This episode features Heather Cronk, founder of Project 21:12, a group that helps ex-evangelical Christians, or exvangelicals as they are known, find community with others like them, and take action to diminish the power of rising Christian Nationalism, fueled in part by evangelical leaders. Heather and Nancy speak about the power of community within the church and the importance of creating a new community for people leaving it; Evangelicals’ transactional alliances with unlikely partners to pursue their end goals; and how secular progressives are reading the room wrong when it comes to strategically pushing back on the church’s agenda. You won’t want to miss this episode for Heather’s fascinating insights into the evangelical mindset and the very real dangers that it poses to our democracy.

Project 21:12

PRRI, “Exvangelicals: Who They Are, Why They Left, and What They Believe”

Matthew D. Taylor, The Violent Take it By Force: The Christian Movement That is Threatening Our Democracy

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