Recker, a former Evangelical pastor, is an influential figure in the Christian Deconstructionist Movement. As Williamson notes, “[Recker] explains a journey taken by millions of Christians in America today who feel strongly that a Jesus of love, not retribution, should guide our hearts.”
Continues Williamson in introducing her conversation with Recker:
Jesus was neither oppressor nor hater nor promoter of theocracy. There are those who claim to speak for him at times, however, who are all of those things. One of the primary forces behind Project 2025 is a political movement called Christian Nationalism. Christian Nationalism speaks not of the teachings of Jesus – feeding the hungry, helping the poor, healing the sick, and kindness to the stranger. Their vision is not about love, but power – specifically a version of power that transgresses basic American Constitutional principles (subjugation of women, primacy of Christianity over other religions, and more). Progressive Christians are rising up in response, bringing to the theological as well as political sphere a voice that is much needed at this time. Theirs is a Jesus of the Gospels, recognizing love and love alone as the salvation of the world.
See also the previous Wild Reed posts:
CHRISTIAN NATIONALISM
• Bowing to an Idol
• James Greenberg on the Identity Politics of MAGA
• Memes of the Times – September 2025
JESUS
• Bruce Fanger on Jesus’s Theology of No Kings
• Why Jesus Is My Man
• Jesus: Mystic and Prophet
• The Mystic Jesus: “A Name for the Unalterable Love That All of Us Share”
• The King of Love My Shepherd Is
• Jesus: Path-Blazer of Radical Transformation
• Jesus and Social Revolution – Part 1 | 2 | 3
• Mysticism and Revolution
• Jesus: Our Guide to Mystical Love in Action – Part 1 | 2 | 3
• Jesus and the Art of Letting Go
• Palm Sunday: A Sacred Paradox
• Jesus: The Upside-down Messiah
• Time to Grow Up
• The Model of Leadership Offered by Jesus: “More Like the Gardener Than the Owner of the Garden”
• Something to Think About – November 27, 2018
• Prayer of the Week – October 19, 2015
• The Lesson of Jesus
• Good News on the Road to Emmaus
• Jesus: The Revelation of Oneness
• What Part of Jesus’ Invitation to “Be Not Afraid” Don’t the Bishops Get?
• Something to Think About – December 14, 2011
• Something to Think About – October 29, 2011
• To Believe in Jesus
• Jesus Was a Sissy
• The “Moral Gaiety” of Jesus’ Teaching
• Jesus Lives!
• “I Like and Respect This Guy”: An Atheist’s Take on Jesus
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