What’s the line from Nolan’s Batman. You either die the hero or live long enough to become the villain? That seems to be how certain circles treat Christian “celebrities” and Keller weirdly got some of that the longer he lived and the more his platform grew. Call it misplaced anger perhaps? I honestly don’t remotely understand the venom he gets from some as if he’s this leftist wolf in disguise. As you make clear, that’s not remotely true.

I do think there’s an argument that his apologetic does not work as it once did and was abused by his followers. I was (and am) a Keller fan, but James Wood’s article made sense of something that had bothered me at times about his preaching and that was his equivocation of the “left” and “right” and how Jesus is at the center and provides a third way. As if abortion is the same level of wrong/evil as conservatives thinking charity ideally should be done outside of the government. A point he implicitly made repeatedly in his sermons. That kind of worked in 2008, but by 2020, people began to see the holes in that.

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