What is going on in Evangelicalland? Owen Strachan is worried about changing “biblical commas”: Beware of former Obama adviser Michael Wear. š Why evangelicals still love Trump. With COVID-19 on the rise among the unvaccinated, this evangelical commentator and former […]
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What is popular this week at Current?
Here are the most popularĀ CurrentĀ features of the last week: Michael Kazin, “Evangelicals and Racism: Is There Hope?“ Adam Jortner, “Found Footage: January 6 and the Horror Movies that Made It“ John Haas, “Leaving Afghanistan“ Randall Balmer, “Who Killed Evangelicalism? Chris […]
What is going on at The Claremont Institute?
The conservative website The Bulwark takes a shot at the pro-Trump think tank. The subtitle of Laura Fields’s piece says it all: “How the once-distinguished conservative think tank plunged into Trumpism, illiberalism, and lying about the election.” They have even […]
Evangelical roundup for July 8, 2021
What is going on in Evangelicalland? Is evangelicalism an “ethos“? Do evangelicals have a theology of the church? A good reminder: Ask an Evangelical! Latino evangelicals turn toward Trumpism: A conservative website doesn’t like that McLean Bible Church pastor David […]
Evangelical roundup for July 1, 2021
What is going on in Evangelicalland? It looks like white evangelical support for Trump was actually higher in 2020 than 2016. An InterVarsity director leaves evangelicalism. But I am unsure what he is leaving apart from a label. Philosopher Jamie […]
Evangelical roundup for June 28, 2021
What is going on in Evangelicalland? Miami evangelicals are stepping-up to the plate in Surfside, Florida. David Barton at First Baptist-Dallas for Freedom Sunday. True: Jim Wallis say “farewell” to Sojourners: Some evangelicals are gathering to read Frederick Douglass on […]
Evangelical roundup for June 21, 2021
What is going on in Evangelicalland? Some pics from last week’s SBC meeting in Nashville. Jack Graham is glad to be a Southern Baptist: Christianity Today reporter Kate Shellnut on what she saw at the SBC Annual Meeting. Last weekend’s […]
Evangelical roundup for May 27, 2021
What is going on in Evangelicalland? Are complementarians inherently patriarchal? Texas wants to require public schools to hang “In God We Trust” signs A book criticizing critical race theory is blowing-up in evangelical circles. The Southern Baptists are heading to […]
Evangelical roundup for May 6, 2021
What is happening in Evangelicalland? Evangelical TikTok Pray for India Shane Claiborne on the death penalty: What did televangelists look like before they were famous? Nick Jonas actually transformed into Joel Osteen: A reviewer thinks Beth Barr did not go […]
Evangelical roundup for May 3, 2021
What is happening in Evangelicalland? Is Trevor Lawrence the next big evangelical Christian sports star? (On a side note, Tim Tebow is trying out for Lawrence’s new team). Asian-American evangelicals speak-up. Today’s blast from the past comes courtesy of Brantley […]
Evangelical roundup for April 29, 2021
What is happening in Evangelicalland? Love your neighbor. Get vaccinated. You should know about John Stott. He would have been 100 this week. Beth Allison’s Barr’s The Making of Biblical Womanhood is blowing-up the evangelical internet: Not everyone is happy […]
Evangelical roundup for April 26, 2021
What is happening in Evangelicalland? An evangelical pastor is concerned about how students at conservative Christian schools and homeschoolers will remember January 6, 2021. It’s a legitimate concern, especially when you have folks like David Barton, Eric Metaxas, and Charlie […]
Bonus evangelical roundup: What are evangelical leaders saying about the Chauvin verdict?
Yesterday a jury found former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin guilty of murdering George Floyd. How did the evangelical community respond? The Liberty University Standing for Freedom Center tweeted about big tech, mail-in-voting and microchips, but nothing about the Chauvin […]
Evangelical Roundup for April 19, 2021
What is happening in Evangelicalland? Why are the people who operate in a culture that has a long history of individual and systemic racism always the people who can’t resist taking a shot at critical race theory? And why do […]
Donald Trump says he was “saved by God to make America great again.” What are evangelicals saying?
Apparently God saved Trump to deport immigrants, fire federal employees without notice, start a trade war, cut aid to suffering people around the world, and bow to Russian autocrat Vladimir Putin. Let’s see what evangelicals are saying about Trump’s speech […]
Did God answer Franklin Graham’s prayer? Evangelicals respond to what happened today in the Oval Office
What an embarrassment for the United States of America. Watch: Some American evangelicals are responding: Did God answer Franklin Graham’s prayer?:
The Trump wrecking ball keeps swinging. What are evangelicals saying?
MAGA prophet Lance Wallnau once claimed that God told him that Donald Trump “is a wrecking ball to the spirit of political correctness.” Well, it looks the prophecy came true. The new president, with the help of Elon Musk, is […]
How dare this demonic “priestess” speak truth to Trump! (And other things evangelicals are saying in the wake of the inauguration).
Today at the Service of Prayer for the Nation at the Washington Cathedral, the Right Rev. Mariann Edgar Budde, bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Washington, confronted Donald Trump about immigrants. Watch: By the way: This is what speaking truth […]
Dinesh D’Souza apologizes for “2000 Mules”
In 2022, conservative pundit Dinesh D’Souza produced and narrated “2000 Mules.” a conspiracist political film that claimed Donald Trump won the 2020 election. Here is a description of the film: The 2020 presidential election was rife with fraud orchestrated by […]
Election Day was 11 days ago. What are evangelicals saying?
World magazine is reporting that some evangelicals are concerned about Trump’s nomination of Matt Gaetz as attorney general. But what fascinates me about Josh Schumacher’s piece at the conservative magazine is that none of the evangelicals he quotes in the […]