White, Jesus-Loving Christians Need to Defeat Christian Nationalism

The Beautiful Mess by John Pavlovitz Podcast · Jan 15, 2025 · 6m

I didn’t want to be doing this.

Ten years ago, I was a student pastor at a large Suburban North Carolina church. Though I’d been writing a blog for a while, it had been for an audience made up largely of parents of teenagers and youth pastors. I touched on ministry, parenting, religion, grief, the Church-at-large—but rarely on politics, and certainly not politicians by name.

Yet, as the 2016 presidential campaign season moved along, I started to notice a disconcerting shift happening, not just in my church but in those all around the country and in those who attended them. The longer Donald…