Charlie Kirk’s Turning Point USA is using evangelical churches for GOP “get out the vote” rallies. MSNBC reports: Turning Point Action, founded by conservative provocateur Charlie Kirk, has held GOP vote-chasing events with at least 22 churches in six swing […]
2024 presidential election
Wehner: “The strongest case for voting for Harris doesn’t have nearly as much to do with her as it has to do with Trump”
Over at The Atlantic, Peter Wehner worries about the future of conservativism if Trump wins: The strongest case for voting for Harris doesn’t have nearly as much to do with her as it has to do with her opponent. Trump remains […]
5 days until Election Day: What are evangelicals saying?
Chad Harvey is a Trump-supporting Pentecostal pastor in North Carolina. Scott Detrow of National Public Radio recently interviewed him about his political convictions. Here is a small taste: Detrow: Let me just ask the direct question about this with Trump. […]
6 days until Election Day. What are evangelicals saying?
An evangelical pastor in Ligonier, Pennsylvania is still an undecided voter. He doesn’t read anything about national politics until one week before the election. According Olga Khazan at The Atlantic, this pastor is not alone. A taste: When Bryan Jarrell, […]
Religion and the election in Pennsylvania
Ivey DeJesus of the Harrisburg Patriot-News and Peter Smith of the Associated Press are covering Christianity and the 2024 presidential election in Pennsylvania. I was happy to help them with their stories. Here is a taste of DeJesus’s piece, “Some […]
7 days until Election Day. What are evangelicals saying?
Yesterday Donald Trump spoke to the members of his National Faith Advisory Board’s National Faith Summit in Powder Springs, Georgia. Newsweek covers it here. Watch: At about the 29:55 mark, Paula White says “we believe that God has saved you […]
Trump at Madison Square Garden: “A closing argument of grievances, misogyny, and racism”
It is very likely that more than seventy million Americans are going to vote for Donald Trump on November 5. Reporters from The New York Times chronicled what happened yesterday at Madison Square Garden First, there was this: A comic […]
No Josh Hawley, the United States was not “founded on revival”
I included this in today’s roundup, but I wanted to call attention to it again. Yesterday Missouri senator Josh Hawley spoke at MAGA worship leader Sean Feucht’s Washington D.C. rally. Here is part of what he said: It’s a privilege […]
8 days until Election Day. What are evangelicals saying?
David French has been a never-Trump from the beginning and he hasn’t wavered. Yesterday at The New York Times he offered four lessons he has learned during his nine years of never-Trumpism. They are: See how French unpacks these points […]
9 days until Election Day. What are evangelicals saying?
Alex Morris of Rolling Stone, who writes regularly about the Christian Right, has a recent piece on evangelicals trying to convince their fellow believers to vote for Harris. It focuses on Evangelicals for Harris and Doug Pagitt’s Vote Common Good. […]
10 days until Election Day. What are evangelicals saying?
Kamala Harris is not winning over many evangelical voters with recent comments on abortion. Here are a couple of lines from a Fox News story: Pro-life groups are livid at Vice President Kamala Harris after she took an uncompromising position on abortion […]
“If Democrats are keen to defend democracy they would do well to stop talking about it”
Everyone is saying that the 2024 election is a referendum on the fate of American democracy. Some progressive Christians are currently traveling through swing states on a “Faith and Democracy” tour. Based on the scholarly interests of the academics involved […]
If Trump wins, it may be BECAUSE of his depravity
This week learned from The Atlantic and from The New York Times that Donald Trump is a big Adolph Hitler fan. Tom Nichols at The Atlantic writes: “Many Americans know exactly who Trump is, and they like it.” A taste: […]
James Carville “is certain” Harris will win
The 79-year-old political strategist who became a household name in the 1990s for his work on the Bill Clinton campaigns is making a prediction. In yesterday’s New York Times, James Carville offered three reasons why Kamala Harris will win the […]
A historian of fascism changes his mind. Yes, Trump is a fascist.
Check out Elisabeth Zerofsky’s piece at The New York Times on historian Robert Paxton. It looks like John Kelly may be right. Here is a taste: Paxton, who is 92, is one of the foremost American experts on fascism and […]
11 days until Election Day. What are evangelicals saying?
Jerushah Duford has a piece in Newsweek yesterday making the case for Kamala Harris. Duford is noteworthy because she is an evangelical and the granddaughter of Billy Graham. It appears that she is voting for Harris based on the legacy […]
12 days until Election Day. What are evangelicals saying?
Why haven’t conservative evangelicals, especially those of the MAGA variety, remained mostly silent about Donald Trump’s line about Arnold Palmer’s genitals? What happened to the Christian Right’s longtime concern about the coarseness of American culture? This morning I was writing […]
Chris Matthews on Liz Cheney
The former host of Hardball tells it like it is:
14 days until Election Day. What are evangelicals saying?
An evangelical farmer and Presbyterian pastor from Butler County, Pennsylvania is voting for Kamala Harris on November 5. As a farmer, he takes environmental stewardship seriously. So does Harris. As a pastor, he believes it is important to love his […]
On evangelical Mike Johnson and Arnold Palmer’s genitalia
In case you haven’t heard, on Saturday night Donald Trump spent fifteen minutes talking about Arnold Palmer’s “manhood” in Latrobe, Pennsylvania. Watch: Trump is crude and lewd. This is par the course for him. It is also par for the […]