Methodist

Paradises, Protestant or not, do not survive unless robustly defended.

WASPs tended to identify themselves as uniquely positioned guardians of the nation’s heritage. As their cultural influence had begun waning by World War I, their spokesmen resorted with greater ferocity to a crusading mindset to bolster their influence.

Now what is here symbolized has been the most fundamental idea in our American democracy. Ours is a government by discussion.

What could be more foolish than to blow up half of Europe and the Far East and then give billions to repair the damage? What is more inconsistent than the killing of soldiers and civilians followed by superhuman efforts to save the lives of the survivors?

George Yancey and Ashlee Quosigk argue in “One Faith No Longer: The Transformation of Christianity in Red and Blue America” that the gulf between progressive and conservative Christianity is so great they are no longer the same faith.

If we are to take a constructive part in world politics our leaders cannot assume that religious questions are unimportant.

Most critiques of Christian nationalism seem sweepingly to deride all reference to God relating to country.

John Wesley’s basic Augustinianism created a nonconformist populism that was intent on renewing the people. While Wesleyanism did not always live up to its core commitments, the heart of its political theology resides in a fusion of Wesleyan Augustinianism with nonconformist populism.

“After our arrival we went up to the town of Savannah; and the same evening I went to a friend’s…