He could, he allowed, talk the five points of Calvinism (memorizable as an acronym, TULIP, the first letter of which stands for “Total depravity,” as in our natural condition). But he’d rather just “do life,” awesomed by God. Of sin he said, “I think we think about it not as much as you might think we think about it.” Of social justice, he said, “the moral conversation is one I don’t get into.” His church is diverse but he deflected my attempts to engage him on White evangelicalism’s history of racism by dismissing it as “deep.” Not cool. Then he just smiled; we were sitting on the balcony, it
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