What is happening in Evangelical land?
David Brooks talks to Russell Moore, one of the subjects of his recent piece on dissenting evangelicals. Moore says “crazy has become a church-growth strategy.” Not everyone likes it:
I don’t know this guy Nate Schlomann, but he seems like a real “winner”:
Yes, it’s getting really nasty out there. This tweet encapsulates so much of what is wrong with evangelicalism right now:
More evangelicals and others respond to David Brooks’s recent piece on dissenting evangelicals. And NPR’s Sarah McCammon is correct here:
There are people who are drawn to evangelicalism because of “what that term has become in the Trump era.” Or as Ryan Burge puts it, “for every person that was lost, another was gained.”
John Stackhouse critiques Daniel Silliman’s critique of the Bebbington Quadrilateral.
Justin Giboney on Thomas Sowell and the evangelicals who love him:
Veteran religion writer Richard Ostling on biblical inerrancy.
Gordon College just cancelled speaking engagements with a speaker who sparked student protests for his alleged “misogynist” and “transphobic” comments.
Wayne Gruden has a new book out:
A court evangelical is running for Congress in South Carolina. He says God is “raising-up armies” to “shut down” Democrats.
An editor at an evangelical publishing house critiques prayer apps.
Evangelical worship leader Sean Feucht and disgraced Trump National Security Director Michael Flynn hung out in Ohio recently:
The charitable giving habits of American evangelicals.
The president of an organization called Intercessors for America urges evangelicals to get involved in politics.
Franklin Graham is praying for Putin.
Blast from the past:
Jim Wallis wants to make voting rights the “religious issue of our time.”
Peter Wehner on faith and science:
Southern Baptist missionaries see a rise in conversions during COVID-19.
Mark Galli, the former editor of Christianity Today, has a new book chronicling his conversion to Catholicism.
The person behind “The New Evangelicals” feed seems to have a fair point here:
Evangelical pastors working with the Canadian anti-vax mandate convoy.
Families are suing a West Virginia public school for making students attend an evangelical revival during school hours.
Du Mez and Barr in Waco:
An anti-vaccine evangelical pastor is causing problems at an Oklahoma City hospital.
Several evangelical churches received grants from the American Heart Association of West Palm Beach to start programs related to living healthier lives.
Two graduates of Southwest Baptist University
Evangelicals critical of David French.
A leading evangelical pastor on the state of the movement:
Jon Voight is making a film about Israel targeting evangelicals.
A Grammy award-winning gospel artist opened a church in Columbia, South Carolina.
Phil Vischer gets some high praise:
Richard Land talks about the pro-life witness of the Southern Baptist Convention.
The creator of the Fall and Decline of Mars Hill defends himself against his critics:
Jemar Tisby on deconstructing Christian racism.
Tim Keller endorses Mark Noll:
And let’s not forget the very surreal interview with Trevor Loudon in his equally bizarre “documentary” on Marxism in evangelical churches.
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