I am deeply saddened that some think what happened yesterday at the Capitol is in any way after the pattern of Christ. There is no biblical justification for what we have just witnessed as a nation. The kind of rhetoric we are hearing that emboldens and not-even-so-subtly condones vi... www.nathanrhale.com

@nathanrhale I share your concern about authentic Christianity suffering collateral damage. Fortunately, relatively few who invaded the Capitol bore Christian symbols.

But religious populism was pandemic in the birth of bog-standard American Evangelicalism, and today’s political populism rhymes repeatedly. Read Nathan Hatch’s Democratization of American Christianity.

@nathanrhale I second that recommendation.