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Throughout his distinguished career, Obery M. Hendricks, Jr., has been a pillar of moral clarity for many overlapping communities: African Americans, religious scholars, Christians of all backgrounds, political leaders, journalists, and his many listeners and readers. Now, in this book, he rejects the anti-Christ views of the American religious right that are corroding the faith from within. Devoting each chapter to a specific contemporary issue--from abortion rights to homophobia, from gun control to nativism--Hendricks invokes Biblical and theological texts to show how evangelicals are misreading the teachings of Christ. He denounces the moneyed, power-hungry interests who have led evangelicals astray with hollow promises of a Christian-centric government. And he calls for a return to the Christlike love and generosity that he grew up with in his family's Baptist community. Timely, inspiring, galvanizing, and both intellectually rigorous and broadly accessible, this book is essential listening for anyone concerned about the moral direction of church and country.

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Obery M. Hendricks, Jr., is a bestselling author, an activist, a religious scholar, and an ordained elder in the African Methodist Episcopal Church. His previous books include The Politics of Jesus: Rediscovering the True Revolutionary Nature of Jesus' Teachings and How They Have Been Corrupted and The Universe Bends Toward Justice: Radical Reflections on the Bible, the Church and the Body Politic. Ron Butler is a Los Angeles based actor who works regularly as a commercial and animation voiceover artist and an audiobook narrator. A member of the Atlantic Theater Company, he has over a hundred film and television credits to his name and won an Independent Filmmaker Project Award for his work in the HBO film Everyday People.

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