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Mark Hackett
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Exploring faith, church culture, and formation. Husband of a queen. Dad of two. “That relentless tall guy." Views are my own. https://www.markhackett.com
Voting for $203.5 million to protect yourself as healthcare for countless Americans is destroyed is as disgusting as it is politically suicidal.

Grow a spine, or be replaced by someone who has one.
November 9, 2025 at 11:49 PM
If you weren't paying attention or chose not to believe them, the good news is you aren't ignorant anymore.

Reclaim your agency and starting fixing this now and in the midterms next year.
October 15, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Side note: before anyone yells at me that "not all evangelicals are like this," I say as much in this article. Not all evangelicals are like this. Most are though, and those that aren't rarely if ever speak up about this problem.

It just is what it is.
October 2, 2025 at 6:29 PM
The main point remains the same: most evangelicals simply don't care about persecuted Christians as much as they think they do and are told they do, and evangelical culture/institutions play a huge role in blinding them to this truth.
October 2, 2025 at 6:29 PM
I made some off the cuff remarks to help explain why. After some feedback and questions, I've expanded on them to provide a more clear picture. See above link.
October 2, 2025 at 6:29 PM
figure some things out. Only solution I came up with is to tell the truth & LIVE (not just speak) the Gospel as best we can, where we find ourselves.

Sometimes merely being faithful & resisting corruption & moral decay is all we can do. I hope that's enough.

www.markhackett.com/writings/sur...
Surveying the new American Imperial Cult
The Religious Right’s bowing to MAGA, and trying to live with moral clarity in the face of widespread moral collapse.
www.markhackett.com
September 26, 2025 at 3:22 PM
swath of the public, perhaps even a majority.

Again, the memo was pulled down, but we already knew this was the direction they wanted to go. This screams the already loud part louder.

I don't know what to do about any of it. A few months ago I wrote this (as a lifelong Christian) to try to...
September 26, 2025 at 3:22 PM
are valid, respectfully-made, and rooted in real world examples, usually with inspiring calls for all of us to try to do better, too.

This document was not created in a vacuum, and it shouldn't be read in one either. This is about using a handful of incidents to try to crack down on a broad...
September 26, 2025 at 3:22 PM
the admin have a VERY narrow definition of what counts as "traditional," so narrow even a lot of traditionalists have issue with it) have been a part of the country since before the founding.

Examples abound of the administration/MAGA freaking out over legitimate critiques of the country that...
September 26, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Coming back to this. A lot in this doc that gives away the real intentions/motivations, but this seems to be the crux.

This is an inherently political document. Legitimate and thoughtful critique of America, capitalism, specific strands of Christianity, "traditional" values (keep in mind many in...
September 26, 2025 at 3:22 PM