While huge crowds of protestors took to the streets in US cities to express their outrage over police brutality against People of Color, president Trump celebrated a rocket launch and used violent military force to stage a photo of himself holding a Bible in front of a church. In this article for the online magazine Religion Dispatches, UBC Prof. Tony Keddie shows how Frederick Douglass’s nineteenth-century critique of slaveholding Christianity and recent research on Christian nationalism help us to make sense of these events.
