Metaxas spoke last night at Charlie Kirk’s Turning Point Faith event and issued a call for pastors to engage in a holy war: I am reminded of Russel Moore’s recent piece at Christianity Today: “Culture War is Not Spiritual Warfare.”
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Evangelical roundup for August 28, 2023
What is happening in Evangelical land? Do evangelicals need a new ecclesiology? Why evangelicals support the Afghan Adjustment Act. Julie Roys and Karen Swallow Prior on the “evangelical imagination.” Prayer cards on trees: Tony Evans has a podcast. Shane Claiborne […]
Evangelical roundup for March 13, 2023
What is happening in Evangelical Land?: A veteran religion writer tackles women in the ministry. Baptists and Pentecostals lead the way in the promotion of God-fueled American exceptionalism. Ten books about Billy Graham. Ed Stetzer’s nameplate: How Rick Warren changed […]
Evangelical roundup for August 4, 2022
What is happening in Evangelical land? White Southern evangelicals are leaving churches. Most complaints about “evangelical elites“ How “weak” is evangelical theology? Southern Baptists appoint a pastor to lead the fight against sexual abuse: Beth Moore orders her tombstone: The […]
Evangelical roundup for June 20, 2022
What is happening in Evangelical land? Will evangelicals endorse Trump in 2024? Charles Marsh on growing up evangelical. EGOD? The Gospel Coalition on Juneteenth. Beth and Russell: Will the Southern Baptist Convention be “smaller and purer or bigger and more […]
“The scale of malfeasance is truly shocking”
Michael Gerson responds to the Southern Baptist sexual abuse scandal. Here is a taste of his Washington Post column: In nearly 300 pages, a third-party investigator has produced the Warren Commission report, the 9/11 Commission report, of Southern Baptist Christianity. And the scale of […]
Evangelical roundup for April 14, 2022
What is happening in Evangelical land? Despite Donald Trump’s endorsement of David Perdue in the Georgia gubernatorial race, evangelicals are still backing incumbent Brian Kemp. Eric Metaxas interviews Rudy Giuliani. The conspiracy theories abound! Jenna Ellis and Eric Metaxas on […]
Evangelical roundup for March 24, 2022
What is happening in Evangelical land? What is going on at Calvin University? Two former female employees at Christianity Today talk about the Mark Galli sexual harassment allegations. Dan Silliman, the Christianity Today reporter who broke the Mark Galli story, […]
Bonus roundup: How are evangelicals responding to the Russian invasion of Ukraine?
The European Evangelical Alliance says there is “no justification” for Putin’s invasion. National Association of Evangelicals: Former Trump lawyer, court evangelical, and Liberty University Falkirk Center fellow Jenna Ellis smells an opportunity to politicize the invasion: The Russian Evangelical Alliance […]
When conservatives loved Francisco Franco
Today it is Hungary’s Viktor Orbán. In the 1950s it was the Spanish dictator Francisco Franco. Here is Joshua Tait at The Bulwark: Prominent conservatives have discovered Hungary and its “twenty-first century dictator,” Viktor Orbán. This week, Tucker Carlson will […]
Evangelical roundup for January 6, 2022
What is happening in Evangelical land? Evangelical anti-Trumpers are out there. Franklin Graham on the 1-year anniversary of January 6, 2021: Anthony Bradley on evangelical Reformed culture as an object of sociological and historical critique: True: A Southern Baptist pastor […]
Evangelical roundup for December 6, 2021
What is happening in Evangelical land? Evangelicals are searching their online Bibles for the word “sorcery“ More on evangelical “deconstructionists“ It might be a good for idea for Liberty University leaders to get their own house in order before they […]
Evangelical roundup for November 8, 2021
What is happening in Evangelical land? Evangelicals love guns Rachel Denhollander calls Liberty University to task. And this. Praying for the persecuted church. Is Darryl Hart on to something here?: Finishing Rachel Held Evans’s last book. The New Yorker profiles […]
Evangelical roundup for October 28, 2021
What is happening in Evangelical land? Carl Trueman talks more about “evangelical elites”: Evangelical = Republican An important reminder: This is also worth considering: A “Christian worldview” Actually, today’s Trotskyists are some of the strongest opponents of the 1619 Project […]
Evangelical roundup for October 21, 2021
What is happening in Evangelical land?: The latest on the missionaries captured in Haiti. And here. Ibram X. Kendi and Tim Keller dialogue about racism and anti-racism: Donald Lewis, RIP: The World Evangelical Alliance has a new leader. Guns to […]
Evangelical roundup for June 17, 2021
What is going on in Evangelicalland? A lot of Southern Baptist stuff. You can get up to speed here and here and here and here and here. Will the hard right of the Southern Baptist Convention leave the denomination? The […]
Evangelical roundup for June 14, 2021 (Southern Baptist Convention edition)
What is going on in Evangelicalland? The Southern Baptists are converging on Nashville this week. Here are some links to help you put the annual meeting in context: Sarah Pulliam Bailey has a helpful piece on what is at stake. […]
Evangelical roundup for May 13, 2021
What is going on in Evangelicalland? This Rick Warren controversy is not going away: Just the Bible! For Criswell, that same Bible taught segregation of the races. I wonder if these guys would die for their belief that women do […]