Amar D. Peterman
@amarpeterman.bsky.social
🇮🇳 | अमर
|| Author / "Becoming Neighbors"
|| PhD Student / University of Chicago
|| Thinking about a common good
|| Love thy neighbor, saints.
https://linktr.ee/amarpeterman
|| Author / "Becoming Neighbors"
|| PhD Student / University of Chicago
|| Thinking about a common good
|| Love thy neighbor, saints.
https://linktr.ee/amarpeterman
Reposted by Amar D. Peterman
“It would be far easier to remain aloof and simply read about our ‘neighbors’ in books and surveys or make assumptions about them based on their yard signs.”
– @amarpeterman.bsky.social
www.christiancentury.org/features/com...
– @amarpeterman.bsky.social
www.christiancentury.org/features/com...
The common good is something we practice face-to-face
The incarnation pulls my attention away from ideology and toward my...
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March 16, 2026 at 8:10 PM
“It would be far easier to remain aloof and simply read about our ‘neighbors’ in books and surveys or make assumptions about them based on their yard signs.”
– @amarpeterman.bsky.social
www.christiancentury.org/features/com...
– @amarpeterman.bsky.social
www.christiancentury.org/features/com...
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“How do I love my neighbor across the street whose house is adorned with MAGA signs? Does that differ from how I love my neighbor with a multicolored Pride flag?”
– @amarpeterman.bsky.social
www.christiancentury.org/features/com...
– @amarpeterman.bsky.social
www.christiancentury.org/features/com...
The common good is something we practice face-to-face
The incarnation pulls my attention away from ideology and toward my...
www.christiancentury.org
March 2, 2026 at 3:04 PM
“How do I love my neighbor across the street whose house is adorned with MAGA signs? Does that differ from how I love my neighbor with a multicolored Pride flag?”
– @amarpeterman.bsky.social
www.christiancentury.org/features/com...
– @amarpeterman.bsky.social
www.christiancentury.org/features/com...
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Episode 340 of Classical Ideas features my conversation with @amarpeterman.bsky.social! We discuss his brand new book "Becoming Neighbors: The Common Good Made Local" from @eerdmansbooks.bsky.social and his work with @sacredwrites.bsky.social!
Listen: linktr.ee/classicalideas
Listen: linktr.ee/classicalideas
January 22, 2026 at 3:56 PM
Episode 340 of Classical Ideas features my conversation with @amarpeterman.bsky.social! We discuss his brand new book "Becoming Neighbors: The Common Good Made Local" from @eerdmansbooks.bsky.social and his work with @sacredwrites.bsky.social!
Listen: linktr.ee/classicalideas
Listen: linktr.ee/classicalideas
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This first episode of the year, it made perfect sense to start with a conversation we had with @amarpeterman.bsky.social
about his new book, Becoming Neighbors: The Common Good Made Local—on faith, belonging, and practicing neighborliness locally.
Watch: youtu.be/Vhn_BJXbelg
about his new book, Becoming Neighbors: The Common Good Made Local—on faith, belonging, and practicing neighborliness locally.
Watch: youtu.be/Vhn_BJXbelg
Becoming Neighbors – The Common Good, Made Local with Amar Peterman
YouTube video by Faithful Politics Podcast
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January 6, 2026 at 1:15 PM
This first episode of the year, it made perfect sense to start with a conversation we had with @amarpeterman.bsky.social
about his new book, Becoming Neighbors: The Common Good Made Local—on faith, belonging, and practicing neighborliness locally.
Watch: youtu.be/Vhn_BJXbelg
about his new book, Becoming Neighbors: The Common Good Made Local—on faith, belonging, and practicing neighborliness locally.
Watch: youtu.be/Vhn_BJXbelg
For the Bluesky crowd: my favorite books read in 2025:
January 3, 2026 at 11:06 PM
For the Bluesky crowd: my favorite books read in 2025:
“An entire mythology is stored within our language.”
- Wittgenstein, Remarks on Frazer’s 'Golden Bough'
- Wittgenstein, Remarks on Frazer’s 'Golden Bough'
October 9, 2025 at 5:08 PM
“An entire mythology is stored within our language.”
- Wittgenstein, Remarks on Frazer’s 'Golden Bough'
- Wittgenstein, Remarks on Frazer’s 'Golden Bough'
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“@drrachelwagner.bsky.social names two foundational influences behind this cowboy messiah ideology: Christian apocalypticism and American frontier mythology.”
– @amarpeterman.bsky.social reviews Cowboy Apocalypse
www.christiancentury.org/books/self-a...
@nyupress.bsky.social
– @amarpeterman.bsky.social reviews Cowboy Apocalypse
www.christiancentury.org/books/self-a...
@nyupress.bsky.social
The self-appointed cowboy messiah
Rachel Wagner traces the way frontier fantasies and apocalyptic faith fuel today’s gun-obsessed...
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October 7, 2025 at 6:48 PM
“@drrachelwagner.bsky.social names two foundational influences behind this cowboy messiah ideology: Christian apocalypticism and American frontier mythology.”
– @amarpeterman.bsky.social reviews Cowboy Apocalypse
www.christiancentury.org/books/self-a...
@nyupress.bsky.social
– @amarpeterman.bsky.social reviews Cowboy Apocalypse
www.christiancentury.org/books/self-a...
@nyupress.bsky.social
Today is a great day to unlearn the kind of Christian "love" that only serves to justify hatred, exclusion, and othering.
September 24, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Today is a great day to unlearn the kind of Christian "love" that only serves to justify hatred, exclusion, and othering.
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I can't excerpt this entire article so I am imploring you to read it. @amarpeterman.bsky.social takes a complicated Q of how those on the left should respond to Trump's flip-flop on Epstein Files and flips it into a careful, thoughtful, analysis and explanation. I am floored by Amar's work.
Is the Epstein Controversy an Apocalyptic Moment for the MAGA Movement?
Trump’s 180-degree turn on the Epstein files has not gone unnoticed by his base. Will it matter?
sojo.net
September 3, 2025 at 8:29 PM
I can't excerpt this entire article so I am imploring you to read it. @amarpeterman.bsky.social takes a complicated Q of how those on the left should respond to Trump's flip-flop on Epstein Files and flips it into a careful, thoughtful, analysis and explanation. I am floored by Amar's work.
It was a joy to talk with Karen Swallow Prior about her latest book "You Have a Calling."
Whether you're discerning your own vocation or wrestling with the pressures of productivity, Karen offers a rich, unhurried reflection on what it means to be called.
amardpeterman.substack.com/p/you-have-a...
Whether you're discerning your own vocation or wrestling with the pressures of productivity, Karen offers a rich, unhurried reflection on what it means to be called.
amardpeterman.substack.com/p/you-have-a...
you have a calling: a conversation with karen swallow prior
beauty, desire, platform culture, and the sacred dignity of everyday work
amardpeterman.substack.com
August 6, 2025 at 1:06 PM
It was a joy to talk with Karen Swallow Prior about her latest book "You Have a Calling."
Whether you're discerning your own vocation or wrestling with the pressures of productivity, Karen offers a rich, unhurried reflection on what it means to be called.
amardpeterman.substack.com/p/you-have-a...
Whether you're discerning your own vocation or wrestling with the pressures of productivity, Karen offers a rich, unhurried reflection on what it means to be called.
amardpeterman.substack.com/p/you-have-a...
Pre-orders for my first book, "Becoming Neighbors: The Common Good Made Local," are now available!
At the heart of this book is a simple but critical question: How will we live? I believe the answer for Christians is clear: We live as neighbors.
www.eerdmans.com/978080288412...
At the heart of this book is a simple but critical question: How will we live? I believe the answer for Christians is clear: We live as neighbors.
www.eerdmans.com/978080288412...
Becoming Neighbors
The work of cultivating the common good starts in your own neighborhood.In Becoming Neighbors, Amar D. Peterman explores how the common good can be cultivate...
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July 23, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Pre-orders for my first book, "Becoming Neighbors: The Common Good Made Local," are now available!
At the heart of this book is a simple but critical question: How will we live? I believe the answer for Christians is clear: We live as neighbors.
www.eerdmans.com/978080288412...
At the heart of this book is a simple but critical question: How will we live? I believe the answer for Christians is clear: We live as neighbors.
www.eerdmans.com/978080288412...
"May we learn that living things do not live just for us, that they live for themselves and for you, and that they love the sweetness of life as much as we do, and serve you, in their place, better than we do in ours."
- Walter Rauschenbusch, _Prayers of the Social Awakening_
- Walter Rauschenbusch, _Prayers of the Social Awakening_
July 10, 2025 at 1:25 PM
"May we learn that living things do not live just for us, that they live for themselves and for you, and that they love the sweetness of life as much as we do, and serve you, in their place, better than we do in ours."
- Walter Rauschenbusch, _Prayers of the Social Awakening_
- Walter Rauschenbusch, _Prayers of the Social Awakening_
"If our most powerful elites are now essentially beyond the reach of accountability, as they increasingly seem to be, then why suppose that our polity qualifies as a democratic republic at all? It appears to function, rather, as a plutocracy."
- Jeff Stout, _Blessed are the Organized_, xv.
- Jeff Stout, _Blessed are the Organized_, xv.
July 7, 2025 at 1:45 PM
"If our most powerful elites are now essentially beyond the reach of accountability, as they increasingly seem to be, then why suppose that our polity qualifies as a democratic republic at all? It appears to function, rather, as a plutocracy."
- Jeff Stout, _Blessed are the Organized_, xv.
- Jeff Stout, _Blessed are the Organized_, xv.
I’ve had enough of “Christians” who claim to follow the teachings of Jesus…but would fail to recognize Jesus if he stood at the southern border, at the grocery store with an EBT card, or in the hospital waiting room without health insurance.
amardpeterman.substack.com/p/how-to-cel...
amardpeterman.substack.com/p/how-to-cel...
how to celebrate the 4th of july in 2025
a christian('s) response to the "big beautiful bill"
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July 4, 2025 at 12:11 PM
I’ve had enough of “Christians” who claim to follow the teachings of Jesus…but would fail to recognize Jesus if he stood at the southern border, at the grocery store with an EBT card, or in the hospital waiting room without health insurance.
amardpeterman.substack.com/p/how-to-cel...
amardpeterman.substack.com/p/how-to-cel...
No matter what you believe politically or theologically about the LGBTQ+ community, the elimination of this lifeline should infuriate all of us.
It is discrimination.
It is fearmongering.
It is homophobia.
It is hate.
It is polarized partisanship.
It is death-dealing action.
It is discrimination.
It is fearmongering.
It is homophobia.
It is hate.
It is polarized partisanship.
It is death-dealing action.
and yet, death
what defunding the suicide and crisis lifeline reminds us about maga america
amardpeterman.substack.com
June 20, 2025 at 2:53 PM
No matter what you believe politically or theologically about the LGBTQ+ community, the elimination of this lifeline should infuriate all of us.
It is discrimination.
It is fearmongering.
It is homophobia.
It is hate.
It is polarized partisanship.
It is death-dealing action.
It is discrimination.
It is fearmongering.
It is homophobia.
It is hate.
It is polarized partisanship.
It is death-dealing action.
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It's official! "For Such a Time as This: An Emergency Devotional" is coming out late summer with @eerdmansbooks.bsky.social #EmergencyDevotional
www.eerdmans.com/978080288592...
www.eerdmans.com/978080288592...
For Such a Time as This
A devotional for ordinary Christians seeking to live faithfully in extraordinary times“This is not the first end of the world. Many worlds have ended.”In...
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May 29, 2025 at 6:11 PM
It's official! "For Such a Time as This: An Emergency Devotional" is coming out late summer with @eerdmansbooks.bsky.social #EmergencyDevotional
www.eerdmans.com/978080288592...
www.eerdmans.com/978080288592...
In response to the deeply disordered quest for control, Christian leaders must...choose the path of neighbor-love.
This doesn’t mean that we abandon our society’s common life. Rather, we must reimagine what this common life might look like.
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My latest in @sojo.net:
sojo.net/magazine/jun...
This doesn’t mean that we abandon our society’s common life. Rather, we must reimagine what this common life might look like.
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My latest in @sojo.net:
sojo.net/magazine/jun...
Can Christians End Our Quest for Control?
For self-interested nations, the good road of Jesus can be a terrible way to run a society.
sojo.net
May 24, 2025 at 3:28 PM
In response to the deeply disordered quest for control, Christian leaders must...choose the path of neighbor-love.
This doesn’t mean that we abandon our society’s common life. Rather, we must reimagine what this common life might look like.
--
My latest in @sojo.net:
sojo.net/magazine/jun...
This doesn’t mean that we abandon our society’s common life. Rather, we must reimagine what this common life might look like.
--
My latest in @sojo.net:
sojo.net/magazine/jun...
“When faith fades, the gun steps in.”
Rachel Wagner _ Cowboy Apocalypse: Religion and the Myth of the Vigilante Messiah_
Rachel Wagner _ Cowboy Apocalypse: Religion and the Myth of the Vigilante Messiah_
May 16, 2025 at 1:55 PM
“When faith fades, the gun steps in.”
Rachel Wagner _ Cowboy Apocalypse: Religion and the Myth of the Vigilante Messiah_
Rachel Wagner _ Cowboy Apocalypse: Religion and the Myth of the Vigilante Messiah_
To live in constant prayer, to lead a contemplative life, is nothing else than to live in the actual presence of God.
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To exist at all, to be a human being, to be this particular human being, is only possible because of this Presence.
- Abhishiktananda, _Prayer_.
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To exist at all, to be a human being, to be this particular human being, is only possible because of this Presence.
- Abhishiktananda, _Prayer_.
May 15, 2025 at 5:23 PM
To live in constant prayer, to lead a contemplative life, is nothing else than to live in the actual presence of God.
…
To exist at all, to be a human being, to be this particular human being, is only possible because of this Presence.
- Abhishiktananda, _Prayer_.
…
To exist at all, to be a human being, to be this particular human being, is only possible because of this Presence.
- Abhishiktananda, _Prayer_.
I would say, for the moment, that community, at least community larger than the immediate family, consists very largely of imaginative love for people we do not know or whom we know very slightly. - Marilynne Robinson
May 8, 2025 at 8:21 PM
I would say, for the moment, that community, at least community larger than the immediate family, consists very largely of imaginative love for people we do not know or whom we know very slightly. - Marilynne Robinson
Truly such an incredible two days back in Green Bay — first, to meet @andyhermannfl.bsky.social and hear him talk football for 2 hours, and second, to see this city come alive in mid April for this once-in-a-lifetime event. #GoPackGo
April 25, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Truly such an incredible two days back in Green Bay — first, to meet @andyhermannfl.bsky.social and hear him talk football for 2 hours, and second, to see this city come alive in mid April for this once-in-a-lifetime event. #GoPackGo
What do we have that we have not received?
All we have is given to us by God.
Our breath, our bodies, our souls, our thoughts.
All of reality—all we experience—teaches us our utter dependence on the Lord Jesus,
not our autonomy from him.
This dependence is not a curse.
All we have is given to us by God.
Our breath, our bodies, our souls, our thoughts.
All of reality—all we experience—teaches us our utter dependence on the Lord Jesus,
not our autonomy from him.
This dependence is not a curse.
April 20, 2025 at 1:15 PM
What do we have that we have not received?
All we have is given to us by God.
Our breath, our bodies, our souls, our thoughts.
All of reality—all we experience—teaches us our utter dependence on the Lord Jesus,
not our autonomy from him.
This dependence is not a curse.
All we have is given to us by God.
Our breath, our bodies, our souls, our thoughts.
All of reality—all we experience—teaches us our utter dependence on the Lord Jesus,
not our autonomy from him.
This dependence is not a curse.
For the one who exploits, profits dishonestly, manipulates, fosters division, and prioritizes themselves over the whole, the cross reminds us that there is judgment.
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sojo.net/articles/goo....
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sojo.net/articles/goo....
Good Friday Does Not Glorify Suffering
Many churches I've attended did not know what to do with the gross injustice and violence of the cross.
sojo.net
April 18, 2025 at 2:38 PM
For the one who exploits, profits dishonestly, manipulates, fosters division, and prioritizes themselves over the whole, the cross reminds us that there is judgment.
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sojo.net/articles/goo....
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sojo.net/articles/goo....
Holy Week: A tenuous, tenacious discipline of memory and hope.
To follow Christ’s command—“Do this in remembrance of me”—is to take up this discipline in thought, word, and deed.
To follow Christ’s command—“Do this in remembrance of me”—is to take up this discipline in thought, word, and deed.
April 17, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Holy Week: A tenuous, tenacious discipline of memory and hope.
To follow Christ’s command—“Do this in remembrance of me”—is to take up this discipline in thought, word, and deed.
To follow Christ’s command—“Do this in remembrance of me”—is to take up this discipline in thought, word, and deed.