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Jeff Wentling's avatar

I commend you for your helpful (and pastoral) perspective. For those of us who were fully ensconced in the white Christian nationalist subculture, guilt is indeed an animating force. So much so that, in my case, it precluded my recognizing my own place within the evangelical church's sordid past.

How did I go 60 years, for example, and not realize that my sainted evangelical father attended not just a 'conservative' seminary, but a segregated one as well--one where a pastor, a professor of NT theology (New Testament!) warned the pitiful few African-American seminarians back in the day that they were not welcome at his church?

Guilt keeps us from seeing things important to us as they truly are.

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Lisa Kirkby's avatar

I worship in a ‘recovery’ church passionate about Jesus. There is a grassroots movement intentionally shedding organized religion for community discipleship. We serve, we don’t warm pews or shout at rallies.

God and country are not co-mingled. The joy we share by simply entering His gates with thanksgiving and praise lifts all of us above the toxicity of this so called Christian, primarily white, nationalist fervor. Indeed God is separating the wheat from the chaff.

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