An Interview With Eric Metaxas: Should Christians Back Out of Politics and ‘Sing a Little Louder’? by John Zmirak

The Stream’s John Zmirak interviews author and broadcaster Eric Metaxas on his new book.

John Zmirak: You have a new documentary film that dramatizes the key points you made in your best-selling book Letter to the American Church. It features Charlie Kirk, James Lindsay, and other leaders who help draw out the parallels between the rise of totalitarianism in Nazi Germany, in Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s time, and the suffocating intolerance of the Woke left today. You show how only a small fragment of Christians wanted to be “political” in opposing the Nazi crackdown and neopagan warmongering.

Instead, they wanted to “sing a little louder” in church to drown out the sounds of trains carrying innocent people to death camps. What are a few concrete examples of Christians “singing a little louder” today? What do the people I charitably call “Squish Christians” think is more important than abortion up through birth, the castration of kids, the censorship of the media, and the collapse of our nation’s borders? Maybe you could express their mauve priorities in hymn titles … .

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