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Election Day was 17 days ago. What are evangelicals saying?

John Fea   |  November 22, 2024

“Sunday came for Tony Campolo.” Steve Rabey helped Campolo write his memoir. It is coming out in February with Eerdmans. Here is a taste of Rabey’s piece on Campolo at Baptist News Global: Tony Campolo, an influential Christian pastor, professor, author, […]

Election Day was 13 days ago. What are evangelicals saying?

John Fea   |  November 18, 2024

Steve Eng, the “advocacy director” of the National Association of Evangelicals, reflects on the presidential election: An NAE post-election statement encourages us to “pray for God’s guidance and blessing on those who have won, that they will be good stewards of the […]

Election Day was 11 days ago. What are evangelicals saying?

John Fea   |  November 16, 2024

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 […]

Election Day was 8 days ago. What are evangelicals saying?

John Fea   |  November 13, 2024

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 […]

Descartes or Pascal?

Shirley Mullen   |  November 7, 2024

What if the story of the modern world had been told differently?

Some very early evangelical responses to Trump’s victory

John Fea   |  November 6, 2024

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, […]

Yesterday was Election Day. What were evangelicals saying?

John Fea   |  November 6, 2024

I am working on this roundup on Tuesday evening before most of the major states have reported their election results. Evangelicals are supposed to model what Galatians 5:22-23 describes as the “Fruit of the Spirit”. That verse says: “But the […]

Today is Election Day. What are evangelicals saying?

John Fea   |  November 5, 2024

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 […]

1 day until Election Day. What are evangelicals saying?

John Fea   |  November 4, 2024

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. […]

Do we really want another four years of Donald Trump?

John Fea   |  November 3, 2024

I understand why people will vote for Donald Trump on Tuesday. Some think Trump will protect their religious liberty and fight for their views in a way that Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, and George W. Bush did not. Some […]

4 days until Election Day. What are evangelicals saying?

John Fea   |  November 1, 2024

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 […]

6 days until Election Day. What are evangelicals saying?

John Fea   |  October 30, 2024

An evangelical pastor in Ligonier, Pennsylvania is still an undecided voter. He doesn’t read anything about national politics until one week before the election. According Olga Khazan at The Atlantic, this pastor is not alone. A taste: When Bryan Jarrell, […]

7 days until Election Day. What are evangelicals saying?

John Fea   |  October 29, 2024

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?

John Fea   |  October 28, 2024

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 […]

9 days until Election Day. What are evangelicals saying?

John Fea   |  October 27, 2024

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. […]

11 days until Election Day. What are evangelicals saying?

John Fea   |  October 24, 2024

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 […]

12 days until Election Day. What are evangelicals saying?

John Fea   |  October 23, 2024

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 […]

Anxiety Has Plans

Thomas Hibbs   |  October 21, 2024

A Pixar film shows the way to mental health

16 days until Election Day. What are evangelicals saying?

John Fea   |  October 19, 2024

Just stuff from X today: Evangelicals are buzzing about remarks Harris made to pro-life activists who interrupted her recent rally in La Crosse, Wisconsin. Watch: Here is coverage from the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: About 20 minutes into Harris’ speech, a […]

18 days until Election Day. What are evangelicals saying?

John Fea   |  October 17, 2024

Today, fifty evangelical leaders from Wisconsin urged Harris, Walz, Trump, and Vance to “reflect biblical principles on immigration.” Evangelical relief agency World Relief was behind the letter to the candidates. The central argument is this: “The vast majority of American […]

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