“At some point, then, it may become nearly impossible for pastors who are not fully on board with MAGA to look away, to stall for more time, to let others do the heavy lifting, or to tell themselves that things aren’t so bad, that silence is golden. A healthy church culture, like a healthy family culture, brings things into the open. It doesn’t avoid or close off conversations.”

Excerpt From “The Evangelicals Who See Trump’s Viciousness as a Virtue” Peter Wehner The Atlantic apple.news/An31uMzIy… This material may be protected by copyright.

Here’s a direct link to the Atlantic article:
The Evangelicals Who See Trump’s Viciousness as a Virtue

This piece is a good thing, in that the conversations initiated require coming to specifics on many points that folks lately seem to want to keep swishy. Often very basic stuff, “Do you believe that some things are true irrespective of human knowledge or opinion about those things? Is having knowledge different than having opinions? Is it possible for humans to make these kinds of distinctions?”