“It’s America First and Make America Great Again, and we will do it,” former President Donald Trump declared at the end of a speech on Sunday (Dec. 19). The crowd erupted with applause and cheers. Inside the standing ovation, a chant rose up as Trump started walking away. He paused, pumped his fist, and encouraged it to grow louder.
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.
Make Worship Great Again
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.