Author of brand new book, Fully Beloved, on God's triune, life-giving love | Pastor | Former Visiting Scholar, Princeton Seminary | Speaker-Teacher-Writer

Joined April 2013
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“When you can’t see a way forward for yourself or for the world, what you need is a sense that something new can happen, and that another life is possible.” -Ploughstack & Alan Koppschall @koppsch_a @Plough @byronborger @iamfujimura @HaejinMako @EmbersInternat1 @NelsonBooks @pauljpastor @bethfelkerjones @malcolmguite
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CS Lewis: "A [person] really ought to say, ‘The Resurrection happened two thousand years ago’ in the same spirit in which he says, ‘I saw a crocus yesterday.’ Because we know what is coming behind the crocus. The spring comes slowly down this way; but the great thing is that the corner has been turned." I like that image--the corner has been turned. @HaejinMako @bethfelkerjones @NelsonBooks @byronborger @TheRabbitRoom
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The world did not have to be this beautiful, but it is, because God is beautiful and creation reflects Him!
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I'm excited about the book that my son, Abram Kielsmeier-Jones, cowrote: Building a Safer Church. See cover below. Release date: April 6, 2027. Help get the word out for this important work! Website for his center is spiritualsafetycenter.org/ @katybowser @KatelynBeaty @kategaston @flemingrut @bethfelkerjones
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I'm grateful for these encouraging words endorsing my book Fully Beloved from the inimitable and gifted Andi Ashworth and Charlie Peacock: "For decades, Timothy Jones has faithfully held out the invitation to know true love and goodness through Christ. His books have decorated our shelves and penetrated our thick, weary skin. He’s done it again with renewed insight on the subject of our most profound ache: Am I loved? Oh my, how we need the answer over and over! With Fully Beloved, Tim has given the Beloved Community just that. Like an artist, he paints beautiful stories that lead to transformative answers. This is truly literature of the loving kind." --Andi Ashworth & Charlie Peacock Co-authors of Why Everything That Doesn't Matter, Matters So Much: The Way of Love in a World of Hurt @NelsonBooks @ds_shepherd @DanielNayeri @mockingbirdmin
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I really enjoyed being on Kimberly Stuart's "For Real" podcast, with the episode released today! We had a conversations by turns deep and meaningful and tied to real life, as the podcast name suggests. I hope you listen! kimberlystuart.com/podcast @iamculturecare @iamfujimura @courtneyellis @pauljpastor @ds_shepherd @charliepeacock @TheRabbitRoom
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Verses very appropriate for Pentecost Sunday! And what an encouraging and grace-bathed poetic image (and visual image, as well!). @iamculturecare @MarianiPaul @pauljpastor @FrontPorchRepub
from Book 1, Stave V Over the head of every knight they saw a tongue of flame alight, and as they gazed around in awe it seemed that each the other saw more fair and comely than before, as though in Heaven’s light. #GalahadandtheGrail
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Reflecting on the kind and generous things people have said about my new book, I am grateful for these words from Sandra McCracken: “In Fully Beloved, Tim Jones hits the heart—naming the ache of loneliness and our lifelong quest for belonging. With honesty and relatability, he invites us to encounter the God of divine love, who draws us irresistibly into deeper healing and wholeness.” In writing it, I did indeed hope readers would find that invitation to encounter irresistible. Perhaps you will sense something encouraging there, too, in, as my subtitle says, Our Heartaches and Our Hopes. @Sandramccracken @scottsauls @iamfujimura
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Such a great line below, in its own right and its own birding context. But having just written a book-length exploration of the Trinity, I can't help letting my mind (and heart) go to that inexhaustible belief. So much to understand and lovingly contemplate that we haven't seen yet--now and beyond time! @MarianiPaul @pauljpastor @flemingrut @IAmJillPhillips
There are so many birds I haven’t seen yet that at this rate I will have to live forever.
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Fascinating defense of Twitter/x here--Paul Pastor replying to the venerable Joyce Carol Oates. What's your take on Twitter/X? I know that Fleming Rutledge left the platform, only to return. You reading this: If you are still on X, you have reasons. Is it still a viable and fruitful place? @flemingrut @pauljpastor @bethfelkerjones @BethMooreLPM @iamfujimura @iamculturecare
Replying to @JoyceCarolOates
Yes, this is my sentiment exactly and the reason it’s the only social media I find tolerable. Twitter is like a crusty dive bar where you may well get jumped before you stumble home among the throng of other idiots, but it is one million times better than, what? A Panera Bread?
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How does the reality of resurrection become daily, woven into the little moments? That’s the question I’ve been sitting with lately. I ask because I believe that what God did in raising Jesus from death doesn’t have to do just with an event back then, nor only with a promise for the eternal future, but also the challenges in front of me now. The eternal in the everyday. What might it mean to invite Christ’s victory over sin and death into what we face, into what the world faces? #Easter2026 #FullyBeloved @HaejinMako @BethMooreLPM @EkstasisMag
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The Three Lies, according to Henri Nouwen, about the core of our identity: 1. I am what I have. 2. I am what I do. 3. I am what others say/think of me. How have you found yourself following one of these wrong trails? What helps you find your way back?
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"As we turn to our devices and numb out, we lose the ache that once nudged us toward connection. This kind of isolation doesn't just leave us feeling empty—it also erodes our sense of mattering." -Jennifer Breheny Wallace @EkstasisMag @trinityforum @mockingbirdmin #mattering #FullyBeloved
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I’m excited about this piece I wrote for Bible Gateway: “The Word ‘Trinity’ Isn’t in the Bible … So Is It Really Biblical?” It's a simple survey ideal for personal reflection, Bible study, or small group discussion. Maybe you or someone you know would benefit from it? @iamculturecare @BethMooreLPM @bethfelkerjones @pauljpastor #Trinity #Christianity @JuliansShowings @NelsonBooks biblegateway.com/learn/topic…
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So excited to have been part of the break-out session line-up.
THE LATEST: WOW to the Deadness, indeed. Conference talks are now live on Talkingbird 🎧 (our podcast archive of past present talks). Listen here: buff.ly/akCDMFL
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Two lines I love from a Jess Ray song--lyrics apt for God, the Trinity, and the Gospel: “It may be too good to be understood But it’s not too good to be true.” (“Too Good”) @bethfelkerjones @JessRayMusic @NelsonBooks @1517 @trinityforum @pauljpastor
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I loved being at the @mockingbirdmin conference in NYC this past weekend. So much insight and energy and faithful grappling! And I got to present a breakout session, "More than a 'Like': When Grace Calls Us Beloved." There's more to life than social media "likes," I said (partly to myself)! @bethfelkerjones @EkstasisMag @iamfujimura @pauljpastor @NelsonBooks @laitylodge @GriffinGooch197 @shawnbyrne
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