“Christian Nationalism” is a poorly defined bogeyman that in nearly all its iterations exists only to tar Christians as advocates of ideas and policies that critics don’t like. It is tendentious in the extreme to say, for instance, that someone who opposes abortion on the basis of her faith is a nasty Christian Nationalist, while a person who opposes racial segregation on the basis of the same faith is not.

Even apostles had to be told rather bluntly that discipleship is not about holding on, but about going and telling.