Officer on the Barthian-Anabaptist wing of the Salvation Army. Father of 3 wonderful home educated kids, 1 of whom is autistic. Husband. Bristol City fan.
Joined November 2010
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Feb 25
“My son has taught me to live less frantically – I don’t have to fill every moment with self-improving action. Relentless productivity, it turns out, is not a fruit of the Spirit.” @samjtomlin
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A quick article with some thoughts on Kierkegaard and Christian nationalism: thoughtsonhope.substack.com/…
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19 Dec 2025
Excited to see 'Kierkegaard, Statecraft & Political Theology' by @C_B_Barnett coming out in 2026. bloomsbury.com/uk/kierkegaar…
"By tracing the birth and development of the modern secular state, he argues that Søren Kierkegaard's repudiation of “politics” in the nineteenth century..
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19 Dec 2025
Western culture. Barnett places Kierkegaard's analysis in dialogue with authors such as Jacques Ellul, Eric Voeglin, René Girard, and Wendell Berry, to explore how politics in the modern state is not marked by liberation but by bureaucracy, propaganda, technocracy, and...
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19 Dec 2025
disenchantment. Kierkegaard's critiques of state power are startlingly relevant to contemporary debates in political theology."
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12 Dec 2025
How did Jesus react to the culture wars of his day? Some of my thoughts on this subject: thoughtsonhope.substack.com/…
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3 Dec 2025
V pleased to contribute to this book in honour of David Rightmire put together by @andymilleriii & Rob DeGeorge. My essay looks at Kierkegaard & Salvation Army understanding of communion. You can purchase a copy here: bit.ly/49T3n6t
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14 Nov 2025
'The lost gift of evangelism'
Some reflections of mine on a recent encounter here in Liverpool and a call for @salvationarmyuk to recover part of its heritage.
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Sam Tomlin retweeted
11 Oct 2025
"Gary and those like him, through their anger, reveal a politics that has abandoned them, economics that offer no hope, and a culture that makes them strangers in their own country. "
@DrJohnClifton examines the drivers of discontent, how anger, left unheard, hardens into wrath, and meditates on how Christ would respond.
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'The ordinary kind of Christianity is: a secularized life, avoiding major crimes more out of sagacity than for the sake of conscience, ingeniously seeking the pleasures of life - and then once in a while a so-called pious mood.' Kierkegaard
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'they tried to demonstrate the truth of Christianity with reasons or by advancing reasons in relation to Christianity. And these reasons fostered doubt and doubt became the stronger. The demonstration of Christianity really lies in imitation.' Kierkegaard
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16 Sep 2025
Has football become boring? Some reflections of mine on John Terry, Gary Neville, Jacques Ellul and the relentless search for efficiency for @seenunseenmag: seenandunseen.com/fed-todays…
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Sam Tomlin retweeted
2 Sep 2025
— Dostoevsky, The Possessed
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'Sorry @danny__kruger, a Christian nation is a bad idea'
Some ramblings of mine on recent narratives about nationhood, the church & identity for @seenunseenmag
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Sam Tomlin retweeted
25 Jul 2025
I'm not all that interested in future church trends or new growth techniques. For 2000 years, the most relevant church has always been the one gathering around a table, caring for the neighborhood, following the words and ways of Jesus.
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Sam Tomlin retweeted
22 Jul 2025
We used to highlight the Deir Yassin massacre which took place in the Nakba. Every day today in Gaza is another Deir Yassin, where hundreds are killed, even starved to death. The Palestinian Nakba is an ongoing event.
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Sam Tomlin retweeted
2 Jul 2025
For too many Pastors their emotional stability is married to the Church—when their church is growing, they feel successful, when their church is stagnet, they feel like a failure.
We must find ourselves hidden in Christ, not on the roller coaster of our competency.
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Sam Tomlin retweeted
1 Jul 2025
What Families with Autistic Children Know by @samjtomlin
For parents of neurodiverse children, church and school can be another hurdle.
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Sam Tomlin retweeted
1 Jul 2025
The world has forgotten about Gaza. There are daily massacres. Horrific images. People burnt alive. What more needs to be said and done to stop this genocide? There is a God. One day the justice of heaven will prevail. Lord have mercy!
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