The Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. observed that ”the most segregated hour of Christian America is 11 o’clock on Sunday morning.”

How come evangelicals never protest the thousands of Ukrainian (and other European) refugees who are being welcomed into our country?

I am writing to applaud Rich Elfers for writing his convincing “In Focus” column that shines a light on the “Contradiction between Conservative Christians and the Bible” (published March 20). Mr. Elfers nails it: His column is a civics and Sunday School lesson rolled into one.

Elfers reminds us that we are all immigrants. The migrants at the southern border are coming here for some of the very same reasons that European colonizers began coming to this country in the 1600s: economic opportunity, freedom from tyranny and for political freedom. Imagine that. Does it sound familiar? We wouldn’t be here today if the indigenous people here had a Homeland Security Agency during that time. Mr. Elfers also reminds us that there is a demand for workers to fill jobs in America that continue to go wanting.

Real Christian churches and especially African American churches are all about Kumbaya, making lives better and working to achieve social justice. Not so much, for the so-called evangelical churches in America.

I am not generalizing: evangelicalism in this country has lost its interest in decency and is now consumed with fear, resentment, aggrievement, denying religious liberties to others, and yes, racism. So-called evangelicals have a warped, upside down and antithetical idea of what it is to be a Christian and an American in this country. Beware.

Stanley McKie

Enumclaw