On Worshiping America
Plenty of comments have already been made on the patriotic worship service at First Baptist Dallas last week. It really should not come as a surprise that “Court Evangelical” Robert Jeffress’ church held something like this. It should also not…
On Patriotic Idolatry and the Christian Flag
I’ve written before on patriotic idolatry, something that infects a significant segment of American evangelicalism. I appreciated the recent Reformation 21 post by Donny Friederichsen on what he called patriot-olotry. When I was a child I was part of conservative…
On Patriotic Idolatry
Christians have a word to describe the worship of that which is not God: idolatry. Idolatry, of course, can be a quite impressive form of devotion. The only difficulty is idolaters usually end up killing someone for calling into question…
