What 'Post-Evangelical' Means to Me

Moving away from a movement marked by anxiety.

On a recent procrastination jaunt, I went down an Internet rabbit hole about a popular Christian influencer. She is a talented communicator, and also not my cup of tea. In my view, she is fixated on preaching against specific behaviors, as if behavior modification is the point of Christian faith. In other words, she’s drawn the boundaries of Christian identity more tightly than I do or find helpful.

So I was struck, down in the rabbit hole, to find that other Christians on the Internet — “discernment bloggers,” self-touted keepers of biblical orthodoxy — have labeled this influencer “dangerous,” “unbiblical,” “woke.” What I find too tightly bound, they find too loose. And they don’t just think she’s wrong on certain doctrinal issues. Rather, they want to warn lay Christians about her and other famous leaders as people, even though they don’t know them personally at all.

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These people aren’t just wrong; they are bad and dangerous. They are out.

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