You Will Know Them by Their Fruits: Christianity, Democracy, and Our Present Crisis

As a follow-up to our Conversations Worth Having seminar with Dr. Brian Blount, Adult Christian Education is sponsoring a three-week program which will continue and expand on the conversation of Christian Nationalism.

On Sundays February 25, March 3, and March 10, Dr. Heath Carter, Professor of American Christianity at Princeton Theological Seminary, will address how questions about the future of U.S. democracy—indeed, whether democracy in this country has a future—have come to the fore of public life in recent years. In this series, he will explore the significant part that Christians have played in the making of our present crisis and whether there is anything in our past that we can hold on to as we seek to contribute to a better future.

Sessions will be held in the MacColl room beginning at 12:30 p.m. Sandwiches will be provided. 

Remote attendance will be available via Zoom for those who are not able to attend in-person. Click below to register or call the church office (215-567-0532) to receive the Zoom link. (Those attending in person do not need to register!)

The series schedule is as follows:

• February 25: Deep in the Soil:
  A look at the deeper roots of what scholars and journalists alike have taken to calling white Christian nationalism. 

• March 3: Seeds of Possibility
  A brief history of now, with attention to some of the surprising contingencies, unexpected breakthroughs, and roads not (yet) traveled that are also part of the story.

• March 10: Cultivating Hope
  An opportunity to reflect together on what it might mean to move forward in faith.