A Mormon television star stands in front of the Lincoln Memorial and calls American Christians to revival. He assembles some evangelical celebrities to give testimonies, and then preaches a God and country revivalism that leaves the evangelicals cheering that they've heard the gospel, right there in the nation's capital.The news media pronounces him the new leader of America's Christian conservative movement, and a flock of America's Christian conservatives have no problem with that.
If you'd told me that ten years ago, I would have assumed it was from the pages of an evangelical apocalyptic novel about the end-times. But it's not. It's from this week's headlines. And it is a scandal...
Russell Moore, a preaching pastor, theology professor and dean of the School of Theology at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky, has some serious misgivings about the rise of Glen Beck's "civil religion" as a substitute for orthodox Christianity.
I do too.
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