Cross Purposes: One believer’s journey to reconcile the peace of Christ with the rage of the Far Right

By Bob Welch, BS '76 (journalism)

Amid the insidious shoals of Trump, COVID, and race, Welch plies the cultural currents to answer a question theologian Henri Nouwen so eloquently asked: "To whom do I belong? To God or to the world?" At stake with the answer is an evangelical faith that has drifted into troubled waters, and whose hope lies not in presidents, political parties, or patriotism, but in the one who’s been overlooked amid the rancor and rage.

Ragamuffin Books, 2021