How is Evangelical land responding to the overturning of Roe v. Wade? I have long understood these roundups as a form of curation. It’s important to get these responses (or at least some of them) all in one place. David […]
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Day 1 of the 3-ring circus is over. The Southern Baptists elect a new president.
Anyone following the Southern Baptist Convention Annual Meeting this week in Anaheim is witnessing a denomination in shambles. The Convention has a serious sexual abuse problem to deal with and not everyone agrees that there is a problem or how […]
Rick Warren names his successor(s)
The evangelical megachurch pastor and author has just named his successor. Here is Bob Smietana at Religion News Service: After more than four decades, the pastor of one of the nation’s largest and most influential churches is ready to step […]
Evangelical roundup for May 23, 2022
What is happening in Evangelical land? Syke Jethani just triggered Rod Dreher Shane returns to his bus: Shane learns something about Mastriano: The artist behind Chick Tracts has died Tim Keller quotes church historian Kenneth Scott Latourette: Ruth Graham on […]
The Southern Baptist Convention Executive Committee’s third-party abuse investigation report was just released. It’s horrifying.
Here is Kate Shellnut at Christianity Today: Armed with a secret list of more than 700 abusive pastors, Southern Baptist leaders chose to protect the denomination from lawsuits rather than protect the people in their churches from further abuse. Survivors, […]
Evangelical roundup for May 16, 2022
What is happening in Evangelical land: Southern Baptist church membership is down 1.1. million. “Jesusland” versus “The United States of Canada” revisited. Not “lone wolves”: Truth: More Shane: The president of Sojourners on reducing abortion, not overturning Roe. What does […]
Evangelical roundup for May 12, 2022
What is happening in Evangelical land? The New York Times reports on how Trumpism divided an Arkansas church. Veteran religion writer Terry Mattingly responds to the piece. Shane turning guns into tools: It appears that The New York Times is […]
Evangelical roundup for May 8, 2022
What is happening in Evangelical land? Apparently Tim Keller is now not good enough for some conservative evangelicals of the Christian Right. Apparently Ralph Reed forgot about Merrick Garland: Roger Olson responds to Jesus and John Wayne. Charlie Kirk is […]
Evangelical roundup for May 5, 2022: Roe v. Wade edition
What is happening in Evangelical land? They are responding to the leaked draft of Samuel Alito’s Roe v. Wade majority decision. Read the press release from the National Association of Evangelicals. Christianity Today reports here. And a bunch of other […]
More Southern Baptist drama
This comes from a blogger called “The Masked Baptist“: SBC entities work for the churches. Right? We thought so too. But what about when employees of an SBC Entity refuse to help stop the blackmail a Southern Baptist pastor and try to […]
Evangelical roundup for April 14, 2022
What is happening in Evangelical land? Despite Donald Trump’s endorsement of David Perdue in the Georgia gubernatorial race, evangelicals are still backing incumbent Brian Kemp. Eric Metaxas interviews Rudy Giuliani. The conspiracy theories abound! Jenna Ellis and Eric Metaxas on […]
Evangelicals respond to the confirmation of Ketanji Brown Jackson
Ketanji Brown Jackson will become the first Black woman on the Supreme Court of the United States. The Senate voted 53-47 to confirm Jackson. Republican Senators Susan Collins (ME), Lisa Murkowski (AL), and Mitt Romney (UT) voted to confirm. Today […]
Evangelical roundup for March 31, 2022
What is happening in Evangelical land: Most evangelicals support Ukraine in the Russia-Ukraine War. The wildly popular Christianity Today podcasts turns it attention to Christianity Today: Christian nationalists’ score lower than most on American religious history quizzes. Owen is at […]
Evangelical roundup for March 28, 2022
What is happening in Evangelical land? The editor of the Babylon Bee is locked out of Twitter for hateful speech. A nice summary of the current state of the Christian Right by a Christian Right figure: Also, you can read […]
Evangelical roundup for March 24, 2022
What is happening in Evangelical land? What is going on at Calvin University? Two former female employees at Christianity Today talk about the Mark Galli sexual harassment allegations. Dan Silliman, the Christianity Today reporter who broke the Mark Galli story, […]
Evangelical roundup for March 10, 2022
What is happening in Evangelical land? Evangelicalism isn’t dying. John MacArthur publicly shamed and excommunicated a woman from the pulpit. He will also speak at a meeting of the Conservative Baptist Network ahead of the Southern Baptist Convention’s annual meeting. […]
Evangelical roundup for January 27, 2022
What is happening in Evangelical land? How the backlash to the Christian Right is reshaping evangelicalism. Timothy Keller on the “decline of evangelicalism“: Georgia gubernatorial candidates are fighting for the evangelical vote. Evangelicals still love Trump (and Pence): Are evangelicals […]
Evangelical roundup for January 20, 2022
What is happening in Evangelical land? There is a long history of white evangelicals taking shots at Martin Luther King Jr.’s “liberal theology.” Tim LaHaye did it in 1968 and on Monday Al Mohler did it, albeit in a softer […]
Evangelical roundup for January 17, 2022
What is happening in Evangelical land? Eric Metaxas and Naomi Wolf talk about the “fear of COVID-19,” the “apartheid society” in New York City; how the “unnecessary” vaccine is attacking women’s reproductive health; and how the vaccine reflects a general […]
Evangelical roundup for December 6, 2021
What is happening in Evangelical land? Evangelicals are searching their online Bibles for the word “sorcery“ More on evangelical “deconstructionists“ It might be a good for idea for Liberty University leaders to get their own house in order before they […]