It may not be your father’s Christian right, with new players and new tactics, but it’s still the Christian right and it’s more empowered than its been since the glory days of Ronald Reagan.
“Quite possibly, bearing the cross might mean opening our homes to immigrants, confronting our racist uncles at Thanksgiving dinner, taking to the streets, and putting our bodies on the line.”
“Resistance will require us to renounce our own tendencies to espouse practices of Islamophobia, patriarchy, and homophobia in our congregations and denominations,” says Rev. Leslie Callahan.
When I saw Trump bumper stickers on the backpacks of middle-class white kids in Tidewater, Virginia, I had an inkling—but only an inkling, like a twitchy nighttime fear—that Trump could win. But then…