I am guessing until the money dries up. But that’s just a guess. Did you see Lindell’s recent interview with CNN? This would be hilarious if so many Americans, especially evangelical Christians, didn’t believe it. Watch: “It’s proof of nothing.” […]
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Mike Lindell is “affable, devout, philanthropic–and a clear threat to the nation”
Mike “MyPillow Guy” Lindell loves to talk to journalists. He seems to enjoy the attention. This is why I am not surprised that he agreed to meet with Anne Applebaum of The Atlantic. They met at Steve Bannon’s townhouse and […]
Evangelical conspiracy theorists Mike Lindell and Eric Metaxas at the Mitchell, South Dakota Corn Palace
They were at the South Dakota landmark to launch, for about the tenth time, Mike “MyPillow Guy” Lindell’s new social media platform “Frank.” Here is local coverage from the Mitchell (SD) Republic: A crowd of 1,650 was at the Corn […]
If GOP candidates lose, Eric Metaxas and Mike “MyPillow Guy” Lindell will find fraud
Here is Metaxas talking to Steve Deace of Glenn Beck’s website, The Blaze: In a strange historical rant, Deace says that Christianity survived for “1700 years” because it was “subversive” and refused to “bow to Caesar.” Perhaps this is true […]
The DNC is collecting opposition research on potential 2022 GOP candidates, including Mike “MyPillow Guy” Lindell
Yes, you read that title correctly. Here is Alex Thompson and Daniel Payne at the Politico West Wing playbook: The Democratic National Committee has quietly assembled a core team that is focused not just on the 2022 midterms but on […]
Mike “MyPillow Guy” Lindell’s latest investigation
The My Pillow Guy is now investigating Fox News to find out why the cable network refuses to book him as a guest on its programs. Here is a taste of Richard Luscombe’s piece at The Guardian: Mike Lindell, the […]
Michael Lindell launched his new social media platform today. It did not go well.
Here is Oscar Gonzalez at CNET: Mike Lindell, the CEO of MyPillow and an ardent fan of former President Donald Trump, spent months developing a new social media platform after he was banned from Twitter due to his constant tweets regarding bogus claims of voter fraud […]
12 days until Election Day. What are evangelicals saying?
Why haven’t conservative evangelicals, especially those of the MAGA variety, remained mostly silent about Donald Trump’s line about Arnold Palmer’s genitals? What happened to the Christian Right’s longtime concern about the coarseness of American culture? This morning I was writing […]
Evangelicals respond to last night’s Harris-Trump debate
What a crazy night. Kamala Harris was relentless. To use boxing metaphors, Trump was on the ropes the entire night. Harris connected with relentless jabs and right hooks. The former president was on his heels through the entire debate. On […]
Eric Metaxas: “Biden is our Hitler”
Eric Metaxas gained fame in 2009 when he published a deeply flawed biography of Dietrich Bonhoeffer that was universally panned by Bonhoeffer scholars. In 2016, he endorsed Donald Trump for president in a much-discussed Wall Street Journal op-ed. Here are […]
Evangelical Roundup for May 9, 2024
What is happening in Evangelical land? A Billy Graham statue at the U.S. Capitol. Evangelicals support Dreamers! The National Association of Evangelicals support more humanitarian aid to Gaza: Evangelicals hate Stormy, but love Trump Connections between the Christian Right and […]
Evangelical roundup for December 11, 2023
What is happening in Evangelical land? The New Republic is reporting that Messianic Jews are trying to share the Gospel with Israeli soldiers on the front lines. The author of the piece, Ellie Hardy, suggests that they are “proselytizing” because […]
Evangelical roundup for November 30, 2023
What is happening in Evangelical land? Cal Thomas on Tim Alberta’s book The Kingdom, The Power, And the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism. Wheaton College is celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Chicago Declaration of Evangelical Social […]
Former Trump NSA Michael Flynn to pastors: “Put the Bible aside and read the Constitution during some of your sermons”
The latest from the Michael Flynn: I cannot find the context for this talk. Perhaps someone can help me on that front and I will add it to the post. But this is Christian nationalism in its most extreme form. […]
The Vatican defrocks Frank Pavone
The pro-life election denier and MAGA priest is no longer a Roman Catholic priest. Here is the Los Angeles Times: The Vatican has defrocked an anti-abortion U.S. priest, Frank Pavone, for what it said were “blasphemous communications on social media” […]
What are the court evangelicals saying about Trump’s announcement last night?
Unfamiliar with the term court evangelical? Read this. It is worth noting that Trump said nothing about evangelicals and very little about the moral issues they deem important during his speech last night. I did not see many court evangelicals […]
Is this a Mastriano concession?
The GOP candidate for governor has yet to concede the election to Josh Shapiro. He posted this to Facebook about an hour ago: Many of his followers are interpreting this picture as a kind of concession: —Republican National Hispanic Assembly […]
For MAGA Christians, it doesn’t matter if the founding fathers’ quote they use is true, as long as it rallies the base
Dutch Sheets is a leader in the New Apostolic Reformation, a brand of charismatic evangelicalism that powers the Christian MAGA movement. Sheets leads pro-Trump prayer tours around the country, travels around with Lance Wallnau, Charlie Kirk and others where he […]
The “amoral Trump clown show” that Michael Flynn, Roger Stone, and others are passing off as a religious revival
Last week I devoted my weekly Current column to the meaning of Christian baptism and the way the pro-Trump ReAwaken America tour was desecrating that sacred Christian rite. Today at Religion News Service, writer Jacob Lupfer tells us more about […]
Evangelical roundup for October 31, 2022
What is going on in Evangelical land? The growing political influence of Latino evangelicals. More on progressive evangelicals in Brazil who reject the “Bolsonarization of Churches” How Christian ethics became right wing populism. Jim Wallis on the attack on Paul […]