public Theology, with ATF Press. This year he has published an edited volume, Promise and Peril of AI and IA: New Technology Meets Religion, Theology, and Ethics (ATF) and along with Arvin Gouw an edited collection, The CRISPR Revolution in Science, Religion, and Ethics (Bloomsbury 2025). See his website: TedsTimelyTake.com and Patheos blog site on Public Theology.

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