Since the pandemic, the new Post-Evangelical Collective has established hubs in 14 major cities, with about 50 congregations. They seek to chart a path of faith divorced from right-wing politics.

Keri Ladouceur no longer calls herself an Evangelical Christian.

Like many younger members of this sprawling American religious tradition, she’s left what she says has become a movement mostly defined by aggressive white conservatism and Christian nationalism, the prerogatives of male privilege, and a near obsession with regulating human sexuality.

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    I think it’s a really subversive text,” she says. “But I think the biggest thing is, time and time again Jesus made space for outcasts.

    indeed, and after giving grace Jesus suggests “sin no more”

    And who Jesus came to welcome, every time it flipped religious ideals on their heads – even his own.

    “even his own”… who knows what this is referring to?