Russell Moore resigned from his leadership position in the Southern Baptist Convention last spring over the denomination’s resistance to addressing the racism and sexual abuse scandals in its ranks.
Their common devotion is supposed to bring out the fruits of the Spirit: love, joy, peace, patience, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. While differing over politics and other secondary matters, they are in theory supposed to be unified by their shared first love - as brothers and sisters in Christ. Christians are supposed to believe in the spiritual unity of the church. But for evangelicals, who have dedicated their lives to Jesus, the problem is deeper. Of course there is a lot of division across many parts of American society. They are in deep crisis, questioning everything.”
This is not what I was raised to believe in.’ These are 30-something white Christian women. “I’ve had so many moms I don’t know come up to me in the playground,” she tells me, “and whisper, ‘Are you the author of that book?’ They pour out their hearts: ‘This is not my faith. Kristin Kobes Du Mez is a professor of history at Calvin University, a Christian school in Michigan, and is the author of “Jesus and John Wayne,” about how rugged masculinity pervades the evangelical world.
