As evangelicals, we’re still trying to assess and find our footing after the cultural upheaval, COVID lockdowns, widespread political violence, and contested elections that took place starting with the polarizing election of Donald Trump in 2016. In one 2023 response, editors Michael W. Austin and Gregory L. Bock commandeered a couple dozen evangelical academics to exhort people in the pews to steer clear of conspiracy theories and dissenting opinions. Apart from a lot of unobjectionable epistemological advice, Qanon, Chaos, and the Cross (QCC) somehow manages to learn all the wrong lessons from these tumultuous years. Captive to a technocratic, institutional, and partisan mindset, the book discourages average Christians from “doing their own research” and questioning government sanctioned experts. How these authors came away with this lesson, we’ll explore. As one who witnessed these events and did my own research, this is no time to acquiesce. These years cry out for critically engaged and confident citizenship. They should embolden average Christians to question authority and disarm the powers and principalities set against the citizen, and against the cross.
In early 2023 when QCC was advertised as forthcoming, I wondered what unfounded conspiracies would survive till publication. At the time, dissenters from government proclamations and policies were gloating on social media about all the supposed conspiracy theories that had been validated by subsequent events. Examples of critical race theory being taught in schools, which was supposedly not happening, had been instantiated by countless videos and screenshots of classroom instruction and curriculum. Disney creators were leaked boasting about how they freely inserted their “secret gay agenda” into entertainment at every opportunity. Schools had been caught secretly facilitating transgender transitions in school clubs and documents hidden from parents. The “lab leak theory” had achieved mainstream plausibility in government inquiries and the “paper of record”. Jeffrey Epstein’s sex ring for mostly powerful and influential democrats was uncontested, though most of his secrets went with him with his death. Satirists at the Babylon Bee regularly
As evangelicals, we’re still trying to assess and find our footing after the cultural upheaval, COVID lockdowns, widespread political violence, and contested elections that took place starting with the polarizing election of Donald Trump in 2016. In one 2023 response, editors Michael W. Austin and Gregory L. Bock commandeered a couple dozen evangelical academics to exhort people in the pews to steer clear of conspiracy theories and dissenting opinions. Apart from a lot of unobjectionable epistemological advice, Qanon, Chaos, and the Cross somehow manages to learn all the wrong lessons from these tumultuous years. Captive to a technocratic, institutional, and partisan mindset, the book discourages average Christians from “doing their own research” and questioning government sanctioned experts. How these authors came away with this lesson, we’ll explore. As one who witnessed these events and did my own research, this is no time to acquiesce. These years cry out for critically engaged and confident citizenship. They should embolden average Christians to question authority and disarm the powers and principalities set against the citizen, and against the cross.
As evangelicals, we’re still trying to assess and find our footing after the cultural upheaval, COVID lockdowns, widespread political violence, and contested elections that took place starting with the polarizing election of Donald Trump in 2016. In one 2023 response, editors Michael W. Austin and Gregory L. Bock commandeered a couple dozen evangelical academics to exhort people in the pews to steer clear of conspiracy theories and dissenting opinions. Apart from a lot of unobjectionable epistemological advice, Qanon, Chaos, and the Cross somehow manages to learn all the wrong lessons from these tumultuous years. Captive to a technocratic, institutional, and partisan mindset, the book discourages average Christians from “doing their own research” and questioning government sanctioned experts. How these authors came away with this lesson, we’ll explore. As one who witnessed these events and did my own research, this is no time to acquiesce. These years cry out for critically engaged and confident citizenship. They should embolden average Christians to question authority and disarm the powers and principalities set against the citizen, and against the cross.
As evangelicals, we’re still trying to assess and find our footing after the cultural upheaval, COVID lockdowns, widespread political violence, and contested elections that took place starting with the polarizing election of Donald Trump in 2016. In one 2023 response, editors Michael W. Austin and Gregory L. Bock commandeered a couple dozen evangelical academics to exhort people in the pews to steer clear of conspiracy theories and dissenting opinions. Apart from a lot of unobjectionable epistemological advice, Qanon, Chaos, and the Cross somehow manages to learn all the wrong lessons from these tumultuous years. Captive to a technocratic, institutional, and partisan mindset, the book discourages average Christians from “doing their own research” and questioning government sanctioned experts. How these authors came away with this lesson, we’ll explore. This is no time to acquiesce. These years cry out for critically engaged and confident citizenship. They should embolden average Christians to question authority and disarm the powers and principalities set against the citizen, and against the cross.
As evangelicals, we’re still trying to assess and find our footing after the cultural upheaval, COVID lockdowns, widespread political violence, and contested elections that took place starting with the polarizing election of Donald Trump in 2016. In one 2023 response, editors Michael W. Austin and Gregory L. Bock commandeered a couple dozen evangelical academics to exhort people in the pews to steer clear of conspiracy theories and dissenting opinions. Apart from a lot of unobjectionable epistemological advice, Qanon, Chaos, and the Cross somehow manages to learn all the wrong lessons from these tumultuous years. Captive to a technocratic, institutional, and partisan mindset, the book discourages average Christians from “doing their own research” and questioning government sanctioned experts. How these authors came away with this lesson, we’ll explore. This is no time to acquiesece. These years cry out for critically engaged, bold and responsible citizenship. They should embolden average Christians to question authority, to disarm the powers and principalities set against the citizen, and against the cross.
As evangelicals, we’re still trying to assess and find our footing after the cultural upheaval, COVID lockdowns, widespread political violence, and contested elections that took place starting with the polarizing election of Donald Trump in 2016. In one 2023 response, editors Michael W. Austin and Gregory L. Bock commandeered a couple dozen evangelical academics to exhort people in the pews to steer clear of conspiracy theories and dissenting opinions. Apart from a lot of unobjectionable epistemological advice, Qanon, Chaos, and the Cross somehow manages to learn all the wrong lessons from these tumultuous years. Captive to a technocratic, institutional, and partisan mindset, the book discourages average Christians from “doing their own research” and questioning government sanctioned experts. How these authors came away with this lesson, we’ll explore. This is no time to acquiesce to our government minders or to the spirit of the age. These years cry out for critically engaged, bold and responsible citizenship. They should embolden average Christians to question authority, to disarm the powers and principalities set against the citizen, and against the cross.
We’re still trying to assess and find our footing after the cultural upheaval, COVID lockdowns, widespread political violence, and contested elections that took place starting with the election of Donald Trump in 2016. In one 2023 response, editors Michael W. Austin and Gregory L. Bock commandeered a couple dozen evangelical academics to exhort people in the pews to steer clear of conspiracy theories and dissenting opinions. Apart from a lot of unobjectionable epistemological advice, Qanon, Chaos, and the Cross somehow manages to learn all the wrong lessons from these tumultuous years. Captive to a technocratic, institutional, and partisan mindset, the book discourages average Christians from “doing their own research” and questioning government sanctioned experts to avoid embarrassment. I’d like to argue instead that this is no time to acquiesce to our government minders or to the spirit of the age. These times cry out for bold and responsible citizenship, providing evidence in spades that should embolden average Christians to question authority, disarming powers and principalities,
We’re still trying to assess and find our footing after the cultural upheaval, COVID lockdowns, widespread political violence, and contested elections that took place starting with the election of Donald Trump in 2016. In one 2023 realonse, editors Michael W. Austin and Gregory L. Bock commandeered a couple dozen evangelical academics to exhort people in the pews to steer clear of conspiracy theories and dissenting opinions. Apart from a lot of unobjectionable epistemological advice, Qanon, Chaos, and the Cross somehow manages to learn all the wrong lessons from these tumultuous years. Captive to a technocratic, institutional, and partisan mindset, the book discourages average Christians from “doing their own research” and questioning government sanctioned experts to avoid embarrassment. I’d like to argue instead that these years .
In the wake of the COVID lockdowns, political violence, and populist of the early twenties, in 2023 editors Michael W. Austin and Gregory L. Bock commandeered a couple dozen evangelical academics to exhort the people in the pews to steer clear of conspiracy theories and dissenting opinions. Apart from a lot of well-intended and unobjectionable epistemological advice, Qanon, Chaos, and the Cross is seems so captive to acceptable : don’t question authority.
In the wake of the COVID lockdowns, political violence, and populist of the early twenties, in 2023 editors Michael W. Austin and Gregory L. Bock commandeered a couple dozen evangelical academics to exhort the people in the pews to steer clear of conspiracy theories and dissenting opinions. Apart from a lot of well-intended and unobjectionable epistemological advice, Qanon, Chaos, and the Cross is seems so captive to acceptable : don’t question authority.
