What is happening in Evangelical land?
Do college educated evangelicals prefer DeSantis over Trump?
Point Loma Nazarene University is the latest Christian college to deal with a controversy over LGBTQ issues.
Evangelicals working with the climate lobby.
Sometimes atheists and agnostics act more Christian than self-professed Christians:
A declining mainline church gives its building to an evangelical congregation.
How should evangelicals engage the world in polarized times?:
Jim Wallis leads a conversation on King’s “Letter from a Birmingham Jail.”
Denver Seminary is hosting a climate change conference.
David French with another interesting observation:
The future of Andy Stanley’s “In Touch Ministries.”
More on evangelical voters in Iowa.
Blast from the past:
Some evangelicals are not happy about Tucker Carlson’s exit from Fox News.
T.D. Jakes is working with Wells Fargo to build mixed-income communities.
Southern Baptists getting ready to evangelize the 2024 Paris olympics.
More on “Pastors for Trump“
Rick Warren gives some advice to Beth Moore:
Charles Stanley’s grandson is auctioning-off some of his grandfather’s things.
“Shaming” at Cedarville University.
A documentary on Hillsong megachurch:
Turning Point USA, Charlie Kirk, and MAGA evangelicalism.
If you’re faithful, God will “advance” your “career”:
The Christian Right just can’t let go of this Bud Light-Dylan thing:
Meanwhile, the creationists at the Standing for Freedom Center are upset that Andy Stanley may believe in theistic evolution:
Trump court evangelicals David Brody and Eric Metaxas talk about “what went wrong in America and how we can get our country back.” Metaxas believes we are “on the lip of the abyss of hell” and we need a new “American Revolution”:
Franklin at the Maryland State Fairgrounds:
And crab cakes:
And let’s not forget Mission BBQ:
Albert Mohler on the pro-life strategy:
Steven Curtis Chapman is in the same league as Madonna and George Strait.
Shocked!!!!:
Tom Buck on David French on abortion:
God-fearing Christians Sean Feucht, Kirk Cameron, and Peter Hegseth:
And let’s not forget the 3-flag minimum rule:
Beth preaches:
This is a comment on the Point Loma controversy.
My question is: How will it all end? When I attended BIOLA College (now Biola University) we could be kicked out for attending movies or for dancing. Now a lot of Christian colleges and universities show movies on campus and hold dances. The evangelical infrastructure has decided to hold the line on accepting homosexuality and other non-binary behavior or identification as anti-Christian even to the removal of cisgender faculty arguing for acceptance of such students.
The problem is that students who are sincere in their faith, have been born again, and faithfully attend church who also know that they are “gay” desire a Christian education. While in the past they hid their orientation as much as possible, today’s ethic is to be honest about your sexuality. Bam! We have a problem. I think almost all Christian institutions of higher learning have gay alumni organizations. Christian gay students want to be openly gay and have their own clubs on campus. Something has to give. Right now it is the gay students and alumni who are on the outs. For how long?
My wife’s cousin, Lynn Jost, is a professor at the Fresno Mennonite Brethren Seminary. The Mennonite church he attends offered to host a gay student club from Fresno Pacific University. For this they were kicked out of the denomination (Mennonite Brethren), and Lynn, who is not the pastor of the church, had his pastoral credentials taken away.
Lynn wrote a devotional piece on the story in John’s Gospel about the healing of the man born blind for Christian Century. (I would be encouraged if Christianity Today had run it!) In it he gives biblical support for inclusion of non-binary people in the church. It is a beautiful little article. Please give it a read: https://www.christiancentury.org/article/lectionary/march-19-lent-4a-john-91-41
Thanks, Ron. I will check out Lynn’s piece.