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White Christian Nationalism was on display during the January 6th Insurrection at the U.S. Capitol that resulted in seven deaths. This movement seeks to fuse Christianity with our founding story as a country to serve white people, push out minorities, and dispel religious liberty. It’s the single most significant threat to American democracy and religious liberty and the witness of the Church.
Yet, White Christian Nationalism goes directly against the teachings of Christ.
As a self-identified Christian Feminist, my response to this movement is Faith is Feminist, an inclusive online platform that intends to challenge the toxic messaging of White Christian Nationalism by way of the real narrative of Christianity: love and acceptance, no matter sexuality, preferred gender expression, skin color, or country of origin.
I am here to state they are false in their depictions and perceptions of what Christly living is.
In blog posts and interviews, I hope to motivate a change to see that true faith is feminist, inspiring more Christians, and anyone with a calling, to become inclusive activists for a better world.
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About Meghan:
Meghan Farnsworth is an award-winning writer, researcher, and founder of Faith is Feminist, a blog that challenges the toxic messaging of White Christian Nationalism with research and theology.
Meghan holds a B.A. from Oberlin College and an M.A. in Journalism from the University of Southern California (USC). While at USC, the Riot Grrrl movement of the early ‘90s became the basis of her research that culminated into a profile piece on the life, lyrics, artistry, and politics of feminist and Riot Grrrl co-founder, Allison Wolfe of Bratmobile. Meghan was also instrumental in creating USC’s first arts & culture podcast, Ampersand. Ampersand has since won numerous awards (including an LA Press Club nomination for Meghan herself) and has been featured on “The Rest is Noise” blog by former New Yorker Magazine critic Alex Ross.
Meghan graduated from USC in 2015, putting her amid the rise of Donald Trump as a 2016 presidential nominee. With her journalistic research of the Riot Grrrl movement in tow, she witnessed how the personal is political and returned to the Christian teachings of her childhood. As a self-identified Christian Feminist and progressive, she started to see how Republican leaders were misusing and manipulating the original Christian texts for political and social control.
Compelled to reverse this representation through what Christianity actually teaches — radical love, acceptance, equality, and care for the most vulnerable — Meghan created Faith is Feminist, where people of all backgrounds and faiths can unite and challenge one of the most significant threats to American democracy: that is White Christian Nationalism.
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