Finding Hope in a Divided Country: Christian Nationalism, Theology and the Church
$40.00
Join Red State Christians author and Lutheran Pastor Angela Denker for a four-week
course that unpacks Christian Nationalism from a theological, pastoral, and journalistic
perspective. This course will discuss Denker’s insights from her reporting travel across
America in 2018, speaking to ordinary Americans as well as prominent Christian leaders
about the 2016 election, politics, and religion. The course will also discuss changes in
the political and religious landscape since Red State Christians was first published in
2019, especially examining the impact of COVID, Jan. 6, 2021, and the death of George
Floyd. Pastor Denker will bring in real-life examples from her time pastoring a small,
rural congregation in Minnesota from 2019-2023, and she will also make time for
questions and case studies from participants’ congregations and real-life experiences;
as well as refer to companion studies of academic and journalistic studies of Christian
Nationalism, including the work of Kristin Du Mez, Andrew Whitehead, Samuel Perry,
and Sarah Posner, among others. The themes for the four classes will be Surprise,
Warning, Opportunity, and Hope.
Zoom class open to all on September 14, 21, 28 and October 5, 2023 from 6:30 – 7:30pm Central Time.
Registration: $40
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Join Red State Christians author and Lutheran Pastor Angela Denker for a four-week
course that unpacks Christian Nationalism from a theological, pastoral, and journalistic
perspective. This course will discuss Denker’s insights from her reporting travel across
America in 2018, speaking to ordinary Americans as well as prominent Christian leaders
about the 2016 election, politics, and religion. The course will also discuss changes in
the political and religious landscape since Red State Christians was first published in
2019, especially examining the impact of COVID, Jan. 6, 2021, and the death of George
Floyd. Pastor Denker will bring in real-life examples from her time pastoring a small,
rural congregation in Minnesota from 2019-2023, and she will also make time for
questions and case studies from participants’ congregations and real-life experiences;
as well as refer to companion studies of academic and journalistic studies of Christian
Nationalism, including the work of Kristin Du Mez, Andrew Whitehead, Samuel Perry,
and Sarah Posner, among others. The themes for the four classes will be Surprise,
Warning, Opportunity, and Hope.
Zoom class open to all on September 14, 21, 28 and October 5, 2023 from 6:30 – 7:30
pm Central Time.
Registration: $40
