The Sophia Society Blog
What is Project 2025?
Before you dismiss this as yet another progressive crying wolf, hear me out. I was an evangelical’s evangelical. I worked in leadership at Focus on the Family for ten years. I’ve been in meetings with the Heritage Foundation, the Family Research Council, and Family Policy Councils. I heard the private parts out loud.
Why Evangelicals Love the Ten Commandments
Posturing, virtue signaling, and forcing religious beliefs on others while not lifting a finger to help the other in daily life is Republicanism, and sadly, defines large swaths of American Christianity.
Raised in Captivity: Living the American Nightmare
Living in the United States is a daily dose of trauma. In no other developed country can you go bankrupt for getting sick or going to college. We are the only nation who is OK with killing kids in school.
Christ & Culture: 3 Ways to Resist Christian Nationalism
Is America a Christian nation? Was it ever? Should it be? Should Christians have power over culture, and what has happened to the marginalized when we were in power?
Capitol Siege: The Price of Christian Patriarchy
Fueled by white rage, a culture-warrior mentality, and the idolatry of militant masculinity, evangelicals joined fascists, white supremacists, and neo-Nazis lashing out at a nation they no longer…
The Politics of Jesus
I’m not sure if you’ve heard, but there is a Presidential Election next week. It promises to be one of the most factious contests in American history, dividing a nation and even pitting Christianity against itself. 82% of white evangelicals are expected to vote to…
“We Have No King But Caesar”
Last week, President Donald Trump appealed to evangelical voters by claiming Joe Biden will “hurt the Bible, hurt God” and that Biden, a lifelong Catholic, is “against God.” This isn’t the first time he…
Make No Peace With Oppression
Unfortunately in today’s America, the Bible has been used primarily to support the status quo rather than to challenge it. President Trump recently took an uninvited, tear-gas-laced field trip…
The Politics of Pentecost
If there is one unifying, but overlooked theme running from Genesis to Revelation, it’s this: The people of God almost always find themselves living in, yet being at odds with, the empires of this world. From Egypt…