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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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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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
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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See the compilation here: Great New Books (September 2021)
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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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