New today: While MAGA Christians insist that the Bible dictates their anti-abortion, anti-LGBTQ+, anti-immigrant Christian nationalism, the Mainline Protestant tradition—of which Talarico is a part—has a very different understanding of what it means to follow Jesus. texasobserver.org/senate-james…

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'Fake' Christian? Or Faithful?

Though MAGA believers call James Talarico “blasphemous,” he’s squarely within his Mainline Presbyterian tradition. And that's a timely reminder of the diversity of Christianity in Texas and beyond.

^{David R. Brockman (The Texas Observer)}