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CNLP 548 | Tim Keller on the Rise and Fall of the American Evangelical Church, Pastoral Moral Failures, Justice and Forgiveness, and Liberal Democracy and Nominal Christianity

The Carey Nieuwhof Leadership Podcast

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What Do You Think About Race and the Evangelical Church?

White evangelicals wink at white supremacy. They don't articulate it, but when they hear it, they're not put off by it. I think you have to read Mark Noel's book, The Civil War as a theological crisis. James Thornwell and Robert Dabney were two southern Presbyterians who argued that the Bible justifies race. And there was this enormous pressure on the Christians to justify it and not to undermine it.

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