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Evangelical roundup for February 17, 2022

John Fea   |  February 17, 2022

What is happening in Evangelical land?

Scot McKnight on why evangelicalism needs salvation.

Now the Liberty University Standing for Freedom Center is going after Tim Keller:

Sadly, in the twilight of his career, Keller’s approach to evangelistic Christianity seems to be increasingly seeker-sensitive at best and borderline postmodern at worst as he appears to try and appeal to the interests and intellects of the secular world. https://t.co/fRRbTcUpGR

— Standing for Freedom Center (@freedomcenterlu) February 16, 2022

An evangelical pastor and theologian enters the debate on historians and activism. I am assuming, based on his piece, that this pastor does not ever mobilize Christian history to advance some kind of cause.

Peter Wehner with a thread on compassion:

The sin that seemed to evoke Jesus’ anger was the sin committed by those who possessed hard hearts (see Mark 3), who lacked mercy, who were spiritually arrogant/judgmental, who were hypocritical/selfishly ambitious 2/6

— Peter Wehner (@Peter_Wehner) February 16, 2022

not the "sinners," not the tax collectors, not the prostitutes/woman caught in adultery and so forth. (“Truly I tell you, the tax collectors and the prostitutes are entering the kingdom of God ahead of you." Matt 21:31) He "reacts with anger at the spectacle of inhumanity." 4/6

— Peter Wehner (@Peter_Wehner) February 16, 2022

The Christians I've most admired in my life — and I'm guessing this is true for many of you — are those who most mirror the heart and ethic of Jesus; whose emotions, priorities and loves (and sources of upset) most closely track with his. 6/6

— Peter Wehner (@Peter_Wehner) February 16, 2022

John Piper’s crew on “deconstruction.” The Gospel Coalition is also covering deconstruction. Christianity Today too. Also Denny Burk.

Mark Tooley responds to David Brooks’s New York Times piece on dissident evangelicals.

Jemar on the recent Grove City College Newsweek piece:

Phew! When you end up in @Newsweek because a group of conservative Christian parents and college students allege that you’re a stark, raving Critical Race Theory apologist! 😱 Fam, I’m a historian, and history has America’s many racist receipts. https://t.co/RUYpz8E7VG

— JemarTisby.Substack.com. (@JemarTisby) February 16, 2022

The history of evangelical feminism.

Albert Mohler warns evangelicals about gambling.

David French seems to be irritating the Christian Right. Here is Eric Metaxas:

And here is Metaxas and John Zmirak on the David Brooks piece on evangelicals:

And here French responds to a critic:

The piece also took care to note that these radicals don't represent the Christian mainstream but are very dangerous nonetheless. Religious radicals don't need majority support to be deeply destructive. You can read my piece here: https://t.co/MXbF0xH64D

— David French (@DavidAFrench) February 15, 2022

Evangelical pastors debate whether CRT or racism is the bigger threat.

Another evangelical pastor behaving badly.

Blast from the past:

Southern Baptists are on board with the Dignity Act. The Council for Christian Colleges and University supports it as well:

https://twitter.com/cccuorg/status/1494028012391706632

Trump court evangelical Jentezen Franklin settles out of court with Mike Evans and Churches United With Israel.

Here is an interesting Twitter dialogue between Miles Smith (history professor at Hillsdale), John Wilson (editor of the now defunct Books & Culture), and Darryl G; Hart (also a history prof. at Hillsdale):

2005 @oldlife 2022 @oldlife pic.twitter.com/d0e0l8ByAh

— Miles Smith IV (@IVMiles) February 16, 2022

Not trying to trigger. Just noting scholars saw things almost two decades ago and wrote about them. I read parts of this book when it came out (I was 21). Had good point and because of that 2016, Trump, etc didn't surprise me, wreck my faith, etc. Thankful for books like this.

— Miles Smith IV (@IVMiles) February 16, 2022

decades ago" were seen through a squint. It's an obsession that only relatively recently was I able to connect w/ certain strains of anti-Catholicism that were virulent in my evangelical youth. This shtick always included grains of truth (just as the critiques of…/2

— John Wilson (@jwilson1812) February 16, 2022

flatter the diagnostician? with a "come to the OPC where everything is swell?" Not sure if you ever read the book, John. But you'd find in the conclusion a plea for abandoning evangelicalism because of its inherent religious exceptionalism-"we are so much bigger and1/

— D G Hart (@oldlife) February 16, 2022

gatekeeper status as part of CT Inc. I understand you needed to be team CT. But I also think people inside that world have the same sort of problems that afflict people who work in the executive branch of the federal govt.

— D G Hart (@oldlife) February 16, 2022

1978, Wendy & I have been part of the @Cov_Church, where most of our fellow members aren't particularly conscious of being "evangelicals" in any remotely sectarian sense. Early in my years w/ B&C/CT, I was able to persuade the powers that be to bring Frederica…/2

— John Wilson (@jwilson1812) February 16, 2022

Just had lunch w our local LCMS minister. We dont take worship together, but we're good friends. I wonder if what is often called sectarianism is just taking our respective confessions seriously.

— Miles Smith IV (@IVMiles) February 16, 2022

John, how can we tell when you are expressing your own views or those of the evangelicalism that informed CT, Fuller, and NAE. Your own experience of the faith is one thing. It is not that of those institutions (even if you worked for them). And when do you lean Covenant?

— D G Hart (@oldlife) February 16, 2022

2/ it has seemed through the years that you speak your own mind about big tent ecumenism and look askance at confessional types and haven't necessarily identified whether you are speaking as a church member or a evee staffer. I'm not sure you have actually tried to sort this thru

— D G Hart (@oldlife) February 16, 2022

Christian nationalism and Canada’s freedom convoy.

Tony Perkins and Sen. James Lankford talk abortion:

Pro-Life advocates can celebrate that the Continuing Resolution set to pass will protect existing Amendments that prevent taxpayers from funding abortions. @TPerkins discusses this with @SenatorLankford on Washington Watch at https://t.co/Go9RILN8Nt pic.twitter.com/2faxiZ1f7H

— Family Research Council (@FRCdc) February 16, 2022

It’s coming to America unless you go to the polls and vote (and send a check to the Family Research Council):

This case is a critical reminder of what is to come—especially here in America when a modern society chooses to push acceptance of radical & unproven ideologies rather than embracing the very freedoms of religion & speech that allowed the West to flourish. https://t.co/uCv3h8XbFJ

— Tony Perkins (@tperkins) February 16, 2022

Joe Carter on how to argue against gender transitions.

Phil Vischer on useful demons:

It’s nice to see demons making themselves useful for a change.

— Phil Vischer (@philvischer) February 16, 2022

Ukrainian evangelicals on the Russian border.

Christian faith and evolution at Point Loma Nazarene University.

More pop dispensationalism from Jack Hibbs:

A conversation between Joni Eareckson Tada and Walter Kim.

Franklin cheers on the new Arizona abortion bill:

Thankful that the Arizona Senate has voted to ban abortion after 15 weeks of pregnancy. https://t.co/7VFzBxdjuJ

— Franklin Graham (@Franklin_Graham) February 17, 2022

I wonder if Franklin knows that the Declaration of Independence, not the Constitution, mentions “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness”:

“I believe our Constitution stands clearly for life, liberty & the pursuit of happiness & the first part of that is life.” –Arizona State Senator @NancyBarto

— Franklin Graham (@Franklin_Graham) February 17, 2022

Franklin continues to carry Trump’s water:

Donald Trump has been proven right again. He said the Russian collusion accusation was a hoax, and now it’s been proven. For 2 years the American people endured lie after lie put forth by the media, and Hillary Clinton’s campaign was behind it all. https://t.co/sUxGr3y3Ju

— Franklin Graham (@Franklin_Graham) February 16, 2022

Franklin sides with the truckers:

PM @JustinTrudeau is invoking the Emergencies Act, which gives the gov't more power to “restore order” in response to the Freedom Convoy protests. The truckers are actually the ones who are trying to restore order by defending the freedoms of Canadians! https://t.co/UxCbZBnJju

— Franklin Graham (@Franklin_Graham) February 15, 2022

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