Rejecting Mercy: Why I No Longer Understand American Evangelicals

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Rejecting Mercy: Why I No Longer Understand American Evangelicals

My father pastored a small non-denominational church in northern Wisconsin. As a non-denominational entity, the church largely owed its identity to my father’s theological proclivities. These were formed by my parents’ conversion from Missouri Synod Lutheranism into the Charismatic movement of the 1970s, my father’s Vietnam military service, and his admiration for Reagan-era politics. Because non-denominational churches often exist as a kind of …