Monday, August 14, 2023

Losing Our Religion review: Trump and the crisis of US Christianity

In his new book, the Rev Russell Moore opens a chapter, "Losing Our Authority: How the Truth Can Save", with the words "Jesus Saves", followed by a new historical tableau: January 6 and the threat Donald Trump and the mob posed to democracy and Mike Pence. 

"That the two messages, a gallows and 'Jesus Saves' could coexist is a sign of crisis for American Christianity," Moore writes… 

"What we are seeing now … is in many cases the shucking off of any pretense of hypocrisy for the outright embrace of immorality," Moore writes.

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