When the church rejects its own warnings
The greatest fear of American evangelicals in the 1970s was that some young person would join a cult. Despite their own cult-like obsession at the time over predicting the immediate …
Writings
We could say something, but…
When Native Americans were demeaned, driven from their homes and put on a death march by government officials — many professing white Christians could have come to the defense of …
The irrelevance of Jesus
Why is Jesus so irrelevant for so many who claim to be Christian? Does it matter that swarms of the most loudly proclaiming Christians in America — who have professed …
Reorienting our maps
Being spiritually “lost” was a common concern (or accusation) in the conservative faith tradition so familiar to many of us. Tragically now, it this very slice of white Americanized Christianity …
Shady, angry people
The Christian testimony that many Americanized Christians don’t want to hear is when someone tells of leaving their familiar fundamentalist/evangelical subculture in order to find Jesus. In the second season …
