Politico reporters Adam Wren and Megan Messerly asked Southern Baptist messengers in Indianapolis who they think Trump should pick as his running mate. Here is a taste of their piece: “I think evangelicals will generally, by and large, vote for […]
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Mike Pence on Joe Biden: “I can’t think of a thing he’s done that I agree with”
Mike Pence spoke to the Southern Baptists in Indianapolis today. Here is Adele Banks at Religion News Service: Former Vice President Mike Pence addressed Southern Baptists at a luncheon event focused on public service where he criticized President Joe Biden, […]
Ralph Reed explains why the Faith and Freedom Coalition supports Donald Trump
Reed recently talked with Michael Scherer, a political reporter at The Washington Post, about why his organization is endorsing Trump. Here is a taste: MR. SCHERER: I want to start with the news last week. We had the felony conviction […]
PREVIEW: The Politics of the Cross
A Christian alternative to partisanship
Interview with Dan Williams on Politics of the Cross, paperback release
Tomorrow is the paperback release of Politics of the Cross. How well did this book age since 2021? Find out in this interview.
Lindsay Chervinsky named Executive Director of the George Washington Presidential Library at Mount Vernon
I knew her before she was famous! We overlapped briefly as fellows at the George Washington Presidential Library. Congrats, Lindsay! Well-deserved. Here is the press release from Mount Vernon: MOUNT VERNON, Va., May 22, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — The Mount Vernon Ladies’ Association is proud […]
Albert Mohler, Doug Wilson, and Steve Bannon will speak at the National Conservatism conference in July
The National Conservative movement is hosting its fourth annual conference in July. Watch: Speakers include: Albert Mohler (President Southern Baptist Theological Seminary) Steve Bannon (Trump adviser and alt-right leader) Josh Hawley (U.S. Senator from Missouri) Stephen Miller (Trump adviser and […]
That’s entertainment!
We’d be much better off if our politicians stuck to politics and the entertainers to entertainment.
Joe Biden’s pro-life legacy
Joe Biden can’t get a break right now. The economy is improving. We are living normal lives again. Infrastructure improvements have begun. Things aren’t perfect, but Biden has brought us back, and has brought us back stronger. His infrastructure spending […]
REVIEW: Bad Therapy
The field of pediatric mental healthcare needs a better understanding of health
David Shaw, R.I.P. and read
In 1991, a courageous reporter who was anathema in his own newsroom won the Pulitzer Prize.
Evangelical roundup for April 29, 2024
What is happening in Evangelical Land? How evangelicals turned Mike Johnson on Ukraine aid? Jim Wallis’s “false white gospel“ What will evangelicals do about the Trump-Lake flip-flops on abortion? Shane is selling more shirts: Conservative evangelicals who oppose Christian nationalism […]
Sunday night odds and ends
A few things online that caught my attention this week: Paul Berman excuses the Columbia students, but not the faculty. A new documentary on the work of Robert “Bowling Alone” Putnam. Why isn’t historian Johann Neem a talking head in […]
Evangelical roundup for April 25, 2024
What is happening in Evangelical land? How will the Mike Johnson-Marjorie Taylor Greene breakup affect Trump? The evangelicals who pushed Mike Johnson to push the Ukraine aid bill. And here. World Vision celebrates Earth Day: Evangelicals gather in Krakow, Poland. […]
The lost social justice ethic of the temperance movement
This essay is cross-posted from the Anxious Bench. When even the most conservative of American evangelicals started drinking alcohol, they lost their movement’s philosophical foundation for social justice. That’s an overly simplistic statement, but what I mean by that is […]
REVIEW: The Exvangelicals
There’s more than one way to deconstruct
Happy Earth Day!
Today is Earth Day. The first Earth Day was commemorated on April 22, 1970. I am reminded of these words from Neil Pogue’s book The Nature of the Religious Right: The Struggle Between Conservative Evangelicals and the Environmental Movement: Initially, […]
Evangelical roundup for April 17, 2024
What is happening in Evangelical land? Evangelicalism is growing in the United Kingdom. Are Southern Baptists breaking with Christian nationalists? More here. Evangelicals bringing water to Sudan: The Italian Evangelical Alliance celebrates its 50th birthday Rwandan evangelicals thirty years after […]
Mothers, Children, and the Body Politic: through an index darkly
Here is a glimpse of my forthcoming book through five entries in the index.
Evangelical roundup for April 15, 2024
What is going on in Evangelical land? Evangelicals are pushing Congress to extend more aid to Israel. Trump knows evangelicals have no choice but to back him despite his states’ rights abortion policy. Evangelicals and the border: Ruth Graham talking […]