What is happening in Evangelical land?
Cal Thomas on Tim Alberta’s book The Kingdom, The Power, And the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism.
Wheaton College is celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Chicago Declaration of Evangelical Social Concern. Jim Wallis will be there. I really wish Ron Sider could be there as well:
An evangelical case for U.S. aid to Ukraine.
A defense of Christian liberal arts.
The Christian Right is not the only sector of evangelicalism calling for revival:
French evangelicals fighting sexual abuse.
Mike Pence talks with the Christian Post about his new book, Home for Dinner.
Evangelicals join other Christians in a call for peace in the Middle East.
Russell Moore talks with N.T. Wright on Romans 8.
How to choose a Christian college.
Palestinian Christians from Bethlehem Bible College come to Washington D.C. to make a plea for peace.
The second edition of Warren Throckmorton’s and Michael Coulter’s critique of David Barton is here.
David French and Charlie Sykes on the Trump cult.
Mike Huckabee: If the GOP tries to impeach Joe Biden it will be a “political disaster.”
Current‘s own Nadya Williams on the scandal of the female evangelical mind.
Historian Andrea Turpin reviews Beth Moore’s memoir. The review was first published here, at Current.
Apparently Pentecostal churches in Malawi are making too much noise.
Will Iowa evangelicals “rise up” against Trump? Bob Vander Plaats thinks so:
More on the Kentucky Baptist church that was kicked out of the Southern Baptist Convention for having a female pastor.
An evangelical church in New Jersey gave away $30,000 worth of Thanksgiving food.
Blast from the past:
Crandall University fires theologian John Stackhouse.
Gary Bauer stands with Israel.
This Illinois representative quotes Deuteronomy 28:
Unless, of course, the government advances Tony’s political agenda:
Lance being Lance:
Kirk Cameron is providing an alternative to the Scholastic Book Fair in some Virginia school districts.
Jenna Ellis and Jack Hibbs talk about the 2024 election. Hibbs says that the founders believed that only Christians should be elected:
Al Mohler on the death of Bishop Carlton D. Pearson: “He put his eternal soul at risk.”
“Sunshine Christians.” Bauer spins Tom Paine in The Crisis:
The woman behind the Christian Right’s attempt to take over a Chino Hills, California school board. This is the community that is home to Christian Right agitator Jack Hibbs’s megachurch.
A Christian nationalist says that the “Christian family” is impossible without a “Christian nation.”
Jenna is looking forward to a clash of “worldview ideology.” Al Mohler would be pleased:
The Charlie Kirk fest is coming. Don’t miss Tucker Carlson, Roseanne Barr, Rob “Making Copies” Schneider, Glenn Beck, Ben Carson, Vivek Ramaswamy, Steve Bannon, Donald Trump Jr., Josh Hawley, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Matt Gaetz, and Mike Lindell. What a crew!
Is this from the Bible or Don Quixote in the Man of La Mancha?:
Jack Graham identified “wokeness” at Disney:
Christian Right leaders signed a letter to Congress to condemn antisemitism. The signers include Ralph Reed, James Dobson, Robert Jeffress, Jonathan Falwell, Jentezen Franklin, John Hagee, Richard Land, and James Robison. There is nothing in the letter about their fellow evangelicals in Palestine.
Trinity Broadcast Network is broadcasting a pro-Israel program featuring Jack Graham, Robert Jeffress, Samuel Rodriguez, and Sheila Walsh:
Franklin Graham is praying for peace:
More evangelicals behaving badly.
It looks like Owen Strachan has a new book out:
Kevin DeYoung on Doug Wilson and the “Moscow Mood.”
Tom Buck doesn’t like the Gospel Coalition’s movie recommendations:
Sean Feucht believes that The Washington Post is laying people off because they “went woke”:
Evangelical Speaker of the House Mike Johnson posts the George Washington praying in the snow at Valley Forge pic. This event never happened:
You may be interested in this story in relation to your link about Kirk Cameron’s books replacing Scholastic. It applears that a staff member of Brave/Skytree book fairs is trying to get a district to stop allowing Scholastic book fairs without disclosing that she is a staff member for Brave/Skytree. https://popular.info/p/mysterious-woman-tells-school-board?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=1664&post_id=139251282&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=false&r=1j8cx&utm_medium=email
I’m not trying to defend Hibbs here, but I’m not sure it’s an accurate to say, “Hibbs says that the founders believed that only Christians should be elected.” He makes reference to John Jay (first Chief Justice of the United States), offering what sounds to me a pretty accurate paraphrase of something he wrote in a personal letter to a friend in 1816: āProvidence has given to our people the choice of their ruler, and it is the duty, as well as the privilege and interest of our Christian nation to select and prefer Christians for their rulers.”
Jay isn’t saying that only Christians should be elected, but he does advance the idea that Christians have a duty to prefer Christian leaders. Hibbs is kind of saying the same thing.
I think Hibbs accurately interprets Jay here, Jay. But he is suggesting that one of the most conservative American founders should be the model for today. First, the founders were more diverse than this. Second, those on the Christian Right do this all the time today–they appeal to only the founders who agree with them.