We are more than a week into the second Trump presidency. What are evangelicals saying?

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The members of the Evangelical Immigrant Roundtable urge the Trump administration to respect religious freedom. Quotes from the leaders of the Council for Christian Colleges & Universities, World Relief, the National Association of Evangelicals, and the National Latino Evangelical Coalition. More here.

Here is Walter Kim:

World Relief is critical of Trump’s refugee policy:


More from Matthew Soerens of World Relief:

Andy Olsen is reporting at Christianity Today:

Esau McCaulley offers some hope:

Lisa Sharon Harper on Trump’s DEI purge:

2.2 million Federal Employees. 600,000 of them are veterans—DEI hired. They’ve all been sent packing.

— Lisa Sharon Harper (@lisasharper.bsky.social) 2025-01-23T20:34:25.308Z

A Christianity Today podcaster believes that Trump is pushing things beyond what the American people voted for:

Haitian pastors in Springfield, OH are seeing lower church attendance:

Skye has some thoughts on Trump’s refugee policy:

The Council for Christian Colleges & Universities on the Trump hiring freeze:

The National Association of Evangelicals on the Trump refugee policy:

I wonder if the director of Liberty University’s Standing for Freedom believes the same thing about the pardoned J6 criminals:

“All the GOOD NEWS”;

The end of “barbaric demonic evil”:

Sean quotes Proverbs:

And the requisite shot at the “WOKE LEFT”:

A midnight miracle:

Apparently Christianity Today is bearing false witness:

Even Beth Moore is toxic?

Sean is on a roll. Here he is mocking Selena Gomez:

Matt Crawford, a Southern Baptist pastor, is taking heat for this:

https://twitter.com/TomBuck/status/1884287659344011561

John MacArthur calls out Tom Buck for the aforementioned tweet. “Control your people”:

NOTE: I am told that the MacArthur Jr. account is a parody. I am sorry for any confusion here.

Let’s check in with the Southern Baptist theobros:

Trump is rounding up immigrants and banning refugees and Albert Mohler is talking about his “pro-life moves”:

Andrew T. Walker is “making the most” of things:

Justice for whom?

A “cloak of empathy”:

Rob Pacienza is the pastor of the Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church in Fort Lauderdale:

Trump still holds the title:

Christianity Today is getting hit hard these days:

Nothing here on Trump’s anti-life actions so far:

A “strong start”:

“Only because of Trump”:

Johnnie Moore was the PR guy who brought together the court evangelicals in the first Trump administration:

Eric Metaxas has the “truth” about January 6th:

“Vaccines” in quotes:

MAHA?:

Eric is lecturing Selena Gomez on “appropriate behavior”:

He is also lecturing us on logic:

This explains a lot:

Tim Barton also has thoughts on Selena Gomez:

Samuel Rodriguez, who supposedly speaks for Hispanic evangelicals, joins the MAGA evangelical prophets:

“PHENOMONAL”:

But if you are charged with 34 felonies you get to be POTUS: