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Evangelical roundup for July 10, 2023
What is happening in Evangelical land? Church of England evangelicals continue to oppose same-sex blessings. David French on humility and Christian politics. Are evangelicals becoming less Southern Baptist? A Christian contemporary music duo is taking heat for appearing with musicians […]
Evangelical roundup for July 6, 2023
What’s happening in Evangelical land? Latino evangelicals are backing Ron DeSantis despite his views on immigration. An evangelical building interfaith bridges with Mormons. Karen Swallow Prior’s career and the Southern Baptist Convention. In my view, she has been an essential […]
Evangelical roundup for June 26, 2023
What is happening in Evangelical land? We spent the weekend covering the Christian Right “Road to Majority” conference. Read our posts here. This weekend The Way of Improvement Leads Home podcast dropped Episode 113. Historian Larry Eskridge joins us to […]
Evangelical roundup for June 15, 2023
What is happening in Evangelical land? Happy Birthday to my favorite evangelical Christian–Joy Fea! See our coverage of the Annual Meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention here and here and here and here and here and here. Harvard Magazine features […]
Evangelical roundup for June 8, 2023
What is happening in Evangelical land: Deconstructing Molly Worthen’s conversion. Joel Looper reviews Daniel G. Hummel, The Rise and Fall of Dispensationalism. Where do Reformed evangelicals go after the death of Tim Keller? Can evangelicalism be revitalized?: Is evangelical renewal […]
Evangelical roundup for May 25, 2023
What is happening in Evangelical land? Molly Worthen on Tim Keller: A Brookings Institution senior fellow reflects on the life of Tim Keller. David Brooks on Tim Keller. Jim Daly (Focus on the Family) on Tim Keller. Jim Wallis on […]
Evangelical roundup for May 15, 2023
What is happening in Evangelical land? What is happening in evangelical higher education? On the decline of Southern Baptist church membership. The latest on The Kings College. Russell Moore on evangelical congregations and Trump. Michael Wear liked it: Great line: […]
The court evangelicals are getting the old band back together
Readers of this blog know what a court evangelical is. But for the uninitiated, I encourage you to read this piece or this book. After last night’s CNN town hall, it appears that Donald Trump just might be the GOP […]
Evangelical roundup for May 11, 2023
What is happening in Evangelical land? In case you haven’t heard, a prominent historian and scholar of American evangelicalism converted to Christianity last year through the ministry of J.D. Greaar, the pastor of a large Southern Baptist Church in North […]
Evangelical roundup for May 4, 2023
What is happening in Evangelical land? If you read social media, sociologists, religious studies scholars, and historians today you might think that evangelicals are racists, patriarchs, and Christian nationalists. You might hear about how young people are leaving the church […]
Evangelical roundup for April 27, 2023
What is happening in Evangelical land? Eighteen Christian colleges have closed since COVID-19. Charles Stanley’s last words to his son Andy. Evangelicals and guns. 1968: Young Life defends human dignity. Methodist congregations are leaving the United Methodist Church in droves: […]
Evangelical roundup for April 24, 2023
What is happening in Evangelical land? GOP candidates meet with Iowa evangelicals. More here. The role of evangelical Christianity in Venezuela’s 2024 election. Conservative evangelicals in the Church of England reject the Archbishop of Canterbury. The New York Times obituary […]
Evangelical roundup for April 13, 2023
What is happening in Evangelical land? Iowa evangelicals love Donald Trump. Nikki Haley is the commencement speaker at Pat Robertson’s Regent University in Virginia Beach. The diversity of evangelical support for Israel. Shane’s list of common sense gun laws: French […]
Trump speaks to court evangelical “emergency prayer call”
Tonight at 6:45 Donald Trump, fresh off his New York City indictment, participated on a prayer call with some of his conservative evangelical supporters. Paula White’s “National Faith Advisory Board hosted the call. I listened to it here. It looks […]
Evangelical roundup for March 30, 2023
What is happening in Evangelical land? A 9-year-old hero at Covenant School in Nashville. European evangelicals against abuse. Rick Warren on sexual abuse in the Southern Baptist Convention: Spanish evangelicals recommend Christian leaders “avoid using their pastoral influence to condition […]
MAGA evangelical leader tells churches to take political control of their towns
Yesterday I posted about MAGA prophet Lance Wallnau’s idea of evangelical Trumpists taking over their communities when they hear God say the word “diamond.” Today we have Floyd Brown encouraging local evangelical churches to take over their towns. Watch: Brown […]
Evangelical roundup for March 16, 2023
What is happening in Evangelical Land? Evangelicals love evangelicals. Black evangelicals are “caught between their faith and the long shadow of history.” The president of Northern Seminary resigns. Southern Baptists have been arguing about women in the church for a […]
Conservative culture warriors love Antonio Gramsci
For several years now conservatives, and especially the Christian Right, have been warning their followers about the influence of “cultural Marxism.” One of their favorite bogeymen is Mussolini-era Italian communist Antonio Gramsci. Here, for example, is Christian right purveyor of […]
Evangelical roundup for March 9, 2023
What is happening in Evangelical Land? Rod Dreher defends Josh Butler’s view of evangelical sex and claims that his critics do not understand Catholic and Orthodox views of sex. I don’t think Butler gets it right, and the criticism is […]