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Evangelical roundup for May 23, 2022

John Fea   |  May 23, 2022 2 Comments

What is happening in Evangelical land?

Syke Jethani just triggered Rod Dreher

Shane returns to his bus:

After a week of travelling, speaking, and turning guns into garden tools…
it’s great to be home, especially when “home” is a school bus turned into a solar-powered tiny house with a composting toilet, and a really great wife and dog. pic.twitter.com/ZfINxeswTm

— Shane Claiborne (@ShaneClaiborne) May 22, 2022

Shane learns something about Mastriano:

I know I should’ve remembered this (being dear friends with @elizagriswold and all)… but I just made the connection that @SenMastriano is a graduate of my Alma mater @EasternU. Oh my. https://t.co/7lTaoAS90z

— Shane Claiborne (@ShaneClaiborne) May 21, 2022

The artist behind Chick Tracts has died

Tim Keller quotes church historian Kenneth Scott Latourette:

At the beginning of Christianity there must have occurred a vast release of energy, unequalled in the history of the race….in the assurance of his resurrection and continued presence with his disciples…is to be found the major cause of the success of Christianity.- Latourette

— Timothy Keller (@timkellernyc) May 22, 2022

Ruth Graham on the state of politics in evangelical churches.

The downside of Gordon-Conwell’s move to Boston.

Why is McLean Bible Church in the DC area electing new leaders?

Tommy Kidd wonders if the fundamentalist’s won. Kevin DeYoung also offers his two cents.

Blast from the past:

Did a disgraced megachurch pastor hire a hit man? Kirk Cameron doesn’t seem to mind.

Former Trump lawyer Jenna Ellis on Nancy Pelosi and abortion:

Pelosi will never be able to wipe the blood off her hands.https://t.co/seZ5atjFP2

— Jenna Ellis (@JennaEllisEsq) May 22, 2022

Jim Garlow on the bishop who banned Pelosi from Holy Communion:

How dangerous is pro-Trump pastor Greg Locke?

California megachurch pastor Jack Hibbs continues to endorse candidate in violation of the Johnson Amendment of the U.S. tax code:

Problems at a Ohio megachurch called Dwell

Eric Metaxas cheers on Mastriano:

Russia sanctions Tony Perkins (along with 962 others).

Russia has permanently sanctioned me for drawing attention to the country’s religious persecution. Rest assured, whether it is Russia, China, or any other government that is hostile to religious freedom, I will continue to speak out for the persecuted. https://t.co/9dZSD2zCGn

— Tony Perkins (@tperkins) May 21, 2022

James Robison on “private choices” and “public actions”:

Drawing distinctions between an individual’s private choices & their public actions may seem very modern & genteel, but the separation of these two connected aspects of life constitute an outright denial of one of its most basic truths: A tree will be known by its fruit.

— James Robison (@revjamesrobison) May 20, 2022

Yet Mohler voted for Trump because he would overturn Roe v. Wade. “God’s work in Christ” for gun massacres and white supremacy, but Trump and the Supreme Court for abortion:

We are all grieving with the people in Buffalo in the wake of that horrifying and unquestionably evil act. The biblical worldview's answer—God's work in Christ—is the only satisfying answer to this kind of evil that staggers the imagination. https://t.co/TNIo5hkv8D

— Albert Mohler (@albertmohler) May 21, 2022

Mike Huckabee talks with the conservative candidate for president of the Southern Baptist Convention:

Are we less fearful of God these days? @GovMikeHuckabee talked to Pastor @tomascol on The People's Podcast. Listen today, only on @QuakeMedia or @ApplePodcasts: https://t.co/RxiikjRzdh #religion pic.twitter.com/YAkX4Omkqe

— Quake Media (@QuakeMedia) May 20, 2022

Huckabee is also getting ready for his daughter’s GOP primary race:

Busy weekend getting ready for @SarahHuckabee primary for AR Gov Tue; gotta get to the cemetery & get names from tombstones so we can vote them absentee. Have to get there early B4 the Dems get there & vote them! They are better at it–been doing it a long time!

— Gov. Mike Huckabee (@GovMikeHuckabee) May 20, 2022

Owen and John:

Truth Matters returns this morning with a sermon from Owen Strachan. The conference livestream begins in ten minutes—follow along at https://t.co/7pVNzhgHj4.

— Grace to You (@gracetoyou) May 20, 2022

Pro-Trump worship leader Sean Feucht defends leading worship at the Doug Mastriano headquarters on election night:

Funny how spirit-filled Bible believing Christians who love America are such a threat to establishment. 😅

Worship at a watch party is SOOO DANGEROUS!! 👏🏼😂👏🏼@dougmastriano https://t.co/ctsJwggRUK

— Sean Feucht (@seanfeucht) May 21, 2022

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  1. William says

    May 23, 2022 at 1:31 pm

    While I am not a progressive and generally do not appreciate the snarky and self-superior tone of this page, I must agree with you wholly about the rise of Christian Nationalism in evangelical churches. To paraphrase J. Gresham Machan (who was a subject of the commentary of Thomas Kidd and Kevin DeYoung, Christian Nationalism is another religion just as the liberalism of Harry Emerson Fosdick fell into that same “other religion” category.

    I am thankful that I never was a part of any church that has done in this direction, and as a member now of a church in a historically-Black denomination (COGIC), I don’t believe that Christian Nationalism is going to be a driving force. But we always need to be concerned about other things.

    So far, we have not seen a joining of the Christian Nationalist evangelicals and the much more insidious Christian Identity movement, and I doubt we will, but nonetheless, we are seeing new idols for destruction. I doubt this will end well.

  2. John Fea says

    May 27, 2022 at 10:32 pm

    Glad to see you are starting to see the light, William! 🙂

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