Why Christians are more frustrated than ever and desperately need discernment
Why Christians are more frustrated than ever and desperately need discernment
By Brandon Showalter, Opinion writer and social commentator
Set aside any distinctly political topic or person for a moment, if you can.
If you're a 40-year-old (or over) Evangelical like me, you've probably seen and heard so much about who Christians are in the last 20 years, and much of it has been hogwash. I know this personally, having spent nearly a decade in the media, and I have seen from the inside how these distortions and cartoonishly Ned Flanders caricatures are generated in real time.
Before the proliferation of social media platforms, many legacy media narratives that sincere, theologically orthodox believers faced were, and still are, beyond tiresome. While I can't speak for everyone, many Christians have been intensely frustrated that no matter how graciously they tried to explain where they were coming from, they were routinely misrepresented in the press, and they've often felt as though they were neither heard nor understood. And to be sure, I'm not defending truly evil people within churches and ministries who are ravenous wolves (Matthew 7:15) in sheep's clothing, who should be exposed.
But I was wrong about something that I've believed for a while. Maybe partially wrong, but still wrong. As the world rapidly changes, it's important to be honest about what I've seen previously but now see more clearly.
A few years ago, I remember watching a clip of MSNBC's Alex Wagner on Bill Maher's show...
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