OPINION: Want to make America a ‘Christian nation?’ Then let’s talk faith, fact and disappointment

Let me tell you an Easter story. The First Baptist Church in Baxter Springs sits on the northwest corner of 10th Street and East Avenue. It’s a solid brick building, and its front doors are perched atop a cascade of concrete steps leading to the sidewalk below, a literal stairway to supposed salvation. It was inside this church that, when I was 14 years old, I was dunked in a big tub of water…