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Sunday, June 21, 2026

On MAGA, Evangelicalism & Christian Nationalism

In this clip from Ask N.T. Wright Anything, Michael Bird and Tom Wright discuss the rise of Christian nationalism, the influence of MAGA ideology within white evangelicalism, and why many believers are struggling to reconcile faith with political movements centered on power, nationalism, and culture wars.

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"And I want to say please take a long step back read the New Testament for all it's worth and you'll find that the the ideology of MAGA and it is an ideology, has become an idolatry, where you're in effect worshiping your own ethnicity and trying to exalt that to hook it into various pictures of what's going on in the Middle East in a way which actually deconstructs complete completely the teaching of Jesus.

What happened to I am meek and lowly in heart and you will find rest for your soul?

What happened to Mark 10 where Jesus says the rulers of this age lord it over their subjects and they boss them and bully them about. We're going to do it
the other way up.

Let the one who wants to be great be your servant. The one who wants to be first be the slave of all because the son of man didn't come to be served but to serve and to give his life as a ransom for many.

In other words, when you look at Jesus in the New Testament, when you read the sermon on the mount, when you read the Nazareth manifesto in Luke 4, when you track back to those great pictures of the wolf and the lamb lying down together in Isaiah and so on, which the New Testament picks up on... what on earth has any of that got to do with the present volatile warmongering MAGA ideology?

So my message to my beloved American friends is please reread the New Testament, kneel at the foot of the cross and learn a different way."

#1 | Posted by Corky at 2026-06-21 12:18 PM | Reply

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