Our society needs innovation within Christianity
- sciart0
- Jun 5
- 1 min read
KEY TAKEAWAYS
In Cross Purposes: Christianity’s Broken Bargain with Democracy, journalist Jonathan Rauch argues that American Christianity is in crisis, losing members and moral authority as churches focus more on politics than the teachings of Jesus Christ.
It’s also a crisis for democracy, Rauch argues, because Christianity is a “load-bearing wall” in America’s liberal democracy.
As an atheist, Rauch frames his book as an outsider’s attempt to learn from Christianity by examining its values through a secular lens.