29 RELIGION, POLITICS, AND CIVIL DISCOURSE NOTES 1 Stephen L. Carter, God’s Name in Vain (New York: Basic Books, 2000), 5. 2 Ibid., 56. 3 “Beyond Red vs. Blue: The Political Typology,” Pew Research Center, last accessed December 21, 2022, https://www.pewresearch.org/ politics/2021/11/09/beyond-red-vs-blue-the-political-typology-2/. 4 Arthur Brooks, Love Your Enemies (Northampton, MA: Broadside Books: 2019), 29. 5 Aaron Earls, “Churchgoers Increasingly Prefer a Congregation That Shares Their Politics,” LifeWay Research, November 1, 2022, , last accessed January 11, 2023, https://research.lifeway.com/2022/11/01/churchgoersincreasingly-prefer-a-congregation-that-shares-their-politics/. 6 Mark Noll, The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind (Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2022), xi. 7 Peter Wehner, “The Evangelical Church is Breaking Apart,” The Atlantic (October 24, 2021). 8 Russell Moore, quoted in David Brooks, “The Dissenters Trying to Save Evangelicalism From Itself,” New York Times, February 4, 2022. 9 Martin E. Marty, “Where Do You Draw the Line?” The Christian Century 114 (1997): 39. 10 Carter, God’s Name in Vain, 57. 11 Stephen L. Carter, Culture of Disbelief: How American Law and Politics Trivialize Religious Devotion (New York, NY: Basic Books, 1993), 69-72. Carter, 71, expounds on this by writing, “The ideal that the churches should make their members uncomfortable proclaiming the word of God without regard to the desires of the congregation, while much-repeated among the clergy, does not, evidently, fill the pews, least of all if the preaching is about politics.” 12 Carter, God’s Name in Vain, 58. 13 Scot McKnight and Laura Barringer, A Church Called Tov (Carol Stream, IL: Tyndale House Publishers, 2020), 23.
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