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Jesus Has Survived All of Us Christians
Jim Wallis

This column explores the themes in Jim Wallis' new
book Christ in Crisis: Why We Need to Reclaim Jesus
(HarperOne), available Sept. 24. 

It's always amazing to me how -- somehow, apparently,
mysteriously, and even miraculously -- Jesus has survived all of
us Christians.

And yet, it's undeniable that the election of Donald Trump and
the presidency that has followed -- and the Christian response
to all of it -- have revealed how disconnected many American
Christians have become from Jesus. In particular, the uncritical
support Trump enjoys from many white evangelicals in the
religious right, and the Faustian bargain they have made for
power, are turning many Americans (and others) away from
Christianity altogether.

Recent data shows us that while we've long known that
institutional Christianity is in decline in the United States --
especially among younger generations -- the bottom is starting
to fall out of evangelicalism, with people identifying with "no
religion" surpassing evangelicals and Catholics for the first
time earlier this year as the most common answer on a religious
self-identification survey of Americans. Just this week, an
article on FiveThirtyEight explained that more and more
research is explicitly concluding that increasing numbers of
Americans are "falling away from religion because they see it
as so wrapped up with Republican politics."

Here's why I believe this is actually good news.

Learn about Jim Wallis' book and PRE-ORDER for a limited time
here.

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