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Steve Thorngate

📧 “Documentation” reply from Thorngate

See my responses following each question below. Best, Steve [Thorngate] 1. 2018 Open Letter: I have record of sending you an open letter (September 7, 2018) documenting Stanley Hauerwas's role in what I termed "toxic pacifism" and requesting Christian Century publish it. I received no response.

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📧 “Documentation of 2018-2022 Timeline - Opportunity for Response”

I'm preparing to publish an essay on gijustice.com explaining why I requested removal of my unpaid Christian Century content and archiving that work on my own site. The documentation covers the 2018-2022 timeline and I plan to publish my report by end of the week. Before

Steve Thorngate

📧 “Request” reply from Thorngate

I don't have a record of any payment to you, for these posts or any others, and to my knowledge these four are the only ones in our archive under your byline. I've removed them from the site. It may take a few days for cached

Steve Thorngate

📧 “Request for Confirmation of Payment and Content Removal”

I am writing to request confirmation of whether I received payment for any content published under my name on The Christian Century website, including but not limited to the following blog posts: * "Yes, God Loves Soldiers" (April 2012) * https://www.christiancentury.org/blogs/archive/2012-04/yes-god-

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📧 “feedback” 3 from The Century

I may not have been clear about what you meant by bringing on a more established scholar. Did you mean to have them come on as some kind of co-author, or just in terms of sources that I quote? I had in mind the former, but the latter would

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📧 “feedback” (cont’d) to The Century

If reworking it so that evangelicals are not represented will satisfy editorial concerns let me know (we could probably work around naming or quoting them), but that won't address the editorial interest in self-criticism which is more concerning to me. As earlier drafts made clear, I am

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📧 “feedback” from The Century

I’ve got some substantial feedback from other editors. The main question seems to be about the framing of your argument. The editors feel like you need to define more clearly and more fully where your intervention is in the conversation, which means defining more clearly and more fully who

Steve Thorngate

📧 “the Bible and soldiers” (cont’d)

I just realized I have just kept the circle going, of whether I want to stick with the blog piece or explore it further for article ideas. I would like to have something referencing my #12saints12days blog series so a wider audience than my own organic one has some resources

Steve Thorngate

📧 “post on the Bible and soldiers”

Dear Mr. Isaac, …I am a senior editor at The Century. Steve Thorngate forwarded your blog post to me because we've been doing a little reorganization and I am now handling submissions for the magazine. I've circulated your piece and we've decided not to

Steve Thorngate

📧 “Request re. Stanley Hauerwas”

Hi Steve [Thorngate], I’m writing journalists and other members of the media to ask them to publish an Open Letter I have sent to organizers of the Radical Vocation Conference to remove Stanley Hauerwas from their list of featured speakers. I emailed them privately on August 31st, informing them