Josh Dowton

@JDowton

Semper in excretia sumus, solum profundum variat.

Sydney
Joined October 2011
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  1. Retweeted
    18 hours ago

    Many who tweeted about my father today would have hated him 50 years ago. He was for the eradication of poverty and caring for poor people. No human was an alien to him because he believed this is a World House. And he asserted that inequality in healthcare is most inhumane.

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  2. 10 hours ago

    Necessary Rights & the Necessity of Laying Down Our Rights

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  3. 10 hours ago

    Necessary Rights & the Necessity of Laying Down Our Rights

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    18 hours ago

    When church history is being written fifty years from now, I don’t see how white American evangelicalism *as a movement* escapes being described as explicitly or tacitly racist. Readers will think, how did these Christians not know how wrong they were?

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    16 hours ago

    Martin Luther King Jr was a radical. If he were alive today, his words would threaten most of those who now sing his praises. My latest via :

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    Apr 2

    Every1 wants a strong woman until she actually stands up, flexes her muscles & projects her voice. Suddenly, she is too much. She has forgotten her place. You love these women as as ideas, fantasies. Not as breathing, human threatening to be even better.

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    Apr 2

    I missed that part in the Sermon on the Mount

    Matthew Guy: “end justifies the means” and “ will do it again” ie break agreement to pair votes on religious grounds.
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  8. Apr 3

    Winnie Madikizela-Mandela has died. Her legacy is, shall we say, complex. I suspect that life was even harsher on her than it was on her former husband.

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    Apr 1

    The death and resurrection of Jesus Christ is proof positive that love is stronger than hate, that life is stronger than death, that laughter, joy, compassion, gentleness, and truth, are so much stronger than their ghastly counterparts. — desmond tutu

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  11. Mar 31

    Χριστός ἀνέστη!

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  12. Mar 31

    Wouldn’t it be nice to have politicians held to the same standards at sportspeople

    “I want to apologise to all of you for the disaster that is the NBN. I’ve betrayed your trust, and I’m sorry. I take full responsibility for the shambles the NBN has become. Its my fault, and something that will be with me for the rest of my life.”
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    Mar 30

    Australia: home to Cricket Jesus and racist Nelson Mandela.

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  14. Mar 29

    τετέλεσται

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    Mar 26

    He was a facilitator of true peace (“not merely the absence of tension; it is the presence of justice”). He admonished “white moderates” for being “more devoted to order than to justice.” More pressed about order than about justice? That’s not . Justice yields peace.

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  16. Mar 26

    Brooke Prentis, delivering Morling College’s annual Tinsley Lecture — “Reclaiming Community: Mission, Church, and Aboriginal Wisdom”

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    Mar 21

    The ol’ freedom of speech defence they fought hard at with Bill Leak, Andrew Bolt, Prue McSween and all the other White people, sure goes out the window when it comes to Black people, doesn’t it?

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    Mar 21

    Today, celebrates the continuation of its mission as it announces the new CEO and Pastor of Wayside Chapel, Jon Owen, who will be taking over from Rev Graham Long on 1 July 2018. Read more

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  19. Mar 21

    One thing of which I’m sure: we haven’t heard the half of it yet.

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  20. Mar 21

    Serious question: are you honestly, genuinely shocked that your Facebook data is being used in the ways we’re beginning to hear about?

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