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
Progressive Christians Against Christian Nationalism (CACN) are displacing their anger at Donald Trump onto evangelicals by painting evangelicals with the colors of American Christian nationalism (ACN). That is, CACNers blame white evangelicals for Christian nationalism. This is a mistake. Evangelical leaders themselves are anti-ACN. Read more
It is said that Christian nationalists want both to keep church and state separate -- to support religious liberty -- while at the same time establishing Christianity as a priveleged religion. Well, which is it? Christians Against Christian Nationalism keep us confused and off balance here. Read more
Do American Christian nationalists ask our government to advocate Christian values? Just what are those values? Read more
Christians Against Christian Nationalism (CACN) are convinced that American Christian Nationalists (ACN) want the federal government to declare the United States to be a Christian nation. Read more
Progressive Christians Against Christian Nationalism (CACN) are displacing their anger at Donald Trump onto evangelicals by painting evangelicals with the colors of American Christian nationalism (ACN). That is, CACNers blame white evangelicals for ACN. This needs more precise measuring. Read more
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