2024-01-12
29 分钟This is in conversation from Apple News.
I'm Shemitah Basu.
Today how the evangelical church became so political, according to a pastor's son, Tim.
Alberta was raised in the church, and I mean that literally.
His father was an evangelical minister for nearly three decades
at Cornerstone Church outside of Detroit.
His mother led the women's ministry.
As a kid, Tim played games in the church's backrooms, did his homework in the office wing,
brought high school dates to Bible study, and even worked as a church janitor while in college.
When Tim's father died in 2019,
Tim returned to the church that he'd always called home to remember his dad and to mourn.
I had people at the visitation the day before the funeral come confronting me,
in some cases, really confronting me in a hostile way, questioning my faith,
questioning if I was on the right team, on the right side of things,
you know, while my dad was in a box about 100ft away.
Tim is a journalist,
and at the time he had come out with a book that was getting a lot of attention.
It was about the impact of Donald Trump on the Republican Party.
That's where this criticism from the church community was coming from.
Tim was really unsettled by the comments he was getting, and it made him.