We are closing this month’s engagement with Mark David Hall’s Who’s Afraid of Christian Nationalism with a wide-ranging conversation between Mark and Trey Dimsdale, the executive director of the Center for Religion, Culture & Democracy.
“A weed is a flower growing in the wrong place.”–George Washington Carver Over the past four years our small front lawn has become invaded by Glechoma hederacea, ground ivy described as “an aromatic, perennial, evergreen creeper in the mint family,” known in some places as “creeping Charlie.” One sees and smells
As he attempted to build public support for the invasion of Iraq, George W. Bush, like many Republican and Democratic presidents before him, employed religious imagery. Some of those images were immediately recognizable to evangelical Christians but not to those unfamiliar with evangelical language and worship practices. Still, for critics,
On January 6, 2021, I was flying home from a speaking engagement. During a layover, I received an email from a freelance journalist who was writing a story for Sojourners about “Christian imagery used by the protesters who stormed the Capitol building today.” She sent me five images to review, two that
