In the book The Future of Faith in American Politics, Mercer University ethicist David Gushee highlighted Obery Hendricks as a key example, along with Jesse Jackson, of “the Black evangelical left.” Hendricks doesn’t like the “e-word” label because, as he writes in his new book Christians Against Christianity: How Right-Wing Evangelicals Are Destroying Our Nation and Our Faith, so few self-identified evangelicals “take seriously the Bible’s call to love our neighbors as ourselves and to ‘let justice roll down like waters, and righteousness like a mighty stream.’” And that critique sets the foundation for his important new tome.
Read more here: A Bargain With The Devil: A Religious Scholar Offers A Searing Critique Of American Evangelicalism’s Embrace Of Right-Wing Politics
