I’m a lifelong Christian. I attend Southern Hills Baptist Church in south Oklahoma City, and I’ve gone to church for as long as I can remember. My faith shapes how I live, how I treat others and how I view the world. But lately, I’ve been troubled by something I see growing louder in our politics — a movement that calls itself Christian nationalism.

I believe many of our nation’s Founders were Christians. They believed in God, in Scripture and in a moral order that still guides much of our country today. But they were also fleeing religious persecution — not from secularism, but from the Church of England, where religion and government were one and the same. They wanted freedom of religion, not religion imposed through government.

I share those values. I believe the church should be a pl

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