Theology, Politics, and Anxiety with David Gushee

Homebrewed Christianity · Mar 8, 2017 · 1h 5m

How do we, as Christians, interact with those people who raise our anxiety level?

Theological ethicist at Mercer University David Gushee is on to talk about his book, "A Letter to My Anxious Christian Friends." This book was written before the election, and little did he know how many more anxious Christian friends he would gain after the election.

Gushee says that anxious, white Christians helped to swing the election in favor of Donald Trump. Their anxiety was crucial to his political platform, anxiety about:

the loss of Christian faith in the country

loss of white hegemony and power…