Christianity and partisanship have switched places

Pastor Matthew Best
3 min readMar 17, 2021

I read an interesting article by Benjamin Corey in which he argues that there are really only two types of Christians. He makes the argument that Christian has gone from an adjective to a noun. Before you glaze over or have flashbacks to high school English class, here’s the simple way he uses to describe the difference:

“I don’t believe the word “Christian” was ever intended to be used the way we use it in America. When it was first used, the term wasn’t in reference to a well-crafted religion with a long list of tenets, but instead was…

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Pastor Matthew Best

My name is Matthew Best. I’m an ELCA (Lutheran) pastor who attempts to translate church and churchy stuff into everyday language.