Trump evangelicals are going after Christian institutions that take federal funds.

Thousands and thousands of Christian organizations, including Trump acolyte Franklin Graham’s Samaritan’s Purse, have taken federal money to help advance their missions. Christian charities have lost funds as a result of Trump’s cuts to US AID. They include World Vision, World Relief, International Justice Mission, Samaritan’s Purse, and Catholic Relief Services.

Some Trump evangelicals are also attacking evangelical organizations who have taken money–any money– from the federal government, including USAID. Most of these attacks are based on bad information, outright falsehoods, and politically-motivated spin.

Also, FYI, this was an employee retention tax credit for which we applied in 2023, and which we still have not received. I suspect we never will receive it, not because we don't qualify but bc we haven't bent the knee.
— Timothy Dalrymple (@TimDalrymple_) February 6, 2025

By the way, Sean does pretty well for himself. Evangelical Trumpism is a lucrative business:

Fun fact: Last year, Sean Feucht Ministries spent more on California parsonage ($3,450,000) than the federal government spent on grants to Christianity Today ($1,835,073) from 2021 to 2023. CT's 2024 Form 990 is not available. Sean's finances are secret. https://t.co/CvOuwgzRPm
— Barry Bowen (@barrybowen) February 6, 2025

This was an Employee Retention Credit. We booked (per instructions from our auditors) the revenue in 2023 when we applied. We still haven't actually received it, alas. Our 990s are public.
— Timothy Dalrymple (@TimDalrymple_) February 5, 2025

Woops! I guess Mark Driscoll has also taken federal funds:

Stop and think before you spread ridiculous conspiracy theories 🤦🏼‍♀️

CTMagazine, like many right-winged orgs, received funding to pay their employees during covid. American Reformer, Mark Driscoll, Samaritan's Purse, and many others have also received funding.
— JJ (@LostinAusten27) February 6, 2025

Hey Mike, I have made ZERO claims about what this money was here or anywhere else. I did not write about the money. I did not report about it on DW’s news podcast. I did NO coverage of it.

What you did was find a reply that was buried deep in an ongoing back-and-forth from a man… https://t.co/QF9vnRowEn
— Megan Basham (@megbasham) February 7, 2025

It was dangerous for me to reply to a guy that I didn’t know when he was asking me about it?

No, that’s not the standard. That’s silly.

As is the idea that Christianity today is a prophetic voice.
— Megan Basham (@megbasham) February 7, 2025

I’ve never had a journalism class but I’m reasonably confident that it’s not “the practice of journalists” to take a piece of information throw in a generous helping of insinuation and put it out for public consumption either. Unless your preferred brand of journalism is yellow.
— Matt Cook (@ThinkingChurch) February 7, 2025

Okay, but can you explain why your editor in chief took money from an anti Trump political org to develop the after party curriculum and then promoted that curriculum via Christianity today without ever disclosing the political financing behind it? And continued to oversee CT’s…
— Megan Basham (@megbasham) February 7, 2025

The revelations about taxpayer dollars going to Russell Moore’s Christianity Today Magazine and St. Louis’s Revoice Conference (not to mention other recipients) suggests that America does have a real Christian Nationalism problem, and it’s on the political Left. pic.twitter.com/4ysrJnahR1
— Zachary Groff 📖 (@ZGroff) February 6, 2025

Apparently the real Christians are at Hillsdale:

Interesting to me that Christianity Today, which worries a lot about Christianity’s relationship with the government, takes the feds’ cash. Hillsdale College, which does not hyperventilate about the aforementioned subject, does not take federal money.
— Miles Smith IV (@IVMiles) February 5, 2025

I want Christianity Today to fail, actually. https://t.co/Gb6jBXUhgK
— Jamie Bambrick (@j_bambrick) February 5, 2025

The Mark Driscoll vs. Christianity Today war has gone from a cold war back to a hot one in the last couple days, and it's incredible to see how people hate CT with a white-hot hate. I wonder if they used to identify with CT and think it's "lost," or if they never trusted it.
— Tony Jones (@jonestony) February 7, 2025

Sad to see how far Moore & Christianity today have drifted. Has Platt drifted too?

USAID Promoted Anti-Christian Morality by Funding LGBT Advocacy and Abortion Worldwide https://t.co/G2FzBYbFUN via @Streamdotorg
— Shane Idleman (@IdlemanShane) February 7, 2025