What is happening in Evangelical land?
My interview with Tim Alberta, author of The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory, will appear on CSPAN on these dates:
- Dec 15, 2023 | 8:00pm EST | C-SPAN 1
- Dec 17, 2023 | 10:00am EST | C-SPAN 2
- Dec 17, 2023 | 1:00pm EST | C-SPAN 2
- Dec 17, 2023 | 10:00pm EST | C-SPAN 2
- Dec 18, 2023 | 1:00am EST | C-SPAN 2
Evangelicalism and secularism are on the rise in Latin America.
Is the Evangelical Left dead?
French evangelicals unite around a common mission.
Mexican evangelicals march for peace.
Beth Moore offers a word to those who think their denomination is the best:
A South Carolina megachurch baptizes 141 people in 1 day.
More on the animated “Jesus” film.
Ed Stetzer offers advice to new evangelical seminarians.
Rick Warren speaks to Ed Stetzer class made up of Wycliffe Hall Oxford/Talbot Theological Seminary students:
Evangelicals plan their Christmas services. And here.
Phil Vischer on Elon Musk:
Evangelical Mennonites take in refugees.
Evangelicals in Canada celebrate the upholding of Canadian prostitution laws.
A Christian College gets $1.2 million to help small congregations in Appalachia.
A short history of after-game prayer circles in the NFL.
Blast from the past:
Mike Pence is headed to the Billy Graham Library:
Brazilian evangelicals wrestle with the recent allegations against charismatic prophet Mike Bickle.
Gary Bauer has a take on the three college presidents who testified before Congress on anti-Semitism:
Tony Perkins also has a take:
Evangelical clergy and other leaders are selling their estates.
I’ll just let this tweet sit with you:
Albert Mohler on Sandra Day O’Connor’s “mixed legacy.”
Mike Johnson receives an award from the Christian Right/Christian nationalist National Association of Christian Lawmakers.
John Hagee attempts to connect past and present:
I think James Robison have a slightly different view on the matter:
And while Robison is at it, he also wants to preach the “funeral of religion”:
Eric Metaxas talks with Kyle Rittenhouse:
Metaxas and Nancy Pearsey discuss the “toxic war on masculinity”:
Scott Sauls, the pastor of Christ Presbyterian Church in Nashville, reflects on his resignation.
Franklin and the Colorado wedding cake baker:
That time Franklin met Walt Disney:
The “Heirloom Edition” of The Founders Bible apparently makes a great gift:
Al Mohler turns the George Santos ousting into a “whataboutism” case.
This congressional candidate is raising money to put a Bible in every public school in his district.
Sean Feucht takes a shot at Taylor:
Liberty University president Dondi Costin seems to love hanging out with the undefeated, Fiesta Bowl-bound (good luck against Oregon), Liberty football team:
Head over to the Lecrae store. I don’t think this sarcasm:
On the Evangelical Left:
I hope there are plenty of left-leaning evangelicals around, but I confess I’m not much bigger on there being an “Evangelical Left” than I am for the Evangelical Right. Rather than forming ourselves, our fellowship, and our associations around a political identity, what if Bible-believing Christians from across the political spectrum engaged one another (when it was time to talk policy or voting) from a perspective of shared fellowship around the gospel? We’d be better at remembering–and others would be better able to see–what the gospel actually is.
Imagine Jewish exiles in Babylon, say around 550BC, identifying themselves by the labels of Babylonian social movements and political parties–instead of in solidarity forged by understanding where they were and what future they had there…