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Pastor Privilege Monthly: Geneva at U Iowa (opens the original)
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Once again, this is Pastor Privileged Monthly, where you get an insider’s end-of-the-month view of what it takes to be a Pentecostal pastor theologian.<img alt="" class="sizing
Pastoral VIBE-ology: September 2026 (opens the original)
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You smell that? I do. There’s football in the air, rising thicker than Canadian wildfire smoke. Grab a pig skin (chicharrón or an oblong “foot”ball—your choice) and dig in, because you’re gonna need it for the September 2026 Pastoral Theology VIBE ⚡️Welcome to another edition of Pastoral Vibe-ology, a seriously unserious sub-Substack. I, Joseph Lear, am your viber of vibes, here to help you vibe with the VIBE that’s taking the American church faster than the NCAA c
Bonnie Kristian’s In Defense of Evangelicalism, or “I’m Not Ashamed of the Gospel” (opens the original)
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“I am not ashamed of the evangel, for it is the power of God for salvation for all who believe” (Romans 1:16, my translation).From the Great Awakenings to Billy Graham to Donald Trump, Evangelicalism has been a mainstay of American public life. Today, the term elicits anxiety. It’s something out there, held at arm’s length even by those who by all metrics belong to the movement. Who even is a self-identifying evangelical anymore? I honestly don’t know, because I can’t recall the last time I met
The Obama ICE Problem, or Praying Like a Dog (opens the original)
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About a year into my pastorate in Iowa City, a desperate woman who heard that I had grown up in Burkina Faso and that I spoke French asked to meet with me at the church. She was originally from Congo, and figuring I would easily and compassionately understand her situation, came to me for help.She told me she had come to the United States on a temporary worker’s visa, and had subsequently been accepted into a PhD program at the University of Wisconsin (for which she was granted a student visa).
Live with Bonnie Kristian: In Defense of Evangelicalism (opens the original)
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Just finished up a live interview in which I joined to talk to ’s forthcoming book In Defense of Evangelicalism: A Response To Its Cultured Despisers.The book isn’t out yet, so be sure to pre-order your copy. <div class="
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