Thanks to Emma Bell for her assistance with this roundup As we have reported in these roundups, Franklin Graham was not happy when the Evangelicals for Harris movement used his father, evangelist Billy Graham, in a campaign ad. Here’s the […]
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Christian college professor: “I’m ashamed to be a Republican”
Byron Curtis is professor emeritus of biblical studies at Geneva College in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania. In an op-ed today at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette he makes a pro-life case for Kamala Harris. A taste: I’m a 46-year member of the Republican […]
4 days until Election Day. What are evangelicals saying?
Charlie Kirk’s Turning Point USA is using evangelical churches for GOP “get out the vote” rallies. MSNBC reports: Turning Point Action, founded by conservative provocateur Charlie Kirk, has held GOP vote-chasing events with at least 22 churches in six swing […]
This Election Will Not End Our Polarization
Our partisan differences are about identity, not policy
Wehner: “The strongest case for voting for Harris doesn’t have nearly as much to do with her as it has to do with Trump”
Over at The Atlantic, Peter Wehner worries about the future of conservativism if Trump wins: The strongest case for voting for Harris doesn’t have nearly as much to do with her as it has to do with her opponent. Trump remains […]
Six parties may not be enough
This week’s NYT short quiz with six political “parties” options shows that even six may not be enough.
5 days until Election Day: What are evangelicals saying?
Chad Harvey is a Trump-supporting Pentecostal pastor in North Carolina. Scott Detrow of National Public Radio recently interviewed him about his political convictions. Here is a small taste: Detrow: Let me just ask the direct question about this with Trump. […]
Where Do Dead Babies Go?
Personhood laws matter for the living—and the dead
Religion and the election in Pennsylvania
Ivey DeJesus of the Harrisburg Patriot-News and Peter Smith of the Associated Press are covering Christianity and the 2024 presidential election in Pennsylvania. I was happy to help them with their stories. Here is a taste of DeJesus’s piece, “Some […]
7 days until Election Day. What are evangelicals saying?
Yesterday Donald Trump spoke to the members of his National Faith Advisory Board’s National Faith Summit in Powder Springs, Georgia. Newsweek covers it here. Watch: At about the 29:55 mark, Paula White says “we believe that God has saved you […]
8 days until Election Day. What are evangelicals saying?
David French has been a never-Trump from the beginning and he hasn’t wavered. Yesterday at The New York Times he offered four lessons he has learned during his nine years of never-Trumpism. They are: See how French unpacks these points […]
Interview: Emily Carrington on early pregnancy loss
How we talk about miscarriage matters.
Sunday night odds and ends
A few things online that caught my attention this week: The new Chicago Manual of Style is here. A writing instructor on why students don’t read. Photos from the 1893 World’s Fair The story behind Maine’s 1840 abolition law. Is […]
9 days until Election Day. What are evangelicals saying?
Alex Morris of Rolling Stone, who writes regularly about the Christian Right, has a recent piece on evangelicals trying to convince their fellow believers to vote for Harris. It focuses on Evangelicals for Harris and Doug Pagitt’s Vote Common Good. […]
10 days until Election Day. What are evangelicals saying?
Kamala Harris is not winning over many evangelical voters with recent comments on abortion. Here are a couple of lines from a Fox News story: Pro-life groups are livid at Vice President Kamala Harris after she took an uncompromising position on abortion […]
“If Democrats are keen to defend democracy they would do well to stop talking about it”
Everyone is saying that the 2024 election is a referendum on the fate of American democracy. Some progressive Christians are currently traveling through swing states on a “Faith and Democracy” tour. Based on the scholarly interests of the academics involved […]
Some Evangelicals Are Looking for a Reason to Vote for Harris
She’s not giving them one
11 days until Election Day. What are evangelicals saying?
Jerushah Duford has a piece in Newsweek yesterday making the case for Kamala Harris. Duford is noteworthy because she is an evangelical and the granddaughter of Billy Graham. It appears that she is voting for Harris based on the legacy […]
Blasphemies
Measuring society by its conversation stoppers
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 […]