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Last updated on: December 17, 2025 at 11:37 am by Ted Peters
Redeeming America Resources 2025-12-17T11:37:11-08:00 Ted Peters
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The Voice of Public Theology
Ted Peters
Renewing America: Resources
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
Redeeming America
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)
Substack PT 3289. Redeeming America’s Compassion: Comparing compassion, cruelty, and callousness
Substack PT 3290 Redeeming America’s Freedom
Substack PT 3292 Redeeming America’s Dignity: Returning dignity to those who have temporarily lost it
Substack PT 3291 The Efficacy of Charlie Kirk’s Sacrifice: Forgiveness or Retribution?
Substack PT 3292 Money’s Universal Destination: Tariff-eyeing Soybean Exports
Substack PT 3293 Redeeming America’s Nonviolent Heart
Substack PT 3295 Redeeming America’s Dignity: Returning dignity to those who have temporarily lost it
Patheos PT 3296 The New Presidential Dollar?
Substack PT 3297 We belong to the Bible, not to Christian Nationalism:
Sharing the Good News With All People
Substack PT 4001 Redeeming America’s Future 1: Protest and Provolution
Substack PT 4002 Presidential Snuff Porn and Public Theology: Redeeming America’s Future 2Substack PT 4003. Are the winds of America’s next war blowing?
Substack PT 4004. Are the winds of America’s next war still blowing? Jingoism
Substack PT 4005. Is America being overrun by Sharia law? Can the Catechon restrain the Three Sons of Perdition?
Substack PT 4006. Does Heaven Bless the Authoritarian Ruler? America’s King at Prayer
Substack PT 4007 Redeeming America’s Justice ONE. The U.S. Department of Just-Us
Substack PT 4008 Redeeming America’s Justice TWO. The U.S. Department of Just-Us
Substack PT 4009 Redeeming America’s Justice THREE. The U.S. Department of Just-Us
Substack PT 4010. Redeeming America’s Humanitarian Care: Comparing compassion, cruelty, and callousness
Substack PT 4011 Might Stanley Hauerwas help redeem America? Redeeming America’s Future 3
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
Statement on Diversity
Statements on War
Declaration on the “Russian World (Russkii mir) Teaching on the Russian invasion of Ukraine
Statement on 3rd 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
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
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
Redeeming America
Redeeming 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 3rd 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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About Ted Peters
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 3rd 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. You can read more about the author here.
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