When it comes to church-state dynamics, Paul showed us the way by appealing to his citizenship in the Roman Empire while reserving his allegiance for Christ and His Kingdom. Sadly, Christian culture in the U.S. has taken another path. We suffer from a chronic condition of adjective-noun confusion. An adjective is a description. A noun is a source of identity. That distinction … [Read more...] about Beatnik Christianity Laments the Existence of American Civil Religion
Moralistic Therapeutic Deism
How the 2016 Election and Pandemic Killed My Trust in Conservative Christians
In 2016 into 2017 I had a profound crisis of faith. It was not a crisis of faith in the person of Jesus, the truth of Jesus, or even the way of Jesus. Instead it was a crisis of faith in the followers of Jesus. I felt like I'd been lied to my whole life. Literally the exact same clergy and laity who railed against Slick Willy Clinton in the late-'90s as having no business … [Read more...] about How the 2016 Election and Pandemic Killed My Trust in Conservative Christians
