The Beautiful Community: Unity, Diversity, and the Church at Its Best

by Irwyn L. Ince Jr.

When Christians of color heard white evangelicals cheering the outcome of the election “reassuring uneasy fellow worshipers with talk of abortion and religious liberty, about how politics is the art of compromise rather than the ideal,” it left many bewildered. It left them

wondering how voters could so easily overlook the president’s comments about Mexican immigrants, NFL players protesting police brutality, and his birther crusade against President Obama. Michael Emerson, quoted in the article, claims that the 2016 presidential election was the single most harmful event to the whole movement of reconciliation in at least the past thirty years.