I am experimenting with a new feature here at The Way of Improvement Leads Home. Let’s call it the “Evangelical Roundup.” I am building here off of my Trump-era court evangelical roundups. We will see how it goes.
Eric Metaxas just blocked his old friend, Veggie Tales creator Phil Vischer:
Conservative blogger Rod Dreher comments:
David Michael follows-up:
Yesterday we called your attention to the Center for American Values, a branch of Trump’s new “America First Policy Institute.” Former court evangelical Paula White will run this new center. Journalist Sarah Posner reminded me of this Sen. Chuck Grassley investigation:
Kristin Kobes Du Mez is getting some pushback on Jesus and John Wayne.
Timothy Keller on “purity culture”:
Read the rest of the thread here.
April 25 now appears to be the day Trump will come back.
Franklin Graham believes that Donald Trump was a model of civic virtue (from FB):
President Trump did not even take a salary when he was serving as president—he gave it all back. So many politicians leave office with far more money than when they came into office. This report says President Trump also dropped about $1 billion in wealth during those four years while he served. Donald Trump became president not to make money or to put his hand in the till, but to do his best to preserve the great things about this nation for future generations. He put America first, not his own interests. I’ve never seen anyone work harder. Thank you President Trump for your sacrifice and service to this nation.
Marshall Foster runs something called the World History Institute and he believes that the United States is in a covenant with God. It all goes back to the Pilgrims. He recently appeared on the Eric Metaxas show. Over the course of the interview he and Metaxas moved sloppily from Plymouth to the “dark forces” behind the Biden administration.
There is so much wrong with this interview–both theologically and historically. But I don’t have time for a minute-by-minute dissection. I addressed some of this stuff here.
Sociologist Samuel Perry is listening to Family Radio. I assume it is research! 🙂
Beth Allison Barr’s book drops next week. I have read the book and I appreciate how she writes from within evangelicalism. Here is my blurb:
The Making of Biblical Womanhood will send shock waves through conservative evangelical Christianity. Powerful personal testimony, a solid handle on the theology and biblical issues at stake in the debate over the role of women in the church, and a historian’s understanding of how the past can speak to the present inform Barr’s convincing challenge to patriarchy and complementarianism. This book is a game changer.
The Black evangelical community in the U.K. reflects on the ministry of John Stott.
Slacktivist is reading the student handbook at John MacArthur’s university.
Beth Moore is taking a break from Twitter:
Liberty University’s Freedom Center just released a new publication. There is a lot about rights and freedom. There is little about sacrifice and obligation.
Former court evangelical Samuel Rodriguez is opposed to social justice.
Here’s a blast from the past:
Why is church membership declining? Because Christians are having “an allergic reaction to the religious right.”
Theologian Vince Bacote’s new book on race.
Tony Perkins’s definition of “family values” (he directs the Family Research Council) now includes restricting democracy in Georgia, opposing woke capitalists, and the filibuster.
Christianity Today writer and historian Daniel Silliman makes an interesting observation about Abraham Piper:
This looks like a really interesting book about gender in the Southern Baptist Convention.
