Franklin Graham is still very upset about how “Evangelicals for Harris” used his father’s image in a campaign ad. The man who has supported Donald Trump in the last two elections is suggesting that the Evangelicals for Harris crowd does not “have integrity.” They are are “trying to make it look like my father would have supported Vice President Harris,” he recently told Premiere Christian News.
Graham added: “My father was a strong conservative all of his life, theologically as well as politically. He would have never voted for or supported someone like Kamala Harris–someone who is almost anti-Christ in her positions. She has done nothing to support people of faith and what we believe and what we stand for.” Graham believes that it would be “a great problem for the church if [Harris] was elected” since he does not see “any evidence of faith in her life.” For the record, Harris is a Baptist who attends Third Baptist Church of San Francisco.
One of the most interesting dimensions of this story is that Jerushah Duford, Franklin Graham’s niece, is a supporter of “Evangelicals for Harris.”
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According to evangelical relief agencies World Relief and Open Doors, the United States settled more Christians fleeing religious persecution in fiscal year 2024 than it has since 2016. World Relief president Myal Greene notes that Donald Trump has pledged, if elected, that the country’s refugee admissions program will end on the first day of his presidency. But Greene’s lament is bipartisan. He also chides the Biden-Harris administration for placing “very significant restrictions” on the nation’s asylum programs.
This piece at the Biblical Recorder cites a Lifeway Research poll that says 71% of American evangelicals believe that “the nation has a moral responsibility to accept refugees.” Greene notes: “And so what that tells me is that many evangelical voters who are likely to support President Trump are doing so, not because of his views on immigration, but in spite of those views.”
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Let’s see what’s happening on X:
Preston Sprinkle wants us to consider deaths caused by the American war machine. Mike Cosper questions his numbers. Daniel Darling wants everyone to know he is not a pacifist.
Justin Giboney on pastors doing politics in the pulpit:
Southern Baptist pastor Tom Buck on what might be called immoral equivalence:
I am writing a book about evangelicals and politics in the early 2000s and I can safely say that Mohler has been arguing this way for the last twenty years. So far no one is coercing him to do anything:
Translation: Vote for Trump:
More spiritual warfare politics from Lance. He’s having a moment.
But they started it…:
Lance responds to Lizzie’s criticism of the above tweet with a reference to the Holy Spirit Corp. How can Lizzie disagree with Lance when he has the Holy Spirit on his side?
Translation: Vote for Trump:
Kelly responds to Ryan. She seems to imply that if one does not vote they may not inherit the Kingdom of God:
Singing “Hallelujah” at a Trump rally. Jenna loves it:
Thanks to Emma Bell for her assistance with this post.