What is happening in Evangelical land?
A primer on the Southern Baptist gender wars
World Relief, Council for Christian Colleges & Universities, National Association of Evangelicals, SBC Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission, and National Latino Evangelical Coalition support immigration reform.
Will DeSantis peel off evangelical votes from Trump?
Russell Moore on the Uganda homosexuality law.
47% of evangelicals watch church online at least monthly.
Rick Warren’s “open letter to all Southern Baptists“
David French on Ukraine:
Evangelical theological education can’t keep up with the growth of the global church.
The Church Times remembers Tim Keller.
Should evangelicals stop singing the music of Hillsong?
58 baptisms at a Tennessee jail.
Blast from the past:
The Gospel Coalition reviews Amazon’s documentary “Shiny Happy People.” Yahoo reviews it here.
Lance Wallnau is mobilizing evangelicals in 17 counties.
Tony Perkins and Al Mohler talk LGBTQ:
Tom Ascol vs. Ted Cruz on the death penalty for homosexuals in Uganda:
Followers of evangelical financial guru Dave Ramsey are suing him for bad financial advice. And here.
What happened at Charlie Kirk’s pastor summit?
Lance Wallnau on “what they preached in the border states”:
Lance is on a roll this week:
The demons submit to Trump:
Michael W. Smith endorsed a controversial Bible. Now he has removed his endorsement.
Hibbs and Metaxas solving all the world’s problems:
More evangelicals behaving badly.
Jenna Ellis mocks Biden’s fall:
When Liberty University’s Standing for Freedom Center wants to think Christianly about government they turn to William Wolfe:
If Barton understood history he would realize that the United States is a democracy and a republic:
Apparently the former president of the Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary was a big spender.
Franklin loves McDonalds:
Beth Barr does not think Saddleback Church should be the “SBC champion for female pastors.”
Paul Miller on “pandemic sins”. Some folks aren’t happy with the piece:
Rick Warren’s “war” with the Baptist Faith & Message.
“Homosexuality” is a Modern Era, rather dubious and outdated scientistic social construct, not a “sin” for self-righteous evangelicals and others to abuse in order to exploit and scapegoat a minority community.
The ancients of Biblical times had their own dubious social constructs, like patriarchy, and clinical sounding scientistic Victorianisms were not among them. These were people who barely knew you had to have sex to make babies, let alone knew about sperm and egg cells, sex chromosomes, genetics and epigenetics, gender formation, sociology etc. As near as I can tell from the Bible, they seemed to think that life began at the moment of ejaculation, which created an unformed child which the womb, if it was working perfectly, would shape into a male infant.
If memory serves, Russell Moore was outraged when the Supreme Court ruled in the 2003 Lawrence v. Texas that the state’s ‘sodomy law’ was unconstitutional. So, unless Moore has repudiated his support for “sodomy laws” earlier in this century, his criticism with Uganda’s vicious scapegoating of LGBTQ people is that they’re impolitic and embarrassing to moderate bigots like Moore — impolitic and embarrassing like conservative Bible Believing™ evangelicals who want to charge women who have had an abortion with murder.
Moore’s denouncing of Uganda’s extremism is of the same order as Christianity Today’s leading founding father, Dr. L. Nelson Bell, who cried crocodile tears about the oppression that his Black neighbors endured…while still claiming, with dubious, ripped out of contexts proof texts, that God loved segregation and hated miscegenation. Integration went against God’s perfect designs for mankind Acts 17:26…sigh.
Moore is still a condescending bigot using ripped out of historical contexts clobber verses to denigrate minority relationships as not being about love, not about consenting adults who love each other and want to cherish and help each other, but instead, of being about sinful lusts that challenge his assumptions of the rightness of his religion as the inerrant measure of all things. I bet if you questioned him enough, he would come up with some sort of ‘voluntary segregation’ of LGBTQ people similar to what Bell came up with.
Oh, memory does serve. “There was a day in which conservative Protestants served as a prophetic voice, reminding our people that “what God hath joined together, let no man put asunder.” https://www.russellmoore.com/2003/06/26/statement-on-lawrence-v-texas/
There is now a day when conservative evangelicals do want to put minority marriages asunder, to perpetuate economic injustice towards Gay couples. There was a day when conservative Protestants served white supremacy hand and foot and refused to believe that their enslaved people had marriages that God had joined together that no man should put asunder…or in my own day, refused to believe that God would have joined an interracial couple together and that no man should put asunder.
If you talk like old time country club Klan style racists, only about different minority groups, even one that’s worldwide and ever more connected all the time…people with long memories and research skills will be reminded of the bad old days.