π Why does American Christianity look more like Babel than Pentecost?
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November 28, 2025
Living & Loving in the Tension of Faith
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βIf religion is messy, we are a nation of slobs.β So writes Liz Bucar in the introduction to her book, Stealing My Religion. This thought gives me pause as I reflect on the current state of disarray in which we find ourselves here in the United States. American Christianity is a hot mess of confusion and murkiness marked by vitriolic and dogmatic assertions of regressive and harmful values -a mess not without biblical precedent resembling the tower of Babel more than it does the primal church of Pentecost....
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