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The Seven Deadly Sins of White Christian Nationalism

A Call to Action

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Hear the call to overcome today's culture of hate and bring healing and hope into our life together. While right-wing conservatives dare to call themselves Christians as they tear down equality and justice, commit horrific acts of violence, and fan the flames of fascism in America, Carter Heyward issues a call to action for Christians to truly hear God's message of peace and love.

Heyward shows how American Christians have played a major role in building and securing structures of injustice in American life. Rising tides of white supremacy, threats to women's reproductive freedoms and to basic human rights for gender and sexual minorities, the widening divide between rich and poor, and increasing natural disasters and the extinction of Earth's species—all point to a world crying out for God's wisdom.

Followers of Jesus must first call out these ingrained and sinful attitudes for what they are, acknowledging what the culture of white Christian nationalism is doing to our country and our world, and commit ourselves ever more fully to generating justice-love, whoever and wherever we are.

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    • Publisher's Weekly

      July 4, 2022
      In this distracted warning, priest Heyward (Tears of Christepona) contends that white nationalism has corrupted Christianity. She chronicles the history of the movement in the U.S. from colonial Puritans to the January 6 attack on the Capitol and enumerates seven sins implicated in “Christofascism”: entitlement, white supremacy, misogyny, capitalist spirituality, violence, and the drive for omnipotence and domination. Exploring how Christianity has abetted white supremacy, Heyward details early white Christian Americans’ claims that Blackness stems from God’s curse on Ham, but she doesn’t explain how her other examples of white supremacy—obsession with racial “purity” and backlash to the 1619 Project—link back to Christianity. The author criticizes clergy for remaining silent on issues of economic justice, but her lengthy foray into “Reaganomics” again neglects to mention how Christianity is implicated. This often loses sight of its stated aim of detailing Christianity’s contributions to systemic injustices in the U.S., instead presenting a brief history of U.S. racism that is covered more thoroughly elsewhere. Readers looking to understand white Christian nationalism would be better off seeking out Jeff Sharlet’s The Family or Chris Hedges’s American Fascists.

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      August 1, 2022
      Writing as a politically progressive white Christian American woman and a lesbian feminist theologian, author and Episcopal priest Heyward defines her audience for this book as being white Protestant Christians who are moderate to progressive in their politics and spirituality. To them she offers her take on what she calls the seven deadly sins of white Christian nationalism ("a movement spawned by white Christian Americans [men] to superimpose their conservative religious values on the leaders and laws of the United States of America"): the lust for omnipotence; entitlement; white supremacy; misogyny; capitalist spirituality; domination of the earth and its creatures; and violence. Readers will decide for themselves which sins are the most grievous, and will be helped by the book's third part, intended to encourage Christians to think about what they can do. Chapter-ending discussion questions may provoke heated debate, since the author is a resolute liberal and provocateur--which makes this book an unqualifiedly exciting read.

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