John Kasich was invited, but did not attend. Mark Noll was there. So was Jim Wallis, the founder of Sojourners and one of the primary architects of the evangelical left. In his most recent piece at the Sojourners website, Wallis sees some...
In a blog post at Jesus Creed, New Testament scholar Scot McKnight responds to Katelyn Beaty’s recent piece at The New Yorker on last week’s gathering of evangelical leaders in Wheaton. McKnight writes: When I was hearing about the conference at Wheaton...
Beaty is a writer and the former managing editor of Christianity Today. She attended the consultation (get up to speed here) and published a few tweets before she was asked to stop. Beaty’s piece confirms the CBN report that two members...
Someone just sent me this blog post. Here is the pertinent part: As for what happened at Wheaton College where the pro-Trump evangelicals walked out, that event was organized by John Fea, who chairs the History Department at Messiah College...
This definition of evangelicalism does not come from David Bebbington, but from Herbert Chilstrom, the first presiding bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. As Chris Gehrz shows us in his recent piece at The Anxious Bench, the word...
Here is a taste of Nancy LeTourneau’s Washington Monthly piece: “The Status Anxiety of White Evangelicals“: The question becomes: how much of this is about Christianity and how much is about whiteness? It is important to note that not all white...
Last week the Christian Broadcasting Network reported that several people walked out of a meeting of evangelical leaders at Wheaton College because of its “crazy Trump-bashing.” One of the organizers of the meeting, Darrell Bock (Dallas Theological Seminary), rejects CBN’s report. ...
Cal Thomas is a conservative columnist and a veteran of the Moral Majority. After he left the Moral Majority he co-wrote a book describing his experience with Jerry Falwell Sr.’s organization. It is titled Blinded by Might: Why the Religious Right...
As many of you now know, evangelical leaders of the non-court evangelical variety met at Wheaton College earlier this week to discuss the future of evangelicalism. See our coverage here. One of the evangelical leaders in attendance at the meeting...
Here is a taste of Jenna Browder and David Brody’s report: WASHINGTON – CBN News has confirmed that at least a few people walked out of an intense invite-only evangelical meeting this week at Wheaton College after the affair turned into “crazy...
I have never heard of the blog Pulpit & Pen, but apparently they spent a lot of time offering readers “theology,” “polemics,” and “discernment.” The website is run by a Southern Baptist pastor in Montana named JD Hall. You can...
If you are not familiar with what I am calling “the Wheaton consultation on evangelicalism” get up to speed here. According to The Wheaton Record, Ohio governor and 2016 GOP presidential candidate John Kasich was present for these conversations about evangelicalism...
Evangelicals met at Wheaton College this week to talk about the future of evangelicalism in the age of Trump. We have written about this here and here. The meeting took place behind closed doors, but we are starting to learn...
CBN News is reporting that some of the court evangelicals are not particularly happy that evangelicals leaders who do not frequent the court of Donald Trump met at Wheaton College this week. Here is a taste of Jenna Browder’s piece: Those...
“When you Google evangelicals, you get Trump.” This is what Doug Birdsall, the honorary chair of the evangelical Lausanne Movement, recently told Washington Post reported Sarah Pulliam Bailey. (Birdsall also had a very brief stint as CEO of the American Bible Society. ...
