Monday, July 28, 2025

Targeted emailing directed at Alabama churches

Cathy Bullock

July 26 at 4:30 PM 


Email to Alabama Trump resistance groups
From: Rob Shattuck <rdshatt@aol.com>
To: purplepeopleresistance@gmail.com <purplepeopleresistance@gmail.com>; hivealabama@gmail.com <hivealabama@gmail.com>; shelbycountydems65@gmail.com <shelbycountydems65@gmail.com>; nayoungdems@gmail.com <nayoungdems@gmail.com>; Blueprintalabama Info <info@blueprintalabama.com>; Membership Coordination <membership@birminghamindivisible.org>; alabamademocraticchairs@gmail.com <alabamademocraticchairs@gmail.com>; indivisiblewestalabama@gmail.com <indivisiblewestalabama@gmail.com>; Celeste Davis-Dill <cdavisdill@gmail.com>
Cc: Barry Marks <barry@leaselawyer.com>; Laurie Beth Kesterson <lauriebethkesterson@gmail.com>
Sent: Monday, July 28, 2025 at 06:18:21 PM CDT
Subject: Targeted emailing towards Alabama churches
This past Saturday Cathy Bullock shared on 50501 Scottsboro, AL | Facebook this:

In 2023 and 2024 I did emailing about Tim Alberta's book "The Kingdom, the Power and the Glory" as set out at Be An Alabama Rootstriker* with Rob Shattuck: Alabama evangelicals and "The Kingdom, the Power and the Glory"
Targeted emailing in connection with the Aug. 2nd Rage Against The Regime events directed towards Alabama churches is another suggestion for your group to consider.
Please contact me if your group is interested in such emailing and I can be of assistance.
For filing in Citizens Acting to End the Trump Presidency: Targeted emailing directed at Alabama churches and in Citizens Acting to End the Trump Presidency: Rage Against The Regime challenge.

James Stirling letters and emails shared on his Facebook
November 14 at 7:32 AM 
I am sharing with you the letter that I sent my Bishop today related to Christian nationalism I have witnessed within my church:
November 12, 2025
The Right Reverend Dr. Glenda Curry
Diocesan Bishop
The Diocese of Alabama
Carpenter House
521 20th Street North
Birmingham, Alabama 35203
Re: ​Christian Nationalism in the Diocese of Alabama and the Alabama Cursillo Movement
Dear Bishop Curry:
Grace and peace to you in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Once you read my letter dear Bishop, you may want to ex communicate me. I am known as “heretic” in the Resistance; so, that would be a fitting exclamation point to this chapter of my life. There was a prior occasion that I discovered I was practicing Eucharistic Ministry without a license. I asked our former Bishop Kee Sloan when I made the discovery whether hypothetically speaking one could be ex communicated for doing so without a license. He replied: “not if I did not know about it.” The conversation ended; and, I had my license renewed the following week.
I come to you not out of anger, but out of grief—and conviction. The cancer of Christian nationalism is insidious and malignant. It has infected our church. With the exception of statements from our Presiding Bishop, and You Tube sermons from my beloved friend Reverend Jose’ Fernandez, I have not heard much in the way of calling out Christian nationalism. Maybe there are other ordained leaders calling it out. But I perceive that there is silence within the Diocese of Alabama.
On October 7, 2007, I was confirmed into the Episcopal Church by the Right Reverend Robert Miller. In the years since, I have served as Senior and Junior Warden at St. Michael and All Angels in Anniston, Alabama. I have served as delegate to Convention. And the year that the Right Reverend Bishop Kee Sloan was elected on the first ballot, I served as a Lay Delegate. And yes, I indeed voted for that wonderful man for Diocesan Bishop. I have been in the Cursillo Movement since 2008, having served on six staffs including Cursillo 212 where I served as Lay Rector.
Our Church, which has so often stood as a voice for justice and truth, has grown quiet at a moment when the Gospel itself is being twisted in the public square. The rise of Christian nationalism--a movement that seeks to wrap the cross in the American flag, and confuse the kingdom of God with worldly power—demands a clear and prophetic response from our bishops, and from our laity.
Yet from the Diocese of Alabama, I have heard very little of such a word.
History teaches us that silence in the face of heresy is not neutrality; it is surrender. Dietrich Bonhoffer saw this in the 1930s when German Christians baptized nationalism and racial supremacy in theological language. Bonhoffer’s courage to name that evil for what it was came at great cost; but, it also defined what faithful discipleship must look like when the Church is tested by the idols of this age, i.e. MAGA.
We are being tested again. Christian nationalism is not merely a political problem—it is a theological crisis. It distorts Christ into a tribal symbol, substitutes domination for discipleship, and denies the universality of God’s love. For the Church to remain silent now is to fail in its duty as the Body of Christ.
I urge you, as my bishop and pastor, to speak plainly and publicly denouncing Christian nationalism as incompatible with the Gospel, and to call for the faithful to repentance for the ways we have tolerated this poison within our midst. We do not need a cautious statement—we need some table-overturning-statement-from-the-Temple type response.
If the Church will not tell the truth in the face of outright lies, and alternative facts, who will? One person who will is this heretic, regardless of my status within this Church.
Yours in Christ,
James L. Stirling, Jr. Esq
1230 Glenwood Terrace
Anniston, Alabama 36207
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November 14 at 10:35 AM ·
Dear Ones:
Below is the email I sent to various clergy and lay leaders of Alabama Cursillo as well. They received an emailed copy of the letter I sent Bishop Curry.
Greetings and peace to you in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ:
You will find a letter that I have sent Bishop Curry attached to this email. I have been a faithful servant in the Episcopal Church and in Alabama Cursillo for many years. I have seen a rise in Christian nationalism within the Alabama Episcopal Church that has greatly disturbed me. For the longest, I have bit my tongue. However, I have reached a point where I can no longer be silent. This is not just about politics. This is about the very essence of who we are as the Body of Christ. Are we going to look the other way to the lies, the cruelty, the hatred and division that comes with the MAGA movement? Or are we going to speak truth to money, power and corruption? There cannot be a lukewarm response to what we witness daily.
Yours in Christ,
Jim Stirling
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