Intra-Christian fighting over Christian Nationalism draws attention away from confronting the real existential problem America faces, namely, the threat of a tyrannous autocracy posed by the MAGA-Moscow army within the Republican Party. If Donald Trump can keep Christians clawing at each other’s throats, he can watch the blood spill while walking away with votes. Read more
Muslims fear that the Christian understanding of God as Trinity denies Allah's oneness. Christians commit shirk. But Christians affirm God's unicity, even if it is a dynamic interactive unicity. Read more
The UAP Transparency Act of 2024 gives scientific ufologists hope that government revelations will tell us the truth about Unidentified Flying Objects. But, if national security documents remain Top Secret, can we trust those which get declassified? Read more
According to Karl Rahner, the econmic Trinity is the immanent Trinity, and the immanent Trinity is the economic Trinity. Got it? Read more
In 1934, the Nazi hate speech forced the followers of Jesus Christ to make a public confession. Karl Barth, principal author of the Barmen Declaration, asked: what should be considered orthodox Christian and what must be rejected, anathematized, and opposed. If Jesus Christ is Lord, then neither Berlin nor Washington are. Read more
In the ELCA document, "We Are Christians Against Christian Nationalism," Lutherans reject not only the MAGA-Machiavellian threat to democracy but also those Christians who support it. As helpful and as inspiring this is, we still need vigalence to avoid scapegoating large segments of the American population such as evangelical Christians. Read more
What is the Trinity? Christians believe the one God is complex, enjoying an internal life characterized by perichoresis between Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Read more
Christian Nationalism Resources available at Ted Peters' Patheos column on public theology. Read more
Both white Americans along with minority Americans are feeling the kind of anxiety that leads to resentment and violence. Traditionalists fear loss of a past way of life. Progressives fear loss of recent gains in human rights. Both fears are exacerbated by the MAGA-Machiavellian wing of the Republican Party. Progressive Christians Against Christian Nationalism (CACN) are displacing their resentment at Donald Trump onto evangelicals by painting evangelicals with the colors of Christian nationalism. That is, CACNers blame white evangelicals for Christian nationalist extremism. Such division among Christians only emboldens the Trumpers. Read more
Roger Olson prophetically critiques White American Christian Nationalism (WACN), sharply distinguishing WACN from spiritually healthy evangelical Christian faith. The separation of WACN from evangelical spirituality is already declared within the evangelical camp itself. There is no need for progressives or liberals to mercilessly attack the evangelicals from the outside. Read more
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