In short, no Golden Age of Christianity exists. And whenever I come across Americans today who seem nostalgic for the “better” society they knew in the 1950s or 1960s, I must ask, “Better, as defined by whom?” African-American brothers and sisters would not look on those years with fondness, as if they were “the good old days.” If we are nostalgic for an older era, it is usually because we’ve imagined that era as less sinful than it really was.
