What is happening in Evangelicalland?
Why are the people who operate in a culture that has a long history of individual and systemic racism always the people who can’t resist taking a shot at critical race theory? And why do they take these shots at critical race theory at precisely the time the country is suffering through the latest round of racial injustice?
Liberty University is suing Jerry Falwell Jr. and Falwell Jr. responded:
The Exec Comm of the LU Board has made yet another attempt to defame me and discredit my record following a series of harsh and unnecessary actions against my children, Becki, and me. Throughout all my years at the University, where we built a multi-billion-dollar enterprise that reaches Christian’s worldwide, I always abided by the requirements that applied to everyone on the University staff. This lawsuit is full of lies and half truths, and I assure you that I will defend myself vigorously. My wife and I were banned from the campus my Dad and I built last week and where my parents are buried. We were threatened with arrest if we walk on campus. My son was told he was being fired after yrs of service for no reason other than I was a public figure. A big power grab to rule LU and $2 billion endowment I built.
It appears that Falwell Jr., who once tweeted this, is concerned about an African-American Liberty University board member:
In addition to my 3 previous tweets, I should add that one of the most loyal LU board members for decades and Chmn of the Bd, an African-American, was removed from his position yesterday for advocating for diversity. LU Online is 27% black but the resident campus is only about 5%.
Good to know that Morgan Fairchild is following this story! :-):
Mike “MyPillow Guy” Lindell was supposed to launch Frank, his new social media site. It didn’t happen. The site is committed to free speech. He has announced that the site will ban the use of certain curse words. Also, Eric Metaxas now believes that Brian Kemp stole the Georgia gubernatorial race from Stacey Abrams and Lindell is upset with Jimmy Kimmel.
It looks like the ex-evangelicals are going after Tim Keller because he believes that sex should be reserved for marriage. Is Chrissy Stroop and his friends at Religion Dispatches really interested pluralism? Or is this attack on purity culture just their latest effort to rid the world of evangelical Christianity? It sure seems like the latter.
Speaking of evangelical sexual ethics, have you read Houghton College president Shirley Mullen’s piece on the Equality Act?
Pat Robertson is back in the news. It baffles the mind that major news outlets still see Robertson as a spokesperson for American evangelicalism. In this case, Robertson is right:
This piece by Christianity Today CEO Tim Dalrymple got a lot of attention this week. Some like it:
Others have offered criticism. Here is University of Virginia theologian Charles Marsh:
Why does the media keep thinking that conservative evangelicals are going to listen Pete Buttigieg or that somehow the Transportation Secretary speaks for evangelicals? At the end of this video (09:00ff), CNN’s Jake Tapper references Buttigieg’s “fellow evangelicals”:
Speaking of CNN and the vaccine, last week I analyzed this video piece.
A blast from the past:
Over at Fox News, Tucker Carlson is preaching a racist replacement theory. So is former Liberty University Falkirk Center fellow Charlie Kirk:
I love Doug Winiasrski‘s work. (And Kate Bowler’s too!):
Hard hitting stuff here from Liberty University’s revamped think tank. It appears the culture war has now extended to Mixed Martial Arts:
One might argue that we are already are a “godless, secular society,” and that may be a good thing for the church:
Fair point:
