I was involuntarily freed and detached from that category — officially and publicly, right here on this platform when this here blog that you’re reading right now was removed from this site’s “evangelical channel” due, explicitly, to the concern that readers might be confused to encounter a blog advertised as “evangelical’ that turned out not to be supportive of “a white, patriarchal, nationalist religious movement made up of Christians who seek power to transform American culture through conservative-leaning politics and free-market economics.” I remember what it feels like to identify as an evangelical because loving Jesus and loving the Bible was the most important thing to me only to be told, constantly, that this did not matter at all — to constantly have the gatekeepers of evangelicalism reminding me that loving Jesus and loving the Bible wasn’t nearly as important as voting Republican no matter what. Part of the reason you may not be familiar with the good work that World Relief had been doing is that it has always needed to fly under the radar of those white, patriarchal, nationalist gatekeepers of white evangelicalism in order to avoid being labeled as “controversial” and getting pushed out of the tribe.
Author: Fred Clark
Published at: 2025-12-15 22:34:51
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