This is absolutely on the mark, and Obery Hendricks has it exactly right. The evidence is clear: as I have written about elsewhere, folks are leaving Christianity precisely because they have concluded that, if the Christian Right = Christianity, they don't want any part of it. And if I thought (which I don't) that Jeffress, Ken Ham, et al. were the true representatives of Christianity, I would be gone, too.
This article is spot on. As a member of a SBC church in Missouri, I receive the Missouri Baptist Convention's newsletter, "The Pathway." I am appalled at some of the editorials and articles that it has that assume and cheer anyone reading them has gone whole hog for right-wing Republicanism. I subscribe to The Word and Way because I am desperate for real Christianity, not right-wing Republicanism dressed up in a thin veneer of Christianity.
This is absolutely on the mark, and Obery Hendricks has it exactly right. The evidence is clear: as I have written about elsewhere, folks are leaving Christianity precisely because they have concluded that, if the Christian Right = Christianity, they don't want any part of it. And if I thought (which I don't) that Jeffress, Ken Ham, et al. were the true representatives of Christianity, I would be gone, too.
This article is spot on. As a member of a SBC church in Missouri, I receive the Missouri Baptist Convention's newsletter, "The Pathway." I am appalled at some of the editorials and articles that it has that assume and cheer anyone reading them has gone whole hog for right-wing Republicanism. I subscribe to The Word and Way because I am desperate for real Christianity, not right-wing Republicanism dressed up in a thin veneer of Christianity.
Thanks for reading!