Happy New Year! What is happening in Evangelical land?
The national director of the Church of England Evangelical Council ponders the future of evangelicals in the Church of England.
Texas evangelicals come together to form the country’s largest food bank.
A Canadian evangelical church opens a homeless shelter.
At-risk teens associated with the evangelical ministry Teen Challenge win a football state championship in Oklahoma.
A Bucks County, Pennsylvania church serving those in need.
An English evangelical dies while trying to help a stranger.
Scot McKnight resigns as a professor at Northern Seminary. Here is his message on Threads: I’d like to share with you a career update. Today, in grief and lament, I resigned as a professor at Northern Seminary, effective at the end of the academic year. Next year (2025) I’ll be teaching an occasional course for Westminster Theological Centre in England. And, as always, I’m working on the next book!
Andy Crouch on the resignation of Claudine Gay at Harvard:
Samuel Rodriguez, the head of the National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference, may pull support for Trump if he doesn’t stop the “poisoning the blood” language.
With the Iowa caucuses less than two weeks away, GOP candidates are trying to win over evangelicals.
An evangelical congregation in Virginia has a shoes ministry.
Was Jesus Asian? Christianity Today says yes. Franklin Graham says no.
The Scripture Union of Ghana is building a new, multi-million dollar youth development center.
Tim Alberta will speak to at the Coalition for Christian Colleges & Universities conference:
There was no Christmas in Bethlehem this year for Arabic Christians, including evangelicals.
Remembering evangelical leaders and other faith leaders who died in 2023.
Pentecostalism is growing in Brazil.
Gen Z evangelicals on the eve of the Iowa caucuses.
Geof Morin, the former CEO of the American Bible Society, is now working for the former International Bible Society in Colorado Springs (now called Biblica) and he is apparently doing a good job. I interviews Morin for this book.
Essays in honor of the former president of Fuller Theological Seminary.
Is evangelicalism growing in China?
Beth Moore has more influence over Southern Baptists than the denomination’s male leaders. And she isn’t even a Southern Baptist anymore!
Lecrae on The Today Show:
Are evangelicals too obsessed with celebrity conversions?
For the third year in a row, Isaiah 41:10 is the most downloaded Bible verse in the world.
T.D. Jakes is building affordable housing units in Miami. He is also denying sexual misconduct accusations.
Mark Lowrey, the founder of Reformed University Fellowship, has died.
Michael Wear on Dallas Willard.
Blast from the past:
World magazine: “Tim Alberta’s The Kingdom, the Power and the Glory criticizes evangelicals as a whole for the excesses of a few.”
Southern Baptist theologian Andrew Walker asks: “Can evangelical journalists say anything good about evangelicals?” Mike Cosper of Christianity Today responds.
Jenna and Jack talk about voting a “Christian worldview”:
Salon tackles the New Apostolic Reformation.
Liberty University’s Standing for Freedom Center is calling for repentance:
Liberty University football made it to a New Year’s Day bowl game. It wasn’t pretty. Jonathan Falwell responds:
Epoch Times has produced a new evangelical movie starring Kevin Sorbo.
This is how a Christian Right journalist covers the resignation of Harvard University president Claudine Gay:
Churches on opposite sides of the political spectrum are dividing a California community.
Tim Barton discusses his recent lawsuit with the Washington D.C. METRO system:
The Southern Baptist Convention settles the Paul Pressler sexual abuse case.
Eric Metaxas is ready for another American Revolution:
Apparently voting for Obama was “complicity with evil”:
North Carolina’s Christian Right gubernatorial candidate.
Liberty University had an outdoor worship service with a message from Jonathan Falwell in Scottsdale before the Fiesta Bowl:
Grand Canyon University, one of the largest Christian universities in the world, just got fined $37 million for deceptive ads and illegal telemarketing.
Albert Mohler and Tony Perkins on Chris Christie. Mohler speaks about Christie’s views on marriage, but remains silent about Christie’s criticisms of Trump:
And here is Perkins alone:
A Charlotte, NC megachurch pastor left the ministry for politics, won his election for the U.S. House, and never served due to an absentee-ballot fraud controversy. He wants his House seat back.
The warrior savior:
Jay Sekulow is fighting to keep Trump on the ballot in 2024.
A Mike Bickle and International House of Prayer primer.
Joel Osteen is a pagan and an agent for Satan. John MacArthur:
A South Carolina evangelical church will change its name from “Relentless Church” to “Love Story Church.”
The Bruxy Cavey sexual assault charges keep coming.
Christian Right leader Donald Wildmon, founder of the American Family Association, has died.
Franklin Graham: Methodists in the United Kingdom are trying to “edit the Word of God.”
James Dobson and Ben Carson on the “state of our nation.”
Al Mohler: The “transgender revolutionaries” are coming for our children.