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Jan 12, 2026 33 min

To Fulfill All Righteousness

from Between Bread and Stone Hosted by Stephen R. Brewer, PsyD

This week’s moral question is simple and brutal: what does righteousness mean when a nation that baptizes itself as Christian trains armed agents to kill with impunity, then tells the public to trust their judgment? We hold Jesus’ baptism in one hand and the recent shootings in Minneapolis and Portland in the other, and we refuse to pretend they belong to different moral universes. This reflection invites you into the river. We trace the imperial inversion of baptism from a public act of repentance and solidarity into a badge of separation, then follow the Moses, Jesus, and Elian arcs as they name the false gods at work in our enforcement culture. If you are disillusioned with church and politics, or wondering how faith can be anything but hypocrisy in a season like this, you are welcome here. Protected Speech | Views My Own Between Bread and Stone © 2025 Stephen Brewer. All rights reserved. Podcast audio and full text may be quoted for noncommercial purposes with attribution. Gospel text from the New Revised Standard Version Bible, copyright © 1989 the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved. Get full access to Drawing the Line at percival84.substack.com/subscribe

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