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Evangelical roundup: Memorial Day 2021 edition

John Fea   |  May 31, 2021

Billy Graham at Florida Bible Institute, circa late 1930s

What is going on in Evangelicalland?

Paige Patterson is back. He preached yesterday at Robert Jeffress’s church. I guess Jeffress didn’t heed the advice of the Southern Baptist president.

Join First Dallas in person or online at https://t.co/xvpkucVPll Sunday for a special message from Dr. Paige Patterson. pic.twitter.com/G2LLijTKxX

— Dr. Robert Jeffress (@robertjeffress) May 28, 2021

Can good Bill Hybels and bad Bill Hybels exist at the same time?

Evangelical financial guru Dave Ramsey fired an employee for having premarital sex. She speaks to a Nashville television station:

BREAKING: for the first time, Caitlin O’Connor, the former @daveramsey employee who was fired for having premarital sex, is breaking her silence in her first interview. The new starling documentation from inside the company about her termination, tonight on @WSMV at 6:00. pic.twitter.com/ZKZGLs8X9S

— Jeremy Finley (@JFinleyreports) May 27, 2021

Veteran religion writer Kenneth Woodward on evangelicals and politics

Somewhere near Charlotte, North Carolina. (Photo by Gerardo Marti):

Looking forward to reading Rusty Hawkins’s new book:

It’s here! pic.twitter.com/mcVZHUXZR1

— Rusty Hawkins (@Profkins) May 19, 2021

Christianity Today announces a new podcast on Mark Driscoll and Mars Hill Church

Today’s blast from the past. BJ Thomas, RIP:

Several new documentaries and movies on evangelical youth culture

Sadly, Phil Vischer is correct:

If only we had fought racism with the same passion we are now bringing to fight against anti-racism. Would there have been a need for an anti-racist movement?

The church allowed racism to flourish. Now we’re mad about secular solutions to a problem we wouldn’t solve. https://t.co/fzDzJmHjzI

— Phil Vischer (@philvischer) May 28, 2021

Bob Dylan’s born-again phase

Lance Wallnau is still in Trump’s army:

Trump-loving evangelist Lance Wallnau claims that he has risked his life for Trump, proclaiming him to be a leading general in God's army, "like Patton hitting Hitler in Bastogne." pic.twitter.com/15tsZYLLeh

— Right Wing Watch (@RightWingWatch) May 28, 2021

Zondervan won’t publish the “God Bless the USA Bible.” But another publisher will.

But did it actually stop bullets?

Evangelicals fighting for life:

@ShaneClaiborne speaking at today's @DeathPenaltyAct event. pic.twitter.com/bcU3tpk9x1

— Gary M. Votour (@Gary4SC) May 29, 2021

It looks like Matt Gaetz has his district’s evangelical churches in his pocket.

Mark Silk is right when he says the “true Republican religion” is “Trumpianity.”

Thank you Tim Keller:

Jesus took the abandonment we deserve, (Mt 27:45), so God now will never abandon us (Hebrews 13:5). We are simultaneously radically sinful and permanently and completely accepted as right in his sight (2 Cor 5:21). There is no more condemnation for those in Christ Jesus (Rom 8:1)

— Timothy Keller (1950-2023) (@timkellernyc) May 29, 2021

Albert Mohler is arguing with a former professional wrestler. So is Liberty University’s “Standing for Freedom Center”:

Former WWE star John Cena cowered to Chinese Communists and apologized for calling Taiwan a country.https://t.co/0EJYJKst8c

— Standing for Freedom Center (@freedomcenterlu) May 26, 2021

Kevin DeYoung of The Gospel Coalition defends complementarianism

Pat Robertson is still going strong:

Pat Robertson warns that if the United States stops selling weapons to Israel, "we as a nation will suffer the curse that God placed on those who would curse Abraham." pic.twitter.com/aCZQqFjUm4

— Right Wing Watch (@RightWingWatch) May 24, 2021

Several evangelicals are very upset about Biden’s new budget. If only Al Mohler would use the term “undiluted evil” for other moral problems in American culture.

This is just undiluted evil, and he told us exactly what he was going to do. No one can now be surprised. President Biden’s budget repeals Hyde Amendment, intends to coerce US taxpayers into paying for abortion. https://t.co/rif2qoS1M2

— Albert Mohler (@albertmohler) May 29, 2021
https://twitter.com/toddstarnes/status/1398796989970722823

“Evangelicals for Biden” could not be reached for comment. https://t.co/gfh5HVAfYX

— Andrew T. Walker (@andrewtwalk) May 28, 2021

But Erik, he’s so moderate and winsome. What’s not to love?

— Andrew T. Walker (@andrewtwalk) May 28, 2021

'Pro-Life Evangelicals for Biden' feel Betrayed as Biden funds abortion. Evangelicals for Biden are joined by other dismayed organizations: Atheists For Revival, Jews For Jihad and Angry Peacemakers.@WestJournalism https://t.co/88dwm4vEdW

— Lance Wallnau (@lancewallnau) March 13, 2021

Imagine if Christian Right leaders like Robert Jeffress started offering mere “thoughts and prayers” to end abortion? Imagine if they said that we don’t need laws making abortion illegal, we just need God and changed hearts. Imagine if they said, “it’s not Roe v. Wade that’s the problem, its sin. Here is Jeffress on the recent shootings in California:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHqgbDUKxw0

Jack Hibbs is upset about the State Department flying a Black Lives Matter flag:

I love the good folks at the Ocean City Tabernacle. I used to watch Tony Campolo preach there. I also saw GLAD in concert there. Now they invite conspiracy theorists to speak.

China barred Trump court evangelical Johnnie Moore.

David Brody being David Brody. It’s all about owning the libs:

👇👇👇 Say what? This is like missing a day of work to go to a funeral and someone at work says, “Enjoy your day off!” So disrespectful! https://t.co/LFlJldA102

— David Brody (@DBrodyReports) May 30, 2021

Brody wants all “young evangelicals” to be dispensationalists:

Young Evangelicals must learn proper theology on Israel – tempered with compassion for Palestinians – or we risk losing them, Rosenberg says https://t.co/AP2HZuXyh0 via @all_israel_news

— David Brody (@DBrodyReports) May 27, 2021

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