The Reckoning Awaiting American Evangelicalism

When the political fever breaks, what will remain of the Christian witness?

There's a passage in Jeremiah that has haunted me lately: "They dress the wound of my people as though it were not serious. 'Peace, peace,' they say, when there is no peace" (Jeremiah 6:14). I think about this verse when I consider what historians will someday call the Trump evangelical moment—a period when a significant portion of American Christianity…