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Obery Hendricks on The Arbiter of Authentic Christianity

HOW CAN CHRISTIANS support the party of Donald Trump — a man who has boasted about sexually assaulting women, uses the Bible as an obvious prop as he tear-gasses protestors, and lies almost as often as he breathes? For many progressive Christians, the answer is obvious: white evangelical conservatives in the Trump era are desecrating […]

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Spectrum Magazine review on Christians Against Christianity by Obery Hendricks

“Christians Against Christianity” Takes Right-Wing Evangelicals to Task

Christians Against Christianity hits hard. Really hard. But it is also measured, thoughtful, reasoned, and carefully presented. The style is concise and evidence-based, with research on evangelical leadership, statements and polled positions of right-wing evangelicals, and serious biblical scholarship. According to the book jacket, the writer, Obery Hendricks, is a “best-selling author, an activist, a religious scholar,

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Review: Christians Against Christianity: How Right-wing Evangelicals are Destroying Our Nation and Our Faith

Christians Against Christianity: How Right-wing Evangelicals are Destroying Our Nation and Our Faith

Obery M. Hendricks Jr.’s new book, Christians Against Christianity: How Right-wing Evangelicals are Destroying Our Nation and Our Faith is “packin’ heat!” Recent research indicates that the white American evangelical church is hemorrhaging. The Public Religion Research Institute released a report in July 2021 indicating that white evangelical Christians are “declining…significantly.” In 2006 white evangelicals represented 23% of

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Obery Hendricks on Americans United for Separation of Church and State

Obery Hendricks on Americans United For Separation of Church and State

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

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How Can America Be Born Again If the Church Is Not? by Stephanie Thomas-Gordon

I was honored to hear Dr. Obery Hendricks deliver the 2024 Martin Luther King, Jr. lecture at Wesley Theological Seminary. With the modified title “The [Little Sung] Radicality of Martin Luther King, Jr.,” Hendricks interrogated the latent revolutionary aspects of King’s ideology. His reflections demanded a critical reassessment of our nation’s foundational values, and an

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