Can't you just be a little nicer?

(to white evangelicals)

Fair enough. When you write a book subtitled “How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation,” it’s a legitimate question.

I was asked this a couple weeks back, and not for the first time. I imagine I’ve entertained some form of this question at least a couple dozen times since the book came out. The question comes in both good faith an…