“My hope is it all implodes spectacularly.”ĭu Mez says that, based on the feedback she’s been getting since “Jesus and John Wayne” published last year, Heinen’s experience is not unique: “The book has become one of the ways evangelicals have raised the issues they want to raise.
“Christians in America are more cultural than they are followers of Christ,” said Heinen. The conversation that started in Heinen’s mom’s group in 2016 has continued, most recently with a Zoom book club on Kristin Kobes Du Mez’s polarizing history of white evangelical masculinity: “Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation.” Author and historian Jemar Tisby went public with the story of how he left evangelicalism on a “Pass the Mic” podcast episode two weeks ago, launching a Twitter campaign hashtagged #LeaveLoud.
Wildly popular Baptist teacher Beth Moore announced this month she was leaving the Southern Baptist Convention after nearly three decades, following a wave of Black pastors who departed the SBC in December after its seminary presidents released a statement targeting critical race theory. “I didn’t feel that I was complicit in it at the time, but complicit in the bigger narratives that set the stage for him.”įour years later, the data remains stubbornly static, and polls are showing little sign white evangelical commitments to conservative politics and the Republican Party are weakening.īut there are indications the last year of reckoning with racism, sexism and sex abuse scandals in the white evangelical church is taking its toll. “We were asleep at the wheel, and all of a sudden we’ve got Trump in the White House and 81% of white evangelicals supporting him,” she told Religion News Service on a recent Zoom call. When she and her family moved in 2018, she settled at a “progressive Lutheran” church instead.
She vented her frustration to the group of moms she met with once a week for toddler playdates, pounding her fists on the table. The native Iowan had been attending evangelical churches for more than two decades, but Donald Trump’s election brought her to what she now calls a “crisis” point. In 2016, Annelie Heinen’s frustration with evangelical culture exploded.
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