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‘Learning to be Brave’ in the Face of Christian Nationalism
A review of Mariann Edgar Budde, How we Learn to be Brave: Decisive Moments in Life and Faith (2023)
Katie Day
It is hard to describe how surrealistic it has been to be in the US in the last year. Every day brings a fresh assault on credulity, decency, and any kind of moral standards. We are in a constant state of whiplash, alternating between shock, outrage, fear, discouragement, and resolve. Some days we just want to blinker ourselves and focus on the quotidian tasks of daily life … and some days we’re in the streets. It is hard to know how to plan or predict. As I write this in the winter of 2026, a mad king-wannabe wants to acquire Greenland because he is disappointed that he did not receive the Nobel peace prize. Relationships with allies are being trampled and NATO is being threatened in service to the authoritarianism of a small group of global bullies. A campaign of revenge against critics (or those presumed to be disloyal) has been unleashed – a plethora of lawsuits are clogging courts, career public employees are leaving in droves, reputations are damaged if not ruined. Well-paid but not well-trained masked federal agents are attacking citizens and long-time residents throughout Minneapolis and communities all over the country. (I just got back from an ICE raid in my small town in Maryland.) Trump has said the only thing to stop him is his ‘own morality’, which is seemingly non-existent.
God only knows what will be happening by the time you read this.
And where is the church in all this?
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