Our Christianity should sound like, 'the world is full of neighbors to be understood and loved,' not 'the world is full of enemies to be feared and conquered.'

My newsletter this Sunday features a wonderful piece by Andrew Whitehead - American Idols Podcast, who authored the book “American Idolatry: How Christian Nationalism Betrays The Gospel and Threatens the Church.” I deeply appreciate Andrew’s work and I know you will too.

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When you worship power, compassion will look like a sin.

A Christianity that believes it needs a political party, president, legislation, and a nation to ensure its survival is a Christianity that actually dethrones Jesus as savior of the nations and advances a belief that Jesus actually needs a nation to be his savior instead.

In my newsletter this Sunday I’m honored to feature a Q & A with Katherine Stewart on reproductive rights. She is a brilliant investigative journalist and authored the book “The Power Worshippers: Inside the Dangerous Rise of Religious Nationalism”

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Rebecca and I welcomed our daughter Reece May into the world on Good Friday at 9:51pm.❤️

I’ll be online very limited in the next several weeks for family leave as we practice being a family of four now!

Thank you all for your prayers and support.

The beautiful thing about the separation of church and state is that March 31st can be a religious holy day for the church and also a different day of significance for the state and they don’t have to be seen as conflicting with each other.

Why? Because they’re separate.

It is a bankrupt Christianity that sees a demagogue co-opting our faith and even our holy scriptures for the sake of his own pursuit of power and praise him for it rather than insist that we refuse to allow our sacred faith and scriptures to become a mouthpiece for an empire.

My newsletter tomorrow is called “Never Masculine Enough.”

In it, I invite us to reflect on the fear based doubling down on particular views of masculinity, the damage they cause, and how Jesus calls us to a different approach.

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Beware of any Christian movement that demands the government be an instrument of God’s wrath but never a source of God’s mercy, generosity, or compassion.

We want the warhorse.
Jesus rides a donkey.

We want the eagle.
The Holy Spirit comes as a dove.

We want Barabbas.
Jesus stands in chains.

We want swords.
Jesus takes up a cross.

We want the lion.
God comes as a lamb.

We keep trying to arm God.
God keeps trying to disarm us.