We covered this last night. Here is Galli’s response to Christianity Today‘s reporting: By now you may have read about the turmoil at Christianity Today regarding charges of sexual harassment in recent years. I’m featured in a story as a...
Daniel Silliman, a news editor at Christianity Today, broke this story this afternoon. According to Bob Smietana’s reporting at Religion News Service, Silliman’s reporting had the full blessing of the Christianity Today leadership. Here is a taste of Silliman’s piece:...
In September we did a post on Mark Galli‘s conversion to Catholicism. Read it here. Over at Denver Catholic, Aaron Lambert sheds a bit more light on the faith journey of the former editor of Christianity Today. Here is a...
I did not see this coming. Here is Yonat Shimron at Religion News Service: On Sunday (Sept. 13), Mark Galli will stand before Bishop Richard Pates in the Cathedral of St. Raymond Nonnatus in Joliet, Illinois, to hear these words:...
The conversation occurred on WBUR-Boston. Listen here. Some of you may recall that Richard Land was behind the editorial that led to the resignation of its political editor Napp Nazworth. A few takeaways: Galli says he had been planning the...
Mark Galli, the outgoing editor of Christianity Today and the author of an editorial calling for Donald Trump’s removal, recently spoke with Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs of The New York Times. Here are some highlights of the interview: On the day after...
It was published today at Religion News Service. Read it here. The signers: Amy Julia Becker, author and speaker Dale Hanson Bourke, author Mae Elise Cannon, author and executive director of Churches for Middle East Peace Rob Dalrymple, author and...
Check out Falwell Jr.’s interview with Newsmax. For someone who says that faith has nothing to do with politics he sure sounds like it matters here. A taste: “It’s sort of one of those lost magazines from the past, like...
How will Mark Galli’s editorial effect Christianity Today and the larger evangelical community? Sarah Pulliam Bailey explores this question today at The Washington Post. A taste: The decision by Christianity Today to publish an editorial describing President Trump as “immoral” and calling...
Carl Trueman, a theologian who teaches at Grove City College in western Pennsylvania, thinks that Mark Galli, the editor of Christianity Today and the author of this editorial, is an “evangelical elite” who is “out of touch” with ordinary evangelicals. Here is...
Here is Robert Jeffress: .@CTmagazine is a dying magazine that has been “Never Trump” from the beginning. They are going against 99% of evangelical Republicans who oppose impeachment. President @realDonaldTrump is the most pro-life, pro-religious liberty, pro-Israel President in history!...
Here is a taste of Emma Green’s interview with Christianity Today’s Mark Galli in the wake of the magazine’s call to remove Donald Trump: Green: One of the things that you seem most concerned about in the editorial is the reputation of evangelicalism—of...
From the CT website: Mark Galli and Andy Crouch are to lead the US magazine Christianity Today. Galli was previously CT’s managing editor and author of Chaos and Grace, and God Wins. He takes on the new role of editor....
What is happening in Evangelical land? Randall Balmer on the Mark Galli sexual harassment charges. Evangelical worship leader Sean Feucht does not want you to be fooled: Jim Wallis on mixing religion and politics. Two important evangelical voices meet: Franklin...
What is happening in Evangelical land? What is going on at Calvin University? Two former female employees at Christianity Today talk about the Mark Galli sexual harassment allegations. Dan Silliman, the Christianity Today reporter who broke the Mark Galli story,...
What is happening in Evangelical land? A Southern Baptist college struggles to keep the doors open after what appears to be financial mismanagement. Texas evangelical women are deconstructing. Former Liberty University Standing for Freedom Center (Falkirk Center) fellow and Trump...
Here are the most popular features of the week at Current: John H. Haas, “Avoid War” Jay Case, “Coca-Cola and Authenticity: What’s Not to Like?” Amanda McCrina, “History Brought Us Here” Elissa Yukiko Weichbrodt, “Celebrating the Humanity of Edmonia Lewis” Agnes...
What is happening in Evangelical land? David Brooks talks to Russell Moore, one of the subjects of his recent piece on dissenting evangelicals. Moore says “crazy has become a church-growth strategy.” Not everyone likes it: I don’t know this guy...
The Current editors recently got together via ZOOM to discuss the idea of “Elite Evangelicalism.” The conversation is available to Deep Water subscribers of Current. In the course of the hour we talked about the following pieces: Mark Galli, Substack...
Illiberal rule mocks the liberal pretensions of the academy today
What is happening in Evangelical land: Patriot churches Kristin Du Mez got triggered by Thomas Kidd’s take on Carl Trueman’s take on elite evangelicalism. Two George Marsden students here: Darryl Hart causing more trouble, as he is prone to do:...
The problem with elitism has little to do with status. It has everything to do with love.
What is happening in Evangelical land? What would Edmund Burke say about what evangelicals call “conservatism.” White evangelicals in denial: Francis Collins on science and faith. He is till trying to get evangelicals to take the vaccine. I am sure...
Here is Emily McFarlan Miller at Religion News Service: An ad running in The Washington Post and other outlets Friday (Oct. 30) thanked a number of prominent evangelical Christian leaders and organizations for “standing up in this dark time.” But...
In December 29, 2019 Napp Nazworth, the politics editor of The Christian Post, resigned after The Post denounced Mark Galli’s Christianity Today editorial calling for the removal of Donald Trump as President of the United States. Now Napp Nazworth is...
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOxuBs5sR_s&w=560&h=315] If you had thirty minutes to say something to the most powerful man in the world, what would you say? This is how I started our short series titled “Three Sundays in April.” On April 19, 2020, the...
Last week, during an event called the Q 2020 Virtual Summit, evangelical writers David French and Eric Metaxas had a conversation with host Gabe Lyons about evangelical support for Donald Trump. I let this transcript sit for a few days now. It is now time for...
Happy to contribute to this book, edited by Ron Sider. Contributors include Bandy Lee, Mark Galli, Chris Thurman, Vicki Courtney, Napp Nazworth, Irene Fowler, Ron Sider, Peter Wehner, Randall Balmer, Samuel Escobar, Stephen Haynes, George Yancey, Miroslav Volf, James W....
I am not sure if this is good or bad, but it appears that there are some people in the ex-evangelical crowd who like my analysis of American evangelicalism. After my interview at Salon with Chauncey DeVega, I got a message...
Today at The Atlantic, Peter Wehner writes “when faith is treated as an instrumentality , it’s bad for politics and worse for the Christian witness.” Anyone who reads this blog, or has read Believe Me: The Evangelical Road to Donald Trump, knows that...
About fifteen years ago I encouraged a student of mine at Messiah College to pursue an M.A. in American Church History at Wheaton College. After his first semester was complete we exchanged a few e-mails. He commented on how Wheaton...
Fred Rand is an evangelical Christian and Memphis business man. He described his background in a recent piece at the Jackson (MS) Free Press: I cut my teeth as a College Republican working for Ronald Reagan in 1980. I have...
Here are the most popular posts of the last week at The Way of Improvement Leads Home: The Many Problems With Eric Metaxas’s “Christian Case for Trump” Court Evangelical Tony Perkins: “Donald Trump is the best president Christians have ever...
Watch Georgia GOP representative Doug Collins tell Lou Dobbs on Fox Business that Democratic congressmen love terrorists and mourn the death of Iranian military commander Qased Soleimani: If you don’t want to watch the whole thing, pick-it-up at the four...
Here is a taste of my recent piece at Religion News Service: “Courtiers and kings, evangelicals, prophets, and Trump“: (RNS) — Last Friday (Jan. 3), nearly every major conservative evangelical supporter of President Donald Trump gathered at the El Rey...
Eric Metaxas has once again turned to the op-ed page of The Wall Street Journal in defense of Donald Trump. (Some of you may recall his October 12, 2016 op-ed in which he said “God will not hold us guiltless” if we...
Trump will be at a Hispanic Pentecostal megachurch in Miami tomorrow afternoon for an “Evangelicals for Trump” rally. There has not been a whole lot of details released about who will be present at the event or what Trump will...
For most evangelical Christians, the message of the Gospel transcends the identity categories we place on human beings. All men and women are sinners in need of redemption. Citizenship in the Kingdom of God, made possible by Jesus’s death and...
Yesterday I offered some analysis of Wayne Grudem’s article defending Donald Trump and criticizing Mark Galli’s Christianity Today editorial calling for Trump’s removal from office. You can read my post here. Today I am running a post I published on...
This morning I “visited” The Brian Lehrer Show on WNYC in New York City. We talked about evangelicals and Trump in the wake of Mark Galli’s recent Christianity Today editorial. You can listen to our conversation here....
In case you missed it, evangelical theologian Wayne Grudem has turned to the politically conservative website Townhall to defend Donald Trump and criticize Mark Galli’s Christianity Today editorial. Grudem begins: Galli gives six reasons why Trump should be removed, either by impeachment...
Here is philosopher David Kyle Johnson at Psychology Today: Since I wrote my article about Franklin Graham’s response to Mark Galli’s Christianity Today article, which called for the president to be removed from office, the response from the evangelical community has...
In 1962, the Swiss theologian Karl Barth came to George Washington University for a question and answer session with American religious leaders. Carl F.H. Henry, the editor of Christianity Today magazine, was one of these leaders. Here is how he described...
Here are the most popular posts of the last week at The Way of Improvement Leads Home: Senior Editor of Conservative National Review Calls for Impeachment and Removal Christianity Today: “Trump Should Be Removed From Office” Nearly 200 Pro-Trump Evangelicals Respond...
A good friend recently suggested that Mark Galli’s editorial may be an evangelical “Joseph Welch” moment in the Trump presidency. Joseph Welch was the lawyer for the U.S. Army during the McCarthy hearings. Get some more context here. Now watch:...
Last night I re-read the court evangelical letter to Tim Dalrymple, the CEO of Christianity Today. Read the letter here. I offered some commentary here. I was struck by this passage (italics mine): Of course, it’s up to your publication...
After I wrote my recent post on Chris Gehrz’s treatment of evangelical populism, I pulled Mark Noll’s Scandal of the Evangelical Mind off the shelf. Some critics of Mark Galli’s Christianity Today editoral have suggested that evangelicalism has always been a...
After Mark Galli published a Christianity Today editorial calling for the removal of Donald Trump, several pundits accused Galli of betraying the populist roots of American evangelicalism. Galli, in other words, is an out of touch elitist. Read court evangelical Johnnie Moore’s...
Here is Baylor University professor and Christian public intellectual Alan Jacobs on Mark Galli’s editorial in Christianity Today calling for the removal of Donald Trump. I want him out. I was happy to see him impeached and I would dance for...
Christianity Today’s CEO Tim Dalrymple responding to critics of Mark Galli’s recent editorial calling for the removal of Donald Trump: Reader responses to Mark Galli’s recent editorial have spanned the spectrum. We have received countless notes of encouragement from readers...
Context I have pasted the letter below. My comments are in bold. Dr. Dalrymple,. Tim Dalrymple is the relatively new CEO of Christianity Today Inc. Earlier this year he wrote about Trump’s “court prophets,” especially as related to race. We...
A few things online that caught my attention this week: Death of religion? Death of the humanities? Should historians stay out of politics? Pietist Schoolman on the Christianity Today editorial Historians should speak about impeachment What is rural? What is...
The letter is directed to Tim Dalrymple, CEO of Christianity Today. All the usual suspects have signed it and a lot folks of which I am unfamiliar. This is a court evangelical manifesto. It captures much I what I posted...
Court evangelical after court evangelical are rising-up to defend Donald Trump in the wake of Mark Galli’s Christianity Today editorial calling for his removal. Franklin, Graham, Robert Jeffress, Tony Perkins, Jenetzen Franklin, James Dobson, Samuel Rodriguez, Johnnie Moore,and Jim Garlow, to name...
After Mark Galli published his anti-Trump editorial at Christianity Today, Franklin Graham, the son of Billy Graham, took to Facebook claiming that his father voted for Trump in 2016. Billy Graham founded Christianity Today in the 1950s. I hadn’t shared...
I check the First Things website every day and often link to pieces I find interesting. But I stopped reading First Things regularly after Richard John Neahaus passed away. (I used to subscribe and read each issue cover-to-cover). On Friday, ...
Here is the latest from the court evangelical and family values champion: I have read a new editorial published by Christianity Today that promotes impeachment of President Donald Trump. The editors didn’t tell us who should take his place in...
I got nearly seven minutes today with Carol Off of “As It Happens.” Read or listen to “Evangelical historian lauds Christian magazine for ‘finally’ taking on Trump.” Here is a taste: Evangelical historian John Fea says he is “rejoicing” in the fact...
Here is his recent interview with the Christian Broadcasting Network: [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBtYPpXb0yk&w=560&h=315] Commentary Franklin Graham suggests that Christianity Today is moving to the Left. I assume he thinks this because CT has not endorsed Donald Trump and disagrees with Trump’s policies on matters related...
I wrote about this last night, but since I have a blog I get to say it again in a slightly different way. 🙂 Will Mark Galli’s Christianity Today editorial calling for Trump’s removal have any effect on the white conservative...
Franklin Graham has written a nice summary of the court evangelical position, the view of evangelicals and Trump that I address critically, as an evangelical Christian myself, in Believe Me: The Evangelical Road to Donald Trump. Here is Graham on...
As you now know, earlier today Christianity Today called for the removal of Donald Trump. Sarah Pulliam Bailey of the Washington Post, a former Christianity Today reporter, conducted interviews with CT editor Mark Galli and CT CEO Timothy Dalrymple. Here is a taste of her piece: Galli said...
I want to pick up on something I wrote at the end of an earlier post on Christianity Today‘s call for the removal of Donald Trump. I referred to a Washington Post piece I published on July 17, 2017 titled “Trump threatens...
I just watched CNN’s coverage of the Christianity Today editorial calling for the removal of Donald Trump. I hope that CNN will eventually bring in some people who know what they are talking about. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iyc9sMslVrw&w=560&h=315] CNN is framing the editorial...
I got up very early this morning to go the hospital. My daughter got her tonsils out. All went well and she is resting comfortably enjoying her ice-cold fluids and typing out messages to us on her cell phone. While...
We know where the court evangelicals stand on impeachment. They believe that Donald Trump is God’s anointed and the Democratic opposition are working on behalf of Satan. The Catholic Bishops have not made a statement. Christian Century magazine, an important...
Yesterday Utah congressman Chris Stewart introduced the Fairness for All Act. The bill would protect LGBTQ rights and religious liberty. Fairness for All has the support of the Church of Latter Saints, the Council for Christian Colleges and Universities, and...
Historian David Swartz does not think so. Here is Swartz at The Anxious Bench: White evangelicals are doubling down on President Donald Trump. Their choices in 2016—Trump or Clinton—may have been distasteful to them then. But in 2019, their taste for...
While we were hosting the #2 women’s volleyball team in the nation (NCAA Division III), I heard another Twitter battle erupted over the definition of “evangelical.” The debate is summarized by religious historian Jesse Curtis at his blog Colorblind Christians. Here...
Timothy Dalrymple will take the helm at Christianity Today on May 1, 2019. Christianity Today editor Mark Galli reports: The president-elect was raised in California, where his father served in several pastoral roles. He began to preach and teach at a young age....
John Allen Chau, the missionary killed by an indigenous tribe on an island off the coast of India, was working with an evangelical missions organization called All Nations. Over at Christianity Today’s “Quick to Listen” podcast, Morgan Lee (have I said yet...
We blogged about MacArthur and his statement here. Here is a taste of CT editor Mark Galli’s response to the statement: Anyone involved in social justice ministries is subject to the loss of the transcendent. As Charles Taylor so effectively argued in A...
Mark Galli, the editor in chief of Christianity Today, makes it abundantly clear that America was not founded as a Christian nation. Here is a taste of his July 4th editorial: The point is this: Can we in any way, shape,...
Christianity Today usually tries to stay out of the political fray. Frankly, I was somewhat surprised that they were willing to let me write so freely about Ted Cruz during the 2016 campaign. (The piece actually won an award). I...
Mark Galli is the editor of Christianity Today and the author of Karl Barth: A Biography for Evangelicals. In an article at the CT website he reflects on Barth’s longstanding adulterous affair with his personal assistant, Charlotte von Kirschbaum. Here is a taste: Again,...
After a weekend of conference-going and watching one of the greatest NCAA Division III volleyball rivalries in history (Hope College vs. Calvin College), I am easing my way back into the blogging life. As regular readers know, I spent part...
Later this week I am heading to Indianapolis to participate in the “State of the Evangelical Mind” conference. This two-day conference will explore how the evangelical mind is faring since Mark Noll wrote his seminar The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind...
Recently court evangelical Robert Jeffress talked about his views of Trump, North Korea, and Charlottesville with Bobby Ross Jr. of Religion News Service. Here is a taste: The critics have overreacted, said Jeffress, lead pastor of First Baptist Dallas, whose...
Learn more here. Here is the schedule: Thursday, September 21, 2017 5:30 PM to 7:00 PM – Opening Dinner, Welcome – Jay Hein (Sagamore Institute), Opening Remarks and Tributes to John Wilson – David W. Wright (Indiana Wesleyan University) 7:00...
Today someone I trust and respect told me that my writing at this blog has become more angry since the 2016 presidential election cycle. It was unclear whether the person who said this meant it as a criticism or a compliment. I...
Here we go. This piece just appeared at Christianity Today. On the Sunday morning before this year’s South Carolina primary, Dr. Carl Broggi, the pastor of Community Bible Church in Beaufort, turned over his pulpit—emblazoned with the Protestant watchword “sola scriptura,”...
Yesterday morning the pastor of the church I attend–a pretty mainstream evangelical congregation in the Evangelical Free Church denomination–was preaching up a storm about the “mandate” of the church to “transform” the culture for Christ. (For the record, I am...
In the Epilogue of my forthcoming Why Study History: Reflecting on the Importance of the Past, I challenge Christian historians to use their expertise to strengthen and edify the church. But I say very little to challenge churches to embrace...
I am by no means an expert on this, but since the question of Adam and Eve has been in the evangelical news lately, I thought this was worth a post. Recently, two Calvin College professors–John Schneider and Daniel Harlow–have...
Catholic blogger David Gibson wonders whether the BP oil spill in the Gulf will wake-up evangelicals on the issue of “creation care.” The post, which appears at dotCommonweal, focuses on recent comments by evangelicals Russell D. Moore and Mark Galli. […]
Hint: Answer is in the last paragraph. Was it because he created a Blackface face-mask and tweeted about it? Was it because the aforementioned tweet hurt Liberty’s athletic program? Was it because Black students and employees were leaving Liberty? Was...
I have been writing about populism in light of the recent Christianity Today editorial calling for the removal of Donald Trump. You can read my posts here and here and here and here. What is populism? How should we think historically...
