Toby’s central warning is that sustained hostility inevitably creates temptation. When young Christian men are constantly maligned as “racist,” “sexist,” or “antisemitic” merely for rejecting progressive dogmas, there is a real danger that some of them will eventually become hardened, cynical, and resentful.

N.T. Wright is an Anglican Bishop and a New Testament scholar. He is famous for saying many things, but the thing that he has said that has sparked this particular article is the following: “Wherever St Paul went, there was either a riot or a revival. Wherever I go, they serve tea.”

If from the pulpit you only hear, week after week, about your union with Christ, and every passage of scripture that is preached culminates with “and Christ succeeded where you failed” or “and Christ did what you and I could never do” or “therefore we thank God for our union with Christ,” then you have a pastor feeding you milk from a big-boy sized rubber nipple.