If You're a Christian and You're Cheering Deportations—You Sure as Hell Ain't a Christian

The Beautiful Mess by John Pavlovitz Podcast · Jan 28, 2025 · 4m

In the 1986 movie Hannah and Her Sisters, an embittered painter named Frederick (who is also an Atheist) is lamenting the grave state of the world to his partner, when his anger turns toward Christians, saying, “If Jesus came back and saw what's going on in his name, he'd never stop throwing up.”That’s about as eloquent and topical a sermon as I can imagine.

At this point, I need a barf bag or a plastic bucket just to scroll on social media or watch the news anymore.

As a person of faith, one raised in the Christian tradition and who served for decades in local churches as a pastor, one of…