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Evangelical roundup for July 7, 2022

John Fea   |  July 7, 2022

What is happening in Evangelical land?

Will Wheaton College remove J. Oliver’s Buswell’s name from its library?

An evangelical on why evangelicals need to care more about inequality.

The Anxious Bench blog gets a new editor

Tim Keller is a guest on the latest episode of the Rise and Fall of Mars Hill Podcast.

A review of Richard Mouw’s How to Be a Patriotic Christian.

Armenian evangelicals gather to celebrate 175 years.

Al Mohler goes after Michael Gerson.

Al Mohler says same sex orientation is a sin.

Richard John Neuhaus‘s role in overturning Roe.

Evangelicals and “my body, my choice.”

Evangelicals, criminal justice reform, and recent crime waves.’

An evangelical college in New York closes its doors.

Evangelicals aren’t sure how to proceed now that they’ve caught the abortion bus. Should women who have abortions be prosecuted?

Andy Stanley urges evangelicals to focus on Jesus, not politics.

Vietnamese evangelical gather.

Charlie Dates takes a new Chicago pulpit.

Evangelical rockers pass out Bibles at a French heavy metal festival.

A good point by Skye:

The problem with Culture War Christianity, like all forms of fundamentalism, is its laziness. It opts for the far easier task of branding heretics than the hard work of persuading and winning converts.

— Skye Jethani (@SkyeJethani) July 6, 2022

An Ohio megachurch seeks common ground with abortion protester.

The Museum of the Bible celebrates Black evangelical leaders and Denzel Washington is involved.

Jim Wallis on the Cassidy Hutchinson testimony.

Blast from the past:

A prosperity gospel preacher changes his views on tithing.

Robert Jeffress attacks the separation of church and state. Also says America was founded as a Christian, but he is not a Christian nationalist.

The California Christian Right come to grips with the fact the the overturning of Roe v. Wade will have little impact in their state.

Dinesh D’Souza gets Eric Metaxas up to speed on his Big Life movie “2000 Mules.” Metaxas is still pushing the idea that the 2020 election was stolen. (It is now July 2022):

https://rumble.com/embed/v18mukt/?pub=4

A pro-life evangelical Methodist is not happy with his denomination.

Ralph Reed wants to get more people of color in the Christian Right.

The Kentucky town is a leading vacation rental spot thanks to the Ark Encounter.

A former Liberty University Dean passes away.

A staff member at Liberty University’s Standing for Freedom Center says that the American founders “prioritized” the “church over the government” and created the country with a “God-glorifying foundation.” I don’t think anyone in the Liberty University History Department would go this far.

I don’t know any public school history teachers who teaches the founding this way:

David Barton agrees with Clarence Thomas. The Seven Mountain Dominionist sees an opening:

Christian nationalist David Barton is hopeful that in the wake of SCOTUS's school prayer ruling, there are now "open doors to start taking back some of the culture" by, for instance, allowing teachers to "start reading a Bible in the classroom." pic.twitter.com/uWy5TOgsc4

— Right Wing Watch (@RightWingWatch) June 28, 2022

This is happening in Tom Buck’s Southern Baptist Church in Lindale, Texas:

This is an evangelical associate pastor in a SBC church (First Baptist Church in Lindale, TX). I believe his account was rightly suspended after this tweet. His pastor (Tom Buck) also deleted his Twitter.

Not only is this horrific, itโ€™s now a more mainstream Christian view. pic.twitter.com/ZsTt6Bqbtf

— Rebecca (@Bec_Shrader) June 29, 2022

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