Finished Reading: The Overstory: A Novel by Richard Powers 📚
Finished Reading: Grant by Ron Chernow 📚
Finished Reading: How the Bible Actually Works by Peter Enns 📚
Finished Reading: Christianity’s Surprise by C. Kavin Rowe 📚
Finished Reading: Christ and Calamity: Grace and Gratitude in the Darkest Valley by Harold Senkbeil 📚
“Much of what is distinctive about American evangelicalism is not essential to Christianity,” Noll has written. And he is surely correct. I would add only that it isn’t simply the case that much of what is distinctive about American evangelicalism is not essential to Christianity; it is that now, in important respects, much of what is distinctive about American evangelicalism has become antithetical to authentic Christianity. What we’re dealing with—not in all cases, of course, but in far too many— is political identity and cultural anxieties, anti-intellectualism and ethnic nationalism, resentments and grievances, all dressed up as Christianity.