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This is more about Christianity from the political side of things in the US, especially in regards to "Trump" and the Christian Nationalist movement.
He was a top church official who criticized Trump. He says Christianity is in crisis
The NPR piece is about Russell Moore, who is editor-in-chief of the Christianity Today magazine and has written a book called "Losing Our Religion: An Altar Call For Evangelical America." Moore believes one of the problems is that American life has become tribalized, factional, including the church.
The part of this piece that draws me out the most is:
He was a top church official who criticized Trump. He says Christianity is in crisis
The NPR piece is about Russell Moore, who is editor-in-chief of the Christianity Today magazine and has written a book called "Losing Our Religion: An Altar Call For Evangelical America." Moore believes one of the problems is that American life has become tribalized, factional, including the church.
The part of this piece that draws me out the most is:
He thinks the way you fight this is at the "small and local" - whatever that really means. Though I have sympathy for his cause, I don't see his efforts leading to a real solution. When you have the faithful railing against the "woke" words and beliefs of Jesus Christ himself, I don't see a way back from it.It was the result of having multiple pastors tell me, essentially, the same story about quoting the Sermon on the Mount, parenthetically, in their preaching — "turn the other cheek" — [and] to have someone come up after to say, "Where did you get those liberal talking points?" And what was alarming to me is that in most of these scenarios, when the pastor would say, "I'm literally quoting Jesus Christ," the response would not be, "I apologize." The response would be, "Yes, but that doesn't work anymore. That's weak." And when we get to the point where the teachings of Jesus himself are seen as subversive to us, then we're in a crisis.