An evangelical farmer and Presbyterian pastor from Butler County, Pennsylvania is voting for Kamala Harris on November 5. As a farmer, he takes environmental stewardship seriously. So does Harris. As a pastor, he believes it is important to love his […]
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17 days until election day. What are evangelicals saying?
The Associated Press is running an interesting piece about Asian-American evangelicals. They tend to be conservative in theology and conservative on social issues like gay marriage and abortion. But that doesn’t mean they all vote Republican. Like many Americans, older […]
20 days until Election Day. What are evangelicals saying?
Many on the Christian Right continue to remain nervous about surveys suggesting that large numbers of evangelicals may not vote in November. Over at the conservative website TownHall.com, a conservative writer named Rachel Alexander is shaming these evangelicals who plan […]
Interview: Nadya Williams on her new book, Mothers, Children, and the Body Politic
What difference does the imago Dei make for how we think about mothers and children?
21 days until Election Day. What are evangelicals saying?
This week I helped Newsweek writer Khaleda Rahman with a piece on “Evangelicals for Harris.” Here is my contribution: Others were more skeptical that the group could sway enough evangelical voters toward Harris. “Frankly, I don’t think Evangelicals for Harris […]
Sunday night odds and ends
A few things online that caught my attention this week: On mining universal laws from anecdotes Does Kamala Harris support late-term abortions? A case for civics Willie Mays and Birmingham David Brooks: Republican exile Intellectual independence requires submission to authority. […]
Rating Republican Presidents on Their Pro-Life Bona Fides
Not everyone makes the grade
Thirty days until Election Day. What are evangelicals saying?
Have you heard about “Project 19“? This is charismatic “prophet” Lance Wallnau’s name for the Seven Mountain Dominionist attempt to take 19 counties in the swing states that will decide the 2024 presidential election. They are Cobb County (GA), Fulton […]
Donald Trump as Rex Mottram
A buffoonish literary character with many vices is entertaining. But not so in real life.
George Orwell on “Politics and the English Language”
Why warped political language matters.
We Are Insufficiently Immunized Against Nazis
The Third Reich’s script would please far too many today
American Christian voters and third parties: a historical overview
While third-party voting has never been the norm among American Christians, it has a long history.
40 days until Election Day. What are evangelicals saying?
Here is today’s evangelicals and politics roundup: Christianity Today asks whether there is a Christian candidate in this presidential election. A recent Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs survey found that about 2 in 10 white evangelicals “say the word […]
Election Day is 47 days away. What are evangelicals saying?
Sojourners is covering “Evangelicals for Harris.” In case you missed it, here is a highlight video: The founder of Evangelicals for Harris, Jim Ball, explains why he started the group and makes his case for Harris at The Hill. Notice […]
Echo chamber evidence
Echo chambers make for poor journalism.
REVIEW: Shepherds for Sale?
Megan Basham’s theology is compromised and her history misguided
Sunday night odds and ends
A few things online that caught my attention this week: The “crude division of people into conservatives and progressives” The meaning of the three-fifths clause You should read books Philosophy for the people Is Kamala Harris benefiting from a cultural […]
Haitian evangelicals: GOP ticket “fuels xenophobia and perpetuates damaging stereotypes”
In case you missed it, today on CNN JD Vance doubled-down on the view that Haitian immigrants, here in the country legally, are eating pets in Springfield, Ohio. Watch: Vance comes across as really slimy in this interview. He tells […]
Election Day is 50 days away. What are evangelicals saying?
A group of evangelicals have issued “Our Confession of Evangelical Conviction.” It is essentially an anti-MAGA document. It is signed by some well-known evangelicals with big platforms. What strikes me about the statement is how it defines “evangelical.” It defines […]
Blessing of Unicorns: Platonists of Illinois and the Hegelians of St. Louis, natural law, Inklings on the move, and more!
This week, meet the Platonists of Illinois and the Hegelians of St. Louis, Prickly Porcupine on Natural Law, Inklings on the move, childcare policy, Pindar, and more.