Off Script 41: Guns, Immigrants, and White Evangelicals

This is part two of our discussion about Charles Mathewes’ Washington Post article, “White Christianity is in big trouble. And it’s its own biggest threat.”  Check out part one here.  In this episode we consider gun control, immigration, the death penalty, and treatment of the poor in an effort to understand and respond to evangelicalism’s ongoing public relations problem.  Are “white evangelicals” as Mathewes puts it “a breathtakingly cruel bunch?”

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• Read the original Washington Post article here
• Listen to part one of this discussion: Off Script 40: Roy Moore, Gay Wedding Cakes, and White Evangelicals
• Check out these Off Script episodes mentioned in this discussion:
  • Off Script 38: Killing in War (A Christian View of Violence)
  • Off Script 28: Seeking a Christian View on Refugees and Immigrants
  • Off Script 37: Killing Criminals (A Christian View of Capital Punishment)
  • Off Script 16: Christians Discussing Politics
• Intro music: “Protofunk” by Kevin MacLeod.  Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License.