I don’t have two hours and forty minutes to listen to Sean DeMars’s interview with Albert Mohler, so I am glad that Mark Wingfield did. Here are a few snippets of his piece at Baptist News Global: Toward the end […]
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A Modest Proposal to End Insanity, Part III
Tribal thinking isn’t thinking
On the politics of the average American
Tyler Austin Harper brings the evidence: The politics of the average American are not well represented by either party right now. On economic issues, large majorities of the electorate support progressive positions: They say that making sure everyone has health-care coverage is […]
In Italy, it’s evangelicals who are waging a “war on Christmas”
This morning I was writing on the so-called “war on Christmas” as it played out in December 2004. Some of this stuff will probably make it into my next book. Here is a taste: For his December “Holiday Party” at […]
“The After Virtue cabinet”
“Who will watch the watchmen themselves?”
REVIEW: Mothers, Children, and the Body Politic
Things are not as they should be. Now what?
Perry Bacon Jr. wants us to stop blaming progressives for Harris’s loss. Is he right?
Here is the Washington Post columnist: Center-left and establishment Democrats are trying to marginalize the party’s left wing in the wake of Vice President Kamala Harris’s loss last month, in some ways mirroring what moderates — including Bill Clinton — did in the late ’80s […]
Review: Christian anti-liberals
Who needs religious pluralism?
The “Brahmin left” thinks the working class are idiots. “Thinking and behaving this way just strengthens the far right.”
Over at Jacobin, Edward Engelen interviews Joan C. Williams (White Working Class: Overcoming Class Cluelessness in America) and Thomas Frank (What’s the Matter with Kansas and Listen Liberal) about the working class and the 2024 election. Here is a taste: […]
Is Matt Gaetz an evangelical?
I don’t know what Matt Gaetz believes, but he certainly likes to run in evangelical circles and speak in evangelical language. Today, Gaetz is Donald Trump’s nominee for attorney general. His sexual indiscretions seem to be catching up to him. […]
Election Day was two weeks ago. What are evangelicals saying?
Over at Christianity Today, Emily Belz reports on Christian sex-trafficking organizations opposed to the nomination of Matt Gaetz as U.S. attorney general. Here is a taste: Several Christian anti-trafficking organizations are publicly opposing President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for US attorney […]
FORUM: Election 2024, Part IV
A time to look back, a time to look forward
Election Day was 13 days ago. What are evangelicals saying?
Steve Eng, the “advocacy director” of the National Association of Evangelicals, reflects on the presidential election: An NAE post-election statement encourages us to “pray for God’s guidance and blessing on those who have won, that they will be good stewards of the […]
Albert Mohler is free to advance his Christian nationalism, but he should be more careful when using American history to do it.
Albert Mohler believes that the United States was built, and should continue to be built, on a Christian foundation. Read his entire argument here. The piece stems from his 2024 speech to the National Conservatism Conference. Let’s see how Mohler […]
Mike Johnson is feeling the rush of power
Power is a heck of a drug. Just ask Mike Johnson. Watch: The conservative evangelical Speaker of the House appeared today on CNN’s State of the Union. During the interview, Jake Tapper played this clip of Mark Wayne Mullin talking […]
Election Day was 12 days ago. What are evangelicals saying?
MAGA charismatic prophets got in wrong in 2020. Biden, not Trump, won the presidency. Now they are claiming that they were just off by four years. Katherine Fung is covering it at Newsweek. One such prophet, Johnny Enlow, believes his […]
FORUM: Election 2024, Part III
A time to tear down, a time to build
Election Day was 10 days ago. What are evangelicals saying?
It looks like there is going to be some division in evangelical MAGA-land over some of Trump’s cabinet appointments. More than 80% of evangelicals voted for Trump and the president is “rewarding” them with an attorney general nominee who was […]
Election Day was 9 days ago. What are evangelicals saying?
I noticed a couple of things in today’s roundup: *** Jackson Posey, a writer for the Baylor Lariat, encourages his fellow students not to be anxious about the election results. Here is a taste: Donald Trump is soon to be […]
John Thune is “no longer a Trump critic, but he isn’t a loyalist either”
I must admit that I breathed a small sigh of relief when I heard that GOP Senators chose John Thune to lead them. Thune defeated John Cornyn of Texas and Rick Scott of Florida. The latter was Trump’s pick. So […]