A time to heal

It’s difficult to know what will happen to the landscape of American religion after this election. Some say that the outcome was due to bad theology. It’s certainly hard to ignore the crushing, emotional response from many of the Evangelical movement’s leaders. Even among people who have held fast and steady to the Evangelical label are beginning to wonder if they can be associated with a movement that voted for Donald Trump. After all, many exit polls say that more that 81% of White Evangelicals voted for a man who fed off America’s worst misogynistic and racist fears.  

Even before the election results came in, Brian McLaren wrote about the deep grief he experienced as the Evangelicals emerged as Trump’s “most dependable base”: 

And that, I think, explained the source of my sadness: I was losing the last shreds of my innocence about my religious heritage. I was feeling at a deeper level how much Evangelicalism had harmed me, and with me, many others.