For Donald Trump it is all about loyalty, and Florida congressman Matt Gaetz is a Trump loyalist. Trump said he wanted to use the presidency to go after his enemies. It looks like he really meant it. Gaetz once said […]
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Election Day was 8 days ago. What are evangelicals saying?
Donald Trump has appointed Mike Huckabee, a former Southern Baptist preacher turned governor of Arkansas turned presidential candidate turned Christian television talk show host, the ambassador to Israel. Christian Zionist groups are very excited about the appointment. Here is Joel […]
Election Day was one week ago. What are evangelicals saying?
Fiona Hamilton of The Times (UK) has talked to some Trump-supporting evangelicals in Georgia. Here is a taste: The convention had been awash with talk of divine intervention and miracles even before Trump told delegates that “I’m not supposed to […]
Environmental Ethics and Evangelical Politics
Love God, love the planet
Can the Democrats reclaim the populist mantle?
Michael Sean Winters has his doubts. Here is a taste of his piece at the National Catholic Reporter: Democratic donors on Wall Street, in Silicon Valley and in Hollywood, and among special interest groups don’t want a party that champions […]
Election Day was six days ago. What are evangelicals saying?
Shane Idleman, the pastor of Westside Christian Fellowship in Lancaster, California, has some advice for Donald Trump about the border: Everyone agrees that illegal immigration is one of the biggest challenges facing us today. In an attempt to secure more […]
How the 2024 election will change American politics
Trump has just done what Reagan did in 1980 – but the magnitude of the realignment will depend on what Trump does next.
Sunday night odds and ends
A few things online that caught my attention this week: Fareed Zakaria offers three reasons why Trump won. Blaming democracy Nicholas Kristof: Maybe now Democrats will start paying attention to the working class. Teaching American Studies in Amsterdam Donald Trump […]
Election Day was 5 days ago. What are evangelicals saying?
It seems like there are two kinds of Trump evangelical voters. Those who voted for Trump as the “lesser evil” and those who saw Trump as the candidate that God favored. Blogger Samuel Sey seems to fall in the former […]
Michael Kazin: Democrats must “revive aggressive populism on the left”
Here is the Georgetown historian at Dissent: Perhaps the only positive consequence of the victory of an utterly despicable nominee and his down-ballot faithful is that progressives inside and outside the Democratic Party are groping their way toward a common […]
FORUM: Election 2024
A time to weep, a time to laugh
Does Trump chief of staff Susie Wiles see the court evangelicals as passengers in the “clown car?”
In case you missed it, president-elect Donald Trump just announced that Susie Wiles will be his chief of staff. Here is CNN: CNN reported earlier Thursday that Wiles was considered the front-runner for the job but had some reservations about […]
Election Day was two days ago. What are evangelicals saying?
Over at The New York Times, Elizabeth Dias and Ruth Graham write: “Mr. Trump is not only the leader of the Republican Party but also the de facto figurehead of conservative American Christianity.” *** The Christian Right is not alone […]
Some very early evangelical responses to Trump’s victory
I went to bed around 1am last night. When I awoke, Donald Trump was President-Elect. Let’s see what evangelicals are saying this morning. The responses are trickling-in. We will try to cover them throughout the day. According to The Washington Post, […]
A Hard Day’s Night
Election Day 2024, journaling all the way
Good citizens under a bad emperor
The “emperor” for the next four years will be bad. We, the citizens, however, don’t have to be.
Thank You and Goodbye
Harris has my vote. She doesn’t have my allegiance.
Today is Election Day. What are evangelicals saying?
There are a lot of MAGA evangelicals in Pennsylvania. Yesterday in church they made their final appeals to their congregations. Here is David Gilbert and Vittoria Elliott at WIRED: In Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, this Sunday, at the Life Center megachurch, hundreds of […]
What I’ll be watching for tonight
What should we be watching for tonight, if the election returns that come in today won’t provide definitive results for the races that have received the most scrutiny?
1 day until Election Day. What are evangelicals saying?
Yesterday I was writing about Rev. Dwight McKissic, the pastor of Cornerstone Baptist Church in Arlington, Texas. In my current book manuscript I describe the role McKissic played in an anti-gay marriage rally in Arlington, Texas back in May 2004. […]