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THEEAD: For more than a decade I’ve been saying that conservative evangelicalism in America is in trouble. I’ve devoted hundreds of columns and a book (“A Faith of Our Own”) to it. And the good ole (straight white) boys club has snubbed their noses and marched on.
But now their churches are shrinking just like the mainlines (Spoiler alert: the big driver was always birth rates, not progressivism), and their institutions are shuttering.
Their leaders’ naked lust for political power and tolerance for sexism, racism, and the abuse of children has been displayed in stunning fashion. Which makes many wonder if this is where fundamentalist theology naturally leads anyway.
Just this month, the 15 million member Southern Baptist Convention was presented with a sprawling sex abuse crisis and chose to do... nothing. For shame.
To say that conservative evangelicalism is in the midst of a crisis would be the biggest understatement since my aunt said Donald Trump “has a curious relationship with the truth.”
Conservative evangelicalism could be a force for justice and mercy and equality and goodness in the 21st century. They must choose either to face their problems or keep playing their fiddles while the movement burns.
Pardon the typos as this was written on a bumpy subway train. ✌🏼
