When evangelical starts to sound like very bad news for very many Americans, it has drifted far from its roots. A prophetic consensus has emerged that U.S. evangelicalism is irreducibly linked with white privilege.

The exchange lasted just a few seconds, too quick for Natasha Nkhama to register anger, fear or rage. “He sort of shoved me off the sidewalk and he said … ‘no n—–s allowed on the sidewalk,’” Nkhama recounted.

On Tuesday night, I watched as 81 percent of white evangelicals and born-again Christians voted for someone who admitted to sexually assaulting women and gleefully affirming that he would face no consequences for doing so.

Texas Baptists established affirmation of same-sex marriage or homosexual relations as grounds for declaring a church outside the bounds of cooperation with the Baptist General Convention of Texas.

This week, both liberal and conservative churches have tried to embrace their role as places to help heal and rejuvenate people’s spirits after such a bruising election.

Wilshire Baptist Church, a flagship congregation among progressive Baptists, has voted to grant gays and lesbians full membership to the church, which would allow them to be considered for leadership positions, and grant same sex marriages.

The obituary has been written many times over. The old-guard Religious Right would be diminished, perhaps vanquished, over its support of Donald Trump. But then Trump won, and overwhelming numbers of white Christians helped carry him to victory.