If you are unable to critique a President, you've lost your prophetic witness.
This weekend was an important moment in our nation, and, I think, for evangelical Christianity in America. Reflecting and responding to the events following Charlottesville is worth our time and energy.
Many issues are already being discussed, and it’s important that we think deeply on issues of race, but I’d like to ask one additional question: why are a subset of (often evangelical) Christians unable to see when President Trump has stumbled and feel they must defend everything he does— even after he obviously saw his error and sought to fix it today.
President Trump’s Stumble
On Saturday, President Trump had what many have reported as the worst day of his presidency. Some of the most egregious elements of our society were exposed, and the President had an obvious opportunity to condemn the racism in a way that would have provided much-needed moral and political leadership for our country. Instead, he missed the opportunity by condemning in a generic and unhelpful way that was received with widespread (almost universal) critique from around the world, including many Republicans.
I wrote about this on Saturday, with conservative Senators Orrin Hatch and Marco Rubio’s tweets asking the President to say more, those comments being just a few of many from politicians and leaders that took a firm stance against (and named) this racial hatred. The large number of respondents even included some of Trump’s closest evangelical advisors.
Yet the President was strangely silent. He sent out no tweet that day—only one of four days in his presidency that have gone without tweets.
This is the same president who is quick to call people out, by name, with remarkable and often shocking specificity. Furthermore, ...
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