Can American Christianity be saved?

Trump and the "civil war" for the soul of American Christianity [View in browser](~/AASU4wA~/RgRnf7phP0REaHR0cHM6Ly9hLnBvc3QubGhkLmxpbmsvMDRrbW1uN3ZzaC8_bGhfYWlkPTM1NDM5NTImbGhfY2lkPWc3N3VwZGc4bm9XA3NwY0IKZZhjNZ1l9h5lElIbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODVAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAo) Your daily update from [Salon](~/AASU4wA~/RgRnf7phP0RoaHR0cHM6Ly9hLnBvc3QubGhkLmxpbmsvamowYjVmMDF0ei8_bGhfYWlkPTM1NDM5NTImbGhfY2lkPWc3N3VwZGc4bm8mbGhfZW09dHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODUlNDBnbWFpbC5jb21XA3NwY0IKZZhjNZ1l9h5lElIbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODVAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAo). ~/AASU4wA~/RgRnf7phP0REaHR0cHM6Ly9hLnBvc3QubGhkLmxpbmsvYzFxcjFncGtudy8_bGhfYWlkPTM1NDM5NTImbGhfY2lkPWc3N3VwZGc4bm9XA3NwY0IKZZhjNZ1l9h5lElIbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODVAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAo~/AASU4wA~/RgRnf7phP0REaHR0cHM6Ly9hLnBvc3QubGhkLmxpbmsvMWFleWlhejdvZi8_bGhfYWlkPTM1NDM5NTImbGhfY2lkPWc3N3VwZGc4bm9XA3NwY0IKZZhjNZ1l9h5lElIbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODVAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAo~/AASU4wA~/RgRnf7phP0REaHR0cHM6Ly9hLnBvc3QubGhkLmxpbmsveXpvOTg1bWJxai8_bGhfYWlkPTM1NDM5NTImbGhfY2lkPWc3N3VwZGc4bm9XA3NwY0IKZZhjNZ1l9h5lElIbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODVAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAo~/AASU4wA~/RgRnf7phP0REaHR0cHM6Ly9hLnBvc3QubGhkLmxpbmsvaDVzcnd6dmgyNy8_bGhfYWlkPTM1NDM5NTImbGhfY2lkPWc3N3VwZGc4bm9XA3NwY0IKZZhjNZ1l9h5lElIbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODVAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAo~/AASU4wA~/RgRnf7phP0REaHR0cHM6Ly9hLnBvc3QubGhkLmxpbmsvY21uZmVxZWlrdy8_bGhfYWlkPTM1NDM5NTImbGhfY2lkPWc3N3VwZGc4bm9XA3NwY0IKZZhjNZ1l9h5lElIbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODVAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAo Donald J. Trump and the "civil war" for the soul of Christianity David Gushee, a distinguished scholar of Christian ethics and the author of many books on American Christianity, confessed to Salon's Chauncey DeVega that he approaches the 2024 presidential election with "a sense of dread." Much of that is because Gushee, himself a Christian pastor, laments what he calls "the manifest surrender of so many Christians to Trump and to authoritarian reactionary Christianity." Christianity in America, Gushee, says, is "often a source of neofascism and illiberalism because of how its religious and moral demands and implications are so badly misunderstood." He argues that American Christians must wrestle with this, and that true Christian faity "means resistance to this surrender, participation in this internal struggle for the soul of Christianity in the United States." 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Scavino reportedly described a president who was “shockingly derelict,” Gershman said, in failing to the “most serious invasion” of the Capitol by domestic terrorists in the nation’s history — meaning, of course, on Jan. 6, 2021. According to Temidayo Aganga-Williams, former senior investigative counsel for the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack, "Smith’s prosecution team keeps building its case with dramatic new proof, [and] the case ... appears to be so overwhelming that reluctant or scared witnesses might decide to cooperate and avoid getting themselves entangled in the case as defendants." [Subscribe to Salon today](~/AASU4wA~/RgRnf7phP0RoaHR0cHM6Ly9hLnBvc3QubGhkLmxpbmsvN2s5cm9peWphbC8_bGhfYWlkPTM1NDM5NTImbGhfY2lkPWc3N3VwZGc4bm8mbGhfZW09dHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODUlNDBnbWFpbC5jb21XA3NwY0IKZZhjNZ1l9h5lElIbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODVAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAo) and unlock more benefits! 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It's 2024, time to lose your mind: No, in a good way Salon's Rae Hodge offers the best possible late New Year's resolution for 2024: Waste more time. Do nothing. Refuse to be super-productive at every doggone moment. Allow her to clarify: "I’m not talking about tucking into a tasty psychotic break or indulging in a drug-fueled bender on someone else’s dime (though who am I to judge). I’m not even talking about adopting some stringent 5 a.m. meditation routine and a diet of overpriced whole-grain food. I’m talking about giving your brain some time to screw around without all your guilty productivity-gouging, giving it a break from your constant money-panic and letting it chill in the peaceful abyss of a non-scrollable daydream — even if just for a little while — every single day." Furthermore, there's solid scientific evidence that daydreaming and goofing around — wait, excuse us, "awake downtime" — is very important for "brain plasticity," which is a weird combination of words but definitely sounds like something we want to preserve. [Read more](~/AASU4wA~/RgRnf7phP0RoaHR0cHM6Ly9hLnBvc3QubGhkLmxpbmsvNGx1a3hnYmVjMi8_bGhfYWlkPTM1NDM5NTImbGhfY2lkPWc3N3VwZGc4bm8mbGhfZW09dHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODUlNDBnbWFpbC5jb21XA3NwY0IKZZhjNZ1l9h5lElIbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODVAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAo). 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