What is happening in Evangelical land? Is evangelicalism “loosening?” Does Donald Trump share the values of American evangelicalism? The National Association of Evangelicals explores racial justice and racial reconciliation: Shane on Gaza: French evangelicals supports a new law to combat […]
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David French on a panel, oh no!
The PCA politically has red, blue, and purple churches, and if we can’t get along with each other how do we expect the U.S not to fall apart?
Needed: A New History of Rural Working-Class Conservatism
What the political history of a rural Georgia county can tell us about Trump’s rise to power
Evangelical roundup for April 25, 2024
What is happening in Evangelical land? How will the Mike Johnson-Marjorie Taylor Greene breakup affect Trump? The evangelicals who pushed Mike Johnson to push the Ukraine aid bill. And here. World Vision celebrates Earth Day: Evangelicals gather in Krakow, Poland. […]
Evangelical roundup for April 21, 2024
What is happening in Evangelical land? Non-denominational evangelicals and the poor David French on the diversity of evangelicalism World Vision remembers Earth Day: Russian army turns on Ukrainian evangelicals Evangelical young people and opposition to same-sex relationships Shane Claiborne is […]
Evangelical roundup for April 11, 2024
What is happening in Evangelical land? Conservative evangelicals want Trump to do more on abortion. I have never heard of Josh Garrels, but he is apparently a “prominent Christian musician.” The Red Letter Christians think he may be a coward. […]
America Abroad: Slinking Back to Form
At the second anniversary of the Russia-Ukraine war, an old stance is passé no more
Nikki Haley is moving to South Carolina and Trump is not happy about it
Trump won New Hampshire last night, but he remained obsessed with Nikki Haley. A normal politician would have acknowledged that Haley ran a good campaign and then ignored her in the rest of the speech, knowing she had little chance […]
What a 2025 Trump cabinet might look like
Axios is reporting that Trump is already considering cabinet appointments. For Vice-President, Trump is considering Ohio Senator J.D. Vance, Arkansas governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders, failed Arizona gubernatorial candidate and election denier Kari Lake, South Dakota governor Kristi Noem, Florida representative […]
Evangelical roundup for November 30, 2023
What is happening in Evangelical land? Cal Thomas on Tim Alberta’s book The Kingdom, The Power, And the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism. Wheaton College is celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Chicago Declaration of Evangelical Social […]
Sunday night odds and ends
A few things online that caught my attention this week: How Robert Moses changed New York and impacted families. Abortion politics in the Kentucky, Mississippi, Louisiana. David French on Mike Johnson and Christian politics. How state legislatures and ideological boards […]
For the record, Robert E. Lee was not a founding father
Watch Rep. Chellie Pingree of Maine explain this to Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia:
Here’s to the losers
If your whole identity is built on grievance and bitterness, the worst thing that can happen is to actually win.
Any House member who voted to certify the 2020 election has no real chance of being Speaker of the House in today’s GOP
Earlier today, the GOP caucus chose Minnesota Rep. Tom Emmer as its candidate for Speaker of the House. Hours later Emmer dropped out of the running. This leaves five candidates: Reps. Byron Donalds of Florida Chuck Fleischmann of Tennessee Mark […]
The GOP clownshow rolls on
In 1910, the House of Representatives voted to remove Speaker of the House Joseph Cannon, an anti-progressive Republican (as opposed to the progressive Republican presidents Teddy Roosevelt and William Howard Taft) from Illinois. Here is Hillsdale College historian Joseph Postell: […]
Is “girl boss feminism” on the decline?
Here is Liza Featherstone at Jacobin: This elitist vision of feminism has been around for more than one hundred years. In the early twentieth century Alexandra Kollontai, a Russian socialist organizer and writer who would later become the only woman in […]
The real meaning of Kevin McCarthy’s impeachment inquiry against Biden
I’ll let Russell Berman explain. Here is a taste of his piece at The Atlantic: As Kevin McCarthy made his televised declaration earlier today that House Republicans were launching an impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden, the House speaker stood outside his […]
Trump court evangelicals, prophets, and pseudo-historians will gather with Charlie Kirk in San Diego this week to train pastors
This week over 1,000 Christian pastors will converge on San Diego for the Turning Point USA “Pastors Summit.” According to the event website, this event will highlight “the need for pastors and their congregations to stand for truth and no […]
Trump is indicted for a fourth time. Some responses:
Get up to speed here. The Speaker of the House: Ohio GOP congressman Jim Jordan: Jenna Ellis (INDICTED): Tennessee senator Marsha Blackburn: Texas Senator Ted Cruz: Arizona congressman Andy Biggs: California congressman Adam Schiff: Colorado congresswoman Lauren Boebert: Georgia congresswoman […]
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