The first Christians didn’t call themselves Christians.

These “little Christs,” as they were called, were labeled Christians because they emulated Christ, in all his compassionate, kind, loving, healing, welcoming, border-breaching, barrier-busting goodness.

Conservative Evangelicals emulate someone antithetical to all of these things.

They aren’t Little Christs.

They aren’t Followers of the Way.

They aren’t even Evangelicals, as they have no good news to bring for the poor, imprisoned, and vulnerable.

They aren’t peacemakers.

They aren’t caregivers.

They aren’t healers.

They are simply “Little Trumps": reflecting his heartlessness, his cruelty, his self-reverential narcissism.

In that God of arrogance and greed and malice, they truly trust.