Trump-ite evangelicalism or Biden-ist Catholicism?
Which is more threatening? Trumpite “evangelicalism” or Biden’s brand of “devout” Catholicism?
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Skip to main contentWhich is more threatening? Trumpite “evangelicalism” or Biden’s brand of “devout” Catholicism?
The Christian Post talked with Brown about his book, including the factors he attributes to the drop in Christian belief among Americans, how support for Donald Trump may have hurt Evangelical churches, and if deconstructing one’s faith can be healthy or not.
It is true, that, for many reasons, people are leaving the Church. It is also true that many others are meeting Jesus powerfully. That’s because, what the world so desperately needs, we have in the fullness of the Gospel. Let us not be ashamed to live it and proclaim it.
Regular readers of The Christian Post are well aware of the moral failures at the highest levels of Evangelical leadership in the recent past. Formerly revered figures such as Ravi Zacharias, Bill Hybels and Mark Driscoll and earlier harbingers like Jim Bakker are the reminders that all is not well within the multifaceted movement that is American Evangelicalism.
The whole world, to the extent it benefits from America’s political and economic capital, can thank, at least partly, Mainline Protestantism. Its failures and decline of the last half century don’t negate its unprecedented accomplishments of the previous three centuries.
The Times has long had totemic status often beyond reality. So there’s no surprise that David Brooks’ recent Times piece on reformers within Evangelicalism got wide response.
Evangelicals might not like the times, but they must assent to reality if they are to conduct themselves with prudence.