Because some held Christian flags and crosses at the Trump rally in Washington D C on January and because a melee at the U S Capitol ensued the conclusion now pushed by the mainstream media and politicians and religious leaders on the left is that Christian Nationalists are homegrown terrorists threatening our democracy But what exactly is Christian Nationalism It's being used as a catch-all pejorative a word expressing contempt for those who breached the Capitol but by extension any and all Christians including evangelicals who want biblical values integrated into civil life and polity The reasoning goes You're a [... more]

The reason the framers of The Statement on Social Justice and the Gospel wrote the document is spelled out in its Introduction We are deeply concerned that values borrowed from secular culture are currently undermining Scripture in the areas of race and ethnicity manhood and womanhood and human sexuality The Bible's teaching on each of these subjects is being challenged under the broad and somewhat nebulous rubric of concern for social justice [... more]