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Conquest Christianity
I’ve come to wonder if a ‘conquest’ mindset within evangelicalism has made it especially susceptible to the allure of nationalism. The drive to occupy and control territory, the gathering of souls around a flag, the call to work for the glory of the nation, the promise of a future ‘utopia’ for the true believers –…
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Why Trumpism Reminds Me of Maoism
History indeed repeats itself in strange ways. And I can’t help but think Trump is just Mao in a three-piece suit instead of, well, a Mao suit.
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Thieves of the Forest: A Parable
Soon, though, they realized all was not well in the forest. Huge swathes of woodland vanished, seemingly overnight; only shallow stumps remained to prove trees were ever there. Wildlife numbers dwindled. Even once-mighty rivers slowed to a trickle further downstream.
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No, We Don’t Know What’s Going to Happen – and That’s a Gift
Humans can’t predict the future. Rather than fret about what the Trump administration may or may not do, let’s choose how we want to live.
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Can We Find Christian Hope in a Trump Victory?
With each successive layer, Evangelicals might just bury their own system a little deeper. Perhaps another Trump presidency will show that American Evangelicalism is a long-dead corpse, the plug of whose life-support should have been mercifully kicked out of the wall decades ago, a corpse that deserves to be buried. And many more who don’t…
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#10: U.S. History and Two Religions for the Price of One
Students in public schools and I were essentially co-worshippers in the same religion: the religion of nationalism – one with its own saints, scriptures, sacred shrines and holy days. Christian nationalism’s only innovation was to overlay Christian tenets and pretend the two religions were one.
Ex-Patriot
Confronting Christian nationalism (and other bad ideas)