The evangelical Christian lawyer who aided Donald Trump in his attempt to overthrow the 2020 election just lost her law license. Here is CNN: Jenna Ellis, who assisted Donald Trump after the 2020 election then pleaded guilty last year in the Georgia […]
Nuns for Trump
Donald Trump may be struggling to win over white suburban women and Black women, but he has some fans among Catholic nuns. Here is a taste of Elle Hardy’s piece at Unherd: Bespectacled and berobed, a softly spoken nun may […]
An evangelical singer releases a pro-Trump Christian music video
This is not a parody. Here is Natasha Owens: Lyrics: I’m not saying He’s something divine He gets in trouble bigly Time after time He’s controversial But one thing is true Imperfect people A perfect God can use I’m standing […]
Help the Michigan Christian Study Center buy its building
Rick Ostrander and his team are doing some great work at the Michigan Christian Study Center on the campus of the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. I encourage you to watch this video and think hard about lending them […]
James Carville on driving a wedge between MAGA voters and non-MAGA Trump voters
Interesting. I think Carville is on to something here. I would add that his thoughts are especially relevant for those conservative evangelicals who are really disgusted with Trump’s connection to MAGA, but would vote for Trump in November because they […]
Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences scrap diversity statements
Back in April, Harvard philosophy professor Edward J. Hall wrote, “Furor over diversity statements in hiring is a red herring…we should direct anger at its proper target: not diversity statements themselves, but rather the horribly distorted view that has taken […]
The wild story of 10-cent beer night at Cleveland Stadium
Some fine sports writing here from Fredric J. Frommer at The Washington Post. He tells the story of the riot that occurred in Cleveland Stadium during a Cleveland Indians (now Guardians)-Texas Rangers game on June 4, 1974. This melee should […]
“I am confident that Lincoln did not order Jefferson Davis’ assassination. The claim is phony: ‘preposterous’ is le mot juste!”
Did Abraham Lincoln order the assassination of Confederate president Jefferson Davis? The quote in the title comes from Oxford University Lincoln scholar Richard Carwardine. It appears at the end of Tom Mackaman‘s review of two recent attempts by Apple TV […]
This kid’s reaction says it all
Here is Judy Kurtz at The Hill: Sparring lawmakers and made-for-TV moments in House hearings have nothing on Congress’s newest, adorable viral star: Rep. John Rose’s 6-year-old son. The Tennessee Republican’s kindergarten graduate has won over political junkie fans and C-SPAN devotees […]
“Mr” Fauci
Marjorie Taylor Greene may be a “national disgrace,” but what does this performance (see below) say about Georgia’s 14th district, the American voters who elected her? And as long as we are at it: In my book, Fauci is a […]
“The real issue is the president’s character … [and] the way we have separated sin from consequences.”
On February 19, 1999, Albert Mohler, the president of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, appeared on Larry King Live on CNN to talk about Bill Clinton’s impeachment. The Baptist Press did a story on that appearance. You can read it here. […]
Christian ministries go remote
The deck of Daniel Silliman’s Christianity Today piece reads: “Evangelical organizations including Wycliffe, CT, and Lifeway are giving up their buildings and developing new models for remote work.” Here is a taste: A lot of office workers are discovering that […]
Charlie Kirk and Eric Metaxas on the Trump conviction: “We are up against pure evil”
It seems that whenever the members of the Christian wing of the MAGA party suffer a loss, such as when their leader gets convicted on 34 felony charges–they turn to spiritual warfare. There is a certain logic to this move. […]
At least one Southern Baptist congregation might leave the denomination after Albert Moher’s recent opinion piece on the Trump felony conviction:
Earlier this week I said a few things about Albert Mohler essay on Donald Trump’s 34 felony convictions. You may recall his piece–it is the one in which Mohler, the president of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, calls Joe […]
Sunday night odds and ends
A few things online that caught my attention this week: James Hunter on the moral formation of democracy. Kate Lucky reviews Sarah McCammon’s The Exvangelicals: Loving, Living, and Leaving the White Evangelical Church Should Trump get prison time? Physical bodies. […]
Based on this interview, Peter Brown would probably have a snowball’s chance in hell of getting elected president of the American Historical Association today.
Here is The New York Review of Books interview with scholar Peter Brown: Nawal Arjini: What are some of the difficulties and pleasures in researching the less documented aspects of the everyday people of the past? Peter Brown: I am fascinated by […]
Song of the Day
HT: Mets announcer Gary Cohen
“I am left to conclude from these opinions that our greatest problem …is with the people of this land! We have lost our ability to discern the difference between right and wrong.”
This September 1998 James Dobson letter to his Focus on the Family constituency is loaded. (See our last two posts.) I was also struck by this passage: At one point during the shocking revelations last month, Clinton’s public approval rating […]
“Can both fresh water and salt water flow from the same spring (James 3:11 NIV)?”
I have been rereading James Dobson’s September 1998 letter to his Focus on the Family constituency in the wake of the Clinton-Lewinsky scandal. It is an amazing primary source, especially in light of the evangelical embrace of Donald Trump, a […]
“There were other indications that [he] was untruthful and immoral. Why, then, did the American people ignore so many red flags”
This was James Dobson in a letter to his September 1988 newsletter to his Focus on the Family constituency. Read it here. By the way, the “he” in the title of this post is a reference to Bill Clinton. The […]