“If Christians in America are serious about helping people see Jesus and what he’s about and what he claims, then the label ‘evangelical’ is a distraction because it bears, unfortunately, the weight of a violence,’” he said in the NPR interview. “I would not use that term because of its association with January 6.”

“If Christians in America are serious about helping people see Jesus and what he’s about and what he claims, then the label ‘evangelical’ is a distraction because it bears, unfortunately, the weight of a violence,’” he said in the NPR interview. “I would not use that term because of its association with January 6.”

— Sarah McCammon