Source: The UnPopulist
by Berny Belvedere
“An atheist has just written one of my favorite books on religion in recent memory. As a committed Christian, I see nothing unsettling about that — not when the book, Jonathan Rauch’s Cross Purposes, treats its main subjects, American Christianity and its connection to liberal democracy, with such great intellectual care. Rauch and I don’t share a religion, though we do share an allegiance—a devotion, even—to a particular political configuration: liberalism. Rauch’s thesis is that the American project has always relied on the presence of vibrant forms of both Christianity and liberalism as a precondition for its flourishing, and that for a long time now, Christianity has not been upholding its end of the arrangement.” (03/17/25)
https://www.theunpopulist.net/p/we-need-to-restore-a-healthy-protestantism