What is going on in Evangelical land?
Trump-voting Southern Baptist Al Mohler writes a 2500-word article on Joe Biden titled “A Profile of Moral Collapse.” He announced on Twitter that his article is “New and urgent”:
A Texas evangelical explains why he will not be attending in-person worship at his church.
If you are in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area, Chris Gehrz is teaching a class:
Randall Balmer draws a straight line from segregation to the anti-abortion movement. The National Review responds.
Free webinar today:
Publishers Weekly reviews Christianity Today writer Dan Silliman’s Reading Evangelicals. Quote: “David Bratt, former Eerdmansâ executive editor, said Silliman didnât want to ‘clobber evangelicals over the head, but instead to understand the evangelical imagination’ and how they weave together what they read in fiction and what they believe about the Bible.”
A Timothy Keller health update:
Evangelicals gather in Houston to respond to gun violence.
An Eric Metaxas trifecta:
First, he is back from vacation and interviewing (again) Mike Lindell, the sponsor of his radio program. Lindell calls his cyber-symposium an “amazing success.” Metaxas says that Lindell is the “biggest threat” to liberals and Fox News (yes, Fox News) in the country. Lindell agrees. He calls Fox News “disgusting.”
The November 2020 election was almost eleven months ago. Metaxas and Pennsylvania state senator Doug Mastriano are still trying to overturn it. Notice the tone of defeat in Mastriano’s voice. He knows his audit is never going to happen. Doug, it’s over.
“Prophet” Amanda Grace says that God told her there will be a “changing of the tides” in the leadership of this country and God will “shake” the “unholy Union” formed by the President, Vice-President, and Secretary of the State. She also said the Lord told her last year that Gavin Newsom and Andrew Cuomo will be removed from office as a forerunner to the removal of the Biden administration. Watch:
Making sense of the Independent Network Charismatics.
Jack Hibbs plays the race card. He recently posted this quote on his Facebook page with the words, “How incredibly true is this!:
A Phoenix megachurch is raising money for Afghan refugees andThe New York Times takes note.
Evangelicals who love Israel.
Lee Strobel makes a case for heaven.
A Southern Baptist congregation in Georgia baptizes 114 in one day.
Random experiment. Search the word “evangelical” or “evangelicalism” on Twitter. Nearly all the tweets are negative and the majority of those tweets are written by outsiders. If you want to find the good things evangelicals are doing in the world you will need to search Twitter using different words or search at other sites.
Blast from the past. I used to watch these guys on Saturday nights on local access TV:
Evangelicals after 9-11: Why Harry Potter was bad, but The Lord of the Rings was good.
A fair question:
Where does the Anglican Evangelical belong today?
Beth Moore and Katelyn Beaty on Amy Grant:
Moore and Moore:
Are evangelical pastors secretly spreading the Gospel of Q on YouTube?
Trump’s spiritual adviser. Hmm…:
Sean Feucht is coming to Washington D.C.
Here is David Barton’s son Tim Barton. It appears he has now moved from studying primary documents to political commentary. Always “encouraging” to hear a Christian talking about “killing” and “obliterating” people. Watch:
Samuel Rodriguez is hanging out with Jonathan Falwell:
The National Association of Christian Lawmakers wants to make America Christian again.
More “objective journalism” from David Brody. He is not even trying anymore. He was more interesting when he was actually doing journalism on CBN and Chuck Todd occasionally invited him to join the panel on Meet the Press:
Dale Brown, a progressive evangelical activist, has died.
Frank (some of us remember him as “Frankie”) Schaeffer is still wrestling with his fundamentalist upbringing. His anti-abortion-Taliban comparison is not helpful.
Hot Takes!:
English evangelicals on what it means to be human.
This is a tired, stale, and disingenuous argument. Everyone knows that as soon as the people vote the way Ryan Helfenbein and the Liberty University Standing for Freedom Center want them to vote, Ryan Helfenbein will be singing the praises of American “democracy.”
I love how Pope Francis uses the word “evangelical” here.
Jenna Ellis, who worked as Donald Trump’s lawyer and as a fellow of the Liberty University Standing for Freedom Center, is upset that Russell Moore will be a fellow at the University of Chicago this Fall:
Another evangelical adoption agency splits over LGBTQ issues.
A Washington state evangelical congregation distributes free school supplies.
A Topeka pastor steps down after 44 years in the same pulpit.
Outbreak Church has changed its name. Probably a good idea.
Pray for Max Lucado
Does anyone else find it interesting that Robert Jeffress, pastor of First Baptist Church of Dallas, has yet to tweet about the Texas heartbeat abortion law?
