The reports on Joe Biden’s press conference yesterday are pretty predictable. A Fox News headline called it a “total disaster.” The New York Post called is an “utter disaster.” The New York Times reported on the event with little overt […]
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Marvin Olasky is out at World; Al Mohler is in. The age of “compassionate conservatism” is now officially over
The post-Trump differences in American evangelicalism continue to sharpen. Marvin Olasky has edited the evangelical magazine World since 1994. Olasky is best known as the architect of George W. Bush’s “compassionate conservatism.” On November 1, 2021, Olasky resigned from the […]
A Time to Tear Down and a Time to Build
On leaving the “moral chemotherapy” unit
Evangelical roundup for August 9, 2021
What is going on in Evangelicalland? Evangelical fiction An evangelical theologian reflects on a career. Evangelicalism: Time to deconstruct and reconstruct Where white evangelicals live: Are young evangelicals leaving the church over LGBTQ issues? Praying in tongues on TikTok Racist?: […]
Evangelical roundup for August 5, 2021
What is going on Evangelicalland? Evangelicals cited for passing out bologna sandwiches without a permit! How dare they! I pray this is true: Some evangelicals are supporting Joe Biden’s infrastructure plan. Are nones less vaccinated than evangelicals?: “Non-woke truth church”: […]
David Brooks asks: “How racist is America?”
For Blacks, this country is still pretty racist. For Hispanics, things are getting better. Here is Brooks: How high are the barriers to opportunity for different groups? Do different groups have a fair shot at the American dream? This approach […]
Anyone who wants to believe that Independence Day is a Christian holiday should read Frederick Douglass’s “What to a Slave is the Fourth of July?” David Barton speaks at First Baptist-Dallas.
Yesterday was “Freedom Sunday” at First Baptist-Dallas. I have commented on this yearly service several times. Read my commentary here and here and here. My position on these patriotic services has not changed. In the past, First Baptist-Dallas pastor Robert […]
Out Walking
Paul Kingsnorth may have left the environmental movement. But his trek continues on.
René Padilla: Turned in the Direction of a Suffering World
René Padilla’s life reminds us what it means to be whole
It is time for prominent evangelicals to get their acts together or stop speaking on behalf of Christianity
Mike Huckabee is a Baptist pastor, Trump court evangelical, Christian television celebrity, and former presidential candidate (he won the Iowa caucuses in 2008) and governor of Arkansas. He also appears to be a racist. Here is Matthew Brown at USA […]
Rooting for the Future
Americans have become less mobile. Does this signal a nation in decline? Or one that’s finally growing up?