![]() ![]() ![]() “I didn’t feel that I was complicit in it at the time, but complicit in the bigger narratives that set the stage for him.”įive years later, the data remains stubbornly static, and polls are showing little sign that White evangelical commitments to conservative politics and the Republican Party are weakening.īut there are indications the last year of reckoning with racism, sexism, and sex abuse scandals in the White evangelical church is taking its toll. “We were asleep at the wheel, and all of a sudden we’ve got Trump in the White House and 81% of white evangelicals supporting him,” she told Religion News Service on a recent Zoom call. ![]() When she and her family moved in 2018, she settled at a “progressive Lutheran” church instead. She vented her frustration to the group of moms she met with once a week for toddler playdates, pounding her fists on the table. The native Iowan had been attending evangelical churches for more than two decades, but Donald Trump’s election brought her to what she now calls a “crisis” point. (RNS) - In 2016, Annelie Heinen’s frustration with evangelical culture exploded.
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