by Randall Balmer | Apr 23, 2024 | Christian Nationalism, Feature, Opinion
In his 1935 novel, “It Can’t Happen Here,” Sinclair Lewis wrote, “When fascism comes to America, it will come wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross.” That quote has been getting a lot of play lately, with good reason. When a former president and current...
by Bruce T. Gourley | Mar 27, 2024 | Christian Nationalism, Feature-, Opinion
Recently, the Alabama Supreme Court escalated the white Christian nationalist war on our constitutionally secular United States. They did so in a peculiar way, falsely arguing—in the decision LePage v. The Center for Reproductive Medicine—that a fertilized egg is a...
by Bruce T. Gourley | Jan 30, 2024 | Christian Nationalism, Feature-, Opinion
The four-and-a-half-year war is finally over. No, I don’t mean the American Civil War, which, culturally speaking, has never ended. Instead, I am referring to the latest civil war among Methodists. The first Methodist Civil War lasted from 1844-45. Short but...
by Bruce T. Gourley | Jun 6, 2023 | Christian Nationalism, Feature-, Opinion
“Basic truths are just not there,” evangelical Christian publisher Thomas Nelson said of charlatan David Barton’s fake “history” book falsely claiming that America was founded as a Christian nation. This is the foundational lie of white Christian nationalism, and...
by Brett Harris | Jun 2, 2023 | Christian Nationalism, Feature, Opinion
It’s Will Campbell’s fault I am no longer a pastor. That’s not completely true. He left this earth five years before I was ordained, 10 years ago, tomorrow, in fact. So, unless he’s out there somewhere pulling strings from the other side, he played no direct role in...
by Michael Chancellor | May 23, 2023 | Christian Nationalism, Feature-, Opinion
Christian values and family values aren’t what they used to be. Perhaps, like inflation that has diminished our buying power, the so-called “Christian values” of today are profoundly diminished. It is also true that Christian values are adrift from the historic...