While many Americans are celebrating Juneteenth, an all-star lineup of Trump court evangelicals and other assorted followers of the former president are in Orlando this weekend for the Road to Majority 2021, the annual gathering of Ralph Reed’s Faith & […]
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Evangelical roundup for June 3, 2021
What is going on in Evangelicalland? Paige Patterson believes a “lynch mob” is after him. Russell Moore get a new gig as “Minister in Residence” at a non-Southern Baptist Church that is part of the Acts 29 network. Adelle banks […]
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 10, 2021
What is going on in Evangelicalland? Eric Metaxas was in Lancaster, Pennsylvania last weekend and had a run-in with a Black Lives Matter protester. He also criticizes the people of Lancaster for wearing masks. Metaxas still believes that Donald Trump […]
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 […]
What evangelicals are saying (and not saying) about Liz Cheney’s recent statements about the 2020 election
CNN gets us up to speed: Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney, the No. 3 House Republican, said on Monday her party cannot accept the “poison” of the idea that the 2020 election was stolen and should not “whitewash” the January 6 […]
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 […]
Evangelical roundup: April 22, 2021
What is happening in Evangelicalland? We covered the evangelical response to the Chauvin verdict in yesterday’s bonus roundup. (We’ve added a few more responses below). It looks like a lot of evangelicals are debating “wokeness”: Katelyn Beaty weighs in: David […]
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 […]
The Court Evangelicals 2.0 gathered today in the White House
Back in the first Trump administration I coined the term “court evangelicals” to describe the evangelical Christians who gathered around Trump. Here is a taste of a piece I wrote in January 2020: Last Friday (Jan. 3), nearly every major […]
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?:
Election Day was 16 days ago. What are evangelicals saying?
Did Christians sway the 2024 election to Donald Trump? It’s certainly possible. George Barna, the favorite pollster of conservative evangelicals, says that 99% of “Spiritually Active Governance Engaged Conservative Christians” voted on November 5. (Note that George Barna and the […]
Election Day was 12 days ago. What are evangelicals saying?
MAGA charismatic prophets got in wrong in 2020. Biden, not Trump, won the presidency. Now they are claiming that they were just off by four years. Katherine Fung is covering it at Newsweek. One such prophet, Johnny Enlow, believes his […]
Election Day was 8 days ago. What are evangelicals saying?
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 […]
Election Day was one week ago. What are evangelicals saying?
Fiona Hamilton of The Times (UK) has talked to some Trump-supporting evangelicals in Georgia. Here is a taste: The convention had been awash with talk of divine intervention and miracles even before Trump told delegates that “I’m not supposed to […]
Election Day was six days ago. What are evangelicals saying?
Shane Idleman, the pastor of Westside Christian Fellowship in Lancaster, California, has some advice for Donald Trump about the border: Everyone agrees that illegal immigration is one of the biggest challenges facing us today. In an attempt to secure more […]
It’s four days after Election Day. What are evangelicals saying?
The National Association of Evangelicals has issued a press release: “Elections inevitably produce winners and losers,” said NAE President Walter Kim. “We pray for God’s guidance and blessing on those who have won, that they will be good stewards of the […]
Election Day was two days ago. What are evangelicals saying?
Over at The New York Times, Elizabeth Dias and Ruth Graham write: “Mr. Trump is not only the leader of the Republican Party but also the de facto figurehead of conservative American Christianity.” *** The Christian Right is not alone […]
Yesterday was Election Day. What were evangelicals saying?
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 […]