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American Idolatry: How Christian Nationalism Betrays the Gospel and Threatens the Church with author Andrew Whitehead

American Idolatry: How Christian Nationalism Betrays the Gospel and Threatens the Church with author Andrew Whitehead

FromRed Letter Christians Podcast


American Idolatry: How Christian Nationalism Betrays the Gospel and Threatens the Church with author Andrew Whitehead

FromRed Letter Christians Podcast

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Length:
66 minutes
Released:
Nov 16, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

RLC Book Club with Andrew Whitehead

Power. Fear. Violence. These three idols of Christian nationalism are corrupting American Christianity.
Andrew Whitehead is a leading scholar on Christian nationalism in America and speaks widely on its effects within Christian communities. In this book, he shares his journey andreveals how Christian nationalism threatens the spiritual lives of American Christians and the church.
Whitehead shows how Christians harm their neighbors when they embrace the idols of power, fear, and violence. He uses two key examples – racism and xenophobia – to demonstrate that these idols violate core Christian beliefs. Through stories, he illuminates expressions of Christianity that confront Christian nationalism and offer a faithful path forward.
Andrew Whitehead’s latest book “American Idolatry” published by Brazos Press, encourages further conversation about what Christian nationalism threatens, how to face it, and why it is vitally important to do so. It will help identify Christian nationalism and build a framework that makes sense of the relationship between faith and the current political and cultural context.
 
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Released:
Nov 16, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode

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A Christian commentary on the way of Jesus in the world today with Red Letter Christian leaders Dr. Tony Campolo and Shane Claiborne. Red Letter Christians gets its name from the Bibles that highlight the words of Jesus in red and we are aspiring to live “as if Jesus meant the stuff he said.” Some episodes of this podcast have been adapted from the radio show “Across the Pond” which airs on Sunday afternoons in the UK on Premier Radio. Others are from events such as Faith Forums, Book Clubs, and Monthly Morning Prayer.