The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism

by Tim Alberta

‘I’m crushed. I’m broken. I don’t know what to do,’” Moore said. “And they’ve all lived through the exact same story: it’s COVID, it’s CRT, it’s Trump. These pastors are a shell of their former selves.

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Known for his frequent appeals to a Genesis passage that purportedly cursed Noah’s son, Ham, and doomed all African descendants to a life of subservience, Criswell openly preached the politics of white supremacy.

The American Church, he said, was fracturing in real time, right in front of us. And for one reason: fear.

With Christians soon to be a minority in the United States, the question shouldn’t be how best to fight back and reclaim their lost status. Rather, Dickson said, the question should be how Christians might “lose well”—carrying themselves in ways that reflect the hope and confidence and great love found in the gospel.

“They want to know if we love Jesus first”—more than money, more than social status, more than a political party, more than a country.